Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMO Gamers to the Next Level!

Congratulations on making a bunch of food no one could ever possibly want in the first tier of cooking! Your reward is paying to upgrade to a tier where you still can't make anything useful for another 50 levels. Don't fret, it'll all be worthwhile in the end. Getting to that end as efficiently as possible is what we're looking to do, and we show you how to do it in our second part to our cooking guides, 100-199.

As we've discussed in previous articles, Spiritmasters don't significantly bring the pain in grouped up PvE. The caster's DOTS and pets do some damage, but overall the Spiritmaster holds the role of support player. Thus is not the case in PvP with the Spiritmaster playing the role of puppet master. With stuns, fears, dispels and other tricks up their sleeves, Spiritmasters are much more pivotal in PvP. All this and soon
our pets will fly, ensuring havoc throughout the universe. 

Now that Alchemy 101 is over, we take it to the next level in our next Alchemy article. Or next 100 levels, I guess. New opportunities for greatness and more importantly profit open up in this range. We get you to 199 with a minimum of effort in our guide to tier 2 of Alchemy, 100-199!

Agility – This determines the ability to evade, block, or parry enemy attacks. Raising this skill will lower the amount of damage a player will take. Melee classes with low defense benefit most from an increase of Agility. Scouts who often solo will find extra survivability with a boost in Agility.

As the lowest overall played class in the game, the Spiritmaster has an uphill battle to educate people on why our presence is required in a group. Besides bringing the unique buff of increasing the mobs’ drop rate for loot, we bring a myriad of support skills to the table. From helping with crowd control to watching our pets tear into the enemies, we have a lot going on to manage and damage. For budding Spiritmasters or those wanting to better understand the class, read the rest of our Spiritmaster Grouping Guide.

Food buffs in Aion are wonderful. So subtle in the effects, yet so obvious in the buff icons when targeting someone well fed. Do you have your own buffs to tell people in the abyss that you're prepared for the worst? Join the ranks of the gourmet chefs in Aion as we gear you up for frying more than just your enemies!

Stigmas are the key to class customization.  Whether you are a dedicated PvE player or strive to take out the opposition in PvP gameplay, the stigmas you choose can make all the difference in your hopeful success.  This list will get you started in finding the skills that will benefit you and if you need to know more about the basics of the stigma system in Aion, please visit this guide to learn more. 

The Spiritmaster doesn’t believe in a fair fight. Why go mono y mono when you can sneak a few friends in to fight for you? Using this strategy of more is more, the Spiritmaster conjures both semi-permanent and very temporary elements of Fire, Wind, Earth and Water to fight by his/her side. Understanding the primary benefits of the different types of Spirits and Servants is critical for a Spiritmaster. Read up on the different types of Spirits, Energies, and Servants and the skills best used for each type in this week’s Spiritmaster Pet Guide.

In our next entry in Asmodean Vitality Gathering, we make things much more interesting. You'll be flying between zones, using teleportation, and running for your life at some point. Such is the price you pay for trespassing in level 46+ areas. But hey -- this is as exciting as gathering can ever get. "If I get Aggro, I'll die!", you may say. Good, at least you're still sane. Welcome to the 200+ range of gathering on the ground, folks.

The Spiritmaster is truly the aristocracy of the classes in Aion. Standing away from the fray in elegant robes while the “help” take care of the dirty work, the Spiritmaster almost breaks a sweat while giving orders to the pets and lobbing damage at the bad guys. The optimal balance of direct damage and managing the attention of the enemy play large parts in determining a spell rotation. The goal to the rotation is to defeat the enemy yet expend the least amount of energy doing it, thus we can move on to more enemies (and loot). Read on for more information on the optimum Spiritmaster spell rotation for maximum return on your time and very little downtime on your march to level 25.

A bubblin' brew often means trouble, but in Aion it means progress. It means progress for the greater good of your health, mana, and wings, that much is for sure. The road to any tradeskill can be headbutted down by work orders, but if you'd rather put your money towards more useful things in this game and use the materials you've gathered in this level range? We've got you covered on that for our first in our Alchemy series of guides, 1-99!

Morheim has one big thing going for it in the way that all of the materials stand out against the terrain. You'd think leveling Vitality Extraction would be a total joke, but with how sparsely populated the hills can seem, you might see it as a daunting task. Fear not. We've got you covered in our next vitality extraction segment to carry you into the 200's!

Healing
in Aion
can be a much more complex task than it is in other mainstream MMOGs
for a number of reasons. As picking the right heal for the right
situation can ultimately mean the difference between keeping your tank
alive and certain doom for your entire party, we've put together a
complete guide to healing in Aion for the aspiring Clerics among you.

If
your tank can survive a further beatdown after a wide area of effect
attack, you'll load this heal up.  If you can afford the time
to do it, using Grace of the Empyrean Lord beforehand is advised since
the MP cost is huge on this heal.  Even with the terrible
efficency from an MP perspective, if only a few people need a lot of
healing but they need healing fast, throw this out there and go to work
with single targets after that.

If you're on the lookout for materials to craft something a little bit tougher than Titanium, you're going to need Aether Gems. Since leveling aether extraction is such a pain in general, the price for the good stuff in this area is going to get rather high in a hurry. Why is it so difficult to be self sufficient in this? Alas, your hard work thus far to 200 is about to pay off further. We at Ten Ton Hammer have you covered with our guide to diving into lava on accident, or Aether Extraction 200-299, Asmodean style.

If you've died and you didn't see it coming, then you probably just met an Assassin. Aion's Assassins are the dashingly swift dealers of destruction and while they can't always stand up to a beating, their arsenal of deceptive tactics and poisons make it so they don't often have to.
Part of being a good Assassin is knowing your class and to help you along in that endeavor, we've added to our Assassin class skill list. Get all class skills from level 10 through level 50 including skill name, level, and full in-game description in this simple quick reference guide.

The wait is finally over, my fellow Aion grinder. Nochsana Training Camp is the first instance you can get dirty in for fantastic prizes, and more importantly, fantastic XP. We give you the rundown on the quests, bosses, and everything else you need to know to make your public group succeed... well, if they actually knew how to play

Had it with those ridiculously common plant spawns next to your quest mobs? Want to show them who is boss? We'll give you the tips you need to bust those silly resource nodes in style. Without further ado, here's our Vitality Extraction 1-99 guide, Asmodean style!

Finally, you're done with Altgard and picked up a ticket to Morheim. If you don't crash upon trying to load the horde of people around the teleporter and broker, look up and take to the skies in our next Aether Gathering guide. We'll take you through the entire Aether Crystal arc of your journey to the mastering the long lost art of accidentally falling to your death while harvesting. So come prepared with something else to do while your wings charge and we'll begin our 100-199 Aether Extraction Guide for Asmodeans!