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The direction the classes are heading isn’t anywhere good. Everything is getting toned down and less exciting to play. Sooner or later, Barbs, Demo, Assassins, HoX, Ranger will only be a shell of themselves also.

Before people jump up and down and point and say but but…

So, in a couple of months, AoC will be swarming with lack age of conan gold lustered classes that aren’t unique or defined in anyway.

Now that ToS got nerfed or fixed age of conan gold or destroyed, some are yelling for more, most are laughing and pointing. Yet, they don’t see how the AOE nerfs totally destroyed the class’ identity.

they needed the nerfed. Fine. A nerf. Tone down our damage, but not our class definition.

People only care about classes being OP. They clearly don’t care about the heading of the game.

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Level 38: Mirrored Iron 1/3. A *very* solid 1 pointer for AOEing. This causes your Protection of Set to occasionally proc ~250 damage on anything that attacks you. Further points only increase the damage dealt by 10% each. (Too bad it’s not +chance to proc by 10%.) A no brainer for fighting lots of mobs at once.

Level 68-69: Unleashed Power 2/2. Some might argue that this spell isn’t needed, but I see it as being useful for those pesky ranged mobs. This will make your “green circle” bigger for SB and IoA, allowing you to more easily include ranged mobs in your AOE while still hitting the melee mobs on you. Getting casters down is a priority after all.

Level 80: Agonizing Jolts 1/1. A mostly useless talent because the snare doesn’t kick in until the first tick of damage 2 seconds after you start channeling. It *does* not stop channeling in PVP based on range though, as far as I know, so if someone runs at extremely low health and happens to not use a pot, this might kill them. Channeling it then stopping when the first tick happens in PVE doesn’t do much, since you could just precast a Shockstrike and achieve the same mob HP when it reaches you. Pick it up earlier instead of 1 point in Bombardment if you want, in which case you’d finish Bombardment here.

Level 49: Nothing, save your feat point for 50, we have 30 points in Havoc now.

Level 33-37: Archmage 5/5. This spell doesn’t affect you quite so much in the 30’s, but very soon you’re going to need it a lot more than the other options. This spell is critical for keeping your IoA and Hellfire Stream damage from degrading as you level.

Level 52-53: Quickened Iron 3/3. Put off filling out Wicked Bolts for now, it’s imperative to stop getting that pesky empty shield debuff! Wicked Bolts is a great spell, but the extra points increase your PVP viability mostly, and this is an AOE build before it’s a PVP build (though I don’t think it’s a gimp PVP build).

Level 80: Mirrored Iron 2/3 and 3/3. There’s not much left in the trees, and this *will* increase your AOE damage to some extent. don’t forget Protection of Set applies to party member too, so even if you’re not tanking mobs will still be reflecting on themselves. It’s only +20% damage per proc though, no proc chance increase unfortunately.

Level 58-59: Nothing, save your points.

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Level 78-79: Possession 2/2. Basically this spell incapacitates/stuns the enemy for 5 seconds. However, it’s a 5 second channel before it goes off, so using it in the middle of a fight to gain the upper hand is practically worthless. you might use it as an opener to keep the enemy from doing anything for 5 seconds while you wind up on them, that way the channeling is pre-combat. This means you’re not opening with max range Shockstrike though. :/ Alternately in a group this spell becomes more useful since you have teammates to keep killing while you do the channeling and possession.

Level 60-61: Thunderclap 5/5. You should have 4 points at 60 and get the 5th at 61. This is a HUGE spell in terms of AOE survivability. Maxing it out is a big priority, you should use this spell very often to keep yourself alive against hard hitting pulls.

Level 50: Overload Shockblast 2/3 and Wicked Bolts 1/5. If you don’t feel like putting a point in Quickened Iron you can save an extra point and get 3/3 Overload Shockblast this level. I don’t recommend not getting Wicked Bolt, it’s an entirely new spell, and an instant cast CC at that! It’s amazing for stopping casters or throwing in while waiting on SB to reduce damage taken.

Level 63: Purge 1/1. Instant cast, no cooldown, this is a good PVP feat. Many classes can remove your CCs or just simply need to be CCed again to be beaten, and removing the 60 second immunity they gain after your first root lets you throw the other one back on and regain the upper hand. We are very squishy for melee, so CCing them is a high priority. And hey, it’s just one point.

Level 44-48: Bombardment 5/5. Leaving out the crappy pet aoc gold and storm chains feats (honestly I think storm chains breaks too easy for any points in improving its damage to be worth it, and you’re going to get the rest of your CC in a few levels), as well as the Shockstrike splash talents, this is all that’s left. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a really great talent. Remember when I mentioned pulling more mobs with Shock/Shockstrike? This talent augments that ability perfectly. I’d almost pick it up even earlier if there weren’t other feats to get. If you are single pulling you can get far more casts off than before, and it’s amazing for PVP.

Level 24-28: Earth Recharge 5/5. Another amazing AOE grinding regen spell. The mana gained is *very* significant when using our expensive AOE spells.

