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Steven Sharif, our Creative Director, did a live Community Q&A with Jamie Kaos, LoreForged, NyceGaming, and Vlhadus. Timestamps are below for your ease!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:35 Guild Tools in Ashes of Creation
08:58 Story Arcs and Player Level
10:21 How Large and Intricate will Dungeons be?
13:54 Size of the Tulnar Civilization
16:07 Customization and Diversity for Tanks and Healers
22:00 Mechanisms Against Node Griefing
26:25 Costs and Benefits of Active Blocking
28:46 Discoverable Dialect in Ashes of Creation
32:01 Trial Quests For Archetypes
34:54 Passive Skills Available to Smaller Guilds
38:09 What is the Intended Time to Kill in PVP?
41:43 What Does Trade Look Like Outside of Economic Nodes?
44:27 What do Different Types of Nodes Look Like and How Many will be in Alpha 2?
46:51 Raid Difficulty with PVP
50:30 Zerging Vs Scaling Difficulty
52:29 Guild Freeholds in Ashes of Creation
54:47 How Does the Rogue Stealth Mechanic Work?
57:19 Flexibility of the Crafting System with Grandmaster Stations
59:09 Weapon Type List and Dual-Wielding
1:02:31 What is the Average Person on Vera’s Experience with the Essence?
1:04:43 Outro & Content Creator Plugs
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Thank you guys so much for doing this. It was a ton of fun! Can't wait for the next one! 😉🤣
PS: Guardian/Guardian=Juggernaut 😎😂
Thank god they didn’t invite Narc.
I would like dungeons to be 50% open and 50% instanced. I hope they never go into the direction of Mythic+ from WoW.
Would love to hear more about the vision for Naval combat at some point. If it will be casting spells, swimming over to other ships to do melee combat and board them, or if naval combat is intended to only be ship abilities without our roles being able to interact with other ships hit points or occupants. I haven't played the older mmo's like Lineage used for inspiration. So it would be nice to hear more about what pvp zone combat will look like on the waterways.
gotta say a lot was answered and nothing was found out
so when is this game coming out?
As someone who loves to off-tank support I really hope we can get the ability to hybrid properly when running something like Siren or even Sentinel, I would love to see some real variety in this game. The universal skill tree gives me hope for hybrid class options. Can't wait to see what we can cook up.
Beta 1 by 2018 btw.
Maybe stop releasing cosmetics and actually work on the game 🤷
what about gold (currency sellers ) I don't think any game delt with them. you know your going to have them from day 1
Great Job content creators. Best AMA ever. Really thoughtful questions, which got at many previously unknown things. Your passion for the game is very evident.
There are DPS, Tanks, Healers, and Support like bards but are there classes that specialize in CC?
When we wil can play this game?
What an amazing AMA best one yet! We need MORE!
Still…. Narc is the best….
I think it would be a good idea for an arena of some type so players can PVP in a safe place and doesn't affect player corruption.
Forgive Narc. Haven't seen those undies in a while lol. Would love to see him on one of these!
Because the summoner and Rogue won't be there for the start up of alpha 2 . Can the other classes acquire a few skills of the rogue and summoner skills like stealth, lockpick, treasure finding, and summon some creatures to fight alongside them in battle. Skills that may not be as powerful as their counterparts skill and once we have those two classes you can give them a few more skills like a grabbing hook skill, summoning contracts that allows the summoner to summon anyone who has a contact with them wither it be players, npc, or tame beast.
I feel like there needs to be a portable crafting workshop.
Will there be unique free holds or magical ones that could be a portable magic bag that players can take with them or a floating island and will there be different rankings of freehold?
This AMA was such a treat! I’m eagerly looking forward to the eventual release date and grateful to have a leadership as dedicated and inspired as the AOC community itself ✊🏽
40:50 Just want to point out that the TTK question Steven replied with "skill over number with lower TTK" it's not exactly what the reality tell us. Because he didn't consider multiple targets attacking you at once so your TTK in a 1 vs 3 doesn't work in your favor if the fights don't last as long or CC spam. Throne & Liberty has this issue and don't think Ashes will be any different. Long was the time that zergs were that desorganized. The way TL is currently trying to handle this is by having a faction based anonymous combat in some pvp events.
To me shields can be used as a weapon if you know how to use them right along with another weapon.
Breath of fresh air. Stephen actually gives honest in depth responses to questions. Rare to see that in a dev.
When AGS does AMA it typically turns into the opposite of an AMA(almost)A, which is antithetical to what an AMA is supposed to be.
Bumping the algor
Steven, please, I'm begging you. Stop smacking your mouth every 5 seconds. This video is entirely unwatchable because of it. I, like millions of other people, suffer from Misophonia. The noise that you are making triggers a fight or flight response. You frequently make this noise in other streams you do, but it was so off the hook here that I literally have to pass on watching this info…
Thank you for having us! We had such a wonderful time with everyone involved!! <3
Truly an amazing AMA ! Thanks a lot for these great questions and pieces of information!
I wish they would have asked about arcane engineering
Can players or Guilds take control of dungeons after achieving a score of SSS on hell mode.
Never saw some of those CC before. What about NARC?
Can you have throwing weapon as your long range weapon like ninja stars, throwing knifes, or chakram?
I'm so glad Narc was not part of this.
Some great questions with a good deal of new information. 👍
No longer chances to pledge?