AOC - General Discussion II

[Rhym]

class definitely has a bit of a power gap in leveling from say mid 40s to 65 when you get archmage tho i never got to 65. Wait until then to comment on it. You'll be watching some other classes do double what you can and not break a sweat.

Unholy hands is bread and butter. You have to pull about half as much if its on cooldown. Mostly when im soloing i go look for people to gank while unholy hands is on cd b/c its such a pain to not have it in use.

[NativityInBlack]

"Only 70k subs on Age of Conan"

This site is flying on the general forums of AoC:

Age of Conan Desperate for Subscribers | Epidemic Obesity | World Of Warcraft

Any ideas if it's reliable or just a WoW fan site as the name suggests?

[Vatoreus]

Originally Posted by NativityInBlack

"Only 70k subs on Age of Conan"

This site is flying on the general forums of AoC:

Age of Conan Desperate for Subscribers | Epidemic Obesity | World Of Warcraft

Any ideas if it's reliable or just a WoW fan site as the name suggests?

Originally Posted by Article

2. The World Has No Character

Age of Conan's designers attempted to deliver us a dark, gritty, realism-themed world that ended up feeling derivative, lifeless, and boring. The legions of gamers who enjoy MMO as an escape into an alternate world found Hyboria devoid of magical excitement, fun, and wonder.

lol wut This article seems to be pretty pointless and nothing but a masturbatory salute to Blizzard.

[NativityInBlack]

Yea look shady.

People Would Rather Wait For More WoW

The sad truth that we realize, after this past month, is that speculating and reading about upcoming changes for WoW: WotLK is actually more fun and interesting than playing Age of Conan.

Shame on Funcom, or congrats to Blizzard? Who knows. Either way, it's time to say an official "Goodbye" to Age of Conan.

^ sorta nails it, wonder what will be the real subscriber base tho.

[Taivek]

This thread has me really interested in playing this game. Can anyone give me their feedback on how the assassin class is?

[Lonin]

Originally Posted by NativityInBlack

"Only 70k subs on Age of Conan"

This site is flying on the general forums of AoC:

Age of Conan Desperate for Subscribers | Epidemic Obesity | World Of Warcraft

Any ideas if it's reliable or just a WoW fan site as the name suggests?

I suppose it's possible, but that site isn't helping itself by not sourcing their article at all. A WoW blog citing a non-linked press release that no other game news outlet received? I'll call bullshit.

[Rayne]

Originally Posted by Taivek

This thread has me really interested in playing this game. Can anyone give me their feedback on how the assassin class is?

I was gonna wait a bit longer, but its pretty intriguing that a thread for such a relatively new game has reached over 3600 posts before the end of the free month

A few of my orgmates from AO are playing it already (some I haven't seen in over a year), and our forums are looking pretty positive as well. I think i'll grab a couple gigs of memory this week, and try it out over the weekend.

[Guzrog]

My necro was fuckall to level pre fix patch, imagine that. Decent in pvp though. After 35 Necro, 45 Bear Shaman, 44 Barb, and now as 42 TOS, I think i've found my class. They can nerf it I'll still love the mechanics. I was afraid to roll one with nerfs imminent... but I love it. Same reason I quit my cleric at 11 in Vanguard heh. But the mechanics are solid, even with a nerf I'd enjoy the class. Necromancer was too mana intensive (gone now) and I'm too big of a fan of hide. Barbarian felt shallow, and the bear shaman is just too much fucking work to be worth it. I already have carpal from EQ, so I can't play the bear long before I'm hurting (insert QQ here.)

TOS is alot like RDM from FFXI for those that played it. But without the refresh order, so I'm in love. Bring the nerfs. Funcom may buff everyone, they seem skeptical to nerf anything that isn't absurdly broken and I appreciate that, they're patching style is very unique to say the least.

Shout out: Been around these boards forever, and it maybe the beer, but I'd like to commend Pyros for contributing some solid no bullshit or class biased posts in regards to Age of Conan in general, its been hard as fuck to keep up with this thread with a full time job and a kid, but all of his posts have been solid and full of some decent information. Keep it up man, its a rare quality on the boards these days.

[Roa]

Originally Posted by NativityInBlack

"Only 70k subs on Age of Conan"

This site is flying on the general forums of AoC:

Age of Conan Desperate for Subscribers | Epidemic Obesity | World Of Warcraft

Any ideas if it's reliable or just a WoW fan site as the name suggests?

