oh - this is priceless!

apearently, through a bug, this guy was able to "equip" a potion :-D

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=55510

I'm a bit baffled.  Two increses to abilities on two of the most overpowered classes and still nothing for the weakest.  I'm glad I shelved my character.

well, doesnt the fact that you know have an ability that makes you dance more than make up for that? ;-)

General

*Fixed some more server and client crashes.
*An issue which could make NPCs evade forever has been resolved.
*An issue which could lead to pets become unresponsive has been resolved.


GUI

*You should now receive feedback if you try to take items from the guild bank without having enough rank.


Items

*Items in tradepost now show stack-size.
*Resources Gathering: Cotton and Cottonwisp have been fixed.
*Kheshatta: Drop rate for Scorpion plate has been increased.
*Fixed a grammatical error with Knarled Leather. It should now be named Gnarled Leather.
*Boltshock Bangles are now properly classified as "Cloth Armor" instead of "Wrist Armor"
*Thunder River: The quest item 'Smoked Meat' has re-received its visual appearance.
*Field of the Dead: 'Fur of Bloodclaw' will no longer end up in the quest inventory.
*Thunder River: The quest item 'Helvenia's Herbs' has re-received its visual appearance.
*Sanctum of the Burning Souls: The boss drop 'Bloodtainted Hoop' will no longer end up in the quest inventory.


Massive PvP

*PVE Player city buildings should no longer be attackable.


NPCs

*Bartholomo's Wife will now respawn more often.
*Acheronian Ruins NPCs will respawn more often
*It should be easier to deal with Renton's Corrupt Friends when doing the quest Awakening II.


Player Characters

Barbarian
*Finishing Blow damage boost should only affect the first hit after the charge.
*Thirst for Blood should correctly trigger it's stacking damage bonuses for you and your team.

Necromancer
*Pets should not auto dismiss so fast when they cannot reach their owner.

Ranger
*Knee-Capping should no longer trigger Root Immunity on NPCs
*Marked for Death should give the correct damage values for bow/xbow.
*Marked for Death cooldown has been adjusted to 3 minutes like originally intended.
*Critical Aim should no longer fail to execute in some situations.
*Critical Aim duration increased to 10 seconds, but it will instantly terminate on the next ranged hit
*You should no longer get messages about getting non existing abilities when training Eagle Eye.

Tempest of Set
*Triumphant Life of Set has had its total damage dealt per cast increased.
*Triumphant Life of Set now deals the damage over 3 seconds instead of instantly.


Quests

*Old Secrets: Golden Golem should now always spawn.
*The Demon in The Tree: The Demon in the Tree Minions should now always attack the player.
*End Battle: Strom should now respawn, making it impossible to break the last part of the end battle.
*Quests Bloodroot, Concealing the Chinks, Purging the Fallen, and Source of Contagion have been improved in Tarantia Noble.

and..eh..they...I dontknow how to say this, but...Funcom added a new Ability...its..well..DANCE?!?!

General
* Changing instances now requires the player to be close to a resurrection point.
* You can now see what instance you are in, marked by white instance name.
* Stances Animations have been fixed.
* The interface option "Show names always" should now work as intended with NPC's and Players

Emotes
* Following emotes has been fixed/renamed or made usable again.
- squirm_on_ground_f
- exhausted
- flirt_f
- dance_sexy_f
- dustoff
- excitedclap_f
- and many more

Tradeskills
* Weaponsmith
- Several rare crafted weapons have been upgraded and got proper amount of gem slots now, correct item quality & damage.

Abilities
* You now have a dance ability located under your "Abilities and Combos".

Items
* Ceremonial Dagger (blue lvl 18 drop from Underhalls) now has a name, previously the name was just an empty space.

Terrain
* You no longer run straight through the stairs and rock next to Valoz Da Neva in Conall's Valley

I figured this would be of interest to you guys, especially us Euro guys who dont get any updates from devs(sigh).

taken from US boards

We know right now people are feeling like all armor in Age of Conan is the same and brown. I assure you this is not the case, for along time now we have had a "GM area" where we spawned lots of NPC's that had all sorts of armor appearances so we could tell when art was completed. We have one of these for armor, weapons, and social clothing. Hundreds upon hundreds of appearances.