Level 51: Overload Shockblast 3/3. The third point doubles the damage increase from this amazing talent, quite possibly the most important feat in an AOE build. While it sucks waiting a level to get it, overall, it’s just one level. Shockblast should really be tearing through mobs now, with the AOE root and wicked bolts that you also get at level 50, you’ll feel like a new class!

Level 40-43: Rapid Recharge 5/5. There’s a bit of a grey area concerning the points in the next few levels. Basically you need to have 30 points in the tree by level 50, and you have 2 routes to choose from. Personally I never use Shockstrike for splash damage, so Discharge and Chained Shockstrike are worthless to me. You are perfectly welcome to pick them up if you prefer using Shockstrike in your AOE cycles or on mere 2 pulls though. With our mana talents though, you can use SB and IoA with impunity, there’s nothing stopping you from Shockblasting down just 2 mobs. Improving the cooldown on Shock lets you kill your primary target faster in just the same way as Shockstrike though, and is more versitile (instant cast vs. 2.5 seconds).

Level 75-77: Tome of Erlik 3/3. Another burst damage talent, again mostly a PVP talent. Stacking this and Lore of Skelos can actually bring you up to par with the PVP damage of most other classes. And again, feel free to use them to bring down especially large or difficult pulls in PVE too.

Level 54-57: Wicked Bolts 5/5. You need 5/5 to get our next amazing spell, and lets face it, who doesn’t want a huge knockback? It’s great in PVP (when it works), and every second counts when you knock back a melee mob.

Level 64-67: Mystical Attunment 5/5. More damage to all our spells. No brainer.

Level 10-14: Swift Shockstrike 5/5. The only option.

Level 29-32: Mage Blood 5/5. It’s time to start hitting the general tree, getting an awesome mana talent is just bonus.

(Level 62+ Note: We’re going back to the general tree now, as we have everything in Havoc that helps us AOE. There are several ways you can go about maxing this tree, depending on your focus. I will present one order for points, but you can mix and match to get what you feel necessary first. See discussion in this post.)

Level 39: Quickened Iron 1/3. This is where you really start wishing you had more points. You will start noticing a lot more Empty Shield debuffs in the 40’s, which this feat fixes, but because we need to prepare for the best talent in the Havoc tree, filling this feat out is going to have to wait.

Level 70: Lore of Skelos 1/1. Nice damage increasing spell, you should get the most use out of this spell in PVP (stack it with pacts). For one point, there’s no reason not to pick this up, you can even use it to bring down mobs when you over aggro accidently. Remember to always use all the cooldowns you have available to you!

Level 70-74: Specter Chant 5/5. Another mana talent. With the way our spells’ mana cost tends to skyrocket, and throwing in Lore of Skelos’ increases, you can never have enough mana regen, especially with AOE spells.

Level 20-23: Overload 5/5. This is an amazing spell, age of conan gold and if you want to be a true AOE grinder, you need all the regen spells you can get. It’s especially useful when using high mana cost spells like SB and IoA. With 5/5 it procs a charge almost every single AoE cast.

Level 62: Mystical Attunment 1/5. More damage, it unlocks the next Tier for us, and the rest of the Shield feats are borderline useless.

Feat Allocation and Breakdown!

(Level 78-80: These talents are mostly throw away. You already have the non-broken and important spells for our class, these are fluff. If Funcom fixes some of our broken talents, these would be the first to go. Especially something like Crimson Shield. If that feat added to the Damage Absorb per hit properly, it would be a MUST HAVE. See discussion in this post.)

Here is our blank feat tree so you have a point of reference.

Level 15-19: Natural Conductor 5/5. More damage is never bad.

