Tradeskills and Crafting
In this update, there is a slight change to the tradeskills.But this is only the beginning, it will be improved further in the future.
About the crafting, new type of armor and weapons, called "Base", "Culture" and "City" was added in to this update. This gives smiths a lot more to craft and the recipes for these items also include new resources that alchemists, skinners, weavers and woodcutters will have to provide, so working together with other player crafters and gatherers will become both encouraged and necessary. Resource drop-rates also have changed alot. The alchemy profession is getting a significant overhaul by having their number of recipes reduced and also making less resources necessary.
In the PVP consequence system, players who kill other weak and innocent players will be punished and get a criminal status and accumulate murder points, after accumulate enough murder points, you will be flagged as a murderer, basically making you an outcast of society. Murderers will be attacked by city guards and will be unable to trade with normal vendors. And murderers have to seek out renegade vendors on the fringes of society. You can absolve yourself of murder points by waiting it out as it fades over time and earning regular experience and performing redemption quests. Other players will want to hunt murderers down as killing a murderer increases PvP experience gained by one hundred percent!
Combat system
Players were allowed to break stuns, fears, roots, snares and charms when they have lost a certain amount of health. They have made the combos have fewer steps. when you miss with your directional combo strikes, and the penalty will increase with the number of missed strikes.
culture armor
Culture armor is a new type of armor in this update. 24 recipes in this update were released, each recipe making three pieces of armor in a set. Each class will get one culture armor set they can use, and everything is based on various Hyborian cultures. All culture armor is intended for high-level players, and in terms of stats they fall somewhere between dungeon-dropped blues and same-level epics. Culture armor will have to be crafted by players, and the recipes are dropped by boss mobs. And more culture armor will be added in the future.
Tags: Age of Conan