Age of Conan

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Welcome to a new age...

The Age of Conan! The new MMO from FunCom, Conan boasts a hardcore experience built for a more mature audience.

So kick your kids off of WoW so you can use the computer, put them to bed, and head to Hyboria for brutal action and the best PvP experience online.

All Hail, King Conan 

Age of Conan E3 2007 Cinematic Trailer

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Start your own adventure in Hyboria 

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

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The Man behind the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard 

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 - June 11 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.

Howard was born and raised in the state of Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in the nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens body building, eventually taking up amateur boxing himself. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was twenty-three. He was published in a wide selection of magazines, journals and newspapers but his main outlet was the pulp magazine Weird Tales.

He was successful in several genres and was on the verge of publishing his first novel when he committed suicide at the age of thirty. His mother was terminally ill with tuberculosis before she had even met his father and so was slowly dying throughout Howard's entire life. When he learned that his mother had entered a coma from which she was not expected to wake he, for reasons that are not clear, walked out to his car and shot himself in the head. His suicide and the circumstances surrounding it have led to varied speculation about his mental health; from an Oedipus complex, to clinical depression, to no mental disorders of any kind.

Robert E. Howard created Conan the Barbarian, in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales, a character whose pop-culture imprint has be...

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Selecting a Server in AoC 

Before you are able to create a character in Age of Conan, you must first decide which server you want. Like most MMO's there are 4 types: PVE, PVP, RP, and RPPVP. Let's find out which one is for you.

PVE: Player vs Environment is for people that just want to play the game without looking over their shoulder every 10 seconds to see if someone is coming to "gank" them for no apparent reason. This is definitely the best choice for new players, but offers little satisfaction for experienced players due to the inability for general world PVP.

PVP: Player vs Player is the most common choice for AoC players due to the almost veteran nature of the target demographic of gamers. The usual player of AoC has been playing online games for years (assumption based off forum posts and blogs) and love the opportunity to assert their dominance on lesser beings (other players). This can be annoying at times, but FunCom is limiting their enjoyment by enacting penalties on "griefing," the act of ruining someone another player's day by killing them (usually griefers are much higher level, presenting the target with no chance.)

RP/RPPVP: RolePlay servers are the same as they are in other MMO's, a misnomer. There is no roleplaying online in MMO's when put on a massive scale. Many players tend to go to these servers to hide from less mature players, but this rarely works.

After this distinction is made, you should shoot for a server with a light load time. This will ensure that you won't have to worry about server queues.

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Tortage- Your first 20 Levels in Age of Conan 

An overview of the beginning of the game.

You start the game on a slave ship heading to the Pirate town of Tortage, a dinky little port town. This sets the scene for the first 20 levels of your game experience, a haven to introduce players to the game without the fear of high-level characters lurking to pick them off.

Your first 5 levels are an introduction that leads you through the jungles towards the city gate. This is very easy for a player of any skill level. This is the time you begin to truly learn the point of AoC, and that point is gore and violence. While fighting beasts, crocs and apes at this point, the fighting will seem to be missing something, and for good reason. The fatality system and combos are what the game has built its name around, and seem lackluster against beasts. However, when a new player first pulls off that wicked fatality on a humanoid, something new and visceral is exposed to the player. Decapitations and throat-slitting is not something MMO players are used to seeing. This will most certainly help to keep your interest for at least the next few levels...which bring their own fun.

Once you get to Tortage Harbor, and do the pre-quest to brake your manacles, you will be exposed to yet another oddity for an MMO, the single-player option. Conan is based around story, and the player drives the story by completing individual quests. These provide a ton of experience, leveling you much faster than you will throughout the rest of the game. Each archetype (soldier, rogue, priest, caster) has a different perspective of the quest line, and all are interconnected. This is a great idea as it doesn't force the player to try to accomplish grueling tasks in often overpopulated starting zones.

The potency of the single-player starts to dwindle about level 13 or so, and you will be forced to enter the world with the rest of the playerbase. However, the game still is balanced in regards to the solo and multiplayer experience, and you will not suffer based on your preference.

Your choices at this point are the Acheronian Ruins, Tortage Underhalls, and Whitesands. There isn't really much difference between the three in terms of quests/rewards, so pick a zone and clear it out. Rinse, Repeat.

After a few more levels, and one or two more single-player quests, you'll be able to start the final encounter at level 19. This is not an overly easy quests, especially for squishy casters and priests, but it is easily doable. Lots of experience, lots of magical items, and a few really nice quest rewards get you ready to go for the real challenges ahead.

Of all the MMO's that I've played, this introductory experience is in the top 3. Easy to follow, not too much walking (I'm looking at you WoW), and generally pretty interesting endeavor. I'm interested to see what the next 20 levels will be like, and will update this once I get there.

Conan has invaded Amazon 

Learn more about the world and mythology of Conan with these books.

The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 2)

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The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 3)

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The Savage Sword of Conan, Vol. 1 (v. 1)

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Learn More 

Age of Conan Official Site
Your main source for info about the game.
Funcom Official Site
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