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Conan Exiles - Age of Sorcery Walkthrough.

How to become the strongest Sorcerer of them all!

Conan Exiles - Age of Sorcery

Conan the Barbarian’s magic finally comes into play. However, it works differently than you know it from typical MMOs. You cannot throw a fireball at the push of a button, you must prepare your learned spells. Sometimes ritual sacrifices are also necessary or other resources that you as a sorcerer should carry with you.

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How to obtain Sorcery

Your first step as a future wizard should be to seek out the NPC sorcerers scattered around the world. They usually stay alone or in pairs in various camps. If you have defeated a Sorcerer, you might have looted a Dead Sorcerer's Map. Note. If this note is used F, a section of the main Map is displayed.

Once you have received the map, you can go to the location on the map. This is a cave, which is only guarded by a few wild creatures. At the end of this cave, you will find an altar and a magic book. If you interact with this, you will learn your first two spells directly, you will receive your own magic book and a magic wand.

Locations for the Sorcerers can be found on the The Pack Conan Exiles, Isle of Siptah, and Savage Wilds interactive maps found at: THE PACK CONAN EXILES UNIVERSE

The Basic Sorcery (Knowledge)

By Interacting with the Book on the Table and you will learn: Basic Sorcery (Knowledge) as well as your first two spells:

  • Word of Power: Reveal Corruption (Knowledge)

  • Word of Power: Ice Bridge (Knowledge)

  • The recipe for the Arcane Staff

  • The recipe for the Thaumaturgy Bench

  • The recipe for the Burlap Pouch

  • The recipe for the Cloth Pouch

  • The recipe for the Leather Pouch

If you have made a wand you can now equip it and wield it. You can start with the magic with the attack button. You have to know that all spells are divided into different schools of magic. Once you start casting, runes will appear in front of you for you to target. If you choose one of them, it will continue and more runes will appear. The spell is only cast when the second rune is chosen. With more devastating spells, you sometimes have to choose more than 2 runes.

  • 1 rune: choice of magic school

    • Time and Space

    • Life, Death and Undeath

    • Summoning and controlling demons

    • Nature and Reality

    • Illusions

  • 2 Rune: Choose the spell or sub-category for stronger spells

  • 3 rune or up: choose a spell.

That sounds more complicated than it actually is. But once you get the hang of it, it takes less than a few seconds to cast a spell.

That’s the cost of magic

Sorcery is now one of the strongest skills you can acquire in Conan Exiles. These don’t come without a price, however. For the smaller spells, you often need different types of bags, which you can loot from the satchels of NPC magicians. Larger spells increase your own corruption. And even if you shed your corruption through dancers, as usual, you need a certain level of corruption for stronger spells.

For the new players: You can recognize the corruption by your health and stamina bars. A purple area opens up in these, reducing your maximum stamina and life points. So you become a frailer but at the same time a powerful magician. Literally, a glass cannon.

With a higher corruption, you can now improve your attributes and thus unlock new bonuses, at the price of corruption. The power of the corrupted perks will require sacrificing living humans, and by doing so you will be able to earn Soul Essence to use these perks.

However, this causes your corruption to remain permanent the more you use it to improve your attributes, once corrupted perks are unlocked, your corruption will be locked to that level, and only resetting your attributes will cleanse the corruption.

By the way, you can tell the degree of corruption of your character by looking at it.

Upgrading the Tome of Kurak

When you interacted with the spell book in the cave, you also unlocked the recipe for the thaumaturgy table. Your magical workbench, so to speak, with which you can expand your magic book.

As you continue to fill your book with spells, you will also learn new recipes using the Words of Power. With these Words of Power you will learn how to craft the Sacrificial Stone and the Circle of Power.

You can offer blood sacrifices to get souls and blood or summon beasts, for which you then need the sacrificial blood. If you place a sorcerer slave at your table, you can use failed sorcerous spell pages to craft the spell pages needed for upgrades. So don’t throw them away if you find them on other sorcerers.

To learn more Words of Power, you can upgrade your Tome of Kurak up to 15 times.

The following table will show you, which Ingredients you need and what you get taught. Note: Resources Required can vary depending on Server Settings.

SpellBook Level
Resources Required
Spells Obtained.
Skills Obtained

Spellbook without any upgrades

Ice Bridge – Creates a long bridge of ice that you can use to traverse chasms. Detect Corruption – Shows you nearby corrupted objects and creatures.

Spellbook Level I

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 1x Putrid Meat, 1x Stone

Embed Wisp – Creates a firefly that casts light at the target location. Imbue Wisp – Creates a firefly that casts light around you.

