AOC - General Discussion II

[Hachima]

Just bandage it all up, thats sure to fix it.

This is what I picture the current state of Conan as. In particular the female characters =/



Hopefully they will do a free month of access later like Vanguard does six months from now. After all the bandages are removed it will probably be pretty fun to play again. Plus maybe they will have a DX10 client to test out by then too.

[melicant]

It looks like the people that had gems removed were those with T3 armor (which they shouldn't have had anyway).

[Tolanin]

why shouldnt they have had them? there was no magic bug that let people get lvl 80 gear. All the 80 gear i saw was made legit unless you are just suposed to somehow know that funcom was to stupid to put the right building reqs on stuff and then was to stupid to even let us beta test crafting and just put all this shit on live servers... but hey thats fanboyism at its finest.. we should just know what is intended and what isnt, fuck communication why arent we smarter?! i mean its not like most of the crafting stuff is broken one way or another, how are we to know that lvl80 blue isnt meant to be crafted and the pieces we cant craft are bugged? Not to mention the only people who would even notice that were the armorsmiths themselves.

[Necrolyte]

Originally Posted by Hachima

Most are fielding 80s? haha I doubt it. Of the 1300 that bought the game how many are even posters here? maybe 30? The voters hardly represent the people that actually post here. Maybe there should be a poll that asks what your highest level is. My bet it the lvl 50 range gets the most, because thats when the game starts to suck and people lose interest.

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The poll is on the FoH Forums... so I assume all 1300 are at least readers here, if not posters. Did you misunderstand and think we were using a poll from the official forums?

[Falmer]

The gems are just completely retarded overall. What genius came up with the idea of having a milion fucking raw gems AND having each gem gain a random (there's like 5 or 6 per gem?) stat when cut. It makes them a giant time/money sink to get, if you want to farm/buy raw gems, which is quite often a necessity since the "good" (+ damage, invuls, resists, etc...) gems are pretty much impossible to get off AH.
Gems being stackable for ridiculous values of whatever you want is also somewhat .

[Hachima]

Originally Posted by Necrolyte

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The poll is on the FoH Forums... so I assume all 1300 are at least readers here, if not posters. Did you misunderstand and think we were using a poll from the official forums?

So every reader here has a lvl 80? haha ok...

[Necrolyte]

Originally Posted by Hachima

So every reader here has a lvl 80? haha ok...

Never said every reader, but relative to most demographics, we probably field more 80s than the typical forums.

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by Falmer

The gems are just completely retarded overall. What genius came up with the idea of having a milion fucking raw gems AND having each gem gain a random (there's like 5 or 6 per gem?) stat when cut. It makes them a giant time/money sink to get, if you want to farm/buy raw gems, which is quite often a necessity since the "good" (+ damage, invuls, resists, etc...) gems are pretty much impossible to get off AH.
Gems being stackable for ridiculous values of whatever you want is also somewhat .

Well what's stupid is how some gemtypes are fucking stacked with stats, while others are not. Easy example, you use green lvl 80gems(they're lvl75 ingame though). If you try to get say, electrical damage for a ToS, there's only 3 outcome. You add one outcome if you use a flawless gem(a proc). That means you have a fucking high chance of getting what you want, and you can also get lighting resist gems, which aren't all that bad I guess(but not very useful).

Now you try to get say str gems, or weapon dmg gems. They're red gems. There's about 8 different outcomes for uncut gems, and 3-4more for flawless. You can get 1h slash and blunt, 2h slash and blunt, polearm, str, con, melee invulns, and tons of shitty procs for the flawless ones.

That's the main issue with the random system, it's not balanced at all. It was the same for my shadow gems, only had like 3 choices for uncut ones, but one more proc for flawless than lighting ones.

The other issue is obviously, the fact there's no restriction on stacking them, leading to stupid high melee invulns(assuming you gem everything with 80 uncut or flawless, you end up with like 45% from items+what you get from various feats/stances, and the mage absorb shields that eat 90more out of what's left, pretty much nullifies most of the autoattack damage and nerfs most multiple hits combos to shit), or stupid high evade(about 45%, for a reanimation necro 60%base, add to that double tap evades...). And there's issues with %multipliers and such on a lot of attacks by stacking dmg. Polearm guardians getting 5k flashing arc hits on def stance conqs for example.

[Inconsiderable]

Originally Posted by melicant

It looks like the people that had gems removed were those with T3 armor (which they shouldn't have had anyway).

My two crafted rings slot their slots. Now I need to farm platinum again. Fuck funcom. I bet thats part of aocs "endgame content".

Originally Posted by Tolanin

i think its pretty funny necro has gotten like a month of tweaks when for the most part the class works fine and the melees ass/dt etc all need 10 times more work.

Yea? Thats why pet attacks deal more area damage than a parasitic soulswarm tick (4m radius channeling pbae). But I agree, DT needs alot more work than necro ever did.

[Tolanin]

Originally Posted by Inconsiderable

My two crafted rings slot their slots. Now I need to farm platinum again. Fuck funcom. I bet thats part of aocs "endgame content".



Yea? Thats why pet attacks deal more area damage than a parasitic soulswarm tick (4m radius channeling pbae). But I agree, DT needs alot more work than necro ever did.

well certain specs of necro needed work for sure but there were others that were still very good.. i just dont get why you would try to work towards balancing one classes talent trees so all are viable when they have half the melees in the game quitting or rerolling because their classes are just entirely broken.

Latest news on the sockets is that its a bug .. another great tested patch by funcom.

[Gilgamel]

I really hate funcom. Everyone who killed Vistrix in the last two days has to wait until next Monday to get their tooth. Meaning people who may not have killed him ever until tonight or tomorrow are going to get a 3-4 day head start on tier 2 over people who may have killed him 20 times by now.

[Draegan]

Who cares? Tier 2 is probably broken and unbeatable anyway, unless you exploit it.

[Wanand]

She repops every time server is down so why would people have to wait? They bring the server down to patch and yes tier2 is broke you cannot progress pass the gargoyle boss so another cock block

[Gilgamel]

She doesn't repop anymore, our whole instance is kaput at the moment.

It may be broken. But at least if it wasn't I could take my force and go do something, rather than sitting on my ass for 5 days.

[Rhym]

Originally Posted by spronk

Funcom will have to give some sub info in its stockholder report which I think is due after July 30th.

The stock is kind of funny too, it basically stood in the low 20s most of last year, moved up to mid 30s as Conan got closer, spiked up to $55 end of May when AoC was released, and has since slowly dropped back to $32 (today). Investors so far aren't very confident AoC is a big money maker.

lol lol lol. Have you been watching the stock market in June? Especially tech stocks? That price drop has almost nothing to do with the game's performance.