AOC - General (non-tech) tips

[noel]

In no real order... feel free to add to this

GUI Tips:
* The secondary set of hot bars can be dragged from the bottom (each one, little gray area) and extended to show more slots.
* After turning on the extra hot bars, right-click at the top of them to make them horizontal, or vertical again.
* Double clicking any X or Striped "AREA" on the mini-map will make that the currently selected quest in both the quest tracker, mini-map arrow and journal. Makes for quick quest sharing also!
* Right-clicking on the chat type in the input bar allows you to change between chat channels quickly (ooc/guild/say/group). Right-click on the OOC to quickly change chat channels.
* When looking at the change instance window, if you are in a group, the star next to an instance is where your group leader is currently located.
* The light/shadow intensity jewel is that tiny little diamond at the bottom of the mini-map.
* The odd command to add a friend is: /cc addbuddy <playername>, but as of a recent patch, you can now just right click the name in chat.
* To split stacks you hold down alt and drag it to another slot.

General Gameplay Tips:
* The is a merchant in Kehemi(sp) who is tagged as a general merchant but all he sells is bags, for 10s you can get 8 more slots.
* When creating a new character starting on the island immediately turn around and swim out a bit. There's a chest at the bottom of the ocean that has gems and sometimes a magic ring.
* Put at least 1 skill point in all skills. It will at least 'unlock' the skill even if you don't use it.
* You can usually waterslide down waterfalls without dieing.
* After yesterday's patch you need to be within 5m of a respawn point to change instances now.
* At the Starting beach there are crocs on each side of you. Killing all will get you to level 3 and a half and make the starting island a lot quicker.
* The range of missile attacks (at least thrown weapons) is much longer if you scroll to first person mode (roll in the mouse wheel).
* You can easily reassign skill points by alt-right-clicking them, it starts to cost money after multiple uses.
* To get back to Tortage, you can only use the Tortage smuggler from your home city.
* You don't get to use rezzpads until you find and walk on them, there is usually one at each quest hub. 2-4 in each over-world zone
* You have two weapon load outs, shift-r switches between them.
* Pressing "r" will reply to whomever sent you a /tell last.
* shift-t brings up your tradeskill recipes

The amount of stuff on a mob's health window indicates it's level
Normal: nothing
MiniBoss: a few spikes on one side
Boss: red and spikes on both sides
Group mob: Four red wings
Group boss mob: Six red wings
Group boss mob 2: Six red wings and vertical bones

[Fairweather Pure]

Any good custom UIs out there yet?

[noel]

I know I've read about a couple, but I haven't done any research on them yet. My thinking is that with the game so new, and Funcom seemingly committed to patching their shit as quickly as possible (they're doing a fantastic job imho), I don't wanna go with a custom UI just yet.

If I see any more links to them, I'll post them here.

[Spang]

I figured out a fix to the duplicate/perma-fading buff icon problem. Alt-Z will remove the UI, so all you see is the game. When you Alt-Z again, it will bring back the UI but without all the duplicate/perma-fading buff icons. Until they fix it permanently, it's a quick and simple fix.

[noel]

UI Mods (note: I cannot vouch for the quality or functionality of any of them):

MirageUI
Screenshot: http://ledmirage.net/files/aoc/AoC_Mira ... 2_SS01.jpg
Download: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=19979

WerikUI
Screenshot: http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/re ... 29/210.jpg
Download: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=23081


Others: Check out the official UI mods forum: http://forums.ageofconan.com/forumdisplay.php?f=69

[Aardor]

I love Werik UI:

http://www.ns-guild.org/ui.jpg

[noel]

For my own clarification... the only thing different is the (much better) hotbar layout and the much better status bars for you and your target?

IMHO, the most glaring UI fuckups are the minimap, and the inability to have more than one set of quest objectives being actively tracked.

[Trias]

i feel like there is some kind of secret campaign to force an AoC sub forum...