With Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures launch just over the horizon, and open beta is here! Anticipation is growing and new discussion is flooding the forums daily. The community has been heavily discussing new topics and old with countless new threads. With all the renewed discussion taking place it can be a challenging job to find that good discussion or one great nugget of information as you sift through a sea of dramatic posts and endless rants. Let Ten Ton hammer do it for you. This week we take a look at some of the top threads and best discussion in the Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures community.

Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures is just a short two and a half weeks away and Ten Ton Hammer's Border Kingdom Cryer is covering it every step of the way. This week we continue the Cryer countdown to launch, and to add to the excitement, AoC has reached open beta. As of this issue we stand at 19 days to launch and 16 days if you're on the head start countdown. The launch date is lingering around the corner either way, and discussion is raging on the official forum as players everywhere are anxiously waiting for the gates of Hyboria to open. The gag order from the NDA on journalist has been lifted and you can expect a flood of information to be coming out of the AoC Ten Ton Hammer site. With all the discussion and chatter it can be difficult to find those great pieces of discussion and those ever so rare nuggets of info as you sift through an endless sea of dramatic posts and flaming rants. Let Ten Ton Hammer do it for you. Join us as we take a look at some of the best discussions and save you the trauma of reading through the drama. Open beta is here, AoC Ten Ton Hammer releases loads of class information, Open Beta talk, Lost in Hyboria returns, all this and more in this week's Border Kingdom Cryer.

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