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• Default Offhand % chance and how it works. Ok so I did a little test to mainly try to figure out the base offhand % as well as how the procs work. I did “/logcombat on” for 1,000 attacks worth and then uploaded it to the aocstats site. I kept dots out of the equation as I wouldn’t expect dot ticks to proc offhand chance anyways. My lvl 32 assassin currently has the feat Deft Blades 5/5 (improves offhand chance by +10%). I unequipped all items that added to +offhand %. Now I dont know how much offhand % dexterity gives but I imagine its not a whole lot considering the rest of the stuff dex improves isn’t a lot. But for the sake of this I evened it out to 200 dex by adjusting my gear. Including all attacks I made minus the dot ticks I did 1,000 attacks(I checked my log and it shows that snap kick can in fact proc offhand attacks) and there were 240 additional offhand attacks. Which means my offhand % is 24%. Now subtract 10% from feats and you get 14% and like I said, I’m not sure how much of the 14% is from dex. I know this isn’t solid proof of what the base offhand % is but from this I’ve concluded that the base offhand % chance is somewhere around 10% depending on however much dexterity adds to offhand chance. Sperate from this I also wanted to know how the procs work with combos and normal attacks. Well I looked at all of my offhand attacks in the log and it shows that offhand attacks CAN proc on each individual hit during a combo, not only the white attacks while youre cooking the combo but also the multiple hits you get when you actually finish the combo as shown here: Your Swift Strikes III pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 92. Your offhand pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 43. Your Swift Strikes III pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 101. Your offhand pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 47. This also shows though that the amount the offhand attack hits for has nothing to do with your combo’s damage. Instead its just treated as a normal attack that’s added onto whatever attack made it proc. Not only that but each time I got an offhand attack associated with a combos finishing attacks, my offhand would proc on every finishing attack. So as you can see here I was able to proc my offhand on 2 mobs while attacking them at the same time with the Grim Corruption II combo. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Captain Sylfest for 121. Your offhand pierces Captain Sylfest for 68. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Ship Crew for 171. Your offhand pierces Ship Crew for 93. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Captain Sylfest for 134. Your offhand pierces Captain Sylfest for 75. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Ship Crew for 188. Your offhand pierces Ship Crew for 103. This combo finishes with 2 attacks and as shown when you proc offhand on a combo finisher it applies it to each one of the attacks instead of treating each one like an individual chance to attack with your offhand. Cool stuff. I also came across a thread on the EU forums discussing this: http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=42384 Originally I thought that the damage reduction in offhand procs was from people doing combos on mobs with directional shielding up. It was also suggested that with some combos your stance damage wasn’t being applied to your offhand damage when you proc an offhand from a combo. I tested this and this doesn’t appear to be true as with combos and white attacks my offhand damage dropped dramatically when not in poison stance. I’m not completely sure why you get a damage decrease when you proc offhand attacks from combo attacks, but I’ve noticed that when you attack a mob in a direction where it doesn’t have any directional shielding you can proc “big numbers”(these are numbers that show up larger on your screen as the damage listed above your target. they aren’t crits, but they do more damage) And in addition to your normal attack being a “big number” your offhand will be a “big number” as well. But with combos, when you attack a side with no shields and proc an offhand attack it never seems to notice the unshielded area youre attacking and treats it like you’re not attacking a vulnerable area, therefor, no “big numbers”. So my theory is that when you proc an offhand attack during a combo, your offhand incorrectly recognizes the targets shielding. I did another test to see if your offhand attack damage had anything to do with your actual offhand dagger damage. I tested this by putting a level 1 dagger with much less damage in my offhand. I was able to determine that your offhand damage is not based on your actual offhand dagger damage, but instead seems to be based off of your primary weapons damage. That’s all I have for now but I’ll keep it updated if I am able to find out anything else. Now if I could get a Funcom person to confirm this information (especially the base offhand %) that would be awesome.(and a sticky maybe?) This post is inteded as informative as well as inquisitive so if anyone has any input, suggestions, or corrections please reply!
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Example: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=103310

The reason this puzzles me is that because as of age of conan gold right now, there do not seem to be many punishments for dying in PVP combat. You don’t even need to get your tombstone. I suppose I can understand that it is just irritating and you would rather not be bothered, but honestly, how often does running actually work against players? Especially casters with root/snare CC?

I am a level 57 guardian on a PVP server.

You might as well stand and fight. Are people doing this because they don’t want the “bad rep” of losing being attached to their name/guild? Because they don’t want the PVP ratio in their “attributes” tab to be bad? Because, at least in my opinion, it is worse to be known as someone who runs from a fair fight. Hell, even if it is unfair, and my character is being ganked by six ToSes twenty levels above me, my character still doesn’t run. It isn’t even about my roleplaying an unfearing guardian. It’s about not being age of conan gold a whimp and realizing that on a PVP server in a new, not-quite-yet-balanced game as the main tank class you are going to get killed.

I have recently seen a lot of people, when asked what their strategy is against caster players (especially priests), say “run and hide”, or something to that effect.

So for those of you who subscribe to this methodology, please let me know, why? Or were you just being cynical about the lack of balance, and do not actually subscribe to this “tactic”? Thank you.

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thanks for reading.

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Our main Prime play time is in between 7pm to Midnight Australian eastern standard time, but we also have members that play at other times as well during the day, so it shouldn’t be a problem to find someone on at most times.

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We do have a voice chat server that is aoc gold up 24/7, and we do ask our members to use it if they can, even if it is just to listen (if ya don’t have a mic or something)

Most of our current members have a long history in Online gaming, and a few of us where Open and closed beta testers.

We are tring to set up a main US playtime in game aoc gold as well, as we have done with other games in the past

There we have a Application Form that will let you know what to do.

We accept, and have, members from all over the globe..

We are into all aspects of the game, PvP, PvE, Crafing and such..

We like to think we are a friendly bunch, that will help you out if we can.

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Visit our Forums: http://www.armleg.com/vddpotbs

We do ask all members to sign up to our forums (and be active in them)

Please feel free to ask any questions you may have…

You can find me in game (on Gwahlur) as Draxonfly

We are looking for mature minded, but fun loving members..

We do have a website, but we have pulled it down for rebuilding

(leave a post here or at our forums and we will get back to you asap)

How to get an invite into Van Diemen’s Demise?

Every member has a voice and will be heard!

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So yeah, know which feats get the dps you want, but make sure you don’t exclude some degree of mitigation/survivability/tank feats as most every group will want you to step up and tank a bit. Also, don’t split age of conan gold your feats evenly between the trees for the buffs, as this essentially makes you master of nothing. I tried it, and it just doesn’t work very well.

