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Just recently, the Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures U.S. Doomsayer PVP server went down for undisclosed reasons. Could it be that the dragon has eaten the server?

Funcom Community Coordinator Wayne “Yakomo” Soong posted on the official forums of the game that they were aware of the situation and are working to resolve it. Around an hour since this announcement went up, Yakomo announced that the server is now back up.

So far, we still don’t have any word on what caused this downtime. Oh well, I guess it doesn’t really matter as long as the servers are up and subscribers can play.

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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an MMORPG based on the world of famed fantasy author Robert E. Howard. In Age of Conan, players enter Hyboria with thousands of their friends and enemies to live, fight, and explore the dark and brutal world of King Conan.
Our Active Combat System
Age of Conan’s combat system lets you take an active role in combat. Rather than pressing an auto-attack button, you actually control every chop, thrust, and swing of your weapon. Our combat system also allows you to control your defense rather than relying on statistics alone, adjusting your defenses as your enemies attack, lending an element of skill to every encounter. Age of Conan also features a robust system for mounted combat, allowing you to charge to victory on powerful horses, deadly war rhinos, and even the mighty mammoth!
A World of Breathtaking Beauty
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures features the groundbreaking graphics of our proprietary DreamWorld engine as well as advanced DirectX 10 support, ensuring the world of Hyboria is rich, lush, and vibrant.
Tread In The Footsteps Of The Greatest Fantasy Hero Of All Time
Robert E. Howard’s Conan is one of the most famous heroes of all time. Follow in his footsteps and fight where Conan fought, explore where he roamed, meet friends and foes alike and, if you are truly worthy, meet the great King Conan himself. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has been developed in close collaboration with Conan Inc., owners of the Conan license, to ensure the ultimate Hyborian adventure, based on 75 years of lore and history from some of the most famous writers in fantasy fiction.
Unprecedented Character Development And Customization
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures allows an unprecedented level of control over your character. Define your character’s look and feel from their looks—including hairstyles, markings, musculature, size, and other options—to their development, such as picking unique combo attacks and skills, their special abilities, and which deadly spells they bring to bear.
Unique and Interesting Classes
Age of Conan’s 12 classes include an array of unique and interesting classes, from new ideas like the Bear Shaman and Herald of Xotli to new twists on old favorites like the Assassin and Ranger. Our classes are set up across four archetypes: Priests, Mages, Rogues, and Soldiers, ensuring there is a class for every playstyle and taste.
Massive Player Versus Player Combat
Band together with friends and guildmates to capture powerful battlekeeps and towers for precious resources or work for cold, hard currency as a mercenary, fighting for the prettiest face or highest bidder!
An Engrossing Crafting System
Delve into a deep and engrossing crafting system, allowing you to make everything from armor and weapons to an entire city! There are hundreds of unique quests built solely around crafting, and advancement through the crafting system comes from making things and completing quests, not surviving the grind.
A Living World
There are hundreds of unique quests for adventuring and crafting, featuring extensive NPC interaction and voice acting, immersing you in the living world of King Conan. With music and sound from the award-winning Funcom team, you’ll hear all the thumps, cracks, and clangs of good old-fashioned swordplay, as well as ambient noises like wolves howling in the distance and the grunts and groans of your foes as you cut them to ribbons, all set to a breathtaking score.
Extensive Solo Options
Age of Conan draws you into the scheming, seduction, intrigue, and betrayal of Hyboria with an extensive solo section on the island of Tortage that gives you time to learn the game at your own pace, with plenty of options for multiplayer interaction should you desire it. Age of Conan also features enough solo content to take you all the way to the upper levels, meaning you play your way, alone or in groups, as you wish.
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Deep within the Black Ring Citadel in a facility buried far from the light of day works Excorant, a sorcerer capable of molding stone to create mockeries of human life. The infamous gargoyles of Kheshatta, city of magicians have long been feared yet one mad philosopher of the dark arts seeks to study them and unlock the secret of their creation. He has been partially successful and continues to work feverishly to discover their profane nature.Deep within the Black Ring Citadel in a facility buried far from the light of day works Excorant, a sorcerer capable of molding stone to create mockeries of human life; blasphemous gargoyles replete with fangs and talons capable of tearing armor to pieces, puncturing shields and ripping flesh to shreds.Excorant’s experiments require a continuous supply of victims. Criminals, the destitute and the insane are supplemented by slaves, foreign prisoners and unlucky citizens of Kheshatta snatched from the back streets and slums. What happens to them is unspeakable as they are foully sacrificed in the creation process. All that is ever found are the open-chested corpses left outside the laboratory’s arched gate for other Black Ring magicians to utilize.
The alchemical concoctions and foul mixtures Excorant uses to animate his stone sentries are unknown; he protects his formulae closely against jealous competitors and is always guarded by his ever-watchful stone sentinels.
But despite his alchemical powers and inhuman escorts, it is another sorcerous power which keeps the treacherous Black Mages at bay. An eternal fate far worse than death…
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How many levels lower must a killed target be to justify it as a “lowbie kill” and add ‘murder points’ to the killers account? How do we handle the various situations where players may try and deliberately get someone flagged as a criminal through no fault of their own? Testing these scenarios takes a deal of time, and quite a lot of rulesets to be implemented in the code. While many are already in place we are working through and improving them and making sure they are as flexible as possible before they go on the live servers.

