Very cool, i'm actually playing around with SM right now. I really like the fact that your avatars actually upgrade visually as well as statistically. The high end flame and water elementals are sexy as hell.

No that's not Sanskrit that's Korean which is unable to display because the language pack isn't loaded in your OS. I had that happen today too. Rebooting the PC and relaunching fixed the problem for me.

This weekends beta event is up, who else needs a legion invite on Asmodian side other than ShiningHero?

Since we have another beta event starting this friday, I thought i'd kick it off with some new pictures. Enjoy.



This is just a pretty fly-by of one of the shattered moons that dot the sky. The Great Cataclysm certainly made an astrological mess.





Now I know everyone has seen the huge stone Golem at the end of the promo-video, but did you know its actually an in-game structure? Here is a distant shot of the behemoth laying dormant in the upper layer of the Abyss.





This is a closer fly-by of the inactive Golem.





Right up close to the beast for size comparison. Huge isn't it?





Here is a shot of the Asmodian Fortress Guardian. This is also the form that high ranking PVPers on the Asmo side can transform into, though on a much smaller scale.





This is a much closer shot of the same guardian. The attention to detail is quite amazing, even though I took this shot with graphics settings on medium. I miss my PC :cry:





Here's a side-by-side comparison so you can see just how HUGE these guys are. The Elyos guardian is viewable in one of the earlier pics I posted, just not as close.





Ah the Balaur. Here is an Elite footsoldier who decided to pick the wrong Templar to mess with.





Here I am smacking the same Balaur upside the head with my friend, and favorite cleric, Midori providing support.





Hidden deep within the sun that blazes in the middle of the Abyss lies the Divine Fortress. Here I am flying through the Eye of Ereshuntara (lots of aether rings too) to take a peek at the fortress. You'll have to wait for my next picture installment for more views of this place, and it IS awesome. :jealous:





And at long last, I finally hit 40 and got my new wings!





These things are amazingly huge, but so very pretty, and... twig free.





This is a flyby shot of my templar, with new wings above Beluslan Fortress.


Also, since this is the Abyss/Rifting enabled beta event, you slacker Asmodians better show up for legion invite so we can go pluck some pidgeons this weekend.

Wow, you're a douchebag lol. I'm not trying to be all QQ Carebear, but calling that "fun" is about as honorable as kicking kittens.

Came across this article when I did my morning MMO news browsing. Not good news and makes me even more concerned about how they will manage FFXIV. This is just inexcusable, and some of the stories that were  given in response are simply heartbreaking. http://petfoodalpha.com/5085/square-enix-bans-players-with-a-green-thumb#more-5085. Really really dissapointing news.

same, just got home, not enough patients at the hospital so they put me on call. Just send me a tell in-game and i'll invite ya.

Beta servers are back up. Anyone interested in joining Asmodian legion on Siel, send me at tell on Belatrix.

That's awsome news. And no the song in the video is not from the game, its the typical trash techno people like to set gaming videos to.

Here's a little video I think you'll find interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIVFBNysZwU

It only colors certain parts of the specific peice. Its recolored in real-time, there's no other editor, just right click on the dye bucket and apply to armor peice and your done. Effects may vary depending on the armor in question. I find that the monochrome or bland armors usually show off the colors well, while more vibrantly colored armors seem to recolor the highlights only. Anyway if you dont like the effect, you can purchase dye remover which is applied in the same way. Likewise, you have a skin swap NPC also that you can use to exchange the skin on armors and weapons with skins you might like better or more attached to.

The armor dye is bought in the capital cities, so for us it'd be in Pandaemonium. Its in the collection of high end shops along the boulevard that runs infront of the arena. Its about 1K kinah for one item and they are consumed upon use.

Per request, here are some screenshots of my character currently as well as some other shots in-game.







This armor is actually kind of plain metallic gray with purple highlights but I added some blue armor dye and was very happy with the results. You can't dye weapons but you can use it on shields, though its more of a highlight.



This is flying toward the Sky Temple floating in the middle of Musfel Volcano.



This is gliding back to Iralsig Village after jumping from path up to rim of said volcano.



This is an island in the Abyss know as... wait for it... "Sword Island"... and yes that's a huge fucking sword.



Here is a rare boss that spawns on the island. He's alot harder than he looks, but he drops some really nice rare weapons and rings.



Here's the island in the Abyss that features a crashed Balaur battleship, if you see these during a seige, run the hell away.



Here is a siege going on in an Elyos fortress. My fellow Asmodians are trying to kill the Guardian of the fortress.



He's a big boy to be sure, and is actually the same form high ranking PVP players can transform into, albeit more player sized than building sized, but still larger than normal.



Speaking of bosses, here's one of the wandering level 40 World King-level bosses that just happened to be taking a stroll outside a level 20 area. Hilarity ensues...



Mini-instanced dungeon location for a storyline mission. Its pretty obvious its set in the Abyss.



Here we have a party-sized King boss damn near the center of the earth in Taran Lava Cavern. The game doesn't have many instances yet, but there are several elite open world dungeons that are MASSIVE undertakings.



This is me and one of the guys I met playing. He's from Singapore, and currently in the largest legion on the server. You can tell by the armor... sick.

Fileplanet is giving away some beta keys for closed beta 3 event coming up on July 2nd. The giveaway starts on Monday 6/29, so check it out if you haven't preordered yet.

Ok looks like official release date is up. Sept 22nd for NA Sept 25th for EU. Meanwhile if anyone is playing on the chinese servers, they will be updating to 1.2 soon yay!

If anyone is interested in some of the music, check out this page. has an AMAZING a capella version of the main theme.

http://act.aion.sdo.com/project/ver12/guide/p6.asp