Testlive Update 3.0: The Age of Sorcery - Discussion Megathread

arthurh3535 · 2022-08-12T22:40:34.348Z

Sairdontis:

Good idea or bad idea? Questions/comments/this suggestion sucks, etc, welcome .

Possibly make Hallowed weapons remove corruption on opponents on hit and lessen effects of some Sorcery spells if you have the item or weapon in your hand.?

Religious weapons doing extra damage to undead and demons seems quite thematic, IMO. I think the ritual clothes might need to be buffed up to give some bonuses against sorcery and undead/demons.

Sairdontis · 2022-08-12T22:42:33.424Z

Oooo I like it. Great idea !

Cirsee · 2022-08-13T00:56:53.393Z

Posting my feedback after a long night of playing: Played in the Exiled Lands, single player
I am going to post this response as someone who has not actually read the books but enjoyed the films and enjoys both Age of Conan and Conan Exiles. I am also a player that usually plays solo, or on a private server with one or two other friends.

First comments are on the building system changes:

Move item functionality should be included in the system - not intuitive and quick having to exit to change the position of a backwards door or mismatched pattern ceiling tile.
Artisan table decorations should be included, or a better display/sort feature added to the artisan tables. With growing decorations due to battle pas/store items, this will become very overcrowded.
Add an ability to pull materials from land claim area chests or have a special build system chest container to use with the system. Seeing what ingredients are needed and then selecting object and going to chests defeats the purpose of putting everything in one spot.
As a first attempt, I love the sorting of building pieces, crafting stations and decorations. I would agree it’s faster for building, but not decorating.

Sorcery:

Coming from not expressly lore, but Age of Conan, I am a bit disappointed to not be able to just be a great necromancer or miracle working bear shaman here. I would like the ability to be either sword or sorcery and be equally viable (encounter resistant mechanics aside). You have a large fan base on Age of Conan that was hoping for a 2.0 with Exiles and they didn’t get it. You have an opportunity to fill some of that here with a good sorcery and combo melee system.
Introduction to sorcery is poorly done. Random stumbling on and killing some sorcerer that looks the same in each camp and being of a sufficient power to handle the actual location is not a good introduction to a major system that should take a career to build in power. Adding an in-game npc, or some such starter introduction, is really necessary. It doesn’t take much skill to swing a weapon, but a heck of a lot to learn sorcery. Also please make your camp sorcerers have a bit more of a race feel to them armor wise.
Disappointed that this was not tied to the Deity system. Seems to me, at least in the films, that sorcery was very religion/race based.

Thrall Changes:
I get the focus on the player, but for solo or small private servers, having a thrall is really important and nice as a companion. So much effort is put in improving them with authority that the effort does not match the reward here. Give players a bit more of skill into fighting or sorcery (or x specialization) included in authority to make this more of a rewarding build area.

Event/Summoning:
This looks absolutely fantastic! However, single player, its next to impossible and when you do finish, where is your reward? Why is this happening? The location still has emotes/recipes used in lower levels that should be moved out due to level needed and difficulty of the events.

Nice to have:
I love the changes to food/potions and armors/weapons, but some clarity before crafting would be appreciated. I can’t tell what a set of gear does before I craft it. For example: I can see that Cimmerian steel axe does 47 damage! Opps it has zero armor pen after I make it. There is also nothing on armor outside of basic armor protection numbers and inaccurate hot/cold benefits.

Maybe I missed it, but a way to hide my helmet would be great starting out.

Sairdontis · 2022-08-13T02:08:23.501Z

I would like to see some danger in the Circle of Power. Sorcery or magic in general was not for the faint of heart in the Conan’s time(s). There was many risks in practicing magic and summoning was one of if not the most dangerous of them all.

What I am getting at is what if we need to be careful only what we want to summon comes through. Make summoning more involved and risky with somehow fighting back somehow against other things trying through or portal.

Myeth · 2022-08-13T02:34:37.373Z

could we just mix 2 sets to get agil and Auth?

tiagoturilli · 2022-08-13T03:25:17.928Z

Português PT-BR

Asterios:

Fui até uma pequena saliência logo abaixo da torre do morcego com uma grande quantidade

@Asterios Fiz o teste e gravei como está funcionando confira:

Farm Testlive Age of Sorcery 3.0 Public Beta Client

Português PT-BR Confira o farm de magia é comparado com farm da picareta @Funcom_Community [FARM Age Of Sorcery #conan #testlive #conanexiles #funcom #ageofsorcery #farm]

Biggins · 2022-08-13T06:28:09.023Z

Sooo… ‘legendary weapons’, i.e. the ones you get from the boxes, have 0 buffs of any kind, effectively taking any incentive to farm them away. i get removing attributes, since that’s been reworked, but to not replace with appropriate buffs? Hopefully this is not intended.

