an overhaul of item

Funcom has revealed that it's including an overhaul of item crafting in the next major update to Age of Conan, along with the rest of its new player-versus-player system. The news came in a post on the forum for the game's test server; Massively has the details, or you can read the original post copied and pasted onto the regular forum.

Recipes for armour and weapons will now come in base, city and culture versions. Base items are t buy aoc gold he simplest to make, city items require a guild city, and culture items - eas cheapest aoc gold ier to make than city pieces - are "high-level lore-related" items for each class, aimed specifically at introducing som conan gold  e more visual variety to the game's avatars.

Culture pieces are intended to provide a path to crafting high-level equipment without requiring you to be in an active guild. Furthermore, alchemy resources are being streamlined, there will be new skinning and weaving recipes, woodcutters will be able to make upgradeable staffs, and all drops related to crafting professions and r cheap aoc gold esources should be easier to come by in a wider level range.

7:23 PM - Oct. 7, 2008

the console version

He then went on to talk about how the console version will benefit from the different updates made to the PC version and the issues experienced by the team during the P cheap age of conan gold  C launch. Should the same thing occur when the Xbox 360 versi buy aoc gold on is released, the team will have the upper hand by knowing how to deal with launch issues should they rear their ugly head.

Tharaldsen also elaborated on the di conan gold  fferences between the two ports in the a age of conan power leveling  rea of design and how he feels Age of Conan will fair in the console MMO market: “Seeing how a console and a PC is inherently very different in control input, HD space, patching cycle, ava conan gold cheap ilable memory and so on, there are naturally many challenges involved in this work, and while we have overcome many there are more to go, not just from a design and tech standpoint, but also from business, community and marketing.

The time will come for MMO games, or similar experiences, to do great on the consoles though, and hopefully Conan will be one of the pioneers in that regards.”

7:21 PM - Oct. 7, 2008

the merchants of doom

There will always be the merchants of doom! I understand that some players didn’t see in the game cheap conan gold  what they had dreamt it might be, and while some of that is unavoidable (the games we invent in our heads will always surpass those we are actually able to be produced, I know the ‘dream’ MMO in my head would probably be completely unfeasible for now at least.

It’s those dreams though that feed the inspiration for what we can achieve!), I also know that we can improve on many of the areas that some players felt weren’t delivered well cheap conan gold  enough at launch. MMOs are a long term investment both from our end and for players. There are those who will always want to presume the worst and predict all the necessary doom and gloom, it comes with the territory cheap age of conan gold  .

What I focus on is proving them wrong and providin age of conan power leveling  g good solid fun entertainment for our players. Our players are our greatest asset, our advocates as it were, and I am quite confident that the game will be more than up to the tas buy age of conan gold  k of being worth their time and energy. If we can continue to do that then I am sure we will be around for many years to come yet!

7:19 PM - Oct. 7, 2008