Age of Conan

Irinir, a well-known conqueror residing on EU server CROM put together a nice, basic guide for factions in ROTGS, pointing out the gear dependancies, possibilities of betrayal, faction quests and Golem raid/group encounter. Check the guide in its full here, or see an excerpt below!

There’s a few factions that are not present in grasslands.

The Timarin Tigers and the Scholar’s of Cheng-Ho – These are present in Chosain only and you can get the quest started to make a choice between them right at the entrance of the playfield.

The Jhian Chi and the Insurrection – These factions are a exception compared to all the others, none of them have a enemy faction, and you are not given a quest to reach a faction speaker, you need to discover how to reach and befriend them. I advise you to do both quest lines, the jhian chi in Kara Korum (hint hint) have very interesting things to sell and the storyline is very interesting, the same goes for the insurrection in Paikang (hint again) with the added bonus of giving you follow up quests that lead to T4 raiding.

Funcom has just announced their new gametime purchase camapign. In it, you can obtain a lot of goodies for the duration of the campaign if you purchase additional gametime. The bonuses range from XP/AAXP pots to teleport items and offer additional levelling options (up to 15 levels). Check the list below or click the image below to go directly to your account – the Warlord’s Cache looks EXTREMELY enticing!

• 6x Refined Elixir of Ingenuity (increase experience gain from killing monsters by 20% for 4 hours): Duration does not count during off-line time, survives death. Level 20 required.
• 6x Major Elixir of Accession (increase Alternate Advancement experience gain from killing monsters by 20% for 4 hours): Duration does not count during off-line time, survives death. Level 20 required
• 3x Scrolls of Teleport to each of the main cities of: Stygia, Cimmeria and Aquilonia.
• 3x Scrolls of Teleport to each of these dungeons: Fire beacon lookout (Field of the Dead), Hunting Lodge (Eiglophian mountains), Iron Tower (Tarantia), Kheshatta City, Prison Colony (Thunder River), The Lair (Atzel’s Approach).
• 6x Excellent Roast Capon (Level 40 superior hit point buffing food): increases your hit points upon consumption. Level 40 required.
• 6x Excellent Witchwater (Level 40 superior mana buffing drink): increases your More >

Browse previous rankings summaries:-week 1-week 2-week 3-week 4-week 5-week 6-week 7-week 8-week 9-week 10-week 11-week 12-week 13-week 14-week 15-week 16-week 17-week 18-week 19-week 20-week 21-week 22-week 23-week 24 Guild Rankings Are Up!

We’re continuing to show the weekly renown rankings from CROM, the biggest PVE General server in AOC and provide a brief commentary on the guilds’ progress/regress. You can also check numerical stats for current week globally at the official AOC Online Guild Rankings site, http://guilds.ageofconan.com/

Weekly Summary

It’s almost August but the servers seem to be still in a lull. CROM has seen a rather visible drop in all activities across the board (save for PVE), and this week has thus some pretty surprising guilds among the top 3s. Tainted Souls managed to climb to the 3rd spot in Totals, despite losing speed in Valor and Glory due to somewhat higher amount of Artistry. The Unforgiven concentrated fully on PvR&T and PVE and it paid off – they’re now 2nd. However, the biggest surprise was seeing Carnage climb all the way to the top. Yes, it’s that persistent guild that went through pure-PVP to pure-Crafting transformation in the last few months and was seemingly content with staying at the 3rd spot More >

This month’s letter is actually one of the hardest of the year to write because with the Expansion launch having rolled out, the Scandinavian holiday season in full swing, and getting the new studio in Montreal up and running, this month is very much the ‘in-between’ month.

It is actually the time of year when we do a lot of planning. While we have some things in progress post the expansion (like adding in the rest of the new tier four raids, which we will probably talk about in a little more detail next month) we are also at our annual metaphorical cross roads when we discuss what has worked this year, what hasn’t, what we think we need to do next, assessing what we are already working on, looking at what we could work on, and generally trying to decide on which plans or schedules we might want to change, adjust, or add in to the mix.

Since, as we explained last month, we have set aside the next few months for the upgrade to our underlying Dreamworld technology platform, that also gives us an opportunity to spend some design time More >