The same detailed testing has to be done with the new PvP gear as well given that those items can have a direct impact about a classes ability in PvP. We want these items to be a worthwhile addition to a player’s available choices, both as a reward for their hard work, and as a status symbol for those who reach the highest ranks.

Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures Priest of Mitra class has been a hot topic this week as Funcom US Community Coordinator Wayne ‘Yakomo’ Soong opened up a thread for feedback and known issues as Funcom works to tweak the class. This has not stopped several other threads from turning up as various topics rage on across the official forums.With all the activity and heated discussion taking place over it can be a difficult job finding and keeping up with the good discussion so the Border Kingdom Cryer is here to summarize this weeks content and the top pieces of discussion across the forums. Join us as we save you the trauma of reading through the drama. Ten Ton Hammer releases loads of new content, the Priest of Mitra is a hot topic, Lost in Hyboria gets a visit from CodyMicajahByh, all this and more in this week’s Border Kingdom Cryer.

Funcom’s US Community Coordinator Wayne ‘Yakomo’ Soong compiled a nice list of items relating to the Priest of Mitra class this week and opened the thread for feedback from players. If you are one of Mitra’s faithful you will want to check this thread out as it contains a lot of information relating to your class. Yakomo is also actively engaging in discussion and trying to provide proper feedback to those asking questions.

After Speaking with each harvesting trainer, you will receive a quest to gather 20 resources. Luckily, those nodes (and some advanced nodes) can be found in that very same zone. Head out of the village and start looking. It is about this time where you realize how cushy you had it in WoW especially with the addons like Gatherer. Well, AoC doesn’t have that kind of addon (yet) or online maps of resource locations (yet). So you will need to use your eyes. These zones are not graphically intense as others, so for those who have settings set to LOW, you can up your terrain distance a bit. Also it helps if you turn off the grass for the time being.

Resource nodes in AoC are fixed. So if you find one, it will always be there (shouldn’t be long before node maps will be online). Resource nodes look like part of the terrain and are appropriately distributed. Sandstone looks like a bunch of rocks made of sandstone, cotton bushes looks like bushes, trees look like trees. The trees I found the hardest, since it can be tough distinguishing tree resources from plain ol tree scenery. As I mentioned , resource nodes are appropriately placed. you wont find a large collection of Iron in the swamp, head into the mountains along the side of the zone. Similarly, you wont find a tree node if your in the middle of a desert ..you gotta go where there are trees.

As I said, resource nodes are fixed. That means on heavily populated servers they may be camped, and on PvP servers they Definitely will be camped (you have been warned). Since they don’t despawn when mined what they have are basically hitpoints. When you find an untouched, pristine, virgin node (Virginity in the world of Conan..yea, right!) it will have 100% HP. When you harvest the resource, you gain 1 item and the node loses 10% life. Using my 5 year bachelors degree, majoring in analytical geometry with a minor in theoretical mathmatics…I ran the calculations and found out you can harvest a node 10 times before its depleted! Over time (a long time) the nodes life goes up (I’m guessing at least 30 minutes from 0 life to full life).

Introduction
So Age of Conan has come and the grinding has begun. The first Level 80 was proclaimed about 3 days after release, the first crackdown on AoC hackers started about 10days after release. However, you and I (and about 800,000 other players) are still trying to decide if we like the Barbarian or the Herald of Xotli better. As such we have spent time on several classes and are still fresh in the early levels. Now that Tortage is only a distant nightmare (For your future alts, use my Lev 1-20 Tortage Walkthrough) and now it is time to start thinking about bigger things….buying that extra Bag or purchasing that uber cool Mount and eventually Build that city for your guild (which you will name: Dollywood). We need money!

Now, just like you, I’ve heard about those players on other MMOs who seem to make trillions of gold through crafting. Well, I doubt trillions are in our future, however below I will talk about one way you can make gold in trade and help your guild when it comes time to forge your shiny metropolis. It is time for us to return to our hunter-gathering roots….with the emphasis on gathering.

This article is about what to expect from AoC harvesting…a bit more than what you get from FAQs or boards) and an in depth look at my experience playing this game. I am not declaring myself some sort of expert, but I hope that you will gain from my experiences and insight.

I wrote a review on AoC entitled “Age of Conan: A great game with a fatal Flaw” . Take a look HERE to learn more!

If you want to know more about AoC (and its prime competition, Warhammer Online) Take a look at the game comparisons I wrote HERE.

So, with that introduction, lets begin.

