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Greetings fellow mages, it is with great relief that I advise you all that there are some interesting and much needed changes upcoming for the Necromancer and Demonologist classes. Check out the below comments that were found over on the official Forums.
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"Hello fellow Age of Conan players!
As was mentioned yesterday, I wanted to take the time to inform you all as to what we are currently working on in regard to the Demonologist...
First off, i am not a fan of the way mana regen works currently. In a group its not that bad because you have other people to take the heat for you allowing you to regen mana. However when soloing being completely incapable of regenerating any mana while being attacked combined with the fact that you are almost exclusively taking the hits has made for several deaths that could have been avoided with just 1 or 2 ticks of mana.
Now on to the class itself. I am fairly satisfied so...
The Dark Templar is very easy to level to about 20, you get some good combos, the destiny quest is pretty straight forward and you have alot of fun running your sword through people and cutting their heads off, when you get a blunt weapon you put the people on their knees and bash the back of their skull in, which looks very cool. The only down side I have had with the fatalities I pull is when I am fighting multiple mobs it pauses to do the fatality graphic which kinda throws you off with...
Are you playing Age of Conan: Hyborean Adventures? Want to help give back to the community or simply showoff all your l33t knowledge? Well then friend, listen up! AoC Classes is looking for knowledgeable and friendly folks that want to be part of the community and become the defacto specialists on their specific classes. Sort of the unofficial Class Leaders.. ooo deja vu!
If you are willing to devote some time to helping out the community and being part of the AoC...
Greetings denizens of Hyboria. With today's patch Demonologists across the lands awoke with a nasty surprise, their AE Spells had been modified. Now both variants of their AE abilities have a recast time component added to them. This basically means that you will not be able to chain cast your preferred AE spell (Fire or Lightning) quick enough to kill multiple mobs at once. You will have to rotate in both of your AE's in order to accomplish what you did...
Greetings Hyborians once again It would seem that our friends over at Funcom have decided to grace those of us who were beta testers with a gift. I received this email earlier this morning so thought I'd toss it out there for community review. And for the record friends... I am not a THRUSTWORTHY participant!!!! Spell check much guys?
"Greetings!
You have been a long and thrustworthy participant in our community, and as such we would like to thank you for...
Greetings fellow fans of head lopping. It is with much stress and loss of sleep that we present you with our spell database. This has been a hectic feature put together for AoC Classes by our resident code monkey Jonaphin.
We are still compiling our Age of Conan Spell info and we would appreciate any spell updates or submissions that you may have. Please send them to info@aocclasses.com or simply send me a PM here.
The Spells Database can be found at the following...
Well fans of Hyboria, Age of Conan is now open to the public. I hope that all the early starters burned what levels they could to get away from the crowds because here they come. Mind you, a bit hard to get too far ahead if the servers are down half of the 3 day early start period.. well unless you exploit and reach level 80 on the first day (yes that did happen).
As I have said previously, I am quite pleased with the game so far although there are still a few minor bugs...
Greetings Fellow Hyborians new and old. The gates to Hyboria have finally been cracked open a bit allowing the first wave of people to sneak in before the masses awaiting outside. I pain particular attention to how the people rushed in, how the city of Tortage held up to this influx of new refugees and I am forced to say.. WOW (As in overly impressive, not to be confused with that other game out there).
Aside from starting a few hours later than initially anticipated, the process...
AoC Classes is proud to announce that Nindydar has volunteered and been accepted as the Necromancer Class Leader for our Age of Conan community site. He has been extremely helpful in the past working with the community with information regarding hunting locations as well as a knowledgeable and friendly member of these types of online communities. We expect to see some great information coming from him soon for the Necromancer Class!
Please join us in welcoming him to the crazy crew...
The folks over at Funcom posted today that they would be making the download client available but that there are a few delays in the payment and authorization process. We will receive emails giving us the url and instructions for downloading the client once the payment processes. They also warned us to NOT share the url since it will only make downloading it that much slower for us when non early start players download it prematurely.
You can read the full article over on the ...
Greetings all. As anxious as we all are to know what the official server names will be, it is sadly not yet finalized. One thing that is for sure though is what the servers will be named after.
They had even let us take part of helping to select the names over on the Official Age of Conan forums. They had a series of polls setup where were able to help decide!
Here is the list of related...
