New Crafting System for AoC

The new crafting system for Age of Conan is a much needed addition to the game. You can still get good crafted items necessary to begin your adventures in the Northern Grasslands, but after that there really isn't going to be much use for it...besides the four hour foods and some of the crafted weapons. With the revamp, crafting promises to bring value to every item in the game.

Running T2 raids over and over again are great for guild renown, gearing out alt toons, and hoping your weapon will drop. It also offers ways to get shards, which are needed to help make the Ibis and t3 weapons. (someone help me make an ibis :D). There is always rot gear that can't be used. Not anymore! With the new crafting system we can take the rot piece and break it down for crafting materials.

We will be able to craft pvp gear as well, which means it won't be so bad when first bringing a new toon to pvp. I am not exactly sure on how this will work, but I'm assuming there will be nodes that give pvp stats that you can add to the crafted gear.

Here is the live stream where the materials are talked about to make weapons and armor: here

The people who have spent the time to get all the crafting recipe's should start making gear sets before it is too late. Because soon we will no longer have these items. This includes culture sets. If I had a way to do it, I would make as many sets as you could and bank them until a later date. Then sell them later? Just an idea.

Age of Hacking?

     Yes...someone had to say something sometime about the various hacks that are in Age of Conan. It isn't new to MMO's at all though. Each has it's bots, and combo helpers for people that are bad at gaming. I mean, you really have to be bad and lazy to seek third party programs to help you be good (or pretend that you are good).
     I mean I've encountered people that used the data pack hack, which allows players to port around your screen while you miss combos and they kill you. The excuse will be of course that THEY are lagging out. But in reality it isn't them that is lagging. If it were, then on your screen they would not move at all and you would just kill them. The last person to use the hack that I caught I reported and he got banned for 7 days.
     So why do people feel the need to hack? I think it's because they are friends with people that are good in the game and they want to match their skill. They don't want to learn to play and build their skill up. If people are accused of hacking, the hacker responds "stop being bad" or some other trash to bring the attention off what they are doing. But you can tell...
     Port hackers use a port that enables them to jump across the screen. You see people do it all the time (more on Tyranny than Set). They still die, but the little extra advantage they have...makes them the worst players in AoC. These exploiters hurt the games pvp, and discourages other players for even attempting pvp game play.
     There has been many hacks. It doesn't take much research to find AoC Buddy, or AoC Multihack. There is also AoC Hag which has been pretty popular on Tyranny. When I reported the data pack hacker I told everyone about it. I started getting tells from hackers telling me about this hack everyone uses, which essentially speeds up combos so you don't have to wait. It also allows you to maximize your damage output, and even make it to where three abilities hit you at the same time causing tons of damage.
     I fought this ranger in Kesh who shot me once, and took 90% of my life. I looked in my combat log and saw he hit me with three abilities. I fought him a few times after that, and it was the same. The player was clearly using the hack. You see certain barbs and sins use this hack as well. They are pathetic.
     Some people don't realize these hacks even exist. Or they think people are just blowing smoke up peoples asses. But go ahead and use google and you will see it is true.
     Please don't hack. PLEASE DON'T HACK. Don't you realize you hurt the game? Take the deaths and learn how to play. A lot of the people that use the program are already good and geared out. Don't you realize you are just bad if you hack? Ez mode care bear cowards is how I feel about it.
     I tracked down one of the guys who creates AoC hag. I found out how to buy the hack. I connected with him and then forwarded everything to funcom in hopes that they would be able to do something about it. He charges $10 a month for the hack. That's amazing someone would pay that.
     He sent me two videos that I still have showing the hacks and how to add them to your game. People actually pay this guy? How about send me $10 a month for telling you not to hack?
     I would post the videos but I don't want to promote the hack. If you want to see the videos though I'll show them to you. Send me a tell in game (Ragnarx, Ragnarvor, Wotanvor, Ragsguard on Set) or (Raaquel on Tyranny) and I'll link you.

What do you guys think? Is hacking a problem? Has anyone else encountered this? 

Vanity Whore!

Yep, I am one of those. I have so many vanity pieces on my toons it's insane. But how great is it that we can do this, especially on a game that is as visually appealing like Age of Conan.

Sure other games like WoW included there gear transmorph gem stone or whatever it is. They did this long after funcom established their vanity system. I remember when it first came out, I was able to go to dungeons long forgotten to kill some bosses for gear. Or go to Field of the Dead epic mode to get gear pieces that I liked. It is great we are able to mismatch the pieces to make them look great.

There are some gear sets I don't have completed yet, I need more inventory space. From the House of Crom you get two nice sets, one only available through pvp drops (so it needs to be an open world pvp server).

Social Gear from Pve bosses

PvP Social Gear

Of course there is raid gear and pvp gear you can attain just by playing the content of the game. I don't have complete t3 raid gear yet, but I do have completed t2 pvp gear.

We be raiding now son

t2 pvp gear looks sexy for Assassin Class

I personally like to mix up my vanity with various pieces of gear. You can create anything pretty much, but with just 1 negative restriction. With the Assassin, Hox, and Demo class you can only pick from cloth armor. But if you play a soldier class you can pick from all of them. Light armor class, gets to choose between light and cloth armor and so on. So that is a little restricting if you play a clothie. 

Hi, I need some t3 gear please

But with a game like Age of Conan though, the skins of what you can find are awesome, even if you only pick from cloth gear.

Give me victims

My Bear Shaman in pict vanity