Blood Rite –Drain the blood of a captured NPC at the Sacrificial Stone. Soul Drain –Pull the soul out of the body of a captured NPC at the Sacrificial Stone.

Spellbook Level II

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 1x Feral Flesh, 5x Feather

Slow Fall: Surrounds you with an aura that causes you to fall more slowly.

Spellbook Level III

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 1x Savoury Flesh, 10x Glowing Goop

Abyssal Horse: Summons a Demonic Horse at the Circle of Power.(Needs: 1x Sacrificial Blood, 10x Demon Blood, 10x Bone) Abyssal Rhino: Summons a Demonic Rhino at the Circle of Power.(Needs: 1x Sacrificial Blood, 10x Demon Blood, 5x Horn)

Spellbook Level IV

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 1x Human Flesh, 15x Volatile Gland

Wall of Fire: Creates a wall of liquid rock and lava that you can use to block paths.

Spellbook Level V

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 5x Blood, 20x Brimstone

Creeping Darkness: Darkens the room around you and hides you in the shadows. Randomly distributed cobwebs also slow down your opponents.

Spellbook Level VI

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 10x Blood, 15x Alchemical Base

Mass Cull: Harvests resources in a large area around you. Detect Ressources: Makes ores around you glow.

Spellbook Level VII

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 15x Blood, 1x Weathered Skull

Summon Corpse: Summons your own corpse at the Circle of Power.

Spellbook Level VIII

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 20x Blood, 20x Weathered Skull

Call of the Dead: Envelopes the area in a dense fog and summons many zombies to fight for you.

Raise Dead: Resurrects a dead person at the Shallow Grave for you to keep as slave.

Spellbook Level IX

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 10x Demon Blood, 10x Grey Lotus Powder

Mirror Mark: Creates a clone of you that attracts enemies. Invisibility Self: Makes yourself invisible. Conceal Corruption: Covers your own visual corruption, so others don’t see how strong you are as a caster.

Spellbook Level X

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 15x Demon Blood, 5x Soul Essence

Elixir of Rebirth: An elixir that allows NPCs to learn physical and mental skills without training. Can be crafted at the alchemy table.

Spellbook Level XI

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 20x Demon Blood, 5x Sacrificial Blood in a flask

Call of Nergal: Summons a bat that allows you to fly with.

Abyssal Call: Summons a demonic entity at the Circle of Power.

Spellbook Level XII

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 30x Demon Blood, 20x Dragonhorn

Abyssal Bow: Summons a Demonic Bow at the Circle of Power that you can equip for 12 hours. Abyssal Maul: Summons a Demonic Mace at the Circle of Power that you can equip for 12 hours.

Spellbook Level XIII

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 20x Black Blood, 10x Dragonpowder

Abyssal Armor: Summons Demonic Armor at the Circle of Power that you can equip for 12 hours.

Spellbook Level XIV

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 30x Black Blood, 5x Fragment of Power

Lightning Storm: Summons a thunderstorm of destructive lightning around you.

Spellbook Level XV

Tome of Kurak, 1x Sorcerous Spell Page, 50x Black Blood, 100x Witchfire Powder

Transportory Stone: This allows you to build a teleport stone circle that connects you to other built teleport stones.

Words of Power

Words of Power are sorcery spells formed using a Focus, such as the Arcane Staff. Words are spoken as they are selected from floating stones etched with mystical symbols.

Divination

"Part the veil of time and space to glimpse the past, present, and future."

Reveal Corruption

"Reveal nearby corrupted objects and those with arcane corruption."

No casting cost.

This spell is currently bugged and does nothing other than cause a purple rippling effect at the edges of the screen. Lasts for five minutes or until the Arcane Staff is put away.

Detect Resources

1 Burlap pouch

"Focus on rare resources in the natural world, revealing nearby deposits."

Causes uncommon and rare resource nodes to glow with ghostly waves that can be seen through solid objects. Lasts for one minute. Crystal and Star Metal Ore cannot be detected.

Necromancy

"Wield the forces of life, death, and undeath."

Imbue Wisp

"The sorcerer imbues a soul onto their own flesh, illuminating their path."

  • Burlap Pouch x1

Summons a glowing green wisp that follows the player, acting as a hands-free light source. Lasts for one and a half minutes.

Embed Wisp

"The sorcerer imbues a soul onto a fixed point, illuminating the area."

  • Burlap Pouch x1

Launches a wisp in the direction the player is aiming until it collides with a solid object to act as a short-lasting localized light source. Lasts one minute.

