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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Published by: Eidos Interactive |
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures - Game Review (PC)
By Emanuel Avram
Published: June 16, 2008
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Well you can start with killing players early by picking a PvP server. However, since there are no factions or sides, player versus player mode in the world is free for all. Which means 10 players can ally and kill you without mercy several time, and for no particular reason. Be warned! If you prefer a more safe, epic world, choose a PvE server. You will still be able to fight but only in special battlegrounds.
An interesting twist we still have to wait and see how it plays out is the guild versus guild feature, siege, and town building. Yes, having an architect in your guild can allow you to create an entire city under your command. The top 8 guilds as I understand are able to have towns on each server, and are also responsible in guarding them from other wanting guilds.
Which brings me to...
Professions and gathering
I won't talk much on this, as there's nothing special about it. At level 30 you can start quests for your gathering professions. You can pick them all: copper mining, tin prospecting, cotton gathering, woodcutting, and so on. You will learn as you complete each quest to gather more advanced stuff. The tricky part is resources aren't marked on the map (so add a mark yourself when you find one!), and that you'll have to have all quests in your log at once, which reduces your available quest slots roughly by 10 (30 in total).
As for the production professions, you can do all the quests related to them, but can only pick one. So think carefully. There are some already traditional professions like alchemy, armorsmithing, weaponsmithing, and the most unusual one: architecture. As I've told you before, architects build guild cities. As for the other professions, they are pretty much self-explanatory.
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