Play Age of Conan for Free Forever - Worth Doing?

[SlickSnake]

I keep seeing the "next to no content past "X" level" comments about AGE OF CONAN popping up all over the web, and I feel the need to dispel this mistaken myth.

I'm pretty sure most of you negative peeps are just blindly parroting what others have previously said about this game just for the heck of slamming it to sound gaming l33t without actually playing the game recently (since launch), or even at all. And those who did, obviously didn't get very far in their levels, or weren't able to figure out how to travel to other areas to get more quests - you know, for all the so-called missing content.

I am currently grinding 7 toons and now have at least a lvl 60 on 4 toons on Tyranny, and 3 toons around lvl 45 on Bloodspire. I grind one toon for a few levels, then switch toons to experiment with different class experiences.

For any higher level I have ground so far, after lvl 25 and Tortage, I have way more quests than I can possibly do. So I end up finally deleting undone quests at some point (30 in inventory at a time, max) and then quickly find myself in another new area doing all new quests.

So if I want to, I have so many available quests at a time that I can even split the quests up between the 4 toons while mostly doing new quests. Though I occasionally repeat a quest multiple times on toons, just because I want an improved weapon or armor as a reward for it. But I often also repeat a quest just because once you know what or where the goal is, it makes it faster to do it again multiple times.

Not to mention, a lot of the quests I dumped were also very time consuming and involved going into instances where you need a group for hours to even complete them. And most of the lower level instances are also elite in nature, and even though they might show up as available for lvl 40 toons, you need a lvl 70 or 80 to tank your group through them. So the lack of content complaints are certainly not valid at all, at least until you reach the lvl 80 cap. But Funcom has also added content for those lvl 80s since launch.

I'm having a blast in the game, on the PvP server Tyranny. Be warned though, some servers like Bloodspire for PvP are virtual ghost towns and are more PvE when you can't even find someone else to group with, or even an active guild to join. And there are no server transfers to Tyranny, only away from it. My large guild on Bloodspire is now inactive, and the other still active guild players fled to Cimmeria, and I may to follow them there with my Bloodspire toons. Even though I am holding out the hope Funcom might allow me to transfer my 3 toons on Bloodspire to Tyranny before the expansion hits. New players can still be created on Tyranny, though. And Agony also has a good PvP player base, I have heard. But since the expansion is fixing to come out in the near future, the reboxed game with the new updates included should bring back hordes of new and return players to Conan.

And they extended the double experience potions rewards from November. So using /claim will get you twice the experience points from mobs. Which makes grinding out higher level toons even easier. I'm sure when the expansion comes out soon, these double experience potions will not be available. So level up while you can, so you can beat down all the noobs picking up the expansion and playing Conan for the first time.

You gamers know you want to try it if you never have. And those who tried it before at launch and were disappointed, need to come back and try it again.

 

[KMFJD]

I hit a wall at lvl 70, there was only 1 zone you could xp in and you would be insta ganked by roaming groups in no time.

 

[digitaldurandal]

The game is a huge disappointment. Riddled with bugs, crashes, graphical errors. Be sure not to bother trying dx10. Do not expect perfection with dx9. I tried it again with a free level 50 trial to see if the bugs were fixed and confirmed they weren't. However stating this in the game got about 100 shills to start yelling they had never had a single problem with the game and had played from the start (they proceeded to blame SLI for me, AMD for my friend, and not a good enough processor for my other friend q9550).
This seems impossible. I played the game from the beginning in a big group. We all experienced crashes. When I did play the second time for the free trial, the game seemed empty.

 

[matas]

downloading it. Although I still need to get bored of left 4 dead 2.

 

[cronos]

You gamers know you want to try it if you never have. And those who tried it before at launch and were disappointed, need to come back and try it again.

Was there any significant change to the combat system? I was in beta and even with the beautiful, detailed graphics and the awesome storyline in the beginning I just could not get rid of the feeling that doing combat in this game is like playing a console fighting game (probably because it *was* also being released as a console game ). It felt too much like playing Mortal Kombat with a story (directional attack/block on an rpg, wtf). That turned me off right there and then.

 

[KIAman]

I agree that people who say there is no content past Tortage are full of fail. There was PLENTY of content, so much so you can level purely by questing and then some. What my original post said was that Tortage was the most magical part of the game, mainly because of the involving story lines, good cut scenes and awesome voice acting.

I had an 80 HOX, a 70 TOS and a 25 ranger ganker that I parked in White Sands and the game was a blast. The ONLY reason I quit was because my guild kept locking out Kesheta and it eventually became a dead zone. So we all played alts till there was action in Kesheta again and then we locked it out again. Boring, it became a ghost zone.

Let me say it here. AOC was my favorite MMO of all time. I absolutely loved the twitchy combat system and melee combos and the graphics. The only thing I hated was the lack of more zones and people.