Attention MMO Raiders: Age of Conan!

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As many of you know, Age of Conan (rated Mature for things like Nudity ) is coming out May 20th. Note that if you preorder your copy with gamestop.com, ebgames.com, or bestbuy.com you can download and play the game 3 days before lauch on the 17th giving you a head start, and you also get a cool War Mammoth or Killer Rhino mount. Check out http://destinedlegends.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14 for AoC videos.

Alright, anyway, the main reason I'm posting is to tell you guys that if you plan on playing Age of Conan, I have found a guild, Destined Legends already. I found these guys from the AoC offical forums, but they're a cool group of people. Getting set up with a good guild from the beginning is the way to go in my opinion. Check out the forums at http://destinedlegends.com/forum/ Notably, we also run a Ventrilo server, there's usually 2-5 people chillin in there every day.

But yeah, we are going to be on a PvE(normal) server, and we are going to be a raiding guild. You must be 18+ to join (there are some exceptions). We will most likely be participating in Border Kingdoms sieging and capturing\maintaining PvP cities, but we'll see how much endgame raid content there is. Raiding will be priority one. We are aiming to be one of, if not THE, top guild on the server, so if you have raid experience and are going to play AoC, join up you lot

Oh, almost forgot to mention. We are going to be a HARDCORE guild, meaning if you're a casual player, please do not apply. By hardcore I mean 20+ hours a week at least. We are not looking for people that log on 3 hours here and there a couple times a week.

We're looking at about 6 slots per class, and the only class worth mentioning right now is Guardians, of which we have 3 probably 4. All other classes are very much open. We have about 15 people rollin in the guild right now.

Again, 18+ or at least mature, hardcore, PvE raiding, my name is Kiljaden on the forums(Full Tank Guardian) I also wrote our first draft of our lore(for you RPers out there).

Disclaimer: I don't mean to post like an advertisment, I just know there are a lot in the community who are wowaddicts or in other mmos and whatnot, and I just found a cool group of people starting a guild right away. Don't flame me >_< haha

Ugh ... raiding. I wasted an embarrassing number of hours on WoW's raid game. Never again.

Age of Conan is looking promising, though.

heard the other mmorpg of the year Warhammer is postponed till the end of the year

Yeah I was all stoked about warhammer for a long time, but after AoC started coming out with its stuff, I realized how much better it's going to be between the graphics, combat system, well..everything.

I wouldn't put too much stock in what you have seen. The stuff developers feed gaming news sites and display on their own site is carefully vetted. Eidos purportedly had one gaming editor fired at Gamespot because of his negative review of AoC. While Gamespot denies this was the reason for his termination, there is enough hearsay on various gaming forums to suggest otherwise.

I'm not committing to either one until the goods are on the table. We'll see what we see at release.

Yeah.. I got a buddy in the beta right now, he says it's awesome (aside from the usual beta bugs being sifted through)

Edit: Also, heresay is just that, heresay.

I just want SPORE to come out! arg!

The editor was fired over his review of Kane and Lynch, not Age of Conan. Eidos probably put pressure on Gamespot to give Kane a favourable review, but it was Gamespot's decision to fire Gerstmann, not theirs. Game publishers can't fire review site editors...

Regardless, it's good advice to take any pre-release hype with a grain of salt. So many promising games have turned out to be awful.

So it is. I'm not sure why I mixed that up. Ah well.

As for AoC, I've been hearing the exact opposite about the gameplay from people in beta. As I said, don't hold your breath.

I haven't actually been following Age of Conan at all. What kind of Class/Skill structure does it use? And how many players do they require for raiding? I always preferred the smaller 20 mans in WoW over the 40 mans, never played much post BC so I never had a level 70.

Classes are as followd:
-Tanks Archetype: Guardian(super-full-plate-tank), Conquerer(aura-buffer), and Dark Templar(heavy melee magic user)
-Rogue Archetype: There are also Barbarians(2 axes RAWR), Assassins(does it from behind\poisons), and Rangers(bow dudes) being your psysical dps classes.
-Mage Archetype: Necromancer(raises undead), Demonologist(warlock-esque), and Herald of Xotli(melee caster).
-Priest archetypes are Tempest of Set(mage\healer), and Bear Shaman(melee\healer) and Priest of Mitra (super-healer\debuffer class).

Skills are gained through advancing levels and gaining feats (like talents in WoW, you can respec too).

Also, there are prestige classes: Lord, Master, Commander, and Crafter.
-Lords place guild keeps and halls, give xp bonuses to ALL guild members, can be an Architect or Alchemist.
-Commanders can make battle tactics plans (for hired npc guards I'd imagine), and can allow for more people to be in a single group (up to 10 as opposed to the normal 6 max player per group). Commanders can be Weaponsmiths.
-Masters have a little squire that follows them around helping them or harvesting resources when you're logged out. They can be Armorsmiths.
-Crafters can craft anything (gemcutting being the 5th craft).
-All prestige classes also give a bonus to wood\ore\etc gathering to ALL guild members depending on your prestige class.

For now, 10 people(that's with 4 commanders) seems to be the biggest group for regular questing\dungeons, but I read somewhere 24 players will be the max in an endgame raid group (which would be about 2 per class). I loved the 25man raids in WoW, but the bosses were too easy compared to old world 40-man raids.

Of course it's not perfect, it's a beta for crying out loud. It's a fact that bows\crossbows are ridiculously overpowered right now. Assassins also are a bit pre-nerfed whereas Rangers can kill impossible things. There's a lot of polishing that needs to be done, but has any game in the history of the world been perfect at launch? How many of you remember WoW at release? It was pathetic to say the least.

On the upside, AoC is bringing a lot of new things to the MMO genre. Between it's superior next-gen graphics, active melee combat (swing your sword wide side-to-side and you hit any mob your sword's graphic model hits), and general combat overhaul, which is looking very promising, not to mention the fact that it's at least a 17+ game meaning 12 year old playing this game will be practically eliminated (most parents shouldnt buy it when Nudity is clearly labeled under the Mature 17+ rating), it's to be superior.

I understand your innate cynicism and doubt about the game, but there's no way to be sure. All I know is that WoW is old, very old, and boring. It's time for a new MMO, and AoC looks the -most- promising out of them all.

they have a new combat system

Ah yes, Age of Conan. Been following that for a while, and I'm very stoked to get it. I'm not in beta, tho I've really wanted to be. But yeah, I think I'm gonna be more into the PvP stuff, but we'll see how it turns out. I have high hopes, and even if it doesn't work out, still gets props for trying in my book.

For sure, chances are we'll end up doing the PvP city seiging and s**t like that, I mean, how can you get all this nice lv80 raiding gear and not use it

But other stuff like PvP instances will be for offnights.

From what I heard they scrapped the prestige classes idea. The benefits they gave are being redistributed through the trade skills or reused in some way.

One thing Im hoping with AoC is that it doesnt have the over the top glowy lights, flashy spells and silly looking armour, especially like in the xpac of WoW. The more brutal gameplay and mature theme appeals