This is what I mean: let’s say there’s a group of 5 people, looking to grab a 6th. Assuming they have a few strong dps classes, they may very well decide to opt for the group-friendliness and added dps/utility a conqueror has. However, if you’re simply set on doing nothing but dps, most groups will think you’re pretty gimp. And rightly so. We’re not breaking records on dps with this class, guys. Understand there’s going to be many situations where 1 tank just ain’t enough. Especially when everyone is slowly getting to 80 their first time - no one’s really going to have the gear to tank two or three level 81 elites. Most groups will expect you to be able to tank, and do it well, so keep that in mind when you spec. If you’re specced nothing but dps into carnage, you’re not just hurting yourself- you’re hurting your group as well.

The idea that we might do nothing other than throw an occasional battle rez to our group members is deliciously absurd. It’s not going to blow away an assassin or barbarian, but we do have the best dps of our archetype - so if we’re not tanking, let’s represent that! There are benefits to both carnage and brute, though with improved inspire age of conan gold the ranks broken, brute tree has far more favorable group-friendly buffs (self buffs available there add to your group versatility - explained later). Improved furious inspiration is arguably one of the more useful things we can do for our group. If they fix the feat for imp. inspire, then I’d prefer carnage for buffs (war lord, imp. inspire the ranks, imp. fire weave), though this could hardly be looked at so one-dimensional..

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Are you a mature adult (Age 21+) who enjoys a casual gaming atmosphere? Are you looking to be with a group of likeminded adults who prefer to share interests and have a good time? Do you like to occasionally Role Play while gaming? Are you a couple (i.e. married or in a relationship) or an individual(s) who enjoys to discuss things aoc gold in a more adult manor?

As your guild leader I will look to aoc gold ensure you’re treated fairly, and will work to make sure all feel welcome in the guild. A light Role Playing environment as well as good natured humor is part of my goal. This guild will be a guild, focused on understanding for those of us who live more alternatively in our personal lives and are not afraid to express it openly. We will have a dedicated guild website forth coming, as well as a guild town. Please contact me if this sounds like a guild for you.

Oue Webistie Link is as follows…. http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.asp…&TabID=2194957

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Well then let me introduce you to the guild “Disciples of Discipline”.We are a guild forming on the Wiccana server. We are a group dedicated to those adults out there who are looking for a casual atmosphere and have a good sense of humor. We are a group of people who are not afraid to speak their minds or their thoughts.

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• Default Offhand % chance and how it works. Ok so I did a little test to mainly try to figure out the base offhand % as well as how the procs work. I did “/logcombat on” for 1,000 attacks worth and then uploaded it to the aocstats site. I kept dots out of the equation as I wouldn’t expect dot ticks to proc offhand chance anyways. My lvl 32 assassin currently has the feat Deft Blades 5/5 (improves offhand chance by +10%). I unequipped all items that added to +offhand %. Now I dont know how much offhand % dexterity gives but I imagine its not a whole lot considering the rest of the stuff dex improves isn’t a lot. But for the sake of this I evened it out to 200 dex by adjusting my gear. Including all attacks I made minus the dot ticks I did 1,000 attacks(I checked my log and it shows that snap kick can in fact proc offhand attacks) and there were 240 additional offhand attacks. Which means my offhand % is 24%. Now subtract 10% from feats and you get 14% and like I said, I’m not sure how much of the 14% is from dex. I know this isn’t solid proof of what the base offhand % is but from this I’ve concluded that the base offhand % chance is somewhere around 10% depending on however much dexterity adds to offhand chance. Sperate from this I also wanted to know how the procs work with combos and normal attacks. Well I looked at all of my offhand attacks in the log and it shows that offhand attacks CAN proc on each individual hit during a combo, not only the white attacks while youre cooking the combo but also the multiple hits you get when you actually finish the combo as shown here: Your Swift Strikes III pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 92. Your offhand pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 43. Your Swift Strikes III pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 101. Your offhand pierces Grizzled Alpha Hyena for 47. This also shows though that the amount the offhand attack hits for has nothing to do with your combo’s damage. Instead its just treated as a normal attack that’s added onto whatever attack made it proc. Not only that but each time I got an offhand attack associated with a combos finishing attacks, my offhand would proc on every finishing attack. So as you can see here I was able to proc my offhand on 2 mobs while attacking them at the same time with the Grim Corruption II combo. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Captain Sylfest for 121. Your offhand pierces Captain Sylfest for 68. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Ship Crew for 171. Your offhand pierces Ship Crew for 93. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Captain Sylfest for 134. Your offhand pierces Captain Sylfest for 75. Your Grim Corruption II pierces Ship Crew for 188. Your offhand pierces Ship Crew for 103. This combo finishes with 2 attacks and as shown when you proc offhand on a combo finisher it applies it to each one of the attacks instead of treating each one like an individual chance to attack with your offhand. Cool stuff. I also came across a thread on the EU forums discussing this: http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=42384 Originally I thought that the damage reduction in offhand procs was from people doing combos on mobs with directional shielding up. It was also suggested that with some combos your stance damage wasn’t being applied to your offhand damage when you proc an offhand from a combo. I tested this and this doesn’t appear to be true as with combos and white attacks my offhand damage dropped dramatically when not in poison stance. I’m not completely sure why you get a damage decrease when you proc offhand attacks from combo attacks, but I’ve noticed that when you attack a mob in a direction where it doesn’t have any directional shielding you can proc “big numbers”(these are numbers that show up larger on your screen as the damage listed above your target. they aren’t crits, but they do more damage) And in addition to your normal attack being a “big number” your offhand will be a “big number” as well. But with combos, when you attack a side with no shields and proc an offhand attack it never seems to notice the unshielded area youre attacking and treats it like you’re not attacking a vulnerable area, therefor, no “big numbers”. So my theory is that when you proc an offhand attack during a combo, your offhand incorrectly recognizes the targets shielding. I did another test to see if your offhand attack damage had anything to do with your actual offhand dagger damage. I tested this by putting a level 1 dagger with much less damage in my offhand. I was able to determine that your offhand damage is not based on your actual offhand dagger damage, but instead seems to be based off of your primary weapons damage. That’s all I have for now but I’ll keep it updated if I am able to find out anything else. Now if I could get a Funcom person to confirm this information (especially the base offhand %) that would be awesome.(and a sticky maybe?) This post is inteded as informative as well as inquisitive so if anyone has any input, suggestions, or corrections please reply!
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at lvl 10 you get medium and at lvl 30 you age of conan gold upgrade to heavy armor

