Crow's No-Nonsense Guide to Guardian Leveling (v 2.0)
"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
-Sun Tzu "The Art of...

GENERAL
Basic Riding Skill price changed to 25s. Advanced Riding Skill changed to 50g. /guild should now always work after zoning. Assassin Epic Tier 3 chest piece no longer hides arm pieces, and texture clipping on shoulders has been fixed. COMBAT
Cannot charge a player/npc that is already charging someone else. The charge gameaction will now check if you are already charging, and will not start another charge until the...

The folks over at voodoo extreme got their hands on a bunch of screenshots of upcoming content for Age of Conan, content anticipated in the recently announced expansion slated for early 2009 if rumors are true.  I'd have to see the locations / zones personally to comment on them, having a ridiculously detailed play area that is so graphic intense that it grinds yoru system down to a chugging crawl isn't considered by many to be worth the extra...

Funcom attended the Games Convention in Leipzig Germany recently and unveiled their DirectX 10 move!  Although many expected Age of Conan to have been shipped with these DX10 features already present, the unexpectedly long wait is almost over. 

Now Age of Conan is arguably one of if not the best looking game graphically as it stands.  Could those development hours not have been better spent in fixing real game issues...

The big patch tomorrow is rumored to be the following... although not confirmed:

GENERAL

* Removed the Miss Chance from Shield of the Risen.
* You will no longer be zoned after speaking to a Feat Fixer.
* Several combat related animation issues - such as sheathing and unsheathing spears, holding swords - have been tweaked.
* Added a male animation for the dance_sexy_f emote, and renamed it to dance_sexy.
* Many typos corrected in...

Okay this sounds so damned stupid, yet sadly funny. I read a few posts about it on other sites and even a thread with images. You can check that out here.

I've copied over the transcribed text in case it gets deleted. Read below and note, I am not editing it so it is exactly as it was written (Just say no to censorship):

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As announced, today's update is a small maintenance that fixes some issues. The update which is currently available on the test server needs some more testing and is planned to be ready for the live servers soon.

The update today includes the following:
Resolved several issues with the Arena access quest, hopefully it should work correctly this time, and this time we really mean it! (or poor Aquilus might meet with a very unfortunate end if he insists on being so...