Anyway to cut to the chase I took your guys concerns and shot an email to Ole Herbjornsen our Lead Designer to ask about Itemization. Ole came back with some very encouraging news. They are going to put blue loot on bosses in the outdoor playfields now and not only on bosses in instances. In addition 3 sets of epic armours for each class (for a total of 36) will allow the item designers to move more of the unique stuff down to lower tiers and over from purple and blue towards green.

The gfx artists will also produce a lot of extra weapons which will further increase the visual variety. He expects these things to be coming into the game within the next week or two.

hmm..I'm surprised people didnt talk about the Art Book, and the serious nudity it contains ;-)

Appearently, the chick from Conan has been in playboy, and the full nudity picture is in the back of the art book...hehe, the text is rather funny, saying something about it being a "Nice mix between CGI and real life models" :-D

Jebus cant help you now.

best get on your knees and pray to your fluffy ol' lord that he sends some more microbes!

I always enjoyed a good cloppity-clop.

Are we playing the same game? Pve wise, and I'm only at lvl 16 ,I rock..even before I got repulse, could take on two mobs at a time without any trouble, now ,3 or 4 I can deal with, my same level.

Smite is a godly spell!

I may be wrong since I can't get on Youtube at work:

that is exactly how they work...

its true though...

Here in denmark we live side by side with Neptunians...We have embraced our outwordly brothers.

and I'm not even that drunk.

I saw a sneak preview.  It was pretty awesome.

*burns IkeVandergraaf's mancard*

there...you'r all ready and emasculated now.

ugh..this is one thread I never hoped to be seeing here...although, I bought the entire boxed set for my GF..

sweet Age of Conan time ;-)

bah...why euro and us servers apart..could be really fun to be a part of you guys :-)

I preordered the CE version, through EBGames here in Denmark, no trouble whatsover.

bear in mind though, that I'm pretty big and used to date a porn star, so, I have street credit.

hmm, okay, wrote wrong, I have 3 gigs of ram...

As for model, its..as I wrote in subject line, hehe, its an Asus...

and, well, didnt really know anything about laptops so as for upgrading, I've no clue...I think I heard something a few years ago about PCMIA? or something like that? isnt that where you insert your graphics cards?

and thanks for the feedback :-)

A staffer just heard from Rip again.  Sounds like he has upped his staff and is still working on his big clients and such.  Gedd is working on getting things going as far as the forum sans old stuff while wait though.  I'll let those who are actually doing the work comment on what they are doing though.   

I'm pretty sure he's almost finished inverting the polarity of the tachyon pulse emitter.  After that we just have to perform a level one diagnostic on the cromulation engine, and we should be good to go.

If one of our SF Bay Area residents could just stop buy Alameda to pick up a nucular weasel we'll be all set.

fixed that for ya...

I don't know what a drinking cape is either but since I just started I could use all the freebies I can get.

its for free ambrosia..something that we could use in RL as well actually ;-)

Anyone have any idea of how close to the PC battelfield iterations this game is? Those tend to turn into hackfests and vehiclegrabs and the unaltered infantery doenst stand a chance...

but, if they actually give infantry a reason for being there, I'm all in!

Battle Isle slow? ;-)

I'm pumped for this... I still remember Dune, and Dune 2 which, as far as I know, was the first of this kind of game, and C&C took the genre to a whole new level with its storyline and great units.

So..after playing Age of Conan, I think I want to upgrade my laptop, but, having been a stationary owner my whole life, I dont have a clue in this world.

specs:
2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7500 (Santa Rosa platform)
Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel 965 PM Express chipset
2 gigs Ram
nVidia GeForce 8600M GT

so..I Thought, since I'm using vista 32, I cant put more Ram in it, but, the graphics card can be upgraded.

Any recommendations? and, how the heck do you install a new graphics card in a laptop?

how about, with the new forum, a totally new name and theme to go along with the reboot?

