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crystal beacon
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So you cant work towards endgame, since endgame always changes?

oak depot
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Nodes open up new quests as they develop

crystal beacon
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But quests are mandatory to do? Its not sandbox styled designed?

oak depot
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Quests are not mandatory ever... the player base can choose not to do them... in that case the node atrophies and eventually delevels and potentially disappears

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as the node progresses to higher node stages though (from 0 to 6) it unlocks more higher-level content

zealous spear
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Will the game have enchantments and glows like Lineage 2?

oak depot
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once a node achieves stage 4 it can exert enough influence to enslave nearby lower-stage nodes as Vassal nodes thus exerting it's influence over them

misty condor
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3 lv

fading latch
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@oak depot some corrections. Its 0-6 and they enslave at stage 3

misty condor
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it start on 3lv

fair yew
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Yes to enchants and glows

oak depot
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I don't think level 3 nodes can enslave

crystal beacon
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But what do i do if i want to play the game as a raider? I do have to do these quests to contribute to it? Are raids locked behind the node system, so it fluctuates what content i can do? Is there static content that wont change and you can rely on?

stoic charm
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@crystal beacon the end game is to ensure your node stays the strongest to make sure you get the best “end game” opportunities without having to travel vast distances from your home node

oak depot
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they can be enslaved, but it has to be greater than 3 to enslave

zealous spear
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@fair yew yes as in confirmed or yes as in you want them too?

crystal beacon
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Im just wondering, if this is an mmorpg where i can work towards something that wont change constantly adjusting my playstyle

fair yew
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There will be glows and enchants confirmed

zealous spear
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@fair yew awesome thank you very much!

oak depot
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AoC is designed a very dynamic player-driven MMO

fair yew
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AoC will have tons of change but there will be raid dungeons etc if that is your focus

oak depot
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but high-level raid dungeons will require higher-level nodes to exist spawning said high-level dungeons within their zone of influence

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so yes, @crystal beacon as a raider it is in your interest to contribute no node advancement so that higher-level raid content becomes available. Also, if another group has declared a siege on a node providing content you want to continue doing, it is in your interest to help defend the node against the siege so you don't lose access to the raid content you are interested in

fair yew
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They don’t really spawn the dungeon they unlock them

wanton fox
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End game is a concept not a list of tasks

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thats the driving point of the node system

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ever changing

fair yew
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You can assist the leveling of a node through killing monsters fishing and gathering etc. you dont have to quest

wanton fox
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Basically all actions withing a node will contribute xp towards it

crystal beacon
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and depending what it is, combat, questing, exploring it will change the outcome of what node will be developed, and a node is like a city that offers content in it and surrounding areas?

ruby swift
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@crystal beacon The node type is set from zero. Whatever type of exp you contribute has no bearing on that.

full badger
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The node types are all predetermined

heady ocean
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whats up sry if this question has gotten an answer already but im new here :D, wil there be a way to know how the classes and classes archtypes skills will look or feel before or at the moment we jump in the game?

oak depot
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static is the term

full badger
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whats up sry if this question has gotten an answer already but im new here :D, wil there be a way to know how the classes and classes archtypes skills will look or feel before or at the moment we jump in the game
@heady ocean there will no doubt be tons of footage of all the classes and guides on everything by the time the game launches

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Right now we know hardly anything

oak depot
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@heady ocean they plan to release all skills and augments for each of the 64 classes before release. So you will have the info. For how it "feels" it will require you to review streamer footage (or participate in Alpha/Beta gameplay yourself).

crystal beacon
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will the alpha 1 that is scheduled to be released to the backers show a node developing?

ruby swift
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@heady ocean There will be various streamers all through the alpha and beta phases so people can get an idea that way. They have also toyed with the idea of a separate instance where you could try out various archetypes and classes in an instanced environment as a preview, but no confirmation on that or if it will be prior to launch.

oak depot
reef osprey
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@crystal beacon yes, nodes will be part of the alpha

ruby swift
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And we have already seen on develop from 0 to 1 in previous testing end of May.

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That was not prompted by a dev action.

oak depot
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Nodes can progress to Stage 3 in Alpha-1 according to latest wiki info (used to be Stage 4)

heady ocean
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ty nice ive seen most of the development videos and will likely play the alfas

crystal beacon
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@ruby swift is that footage public? Can i look it up?

full badger
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No, it's under NDA right now

crystal beacon
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aww ok 😢

ruby swift
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Nope, that was not part of the footage from Stevens run. That was the other testers. We got around 40 people all grinding in a single node and "popped" it after around two hours of work. We can talk about it, but still under visual nda for those test.

crystal beacon
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i think i will just understand it better if i see it

full badger
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Don't worry, there will be plenty of time for that

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The number of people jumping on the Ashes streaming/CC bandwagon is insane right now

crystal beacon
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I never heard of it until yesterday, when Youtube suddenly decided to give me 12 recommended videos in my feed all about Ashes of Creation

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tried to go through the whole wiki yesterday and today

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Its mildly interesting but i dont understand much of it

oak depot
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@crystal beacon watch the Lazy Peon video if you haven't to get a comprehensive over-view

crystal beacon
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i think thats the first one i saw, the one with a British accent?

main raptor
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@ruby swift 2 hours with 40 people seems really short

ruby swift
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That is what people here can help you with. If you are not a reading person I recommend Ashes101.com. Jahlon here does a series of easy to digest by topic videos

main raptor
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That @simple ether plug

ruby swift
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@main raptor Nothing during these tests is balanced in any way.

main raptor
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@ruby swift sure but I do hope it was noticed that 2 hours with 40 people is nothing

ruby swift
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They have targets for how long they want it to take, they will adjust.

crystal beacon
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To be clear here, they are not Kickstarter only mmorpg, correct? They have private funding too that surpasses most Kickstarter budgets?

earnest knoll
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I mean he deserves it tbh @main raptor mans put tonnes of work in for the community

ruby swift
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40 mill so far, not counting the KS and package sales has been commited by the owner.

crystal beacon
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meaning, its a real ambitious project with decent backing?

