AOC - General Information

[DJk_zero]

Originally Posted by Lonin

Death penalty is a stacking damage debuff and a port to a res point. It's pretty minor unelss you die a bunch of times without getting your tombstone.

Even if you die a bunch of times it doesn't do a whole lot. The death penalty is too weak, and is abused to teleport across zones in 10 seconds.

[Schatze]

Well, the thing is, you yourself have commented on how much has changed in a short while. Probably it was a lot of work behind the scenes that went into it, but still.


With the sales numbers, there's no way they're going to let this puppy wither for lack of attention/content. And they've demonstrated they're committed as hell.

I'd imagine when they started getting the pre-orders in everything went into overdrive and hasn't stopped.

Predicting a WOW killer is dumb, but predicting a game that possibly eventually falls somewhere between EQ's peak subs and WOW's subs is certainly possible.

Besides, the games cater to different markets. I saw my first titties yesterday, nips included, hurrah! That alone knocks a few million soccer moms and 13 year olds with disapproving parents out of the AOC crowd.

[Pyksel]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

I think the game will spike early and trickle off though still. I don't see it being a 'WoW killer' or even a dent.

..and what is wrong with the game coexisting in the market?

Who said it would be a 'WoW killer' or a 'WoW denter'?

I believe it was Gecko that pointed it out earlier:

Ready to bactrack from your 100 posts in this thread that this game is Vanguard? I'm surprised you're still here, and you're a hypocrite if you bought the game.

It's pretty obvious that you're just trying to save face after acting like a douchebag throughout the majority of this thread regarding the initial launch and now you're looking for any shred of negativity that you can latch on. Even if it means reaching into the realm of hyperbole to make some backwards claim that it won't be a WoW killer.

Just fucking man up, realize you were wrong, and have fun with it. Is it that hard Twobit?

Believe, the game is a blast. Yes, there are some quirks about it, but it's definitely been one of the most smooth launches to date of any MMO (we'll see tomorrow on the official), the combat is addictive, and the PvP looks to be chaotic and fun.

[Twobit Whore]

Originally Posted by TwiNCannoN

Never understood the big deal about Ebonlore. Banned from vanguard for exploiting? When did that give a group of people the right to be e-celebrities? There was way more epic drama that went down in EQ and other games.

Ebonlore hacked Shadowbane and then ebayed the guild assets before quitting/getting banned.

They got a guild ban from EQ2. Same for Vanguard.

This isn't some fly-by-night script kids that just appeared in VG.

Originally Posted by Psykel

Just fucking man up, realize you were wrong, and have fun with it. Is it that hard Twobit?

Well, the game hasn't even officially launched yet, now has it? Let's not suck each others dicks just yet.

[Pyksel]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Ebonlore hacked Shadowbane and then ebayed the guild assets before quitting/getting banned.

They got a guild ban from EQ2. Same for Vanguard.

This isn't some fly-by-night script kids that just appeared in VG.




Well, the game hasn't even officially launched yet, now has it? Let's not suck each others dicks just yet.

No clue how Funcom responds to this in AoC or how their security has been in the past but if they show as much determination into getting shit done as they have over the past month I have no doubt they will squash this shit right away.

...

That is of course until the next one is found.

[LexarkT11]

I still have questions about PvP.

When can you join into PvP Battle Arenas/Games?

Are there any rewards for PvP levels/kills yet? (aka any point to pvp?)

[Duppin]

Does it always take a long time for "Downloading patch information..." to move anywhere?

[Lonin]

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[Pyksel]

Originally Posted by Duppin

Does it always take a long time for "Downloading patch information..." to move anywhere?

"The server preparations for launch are proceeding well. To be able to proper test everything and to ensure the best possible performance we need however to extend the scheduled downtime by 2 more hours.

The US servers should therefore be online again at around 4 am GMT.

European servers will not be affected by this."

[Lonin]

Originally Posted by Duppin

Does it always take a long time for "Downloading patch information..." to move anywhere?

The patch servers are down for another 2 hours.

[Duppin]

Oh. It wasn't intuitive to me that the patch servers would be down also, I figured it was just the game servers.

My bad.

[Tolanin]

Originally Posted by Gilgamel

Yeah, my partner and I are 30. We've already done maze and the borderlands. We spent a fucking hour last night looking for a missing wounded blind girl from the npc by the wagon to Poitain in wildlands. If anyone knows where the hell she is I'd appreciate it, the two of us and some level 34 bear shaman spent what felt like half the night looking for her before giving up. We killed every mob in the area, climbed the mountain and checked every nook and cranny, etc. If it was vanguard I'd just say the quest was broken, but I haven't found a broken quest so far in AoC so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.

I have a couple of general questions if anyone can answer them, there's a lot of vague terminology.

1) What is "natural" health regen. Is that in combat as well, because they mention out of combat specifically? Specifically in the soldier tree the first feat looks interesting, but...

2) What are "secondary" attacks? Is that specifically offhand attacks, or normal weapon attacks, or the combo strikes other than the first(opening) attack?

Here's my spec if anyone has any input, I may have misread something.
Conan Kave - Age of Conan Feat Calculator

I wish they were a bit more specific on their tooltips. The game really holds your hand in a lot of ways, but it also leaves a hell of a lot unknown with regards to other things.

any natural regen is in combat and out, so ya that talent is great and it scales up as you level... theres another stat called non combat regen that is out of combat.

the way secondary attacks work is that while dual wielding basically every attack you do is a primary attack and they all have a chance of procing an offhand attack, so items with that stat increase the chance to proc your offhand, its pretty similar to EQ.

That conq spec looks pretty good, warlord is of debatable value imo at like 40 it only gives 20mana/sta every 6 seconds and your 45 sta aura already is giving you 44 sta every 2 seconds.. so i would get warlord if i was going into that line already but i wouldnt spec deep into that line just for warlord.

[Tred]

So they're career douche bags? Wow that's even more impressive!


edit: err that was about ebonlore

[Pyksel]

Anyone figure out the mechanics of "bandaging" and where it applies in the realm of regen?

Also, here's my guardian spec: Age of Conan Feat Calculator | Guardian Feats

I was originally going to go with Counterstrike Stance and Anticipation in the General tab, but heard it was bugged.

[LexarkT11]

Originally Posted by Pyksel

Anyone figure out the mechanics of "bandaging" and where it applies in the realm of regen?

Also, here's my guardian spec: Age of Conan Feat Calculator | Guardian Feats

I was originally going to go with Counterstrike Stance and Anticipation in the General tab, but heard it was bugged.

Isnt tempest set better for leveling/pvp?

Thats the impression i was under at least