AoC Classes is looking for knowledgeable and friendly folks that want to be part of the community and become the defacto specialists on their specific classes. Sort of the unofficial Class Leaders.. ooo deja vu!
If you are willing to devote some time to helping out the community and being part of the AoC Classes team of weirdos, by all means send us a message and tell us a bit about yourself and what class you'd be interested in taking the reigns on.
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Greetings all. I wrote up a review of my experience so far with Age of Conan and I posted it over on Destructoid . I am assuming that I do not need to tell you all what that site is, any gamer should know it by now I'd hope. Anyway folks, give it a read over and comment on it as you will.
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Greetings fellow Hyborians. I come to speak of matters most interesting to our people. I am certain you have all heard the news that if you pre-order your Age of Conan game you will get receive bonus in game items, To put it lightly, there has been a slight bit of controversy over this matter due to how it is being done.
The official pre-order site that funcom has up has been updated to be less confusing but previously it implied that you would get to choose one of three items. ...
This was what the Age of Conan developers had to say regarding Spellweaving prior to the game going live. It is interesting to see what they planned versus what actually was created in the end.
"Magic and Spellweaving
In Age of Conan we wanted the magic to reflect the world in which the game is based. Dealing with the arcane arts and siphoning the power of ancient gods is not something to be...
Associate Producer Morten Byom over at Funcom was forthcoming with some info on exactly what Siege PvP is about. While not enough detail was revealed in my opinion, it does give a general overview of what would go on with Siege PvP. It does appear at first glance to be something which would help unite guild members and enhance the fun factor of Age of Conan, if nothing else it would at least break any possible monotony from leveling up. You decide for yourself if this is your cup of tea....
Once Age of Conan goes live we will all obviously be paying monthly subscription fees for our entertainment. It has been a topic of debate for some time now as to how much exactly the different regions / countries will be paying for this "fun". Well the debates are over now since Funcom recently released the pricing structure. So take a peek and learn how much you will be dishing out for your AoC fix every month.
Original post can be found ...
Funcom has released their preliminary rule set for roleplay servers once they go live. As would be expected if basing it on previous games that have run RP servers, the "special" nature of these servers is little more than simply policing character names and discouraging OOC chatter in chat channels. We can always hope that they find another way to differentiate themselves with Roleplay PVP servers, but for now this is probably the extent of what will happen with...
Age of Conan lets you to delve into a deep and engrossing crafting system, allowing you to make everything from armor and weapons to an entire city! There are hundreds of unique quests built solely around crafting, and advancement through the crafting system comes from making things and completing quests, not surviving the grind.
Ask any adventurer journeying through the lands of Hyboria for advice on how to survive the brutal...
There are various professions one may choose during their adventures through Hyboria. The path of sword and shield, the path of the quick footed warrior, the path of the priestly worshipper, or the darkest path of those who delve into the dark arts.
These paths are often referred to as Archetypes and further broken down by the classes within them that specialize in a particular aspect of that particular path.
Here are the archetypes and associated classes within them for you...
There are many different lands within Hyboria that you will explore when you journey into the savage world of the age of Conan. These kingdomss, seaports, towns, and nations all have very distinct backgrounds and histories that were defined over many real life books that chronicled the Saga of Conan.
Here is a list of the places that you may visit in your travels:
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Slash commands, for the lazy or for the smart, you decide. But regardless of how you think of them, they are in game for those that have a liking for them. All of the standard mmo slash commands are there (/r, /anon, /afk, /camp, etc.) and a few others that we are uncertain what they do but they are listed as valid slash commands. Have a browse on through them and pick and choose the ones that suit you best. Someone say Macro?!?
The list of accepted slash requests (in alphabetical...
Since we all enjoy our fair share of emote action in our mmo's, It is with great relief that I announce that Age of Conan has not let us down by leaving them out. There are the ever popular and classics and a few new ones that inspired many a chuckle. Go try them out and see what you think!
Here there be emotes!!
Age of Conan Emote List:
/afraid
/amused
/angry
/applaud
/apprehensive
/approve
/ashamed
/bearhug
/beckon...
With the start of the open beta, Funcom has lifted the restrictions on the US reporters so expect to see the flood of game related info start pouring in. Screenshots and actual insider game info will be available as it becomes available.
We have some interesting items to post so expect to see this place get active in a hurry.
~~ Crom