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ok

oak depot
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$40 mil is not that much to be had

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the average decent software developer salary in San Diego is around $250k. With approaching a 100 developers working at intrepid.. even assuming they all equally make $200k each.. thats $20 mil a year in salary expenditure

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and the good developers make a lot more than $200k / year

ruby swift
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It is actually 60-100k according to Google

crystal beacon
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Does the publisher not invest in the project, or is it only funded by the studio?

ruby swift
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But this becomes a discussion instead of questions.

crystal beacon
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i apologize

oak depot
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I don't know... I was getting offers starting at $250k and I wasn't even looking and don't consider myself an amazing developer.. but you are right, we digress

full badger
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btw guys, friendly reminder that this channel is for questions and answers. Having extra discussion on top of that clogs up the channel and makes it harder to answer the actual questions. Please use the #aoc-discussion and #general-discussion channels for discussions

sharp hare
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@crystal beacon They are self publishing

ruby swift
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The publishing deal with My.Games brought some resources to the table. The details were not made public.

crystal beacon
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Im sorry last question

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is my.games the western version of mail.ru?

ruby swift
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Nah, you can ask questions as much as you like

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon the european daughter company, yes

ruby swift
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Yes. My.Games is the EU arm of Mail.ru

crystal beacon
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so the EU client is published and ran by my.com?

ruby swift
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Nope, complete creative control retained by Intrepid.

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon published yes, ra no

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ran no

ruby swift
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They handle accounts and the EU population. They have no say in the monetization or game directions.

crystal beacon
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That doesnt really incite any enthusiasm from me though haha, dont really have good experiences with that publisher. A shame, really. Thanks a lot for the answers, im gonna look up this Ashes101 thing, thanks a lot everyone

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon
they provide servers and
customer support
that's pretty much it

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@crystal beacon
my.com customer support is better than most publishers

what they had problems with in the past: Cash Shop monetization (that's out of their control) and Data Security (which they had to fix due to GDPR)

ruby swift
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@crystal beacon They were the only one at the time willing to put Steven's term down on ink. They have specific metrics they have to meet concerning server performance and such or it will go away. They probably see it as a chance to change their reputation for the better. Everyone wins. Unless they screw it up.

reef osprey
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Ashes is a "print money" machine for My.com
just gotta maintain it

crystal beacon
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so the NA game version is published by this game studio itself?

wispy locust
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Correct

reef osprey
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correct

oak depot
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@reef osprey "Hi, is this my.com customer support?", "yes, how can we help you?", "I have a problem with XYZ currently...", "sorry to hear that, we are currently experiencing heavy volume. Please send 50 euros to the following account if you would like your issues prioritized ..." (just kidding... but maybe I'm not)....

misty condor
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they are based in california according to wiki

crystal beacon
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Then i will play on NA if this game shapes up to be good by launch

misty condor
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moving to canada Kappa

crystal beacon
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Haha not taking risks with that EU publisher

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Thanks a lot guys

ruby swift
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Your welcome. Come back if you need more answers, someone is always around.

reef osprey
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@oak depot nah
i've played 3 of their games, never had any CS issues.

they even refunded my revelation online purchase after a month or so

wispy locust
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Yeah, idk about My.com being good lol. Rev launch, they sniped a ton of money from people for in-game currently. Then never delivered the stuff in game.

reef osprey
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everybody knew rev was gonna be a cash grab, all the eastern imports are

paper orbit
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my.com has also been down for the european shop for ages now so if they cant even handle a shop how can we be sure the servers will be stable

earnest knoll
oak depot
crystal beacon
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I guess we can expect the class blogs before alpha 1 so quite soon?

ruby swift
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MK addressed this in the livestream. As soon as the Design team gives her what she has asked for she will finish them and release them. Until then. We wait.

cedar thicket
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$200k a year? @oak depot Sorry man

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But that's too much

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The majority of developers have way lower wages

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some of them even have the so called "slave wages"

oak depot
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Okay fine. $100k then. 100 devs * 100k = $10mil a year. That doesn’t include any other costs either.

misty condor
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good luck only for them

crystal beacon
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As long as they don't turn out like chronicles of elyria

ruby swift
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Already a step beyond them. We have had a playable product for a long while that people have touched outside of the development team.

crystal beacon
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@simple ether so they are still workin together? no chance for eu publisher change?

reef osprey
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@ruby swift not just a step, CoE never even delivered proof of concept
they just wrote stories

tulip hatch
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Intrepid has not given any hint of changing publishers, the only thing stated is that theyre investigating the issues on their site.
We will get an update with more information when theyre ready to provide it @crystal beacon

reef osprey
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Them going away would mean that would mean my.games is in breach of contract.

Considering, that the obligations for my.games should be rather shallow pre-alpha, i'd not think it's realistic at all

crystal beacon
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thier social media accounts are dead for a long time, site isnt working properly

oak depot
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To be clear, I am not worried about Intrepid not having enough funding. I am sure they are fine. Steven says they are fine. My reply was more the $40mil comment. Steven messaged on discord a few says back while attending a PI meeting. PI to me means Private Investors. So I am positive they can secure extra funding if they need it.

crystal beacon
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Do the site works for anyone?

