Age of Conan

Why keep a fun activity away from players till they grind 40 levels ? Doesn't make sense to me.

Doesn't appeal to me either. But I'm sure that as this is a pretty big issue, Funcom must at least have a reasonable excuse...

I've no idea why they make you play through half of your levels just to start learning a craft.  Personally, I think it should be something you can start on at around level 10, if not simply as soon as you reach Tortage.  20 TOPS once you're free of Tortage...

"Sorry, we couldn't develop it on time for release."

OFC, the moment that kind of honesty comes out of a PR department, we know that zombi apocalypse has arrived at last ... :D

Gather tier 1 resources at 20, craft tier 1 items at 40 and gather tier 2 resources at 50. (People are assuming level 70 or 80 to get tier 3 resources.)

No logical reason.

Or for putting the city building areas in the center of the resource zones.

A. It takes away the fact that people can make level 1 alts (or level to 10 in about an hour) and have professions they can feed on them... This could easily be fixed like wow did with enchanting and other profs etc, but this is how AoC chose to do it

B. It gives you some sort of acheivement to work towards, yea you get your first mount, but you finally get to craft things

C. Professions are something that distract people from the gameplay and storyline, even if they get incorporated into quests. Personally, I feel that they did this purposely for this reason becuz your first few levels are crucial on hooking you into the game. AoC has a great storyling (which i skip/skim read most of the time... Doh!) and why distract from it.

D. If you didn't notice, the first 20 levels gear doesn't mean jack, so why implement professions or whatever you wanna call them when the items you make will be crappy at best. So your next arguement could be why at level 40 and not 20 when gear starts to better stats. Im only level 25, but it seems to me at level 40 is when items really start to gain some uniqueness to them and distinct characteristics. Basically' the item level is higher so there's more stats and individuality to give to items you create so its just easier to start there.

E. You don't get a job the second you come out of the womb, tho in AoC you don't start as a baby, but you are level 1 and not every game has to give you trade skills/crafting at that level and personally I feel that this way is more rewarding than others.

And F

Wait 2 hours for a resource to recharge so you get 10 whacks at finding a rare only to find out that 'Whoops' that guy (or gal) that just ran by drained the resource back to ZERO with one pull off it.

Originally posted by Hova218

A. It takes away the fact that people can make level 1 alts (or level to 10 in about an hour) and have professions they can feed on them... This could easily be fixed like wow did with enchanting and other profs etc, but this is how AoC chose to do it

- sounds like an adequate fix for level 1 alt issue

The chapter about crafting in the retail manual is three sentences :) I dont expect anything better then WoW crafting. I am prepared for green and some blue recipes. The good thing is that there are hundreds of crafter quests (source: oficial website). Nice to sink some time.

There is no way you could know how to build something if you had not killed thousands of people first. That is why this IP is so brutal, "Im tired of getting rained on, I need a house. I better go out and kill a few thousand people so I can start learning how to build one"