Age of Conan

can someone give me specifics on how to avoid the starting area? i only have 1 level 13 character and I am enjoying her doing the solo part and them missions in the city. I do not want to repeat it, however. at least not so soon. so how do we skip it with our next character?

Not sure if there is a way to skip the starter area.  I am trying to work on at least two characters at once so I can get them past Tortage.  Of course that isn't working out as well as I planned.  I have one that is almost done (at level 19.5 now) and one that is level 3 or 4.

unless someone has other news - looks like you have to suffer Torage with alts 

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Q: Previously you mentioned that you will allow us to skip levels 1-20. It’s not in beta. Will you allow this in release?

Gaute: We will have the opportunity to skip 1-5 most likely; not 1-20. What we’ve done is we’ve opened the world up and let you leave Tortage instead, as I’ve told you earlier today.

Q: Tortage is really boring the third time.

Gaute: That’s very true, which is why we’re also arguing the things that we are talking about letting you leave the area. We are also going to make more starting areas with time, but not at launch.

Erling: But the stories in Tortage are very different, right?

Gaute: What we did when we made Tortage is that we said: “We have two choices. We can do what every MMO did, and what we did in AO, was sort of take a spread and make cookie-cutter content.” If you play most other MMOs, and if you play in one area and move to another area, it’s the same type of quests. Maybe themed differently, but content-wise it’s more or less the same. And we said: “Let’s, instead of that, try to use that effort into making one storage of an area with really high quality stuff.” And, you know, people who are forced through Tortage time and time again in beta are basically going to look a bit singed when they enter the game at launch, and kudos to you if you press through and do it over and over again, so thank you very much for that. But, of course, most players won’t have that type of repetitive experience.

The stories for the starter zone is different for each class type (rogues, spellcaster, fighter types)...so, if you investigate these types, you can get through to level 5 in about 10 minutes

And then enjoy the new story lines until the decision is made to allow bypassing the start area..

Good luck

I don't see why Funcom should allow us to skip 1-5 in the first place. 1-5 goes pretty fast anyway.

I haven't seen any MMO that has allowed players to skip any levels?

But some different starting areas would be nice, or more varied ways of getting through 1-20.

Although it seems like theres quite a few quests in Tortage

Originally posted by Inzra

I haven't seen any MMO that has allowed players to skip any levels?

Dark Age of Camelot lets you skip the 1st 20 levels