Everyone in front of the conqueror gains a damage absorption, First rank at lvl 60 is 10 damage absorbed seems to scale 1 point a level.

My build for maximized group support(what we are in reality for grp fights) and damage with invul talents taken to help when they train me.

Once the stack is at ten, each additional application seems to heal the party for 20 again, and everytime you attack you can proc the group ressurection.

Adds DPS to the groups weapons, it does not add to your top end by the listed amount, it adds to your DPS, at rank 2 it can add 10 top end to your weapon.

or

Formation of Resolve:

Ranged and magical attacks have a chance to heal everyone behind you when attacked. Heals for about 30 and scales with level.

Default ****Conqueror Skills and FEAT FAQ****

Burst of aggression (DW/2H):

Hoarfrost:

holding alt and clicking + will respec that skill line, cost 1c, 1s or 50s which is a bug i think

Angel Of Fury: might be bugged, group or not i cannot seem to proc any FI myself (IT procs, very low chance).

group stam and mana regen every 6 seconds, scales with level.

Solo 2h PVP:

Volcanic Rage:

Skirmish Orders:

Group -% miss chance and increases with each rank. -4% miss chance at rank 4

Some tips for skills:

20% damange increase for 30 second on a 2 minute cooldown.

**Orders and Commands**:

Reflects damage, rank 3 reflects 11 damage..

for every FI stack on you, you will gain 7% offhand chance when used. so fully stacked(10 stacks) it gives 70% chance to hit with offhand and consumes the FI buff

**Formations**

Sorry for anything i left out or spelling errors, i’m writing this as we group XP in thunder river.

http://hybes.de/featPlaner.php?class…001-25,4013-21

DW PVE DPS:

Conquerors are allowed 1 defensive and 1 offensive aura up at a time, they last for 4 hours or unless killed in PvE.

when charging do not use any abilities until after you have swung your weapon. charge only closes the distance, it has no root or stun component but it can be used in combat.

2% damage increase last 20 seconds

Battle Orders:

being able to kill in frenzy stance and using cunning deflection is a great help. As for Brute and Carnage either are good to level up, on a pvp server Brute would help alot with the snare and knock down i know some people want to get those before going soldier.

obtained at level 45, our group stam regen, ticks every 3 seconds. rank 1 is 42 and currently rank 2 is 60 stam every 3 seconds. (stacks with warlord)

Cover Command:

Everyone in front of the conqueror has a chance to deal retribution damage on their attack. Damage dealt was 10 at lvl 60, adds 1 point per level after it so far.

Each stack adds a 2% damage increase, at 4 stacks you proc a 20 point group heal, and at 10 stacks group in combat instant rez.

(a very good skill, and becomes amazing with feats)

you can sub out hulk if you want, it’s optional

also if you are sure the target wont move, queuing up burst of aggression, cunning deflection or crushing onslaught is a good idea.

Defiance: When furious inspiration is up you can use this as a small heal, with improved it also does a 2 tick stam and mana heal. At 75 it heals for 200 BUT it does 2 ticks of 312 stam and 312 mana, which is very nice for a minute cooldown.

Throat Slash(DW/2H):

(note: i currently avoid most bottom tier abilities because they’re either not that great or have a really long reuse time where something just as useful can be gotten instead)

***Common Builds***

Group 2h PVP:

Carnage:

Obtained at level 60, restores 64 mana every 3 seconds at rank 1.

Resolute Orders:

What does Furious Inspiration do?

Brute:

Blessed Conquest: 6 seconds of invulnerability (nothing hurts you) 10 seconds of -5% magic invul once it wears off. 2 minute cooldown.

Inspire the rank:

There is only 1 rank of charge, and yes as i’m sure you all noticed it has many fun bugs, and by fun i mean shoot me now.

adds ranged and spells damage to everyone behind you, 53 spelldamage and 12 ranged damage at level 60, scales with level.

blade weave will show up as a debuff by your stance so once it is used FI can instantly be reapplied. 30 second cooldown.

