Now that Age of Conan’s Bloodspire and Hyperborea servers were successfully merged, it’s time to get down to the rest of the merges! Here’s the scoop from Funcom:

Firstly, we present you the list of the planned servers to be merged (see below). We will proceed with merging next week and the specific date and time as well as the expected downtime will be announced soon too. As a general information we can already say that the plan is to merge all EU...

Glen Swan released their followup update on the upcoming server merge. This time the update is basically an FAQ of all the questions that are being asked regarding how te merge will happen and in what ways will it affect guilds, character names, battle keeps and cities.  Read carefully friends or suffer the consequences for not being prepared for the mass migration.

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Q:  Will all servers be merged at the same time?

A:  No. We will do this over a certain...

Current Realm Population Bonuses +20% XP & +20% Renown Server Realm ...

As announced, today's update is a small maintenance that fixes some issues. The update which is currently available on the test server needs some more testing and is planned to be ready for the live servers soon.

The update today includes the following:
Resolved several issues with the Arena access quest, hopefully it should work correctly this time, and this time we really mean it! (or poor Aquilus might meet with a very unfortunate end if he insists on being so...

Age of Conan Game Director Gaute Godager is back to tell us about the plans for the near future.

Greetings fellow players.

While it has been some time since I last gave you an update, I wanted to touch base and let you know what we are working on at the moment and where we are going in the times to come. I want this update to focus on what is actually happening to the game now, what we have done, and also some of...

Classes

Mage (General) Dark Meditation is now a self-only channeled spell and will no longer stun the user. Dark Meditation now has new effects associated with it.Rogue (General) Mountaineer will now reduce duration of the effects of Bruised Body by 50%/100% and Broken Bones by 25%/50% per respective rank.Soldiers (General) Surging Health will now increase in...

Player Classes

Mage

* Tome of Erlik now has effects and sounds.
* Purge now has sound and particle effects associated with it and should now go on the appropriate cooldown. Purge now provides 5 seconds of immunity in addition to removal of effects.
* Misdirection now has received a better visual and should no longer look like a lightning strike.
* Weakened Protection will no longer refresh itself after the player cancels his own Absorb buff....

Mounts
The Killer Rhino and War Mammoth have received a minor increase to their trot and gallop speeds. The trot (default movement speed) should now be slightly faster than a jogging player, while the gallop should only be slightly slower than a sprinting player.
The Standard Horse has received a moderate increase to it's canter and gallop speeds. The canter (default movement speed) should now be equal to a sprinting player, while the gallop should be...

General
By popular demand we have added a new "Level up" sound effect.
Player Building tooltip displays correct predecessor information now.
Fixed some randomness in when you would see the tutorial popup flags.
Trading with another player will no longer cause traded items to appear in the incorrect inventory tab.
Removed the commandline to setting hotkeys since it was only intended to debug hotkeys before the GUI was there
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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...