"Secrets" of Tortage

Most people have gone through Tortage a few times.  Including characters I've deleted, I'm guessing I have run around the Barachan Isle more than twenty times (including a few times to make notes for guides and such).  Despite its familiarity, it's still one of my favorite places in the game.  Partly due to characters you interact with and partially because the area was so detailed and full of interesting quests.

This post is going to focus on a few special quests.  Special because it requires the completion of another quest before it becomes available, its reward is a blue item, or both.  There's also a few Night bosses sprinkled about White Sands Island, the Volcano, and the Underhalls.

Introduction to Combat in Age of Conan

For almost anyone who's made it to the city of Tortage, parts of this post well seem fairly obvious.  However, there have been several review videos where the reviewer didn't seem to get the most basic concept of combat in AoC: Combos.


Just using directional attacks, while doing a bit of damage won't get you much past the jungle of Tortage before the game's inhabitants will overwhelm you like a pack of Cimmerians attacking the Aquilonian outpost of Fort Venarium.