When battling environmental creatures in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (aka NOT actual players) you will need to understand how to determine their difficulty relative to your own level of ability.  Knowing this will allow you to pick your battles so that you have a much higher chance of winning and gaining the experience needed to move forward in your long xp journey.  Failing to understand these signs will have you nominated for the esteemed "Goober with the most tombstones...

Greetings fellow Hyborians. Our resident Code Monkey, Jonaphin, has tossed together a search able zone list for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. You can use this tool by clicking on a preset level (1 - 5, 6 - 10, etc) range, area (Stygia, Aquilonia, etc.), or Zone Type (Dungeon, PVP, etc.)

Once you do this you get a resulting list of zones taht met your initial search criteria at which point you can then click on a specific zone. This will bring up a more detailed zone information...

Gamespot journeyed through Age of Conan to test their hardware against the might of the Hyborian kingdoms.

The new hardware guide will take you through the game settings, image quality comparisons, video cards, CPU and memory reviews.

"Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, Funcom's new massively multiplayer online role-playing game, lets players develop their characters and explore the mythical world of Hyboria. The game offers...

Player Character

Archetype The bonus magical damage granted from Mystical Attunement has been doubled for Mages. Spells that were incorrectly receiving bonuses from increased magical damage will no longer scale with increased magical damage. This adjustment will only affect such spells that were not meant to have scaling with the increased magical damage bonus. This resolves issues with enhancement spells like "Pact with Set" where the...

So you want to know more about spellweaving in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, especially from a Demonologist's perspective do you? Well you are in luck my friend, I created a great guide that reviews in detail the intricacies of spellweaving in general as well as the specific aspects of it that a Demonologist would see. I hope you find the guide useful and benefit from it.

Introduction:
The spellweaving system in Age of Conan is one of the main reasons...

Yep, I took the bait. I saw one of their ads on a network site and was curious what the guides were about. As with most purchasable game related ebooks the description read well, something everyone would want to have. Now having been burned by ebooks in the past I was a bit bitter and overly critical of ebooks in general. A guild mate told me that this was actually a pretty good ebook so it got me thinking about it. I did want a more well rounded knowledge of the game beyond what the...

Massive PvP

* Player city keeps now contain a vendor that sells siege weapons.
* Players will now get teleported out of the zone before the battle starts.
* Traders that would not spawn at the Battlekeep Tradeposts will now spawn. Traders will now be available at Battlekeeps.
* Ballista NPCs will no longer spawn at an unbuilt tower.
* The Boarder Kingdoms has had its environments adjusted. This should reduce...

Player Characters

ArchetypeNew buff counters were added to a number of mage and soldier effects.All gathering feats should now have the correct proficiency suffix in their name (e.g. 'You need Woodcutting Novice to perform this action' messages).The Goad ability can be trained and used on a NPC that does not have aggro on you. You must be in combat to use this ability.The buffs from...

Greetings all.  Prepare for Funcom's latest invention.. Powerpoints.  Not sure quite how to classify this though... a quasi AA-veteran reward-PVP reward system that grants you points to trade in later for feats, xp, and items supposedly.  Sounds interesting in a twisted kind of way.  Read below for Funcom's full post.   

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Funcom and Eidos announce massive evolution plans for Age of Conan
- Massive PvP update in June – New areas and dungeons – Powerpoints and Guild Alliance warfare to come –

Durham, USA – June 13, 2008 – After the incredible initial success for Age of Conan, a whole world of MMO players are eagerly anticipating the future plans for one of the most popular online games ever released....

Mounts
The Killer Rhino and War Mammoth have received a minor increase to their trot and gallop speeds. The trot (default movement speed) should now be slightly faster than a jogging player, while the gallop should only be slightly slower than a sprinting player.
The Standard Horse has received a moderate increase to it's canter and gallop speeds. The canter (default movement speed) should now be equal to a sprinting player, while the gallop should be...

Lazareth has agreed to be our Herald of Xotli class leader for AOC Classes. He is an avid player and fell in love with his twisted two hand sword wielding demon loving character class from the first time he logged in on him I think. he has already written up some good first impressions style info about the class and will be working closely to get the spell and combo section for that class updated and as accurate as possible.

If you have any questions about the class, he is your...

General
By popular demand we have added a new "Level up" sound effect.
Player Building tooltip displays correct predecessor information now.
Fixed some randomness in when you would see the tutorial popup flags.
Trading with another player will no longer cause traded items to appear in the incorrect inventory tab.
Removed the commandline to setting hotkeys since it was only intended to debug hotkeys before the GUI was there
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Greetings fellow denizens of Hyborea. AoC Classes has finally gotten their Spells, Feats, and Combos tools live and fairly well populated. There are still gaps in the information and while we will strive to fill in the missing information over time, we would gladly accept any and all help that the community might give. If you see an item of data missing (mana cost, range, damage, etc) please take a moment and let us know via our contact...

Polkadots has volunteered to take up the role of our resident specialist / class leader for the Bear Shaman class He has a history of working on class development and helping other players learn more about their class. As you can see from his recent post about the class, he is very detailed in his analysis of his class. And yes, this is the same Polkadots from Vanguard that was the first to reach level...

As most people have stated, levels 1-14 are definitely not fun. Anything more then a solo pull, or a lower level 2 pull are too much for me to handle, at least until level ten. Once feats opened up though, Blood Warrior in the Spirit tree made things MUCH easier. Levels 10 - 14 actually went rather fast. Like most MMOs, questing and grinding seem to be the fastest way to level, although if you can find the right mobs, grinding can be a very fast way to level. All in all, you should leave the...

What can I say, this is the most fun class I have played in quite awhile. I started playing her Sunday lunchtime and by Sunday night I was 23 with a couple of breaks in the middle.

I played my Dark Templer “Lazareth” to 40 to learn the game and general mechanics while I decided what to make my main which is normally Kaite. After reading all your guys posts and speaking to others in my guild I thought what the hell, I will give a Herald a go.

For the first...