Want to know what's in the pipeline for Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures? Well, this week a number of major updates will be hitting the test server which should give players a quick look at what we're going to be getting soon.

According to QA Tester Haven on the test live forums, parts of the PvP Consequence system (which include PvP progression, PvP Notoriety, and the first tier of PvP armor) as well as more memory leak fixes are already available for testing. Note that both of these changes will not be making it into the live patch this week.

In other news, Senior Community Manager Oliver "Tarib" Kunz also revealed that we will be getting some instance changes as well as resource zone updates in the test live servers later this week.

The instance changes include "wide improvements of the encounters and dangers" in the Pyramid of the Ancients. In addition, expect some balancing fixes in Toirdebach's Tomb such as repositioning of some mobs which should make this punishing instance much more manageable.

The resource zone updates, on the other hand, adds more resource nodes to Lacheish Plains, Purple Lotus Swamp, and Poitain. You can also expect to find new camps which should make upping one's tradeskills much easier.

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