Age of Conan Update 1.07

It seems that Age of Conan will only have one more update before Rise of the Godslayer. While a lot of the stuff being added in the update is not really much that would rock the boat...One feature caught my eye. It was the Eve-sounding, character advancement while offline. Am I misunderstanding how this works? Will you be leveling up while offline? I though rested experience was a system that catered too much to the casual players...Now, they are just going to give away free levels? If it works the way it sounds to me, I can tell you that I don't like it at all. I will just hope I am misunderstanding how it works.

City of Heroes New Power Set

It seems an open beta of the dual pistols power set is live in the training room. This is going to be part of the Going Rogue expansion. My CoH account is currently inactive. I don't really see anything in the near future that makes me want to reactivate. If they want to have another free weekend, I would be glad to check this out :)

Warhammer Online RVR Weapons

Mythic has announced new RVR weapon sets, and a new system for obtaining these sets. It sounds like something interesting enough to me...even though they already have a system like this. New rewards always add new goals and reasons to play. Once you hit level 40, you get different currency to spend on endgame items. Overall, it sounds like a pretty decent system. Nothing groundbreaking, but something that should make current players happy.

Age of Conan Shows off Wolf Mount

It seems Funcom wanted to get the word out about the wolf mount from the upcoming Rise of the Godslayer expansion. If you are interested in seeing screenshots check out this MMORPG.com page. They also have a trailer that you can watch here and more info if you want to read here and here. I have always thought that Age of Conan was a beautiful game, and has potential to be a really great game...too bad the genre is so crowded. Anyways..check out the new mount info, if you haven't already.

EQ2 Adding Battlegrounds..Finally?

I am not really sure how I feel about this. Everquest and Everquest 2 have always been more about a PvE experience for me. You didn't really have to pwn some newb to get respect, if you played your role in the group well, you earned the respect of your fellow players. While I love PvP, I just don't really feel the need to have a lot of it in EQ2. While instanced battleground scenarios could be a fun distraction from time to time, I don't know that I will spend a lot of my time there...who knows, it may be the best thing to ever happen to the game and I will be totally wrong. On February 16th, 3 instanced scenarios will be introduced to Everquest 2. Those scenarios are Battlefield of Ganak, Smuggler's Den, and Gears of Klak'Anon. I will be anxious to see how it all fits into the game.

Champions Online State of the Game

So, I just canceled my Champions Online account today. So, I may get a chance to see some of this...depending on when my paid time actually runs out. Cryptic discussed the state of the game(a thing most game companies do around this time) here. They talked about the upcoming kitchen sink patch that just went in, upcoming events, and an upcoming adventure pack titled Vibora Bay. To be honest, nothing mentioned made me change my mind about my canceled account. I really can't get into Champions, and by into, I mean addicted. I may one day down the road hear something that makes me return to the game, but nothing mentioned in their state of the game address did that for me.

You will lose your Age of Conan Lowbies!

Funcom announced that they will be merging Age of Conan servers and that any character below level 20 and that is on an account that has more than 7 months inactive, will be deleted. If your character is being deleted, you are supposed to get an email if your character is one that will be deleted. If you don't want to risk it, you will need to subscribe again to be sure your lowbie doesn't go bye-bye.