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They keep saying' some users '

frozen tartan
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PI means Phoenix Initiative and refers to one of the higher tiers in the kickstarter campaign

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Steven is the sole investor of Intrepid Studio

unreal zealot
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"private investors" xD sorry i can see why you would think that but its still funny.

crystal beacon
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idk, they have shit reputation, there suposed to be good contract and they promised better quality of support, yet they are as shit as always since years now 🙂

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bad servers, security problems, cheating will destroy game, no matter how good the game will be

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Is mycom a dictator in terms of mmorpgs in eu? Or why has nobody else accepted the contract for aoc

teal lion
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Have they mentioned which phase they are gonna put time in the combat. A lot of people question the combat as being slowed and scuffed when comparing to BDO combat.

tulip hatch
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nyaLove Intrepid is investigating the issues with my.games, we will get an update when theyre ready to provide it to the community

Please take discussions/comments to the appropriate channels #aoc-discussion or #general-discussion
Thank you

frozen tartan
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@crystal beacon mycom was the only one willing to put on writing their promises. I beleived that was a big part in the choice of them

boreal abyss
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Intrepid only accepted My.com
Because My.com was the only EU publisher who agreed to Intrepid's point in the contract of
"Intrepid retains all creative control over the cash shop, nothing can be added into the cash shop without Intrepid's permission"
@crystal beacon

crystal beacon
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I see. Kinda ironic lol

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Also i have same question as blaze

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Even though it has been kinda answered

boreal abyss
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Combat will be "slower" than BDO combat, as TTK (Time-To-Kill) will be a bit longer (will not be 1v1, same level, insta kills happening) because they want combat to include strategy and tactics

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when we will hear more about combat however blobshrug

crystal beacon
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Did they mention what game it will be similar with?

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So we can get an idea

boreal abyss
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Can't remember personally so cannot answer that

alpine zodiac
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They said it will be unique

teal lion
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yea archeage is slower than bdo but its still smoother and just more fine tune than what I experience in the battle royale mode. I know its early but if they plan on putting a decent amoutn of time. It would be nice to know

crystal beacon
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Yeah but will it stay that world of warcraft pacing like

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Or will it go more towards bdo

boreal abyss
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Pre-Alpha stage still, current combat is just 1 of many iterations as we will progress through Alpha and Beta so any answer given about combat now, will change by release

dim shuttle
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Last we heard, it’s about 30 seconds on average to kill a same-geared same-leveled opponent

crystal beacon
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Well it isnt really about killtime but more about the feeling of how fast the battle goes, not how long it lasts

dim shuttle
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Wrong channel Rabbit

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@crystal beacon Animations will help with that. But we’re a long way from seeing what it’ll actually be like.

random goblet
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Im definetely going for summoner, tho the question is, Will the summons have racial difference? Meaning each race having specific different summons or if im human or orc it doesnt matter i summon a pig 😂😂

full badger
white storm
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What is max player count per guild

full badger
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300 right now @white storm

white storm
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oh damn

full badger
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Sorry, that's 300 characters, not 300 players

white storm
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oh

random goblet
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Ty. Idk how i missed that 😅

oak depot
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300 assumes max guild point investment in “path of size” for a guild rather than “path of guild”.

fair yew
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Right guilds will typically be smaller than 300

storm urchin
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What's the normal limit?

full badger
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We don't have details of the guild perk system yet

frozen tartan
vernal swallow
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We do have a personal banking/locker system right?

full badger
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There is a warehouse in nodes and personal storage available in housing @vernal swallow

boreal abyss
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@vernal swallow kinda
no global one, all are location based, so store something in Node A, you have to be in Node A to get it

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store stuff in freehold/house you have to be at freehold/house to get it

crystal beacon
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Is the allocation of skill points a final decision? Is it permanent? The augmentations can be changed when changing the secondary archetype as far as I understood...but what about the rest?

frozen tartan
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It has been confirmed in the AMA (or the last dev talk, not sure) that skill points distribution will not be final

wild marsh
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It will be hard though to change it. It won't come easily Steven said. You'll more than likely have to jump through a bunch of hoops, but it is possible.

low path
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So I know part of this has been answered before, but is there any debuff applied in pvp when 2 combatants have very different levels? Like if im in a castle siege and am level 50 and I attack a level 10, im gonna clap his cheeks right?

junior ore
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No debuff outside of anything you may already have

low path
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Good good

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I want them to feel my power

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And die in half a second lol

junior ore
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Tbh there shouldn’t be a ton of lowbies rolling to sieges after the first one. The mechanics of the game show a direction to slow meta building and rerolls so re rolling will be a big investment and not just a 2 day money sink

low path
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Of course, but you know some clan of like 70 level 10's is gonna try to take a castle, me and the boys can defend it with our 8 man party (very exaggerated, but you get my point)

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Especially since max level takes over 200+ estimated hours, there will be a ton of people in sieges who arent close to max level, and even if they are there gear might be lacking, I imagine it will end up with like high level generals and then a bunch on regular soldiers

junior ore
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So castle sieges are a guild thing more like bdo Saturday sieges, node sieges can be literally anyone so you want be out in that situation one way or the other for like a whole fight.

low path
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Ikik,but its fun to imagine

junior ore
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Especially since max level takes over 200+ estimated hours, there will be a ton of people in sieges who arent close to max level, and even if they are there gear might be lacking, I imagine it will end up with like high level generals and then a bunch on regular soldiers
@low path keep in mind upon leveling you can’t siege a node right away anyways there is a grace period

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So plenty of time for people to get to max level before sieges become a thing. You need resources to initiate siege as well

steady ocean
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@low path You also gain exp debt when you die in a siege, so it doesn't make sense to send in low lvls to fight really.

low path
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What do you mean? I know theres a grace period between attacks and after the node reaches level 5 or whatever. Do you mean some other kind of grace period?

