AOC - General Discussion II - Page 263

Twobit Whore · 06-23-2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Saban

Is AoC PvP any good? Any sort of balance?

LOL, that a joke?

Saban · 06-23-2008, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

LOL, that a joke?

Depends how bitter and jaded you are.

Pyros · 06-23-2008, 01:00 PM

I've actually found some fun on my necro. I speced for necrotic pustule, and I just run around melees while casting a few dots, and when they start swinging their weaps to ready combos, they hit pustules, which blow up for ~800damage each. I have 8pustules out, so on good hits, they instantly die. Else I can force explode them every 4secs. It's pretty fucking hilarious seeing a HoX one shotting me with a firelance then dieing instantly because firelance also kill all the pustules ^^.

Inconsiderable · 06-23-2008, 02:03 PM

The PvP is pretty good outside the balancing issues like instant kills.

TwiNCannoN · 06-23-2008, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saban

Is AoC PvP any good? Any sort of balance?

It's fun but it's definitely not balanced. 1v1 balance is nonexistent and group pvp - which is the most/only fun I have in this game - isn't very balanced either. The core mechanics are good enough for the minigames to be really fun though.

So wtf is going on with necros? Some friends are reporting Despoil the Soul's damage bonus at a staggering 189% now which is like... wut (edit: nm, apparently he mistook it and it's just a magic damage increase aka not nearly as significant)

Jait · 06-23-2008, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Inconsiderable

The PvP is pretty good outside the balancing issues like instant kills.

Yep. That gets annoying. Like DaoC I imagine they will add some sort of 1-hit shield down the road for certain classes.

Traldan · 06-23-2008, 03:27 PM

Well, I bought the game today. A bit late to the party but whatever.

Think I'll be starting a Demonologist on the Dagoth server.

Grumpy Old Fart · 06-23-2008, 04:26 PM

FunCom's "Quality Assurance" team is giving the lone guy at Sigil that had this job a good name. If you're an Alchemist, opening your Tradeskill Book instantly crashes the game. If you're a ToS, not only does Storm Field only affect five targets now (a needed nerf, mayhap), but any targets in range beyond the five get a permanent immunity to SF. You all read the AoC forums, I'm sure, and can read about the other fifty things their QA Retard Squad missed on this patch.

My goodness, all of those tens of millions of dollars and they're going to lose huge numbers of subscribers due to being too fucking cheap to hire any competent QA people or any GMs at all (yeah, we love 27-hour petition queues that you *MUST* stay online for to have any hope of problem resolution).

Flight · 06-23-2008, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Grumpy Old Fart

FunCom's "Quality Assurance" team is giving the lone guy at Sigil that had this job a good name. If you're an Alchemist, opening your Tradeskill Book instantly crashes the game.

Did you try that for yourself ? I figured it was internet myth or someone having a joke so I tried it; certainly opening my alchemist book doesn't crash my client.

Todays patch (23/06) saw major changes to some raid bosses. We just took down the first boss in Kylikkis Crypt and he is OP now. Gave up some phat lewtz though so no major complaintz. Anyone looking for an EU PvE raid guild we have a few spots left, but prolly not for long.

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Seryne · 06-23-2008, 04:50 PM

I'm in game and just opened my Alchemy book--no problems here. I had read about them earlier, but seems it didn't have a problem live. They re-changed champion of the guard again? Seems kind of odd, since his abilities were pretty well tuned over the last couple patches. He is(was?) super easy once you know what to look for.

We're talking about the same Champion that does Covenant of Pestilence, Covenant of Putrescence, Reaper of Malacor and Curse of Galwhatever, right? He's been in this state for 2 weeks now (albeit, until a week ago, his "stance" changes weren't as easily identifiable since the cast bar names were blank).

Flight · 06-23-2008, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Seryne

He is(was?) super easy once you know what to look for.

