Age of Conan Poll... staying... going... trying... what !?!

[Vyndree]

My guardian is now level 34 and so far I have not encountered any serious bugs.

Try the Pyramid quests and let me know how it goes and if they fixed that over the patch. I was only able to do the one to free some girl's sister and find a guy's brother (or at least parts of him). The main quest (I believe it is part of your Destiny questline) was unable to complete the "Enter the Pyramid" objective. Also, do not kill the minibosses before you reach the statue on the 3rd floor -- killing the minibosses beforehand (you can literally just walk through the doors -- there is no collision) will cause you to have to leave the instance and reset because the last boss's door won't open either and if you just walk throught he wall and kill him he will get stuck in a death that lasts 9-10 death animations/sounds and no lewts. Humorous, though.

Do not try to climb things in the Sanctum of Burning Souls -- the wall behind the climbing area has no collision and this is where Suvega fell through the world multiple times.

Those are the majority of show-stopping bugs I've found around your level. The rest are all cosmetic -- disappearing hair, getting stuck on invisible walls, staring at a questgiver's crotch when he's talking to you, quest NPCs sliding across the floor without animation, glitchy graphic colors intermittently... they don't actually prevent you from being able to complete objectives.

I found this map to be helpful:

Let me know if you find any good questing areas for 35-40. ;)

[kllrwlf]

Holy-mother-of-cluster-F*cks!

My thoughts exactly Batman!

[bodefeld]

I does have an ingame map which is actually quite good. For example, there is an X on the map if you have a quest to do there, and merchants, travel hubs, and such are also indicated by symbols. However, each zone is instanced. That means you talk to an NPC to take you to another zone (waggoner, ferryman, etc.), involving a loading screen like in WoW instances. (WoW instances are called "dungeons" in AoC)
The map above is quite helpful. It shows how the zones and dungeons are connected and can be reached travel-wise.

[Ellay]

Anyone tried the caster type classes? I would assume these would be the easiest for multiboxing at least to start out with

[Kopitar]

2 Tempest of Set - 1 stackable hot, plus 2 other HoT's and some nice aoe Lightning spells and stuff goes down quickly...only 16 at the moment but they are a lot better than my two necor's

[Allokra]

- Resources: the forums are either queued FOREVER or just bugged. They won't let me in.





You mean that you can't log into the official forums? Not sure if that is the problem but at first I couldn't log into the forum either until I realized that you don't log in with your account information. I had to go to My Account and make a separate usename and PW for the forums.

[Nisch]

I absolutely love it. I am not a WoW fanboi, as I played it for about a year and it just didn't keep my interest, but I did move from DAOC over to AoC and I think it's a great game. Yes there are some bugs, like the Pyramid quests as stated before, but overall I really like it. I have a Dark Templar up to 41 so far and have been trying some alts out. The game encourages quests rather than grinding which is nice.

The wife and I are playing it until all hours of the night, and despite the rocky launch, it's a great game in both of our opinions.

[Marathon]

I bought the game today because I figure I will at least give it a try. I have not installed it and probably will not for a couple of weeks or untill one day when i get really bored. I am hoping that in the next few weeks or even month that they will work out most of the bugs and it will be a decent game to play.

[Mosg2]

@Ellay on the caster issue

I've played 5 toons to ~25 or so now and I'm pretty sure that Tempest of Set is going to be the best multi-box class in the game. The other casters are all fairly squishy with no heals... but ToS get three heals--Two are PBAE group only HoT's with 1.3 second and 0.3 second cast times respectively, and one is a 60 second cooldown 1.5 second cast heal that restores approximately 75-100% of your AND all nearby party member's HP's. Their base DD spell will also damage anyone near the target for full damage and they have the best PBAE spells in the game. They wear mid-grade armor (equivalent to Mail in WoW) and can use shields.

In my estimation, ToS would be a power-house multiboxed. As it stands now, one of them can solo AE a group of 4-8 mobs that are up to 6 levels above the PC without losing almost any mana or HP. There are actually *multiple* different specs and ways to accomplish this--One of the best is actually based around you casting an insta cast heal that will also AE anything next to you--And you get the mana back. I refer you to the youtube link at the bottom of my post for specifics (Settar, the guy in the video, also has a ton of other ToS videos detailing how to AE). Let us not forget that in AoC, you get virtually the same xp per kill in a full group as you do solo... And you get bonus xp the more even or higher level mobs you kill in a row. Some of Settar's videos show him getting 8-10 mob chain kills... Those kills towards the end are rewarding almost double xp.

If I had a multi-computer setup I would be multiboxing this in a heartbeat. /follow works in a group and with the autotarget feature turned on and/or just using PBAE you never need to assist. I think that the biggest hurdle to this is going to be the sheer level of hardware you need to run this game. If that can be overcame... Man I can't imagine the QQ at a 6 ToS PBAE group running around raping. Bwuahahha!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TVKqX-BRml0

[Vyndree]

- Resources: the forums are either queued FOREVER or just bugged. They won't let me in.





You mean that you can't log into the official forums? Not sure if that is the problem but at first I couldn't log into the forum either until I realized that you don't log in with your account information. I had to go to My Account and make a separate usename and PW for the forums.

No, I meant that I followed the instructions on the website and logged into account admin, created a forum username/pass, attempted to log in a half hour later (as specified)... then 2 hours later.... then 24 hours later... then 3-4 days later... Nothing.

Also, while a few of the issues I've mentioned were fixed in the recent patch (i.e. SOME trader/auctionhouse works, the gray dot party icons are now blue people-looking icons), they've added a bunch of new ones -- the Cotton resources are completely bugged and you can't gather any cotton, for example. It does show that they are listening to feedback, particularly about the party icons, but I am losing alot of confidence in their testing strategy. Hotfixes still require testing.

Software testers are the gatekeepers -- their job is not necessarily to FIND bugs (though that is an inevitable end result), but to ensure that the product is of adequate quality for the customer. They are the gatekeepers, they hold all the keys -- if they say a product isn't good enough for the customer, then it is not good enough. Test measures quality -- so either their testers aren't doing their jobs or they are being ignored.