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@steady ocean Could always enlist them for cannon fodder, and pay em some gold

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Maybe some conscription... hehe

junior ore
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What do you mean? I know theres a grace period between attacks and after the node reaches level 5 or whatever. Do you mean some other kind of grace period?
@low path so there’s a cooldown for being able to re siege a defense that held out And ....”A node siege may not be declared for 21 days following a node advancing to Village (stage 3). This does not apply to nodes at higher stages.[11]
Node sieges may only be declared within a primetime window for that particular server. This is likely to between 4pm and 9pm on that server's local time.[12][13]”

low path
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Ya i know all that, the way you made it sound seemed like there was some grace period attached to your levelling, so I was confused

junior ore
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So at a minimum if we somehow get a lvl 3 node day 1 there’s still 3 weeks to siege. Possible. And iirc there’s a gate of maximum xp a node can net in a week or whatever

low path
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Ughh this game is so deep, its gonna be lit

junior ore
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All this is subject to change based on how alphas play out but that’s the base line idea and thought laid out

flat flint
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I've got a question. Is there somebody with java knowledge that can spare 5-10 minutes? I am in dire straits.

crisp holly
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From what is on the Wiki there will be some kind of gate on how quickly a node can level up if they want it to take the time the wiki has for each stage/lvl

flat flint
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?

coral raven
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Maybe someone knows the answer to this but on Reddit there was an interesting post about hit boxes for dwarves etc etc, it made me wonder if allies hitboxes can block allies spells/attacks. Like if my huge orc tank in in a doorway can my allies get shots through? Or do I just become a wall for both sides?

gusty fable
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@coral raven I think that would be abusable by blocking people path in doors etc
But don't know the answer to your question

coral raven
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Idk about walking through players..that could be madness with enough tanks.

low path
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Im surprised hit boxes will be different

crystal beacon
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I also wanted to ask at least before I decide to pre order any of the packages aviliable for Ashes of creation If I for instance buy one of them am I able to enter the testing or whatever build is current and play It or ?.~

gusty fable
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@crystal beacon you can play alpha 2 which is probably next year

junior ore
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Maybe someone knows the answer to this but on Reddit there was an interesting post about hit boxes for dwarves etc etc, it made me wonder if allies hitboxes can block allies spells/attacks. Like if my huge orc tank in in a doorway can my allies get shots through? Or do I just become a wall for both sides?
@coral raven this has been brought up before. While they have stated they know and this is the point of testing. Action combat isnt solely the idea of fps and high speed animations. Location AoE and mouse/screen directional weapon swinging is under the category of action As for hit box blocking i would assume skills will animate through allies but their bodies will have some collision

wild marsh
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The version of testing will depend on the type of pre-order you do. If you buy an Alpha 2 then you'll be able to play alpha 2.

orchid dock
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The package to get into alpha 2 is pretty expensive jeez I'll wait for it to come out

zealous spear
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Will racial stats have high enough impact to affect metagaming in a meaningful way?

low path
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It comes with lots of months tho @orchid dock

coral raven
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Tyvm I'm sure we'll learn way more in alpha1 its worth testing for sure.

junior ore
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I also wanted to ask at least before I decide to pre order any of the packages aviliable for Ashes of creation If I for instance buy one of them am I able to enter the testing or whatever build is current and play It or ?.~
@crystal beacon no. The current testing is nda pre alpha. Next is alpha 1 and so on you get access to the package you buys access. The only exception is if apoc comes back along side with br and siege modes that would probably be open to all again

coral raven
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I'll make a giant orc and see how annoying I can be blocking doors and whatnot, if its a problem we can submit feedback.

orchid dock
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That would suck if you just had massive giant tank orcs blocking every doorway

junior ore
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There’s very minimal safe zones

coral raven
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That's good to know

junior ore
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Do in town can still be flagged and killed

sour trout
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I know there will be few instances in the world but does anyone know if a corrupted player could basically just run into an instance to troll bounty hunters or will they be locked out of entering any instances while they are corrupted?

coral raven
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Even if you don't kill them maybe you can temporarily move them and report them. Who knows lol.

junior ore
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Technically they can but i mean that’s just not playing the game so have fun lol

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Even if you don't kill them maybe you can temporarily move them and report them. Who knows lol.
@coral raven no they won’t do shit for reports But you will have collision and can move em slowly

rigid rose
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@sour trout actually that is a good question ... I do not think we have had a answer to that for sure... would be worth making post on forums and bringing up as question.

junior ore
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Risk vs reward they can flag you kill you and take mats

coral raven
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That's good to know.. Thanks.

junior ore
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Intrepid has stated they wanna be as hands off as possible outside of game breaking exploits and bugs

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Let the world live and die by its players

low path
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Have we seen any actual gameplay of a metropolis yet?

junior ore
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No

rigid rose
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Not yet @low path

junior ore
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Don’t think we will

low path
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Ok thanks, and the castles are supposed to be bigger than a metropolis?

junior ore
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Probably not in terms of building but technically by zoi size yes

steady ocean
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Castles are able to tax all the nodes in it's ZoI, so yes @low path

gusty fable
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are the castles like the max lvl of freehold or that's totaly different?

low path
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Different

tepid night
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Are they gonna open apocalypse for testing combat and other testing purposes?

reef osprey
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@gusty fable that's totally different

There are 5 static castles in the world. These can be taken over by guilds.

