Age of Conan News

General
* Chain Kills seem to occur more often now.
* Trader NPC’s can now be found in Player cities.

Mounts
* Skewbald Pinto horse now gives -3% sprinting stamina drain instead of -8%.
* Reports of horse riding skills vanishing and being unavailable.

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This are the new patch notes that should be going live on Monday June 16th. Looks like there is a little love coming to the Dark Templar finally.
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The devs have “leaked” some new screenshots for the PVP sets, the first one is for the Ranger class. This photo is stunning and I hope the other sets look this good!

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As usual Funcom sneaks in a massive amount of hidden or stealth nerfs and changes, some intresting things this time around. We’ll try to keep this updated as new things are discovered.
General
* Outdoor bosses seem to have an upgraded loot table now.
* Drop rate of blue items seems improved
* Harvesting bug introduced in last patch appears to be fixed.
* Some Normal mobs are hiting harder than they used to.

Mounts
* The Rhino has aparantly been given some new shoes- He no longer travels with a loud stomp.

NPCS
* Grey Elite mobs have lost their innate miss chance and damage reduction on significantly higher level characters. (will hurt high level players farming low level dungeons.)[this is a bug.]

Items
* Drawing ink is now 25s
* Parchment is now 50s
(Cost for drawing ink and parchment, for the architect profession has been lowered by 25s a piece, resulting in an overall cost reduction of 75 silver, making total cost 1.25 gold PER structure.)

Player Character’s

* Crimson shield (mage feat) is aparantly not working properly. The ability is supposed to add additional damage absorption with each feat point added. It appears that it is instead adding the “extra absorb amount” numerical value to your HP pool. So instead of gaining additional damage absorption, you are simply gaining a slightly bigger HP pool with each feat point.

Assassin:
* The cooldown on the Assassin ability “Snap Kick” has been reduced to 45 seconds.

Bear Shaman
* The stamina, mana and health regeneration on the ability “Untamed Regeneration” has been reduced by approximately 40%. Additional damaged recieved has been increased from 10% to 15%.

Herald of Xotli
* Undying Glory of Xotli now gives you shield of risen after the self-res

Necromancer
* Spell: Death’s Terror - A Pet is no longer needed to cast the spell. However, If you have a pet out it will sacrifice it as usual.(bug?)

Dark Templar
* “Unhallowed Blight” now gives 5% unholy debuff, 25 second duration, and 20 second cool down. It was 2% unholy debuff, 12 second duration, with a 30 second cool down previously.

Confirmed Bugs Introduced
* Gems still do not appear on the Trader after being searched for.
* Major problems with gemmed items still being reported.
* No type of silk will show on auction house.
* Many reports of major FPS drops in many areas. (will continue to monitor this one for more info)
* Barb feat “Savage Rage” is aparantly broken, causing a pause after use where you can’t do anything.
* Possibly linked to the adjustments made to Elite Mob’s vs high levels, all mobs have been buffed with higher evasion, parry, and dodge. You may notice that your attacks are missing much more than usual.
* Several reports of Combo’s seemingly missing, yet the combat log doesnt register it as a missed attack.
* The res point in Thordealbach’s Tomb is bugged. The entrance no longer works as a res point and you now have to pick one in Fields of Dead and res there and run all the way back again. This means if your entire party whipes, that the instanse will reset due to everyone zonning out at the res point, making it impossible for you to retrieve your tombstones.

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Some massive changes with the patch today, including fixes to some show-stopping errors like the “Items with Gems cause a crash” bug being fixed, full notes below:

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General
* Horses move faster
* You no longer fall through the Guild City gates
* Party members now show on zone maps
* Summon to Instance is now enabled.
* Trade skill resource stacking has been improved
* Experience to level has been slightly reduced for lower and mid levels, and Increased at the higher levels. Still working on the specifics. Exp curve has definantly been altered.(See exp change confirmation below)
* Some of the Hyborian Foliage has taken a vacation.
* ‘Crouch’ ability added, allowing you to slowly move through others. crouch is 200% slower then not-rogue hide and after using crouch you get -100% PvP defence rating.
* Some Bugged resources have been sorted
* Hair still sticks through your helmet but is now the right color rather then blonde.
* Guard AI greatly improved.
* dance ability now tells you of combos
* Regional chat is now in so you can chat with players multiple zones away.
* Attributes (Str, dex, wis, con, int) now have different describtions when you hover over them.
* The Info box for items should no longer display off of your screen when you mouse over items in your inventory.
* Swimming underwater is much clearer now.
* Combat messages in the chat log have had their colors redone.
* Many are reporting increases in FPS. (Could be due to the Foilage nerf)
* The “show quest indicators” toggle on the map now works. It used to turn off everything BUT quest indicators.
* can now change instances at 20m from rez stones, up from 5m
* Icon pops up when you get mail, working now.
* Throwing spears now still show in hand after throwing the first one (used to just be animation of throwing them w/out a spear being held)
* Resting while afflicted by a DoT effect now properly sets you back into Rest position after taking damage from the DoT.
* Outgoing /tell color used to be yellow, now it’s purple.
* Some flora & fauna now appears graduallly and not in chunks, for your viewing experience.
* Some are reporting Grey quests no longer give EXP rewards. Appears some grey quests are still giving exp. Need some clarification.
* Server load indicator at character select screen now display as Low, Medium, or High Load, instead of “normal” load

Settings Menu
* Sound sliders in Audio Options changed from 0-100%, to 10-step sliders.
* New Option in the video settings about Particles(possibly bugged, by not saving what you set it to after re-logging.)
* ‘Ambience’ sound slider in Audio Options removed.
* Bloom Lighting has been optimized. Doesnt take near the FPS hit when enabled.

Combat
*Parry Has Been Increased Significantly, Especially In Active Block.

Instances
* The climbable vines in Villa Lentulus have been fixed and now show as climb locations
* The quest givers for the guild zones have been moved to the entrance of each
* Line of sight issue in Atzels Fortress improved/partially fixed.
* Halls of eternal frost is itemized now. All bosses are now dropping loot.

Necromancer
* Necro spell Mark of the Devourer bugged. Persists on target even after your death, causing you to res with aggro and be ganked by mobs at the spawn point.
* Ice strike now does splash damage (about 40% of main nuke) without feats
* Pestilential blast now does splash damage (40% of spell damage) without feats
* ‘Unimaginable Terror’ now has a 45 sec cooldown.

Ranger
* Rangers now have to stand up after certain combos before being able to move again, basicly it means we’re imobile while the final shot is being charged.
* Leg hold trap symbol when placed is now red.

Guardian
* Overreach reduced in power. Apprently reduced by 40-60% damage. Strikes that were hitting for 1200-1500 overreach III now hitting for 600-700

Herald of Xotli
* Fire Lance reduced in stamina cost, damage and is now a 2-step Combo. Reduction seems to be ~25-40%

Items
* Some items have had their appearance changed aparantly. One confirmed item being the Vashian Tunic.
* spellbane cloak from the sanctum quest has 0.3% immunity when it used to be 0.00. Seems that many, if not all, cloaks have had Immunity specs tweaked which used to be 0.00. The cloak of ibis has 0.8 immunity, the woodwarders cloak as has 0.8 immunity

Confirmed Bugs Introduced
* There is a bug with group members showing up on zone map. After they leave the group, the blue icon still displays on the zone map and the blue arrow still displays on the minimap.

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The first round of patches in the new bi-weekly fixes have taken the servers offline today, here is what you can expect when they come back up:

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
• The “usable items only” checkbox with traders should now work as intended.
• The facemarking ‘Freckles’ should now work for new characters.
• Minor issue with tradeposts and setting up items for auction has been resolved.
• Corrected several animations for mobs as well as NPCs during cut scenes.
• Increased the xp gained from group normal mobs and group bosses.
• Players will now be able to experience the destiny event in the Field of Chiefs.
• New voice over for some of the events in the Capture The Skull minigame.
• More client and server crashes resolved.

Combat

• Evadebonuses are now applied when you are being attacked from behind.
• Players with Shield of the Risen will not be affected by secondary effects from combos.

