My return to Age of Conan: Day 1

Within minutes of entering Hyboria for the first time in months, I was killed by two ‘nice’ people.  I didn’t even realize I was getting burned and slashed repeatedly until I was dead because I was so busy studying the spells and hotkeys and trying to remember how to play.  What fun!  I can’t blame [...]

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Advice for surviving on a PvP server Free-for-all

Open beta AoC players recently had a taste of what a FFA PvP server can be like. Oldtimers from other MMORPG’s like Ultima Online and Acheron’s Call know just how horrible the experience can be. Yet, there are plenty of people who love and thrive in such an environment.
Pyrostasis on the VN ign [...]

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Epic ending to the Age of Conan open beta: Sign of things to come…

To celebrate the ending of the open beta, Funcom raised everyone’s level to 20 and moved them to their respective home cities.  If that wasn’t enough, they fully enabled the PvP settings on every open beta server.  Free-for-all PvP everywhere except in the cities!
As anyone with a bit of experience with PvP servers knows, this [...]

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