Freeholds are personal crafting workshop

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gusty fable
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oh nice

junior ore
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Are they gonna open apocalypse for testing combat and other testing purposes?
@tepid night probably after a1 ish

tepid night
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Do you buy apoc or is it free to play?

junior ore
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Free

tepid night
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Ok thanks

wild marlin
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Good morning everyone, not very active in discord because i don't have time. I was watching the july update a while ago and had a question about something steven had said about suspending sales of the tiers that allow access to alpha 1 tiers like 2 years ago. I was a backer of kickstarter and earlier this year i upgraded to the braver of worlds. Will i still have access to alpha 1?

gusty fable
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is apoc like a "AoC siege features test"?

junior ore
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@wild marlin yes

reef osprey
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yes

junior ore
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is apoc like a "AoC siege features test"?
@gusty fable pretty much

wild marlin
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figured as much, just double checking. Thanks for the reply @junior ore

low path
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So can everyone technically own a freehold? Are they limited in some way other than space and amount of level 3+ nodes?

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Like will it eventually look like a city of just freeholds littering the land?

steady ocean
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Limited by slots available, which is tied to the stage of the node

low path
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I assume we dont know that number yet

rigid rose
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@low path yes ... we do not know for sure the limits as of yet.

reef osprey
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@low path there will be a fixed amount of "licenses" for owning freeholds

low path
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Cool

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So I guess another reason to destroy a node is if you find a nice spot for a house but the node is out of licenses

reef osprey
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they aren't limited to nodes

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they are worldwide

low path
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Oh

fair yew
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Freeholds have to be within a zoi of a lv 3 or higher node

steady ocean
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^

low path
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Well either way, destroying the node will allow you to destory the freehold, freeing up a spot right?

fading needle
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Does anyone know when we could possibly see more AOC gameplay ?

rigid rose
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At metro it will be a lot as the ZOI is 1/5th the land mass and you can put a freehold anywhere in the ZOI (except for specific spots such as mob spawn areas or dungeon entrances ect)

steady ocean
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They tie directly into the supporting node, as it grants citizenship to a specific node if you choose that node as your home

fair yew
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If a node is destroyed but your freehold still within another zoi of a different lv3 node your safe

rigid rose
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@simple ether ah 🙂. Good clarification I did not know that

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@fading needle we do not have info on when next gameplay will be shown

reef osprey
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@simple ether will all of them have exactly 20%
or will the first one potentially impact the way a ZOI can grow upon level up -> which will end up that this new metropolis might have less than 20%

untold maple
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If the goal is 50,000 active players per server and everyone ends up with a freehold then you're gona have at least 100 freeholds per km2 which seems.... Unreasonable

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I think its appropriate for the map size in generap

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But not if everyone has a freehold

steady ocean
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Not everyone will have a free hold is what I surmised

untold maple
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If freeholds are something generally bought as bases of operations of small guilds then its more reasonable

frail solar
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Can crafted gear be named?

steady ocean
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You can give access to others, so people may share 1 freehold, but we are getting into the #aoc-discussion realm and speculating 😄

reef osprey
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@untold maple that's not what they are though

untold maple
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It is how they can be used but not limited to, was my understanding

reef osprey
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you can build a guild hall on them, yes
but that's more a secondary use than anything else

steady ocean
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@reef osprey it's a perfectly normal way to use a freehold. up to 8-9 crafters of the same type could share 1 freehold.

reef osprey
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@steady ocean a freehold primary use will not be guild halls though lol

steady ocean
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@frail solar I don't think you can give a weapon a unique name, but if you craft the weapon it will have some sort of identifier that you crafted it

frail solar
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Ok ty

gusty fable
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is there any kind of farming or fishing profession?

reef osprey
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fishing is confirmed
we don't know if farming will be a seperate one

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or everybody can do that

kind sparrow
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so, i was reading about naval combat, etc. and there was mentioned in some old videos that there is/will be a Mariner class, with sea skills. Soo its not gonna be a base class like warrior/wizard? Cause i didnt see it in any Class diagrams

reef osprey
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@kind sparrow certainly not as an adventuring class
they once mentioned, that the racial bonus of vek might be related to seafaring, so i guess there will be something along those lines.

We wouldn't know anything so far though

kind sparrow
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kk

versed delta
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How many palayers will be on Alpha 2 server?

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Will Alpha 2 be joining Alpha 1, or starting resh?

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fresh*

reef osprey
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depends if they wipe or not

visual cosmos
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How many classes will be available in alpha 1?

reef osprey
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we don't have any recent information about the size of the alpha 2 population either

steady ocean
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@visual cosmos no classes, all the primary archetypes

reef osprey
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@visual cosmos all 8 base archetypes, no secondary archtypes

visual cosmos
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ohh nice, thanks you both.

desert ivy
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At the start of alpha 1 there will only be 5 archetypes available

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Tank, Cleric, Mage, and 2 others

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Most likely not gonna be Summoner or Bard imo so the other 2 will probably be fighter, ranger, or rogue

reef osprey
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at the start yeah

scenic moon
#

If ive been registered since october of 2019 will I still receive the statue commemorating covid-19?

stiff lotus
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yes!

kind cloud
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does the inn game talents give you new abilities or upgrades the abilities you allready got?

steady ocean
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Most things augment your primary skills that you get from your primary archetype @kind cloud

kind cloud
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then where do you get the skills?

steady ocean
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from your primary archetype

kind cloud
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by leveling up?

steady ocean
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You can read more about skills here: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Skills If you have more questions after let me know. Leveling up grants you skill points which you can use to give your skills additional stuff

kind cloud
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ty

steady ocean
crystal beacon
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do the pre order packs only contain ground mounts?

