Tempest of Set: Leveling Builds and Feat Review (version 3)

The most effective leveling build is no longer as obvious due to the many recent changes to the Tempest of Set. This guide includes two leveling progressions. One is based on building a balanced toolset focused around Lightning Strike and Storm Field. The other is a build focused on maximizing AoE damage and [...]

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Tempest of Set: Leveling Build and Feat Advice (version 2)

UPDATE 7/23 The latest version of this guide can be found here. Most of the information in this leveling guide (version 2) is still accurate and should continue to work well for people following this build. I just finished writing another version of this guide, with many tweaks and lots of additional information.  It [...]

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Nerfs, nerfs and more nerfs in Age of Conan

While I’ve been enjoying my time thus far in Hyboria, the basically endless stream of nerfs is starting to really bother me.  The game has only recently passed its one month anniversary.  While it had a successful launch, now is the true test of the game’s longevity.  How many people actually committed themselves to a [...]

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Overpowered? Tempest of Set and Priest of Mitra

Are these two classes really overpowered? It appears that a lot of people in the official forums seem to think so. Both class forums and even the general forum is getting a flood of ‘nurf l33t preists!!’ posts (I don’t know l33t speak at all, but you get my point). I call these [...]

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Tempest of Set: Leveling build and feat advice

UPDATE 6/24/08 Version 2 of the leveling build guide can be found here.  The primary changes are switching the feat order to get the Storm Field feats as soon as possible.
UPDATE 6/23/08 The change I had been dreading finally happened. Funcom has significantly nerfed Storm Field. Unfeated, it has a limit of 3 [...]

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