Well, I got wisp the ranger into the mid 70's. Built a Tier one city and then had a heart attack on discovering the materials needed for Tier Two city buildings!
Started a demonologist got it into the level 30's and
Got bored! Yup I got bored with AoC. The first 20 levels are awsome, and its worth getting a character of each type upto level 20 just to see how the destiny story arcs interweave. After that is ok the first time round but once you hit the level 70s it sort of gets dull.
Now at this time I logged onto wow and did not much, got bored there as well!
So for the last month or two I have been playing silly little games I pick up from Big Fish Games which has helped pass the time. And now as off last wednesday I'm back to WoW and not bored anymore. Looks like I just needed a break!!!!
So AoC subscription has gone, and I'm back ontrack with my wow leveling projects! Maybe I'll also be motivated to post here more regulaly again as well!
Wisp
Showing posts with label Age of Conan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Age of Conan. Show all posts
10 August 2008
16 June 2008
City Building
Well Wisp has now passed 40th level and can now learn her two professions. Well as I’ve been telling the guild since we booked our “Guild Village” spot in the Purple Lotus Swamp that one of them will be Architect. Having a profession beyond the mundane little things really appeals to me.
So what is needed to build a keep, the first building for the village? Well 20 Bricks which is 200 Sandstone, 15 Joists which is 150 Ash, 10 braces which is 100 Copper and 5 Plain Facades which is 50 Silver. Fine so far I have most of that myself already! Add in the fact that our guild village is in a private instance only shared with the guild who take the southern city spot, means that farming is easier as I find lots of 100% nodes.
Now materials covered what else is needed? A plan, which is drawn up from 2 parchment and 1 drawing ink, sounds simple enough off to see the trader. Ink 25s… erm OUCH. Parchment 50s each… erm 2 by 4 to the face! So 1g25s is needed to build the keep, at level 41 I have 60s.
Building our village may take a while, but at least it’s a guild thing so I don’t have to farm all the mats and buy all the paper & ink by myself. Time now to keep levelling as I have a 3g horse to get and then a keep to build!
Wisp
4 June 2008
The Death List
Before I get onto the main topic off this post, here is another screen shot of my AoC character highlighting something I noticed on the character selection screen while loading the game. Its only a small thing but these kind of touches can really make a game. This one is the fact that the neckpiece being worn is actually visible on the character.
The other reason is I can't get over how damn good the characters in this game can look!
Now onto the main topic of this post. I rolled on a PvP server and I am fully aware of what this means while playing and levelling. But there are still some things that piss me off.
1) getting ganked by someone twice your level - I was killed by a level 40 Assassin when I was level 20.
2) getting attacked while talking to quest npc's - you can't do anything to defend yourself and may not know its happening until your dead.
3) killing someone who is almost dead from fighting npc's - this one is less annoying tho, especially as I have been guilty of using it to kill someone a lot of levels higher than me.
But as I’m on a PvP server I know these things are going to happen all the time, although in the case of the first one I think its mainly sad losers trying to get over an inferiority complex. So its silly getting annoyed as it was my choice of server type. Instead I have my Death List! I'll happily make a note of these people from the combat log and screen shots and one day I'll hunt em down and have VENGENCE! REPEATEDLY! First on my list is.
Now onto the main topic of this post. I rolled on a PvP server and I am fully aware of what this means while playing and levelling. But there are still some things that piss me off.
1) getting ganked by someone twice your level - I was killed by a level 40 Assassin when I was level 20.
2) getting attacked while talking to quest npc's - you can't do anything to defend yourself and may not know its happening until your dead.
3) killing someone who is almost dead from fighting npc's - this one is less annoying tho, especially as I have been guilty of using it to kill someone a lot of levels higher than me.
But as I’m on a PvP server I know these things are going to happen all the time, although in the case of the first one I think its mainly sad losers trying to get over an inferiority complex. So its silly getting annoyed as it was my choice of server type. Instead I have my Death List! I'll happily make a note of these people from the combat log and screen shots and one day I'll hunt em down and have VENGENCE! REPEATEDLY! First on my list is.
He was ganking people in their low 20's around quest giving NPCs. After my death I used tracking to hunt him down in stealth, arriving in time to help 3 other irate people lay into him.
Wisp
Wisp
2 June 2008
A new incarnation of Wisp
On Friday, I went an brought a copy of Age of Conan because I was curious and a lot of friends from wow had been giving it a go. Including some who have quit playing. First thing to notice, my graphics card is just below the recomended level (I have a 512Mb GeForce 7800 Gsomething, and recomended is a 512Mb GeForce 7900 GTX) Then we move onto the 32Gb hard drive space... Yup I said 32Gb!!! As I only have two 80Gb hard drives in my PC, full of a lot of junk it was time to make a trip to Argos.
Eventually I arrived home with my new game and a 500Gb external hard drive. This game having cost me over £100 but I needed the storage anyway. 30 Mins to move all the junk from one partition and its overspill onto another into my new harddrive. A quick defrag of the now empty partition and its was installation time.
We will now take a quick break to read my book, go to buy food from the supermarket, prepare and eat dinner, do some more reading.
Over two hours later the game was installed and patched.
Well character creation is awsome! I could spend hours on this screen customizing how my character looks down to the smallest little detail! Basic mode lets you choose your chars size and height, select from a list of predefined body marking, facial features etc. Then you hit advanced! your can change anything from the angles or the eyes, shape of mouth, nose & chin. The shape and lengths of arms, legs, torso etc. After 5 mins of messing around with this I did realise that I have no sense of proportion and only if I wanted to make a bug eyed monster would I use this section! Back to basic for me. And so the new incarnation of Wisp is born! Small and slight, a mere wisp of a lass. (See I can even justify keeping a variation of my WoW chars name.)
Eventually I arrived home with my new game and a 500Gb external hard drive. This game having cost me over £100 but I needed the storage anyway. 30 Mins to move all the junk from one partition and its overspill onto another into my new harddrive. A quick defrag of the now empty partition and its was installation time.
We will now take a quick break to read my book, go to buy food from the supermarket, prepare and eat dinner, do some more reading.
Over two hours later the game was installed and patched.
Well character creation is awsome! I could spend hours on this screen customizing how my character looks down to the smallest little detail! Basic mode lets you choose your chars size and height, select from a list of predefined body marking, facial features etc. Then you hit advanced! your can change anything from the angles or the eyes, shape of mouth, nose & chin. The shape and lengths of arms, legs, torso etc. After 5 mins of messing around with this I did realise that I have no sense of proportion and only if I wanted to make a bug eyed monster would I use this section! Back to basic for me. And so the new incarnation of Wisp is born! Small and slight, a mere wisp of a lass. (See I can even justify keeping a variation of my WoW chars name.)
The gameplay reminds me of a multiplayer morrowind, some one else mentioned Oblivion but I never got around to playing that due to WoW. I am seriously enjoying it at the moment, and the music, well, its impressive. Combat is resonably simple in concept but mastering it will of course take time. You have 3 basic attacks left, centre & right. Then you put combo moves onto your hotbar these involved using them and then one or more basic attacks in sequence. Add to this the fact you can get other combat bonuses by double tapping movement keys, and it becomes a really engaging system.
Will I keep playing? A good question, and I think it will depend on the end game. I have already almost decided that in the next wow expansion I will be doing the end game instances in the 10 man mode rather than 25. A more relaxed approach should give me the time to actually do other things!
Wisp
Will I keep playing? A good question, and I think it will depend on the end game. I have already almost decided that in the next wow expansion I will be doing the end game instances in the 10 man mode rather than 25. A more relaxed approach should give me the time to actually do other things!
Wisp
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