Age of Conan [KANZER]

Is Rising Arms For You?

rakanzer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:26:59 +0000

As Age of Conan is around the corner, the guild is preparing for release. The requirements for recruitment have been raised and the standard will be set by the guild leaders. With the final stages of the game coming to a close and the lack of a free open beta, the guild is getting a professional revamp to the guilds heart and soul.

“We need you to take the game to another level… success is built upon how much you put into it”

-Oxus (GuildMaster)

“It is an uphill battle and we will be in it till the end”

-Krol (Councilman)

Many of our members have made their plans for pre-release date from collecting their supplies for the 72 hour grind fest to 80 to taking off a week from work to level. The dedication will be shown through there time put in. Though skill is not the same as time played, many of our members are willing to show our guild leaders that they are meant to be in this guild. Can you handle the insomnia you may face?

Since the delay, many of our members have decided to upgrade their computers in order to play this game. I myself have found myself in need of a new computer. The time and money we have spent in order to experience this game to its potential and though this is not an FPS were each frame will matter, it will matter if you get graphical lag during our Guild Vs. Guild sieges.

The skill level and standard has been set by our Guild Leadership with Krol and Oxus hitting 80. They know what it takes to be the best. They have been in a #1 raiding guild in WoW, have grinded for rank 14 (which for you people that do not know takes at least 4 months to acquire), and know talent when they see it. They have set the standard by knowing what it takes to hit 80 and what it takes to be in Rising Arms. As our leadership many of the members feel safe with our current leadership and trust them in their decisions.

Meeting Information

Barbaroi (Councilman) quickly went over the battlekeep and guild city situation and on how we will need to not only hit 80 but continue to farm to maintain the number one spot. The keep and city will be a vital part to our success in Age of Conan and will be required from all of our members. On the other side, PvE will be apart of this guild but not required.

“You cannot PvP 100%… it will get boring and you will get burnt out. PvE will be there for something else to do”

-Krol (Councilman)

There is an opening for a position of Guild Diplomat. This will involve guild relations and guild alliances. This is not an easy position and will require interviews from everyone of the applicants. Expectations from this position are much higher than the average militant. Your role will be increased but your job will need to be accomplished. For more questions or if you would like to become apart of it, private message Kaelic, Ciden, or Oxus for more details.

Squad Leader position are open. They will be required to be in 90% of the sieges. They will be in charge of the sieges and will be communicating to the guild leaders and squad commander of what needs to be done. If you feel like you hold good respect in the guild and with your fellow guild mates or just feel like you can lead, private message one of the Guild Masters for more information or if you would like to apply.

“If you do not fit the position, you will be cut”

-Oxus (GuildMaster)

Q&A

For the 3 weeks to lvl 80, does that include the early release? No it will start from commercial release
When will the new site be up? Possibly by Sunday
Will there be down time? There will be no downtime because we are on a new host
Will we need to re-register for the forums? Yes, new forums mean new starts
What will the groups type be? They will be balanced based upon how we see it will be
When will the class post be up? In a week, for people to think about
Will it be first come first serve or what? No details on it yet but will be provided when we post
Was there a target guild size? Our original target size was 50 but we want 75 outstanding players but will based upon experience in siege
Will squads be moved around? It will depend on what we have for the day and what special situations will occur
If the guild size is 75 and raids will be 24, how will we do that? Most of our guild will not want to do PvE anyways but even if we did two raids those raids should succeed because of the quality of our members
Are there an expected behavior for the guild? We need to hold ourselves at a higher level. We are not a griefing guild. Don’t kill people unless it serves a purpose. Kill people taking your mobs, not grinding next to you.
FLAME WARS ACCOMPLISH NOTHING
Will there be guild wide leveling? No, we want you to be self sufficient and adjust to what you will need to level
I am versatile in many classes, what would you recommend me to chose? It really matters what you want to play, and if your unsure it is a good time to review the feat trees on this link

