Ark's Ark » Age of Conan http://www.arksark.org/blog Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming, Current Affairs, and Random Stuff! Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 In which Warhammer Online kindly bribes me to return, and I accept.http://www.arksark.org/blog/1293/in-which-warhammer-online-kindly-bribes-me-to-return-and-i-accept/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/1293/in-which-warhammer-online-kindly-bribes-me-to-return-and-i-accept/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:31:47 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=1293 I received a jolly email from Warhammer Online today!

Ooh, I love free stuff, so this sort of stunt always works on me. I dug out my installation disks, and set to work!

My first shock was that Burlok has completely gone. It ‘s not even hidden, to be revealed by hitting the “more” button. It just ain’t there any more. Luckily, my characters still exist in some sort of netherworld, so I was able to transfer them to [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/1293/in-which-warhammer-online-kindly-bribes-me-to-return-and-i-accept/feed/ 5 Age of Conan Update Notes for 19th of Augusthttp://www.arksark.org/blog/246/age-of-conan-update-notes-for-19th-of-august/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/246/age-of-conan-update-notes-for-19th-of-august/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:56:53 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=246 A pretty big update, this time around, though it has been a few week since the last one. Lots of tweakage to the playfields, and a healthy dollop of voice-overs for certain quests. I’m one of those who actually reads quests and listens to voice-overs, so this is the sort of addition I really like.

Ah yes, and maker’s marks have been added to crafted items! This is a feature that every crafter desires, and one that shows at least [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/246/age-of-conan-update-notes-for-19th-of-august/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 31st of Julyhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/238/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-31st-of-july/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/238/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-31st-of-july/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:28:57 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=238 The player city resource zone revamp has arrived, with a variety of camps springing up throughout the areas. I’m looking forward to seeing whether the changes, ostensibly to provide alchemists somewhere to gather resources for their crafts, will liven up the Lacheish Plains a little bit.

Bind on Equip and Bind on Pickup have been added to loot. It’s funny how many games seem to think they can do without this, and then add it some time after release (as [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/238/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-31st-of-july/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 17th of Julyhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/235/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-17th-of-july/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/235/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-17th-of-july/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:27:50 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=235 I’m quite excited about this one, for several reasons.

Finally architects will have their deeds returned to them after showing them to the trainer. As each tier 1 deed costs 125 silver to make, having to make an entire set just to advance was incredibly expensive for small guilds. Although I’ll have to go back and make some deeds I already used, it’s still going to reduce our costs massively.

The first of the player city improvements have arrived. [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/235/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-17th-of-july/feed/ 0 Combined Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 10th of Julyhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/233/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-10th-of-july/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/233/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-10th-of-july/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:08:29 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=233 This is first patch to have spent some time on the Testlive server before being released. Due to this, hopefully from hereon in there will be an increased level of stability in the updates.

Update: Another set of update notes came out later in the day, consisting of items that were missed from the first notes. For ease of use, I have consolidated the two sets.

One socially important change is that interfering in other people’s fights will reduce the [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/233/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-10th-of-july/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 2nd of Julyhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/230/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-2nd-of-july/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/230/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-2nd-of-july/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:25:21 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=230 A small patch with no new content. I’m intrigued to see that they plugged holes in the walls of the player cities in the resource zone. Currently such cities are not attackable, to my knowledge, with sieges being restricted to the Border Kingdoms, so why need to worry about their walls? I wonder what they’re planning with the PvP update that’s coming up.

I’m actually too busy to play at the moment, but will be back in action from tomorrow. [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/230/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-2nd-of-july/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 26th of Junehttp://www.arksark.org/blog/229/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-26th-of-june/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/229/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-26th-of-june/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:24:34 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=229 This latest update has caused the servers to become a bit unstable. The new Alchemist’s Cache item appears to have been responsible, and has been deactivated, but the server instability is persisting. The issue is being worked on.

The Update notes for the 26th of June continue below:

Player Character

Archetype

* The bonus magical damage granted from Mystical Attunement has been doubled for Mages. * Spells that were incorrectly receiving bonuses from increased magical damage will no [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/229/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-26th-of-june/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 23rd of Junehttp://www.arksark.org/blog/228/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-23rd-of-june/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/228/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-23rd-of-june/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:54:45 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=228 With no patch last Thursday, we’ve been treated to a doublesized beast of a patch today.

Bags, including the pre-order bag, have been increased in size. I can’t tell you how much of a stress-reliever this is going to be for me, at least until I fill up all my new slots with snacks and potions. It’s just a small change, but comes under “quality of life”, and will make a lot of people happier.

Heading into the game to [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/228/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-23rd-of-june/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 16th of Junehttp://www.arksark.org/blog/226/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-16th-of-june/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/226/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-16th-of-june/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:48:52 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=226 Another impressively large patch for the beginning of the week. By patching twice weekly, Funcom is now really making excellent progress through the backlog of issues that need to be addressed.

The most notable change, for myself, is the increasing of resource stack sizes to 1000. This will allow us to consolidate our many stacks of sandstone and other goods, freeing up much space in our resource inventories. In fact (Not that this was an issue for us), it was [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/226/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-16th-of-june/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 12th of Junehttp://www.arksark.org/blog/224/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-12th-of-june/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/224/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-12th-of-june/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:12:10 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=224 Another good sized patch, and if they are to be believed, they’ve got gems working this time! Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah!!!

Won’t be playing much in the next few days as my father is visiting, but as soon as I get some time in game, I am definitely going to be heading down to the revamped Treasury of the Ancients to see what’s been done with it.

Patch notes for the 12th of June continue below:

Mounts

* The [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/224/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-12th-of-june/feed/ 0 Leaked Age of Conan Test Server Patch Noteshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/222/leaked-age-of-conan-test-server-patch-notes/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/222/leaked-age-of-conan-test-server-patch-notes/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:15:24 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=222 These were briefly made available on the US forum today, before being taken down by the poster. They were reposted on the European forums, and have not been taken down, so I guess they’re fair game. Let us have a good rummage :).

I would expect at least some of these changes to make an appearance in this Thursday’s patch. I’m particularly pleased to see the Treasury of the Ancients being brought up to speed, and the end of the [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/222/leaked-age-of-conan-test-server-patch-notes/feed/ 0 Age of Conan Patch Notes for the 9th of Junehttp://www.arksark.org/blog/221/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-9th-of-june/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/221/age-of-conan-patch-notes-for-the-9th-of-june/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:41 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=221 Hurrah! Our biggest patch so far, and if the update notes are to be believed (and it would be churlish not to!), Age of Conan is going to be vastly improved by it.

Highlights:

Gems now work, opening up the world of crafting items that might be useful. The permanent debuff/double buff bug has also been squashed.

The Arena is now a private instance. Previously, it was a real pain trying to get anything done in there without getting mixed [...]

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