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or are there gliding ones too

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and water ones

steady ocean
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They only contain mount skins, and I believe up until now it has either been gliding (tier 2) and ground mount skins (tier 1)

reef osprey
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some are tier 2

crystal beacon
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i see

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i guess t1 is faster on ground than t2

steady ocean
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Depends on the mount, and the terrain I'd imagine

kind cloud
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@steady ocean i have seen that dev update on yt, but i have also heard that military nodes is where you train skill, so i'm a bit confused about it all.

steady ocean
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Much is still unknown about some of the core game mechanics. Hopefully we will find out more during Alpha testing

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Any specific streams where that is talked about @simple ether so @dark jungle can add it to the wiki?

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That's pretty cool if the devs go forward with that idea

golden lintel
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i have a question how many players will apha two will have if aplha one will have only 10k players

steady ocean
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A server can have up to 50k, so I'd imagine that is a good number to think of as a maximum.

limber tendon
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I never understood what they meant by this system is a server cap 50k people or 10k people?

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playing at once

steady ocean
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10k concurrent, 50k character limit

limber tendon
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ah i see

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thank you for the clarification

solid pivot
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will we be expecting different type of servers? PVE, PVP, PVPRP, etc. ?

reef osprey
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@solid pivot nope, not in terms of ruleset

untold maple
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@steady ocean Is it a character limit or a unique account character limit?

reef osprey
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its inherently a PvX game @solid pivot
one without the other doesn't work

untold maple
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Coz I could imagine people making 6 alts each on a server and... then a 50k character limit will always be short of 10k concurrent

crystal beacon
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Will there be durability on armour and weapons

reef osprey
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@untold maple its a 50k account limit, not character

steady ocean
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Yes @crystal beacon

errant chasm
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yes and gear breaks @crystal beacon

untold maple
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@crystal beacon yeah, and repairs are via materials instead of cash

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@reef osprey thanks, thought that'd be the case

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon yes it will break after some point

crystal beacon
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Ok thanks

untold maple
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Hopefully they'll do some testing to see if 50k is the limit needed to avoid frequently capping out concurrent, because I think testing is the only way you'd find that out

reef osprey
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i'd rather have queues in the beginning, rather than merged servers later on

untold maple
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Agreed

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I prefer busier servers... if they think 10k is the right amount for a server I'd rather it be near that limit during peak time on most days

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10k players would only be ~21 players per km^2

oak depot
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empty world

ruby swift
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100 per node with an equal spread

oak depot
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there is no water nodes.. so probably a better way to look at it

desert ivy
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The 50k server limit is 100% gonna be reduced. You can't have a 5:1 ratio of characters on server and characters currently logged in, especially when the game will have prime time events

reef osprey
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prime time events that become relevant months after launch

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when the amount of active players died down already

crystal beacon
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i think the spread over the nodes is a good system, this way you can ensure that everyone can progress in peace

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also guilds can build better

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also a question for question server: can you build a guild on every node?

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i think i asked that already but forgot

reef osprey
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You don't build guilds on nodes, guilds and nodes are a seperate system

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you have in-node guild halls, but that's about as much as they have to do with each other

ruby swift
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Not every node will be populated. People will clump together. The way vassals and locking of node works people will gravitate towards the larger nodes as they need to unlock higher tier recipes and crafting station to progress. No one is going to hang out in a level 3 node all the time when they need stuff from the level 5 a 30 minute run away every play session.

oak depot
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you know... the more I think I know about this game and the more I try to create good questions to ask in a quiz about this game.. the more I realize there is so much depth in this game.. and then I realize how little I know about the game in reality... I do my research and realize how little everyone really knows about the game... which leads me to start thinking about the game ... it's a vicious cycle

untold schooner
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i though ya can predict the future

oak depot
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nah, that's nostradamus, I'm nostrademous

crystal beacon
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but cant all nodes reach lvl 5?

ruby swift
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No

oak depot
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@crystal beacon not at all, only 5

untold schooner
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only 5 metros

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per server

ruby swift
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that is level 6

crystal beacon
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ah makes sense then

ruby swift
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but still the same point

oak depot
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and one of them will be in the underrealm

crystal beacon
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those with the castles on them?

tepid night
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Then you realized it's still a good 2 years away from now

ruby swift
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nodes lock other nodes out from advancing

wary steppe
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Nodes become level locked when inside the influence area of a higher lvl node

untold maple
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It really depends on how empty they want the world to feel tbh...

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because at the current player limit there will be many areas that are pretty empty

crystal beacon
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what is the point in having 102 nodes if everyone will gravitate within the major ones

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or 103

oak depot
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@crystal beacon I don't think they will to be had... parent nodes get excess XP from vassal

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so you can level top nodes once vassal nodes are capped... people will be doing whatever they need to be doing at the time

untold maple
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It seems that the biggest nodes will still have limited space for services, housing and such which would encourage players to use smaller nodes too

ruby swift
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Nodes start locking out other nodes from level 1. Going to be a lot of people head scratching why they keep grinding and nothing is happening.

wary steppe
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Each server will be different. For instance server x may have more people gravitate to a scientific node in the north, making that a central focus.
Meanwhile you log into an alt on server y and the progress is revolving around a religious node in the south west...