Pre-Order Information

rakanzer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:22:53 +0000

With the release dated for May 20th 2008, people are wondering where they can get their special items from pre-ordering. The current list for pre-order special is:

Gamestop: War Mammoth (Confirmed)

Best Buy: War Rhino (Confirmed)

Amazon.com: Amazon Bow (Confirmed)

Many people are wondering how the 3 day early access program will work. The text says:

3-Day Early Access Program

With your pre-order Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, you will be able to participate in the 3-day Early Access Program. Early access period starts on May 17, 3 days before the commercial release on May 20, 2008. You may begin downloading the game client files and installing as early as May 14. With early access, there is a nominal fee of $5, which covers the cost of the download and includes 10 days of additional game time.

Based upon how you setup the 3 day early access program it will happen like this. You will enter the code for the pre-order item (such as War Mammoth) and it will allow you to set up the 3 day early access program. When the release date comes, you will require the game key in order to continue playing the game.

Currently there is no plan for a cap on the 3 day early access program and the estimated in-game time to hit 80 is 3 days hardcore and 5 days casual.

Dark Templar Feat Tree: Desecration

rakanzer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:29:04 +0000

Name	Description	Available Ranks	Tier
Devouring Touch	Converts part of the damage inflicted by the Dark Templar into healing. +4% Lifetap.	5	1
Weapon of the Damned	Grants all the Dark Templar’s attacks a chance of inflicting additional unholy damage. Proc rate unknown. – This feat grants a new spell to the player	5	2
Vigor Leech	Improves the Drain Life spell with the ability to convert some of the damage inflicted by the Dark Templar into stamina.	5	2
Ether Leech	Improves the Drain Life spell with the ability to convert some of the damage inflicted by the Dark Templar into mana.	1	3
Curse of Gwahlur	Attacks against you have a chance of cursing the attacker to constantly feed you health, while suffering unholy damage. Can stack up to 3 times. Each curse will increase the damage of all your curses on the enemy.	5	3
Talisman Mastery	Increases the power of all Soul Covenant spells while wielding a talisman.	5	3
Corrupt Weapon	Grants all melee attacks a chance of inflicting a lingering would that deals unholy damage for a short time.	2	4
Improved Dread Fury	Augments Aura of Dread Fury incantation by increasing the chance of inflicting unholy damage. The Dark Templar will also convert a fraction of magical damage inflicted into healing while using this incantation.	5	4
Approach of Death	Improves the Covenant of War spell to inflict more damage when the target is close to death.	1	4
Improved Martyrdom	Improves martyrdom by restoring mana and stamina to entire party. Improves healing by 20%	5	4
Improved Soul Covenants	Increases the frequency of Soul Covenant effects being triggered.	1	5
Sacrificial Fury	Adds a secondary effect to Martyrdom that increases the effects damage.	1	5
Desecrated Blood	Improves the Covenant of War spell by increasing its chance to trigger and lowering the damage it inflicts upon the Dark Templar. Decreases damage by 33%.	3	6
Improved Infusion	Enhances the Aura of Infusion spell to have additional mana regeneration.	5	6
Ritualistic Bloodshed	Grants the Dark Templar an ability which increases their Sadism counter but inflicts a small portion of mana damage on the Dark Templar.	2	6
Soul Bane	Shield the Dark Templar while they still have mana. While active it converts a small amount of life damaging into mana damage instead.This feat grants a new spell to the player	3	6
Body of Pestilence	Improves the Covenant of Pestilence spell by removing the movement penalty on the Dark Templar.	1	7
Vile Pestilence	Augments the Covenant of Pestilence spell by increasing the damage inflicted by the spell. Increases damage by 25%	5	7
Pestilential Cloud	Increases the area of effect of the Covenant of Pestilence spell.	1	7
Cabalistic Hunger	Converts part of the damage inflicted by spells into life for the Dark Templar. + 1.5% Magical lifetap	5	7
Soul Infusion	Improves the Soul Barrier spell by allowing the Dark Templar to absorb some of the mana from hostile spells striking them.	2	7
Vile Putrescence	Enhances the Covenant of Putrescence spell, increasing the size of the area in which foes will be affected.	1	8
Covenant of Putrescence	Grants all melee attacks a chance of inflicting poison damage to all foes in the Dark Templar’s vicinity. Only one Soul Covenant spell may be active at any time.This feat grants a new spell to the player	5	8
Improved Blood Pact	Reduces the reuse time and health drain penalty of the Blood Pact spell. Modify recast time by -5 minutes, decreases damage by 20%.	5	8
Invulnerable Soul	Augments the Covenant of Invulnerability incantation so that it also absorbs the damage of triggering blows.	5	8
Warped Dread	The Dark Templar’s outworld connection is so strong they can summon it’s power to protect themselves, absorbing damage. This shield also warps reality so enemy attacks are more likely to miss.This feat grants a new combo to the player	1	9
Dooming Presence	Summons a terrifying cloud of fear in an area around the Dark Templar.This feat grants a new spell to the player	1	9

