considering a return

Impact1986

I'm considering a return to Age of Conan but want to know if some of the crap that ruined it have been fixed.

 

Is HP and Mana pot spamming  during combat, PvP in paticular still cheap and in combat still around?

Do ToS and PoM still dominate a majority of PvP encounters?

Do healers in general still have a huge advantage in PvP?

Can you still sprint away as a caster from a melee and then turn around and pwn them in the face once they run out of stamina?

Is ganking still heavily frequent in lower level zones?

Is the grind from 50-80 still a insane mindless boring grind?

 

 

 

StrontyDog

Originally posted by Impact1986


I'm considering a return to Age of Conan but want to know if some of the crap that ruined it have been fixed.
 
Is HP and Mana pot spamming  during combat, PvP in paticular still cheap and in combat still around?
Do ToS and PoM still dominate a majority of PvP encounters?
Do healers in general still have a huge advantage in PvP?
Can you still sprint away as a caster from a melee and then turn around and pwn them in the face once they run out of stamina?
Is ganking still heavily frequent in lower level zones?
Is the grind from 50-80 still a insane mindless boring grind?
 
 
 

 

Yeah, people always use pots in pvp. But they are cheap and available to all so I don't see your problem with this one.

ToS atm has huge aoe damage and can build up various abilities to do 3k crits but they are squishy as hell. Depending on your class you should be able to take one down fairly easily, at least a bear shaman can. PoM generally is the class it is supposed to be for cc and defensive healing although they have a divinity build that can do big crits similar to ToS also.

The healers advantage has been lowered considerably now and many classes have an even shot in a fight, things are definately more balanced than Age of Healers period you are talking about. Bear Shamans are still quite strong but not unstoppable, pom is hard to kill for some classes but has low dps generally and ToS has huge aoe damage but can be killed quickly.

Yes you can still sprint and kite as a caster etc but isn't that the idea of a caster. If you manage to catch one you can pretty much kill them with one combo. Necros are currently overpowered due to a bug with their spellweaving and a channeled spell grip of death but that has been fixed already on testlive.

Ganking is probably frequent on the pvp servers.. I don't know. I am on rp-pvp and I have never had problems levelling any of my characters. But I suppose it depends on how much you like whining about being attacked and what your tolerance level is for it. Generally high levels attacking low levels isn't seen much on my server at least due to the murder point system. White sands is still a fun place to be to have some pvp though of course and always a ranger or two around there.

Things from 50-80 are way way better now, theres a new zone called Ymirs pass which is 55-63 with a really fun dungeon in there. It is in my opinion the best zone I have seen in any mmo, its really that good! I leveled a couple of alts up recently and at level 76ish is where you start having to think about grinding if you want to solo all the way. If you do all the dungeons available for that level and some villas you can get to 80 without grinding at all.

Spellshaper

1) As far as I know, you never can spam pots in AoC (like in Diablo or MU for example). You can have one pot ticking for 1min and then take another and yes thats possible (but cant safe anything).

2) ToS and PoM are still very good (ToS especially). All casters is very powerfull these days. But best PvP class is BS imo.

3) Not healers, but casters generally. And I dont think its that huge. Here and above we are speaking 1v1. But just take 2v2 and up and ballance is quite good.

4) Yes you can. But as a meelee you have CC to prevent that. Only demonologist is immposible to catch (if he is good).

5) On PvP server, yes, its frequent. But thats what PvP servers are about.

6) No, for me never was. But Ymirs Pass filled that gap also for lonely wolves.

DaveTT

Originally posted by Impact1986


I'm considering a return to Age of Conan but want to know if some of the crap that ruined it have been fixed.
 
Is HP and Mana pot spamming  during combat, PvP in paticular still cheap and in combat still around?
Do ToS and PoM still dominate a majority of PvP encounters?
Do healers in general still have a huge advantage in PvP?
Can you still sprint away as a caster from a melee and then turn around and pwn them in the face once they run out of stamina?
Is ganking still heavily frequent in lower level zones?
Is the grind from 50-80 still a insane mindless boring grind?
 
 
 

 

1) yes, you can use pots 1 pot every 1min and it ticks over time. All people can buy and use them, they are pretty cheap.

2) Hmm dont think so, well TOS is probably the most OP but they have nerfed TOS alot. Both TOS and POM have been nerfed. I like BS / HOX / ranger / necro more in pvp then tos and pom.

3) Hmm, well they maybe have a little advantage but not much. Alot have changed since launch. For exampel Rangers, HOX and demos have debuff combos/spells, It debuffs the amount you get from a heal. So if you debuff this POM he wont be abel to heal himself very good. ( I pretty much own any healer 1vs1 but ofc there are always good and bad players.

4) Hmm melee will just use stam pots, so there stam wont disappear fast. Melees have charge / stuns / knockbacks/ roots, so its not easy to sprint away

5) Hmm well you have ganking, but not as much as at launch. First you have the pvp-system so if a high-lvl kill a low lvl he will get murderpoints (penalty), but there are ofc murderers who gank. But there are always people who hunt murderers. They will launch pvp-resources in the next patch so most of the high-lvl pvp will get moved to borderkingdoms, much better and much more fun

6) Nop, they have added many new quests, revamped dungeons, a hole new zone Ymir's pass lvl 55-65 a really awesome zone. So no more mindless boring grind