Escalate

  • 20% Corruption

Escalate

  • 40% Corruption

  • Leather Pouch x1

Call of the Dead

"Call forth a terrible fog and undead horde within."

  • 40% Corruption

  • Leather Pouch x1

Causes the area about 80 meters around the player to be filled with a dense fog while numerous zombies raise from the ground. Each zombie is quite weak, only having 100 health each. The zombies will wander around in the fog aimlessly until an enemy is detected. Lasts for three minutes, but zombies will begin dying randomly after around two minutes. This is an area of effect spell that can be countered by any other area of effect spell.

Demonology

"Summon and control demons."

Escalate

  • 20% Corruption

Call of Nergal

"Call forth a bat demon from the abyss."

  • 20% Corruption

  • Cloth Pouch x1

Summons a bat demon that picks the player up and can fly them around for a short time. The bat demon cannot be summoned in a confined environment. The bat demon has 400 stamina, which drains quite rapidly - and even more so when gaining elevation, which can be done with the jump button. Running out of stamina, colliding with any solid object, nearing the ground, or pressing the crouch button will cause the bat demon to drop the player.

Illusion

"Make the unreal seem real to trick the five senses."

Conceal Corruption

"Conceal the physical effects of corruption."

  • Burlap Pouch x1

Causes the player's features to remain unchanged when they become corrupted. The effect is permanent until this spell is cast again.

Escalate

  • 20% Corruption

Mirror Mark

"The sorcerer splinters its soul to conjure a mirror duplicate that enrages enemies."

  • 20% Corruption

  • Cloth Pouch x1

Creates an ethereal clone of the player nearby that strongly draws the aggro of enemies. Although the clone only has 100 health, it is immune from damage. The clone does not attack or move around, but will go through the motions of casting spells, the clone glows in the dark, & lasts four minutes.

Invisibility Self

"The sorcerer channels the power of illusion to render themselves unable to be seen."

  • 20% Corruption

  • Cloth Pouch x1

Turns the player invisible. NPCs cannot see the player, even if one stands directly in front of them. However, enemies that were already aware of the player prior to casting the spell will not be fooled. To other players, an invisible sorcerer will look like a glassy figure, see-through but visible, especially if moving. Attacking or interacting with objects will cancel the effect, but drawing weapons, climbing, and taking damage will not. Lasts five minutes or until cancelled

Thaumaturgy

"Shape the raw forces of nature and reality itself."

Ice Bridge

"Summon a frozen bridge to traverse a gap."

  • Burlap Pouch x1

Creates a temporary bridge out of ice in the direction the player is aiming. Cannot cast this spell while standing on an ice bridge, disallowing the construction of extensions. Maximum range is approximately eight blocks. Lasts forty seconds.

Slow Fall

"Conjure gusts of air to slow descent and make it safe to fall from any height."

  • Burlap Pouch x1

Slows falling speed, allowing the player to fall from great heights without taking damage. This spell also affects jumping, allowing one to jump higher and farther than normal. Lasts one minute.

Escalate

  • 20% Corruption

Mass Cull

"Harvests and recalls minerals in an area around the caster."

  • 20% Corruption

  • Cloth Pouch x1

Harvests all resources up to a distance of 30 meters around the player. Harvesting power is approximately equal to a steel Pickaxe, though it is not equivalent to any actual tool.

Creeping Darkness

"Channel pure darkness and terror to surround your being."

  • 20% Corruption

  • Cloth Pouch x1

Causes a dense darkness filled with spider webs and sounds of nonexistent monsters in an area 80 meters around the player. Walking over spider webs significantly slows movement speed. Bright sources of light, such as Radium Gem Standing Torches will greatly reduce the effectiveness of the darkness. Lasts one minute. This is an area of effect spell that can be countered by any other area of effect spell.

Wall of Fire

"Summon molten magma from the planet's core, causing it to erupt from the ground."

  • 20% Corruption

  • Cloth Pouch x1

Creates a wall of lava about six blocks wide that prevents passage and slowly drains health when close. Lasts one minute.

Escalate

  • 40% Corruption

Lightning Storm

"Harness the primal forces of raw nature by calling forth a lightning storm."

  • 40% Corruption

  • Leather Pouch x1

Creates a lightning storm about 40 meters around the player with 1-4 random lightning strikes every six seconds. Lightning inflicts random damage and can cause damage at range to multiple creatures or objects near a strike. Lasts two minutes. This is an area of effect spell that can be countered by any other area of effect spell.

"The above was knowledge accumulated from The Official Conan Exiles Wiki, Apex Hosting - Conan Exiles Beginner Guide, and the knowledge and experience of playing Conan Exiles for over 3 years."

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