These are pre-emptive patch notes for the impending PvP-oriented updates. These are slated for full implementation by Sept. 3rd.


Age of Conan: patch notes for Patch 1.5, August 27 update

If you're part of the Age of Conan populace, you may want to read up on this.

Remember the patch notes released a few days ago? They were supposedly the testlive update for August 27. Apparently, they are now listed as the Update Notes for Patch 2.0, due this September 3.

So what are the patch notes for August 27 (Patch 1.5)? Here you go:

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 first one is complete.
MASSIVE PVP

Defending guild mercenaries can no longer gain points by killing attacking players.
The Attacking guild will now properly get the siege camp resurrection point when the vulnerability window opens.
Building points gained by mercenaries will be rewarded to attacking guild as intended in the first place.
Can now attacking Siege Buildings with melee, spells, and siege weapons.
Fixed a bug that kept Vulnerability Windows open outside their allotted time.



Age of Conan: more patch notes for August 27 update

More patch notes are out for Age of Conan's August 27 patch. It's not as long as the one released a couple of days ago, but it's still a pretty hefty update with changes to the classes, guilds, the GUI, and more.

GENERAL

Tradepost - The sales commission is now added to the price of the item and withdrawn from the buyer.
Tradepost - You will no longer be charged a fee for changing the price of your item.
Corrected several typos in dialog in many areas.
CLASSES

Rogue (General)
Agile Mind is now a clickable. The cooldown is 9 minutes, and is reduced by 3 minutes per rank.
Escape Artist will now always work. The cooldown is now 3 minutes, and is reduced by 1 minute per rank.

Barbarian

Thirst For Blood will now properly increase the player's Stamina Regen values.
Arcane Marauder will now properly drain mana with 4 feat points invested.
Buffs from Reaver Stance will now display a stack count in the GUI.
Buffs from Blood Rage Stance will now display a stack count in the GUI.
Bear Shaman

Blood Champion will now give the proper buff effect when one point is invested in the feat.
Blood Champion will now proc off Blood Flow (Rank 1).
Conqueror

Rend and Tear will now improve the damage over time effect from Bloodbath I.
COMBAT

Frenzy and Defensive stance no longer persist after zoning.
Pressing ESC to abort a fatality will not make it appear that your opponent is dead anymore.
Pets will now teleport with you when you zone.
When you die, all the pets that were alive will respawn when you ressurect.
GUI

The time display while in Tortage Underhalls at night should now be correct.
PvP health/mana/stamina taps will now be displayed as intended in tooltips.
The red skull should always appear over your own head when you are murderer.
Items that you can not use no longer prompt you regarding their BoE status.
GUILD

/guild should now always work after zoning.
MOUNTS

When you dismount a horse, your regular runspeed will always be applied.
NPCS

(Lacheish Plains) Farghan no longer has looping dialog.
Emotes and camera angles have been implemented to all 11 tradeskill dialogs.
PVP

PvP XP is now only given if the opponent player is above gray con to you ( ie. no more than 7 levels below you or higher, and cons a color to you).
Murderpoints are now given if the player you kill is more than 7 levels below you. (ie. that player cons gray to you).
If under attack while you have Shield of the Risen active, out of combat regeneration is no longer stopped. This stops a griefing technique where spawn campers could stop you regenerating.
Grouping or trading with criminals will reset your criminal timer.
PvP levels gained will be shown as an onscreen message.
PvP damage has been further tweaked to do less DPS than the damage done in PvE.
Massive PvP

The gate will now display a message when the damaged state is preventing you from opening it.
City gates are now functional until the gate is heavily damaged.
The city gate will no longer receive an extra lever after repairing it.
It's no longer impossible to repair a destroyed city gate.
QUESTS

(Conall's Valley) The Gambler's Gambit - The collision in the Spider Cavern has been fixed, and it is once again possible to pick up the debt money to finish this quest.
(Destiny Quest - Priest) Awakening II - The Red Hand Inquisitor Leader will no longer spawn above level 20.
(Destiny Quest - Rogue) Awakening I - You should now be able to stealth without every guard spotting you.
(Destiny Quest - End Battle) The Red Hand High Priest will no longer spawn above level 20.
(Khopshef) The Roots of the Earth - Quest goal has been updated with correct name, Darkroot.
(Lacheish Plains) Brandoc Village - The waymarker for this quest has been made more visible.
(Pyramid of the Ancients) Dangers of Decadence - The key is now removed your inventory when you free Shali.
(Tarantia Noble) Paetus and the Nemedian Crown IIII is now named Paetus and the Nemedian Crown IV.
(Tortage Underhalls) Gold and Gore - Looting rings from corpses should work correctly.
TRADESKILLS

Reduced the bonuses granted by all Invulnerability, Evade, Fatality, Offhand Chance, and Damage gems by a significant amount.
Alchemist Cache no longer contains the easily accessible vendor-bought resources.
The Skinner dialog now works,and resolves the quests to allow you to continue in the class.