AOC - General Information

[ajiatus]

Here is a question to those in Beta that tested the Barbarian -- although it's a melee DPS class, can it still tank if necessary? How repetitive is it given that it is mostly a straight up DPS melee fighter?

[Twobit Whore]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Getting the feeling they really should delay it

Just getting?

The game is coming out too early, no question about it. It's got a month of fun in it though. We will see what they get done by then.

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Just getting?

The game is coming out too early, no question about it. It's got a month of fun in it though. We will see what they get done by then.

Yeah thats my hope. Crafting I also have high hopes for as well.

[Tolanin]

I think theres enough content in the game to keep peoples interest until they can add more content... they have a lot to do and prolly not nearly enough time to do it but its not shaping up nearly as bad as i thought it would 3 months ago. They have a solid month of gameplay for casuals that has a reasonable level of polish.. if they fix up the 50+ zones that will turn into 2-3 months of content and with cities and crafting if they are good and worthwhile thats content for the forseeable future.

I imagine cities are gonna be the big time sink for the next 3 months or so for hardcores, theres alot of mats to gather to get one up and then claim a border keep... if the instanced city system is casual friendly enough that could really be a huge win for funcom, i think casuals will absolutely eat up the opportunity to slowly build up a city at whatever pace they like.

[Hatorade]

Yeah but when this shows up 3 days before launch..and thats just the demonologist it has me worried.

Demonologist
» Updated numerous names and descriptions on spells and feats for the demonoloist.
» Demon Heart of Chatha should now increase both mana and health regeneration.
» Cursed by Hell should now have a more consistent effect.
» Cursed by Heaven should now have a more consistent debuff and effect.
» Chaotic Blast should now deal area damage if Cursed by the Heavens or Hell are active.
» Consume Flames now has the proper cooldown.
» Demonic Frenzy now correctly adds splash damage to pet spells.
» Demonic Heart now correctly lowers the caster's Holy Invulnerability.
» Some issues with Detonation should now be resolved.
» Diabolic Insight has been converted to a single rank spell. Ranks 2-4 have been removed from the game.
» Earth Recharge should now trigger off all ranks of the spell lines affected.
» Fires of Gehenna (Rank 6) should now have the correct fatality chance.
» Gates of Hell should now deal damage upon expiring if the target is a Demon.
» Gates of Hell should now have the appropriate visual effects.
» Greater Flames should now properly increase the damage and casting time of Fires of Gehenna. Spells granted by feats should no longer persist in the spellbook after untraining the feat. Spells granted by feats should now have manacosts based on a percentage of base mana at the character level instead of a static amount.
» Hell's Pavise Rank 3 should now grant the correct increase to the damage shield granted by the Demon Avenger.
» Infernal Knowledge has been converted to a single rank spell. Ranks 2-4 have been removed from the game.
» Let Them Burn should now have the correct cooldown. It will also now properly increase in damage the longer it is channeled.
» Living Thunderstorm should now correctly disappear after exploding.
» Overload should now trigger from and affect the Fires of Gehenna, Shockstrike, Inferno of Amher, Shockblast, Hellfire Stream, Shock and Wicked Bolt spells.
» Planar Shift will now correctly reduce the aggro of targets in the vicinity. Planar Shift no longer mistakenly decreases the caster's miss chance.
» Set's Chosen should now correctly decrease the periodic damage dealt by Pact with Set and Bloody Pact with Set.
» The secondary splash damage from Shockblast is now limited to 3 targets per splash.
» Thunderclap now has the correct 40 second cooldown.
» Unholy Hate should now have the correct description.
» The Whispers of War spell no longer exists. (Note: If you already had this spell trained, you may have issues in your spellbook if you attempt to use the spell.) The Demonic War feat now grants the Demonic War spell.
» Base damage of Hellfire Stream has been increased
» Base damage of Shock has been increased
» The base damage of Inferno of Amher has been decreased and its benefit from bonus fire damage increased
» Inferno of Amher now has a 3 second reuse time
» The base damage of Shockblast has been decreased and its benefit from bonus electrical damage increased
» Shockblast now has a 3 second reuse time
» The base damage and benefit from bonus damage on Chaotic Blast has been significantly increased
» Pyromancer and Natural Conductor feats now grant significantly more bonus damage, to be in line with normalized bonus damage contributions.
» Fixed a problem where Fiery Torment was not doing correct damage when you have Infernal Knowledge running.

[Jabberwhacky]

I like this one in the Barbarian section:

» Stunning Punch combo line rebalanced. Bear Shaman

Although it's sad they're trying to keep class population balance through subliminal means...

[Lleauaric~EW]

OMG.

PATCH = SECKS

[Darph]

Just preordered on Amazon last night. Waiting for my email!

[spronk]

Originally Posted by ajiatus

Here is a question to those in Beta that tested the Barbarian -- although it's a melee DPS class, can it still tank if necessary? How repetitive is it given that it is mostly a straight up DPS melee fighter?

at 80 a barbarian is currently not a viable tank (tried it before in the instances, barbs get killed too fast)

[spronk]

in a shocking suprise tons of people are crashing with todays 250 meg patch, after they click play on the char login screen.

It hit me a few times (even rebooted, and thought about downloading new graphic drivers) but instead just try logging in different characters, tweaking graphic settings, and other random things and it might work for ya. I got in eventually.

Sadly there are now texture graphic bugs in the game which lowered the graphics quality for everyone, but don't worry guys, they got 5 days before it goes live. i wonder if they put in siege/pvp levels or the other things.

If your in closed beta type /claim to get a rhino mount

[Draegan]

Well I was downloading the new patch at about 2.5 MB/s. Pure tits.

[Lyrical]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Just getting?

The game is coming out too early, no question about it. It's got a month of fun in it though. We will see what they get done by then.

I am thinking that this launch could be like when Funcom launched Anarchy Online. That was the worst launch in MMO history. I was so pumped to be playing a Sci-Fi MMO (I think AO may have been the first Sci-Fi MMO, or at least my first) and they couldn't keep the servers up. Seriously, we were crashing every 30 secs. AO was launched the same week I got married. I also had to relocate on the job in the same week.

I had zero internet access for two months. Two months after launch (when we finally got into a new house), the servers were still barely stable, and content was low. I stopped playing.

Now I hear of people saying that AO had greatly improved over the years. Some people talked about how AO was the best MMO they ever played. I was a bit shocked to hear people say that.

Long story short, despite all of the bad beta news, maybe Funcom will be able to deliver on AOC eventually. It seems like they always ship games too early, but do eventually deliver.

[Zindan]

The new patch on the closed beta servers dropped my performance down a bit, get lots of texture loads, though the colors in the game a "richer"..at the cost of being unable to adjust brightness or gamma. Game is very dark, even outside during daytime.

[Draegan]

"Test Live" servers are unstable now. Though they said that was to be expected.

I don't think this game is going to fail hard at release. It'll be a typical MMO release.

Best release I've ever seen was LOTRO.

[Dantre]

Originally Posted by ajiatus

Here is a question to those in Beta that tested the Barbarian -- although it's a melee DPS class, can it still tank if necessary? How repetitive is it given that it is mostly a straight up DPS melee fighter?

No - it'd be like a rogue tanking in dps gear.