Nomad Shugo Merchants

This special merchants only appear at certain dates on different places in the housing zones. They give special quests for which you need the Aether gems you collect from killing the Audrias that you find in the housing zones and as reward you get random furniture or housing items. Also you will find some special vendors with some really expensive items so if you want to invest lots of money in your house this are the Shugos for it!

This are the locations for Oriel:

Locations for Pernon:

As you can see they appear for 2 in game days or 4 hours real life time from 15 to 17 of each month except January - April - July and October.

Seasonal Agrints

As you noticed by now seasons has been added to Aion, besides the Agrints the seasons also play a important role in the daevian 2nd quest (which i promise i will post during this week).

 The seasons are:

• Spring season from March to May
• Summer from June to August
• Autumn from September to November
• Winter from December to February

Keep in mind that a month in Aion always has 31 days and that aion day is 2 hours which means that a real life day is 12 days in Aion.

The agrint will appear at the beginning of each ingame month in Elyos or Asmo housing zone. The boss will be a Big Tree on which you can do only 1 damage so i advice you not to use the best damage weapon but the fastest. I just buy a set of white daggers use all my speed buffs and mau form and most of the times i've been first on damage. 

When the boss dies only the league that made the most damage can loot it but there will be some small plants Audria for Elyos and Umbronite for Asmos.  

Hint: If you just open it without loot it no one else can loot it so you can try to open as many as possible and loot them after. 

The plants drop housing items like letters and numbers and the way more important it drops the Life Leaf which is used to craft the bike mounts and also sell at list on my server for 20kk+.

Fixing latency for MMO's

I've been using this program for quite a while now, and yes it does work. I started using it while playing WoW a few years ago and it reduced my latency from 250 ms to less then a half. Even if it was designed for WoW it does work for Aion also, and we all know how much resources Aion needs so everything that can help is welcomed.
A very funny way to describe how it works is provided by the authors:
If you could listen to a conversation between your computer and the game server, this is what you would hear.
Before Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:

• Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over to you, got it?"
• Your computer: ...
• Server: "Come on, answer me! I don't have all day! Stop wasting time!"
• Your computer: ...
• Server: "Ok, forget it, I've waited long enough, sending another one over! Got it?"
• Your computer: "Yep, got that one, also got the one you sent before, thanks."
• Server: "Well, why didn't you acknowledge the first one when I sent it? I was waiting ages!"
• Your computer: "Sorry, I'm just trying to make the network more efficient by bundling the acknowledgements together in pairs. This is how I'm setup by default."

After Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:

• Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over, got it?"
• Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
• Server: "That was fast! Ok, here's another, got that?"
• Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
• Server: "Wow! What an improvement! Now that's more like it!"
• Your computer: "Yep, it's certainly keeping me on my toes, thanks!

The download and all other details can be found to: 

http://www.leatrix.com/

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html

Enjoy!