Dark Templar Feat Tree: Depravity

rakanzer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:27:06 +0000

Name	Description	Available Ranks	Tier
Blighted Touch	Grants all the DT’s attacks a chance of inflicting unholy damage.	5	1
Blighted Soul	Improves Blighted Touch, inflicting Unholy damage to all nearby enemies whenever blighted touch is triggered.	5	2
Crystallized Ether	Increases the rate of all mana regeneration. +7 Combat Mana regen, + 5 natural Mana regen.	5	2
Dark Hand	Increases damage done with one-handed blunt and edged weapons. +.5% each point.	5	3
Devouring Blood Frenzy	Improves the Blood Frenzy stance by adding a chance to convert some of the blood spilled into life for the DT.	5	3
Consuming Bulwark	Improves the Defensive Stance by adding a chance to steal life from anyone that strikes the DT in combat.	3	3
Pact of Malacodor	Grants all melee attacks additional unholy damage for a short period of time. This spell requires a sacrifice of health from the DT.	5	3
Dissipate Ether	Improves the Mystical Bane combos to inflict additional mana damage.	3	4
Incinerate Ether	Improves the Mystical Bane combo by inflicting an equal amount of life damage in addition to mana damage.	1	4
Dark Burden	A quick spell that inflicts wracking pain, slowing the target’s moving speed.This feat awards a new spell to the player	2	4
Devourer’s Might	Improves the damage done by the A soul for Feast and Leech life combos. DPS increase is 10% for first point. Unknown for all 5.	5	4
Reaper of Malacodor	grants all melee attacks additional area of effect unholy damage for a short period of time. Requires significant sacrifice of health from the DT.This feat awards a new spell to the player	1	5
Dread Lord	Reduces the reuse time of ALL combos. Some by 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1 second.	1	5
Sadistic Glee	Increases the chance of triggering the Sadism special ability.	1	5
Vile Soul	You will start to inflict unholy damage to nearby foes when your sadism counter reaches 8, rather than 10. unknown what 2 points would reach.	2	5
Hexer’s Might	Improves the damage inflicted by the Blood for aid and Unhallowed Blight combo. 20% increase.	5	6
Ether Reap	Improves the Mystical Bane combos, granting the DT a chance of triggering mana restoration effect on successive melee attacks.	5	6
Mind Wrack	Gives the DT a new combo that briefly stuns any enemies standing in front of him. This feat awards a new Combo to the player	1	6
Gore Fiend	Increases the Sadism counter whenever they or someone in group inflicts a fatality.	1	7
Masochism	Provides a chance of adding to the Sadism counter whenever the DT takes damage.	5	7
Touch of Death	Grants the DT an ability that empowers their next combo with additional unholy damage.	5	7
Air of Death	Improves the Touch of Death by adding a chance for all foes nearby the target to suffer additional unholy damage.	1	7
Drain Strength	Improves all the DT’s combos with a chance to reduce the target’s strength.	1	8
Mind Shatter	Grants the the soldier the Mind Shatter combo that briefly stuns any enemies standing in a cone area directly in front of them.This feat awards a new Combo to the player	1	8
Depravity	Improves the covenant of Vengeance spell by adding a chance of increasing the DT’s sadism counter when it triggers.	5	8
Unholy Strength	Increases the damage done by all DT combos. 5% with first point.	5	8
Dread Shadow	When Feast of Souls combo is performed, it will also summon a shadow beast that fights alongside the DT for a short time.	1	9
Ravenous Eater	Improves the Feast of Souls and Leech Life combos, granting an additional effect that increases the damage inflicted by the DT for a short time.	1	9

