A Quick Question

MightyQuacky

So after reading a few about the game and watching a view videos i thought of buying the game but before buying the game, how is end game raiding? is it fun? hard? has tactics involved? coordination? .... youtube videos aint clear about the matter so if any game player can respond to my post it would be really appreciated  

MightyQuacky

 any one with any advices?

Aceundor

 Not much of a raider myself but as far as I understand from forum readings the PVE raids are pretty good and some have good puzzels and tactics in it. I reccomend reading a little in the official forums for Raids and tactics here

http://forums.ageofconan.com/forumdisplay.php?f=11

 

The PVE end game is supposed to be pretty good while the PVP end game is not up to par yet. (sieges are still broken) However patch 1.06 will ammend some of this and improve the PVP endgame.

finaticd

So far the PvE end game has not been good, is why are not many raiders ;p It is better than AoC's PvP endgame because pvp sieges lag out and crash and the pvp gear is not epic.  Raids at release were cleared in a week and then the raids released a year later were cleared in a week and now guilds need to PuG to fill slots because the server populations are very low,  the developer said will be mergers soon...and cause a year of farming the same instance is meh anyway less it is awesome.  Is a new raid zone coming up a year later, which is in month or two, but my point is it is slow development compared to raiding games like EQ1 was and EQ2, Lotor, and WoW are and the quality is much lower of the encounters. Most my endgame was raiding in every MMO, epic encounters FTW.

Classes are pretty generic, so in a raid you are pretty much DPS so most things are tank and spank on a few encounters there is a pretty easy gimick involved. If you ever raided the healing mechanic in this game is all heals are heals over time so it kind messes up traditional raiding as healing was a major part of raiding.

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The expansion may change things but after that the development will be even slower after. The good news is finding a guild to raid with is easy or you can PuG a raid, but the population is low, so unlike the raiding focused games there are no leetist guilds that will turn you away for not being geared and experienced....none of that has been needed here. Most the player base is pretty casual, they reroll alts after hitting endgame or never get to end game or quit.

 

 

Aceundor

OP should be aware that above poster does not play AOC and last time he did it was for max 2 weeks last summer. This can be read in his posting history. Consequently it is likely that he bases his information on forum readings and therefore is as well informed as myself. Funny how we have completely opposite opinions from the same sources of information. :-P

finaticd

Originally posted by Aceundor


OP should be aware that above poster does not play AOC and last time he did it was for max 2 weeks last summer. This can be read in his posting history. Consequently it is likely that he bases his information on forum readings and therefore is as well informed as myself. Funny how we have completely opposite opinions from the same sources of information. :-P

 

I did the raids so have more experience than you and to date nothing has changed or been added to the game since. But if you read the forums would know the endgame pve is bland....even hard core players not casuals who will never see it point it out in every thread.

 

It is a well known fact that AoC's endgame is lacking, IDK what you are talking about but the developers made the excuse that most players are not level 80 as to why end game is not a focus...No new raiding content has been added in over a year. Have you ever raided? that is pretty lame doing the same thing over and over and once they get gear they quit.

I really have no idea what you have been reading that says AoC has good end game....aside from Funcom sales brochures. It has been a huge thing since release how bad it is and the entire AoC player base agrees that is why they keep looking to the future.

Here are all bosses added to game after this next patch forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php 20 total after two years now go compare to a raiding game.