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Crude example, but the simplest I could think of.

crystal beacon
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wasnt there something with one guild dominates a node

reef osprey
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nah, that was fearmongering and uninformed fears of new people

crystal beacon
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so you can house many guilds in one node

wary steppe
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Point is, each server depending on where the interest lies, will have a completely different dynamic.

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon yes

crystal beacon
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that is good else there would be big guilds dominating smaller ones

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of course you can still bully them by destroying their city, right?

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xd

oak depot
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small guilds will dominate big ones is my prediction.... full prophecy

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a full "path of guild" guild with 50 players will own full "path of size" guild with 300 players

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why you ask? because it's easier to coordinate 50 people than 300

crystal beacon
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i could imagine smaller guilds building alliances to fight big ones

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as in all mmos

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but what is the reward if you for example are the biggest guild in a node

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is there any advantage

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon you become the patron guild of that node

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here you can read more about that

crystal beacon
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i see

solemn shuttle
#

I saw a clip of a video where they showed dozens of default red UE4 characters running around. Is that video available somewhere? Would like to take a closer look.

crystal beacon
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how much will alpha 1 contain

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in terms of content overall

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will there be all classes?

oak depot
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wiki knows all

crystal beacon
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but there arent descriptions for summoner for example

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though alpha 1 says it contains all classes

oak depot
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lies

reef osprey
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by alpha 1, not at the beginning

oak depot
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Secondary archetypes will not be present in Alpha-1.[8]

steady ocean
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It says it will have all primary archetypes @crystal beacon

crystal beacon
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summonre is a primary too

ruby swift
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Things change as to what will be in A1 all the time. As they publicly announce them Lex updates the wiki.

oak depot
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classes are Primary + Secondary... so there will be 0 classes in Alpha 1

crystal beacon
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-_- i know

oak depot
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and yes... we don't currently yet know all primary abilities .... very few of them actually

crystal beacon
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as long as we get all primary this is cool

oak depot
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agreed... just remember Great swords probably can't be dual wielded

junior ore
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Tell Kirito that

steady ocean
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Maybe not at the beginning, but eventually we will for sure @crystal beacon

uneven prairie
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i used to main duelist in L2, having dual swords is Pog

oak depot
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@junior ore I meant in Alpha 1 😛

surreal cedar
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I am not a fun of targeting system abilities tbh, especially in sieges, high ping is gonna make it really awkward

junior ore
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You mean like tab target?

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Or action free aim?

surreal cedar
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Skillshots free aim

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If I am not mistaken archers are gonna have some of those and casters ?

steady ocean
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They will be able to choose from both types for sure

junior ore
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A lot will be made up for with hit scan and location AoE/cone effects. Kinda how bdo works... bdo would be awful if it was true accuracy

oak depot
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everyone will have some of those

reef osprey
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@surreal cedar you have like 30 skills to choose from,
don't take them if you dont like them

surreal cedar
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I mean how do you aim with a warrior tho?

junior ore
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You’ll have a cone or AoE on the swings

oak depot
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75% skill, 25% tab or vice-versa are the cap, no?

surreal cedar
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@surreal cedar you have like 30 skills to choose from,
don't take them if you dont like them
@reef osprey if it is the meta you are forced to play it mate

junior ore
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It won’t be point blank contact

reef osprey
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@surreal cedar if people can't hit it, it won't be meta

junior ore
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There is some give to it. But this is also what testing is for to get server side issues clean.

reef osprey
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and if people can hit it, then there is no problem
beautifully balanced, as all things should be

surreal cedar
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But it will be meta for people with <30 ping constantly

junior ore
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No

surreal cedar
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We shall see how it's gonna be in 2+ years a lot can change

steady ocean
little tusk
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do we know if there will be an achievement system?

steady ocean
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@little tusk There will be!

junior ore
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One we don’t know what meta will be , two you can’t go 100% either way. Action or tab. So it’s not worth saying it’s bad until we test and that’s the purpose of testing

little tusk
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@steady ocean cool, ty!

reef osprey
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@little tusk there will
they will also include hard / very hard to get achievements that only a few % of the player will have.
These also award cosmetics and stuff

oak depot
#

The title of CBH is one per Gov't Node or one per server?

steady ocean
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can you break out that acronym

oak depot
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Chief Bounty Hunter

steady ocean
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I'd assume it's for each node, similar to how a mayor is for each node.

crystal beacon
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Can we mount siege weapons on ships

ruby swift
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Very little is known about the naval system and combat at this time.

oak depot
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@crystal beacon Weaponry such as Potion launchers, Siege weapons and weapons used in Naval combat are based on the arcane arts.[5]

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no word on if siege weapons can be on naval though

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but they broke them up into two separate things in the quoted sentence

crystal beacon
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Oooooo

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Goodstuff thank you sir

cold dune
#

What’s the rough estimate of when the game is coming out

oak depot
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if Nostradamus was a good prophet he would say Dec 2022

raven grotto
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Just in time for us all to get back to work after the covid cure wrong chat sry

ruby swift
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There is no timeline for release. Anyone that gives you one doesn't know any more than you. The testing phases will take as long as Intrepid feels they need to or if they run into problems. They have a timeline with 30% padded onto it, but even that is at the mercy of whatever rears its head.

crystal beacon
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Why does this game have tab target and action combat if tab target has 100% hit chance

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If you are in range

oak depot
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Risk vs. Reward is the answer

crystal beacon
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They have same cooldowns etc right?

