{"id":7580,"date":"2010-08-16T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2010-08-16T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T08:28:13","slug":"aion-assault-on-balaurea-introduces-aion-players-to-their-new-best-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=7580","title":{"rendered":"Aion: Assault on Balaurea Introduces Aion Players to their New Best Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Two and Four Legged Pets make their way into the Arsenal of Features in the Free Expansion<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pets are no longer restricted to fetching the morning paper and crowd pleasing tricks, as today <em>Aion<\/em><strong>\u00ae <\/strong>redefines how MMORPGs approach pets, creating an entirely new subsystem for players to explore within the upcoming free expansion, <em>Aion: Assault on Balaurea<\/em>\u2122. For the first time within <em>Aion<\/em>, players will have access to functional pets capable of storing goods, assisting with crafting, acting as guardians by alerting their masters to nearby enemies, and of course those designed to make their masters look good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the pets system will continuously evolve throughout the life of the game, <em>Aion: Assault on Balaurea<\/em> will launch with five pet types:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Companion <\/strong>\u2013 Adventure with their owner throughout Atreia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Signal<\/strong> \u2013 Alert their owner to the presence of enemy players<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pack <\/strong>\u2013 Expand their owner\u2019s inventory<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fortune<\/strong> \u2013 Produce items for their owner after being well-fed<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purebred<\/strong> \u2013 Provide their owner with multiple functions at once<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Players will have 100 dedicated pet slots available to populate, but are only capable of summoning one pet at a time, however, features like inventory space increase remains while the pet is put away. Players are restricted to one of each pet. Names are not unique, so players have the freedom to name them and make changes at will. And as a special treat, a new praise pet emote triggers unique animations for each type of pet \u2013 watch out Westminster Kennel Club, there\u2019s a new set of tricks to teach those old dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Players will have plenty of opportunities in and out of the game to acquire pets, including in-game purchases, quest rewards, item drops, NCStore, and special promotional events. To celebrate the release of the expansion, those who purchase Aion: Assault on Balaurea (MSRP $39.99) \u2013 the new retail SKU that provides everything a new player needs to jump in to the world of Atreia \u2013 from select retailers will receive an exclusive Companion pet along with a premium Speckled Ailu (Panda) Pack pet. Select retailers and their limited-time offer pet exclusives include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"444\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Exclusive Australia &amp; New Zealand<\/strong><br \/>\nAltgard Kitter Companion Pet<\/td>\n<td width=\"451\" valign=\"top\"><strong>All Retail SKUs<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Speckled Ailu (Panda) A premium Pack pet which increases a player\u2019s warehouse by 12 slots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"444\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/news\/cat01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"451\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/news\/cat02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two and Four Legged Pets make their way into the Arsenal of Features in the Free Expansion\u00a0 Pets are no longer restricted to fetching the morning paper and crowd pleasing tricks, as today Aion\u00ae redefines how MMORPGs approach pets, creating an entirely new subsystem for players to explore within the upcoming free expansion, Aion: Assault<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=7580\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7582,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/7582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}