Adds a Cold damage proc to your weapon, when it procs it also decreases the targets DPS for a short time.

Commands: these work on the conqueror

hold Ctrl and clicking the + will add all available points into that skill.

http://hybes.de/featPlaner.php?class…011-23,4013-21

2 second cast time, duration 1 second to everyone infront of you.

next attack will snare the target by 95% for 6 seconds, 1 minutecooldown (no cooldown if you don’t use it)

(Obtained at 50, i’ve only tested it a few times but on average the damage was around 10-11 couldn’t find the listed amount of DPS is decreased)

This Buff you get stacks up to 10 times and can be refreshed and stay at this mark for as long as someone takes damage, duration is 15 seconds.

FireWeave:

Most aura’s when you first get them aren’t exactly the greatest buffs ever, but as you level they increase in rank and of course there are ones preferred over others

http://hybes.de/featPlaner.php?class…011-23,4013-21

next attack will knock down the opponent, 1 minute cooldown (no cooldown if you don’t use it)

for 5 seconds you have a 100% chance to hit with your offhand, 45 second cooldown.

I’m going to add common builds and general Feat questions to this section, not what every single feat does but if theres one you want i will add it. Going to keep it small for now

*****Conqueror FAQ/Feats/Builds****

Orders you get at 10 or 15 (updated, took out the non scale, they do)

Soldier:

Adds a Fire damage Proc to your weapon, when it hits it increases fire damage taken by the listed amount, this buff is affected by frenzy stance.

Everyone in front of the conqueror will gain a small amount of health and stam when attacked. Looks like it heals 15-20 stam and health a hit, scales about a 1 point with each level past 60.

Warlord:

**Armor**

**Update (5/29)** added my new aoc gold pvp build for groups

**Conqueror Abilities FAQ**

2% threat reduction

(from personal experience i have never used this buff over Fire weave, it might be used if flame weave doesn’t stack with HoX damage proc)

you get 3 of them:

Formation of retribution:

http://hybes.de/featPlaner.php?class…011-23,4013-21

DW Group PVP:

Furious inspiration is a group proc, basically when you are in a party and someone is attacked there is a chance Furious inspiration will become active.

Marshal the ranks:

Crushing onslaugh(DW/2H):

restores 9 stam every 2 seconds for 30 seconds to everyone behind you, seems to give 1 extra stamina each level.

Vitalize the ranks:

Against the odds: Last 15 seconds, adds 1% of invulnerability for each person near you(max 10 so 10%). Cooldown 30 seconds.

*NOTE* after testing, both Lumbering Hulk (improved) and Heroic call (improved) Scale with level making them very nice abilities.

**Note on Scaling** WHen i mention does not scale, it means as you level this ability never increases, ie be it lvl 15 or lvl 80 Battle Orders will always be a 2% damage multiplier.

Formation of steel:

Blade Weave:

http://hybes.de/featPlaner.php?class…010-25,4012-23

Combo WhirlWind: 4 step combo, VERY high damage(had 2 of the 4 final hits crit for 1,400 with imp hulk/heroic call up). 2 minute cooldown.

For leveling i’d recommend spending points in the soldier tree,

Each swing restores 10 health and 4 stamina

**Aura’s**:

For leveling solo or group i’d recommend bandaging with fast healing and recovery with fast recovery. They both take effect during rest and if kept at least 1/2 of the max amount of skill they can restore 20-25% of your health and stam bar per tick. Also putting points into climb when necessary isn’t a bad idea either. at 80 i would max endurance, hide, climb. ALso as a tank maxing taunt is very helpful.

Steadfast Command:

http://hybes.de/featPlaner.php?class…000-25,4010-25

Shield of retribution:

Barrage Command

Furious Inspiration what the heck is that?

DEFENSIVE:

**FEATS**

Reaping Blade:

**Charge Tips**

ok guys i know theres alot of the same things being passed around on this forum and i figure we can reduce the clutter by concentrating it into this thread.

OFFENSIVE:

***Leveling Tips***

keeping it bumped our stickied would be a great help, and feel free to post anything you would like me to add.

Skills:

Incite the Ranks:

Some tips to not have this happen to you:

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• Parliament of Rooks is Recruiting
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The composition, recruitment and activity are the main topics that require feedback from the community. The feedback you provide will help shape this program into something everyone wants. So please be constructive and hopefully we can have another feedback channel from the player to the developer.

Thank you,

I wanted to start a discussion on aoc gold some type of class lead program for the community. As we progress through the coming months, we will need as much feedback from the community as possible. So that means we might need a group of volunteers to help be the voices of the community in regards to classes.

The class lead program will consist of 24 community volunteer representatives assigned in pairs to each class in Age of Conan.

The class leads will have two separate lists for their class.

1. Top ten list composed of the main concerns and wishes of the class.

The idea is pretty straight forward and it’s a program we have done before with previous games. However, the introduction is not something we just want to toss out there without feedback from the community first. So I will try to sum up on the initial program structure for community input on each aspect.