/dies

Reverse the situation and think about how YOU would feel if #1 girl was seeing (being dipped?) by someone else as well...

I want to believe!

With WOW you have the whole Alliance is evil thing going on so there is some logical reason to kill them. 

We are?  

anyways, on topic - I've tried them as well, and as far as I can tell..no, I doesnt get any better...I dont mind PVP, was on Venture CO RP-PVP for 3 years as well, and dont mind pvp'ing, but..this is just silly! I think, the only reasonable way to do it, is to start a group of likeminded people, and then kill back if someone tries to grief you!

So - seeing so many people with decent qualifications to answer questions about AoC, I though we should make a thread about the technical aspect of AoC and whatever troubles we may run into.

Am I the only one, whose game is acting...strange? At times, I have 20-35 fps, even 40, and then suddenly, next time I boot up the game (no patches in-between), I get 5-10?

Also, the game was running really great, everything smooth and everything, until I tried to rez someone...BANG, the FPS just died....very, very strange...something to do with the rez animation?

All in all, performance is..very strange in this game

wow - this is a messy post (no pun intended due to the nature of the first word, nor the use of Nature and wrath)

anyways, what about the whole idea "Hit the HIGH video settings and turn of shadows" does that work for anyone? because it doesnt for me...

sooo...where the heck are you people! ;-)

I'm lvl 22 now ,and has joined/co-founded a guild, Fangs of Set - no real structure or anything right now, just two stygians killing things with amazing ability so far 

Indeed - what would be the point of creating a new OO? And even to bring back the old one? Except for reminiscing?

I've only seen it once, or rather, I thought it was...it so happened to be someone walking in and out of a tent instead in the volcana in tortage :-D

as I understand it, pets dont aggro, all aggro goes to the caster, right?

Tried a bit last night before the 6 hours downtime...and the game ran perfectly smooth for me..strange...

anyways - lvl 19 now ,yay me!

edit: btw, strange thing, it seems that funcom for some reason decided to remove some Emotes? I still wonder at why they are so friggin' bad at making patch notes, where 3/4 of the patched stuff isnt listed in the note?

Nobody here is gonna bite you.

Liar.  It is for this specific reason that I avoid CeeKay.

I swear there was a mosquito on your arm!

You BITE mosquito's off people?

Freak.

well I got yelled at for trying to slice them off with a machete, so I chose the only marginally less psychopathic alternative.

Fixed that for you.

Huw is my purple pill.

I never yelled at you for the machete in the first place.  It was only a flesh wound.  Sheesh.

you didn't, but Chaos got a bit testy about it.

I didn't know Chaoz had testys. Or are we talking about 2 different people?

this quote-in-quote-thing is making my eyes bleed and the room spin

and now for the unofficial ones

General
* Various framerate improvements

Hopefully I'll be able to get past the 14 FPS barrier.  One destiny quest instance had me at 4 FPS. 

sadly, my framerate was killed today :-( or rather, system "hangs" ran rampant..

and now for the unofficial ones

General
* Various framerate improvements
* HP regen seem to work now
* Crashes and Lag seem better in FoTD and other zones
* No reported crash at exit
* Some reports of shinier avatar textures (NEW)
* Camera "swapping" while turning camera has been improved (NEW)

Classes
* Demonologist
- Cooldowns added to Shockblast, Waves of flame, Living Firestorm, Inferno of Amber and Hellfire stream.

* Necromancer
- Unholy Hands - Only working, scaling spell we have gone from 0 seconds cooldown to 45 seconds - no mention in the notes.

* Tempest of Set
- Quicksand now has a 30 second cooldown
- Idol of set is now working as intented (1 up at a time)

* Ranger
- After executing the Salvo combo, arrows are being shot at a considerably lower speed, thus it's a massive nerf to burst damage.(NEW)


UI changes
* Group members now have a much larger and visible icon (blue potion bottle)
* The select instance button is much bigger and move obvious.