Conqueror Feat Tree: Carnage

rakanzer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:22:04 +0000

Name	Description	Tier
Lacerate	5 ranks, All the soldier’s secondary attacks have a chance of inflicting a wound that bleeds for a short time.	1
Secondary Laceration	5 ranks, All the soldier’s secondary attacks have an improved chance of inflicting a wound that bleeds for a short time.	2
Annihilate	3 ranks, Grants the conqueror an ability which greatly increases the critical strike chance of their next combo.	2
Dual Master	3 ranks, Increases the damage of all dual-wield starter combos.	2
Offhand Precision	5 ranks, Increases the chance to hit of the conqueror’s offhand weapons.	3
Improved Wrath	5 Ranks, Augments the Fires of Wrath special ability by increasing the damage done and chance for the effect trigger.	3
Lingering Wrath	1 Rank, Improves the Fires of Wrath special ability by adding a burning would that damages the target for a short amount of time.	3
Defiance	5 ranks, Grants the soldier an ability that heals all team members. Can only be used if Furious Defiance is active.	4
Improved Defiance	3 Ranks, Adds a stamina and mana regeneration effect to the soldier’s Defiance ability.	4
Rend and Tear	5 Ranks, Increases the damage inflicted during the Bloodbath combos.	4
War Lord	1 Rank, A permanent ability that increases the stamina and mana renewal rates of the conqueror and their allies.	4
War Lord’s March	3 Ranks, Improves the War Leader ability by also increasing the out of combat movement speed.	4
Bladeweave	1 Rank, Replaces the Furious Inspiration effect (when active) with an increased chance to hit with an offhand weapon.	5
Bloodlust	1 Rank, Reduces the reuse time for all dual-wield combos	5
Improved Inspire	3 Ranks, Augments the Inspire the Ranks special ability by increasing the amount of stamina healed.	6
Rend Flesh	3 Ranks, Grants the soldier an ability which for a short time inflicts a bleeding wound on each target struck, but each time costs the conqueror stamina.	6
Improved Rend	5 Ranks, Augments the Rend Flesh feat by adding a slashing damage to each bleeding wound but increases the conqueror’s stamina cost.	6
Skirmisher	1 Rank, Grants the soldier the ability to increase their movement speed but reduces the damage done by their attacks and makes them easier to knock back.	6
Improved Bloody hack	5 Ranks, Increases the damage done by the conqueror’s Bloody Hack combos.	7
Crippling Bloodbath	1 Rank, Improves the Bloodbath combos by decreasing the target’s movement speed.	7
Cunning	3 Ranks, Grants the soldier an ability that has a chance of making their attacks less likely to draw reprisal attacks from their foes.	7
Quick Vengeance	3 Ranks, Permanent reactive effect that when triggered increases the damage you inflict upon your foes and offhand weapon attack chance.	7
Reaping Blade	1 Rank, Grants the soldier the ability to improve the chance to hit with their offhand attacks to 100% for a short time.	8
Lightning Steel	5 Ranks, Increases damage inflicted with one handed edged and blunt weapons. Your offhand attacks gain a chance of increasing the frequency of offhand attacks. Once gained, successful offhand attacks will refresh the duration of this bonus.	8
Tactical mastery	2 Ranks, Decreases the cooldown of all Orders, Commands and Formations.	8
Art of War	5 Ranks, Permanently increases the amount of hate generated by the conqueror’s attacks and enables the Subtlety of War strategy.	8
Whirlwind	1 Rank, The Whirlwind combo attack lashes out at all nearby enemies. The strikes fall with such force they have high chance of critically injuring victims.	9
Flashing Defence	1 Rank, Greatly increases their ability to evade blows but lowers the damage done by their attacks	9

