Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Bard Archetype Preview



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We are extremely excited to give you an early preview of the Bard Archetype in Ashes of Creation! This 4K video is just a taste of what’s to come!

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36 thoughts on “Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Bard Archetype Preview”

  1. Thank you everyone for tuning in! As always, this is still a work in progress towards our Alpha II starting in October. Lighting is in the middle of a significant revamp, so some areas may be too dark and VFX overexposed, we are working on that and will have more updates next month. Leave us your thoughts on what you enjoyed about the Bard Archetype for Alpha II. What would you change? We do these updates to hear your thoughts! Excited to see you all in A2 soon enough! Much Love <3

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  2. Bard looks great visually and great to play but in being a buffer IMO he needs a huge buff. For now i think another DPS would be more impactful in party than a bard but it is probably gonna be adressed with some numbers changed on some skills and a party with 2 bard could do some cool lineup options when buffed. Gonna be hard choice to pick a class.

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  3. Loved the live stream and thank you for this youtube upload as always. I am most interested to know how bard as a secondary archetype will affect your class. I reckon we still have a while before we get the augments stream, but in case you have some information you can share, can you give us some examples of how the secondary bard archetype might affect say a fighter's abilities? Perhaps in the AMA?

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  4. The lighting looks good in the world but when you add the VFX of the spells it feels like it is layered on top of everything else which makes it hard to see what's happening instead of living in the world. It should light up dark rooms with the color of the spells.

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  5. as somebody who had a Sword Singer main in Lineage for years, i cant wait to see what bard is going to be like.
    The Blade Dancer and Sword Singer were both party bards in that game, that were so important – any part of 9 members would allmost never do any group activity without these two bards.
    And to put it into perspective how important those two bards were – if the other party has 8 members +1 bard, and your party had 7 members +2 bards, the two bard party would allmost allways win the pvp 9vs9 fight, unless the enemy was way too overgeared. Both bards had a synergy with each other, like one would buff crits chance and speed, but other bard crit damage and attack speed.

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  6. Unpopular opinion here but I think some abilities look too mage-like. Understand this is maybe just my opinion again but expected instruments being more present and generally a more rogue-ish bard maybe? Don't get me wrong, loved the dance animations and the tome looks sick, is just that honestly it feels off-putting to see a bard shooting purple magic with a book as a whole.

    This should be a game design decision but yeah, was expecting a more trickster-style bard fantasy.
    Keep it up with the nice work though, very excited for the game.

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  7. If you want to see a really well done bard look at how Project Gorgon does it. It's *amazing*. The first time I started playing music during a boss fight and the music synced up I was like OOOOOOOOOOOH and now bard is my main.

    Really, check it out. Brilliantly done.

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  8. Can you make it so that when the support select a person in the group frame, the selected person (name, health bar and mana bar at the left of the screen) is surrounded in yellow, to see in a better way who we select ?
    Can you show the healthbar of our allies with another color, like idk purple, when they have a debuff which cleric can cleanse ?
    Can we display ourself in the group frame ?
    And can we select people in the group with hotkeys like F1, F2, F3 etc.?
    Thanks

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  9. Awesome showcase! Not my cup of tea, but judging by the comments it seems most are very happy with the bard. My only concern is how well this Archetype will play solo. Guess we will have to see, and keep up the AWESOME work Intrepid. You guys are just killing it!!!!

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  10. I am absolutely excited about this class! The fighter video was awesome but seeing how beautiful these abilities look, sound and considering the amount of power the bard brings to a big group of players, I might main the bard actually. 🙂

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  11. I’ve read that others have voiced this concern. How will the Bard function solo? If I’m out and about all by my lonesome, picking some herbs. Am I considered easy pickings?

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