Anyone playing Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will probably have heard about the problems regarding the attack speed and damage per second of female characters. Well, one of Funcom's devs, Svein Erik Jenset, who goes by the handle Sharum on the official forums, released a rather lengthy post explaining the problem, why it's taking so long to fix it, and what solutions they have in mind.

Apparently, there is more to the attack speed problem than people would expect. Regular attacks, he pointed out can easily be fixed by simply lessening the length of the female character animations (which Sharum noted, was longer than that found in male characters).

However, the problem with the combo attacks is a different story altogether. The damage of combo attacks are based on multiple factors as Sharum explained. Here's what he had to say about it:

there are suddenly several factors that come into play when determining the final damage. I won’t be wasting too much time in this update to go into detail about every factor, but to quickly list a few they would be stat/modifier/multiplier (which in turn depends on class, level and weapon equipped), length of animation and, although irrelevant to this exact issue any longer, amount of steps in a combo sequence.