Guardian Feat Tree: Tempest

rakanzer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:04:17 +0000

Name	Description	Tier
Stormblades	5 ranks: When using slashing weapons all of the guardians attacks have a small chance of inflicting additional damage.	1
Polearm mastery	5 ranks: Increases the damage done by polearm weapons.	2
Revenge	5 ranks: Increases the damage inflicted by retaliatory strikes from the guardians guard combos.	2
Powersweeps	5 ranks: increases the damage inflicted by Flashing Art combos.	3
Devastating Sweeps	1 rank: Increases the critical hit chance of polearm multihit combos.	3
Bleeding Revenge	5 ranks: Improves the guard combo by inflicting a wound that bleeds for a short time.	3
Stand off	5 ranks: When in frenzy stance there is a chance of reducing the likelyhood of enemies attacking the guardian.	4
Disarming Aggresion	3 ranks: Grants an ability that for a short time increases the damage done by polearm combos, without increasing the chance of drawing the targets ire.	4
Redoubt	5 ranks: When you are hit with a melee attack, you have a 1% chance of increasing your chance of evading attacks for a short time. This bonus can trigger at most 1 time every 30 seconds.	4
Relentless Assault	1 rank: Reduces the reuse time for all polearm combos.	5
Impale	1 rank: Grants the guardian a swift ability, they charge their target and inflict a bleeding wound that damages the target for a short time.	5
Brutal Dulling Blow	1 rank: Increases the critical hit chance of the polearm stamina burn combos.	6
Comet Mastery	5 ranks: Increases the damage inflicted by all the guardians weapons.	6
Combo Skewer	3 ranks: Grants the soldier the skewer combo, a powerfull polearm attack that impales the target.	6
Sweep the field	3 ranks: Increases the damage done by the guardians stagger combos.	6
Master pikeman	5 ranks: Increases the damage done by all polearm combos.	6
Crippling Thrust	3 ranks: Increases the damage done by all the guardians disable combos.	6
Combo Reposte	5 ranks: This quick combo inflicts greatly increased damage if used shortly after you evade an attack.	7
Hatefull Vengeance	5 ranks: Improves the damage bonus received from the vengeance effect.	7
Eye for an eye	5 ranks: A permanent ability, any enemy striking the guardian risks the damage from an immediate counterstrike.	8
Defiance	1 rank: When you are below 50% health, attacks against you have a chance of causing you to regenerate health, this effect can trigger at most once every 10 seconds.	8
Vengeance is mine	5 ranks: Your attacks have a chance of increasing your vengeance counter, this effect can happen at most once every 10 seconds.	8
Lightning Reflexes	1 rank: Improves polearm combos that involves evasion by increasing the chance for the effect to trigger and the amount that the evade skill increases.	9
Combo stormstrike	1 rank: Grants the guardian the lightning charged attack combo stormstrike, that batters all nearby and flings them away.

Open Beta

rakanzer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:51:47 +0000

With early-release date approaching fast, everyone has had on their minds when open beta will be coming. Well it turns out that it will be happening soon but at a price. Fileplanet has the rights to Age of Conan’s open beta and has a catch to getting one of their keys. You are required to be a Subscriber, which will cost you at least 15 dollars for 3 months. But on top of that, you are only allowed to level up to 13. This means you can experience the Tortage area but not actually finish it. Many people would say it is not worth it and others say anything to get ahead.