This guide provides answers to the ‘Where do I go next?’ question while doing the 1 to 80 level grind. There are other guides out there that provide more comprehensive listings of quest areas and grind locations, but you don’t need to go to every location. (Complete list of zones/instances. Great list of grinding locations.)

General Tips

Always restock your potions (they stack to 50) and food (stack to 20) whenever you run low and are near a vendor....

The Herald of Xotli (HoX) is all about damage and more damage. For many people, it is the most exciting class to play in Age of Conan. I’ve heard it referred to as a glass chainsaw and it is a very apt analogy. They dish out huge numbers, but the combination of cloth armor and a relatively small health pool for a melee fighter means a HoX is always at death’s door.

This leveling build is primarily focused around increasing the HoX’s core damage dealing abilities,...

Blood Fever vs Untamed Regeneration

With the significant reduction in Untamed Regeneration’s regeneration and increase in vulnerabilities, it becomes a good situational tool instead of a skill you run all the time. Blood Fever’s 20% damage increase becomes a more attractive option.

Untamed Regeneration (UR) is no longer a must have skill for many BS’s. It is still a very good skill, but one that should be managed properly. Preliminary testing has shown...

The most effective leveling build is no longer as obvious due to the many recent changes to the Tempest of Set. This guide includes two leveling progressions. One is based on building a balanced toolset focused around Lightning Strike and Storm Field. The other is a build focused on maximizing AoE damage and grinding static mob camps or instances.

NOTE: I place a high priority on acquiring the more important feats as soon as possible. As a result, the feat progression is a little...

This build is focused on creating a Priest of Mitra (PoM) capable of solo grinding efficiently, while maintaining the core skills required to be an effective group healer. For the most part, the PoM community has a consensus about the important feats for leveling. This guide will explain the best order in which to select the feats and the reasons for picking them.

Summary

10-14 Improved Smite
15-19 Cleansing Fire
20-23 Holy Vengeance
25-25 Revivication (2...

Funcom releases their latest edition of the Hyborian Insider, #4.  In this edition they discuss upcoming content as well as reviewing the upcoming DirectX 10 features that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will soon be having.  The DirectX 10 changes in particular will make the game look considerably different if your system can actually manage to have all of the bells and whistles turned on high enough to appreciate them... the underwater example they showed looked like something...

Funcom announced the release of much anticipated and greatly delayed pvp patch.  many new changes and in light of Warhammer Online's almost simultaneous release one has to wonder about the timing of that patch.  Anyway, the patch looks to be an improvement and provide some much needed pvp love.  PVP leveling system and new pvp gear sets in particular will motivate people to go hack one another up in Hyboria.  We will have to see how the general player base feels about...

Funcom announced a changing of the guard yesterday.  Apparently the former Game Director for Age of Conan resigned amidst rumors of his disappointment in how Age of Conan turned out.  How does this impace the game's future?  Read the press release below and you decide, maybe a new face in charge might be what the game needed.  Then again.....

Durham, USA – September 17, 2008 – Funcom announce that Craig Morrison has been appointed as the new Producer...

While this guide focuses on PvE, it delves a bit into PvP as well since many of the higher-end conflag feats/spells can be used very effectively for both...

Greetings fellow Hyborian! It can be difficult becoming acclimated to a new game world in the ever expanding list of MMO's Some people prefer to trudge through a game and try to figure out even the most basics of gameplay... I however am of the group of folks that appreciates a bit of info, not necessarily spoilers but definitely information to help me get into the swing of things faster.

So based on that we have acquired a few licensed copies of "The Unofficial Age of Conan...

Greetings fellow Hyborians.  Jeboyb has put together a great guide on Polearms and why you want to use one basically.  It is easy to tell that Jeboyb put a bunch of time into this guide so we be thankful that there are good players out there like Jeboyb that are willing to share and make us all a bit less newbish in the process.  The following is all Jeboyb's writings:

Why should I use polearm?

Polearm is very fun to level with. I tried...

The infamous PvP patch which has been pushed back more times than anyone cares to think about.  The current date for this to go live in Age of Conan's live servers is September 10th.  While the patch is largely a fix to PvP and how it works or in some cases does not work right now, there are other aspects which are stirring considerable debate. 

The Gem Nerf is a sore spot for many players who spent considerable effort trying to acquire a great set of gems for the...

Greetings fellow denizens of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.  Faustina, Herald of Xotli of much reknown (Wiccana Server, Exodus guild) has made a great article reviewing how the new +fire (magic) bonuses are working.  The is a great guide on the actual benefit of going with a heavy +fire (magic) gear set.  I'll not give away the results prematurey though, give the review below a read fr Faustina's insight into this matter.The text that follows was written fully by...