Monthly Development Update: May 2015

[Greyloins]

... Didn't see anything about PvP. Crafters get nothing new. Anyone proof read that article?


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"crafters"?

[Kurt2013]

"crafters"?

Yes, those people that even after years of being insulted and neglected and fought against are still building up chars, collecting resources, making groups for epic recipes and join raids for making even better stuff. Not even speaking of those, who got funcomed by the renown cap and still try and build stuff for their guilds.

[LunaticAsylumLA]

Just to clear up a few points so there is no miss-understanding.

The content will be permanent.
The content comes in the shape of a 'Tale of Hyboria', this is a new type of content release that we hope to expand on with new locations.
Think of a 'Tale of Hyboria' like a scenario with a main quest line with pools of supplementary side quests spanning several (4 in this case) instances.
The instances themselves are balanced for 1-3 players (rather than this being additional dungeons for 3 players on top of the new instances) similar to the more recent anniversary/halloween content (though considerably more substantial).

Please put my heart at rest and inform us whether the new quests for levelling characters will not grant more experience in the same time frame as the average quests in the old world. The newsletter ambiguously and menacingly stated that the new content will be "a good source of XP".
Why? It is simple. Dungeons still must be more attractive than doing the new content. Levelling speed is already extremely fast with Asura's bottles, fresh daily kills, XP potions, offline levels, and Kheshatta. Levelling group quests in the old world must give loot better than the new content too (or equal, as an alternative).

[Mellaus]

Reading the letter, i am under the impression that we're going to see more of the north, visiting Aesirs and Vanirs, explore the frozen part of Hyboria. It even seems like we're going to have actual new maps.

Surely i am mistaken.

Bear mount. Any fan of Frazetta is tripping right now, please pretty please make it right.

New faction is also good.

All in all, i for one am amazed at those news, and even if i would also like to know more about the crafting revamp and the completion of dragon spine, i'm very pleased to get more content set in the north, as so many players asked in the past.

[Yawgmoth-VDN]

Please put my heart at rest and inform us whether the new quests for levelling characters will not grant more experience in the same time frame as the average quests in the old world. The newsletter ambiguously and menacingly stated that the new content will be "a good source of XP".
Why? It is simple. Dungeons still must be more attractive than doing the new content. Levelling speed is already extremely fast with Asura's bottles, fresh daily kills, XP potions, offline levels, and Kheshatta. Levelling group quests in the old world must give loot better than the new content too (or equal, as an alternative).

come on mate, don't start bitching about this already....
nowdays there is more activity on the low level dungeons that you ever dream about, so... relax!!

[Mellaus]

Oh, and i forgot, but what is this mention of the "new main quest line" ? Are we talking about the overall AoC main quest line ? Or is it just the event main quest line ?

[TribunLeader]

Age of Conan celebrates its seventh anniversary later this month,

posted on the 15th... so how much later this month can it get?

Communication skills towards playerbase was always low from FC but since you put AoC on lifesupport its getting worse where we thought we already reached rockbottom. Edit by Anzu: That's not needed.

[Slith]

Reading the letter, i am under the impression that we're going to see more of the north, visiting Aesirs and Vanirs, explore the frozen part of Hyboria. It even seems like we're going to have actual new maps.

Surely i am mistaken.

I would expect it will be like The Dead Man's Hand but bigger.

[lmagowz]

Funcom need forget about "a good source of XP" forever. Or remove all offline levels, asura potions and other exp potions. Even 80 level raid quests have exp!! Why? They need add more content to high end playing, or make low level loot better. They already have huge amount of low level dungeons and locations, but people only visit them for achivements.

[Texan615]

posted on the 15th... so how much later this month can it get?

Communication skills towards playerbase was always low from FC but since you put AoC on lifesupport its getting worse where we thought we already reached rockbottom. Edit by Anzu: That's not needed.

Considering the release date was 5/22, I'd expect sometime this week, possibly next week.