Chat

• If you drag a chat window with only one tab in it over the tab-bar of another chat window it will now be added as a tab to that window (inserted before the tab that the mouse is over in the “target” window).
• When pressing enter the input focus will by default go to the last active chat tab rather than the selected “default tab”. The previous behaviour can be achieved by checking the “Default Window” menu entry for one of the tabs.
• Tweaked the areas you click to resize the chat window to make them easier to use.

GUI

• Guild Feats: It should now show a scrollbar.
• Buff icons no longer get stuck on after teleporting or talking to an npc.
• Resolved a GUI related crash when clicking on the bank (broker).
• Fixed an issue causing buffs placed outside the currently visible area of shortcut bars to still flash when ending cooldown.
• Whisper replies now always go to the chat tab you sent the original message from, in addition to the tab that is subscribed to the “Tell” channel.
• Added some missing class icons used by the team/raid GUI.
• Raid leaders now have an orange name in the raid GUI.
• Removed an unused hotkey (Show chat config).

Items

• The weapons should now always appear sheathed in the character selection screen.
• Potions: Fixed an issue with the stamina potion ‘Old Redrouse’, it will now get consumed when used.
• The ‘Nemedian War Flail’ has been renamed to ‘Nemedian Mace’.
• The Rending Strike and Rupturing Strike proc from some equipment will no longer linger on the target indefinitely.

Tradeskills

• Gemmed items should now work (giving bonuses) and viewing them should no longer crash the client ==> UPDATE: This issue has not been fixed with the latest Patch. We will provide you with more information about this asap..
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• Becoming a Woodcutter should no longer erroneously tell you that you’ve learned the ‘Evading Roll’ combo.
• Harvesting: Script now keeps track of the persons that are using a resource node. This prevents the user from trying to use it twice and thus not harvesting anything at all.

NPC

• Monsters 4 levels or higher will now correctly have increased evade and immunity chance.
• Resource gathering npcs will now display the ‘?’ over their heads when you have the goal and items to return to them.
• Princess Akivasha now attacks back when attacked in Sanctum of the Burning Souls.
• The encounters in the Armsman’s Arena should be less chaotic.
• Demonic Pict will no longer try to cast spells at players without being able to do so.
• The Quest NPC’s for the Frost Swamp, Imerian Ravine and Oasis of Zaara have been shuffled around in the Resource and Building playfields to make it easier for players to spot them amongst all the other tradeskill NPC’s

Pets

• Movement speed of pets have been increased both in and out of combat.

Playfields

• The Armsman’s Arena is now a private instance.

Archetypes

Mage

• Contract of Protection, Protection of Set, and Runed Flesh now have 1 hour cooldown. While any of the three is active, the player will temporarily receive a ‘Weakened Protection’ debuff indicating if the maximum amount of absorbed damage has been expended until the shield refreshes.
• The maximum damage Protection of Set and Runed Flesh can absorb before failing has been increased by 50%
• The Archmage feat has been moved to the 2nd tier of the Mage general tree

Player Characters

Demonologist

• The base splash damage inflicted by Fires of Gehenna has been increased from 10% to 30%
• The base splash damage inflicted by Shockstrike has been increased from 15% to 20%
• The base column radius of Hellfire Stream has been increased by 1 meter
• Hellfire Stream and Shock have received a minor damage increase
• Inferno of Amher and Shockblast have had their cooldown reduced by 0.5 seconds
• The splash damage bonus of Discharge Shockstrike has been increased to 100%
• Swift Shockstrike now additionally increases the damage of Shockstrike by 1/2/3/4/5%
• Shock now has 35% splash damage, up to 3 targets and 3 meters from the primary target
• Shockstrike and Shock have had their base chance to crit increased
• The scaling of the Shock spell has been corrected, leading to a damage increase at most levels
• The bonus of the Lingering Flames feat on the Incinerate effect has been increased from 30% to 250% at maximum rank
• The casting time of Detonation has been reduced from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds
• Living Thunderstorm and Living Firestorm now correctly use a percentage-based manacost
• Living Thunderstorm should now correctly appear in the hostile spells tab
• The casting time of Infernal Knowledge, Diabolic Insight, Mark of Dagon, Shield of Infernal Flames, Abaddoron Warrior, Mystic Suppression, Cursed by Hell, and Cursed by the Heavens have been reduced by 50%
• The beneficial effect of the Pact of Earth Walking spell has been increased from 200% to 400%
• Pact of Earth Walking is now instant cast

Necromancer

• Fixed a bug causing the available pet point indicator in the pet list GUI to sometimes show 0 points available rather than the actual number.
• Spellweaving can be cast and cancelled normally now.

