Pen Is Mightier Than A Swoard

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Conqueror damage in 1.05 has been halved. No really, I'm not exaggerating, it's -50% to what is was before.
Everyone at forums have been wondering about the reasoning, as many have seen Conqueror class to be balanced and very useful; generally a great class that has it's weaknesses and is usefull in both pvp and pve content.

The following link explains the situation, and why/how come they had to be nerfed.

LINK

So, it was because of Barbarians crying how conquerors out-dps them. What can you learn from this? Best place to cry about Age of Conan game play related topics is TL, as many of the QQ's of uninformed forum visitors goes through to game unedited.
There's a strong cent of fear and panic coming to my nose from the Dev-team. They fear us, they fear loosing their precious players and ultimately their precious game. So, they jump right up when someone whines, and boy-oh-boy the do the changes!

Informers hunger to be informed on the matter at hand has been fully satisfied.

SOURCE (full thread)

LOST - Celestial ?

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Wild rumours are going around Hyboria for no-one has seen any Celestial members anywhere lately. Only few weeks back /global was like a Russian bar from time to time, with more Cyrillic-alphabet running on screen than contained in an average book by Dostojevski.
What has happened to you, friends? Did someone give you a faulty map, and you are now all lost somewhere in purple lotus swamp? Someone poison your Vodka, or did you say something bad about papa-Putin?

Please, if anyone knows anything about Celestial, please comment. We need to know atleast where they have been seen last, so we can form human chains to go through Hyborias vast wilderness. Don't be scared, you ugly retarted russians who refuse to communicate with the rest of the server, we'll come and rescue you!

Few SCUM things to note

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I have gathered a few interesting notes concerning Forum Grand'Overlord-Nazi Tahitoa's favourite and the pets of Aquilonian server, SCUM!

First note concerns SCUM and SA, where SA seems to have lost more and more players to SCUM-lings. Golxtan has hopped to the darker side of the fence; heard that his motivation was "To get better PVP, and not to be ganked all the time". Well, you made the right choice *thumbs up*! Oh shit, or wassit, I think I already killed you seven times today and I never killed you in SA...?

Secondly I came across a very interesting communications method by SCUM. It seems that whenever you really manage to piss of one of them, lets say like killing one of them numerous times and then verbally abusing their petit little asses. 

Suddenly, you get a /tell message from every SCUM online, and boy-oh-boy thats a big list of "oh-noehs" and "cry cry"'s. Really nice work, the level of idiocy makes me want to slit my wrists; SCUM clearly shows why you shouldn't let stupid people breed. It's a very, very, very bad idea.

Thirdly, also Arigold from NK has jumped to SCUM-bandwagon, and there's now at least 9 old NK members (mostly officers) on board. Dino has been actively jumping low-lvl's in Kheshatta, and playing tags with city guards whenever facing someone who's not free pray. 

In my opinnion, every one of these guard-hugging cry-babies should be shot, it shows a very poor spirit for the game.

All in all, SCUM is looking more and more adolescent; a group of teenagers with no balls, no testicles, no pubic hair and no ambition to do nothing else then xploit pvp-levels and zerg in kheshatta. I remember certain bear from them, who was once proud of not being a part of zergs... well, I've fought you in a scum-zerg, with lower numbers for the past few days. 8-16 of you, 5-8 of us. 

So thats all of that myth.

Informer recommends SCUM to grow some balls, or do a sex change to better resemble the whiny bunch of exploiting bitches you are.

FunCom taking a new look on raiding; It's too easy, lets up them bitches!

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Few brave souls on test-live servers did some raid-tests in Kyllikki's Crypt. Kyllikki is possibly the easiest t1 raid, where most of us have started raiding and it is quite doable with only 3 groups of skilled players. 

Not any more.

Player made tests on TL clearly show that this once easy-breeze is going to change a tad harder; everything in side the crypt hits you like a 50-ton truck, and has a health pool of China.

Some figures: AOE-tick from spellguard 3000-5000pts per tick and priests oneshot everything below heavy armor.

Why is this happening? Short answer; average-dps of a raid has been lowered to approximately half of what it is now on live (complete raid, not picking any classes here.. some have better damage, almost like on live, but overall damage has been nerfed). Also many group-buffs, like qonq ress, have taken hits. Healing is not scaled to fit new, bigger healthpools; instead it got nerfed a bit. Stamina, Health and mana doesn't regen as fast as on live, and combos and spells use more stamina and mana then before.

What this means on raids; because damage is lower, it takes about 50% longer to kill a mob. Before you can actually kill a mob, you ran out of stamina/mana (not to mention boss fights). Raid mobs have had their damage increased, and like usual FC went overboard and.. well, they really really really hurt. This sums up to having very, very, goddamn hilariously fucking entertaining and impossible raid-instances!

Please note, that these modifications leading to fore-mentioned changes in raids, are effecting all raiding and group instances.

Informer recommends everyone to grind their asses off before 1.05 patch to ensure good amount of epics. Also, informer recommends everyone to participate on TL-server, and if possible attend raids there and give direct feedback.

SOURCE (healing in 1.05 raids)

SOURCE2 (details on raid, damage etc.)

SCUM separates with Sanguis Attexo; Marries Acolytes!

