Age of Conan is now available for pre-order

That's great, Darthane. I'd post that information on the main Dual Boxing forum if I were you - I almost didn't see it tucked away in here :)

I'm gonna wait and see what becomes of the game and wither is' dual box friendly or not.

Ok, played the game all weekend, Im at a little over 24 hours played.

The game currently has some issues with ATI cards. Nvidia works fine. Other than that... rather flawless release. (I guess I should say pre-release as its technically not out till tomorrow).

As for gameplay, its a hoot, I havent had this much fun since Asheron's Call. The FFA pvp is an absolute riot.

Linear gameplay... more or less, but not more than WoW. You quest in a zone, you move to the next rinse and repeat. There are three races, and you can do the quests in all three of them... so technically, you can get to 80 in stygian area, then make a new toon and get a completely different game in one of the other two races areas.

Questing in this game is different than WoW the zones feel huge (after you get out of tortage) and you can literally quest in one zone for upwards of 15 levels. If you thought WoW had a lot of quests AoC takes it to the extreme. You can also turn the zone your hunting in into an epic zone. Think Heroic instances in WoW accept an open zone. Imagine turning Outlands into a heroic, doing quests there and getting better loot and EXP.

I havent gotten to crafting or town building yet... but as I stated in beta there is no /follow so boxing is pretty much out.

i have 2 accounts ready to go. i just need to get off night shift and try it out.

if i can multibox im gonna need to upgrade 4 of my pc's

then try rolling 1 or 2 tempest of set and 4 or 5 demonologist

if AoC ends up playing well i may drop wow

I played in EA and absolutely love the game. I haven't thought about running it on my other 5 computers yet, as I really don't think you'll get the most out of your characters by multiboxing it, but perhaps in time that will change.

I *almost* called in sick today to play, but meh........hopefully they don't patch tonight right when I get home from work like yesterday.

it's vast and not linear. You can grind or quest, although questing will get you levels faster. There are so many quests, you find yourself running all over, which gets you familiar with the landscape.

I can't speak for the end-game yet, but I think it's a hit. :thumbup:

Easiest way to PL in this game is to quest one account like mad, get it to max level for an area, then use the apprentice system (like lackeying and sidekicking in City of Villains/Heroes) to boost your lowbies level and then run around and tear apart any mob you need to.

So far multi boxing seems a bit of a bust, although if you can get the hang of steering on 2 screens at once (usually a common move forward key, separate turn keys) you can start to reap the rewards of some classes very well, the necromancer is one of the best, with lots of pbae spells and pets able to be set to "assist me" you can just run onto a spawn and start dropping mobs.

Yet to try the group level zones, supposedly just more mob HPs, will have to look into this.

Runs like crap on my current system, looks ok, but at the moment i have to run it with everything turned down to the lowest setting for smooth gameplay, the install lasted almost an hour but i was surprised i was able to get it up and patched withing 3 hours (i have slow wireless isp)

/Where is Purolator with my new system!!!!!