Narelle · 2022-08-13T07:19:06.192Z

Venakri:

So… is the SMCA set going to continue to be obtainable in some way

The sorcs drop a recipe for it.

Ethel · 2022-08-13T07:38:24.406Z

Cirsee:

Nice to have:
I love the changes to food/potions and armors/weapons, but some clarity before crafting would be appreciated. I can’t tell what a set of gear does before I craft it. For example: I can see that Cimmerian steel axe does 47 damage! Opps it has zero armor pen after I make it. There is also nothing on armor outside of basic armor protection numbers and inaccurate hot/cold benefits.

This, in the armorers bench before crafting you can only see the armor values but now each armor has their own unique stat that it would be nice to see like the skelos armor being agi/auth before spending your resources to craft them.
Same with weapons.

Xevyr · 2022-08-13T13:24:21.292Z

ffs I’ll answer your question with a NO then :))) (edit: actually I haven’t tried it in testlive this was in live, so irrelevant, but still thanks for solving it)
I was taming hyenas the other week and out of 10 or so like 3 “disappeared” as soon as taming finished…
Thanks for solving the mystery, now I know they were supposed to be greater haha

erjoh · 2022-08-13T13:26:53.173Z

well that’s not going to entice me to buy hyena skins. Someone in marketing needs to let the dev team know there is an issue that is preventing sales.

Usernameextra · 2022-08-13T13:31:45.633Z

So with the post about new changes coming to the dev kit, is it safe to say that modders dont have it yet? And also they said modders will have plenty of time to update thier mods before the update drops… this makes me kind of asume we wont see 3.0 until the end of septemberish at the earliest…

tiagoturilli · 2022-08-13T13:39:03.922Z

Português PT-BR

Uma ideia que poderia vir com atualização é uma paleta de cores para poder usar melhor as tintas dento do jogo que são usados somente para armaduras, poderia também usar em paredes.

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legion1976 · 2022-08-13T18:09:47.873Z

Sword of crom is worthless now. Used to be worth farming. If patched useless trash.

tiagoturilli · 2022-08-13T18:26:12.113Z

Português PT-BR

legion1976:

Espada de crom é inútil agora

Sim pode conferir aqui

Sword of Crom nerf Public Beta Client

Português PT-BR: Fiz o teste realmente somente o golpe simples que está funcionando, o golpe mais pesado não funciona: [CROM NERF Age of Socery 2022] @Funcom_Community

tiagoturilli · 2022-08-13T19:50:37.081Z

Português PT-BR

Marcospt:

presumo que levará muito tempo até que o wiki se torne confiável novamente.

Sim também havia reparado esse ponto, e está correto também recomendo pensar assim. Muito bem

Provokatze23 · 2022-08-13T21:08:05.615Z

Better if they take some more time. Have to hammer out some bugs in my opinion.

Krakoziam · 2022-08-13T21:11:51.015Z

Cirsee:

Coming from not expressly lore, but Age of Conan, I am a bit disappointed to not be able to just be a great necromancer or miracle working bear shaman here. I would like the ability to be either sword or sorcery and be equally viable (encounter resistant mechanics aside).

Its a Shame they didnt put spells like fire of gehenna frio example in the game, sorcery its more like a expendable tool than really great supernatural power

DarksunG · 2022-08-13T21:39:52.122Z

Super excite for AoS & had some questions:

Are there any plans to have multiple save-games/servers? I’d like to be able to play as a different character on single player without having to go through the whole, copy, rename, move, start over rigmarole. since the game already has a save system it seems odd that you can’t just create multiples & have them be selectable.
Are there any plans to buff pets or somehow make them viable? Currently they are essentially just a bad follower. Can they have some extra utility other than inventory? Even bearers don’t have that much use though you can give them armor.

Technicolorfool · 2022-08-13T22:20:44.749Z

So I don’t know if this is intended or not. Recently I killed the Greater Elk and used an Iron Butcher’s Knife to carve it’s carcass for meat. The net result was ZERO meat.