Are we required to raid day in and day out in instances just like in WoW to get our hands on the best loot ingame or can crafting or hunting named mobs in the open world get you some of the best goods?

In AO they had a lot of outdoors named mobs that dropped some nice items but they were always camped.What are they planning here in AOC?

Im not the best to answer this i m sure Amazing Avery will say something:) but all i can say is there are a few posts about this, just need to find them :)

Originally posted by virtuella

Are we required to raid day in and day out in instances just like in WoW to get our hands on the best loot ingame or can crafting or hunting named mobs in the open world get you some of the best goods?

In AO they had a lot of outdoors named mobs that dropped some nice items but they were always camped.What are they planning here in AOC?

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone can really tell you this truthfully.. at least, not without breaking the NDA.  Keep in mind, if you don't want to go raid every other day of the week, you could PvP.  While still being a form of raid, at least you can leave at any time without pissing off a bunch of your guildmates.

this has been said ...if you want the best PVE gear you raid ...you want the best PVP gear you PVP....since equipment has different stats for each one

Originally posted by virtuella

Are we required to raid day in and day out in instances just like in WoW to get our hands on the best loot ingame or can crafting or hunting named mobs in the open world get you some of the best goods?

In AO they had a lot of outdoors named mobs that dropped some nice items but they were always camped.What are they planning here in AOC?

crafted items are the only items that will have gem slots for upgrade so players will be able to make some of the best armor/weapons in the game only with the buildings in a player city and then upgrade it with the help of a gem cutter, which promotes players relying on each other.

its going to be soooo cool i cant wait!

ref link community.ageofconan.com/wsp/conan/frontend.cgi

Originally posted by blackf00t

 

Originally posted by virtuella

Are we required to raid day in and day out in instances just like in WoW to get our hands on the best loot ingame or can crafting or hunting named mobs in the open world get you some of the best goods?

In AO they had a lot of outdoors named mobs that dropped some nice items but they were always camped.What are they planning here in AOC?

i don't know how they plan on doing the whole raiding for items thing, but they are definitely making crafting a much bigger part of the game than i see on a regular basis.

 

crafted items are the only items that will have gem slots for upgrade so players will be able to make some of the best armor/weapons in the game only with the buildings in a player city and then upgrade it with the help of a gem cutter, which promotes players relying on each other.

 

its going to be soooo cool i cant wait!

 

ref link community.ageofconan.com/wsp/conan/frontend.cgi

As this kind individual linked the info you should be able to do the math.  Crafted items are far superior  than drop loot.

Originally posted by sinjin

Originally posted by blackf00t

 

Originally posted by virtuella

Are we required to raid day in and day out in instances just like in WoW to get our hands on the best loot ingame or can crafting or hunting named mobs in the open world get you some of the best goods?

In AO they had a lot of outdoors named mobs that dropped some nice items but they were always camped.What are they planning here in AOC?

i don't know how they plan on doing the whole raiding for items thing, but they are definitely making crafting a much bigger part of the game than i see on a regular basis.

 

crafted items are the only items that will have gem slots for upgrade so players will be able to make some of the best armor/weapons in the game only with the buildings in a player city and then upgrade it with the help of a gem cutter, which promotes players relying on each other.

 

its going to be soooo cool i cant wait!

 

ref link community.ageofconan.com/wsp/conan/frontend.cgi

As this kind individual linked the info you should be able to do the math.  Crafted items are far superior  than drop loot.

Except that the best PvE crafting ingredients will drop from raids.

Originally posted by gestalt11

Originally posted by sinjin

Originally posted by blackf00t

 

Originally posted by virtuella

Are we required to raid day in and day out in instances just like in WoW to get our hands on the best loot ingame or can crafting or hunting named mobs in the open world get you some of the best goods?

In AO they had a lot of outdoors named mobs that dropped some nice items but they were always camped.What are they planning here in AOC?

i don't know how they plan on doing the whole raiding for items thing, but they are definitely making crafting a much bigger part of the game than i see on a regular basis.

 

crafted items are the only items that will have gem slots for upgrade so players will be able to make some of the best armor/weapons in the game only with the buildings in a player city and then upgrade it with the help of a gem cutter, which promotes players relying on each other.

 

its going to be soooo cool i cant wait!

 

ref link community.ageofconan.com/wsp/conan/frontend.cgi

As this kind individual linked the info you should be able to do the math.  Crafted items are far superior  than drop loot.

Except that the best PvE crafting ingredients will drop from raids.

you do mean gems right? those are the only thing that i can think of that would drop from mobs

That's kind of a big wild guess considering the loot tables can be adjusted at any time during the beta.

Originally posted by Xasapis

That's kind of a big wild guess considering the loot tables can be adjusted at any time during the beta.

whos guessing what?

PVE items = No sockets

Crafted Items = Sockets

To Craft the best items you need a City Keep/Guild Keep

To get a City Keep/Guild Keep you need to PVP

A guild does not need to PvP to construct a guild city. Keeps and guild cities are not the same. The relation is actually the opposite, the size of the guild city affects the size of the PvP keep.

Originally posted by gestalt11

Originally posted by sinjin

Originally posted by blackf00t

 

Originally posted by virtuella

Are we required to raid day in and day out in instances just like in WoW to get our hands on the best loot ingame or can crafting or hunting named mobs in the open world get you some of the best goods?

In AO they had a lot of outdoors named mobs that dropped some nice items but they were always camped.What are they planning here in AOC?

i don't know how they plan on doing the whole raiding for items thing, but they are definitely making crafting a much bigger part of the game than i see on a regular basis.

 

crafted items are the only items that will have gem slots for upgrade so players will be able to make some of the best armor/weapons in the game only with the buildings in a player city and then upgrade it with the help of a gem cutter, which promotes players relying on each other.

 

its going to be soooo cool i cant wait!

 

ref link community.ageofconan.com/wsp/conan/frontend.cgi

As this kind individual linked the info you should be able to do the math.  Crafted items are far superior  than drop loot.

Except that the best PvE crafting ingredients will drop from raids.

Those ingrediants though could just be beneficial to that area. Like gem drops from raid dungeons will be benficial in crafted items pertained to raiding.Like it might have more of a elemental effect against the mobs or boss in that dungeon. Naturally when you set out to craft the best of something its going to be harder to get those components, so the rarer parts might not be in the regular tradekill playfields but out somewhere else in the world, this does not mean they will be all in raid rewards though. Explore and you mind be rewarded.

EDIT: all I know is that the crafted items can be customized and personalised, you cant ammend the stats on a raid boss drop. It doesnt make sense if the biggest boss in the game would drop something that would in-directly increase your PvP stats when equipped all round. It makes more sense to make something specifically tailored to what you want to do. I mean you didn't pvp that boss you pve's him, so he will drop something good for that. That same thing might not be the 'be all and end all' for PvP if your into PvP.