Activity

Composition

The process of appointing a class lead age of conan gold would take around 2 weeks to accomplish. The choices of those class leads will be made by Funcom.

Greetings,

Recruitment

2. Bugs affecting the class.

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http://files.filefront.com/Wohastrar…/fileinfo.html

5. Theorycrafting posts are welcome if they sustain a level of maturity and constructive discussion to furthur unlock the potential of the class. No posts that have divulged into flamebaiting or generally negative feedback.

http://files.filefront.com/Tyranny+P…/fileinfo.html

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=64725 67-70 Levelling Guide - Umbrasquall

http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=30192 What You Are Doing Wrong, some Insight on Combo Priority - Remy-

Default The Useful Post Thread [Links inside]

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=52121 Endurance Breakdown - Latsabb

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=65442 Guide To Your First Epic Dagger - Wyvernspur

EQUIPMENT GUIDES, EPIC/BLUE QUALITY AND UP

4. Videos are welcome, but only if they are well made and demonstrate a point to the Assassin class in an informational fashion.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/newrepl…eply&p=1152157 So you want shiney lewtz? An equipment guide - TheAgoge

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=84285 Entourage - GM: Wohast - Server: Tyranny

GENERALLY AMAZING BLOGS

With that said, if anyone has a good post I missed feel free to post it in a reply or PM to me and I’ll add it ASAP. The thread in question must be:

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=80950 30-50 PVP Tips - Mephs

Fatwa: “Hiding Analysis” - ?? minutes

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=66244 Opener Tips Pre and Post 70 - Umbrasquall

SPECIALTY ROGUE-CLASS GUILD THREADS

USEFUL MODS, ADD-ONS, OR UI STUFF

3. Should be unique. Preferrably something that hasn’t been posted once or twice already or just covers new ideas under the same topic.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=74260 PVE Questing/Levelling Tips - Lighthawk

http://files.filefront.com/HidingRev…/fileinfo.html

LEVELLING GUIDES

FEAT AND SKILL DISCUSSIONS

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=84232 The Basis of Hiding Theory - Fatwa

http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/fazor3d Fazor3d’s Levelling Journal

Mephs/Ragni: “PVP Essentials” - 12 minutes

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=73894 Assassin PVP Tips 101 - Sakon90

Wohast: “Almost Deleted” - 11 minutes

With that said, I present to you, the Official Unofficial aoc gold (hopefully reported for sticky) list of Legendary Informational and/or Useful Threads in an Otherwise Board Full of Useless Topics in Advancing the Assassin Community

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=100613 High Level Assassin Gear Guide (lv 80) - XPost by SalvoSalvoSalvo from EU

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=37571 PVP Tips & Tricks - Zombo

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=30719 A Class Guide / Levelling Journal - Fazor3d

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=30919 Lv 75 Caravan Quest Walkthrough - Paddi88

2. Should contain some general factual information about the class in an effort to provide help to newcomers or people who are interested in learning the class furthur.

http://files.filefront.com/Mephs+Rag…/fileinfo.html

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http://aoaevii.blogspot.com/ Evii’s Assassin Blog - Evii

6. Posts from any level Assassins are fine, so long as they are speaking in context of their experiences at the level they are addressing the reader for. I.e. a lv 20 assassin giving tips on level 80 PVP might be out. But level 20 PVP tips are just fine =)

http://www.conanmods.com/?p=mods

*Note only well thought out and editted videos will be posted that display the class in a fashion as to demonstrate the class’s abilities. Videos must be clearly visible (no low-res junk) and approval of the video should be abundant from the community before it is posted here. With that said, kicking it off with the only really reputable video released to date.

Mephs: “Directional Shield Abuse and DPS” - 8 minutes

http://aocass.com/a/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?5002 Guide through the hell lvl’s (57-65) - Kuldazzar

VIDEOS*

http://aocass.com/a/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4905 Efficient Corruption Assassin chain killing / fast soloing - Kuldazzar

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=81587 Directional Shielding Abuse and You - Mephs

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=94394 Mephs & Ragni’s PVP Essentials (A Tutorial + Video)

This board tends to have very little helpful or constructive info on the front page. I did a bit of digging only to find a few good posts that really should be stickied, since many newcomers to the class will visit these boards and be discouraged by the ratio of whine posts to informational ones.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=105050 Offhand chance % Theorycraft - pants

1. Useful to the community, not a rant or a aoc gold whine, or anything else of that sort.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=75655 Skulk Breakdown - Latsabb

PVP GUIDES, TIPS, OR TRICKS

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• Exclamation By Popular Demand, Righteous Dawn is Now Recruiting! Now that AoC has the first month under its belt, Righteous Dawn has decided to open up recruitment to the public. You can apply at our website, or contact Aeneas, Devilbliss, Balkis, Sagasha or Sylvester in game for a trial invite. http://www.righteousdawn.dkpsystem.com/news.php GUILD HISTORY: Righteous Dawn started as a raiding guild in World of Warcraft over 3 1/2 years ago on the Azgalor server. Throughout that time, Righteous Dawn has maintained its position as the premier raiding guild on Azgalor with server first kills in every major raiding instance from Molten Core to Sunwell. Now that AoC is out, the guild is branching out to another MMO while maintaining its presence in WoW. We’re a laid back group whether we’re PvP’ing or raiding. Most of the time we’re drunk when we do either (Grappler and Paragon are always drunk and will take on all comers in a drinking contest). Basically we’re looking to build our community here on Dagoth and add some quality people that enjoy pvp and raiding. If you’re looking for an established guild with laid back veteran MMO players, then we’re probably the guild for you. Contact us in game or on the website if you’re interested in applying.
• I love this patch.