Dark Templar

• ‘Mystical Bane’ combo: The damage dealt by the Incinerate Ether component of Mystical Bane combos will now correctly deal 50% of the mana burned to be consistent with other power burn effects.

Priest of Mitra

• Revivication Feat: The healing effect granted by the Revivication feat will no longer fail to trigger if the Priest is level 65.
• Condemnation now receives a partial cooldown if the spell does not complete channelling.
• Purification procs will no longer incorrectly apply a cooldown to Condemnation.

Barbarian

• Barbarian’s should no longer be unable to attack or move directly after performing any rank of their ‘Savage Rage’ combo.
• ‘No Escape’ combo should now always give you a cooldown when used and you will always get disarmed.

Herald of Xotli

• ‘Fire Lance’ combo now only needs 3 attacksteps to execute so it can be triggered faster. The combo now also hits targets a bit further away than before making it more effective.

Conqueror

• Combo ‘Throat Slash’ has been corrected to be a spear attack instead of a ranged attack.

Tempest of Set

• Mark of Set now has the correct casting animation and effect for all ranks.

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General

*Fixed some more server and client crashes.
*An issue which could make NPCs evade forever has been resolved.
*An issue which could lead to pets becoming unresponsive has been resolved.

GUI

*You should now receive feedback if you try to take items from the guild bank without having enough rank.

Items

*Items in tradepost now show stack-size.
*Resources Gathering: Cotton and Cottonwisp have been fixed.
*Kheshatta: Drop rate for Scorpion plate has been increased.
*Fixed a grammatical error with Knarled Leather. It should now be named Gnarled Leather.
*Boltshock Bangles are now properly classified as “Cloth Armor” instead of “Wrist Armor”
*Thunder River: The quest item ‘Smoked Meat’ has re-received its visual appearance.
*Field of the Dead: ‘Fur of Bloodclaw’ will no longer end up in the quest inventory.
*Thunder River: The quest item ‘Helvenia’s Herbs’ has re-received its visual appearance.
*Sanctum of the Burning Souls: The boss drop ‘Bloodtainted Hoop’ will no longer end up in the quest inventory.

Massive PvP

*PVE Player city buildings should no longer be attackable.

NPCs

*Bartholomo’s Wife will now respawn more often.
*Acheronian Ruins NPCs will respawn more often
*It should be easier to deal with Renton’s Corrupt Friends when doing the quest Awakening II.

Player Characters

Barbarian
*Finishing Blow damage boost should only affect the first hit after the charge.
*Thirst for Blood should correctly trigger it’s stacking damage bonuses for you and your team.

Necromancer
*Pets should not auto dismiss so fast when they cannot reach their owner.

Ranger
*Knee-Capping should no longer trigger Root Immunity on NPCs
*Marked for Death should give the correct damage values for bow/xbow.
*Marked for Death cooldown has been adjusted to 3 minutes like originally intended.
*Critical Aim should no longer fail to execute in some situations.
*Critical Aim duration increased to 10 seconds, but it will instantly terminate on the next ranged hit
*You should no longer get messages about getting non existing abilities when training Eagle Eye.

Tempest of Set
*Triumphant Life of Set has had its total damage dealt per cast increased.
*Triumphant Life of Set now deals the damage over 3 seconds instead of instantly.

Quests

*Old Secrets: Golden Golem should now always spawn.
*The Demon in The Tree: The Demon in the Tree Minions should now always attack the player.
*End Battle: Strom should now respawn, making it impossible to break the last part of the end battle.
*Quests Bloodroot, Concealing the Chinks, Purging the Fallen, and Source of Contagion have been improved in Tarantia Noble.

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Withdrawing cash from the bank should now correctly add coins to your inventory instead of replacing the already existing ones.

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Another quick patch today…

General

* Traders and Banks are now available again
* Fixed some server and client crashes
* Invite to groups is no longer case sensitive

GUI

* Added Character Right Click Menu to the Chat

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