Yeah one group could do him comfortably before; not now though. I believe the Yahkmar exploit was fixed too, but in all honesty I never even knew what it was. We've steered clear of it.

Seryne · 06-23-2008, 04:59 PM

I hope they fix the exploits, but I also hope that they make the encounters beatable. I don't think anyone has legitimately shown a Yakhmar kill that wasn't exploited, no?

Grumpy Old Fart · 06-23-2008, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Flight

Did you try that for yourself ? I figured it was internet myth or someone having a joke so I tried it; certainly opening my alchemist book doesn't crash my client.

Yes. It doesn't happen to everybody, only people with certain tradeskills *AND* Alchemy. I'm sure the crack QA team at FunCom just didn't have time to test those few possible combinations.

Opening Trade skill book crashes client (alchemy and architect) - Age of Conan Forums
Undocumented Patch Note's 6/23 Compilation - Age of Conan Forums
(amongst many other threads)

Twobit Whore · 06-23-2008, 05:02 PM

The alchemy crash was reported on 'test', but it was pushed live anyway.

Of course the patch went to test Saturday evening and went live in EU 36 hours later so it's likely they didn't even read the forums to get feedback in that time.

Fammaden · 06-23-2008, 05:08 PM

Thinking of trying out again, didn't really stick with it the first shot. Was thinking HoX or Ranger, are Rangers any good? What's an easy/fun class to level?

06-23-2008, 03:27 PM	#3937 (permalink)
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06-23-2008, 05:02 PM	#3944 (permalink)
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06-23-2008, 01:00 PM	#3933 (permalink)
Pyros Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,631 +24 Internets	I've actually found some fun on my necro. I speced for necrotic pustule, and I just run around melees while casting a few dots, and when they start swinging their weaps to ready combos, they hit pustules, which blow up for ~800damage each. I have 8pustules out, so on good hits, they instantly die. Else I can force explode them every 4secs. It's pretty fucking hilarious seeing a HoX one shotting me with a firelance then dieing instantly because firelance also kill all the pustules ^^.

06-23-2008, 02:03 PM	#3934 (permalink)
Inconsiderable the princess approves Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 694 -5 Internets	The PvP is pretty good outside the balancing issues like instant kills.

06-23-2008, 04:26 PM	#3938 (permalink)
Grumpy Old Fart You fucking kids get off my lawn! Join Date: May 2007 Location: North Dakota Posts: 515 -13 Internets	FunCom's "Quality Assurance" team is giving the lone guy at Sigil that had this job a good name. If you're an Alchemist, opening your Tradeskill Book instantly crashes the game. If you're a ToS, not only does Storm Field only affect five targets now (a needed nerf, mayhap), but any targets in range beyond the five get a permanent immunity to SF. You all read the AoC forums, I'm sure, and can read about the other fifty things their QA Retard Squad missed on this patch. My goodness, all of those tens of millions of dollars and they're going to lose huge numbers of subscribers due to being too fucking cheap to hire any competent QA people or any GMs at all (yeah, we love 27-hour petition queues that you MUST stay online for to have any hope of problem resolution).

06-23-2008, 04:50 PM	#3940 (permalink)
Seryne Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 79 +7 Internets	I'm in game and just opened my Alchemy book--no problems here. I had read about them earlier, but seems it didn't have a problem live. They re-changed champion of the guard again? Seems kind of odd, since his abilities were pretty well tuned over the last couple patches. He is(was?) super easy once you know what to look for. We're talking about the same Champion that does Covenant of Pestilence, Covenant of Putrescence, Reaper of Malacor and Curse of Galwhatever, right? He's been in this state for 2 weeks now (albeit, until a week ago, his "stance" changes weren't as easily identifiable since the cast bar names were blank).

06-23-2008, 04:59 PM	#3942 (permalink)
Seryne Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 79 +7 Internets	I hope they fix the exploits, but I also hope that they make the encounters beatable. I don't think anyone has legitimately shown a Yakhmar kill that wasn't exploited, no?