Does this sound like a community that you would be interested in? You are in luck, because you have a chance to be a part of our conquest. BKB is currently following an open recruitment policy based on trust and respect. We are seeking skilled PvPers, talented crafters, ruthless pirates, rich merchants, and witty diplomats. Our open policy does, however, require the regular use of our forums, Mandatory use of Vent and the following of our code of ethics. This should be no problem, as our forums are highly active and our Vent Server is always occupied. We welcome all players and offer an initial amount of respect to all, but as soon as anyone gives us a reason to disrespect them, we will ask them to leave our ranks.

• A Guild that Stresses Maturity Over Age; We All Know that Age does not Guarantee Maturity

If you are a “lone wolf “type player looking to just get in a guild and do 99% “your own thing ,then BKB is not a guild for you.

Questions? PM one of our Officers? Novwi Cam, Cyrus, Webco, Mlucas

• Dedicated, VENT Voice Communication Server

• A Focus on FUN!!!

Our other goal will be to simply have fun and to strive while doing this to make BKB one of the most respect guilds on the PVP server we play on. We all have lives, jobs, and social lives. A game such as AOC is designed to be open ended. Do what you want, and have fun doing it. We don’t expect you to follow strict raid times, minimum play time per week, or ridiculous membership requirements. The community that BKB offers will provide an overwhelming amount of friendships, memories, and good times.

• Opportunities for Both the Casual and Hardcore Gamer

• Role playing is not Required, but will be Encouraged

BKB will maintain a large active player base

Our guild Black Knight Brotherhood, or more simply BKB, was formed almost 9 years ago. During those Nine years, we have accumulated over 2500 members from 16 countries with experience in many MMORPGs including WWII Online, SWG, DAOC, LOTR and EVE and many, many other games. In each of these games, BKB has set a precedence of forming well known, respected, and highly successful guilds. Our officers and members together have experience in hundreds of different games.

Currently we are in Full Ramp up for AOC. We need player input on city building, economics, diplomacy, and combat tactics. As soon as you are accepted, you can jump right in the member forums and Vent Server and give your own input. Everyone’s opinion matters.

• A Guild that is Open to Both New and Experienced Players

If you

WE are not a Zerg guild. We have clear Code of Conduct and rules and REQUIRE GUILD TEAM WORK

If you are looking for a guild whose primary purpose is team work & FUN while striving to be one of the most respect guilds on the server then you have found a home

WE hold regular guild events and due to our strength age of conan gold and large number of active player 24/7 we also hold events and guild raids many time on the spur all days and times of the week The Black Knight Brotherhood (BKB) will be playing on a PVP server to accomplish its goals. Players interested in Joining BKB Must Abide by our Player Code Which can be read at http://www.bkbhq.com/index.php?pageid=coc. Failure to do so will be ground for removal.

If you don’t think you need to use a voice Communication server 100% of the time, Then BKB is not a guild for you.

If intrested in joining, you can find our application at

• Monthly Guild community News letter

The Black Knight Brotherhood (BKB)

• A Guild that Stresses Teamwork, Respect and Loyalty! Our Core Principles

http://www.bkbhq.com

If you don’t think Team work and guild events are a critical part of being in a guild then BKB is NOT for you.

• A Guild that takes Pride in Orientating New Members

A Quick note on What BKB is NOT…

• Dedicated Guild Web Site with Highly Active secure Guild Forums

To start the recruitment process, first take a look around our website, http://www.bkbhq.com/index.php?pageid=darkfallinfo, Browse the general forums, check out our Code of Ethics, Feel free to make a post introducing you and proclaiming interest in our community. If you have a question just post and you will be welcomed by all and soon be contacted by an officer.

• A Group of Dedicated and Skilled Players and officers with Experience in Managing Large Guild with over a combined 25 plus years in running a large guild

~BKB AOC Community

Our main goal in AOC is to be a fully aoc gold self-sufficient GUILD. We will begin our adventure with the establishment our GUILD ASAP then creating our player city/Kingdom. From there we will control our City with the help of our strong player base. We welcome all types of players, from Role-players to pure PvP characters, highly skilled artisan crafters, and everything in between. We will rely on in-house crafters to supply us with all needed goods and supplies. This will ensure that all gold stays within guild, making us all richer in the process. Our members will defend our kingdom vigorously from all hostile forces, establish vital supply lines, and work tirelessly to put the BKB name on the front pages of AOC news.

• A Guild that will Work Towards Being Fully Self-Sufficient, but Willing to Reach Out and Work with Other Guilds to Enhance the Enjoyment of All Members

Here are a few more of the advantages Membership in BKB has to offer:

• Group Experience from Several various Team-Based PVP Style MMORPGs

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