That isn't the experience I've seen. 40% sitting on the shelf is what really sort of kills it for me, considering I had to sink as low as going to a Walmart to get it (the last copy they had), cause everyone else convenient and local was sold out.

[Steamrice]

I'm surprised people are flocking to the necro class. We are the squishiest class out there. Glass cannon without the cannon "burst damage". 2 CC that breaks by breathing on them. Most melee classes can stun and knock off over 2/3 of your life in a combo so you have to be good at kiting. If you enjoy kiting or doing steady damage in 1v1 situations, then sure go with the necro class. If you like to sit back in group pvp and mow down groups of enemies for a lot of damage, then hurry up and get that necro to 80. But be warned, the class is a bitch to level up until you hit 65. 65 to 80 takes just as long as it took 1-65.

Being 80 for awhile now, I can see necros as the zerg stoppers and also good at pushing on the offensive. Our level 80 pets "Blood Arcanists" supply a constant aoe of 800-1000 damage every 2 seconds. Now lets add in other necro pets and that is a LOT of aoe damage. Then there is unholy hands or shatter or aoe snare from ghelids bone, the amount of aoe is just crazy.

If you need help deciding on your last tier talents and what they do...

Corpse detonation doesn't work too well so far from what I've seen in group pvp. Perhaps it will change in the larger fights but I doubt corpses will stack. Great for taking over a camp from another group unless they have a ranger who can track you while hiding. Also requires a corpse pile of more than 10 to kill people as the damage range is like 200-500.

Do NOT spec into army of the dead. I don't know what funcom was thinking when they made that spell a channel that summons like 5 extra melee pets that hit for 20. The feats leading up to it are also worthless. Just don't bother. The one that sacrifices your damage for pet damage has a 20s duration on it and 2 minute cooldown I believe.

Lich form is quite lacking. 30s duration with a 5 minute cooldown and adds about 50 dmg ticks on dots. With Despoil the Soul maxxed and lich form, my grip of death ticked for over 700 every 2s though in pvp. Ok not so great because blood arcanist pets do more than that and lets me move around.

The #1 big group killer I can see though is "Shatter". You simply cast ghelid bones or deathly blizzard at a group of targets and hit shatter. They all explode at each other for over 500 damage. The more people there are, the more overkill the damage becomes. o_O Can you imagine the potential of this spell in zerg fights?

[Rayne]

Found this while reading another board:

http://www.funcom.com/funcom/fronten...m%20Update.pdf

For that blog to be accurate:

280,000 copies would need to be sitting on shelves

210,000 would have to have been bought and then returned (I have a pretty tough time believeing that nearly a quarter million people never bother to read the box intil they got it home)

140,000 people left in droves (kinda hard to hide that i'd think)

70,000 are still playing

Yeah. I think i'd call bullshit on this as well.

But just out of curiousity, how many servers are there? Do they seem pretty well populated?

[Kodylan]

That blog is so full of shit it's browner than Vanguard.

[Nerion]

I seriously doubt those numbers are real.

[TwiNCannoN]

Originally Posted by Pyros

Btw, you've heard it first, next patch(so probably thursday), necros are finally getting their 8pet points at lvl 20 like they said they would.

?! Are you serious? that's absurd if so. I can't imagine having 8 corruptors running around, even 3 at the moment are badass...

Originally Posted by Taivek

This thread has me really interested in playing this game. Can anyone give me their feedback on how the assassin class is?

Very hard to level, pretty decent at 80, commonly believed to be getting buffs soon even if the devs haven't said anything but a lot of their stuff is either broken or really annoying (snap kick, stealth charge)... I'd say avoid them for now unless you're super huge into rogue classes. I'm sure they'll get their cake sometime but when that is, who knows.

Originally Posted by Rayne

I was gonna wait a bit longer, but its pretty intriguing that a thread for such a relatively new game has reached over 3600 posts before the end of the free month

Second thread too... the first one was locked because some people couldn't open it since it was so huge (>9000 posts iirc?).

Anyway I can't see how it'd be possible for this game to only have 70k subs. And if they were "desperate for subscribers" wouldn't they - you know - give us our damned friend keys? And, people are still claiming it's hard to find in some stores.

[Barellron]

Originally Posted by Taivek

This thread has me really interested in playing this game. Can anyone give me their feedback on how the assassin class is?

Assassin synopsis; play a Barbarian.