CLASSES
All Assassin, Barbarian, Bear Shaman, Conqueror, Dark Templar, Guardian, Herald of Xotli, and Ranger combo damage and stamina costs have been rebalanced to match the newly adjusted animations.

Priest Archetype
Spirit Aegis will now give 0.5% invulnerability to Holy and Fire instead of 1% Fire with the first rank trained.

Assassin
Combos granted by feats should now deal significantly more damage than before.

Dark Templar
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Greetings fellow Hyborians.  Today the gods at Funcom have chosen to grace us with another patch, a surprisingly small one yet potentially important one.  You will see for yourself but the big change of note is that the memory leak problem has been tackled and is supposed to have been dramatically reduced.  Judge it for yourself once you get back in game!  See you in Age of Conan!

"Today's update is aimed at helping address some of the memory leak issues...

It is with a perverse sense of joy that I announce that the great wait for Demonologists is over... The Succubus Pets now have Nipples! Yes it's true folks, our previously mutant succubi with rounded blobs of flesh on their chest have been granted their true "womanly features" by having nipples magically formed on their bouncy fleshies! I know that many a demonologist in Age of Conan had been traumatized staring at their anatomically incorrect pets for a long time now so this...

Player Character

* Dead team members will now get quest kill credit if they are within range.
* You now only prohibited from entering stealth mode if team members are in combat nearby.
* All your team members and their pets will now get the fatality buff when a team member performs a fatality.
* The mentor and apprentice will see an onscreen message regarding confirmation or declining of pending apprenticeship requests.
* Mesh effects during...

Funcom's fun and informative E-Newsletter about the Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures game is a great source of info about the game and current affairs within this evolving game world.

To make it easier to find the previous issues of Clan of Conan we have setup this link page to all of the previous issues.

Clan of Conan: Issue #17

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Death is an Every day thing in Age of Conan: Hybporian Adventures... well maybe more than daily depending on how you are living your virtual life there. With death comes the inevitable rebirth, or resurrection in this case.  When you die you can resurrect filly clothed and geared up at any resurrectim location that you have discovered within your same zone.  What does this mean to you exactly?  Go DISCOVER every possible resurrection location within a zone!  This gives...

Perhaps the greatest feature of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is the promise of massive Siege warfare amongst warring guilds.  Catapults hurling their fiery missiles, war-mounts bashing away at defensive walls and pvp galore.  While this sounds fun and simple in theory, there is a long and tedious process to getting setup with the best possible defences and structures. 

Since this process can be confusing to many, Lahon of ULtra Vires has put together a guide fo...

Age of Conan Game Director Gaute Godager is back to tell us about the plans for the near future.

Greetings fellow players.

While it has been some time since I last gave you an update, I wanted to touch base and let you know what we are working on at the moment and where we are going in the times to come. I want this update to focus on what is actually happening to the game now, what we have done, and also some of...

Classes

Mage (General) Dark Meditation is now a self-only channeled spell and will no longer stun the user. Dark Meditation now has new effects associated with it.Rogue (General) Mountaineer will now reduce duration of the effects of Bruised Body by 50%/100% and Broken Bones by 25%/50% per respective rank.Soldiers (General) Surging Health will now increase in...

Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan continues to dominate the PC sales charts in all markets where the game is available.

Over the last few weeks it has remained the overall #1 PC game in most European markets, while also performing tremendously well on several all-format charts. In the US, Age of Conan impressively conquered the #1 PC spot for the first two weeks of available NPD data. Due to the amazing interest surrounding the game, more than 700.000 gamers have now signed...

Player Classes

Mage

* Tome of Erlik now has effects and sounds.
* Purge now has sound and particle effects associated with it and should now go on the appropriate cooldown. Purge now provides 5 seconds of immunity in addition to removal of effects.
* Misdirection now has received a better visual and should no longer look like a lightning strike.
* Weakened Protection will no longer refresh itself after the player cancels his own Absorb buff....

Greetings all.  Tild the Barbarian from the Omm server put together leveling experience as a guide of what he killed at what levels with additional tips and commentary throughout his guide.  He wanted to have this posted so that others could share his experiences and perhps benefit from them.  Great resource Tild, thanks for sharing!  Here is his Leveling Guide:

" I am getting really tired of the "I am level __, and I notice _____" posts Where __ is a...

The folks over at Massively had this new article:

"We've been quite taken aback by the responses many players direct at Funcom's Age of Conan. We're not sure if the accusations of the game being a "beta version" or just a "total POS" are the product of unrealistic expectations or are just general animosity towards a game that, at launch, lacks the polish of its biggest competitor. If you've got your ear to...

Greetings fellow Hyborians!  Funcom has announced the launch of Testlive!  This is basically their new testing server.  It is common in AO to pull testers from that server for private testing of soon to be released contentg, aka the beta volunteers!  Interest you at all?  Give the below article a read for more details!

"Greetings!

Today we are proud to announce the launch of our new Age of Conan Testlive Server. This server is open to everyone...