Tradeskills and resources
* Alchemist tier 2 quest unlocked
* Cotton gathered before the may 27'th patch may be unusable, and they wont stack with cotton gathered after the patch (NEW)

Mounts
* Mammoths are faster and better turn
* Speed on horses were scaled down
* Mammoths are now as fast as horses

you can see them here:

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=18115

haha, okay, I *have* to share this!! from over at the official forums, with the title "Cock fights"

Hi,

I was watching last night two cocks to fight each other. There was lvl2 cock vs lvl1 cock and they had nice duel. There was like 5 players watching this fight. It was hilarious, players were cheering for the lvl1 cock but it lost the fight

Why not give us fighter cocks (or fighter chickens for female chars), let us train our own fighters somehow and then organize some tournaments or duels, and the winner gets the price money.

It would be nice.

Fighter Chickens?? 

My impressions - again ;-)

I'm loving it...There's something about it, I just can't put my bony finger on...I love my Tempest of Set, she's so awesome looking, even IF watching the pony-tail from behind makes me kinda motionsick...

I'm not out of Tortage yet, but, the quests there are so damn colorfull, I've been running all over the place last night, because of a jawbone and a a skull, a quest that had me going perhaps 12 or 14 different places and talk with people..and it was FUN! I wanted to see what happened... havent had that feeling for a long time i a game.

The graphics are, as everyone should know by now, incredible, and high maintenance as well. I've managed to make it run about 27 fps which is reasonable I guess, even on what I think of as a pretty good laptop.

The classes are very differentiated, and all feels fun and interesting, and with a REAL backstory to why they are there. The races the same, when I play my Stygian Tempest, I feel totally badass, my Cimmerian Bear Shaman though, is very much in tune with nature, even IF he's ready to smash it to pieces with his giant hammer though.

Launch polish...well, there's been a lot of talk about it, and *even* in Tortage, that's supposed to be the 100 percent done area ,Funcoms' shining jewel, there's trouble.  But its minor, compared to other mmo launches I've seen, and I think ,that if they move quickly BEFORE the end of the month and put in some more end-game content, polish what's there, makes the game a bit more stable and removes some of the most glaring and annoying bugs, they can have a hit on their hands!

All in all, I just cant put the game down, but they really need to patch it up, and do it soon!

My other character is a healer/caster of some kind from Stygia but I can't remember what his class is called.  He is only level 12 and is a lot harder to solo with than the Conquerer, I have to do a lot of quick bursts of damage then a quicksand to run back and let the heals over time spells work some before they come whack me again.  The first few levels I thought he was crazy overpowered but now with the normal 1v2, 1v3 play that seems to be in this game it's going to be hard not to have to group with him.

Tempest of Set?? I've got a lvl 18 of that kind, and she works like a charm. I never even use quicksand. You have your cobra stare which stuns as well, I can easily take out 3 mobs, sometimes 4 if they arent all my level. ToS are right now supposed to be the most unbalanced character types to play. Remember to have Depravation of Set or whatever its called on at all times, and use your HOT's before the battle, and in the battle to maximize output.

I dont think funcom is based in the US though.

Good point they are kinda spread around.

Norwegian, actually...part of the art team is chinese though...probably child labour ;-)

Ahem -.forgot you had to be lvl 20 to make a guild - currently only lvl 15 due to too many alts ;-)

But, I'm in game, levelling as fast as I can, on Ankhuroh...A stygian Tempest...

so, add me as friend, and I'll make the guild when I Can!

Anyone else crashing\freezing often? It's really getting bad for me now. I've tried everything, but I can't play for more than a few minutes without freezing up.
Strange thing is this all started happening about 2 or 3 days ago. Up until then I was the one saying I didn't have one tech problem.

I dont know what to try anymore. I've tried new vid drivers...re-installed the game.....turned shader down to 2.

Any suggestions?

Am I the only one?

I'm having some issues as well, with freezing and low fps suddenly...although, due to my crappy ASUS laptop, I have to use nonofficial drivers from laptop2go, so, could be that for me. But, funnyli enough, this started happening a few days ago as well..

I just use the mouse to click on a combo and then the 1-3 keys to hit the directional attacks.  Hasn't been too difficult for me so far.

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