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SCUM heard the news of SA's deception, propably from the Informer. I'm sorry to be the bird that brings in the bad knews, but thats the duty of an independent reporter; you simply cannot avoid even the nastiest and repulsive news. People have the right to know.

Angred SCUM stormed into our main offices in Informertown, just next to Tesso, and demanded for our sources. Ofcourse, we didn't give them, and the angry, betrayed groom took off.
After meeting with us, SCUM met up with Acolytes, and it seems one thing led to another; both of them feeling dissapointed but yet drawn to eachother, they ended up spending the night together.

Well, no news there, this is Hyboria and everybody fucks their (adopted) daughters and sons. But the real *BOOM* came afterwards; SCUM offered to marry Acolytes of the Shadow and they said yes!
The wedding ceremony was organized fast, only hours after the proposal. It took place in epic kheshatta this afternoon, where many, many, many criminal and murderer flagged SCUM's and ACOLYTES xploited the pvp'xp from each other, like there wasn't going to be a tomorrow! A proper festivity for such a grand event.

Good luck to newly weds, this is the Informer signing out. If you stay happy and in love, please remember my part as the messenger in this story of true romance and betrayal by generous offerings of gold and anal virgins!

SA and HUN's are having a secret nekkid RP?!

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I have been informed, that Sanguis Attexo has started to closen up with Anabolical Hunnitolian Empirotorials (HUN's). They have been closely chatting in Kheshatta, holding hands and exchanging fly kisses. It can be totally innocent, but Informer doubts it. When a HUN looks someone into eye like they look SA, it's love baby baby it's love.

We have no idea how SA is going to explain this to their latest bed-partner, SCUM, and to their newly adopted baby from a third world county; Acolytes of the Shadow. Does SCUM even know? This could lead to the early brakeup of the newly weds, Informer stays alert and watches over for further developments.

PvE News; Remnants of Nova Krepusko downs Leviathus!

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Remnants of the swedish guild, Nova Krepusko, hijacked a w3 raid by Band of the Gray Clover and killed Leviathus, the last boss in wing3 and the last boss of current raid content. After kill NK was showered with loot, gold, fame and allied anal-virgins. 

Congratulations to NK, though you seem to be dead you still succeed raiding. Nice work for server 2nd on raid progress*, and server first from the dead guilds.

SOURCE

*SCUM holds the place for server first Leviathus kill. All heil SCUM, and then suck my balls.

Aztels Aproach, what the hell..

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Aztels Aproach was filled tonight with especially high numbers of ruthless... oh what the fuck am I saying; pretty crappy gankers. Seems that many ganking guilds, like "The Killers" and the "Yabbal what-what's", "Wolf-somethings" and the "Hippo Harem" (not sure what kindoff weird animal-loving happens in the last, and quite simply don't want to know) are growing up and soon enterin the old and familiar hell-hole known Kheshatta. 

Good luck to you, and hope to see your skill-level rise fast or none of you will last the ruthless heat of Kheshatta.

Also some more familiar names were seen; Cavalieri del Destino confirmed my doubts of leaving Empire as they fought in the shades of the mountains with Celestial. Too low-skill empires hitting their exploiting asses from skammastein to frozen mammoths, and having any leftovers killed by the ganging low-levels! Such a sweet sight for my weary eyes.

Kaizens army of steel has also been seen here and abouts, startling people with sudden rp. Though being an rp-server, it's quite hilarious to see Kaizen creating very ... interesting situations by "suddenly" rp'ing with people, and completely disarming them. 

"Lol wut noob, im OC so l2p noob".

Second part to path 1.05 has hit tl-server

Good day, this is the informer.

2nd patch to patch 1.05 patch, witch was made to patch the all patches patching patches since launch of AoC, has been released on to TL-server. Don't know about you guys and galls, but all this patching is making me dizzy.

I wish everyone to take a closer look, as the patch-of-all-patches will without a doubt define much the direction AoC is going; continue wobbling in the mists of maybe surviving or becoming a much improved game and attract a wide variety of players.

Informer wishes everyone to have a fun night of testing, and reporting flaws and starting feuds on testlive-forums!

Now fuck off and enjoy the springtime sunshine, have a barbeque and take a couple of beers.

SOURCE (scroll down to the last 2 messages to see the latest update notes)

A Free Character?

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Game Overlord and Community Manager Göbbels... Silirrion, published a new community news-letter. For those uninformed souls out there; this letter pops-up every month to tell the community about AoC-development plans. They are like sneak peaks on what's coming and when. But mostly they are for assuring players that something is indeed being done to improve the game, and provide a reason for paying for a beta.

There was only little new in the letter, the usual blablabaa jadajadajaa can be summarised in the phrase "just keep playing and paying, pay pay pay, for you might see something new and exiting at some point!"

The biggest shock was the unveilment of the following: Everyones getting a new lvl50 char after the 1.05 update! WOOT!! I predict, that 3 days after the update when it's all cleared out who is the OP class of the month, everyone surprisingly has a lvl50 toon of that class. 

As an ending note; Why are the eu-forums getting dumber every day? Looking at the replies to Silirrion's post... by Gods, the stupidity levels are record high. Has Tsuniko made a new army of forums alts, or have the Huns started spamming? Who is masterminding this.. Informer will be looking into this!