Basics of AoC Crafting

Crafting will be a significant part of AoC. However it is still unclear as to how significant it will ultimately be. It is likely that the end game crafting will be comparable but slightly less than those you obtain through questing and raids. However, like many MMO’s some crafted items will be slightly better in ‘Niche’ categories (Like resistance, etc). Time will tell. What we do know is that in order to make any item, you will need Resources.

professions in this game are divided up into 2 parts in AoC: gathering, and crafting. The gathering professions can be learned by any race/culture and any class at level 20. The crafting can only be learned when you reach level 40. A character can learn as many gathering skills as he/she wants. However, one character can only learn one crafting profession.

Resources are items you gather that are spread throughout the game world and dungeons. Their placement are often referred to as resource nodes. There are several types of resources…
Miner Minerals like copper and iron 
Prospector Precious metals like silver and gold 
Skinner Skinning the hides from beasts
Stonecutter gathering stones such as sandstone and basalt 
Weaver obtains cloth from plants, such as cotton 
Woodcutter cuts wood (Brilliant!!) like ash and oak. 
Each one of these resources is used in crafting weapons, armor, potions, and in creation of the guild cities.

How to learn Harvesting

Once you have left the paradise known as Tortage (located somewhere in southern Florida) and have returned to your homelands, check your Level. If you are still level 19, go kill a couple of roaming beasts and ding to 20. After that, its time to take a journey to learn the gathering skills. Unlike other MMOs (which I will not mention by name but rhymes with ‘Hurled of Bore Shaft’) you will not find crafting trainers in major cities. In age of Conan, crafting trainers are reclusive and tucked away in far off zones which you have to travel to. There are three zones in all, one for each race.

Stygians can go to the Purple Lotus Swamp
From Khemi take the boat to Khopshef. Once there find the Road south out of Bubshur and go all the way to the zone border. Staying on the road keeps you away from a lot of the agro mobs ..but keep your eyes peeled and be ready to sprint if need be. You will see signposts along the way directing you. In the middle of the southern zone border you will find a caravan. Click the caravan and you’ll zone into Purple Lotus Swamp.

Aquilonians should go to Poitain
From old Tarantia, take the east gate and follow the wall all the way to the dead end. There you will see a Wagoner who will take you to the Wild Lands of Zelata. In Zelata, find the road North to the zone border following the signposts to Poitain. At the end of the road you will find a stagecoash driver. Click the driver to zone into Poitain.

Cimmerians You poor bastards have to lug it all the way to the Lachish Plains
from Connarch head into Conall’s Valley. Take the valley all the way to the city and then enter the field of the dead (its the one with all the dead people…and flowers…blood makes the flowers grow). You will see signposts along the way directing you and find a LOT of lev 28 mobs who want to stick you on the end of a pike. Its a tough slog for a lev 20. One Idea for you Cimmer’s…instead of going to Conall’s Valley, take the coach to old Tarantia and go to the Aquilonian zone. I believe you can get the harvesting quests from any gathering zone ..I’ll need to look into that.

ok, you made it to the promise land. The hills are just bubbling with resources ..you think. Find the main village and you will see the yellow ‘!’ on your minimap. Those are your trainers. To learn the harvesting trade you will need to do quests so make sure you have 6 quest slots open in your quest log. Since there is no limit as to how many resources you can learn to harvest, I suggest you may as well learn them all. So go to every harvester trainer and get the quests.

Ok, I know a lot of people have thought “hand in 20 resources to advance?…EASY! Ill just buy them at the Traders (player auction)”. I’m afraid that does you no good. Because the gathering of the items is a quest, receiving items from the trader, or from someone giving you the item does you no good. You must harvest the materials yourself to get credit. Sucks, I know…there is no easy path. This sucks a lot when it comes to the rare gems in tier 1b and tier 2b (see below)

Key Strategy: It seems that the resource nodes regenerate faster in the dedicated resource zones (purple lotus swamp, Poitain, Lachish Plains). Dedicating time to just run circles around the zones (Clockwise …because thats just the way Conan likes it) will pay off in more resources to harvest.

Key Strategy: While harvesting in the resource Zones YOU WANT TO HAVE MOBS SPAWN AND ATTACK. Ol Prospector pete and the nagging nemidians may interupt that harvest cycle but they drop resource materials often when they die. Things like duskmetal, ebon ash and platinum can fetch 20, 40, or 60 silver (Depending on your server’s economy). Looting these counts for in your resource collection quests!

Key Strategy: Harvest in your guild’s city Zone. Less chance to be ganked (Unless your at WAR with someone) and a LOT less competion for resources.

 

 

About Age of Conan

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by the Norwegian computer, video game developer company Funcom for PC and the Xbox 360. The game launched at 9 p.m. (GMT) on May 17, 2008 in a limited way, being available to those who had pre-ordered the game and registered for early access. The full release of the game for North America was May 20, 2008 and for Europe May 23, 2008 for the PC version. The Xbox 360 version is scheduled to be released a year after the PC release.

Hyborian Adventures is the first installment in the planned Age of Conan series. Age of Conan itself takes place within the continent of the Hyborian kingdoms, a year after the events depicted in Howard's sole Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon. Hyborian Adventures' release celebrated the 76th anniversary of the Conan franchise.

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