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Age of Conan gets first expansion
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I also started a Khitan Assassin, I'll get her through Tortage on a rainy day. I meant to take some screenshots for the Character thread, but I forgot the Screenshot key is F11 instead of Print Screen.
Steam: cristke
I love the random encounter system. I'm having to fight the temptation to keep running the trip over and over again.
I'm also enjoying the general feel of the lower level khitai zone - especially over by the forgotten city. That quest to finish the shaman rituals ended up being insane for me. I had to do a lot of maneuvering to survive it. I ended up accidentally pulling one of the more powerful demons while trying to fight about 6 of the weaker ones on the final three stages of the ritual. I got trapped in the middle of the group of them at one point and had to kill one to get out, then all sorts of other craziness involving every trick in the book. I spent about 3-5 minutes at around 200hp and have no idea how I survived.
Random pics:
Also, aren't there multiple entrances to Khitai? When I zoned in I was in front of a ruined caravan. Was pretty open, which meant it was easy to slip past any wannabe gankers.
Ah. I haven't checked that area out yet.
Steam: cristke
MechWarrior Online: Khyber Pryde
Word is that Gamestop are being a bunch of cheap assholes and are only shipping something like one copy to most stores in most districts for some reason. Which is odd, since they obviously have plenty more in stock.
Your best bet is to just buy it off the official website if it's still offered there. It's cheap, and if the pre-release offers are still going, you can get a ton of really nice bonuses on top of the base game.
Population wise, the game is booming so far.
I can't speak for rangers, seeing as how i've not played one. However, on my assassin i've not noticed the rangers i've fought tracking me while stealthed. So either that feature is gone, or the people playing modern day rangers really suck.
I was originally looking forward to the PvP aspect of the game, but I couldn't convince any of my friends to join up, and playing solo on a pvp server is enough to turn you off the game completely. I think I'll probably try the expansion at some point, but when I do come back it will definitely be on a PvE server.
Steam ID: darklite_x Xbox Gamertag: Darklite 37
don't play solo on a PvP server
Fixed that for ya.
Fixed even more!
There are parts I like about the expansion so far. New zones. Good. A tiger mount? Hot. A new player race? That's great.
...but the horrible, mind numbing and soul crushing grind they introduced with it all towards the endgame kind of puts a damper on the entire thing. Seriously, it is ridiculous. Hopefully they tweak it (a lot)
I really haven't read all too much about the expansion, but the 2 things that intrigue me where the mention of faction pets you can raise into mounts and the alternative advancement system. Sadly, prob both can't really be explored til 80 as well. Oh well.
The actual skills you can train, for me, are pretty bad. I am playing a Herald of Xotli and the entire thing kind of felt a little underwhelming to me compared to some of the other classes new toys.
Sadly, left to their own devices the average gamer tends to devolve to amazing levels of pointless douchbaggery in open world PvP. I mean, where's the fun in killing someone when they're talking to a quest-giver, or killing people who are 10+ levels lower than you?
Rigorous Scholarship
True. If it wasn't for the constant ganking, I would have loved the PvP server I was on. Murdering or being murdered once in a while is a new thing to look out for, but being stalked by a high-level asshole isn't. This said, on the side of one of the snow mountains in Cimmeria we once had a huge PvP fight over a spawn point. 8-9 assholes from an asshole guild vs 10 or so of us questers and our guildmates who teamed up to fight back at them. I planned to level up that evening but instead I was stuck in a glorious fight, until one side got too much reinforcement and then it stopped being fun.
When you've run out of other new things to do, you learn to get creative.
I always preferred calling in the war mammoth cavalry, or having mammoth wrestling.
Better yet, arrange for them to be caught in a narrow valley as a stampede of war rhinos being ridden by players comes hurtling down the other end.
I imagine the resulting carnage would look like that stampede scene from the Lion King.
Edit: PVP servers take a bit of getting used too. However, once you learn how to sneak around it gets alot more manageable. There's also tricks you can use to stay out of most PVPers sight. Like keeping in foilage whenever possible, and avoiding major roads (A favorite camping spot for ranged gankers and assassins who like to do the bandit/ambush thing in heavily populated zones.).
Also, remember that you can swim downwards in this game. If you have the option, just swim at the bottom of a river bed or lake to your target. Noone can see you that way.
It helps that every class gets the hide skill at some point. Though, only rogues can use it without an action point/stam drain.
There are still some weak spots- Tortage is cool the first few times, but having to take every single character through it is a pain, especially for alt-addicts like me. I'm also a little disappointed that all the Khittai zones are either level 20-40 or 80, with nothing in between.
That being said, the game is worth a shot. If you want a buddy key for a 7 day trial, pm me your e-mail address.
Rigorous Scholarship
I probably know the answer, but if I have a char from the free demo (trapped to tortage), I presume I can't add the 7 day trial to that account to see what life is like outside tortage? I played back around release and remember the suck post-tortage, so I'm hesitant to try it out further without seeing what its like these days.
Rigorous Scholarship
They have an unlimited demo account that allows you to make a bunch of chars (i have 6?) on any server, but you cannot leave tortage. I managed to get one char up to 23 by doing all the quests available in both day/night. I'm just not sure if I can tie the 7 day trial to the same account (which I presuming is not limited to tortage only) and get that 23 out into the worl to see, or if I would have to re-level another char in 7 days out of tortage (not un-doable, but I'd prefer not to).
Trial
EDIT: Awesome! Just go to ageofconan.com > My Account
After you've logged in bottom left corner there should be a box that says enter registration key or something like that, enter the key you got in your AoC buddy email. If you can't find the box go to upgrade AoC subscription, at the bottom of the page it's there as well. Problem is my dude's not 20 yet so I haven't finished tortage and I added the key =.= All in the name of PA
She dosn't do anything except pose and blow some kisses. I named her Emilie.
Steam: cristke
I'll be your bestest bud
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Rigorous Scholarship
You do hit people with that big stick in the nuts however. I bet your opponent is having a...bearly good time after that.
Also, I have buddy keys as well if anyone needs them.
I had good fun with my bear shaman when I played. I remember that PVP-enabled dungeon just outside of Tortage - very popular gank spot. I got jumped by two guys and tore them both to shreds.
Why do you hate me so Funcom?
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