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So tab target has best reward

oak depot
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action will do more dmg than tab

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but harder to hit

earnest hatch
#

Hi i would like too know if there will be an option to sync my intrepid acc and my my.com acc so the cosmetics off my intrepid acc will be
available my other acc ?

crystal beacon
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That changes stuff

raven grotto
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imagine hitting a head and doing 2x damage compared to auto target chest doing 1x damage?

alpine zodiac
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Action more dmg/hard CC, tab less dmg/soft CC

ruby swift
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@earnest hatch Which account do you currently have. Intrepid or My.com

junior ore
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Why does this game have tab target and action combat if tab target has 100% hit chance
@crystal beacon 100% base sure but evasion accuracy checks will be a thing so it’s not actually 100%

alpine zodiac
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Headshots are not automatic criticals

crystal beacon
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If action combat has benefits it clearly makes more sense

junior ore
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Not if your aim sucks

ruby swift
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Please take the discussion to the regular channels.

earnest hatch
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@ruby swift intrepid but i am from the the eu and will most likely play an an eu server

ruby swift
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K here is how that works. At a point in the future for anyone that has an Intrepid account that wants to play on the EU servers, Intrepid will transfer your account with all your inventory and purchases to them. You do not need a separate account for My.Games.

steady ocean
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Yes, you will be able to transfer your account over.

earnest hatch
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@ruby swift okay thanks thats realy great news for me ^^

ruby swift
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So basically you have done everything you need to worry about right now. And since you are using Intrepid, you can actually buy the future cosmetics on offer.

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(Right now that functionality is down for My.Games)

hearty ermine
#

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy Alpha/Beta access WITHOUT the skins & other stuff in those packages? I am very interested in buying access, but I don't really care about skins

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Not at the moment no
@simple ether Thanks Jahlon! Love your channel btw

ruby swift
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Good timing. Heading to bed. Have fun.

sterile fjord
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quick question... if i preorder now on the ashes page do i get the bonus stuff transfered on my german account later on my.games

steady ocean
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Yes

sterile fjord
#

ah nice thanks @steady ocean and @simple ether hope you both have a greate day 🙂

kind cloud
#

at what lvl will a settlement be race oriented?

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and can this settlement change race upon node ding?

steady ocean
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once it turns from a stage 0 wilderness to a stage 1 node I would assume. At each stage the theme could change

kind cloud
#

it will be a total make over from one lvl to the next?

earnest hatch
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yes

steady ocean
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If the race that contributed the most changes

kind cloud
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can the node race be changed at lvl 6? not from lvl 5 to 6, but at 6, 2nd highest lvl

steady ocean
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only if it de-levels and is able to level back to up to stage 6

kind cloud
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ok, ty

uneven gazelle
#

Does anyone know what the estimated time line for launch is? I know it’s subject to change but I can only find third parties taking a guess, nothing official.

steady ocean
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Nothing official has been said by the dev team. @uneven gazelle

twilit dune
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its sometime after the beta

uneven gazelle
#

Thank you! Yeah I’m waiting to just see if alpha two launches first and if it does I’m gonna but the beta one and two passes.

desert ivy
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The dev team won't state a release date until they're sure they can meet that date. I wouldn't expect a release date before we enter the betas.

uneven gazelle
#

That’s fair. I’d prefer that to an unrealistic release date.

cyan coral
#

I just knew that in my.com , they will publish Ashes of Creation in the EU, a couple of games that they have launch in the past ,went really terrible.
The website has been hacked and lots of credit cards informations were discovered.What u ppl think about this ?Or this is false ?

steady ocean
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@cyan coral You can ask in #aoc-discussion and get some good opinions perhaps.

cyan coral
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ok ty

cursive rover
#

Hi, will all the cosmetics being sold right now, be available in the game?

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._. , they look good but kinda weird buying stuff now when it's not out

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And hopefully it won't turn out like eso, where all the cool mounts are cashshop

steady ocean
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It's a gesture of faith in the development and progress of the game.

cursive rover
#

Steven keeps saying they don't need funding though ThinkingStevenMan

desert ivy
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Just because the game is fully funded doesn't mean it's bad to help them with a bit of extra cash

dark jungle
fluid sonnet
#

I don't think the cool mounts will be restricted to the cash shop given that there is an entire skill based around breeding and creating mounts. Animal Husbandry

cursive rover
#

Idk, still feels kinda lame

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I don't think the cool mounts will be restricted to the cash shop given that there is an entire skill based around breeding and creating mounts. Animal Husbandry
@fluid sonnet
I really hope so

dark jungle
tulip glacier
#

Bdo character creator doesnt let you go much past like 20% body fat. Does anyone know if I will be able to make a character terribly obese?

cursive rover
#

That snail horse though 😩 looks so good

dark jungle
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@tulip glacier there will be limits, but we dont know exactly what they are yet

fluid sonnet
#

Steven says they don't need more money to complete the game which is a fact. However, that does not mean they can't use more money to potentially accelerate the process, hire on more devs, etc. Right now they have a projected goal they are following and Steven knows he has the money to fund that. This is what he is referring to when he says it is fully funded

tulip glacier
#

Fair enough, thanks

fluid sonnet
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@tulip glacier I'd imagine that the issue with making a character model have such extreme scaling options would be difficult for making gear also scale that way and maintain the quality of the model, without literally building separate models for tiers of size

dark jungle
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^ and also in-game advantage/disadvantage

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making a 1 foot tall character etc

tulip glacier
#

Ahh yes I didnt even think of that

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All I want to be is a portly bartender ;-;

crystal beacon
#

Did the developers consider disallowing pvp in the starting area? Or can lvl 1s just kill each other at spawn?

desert ivy
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PvP will be active in the beginning zones

steady ocean
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PVP will be enabled

oak depot
#

I wonder if you PK at level 1 a starter and they don't fight back and you become corrupted... how long will it take to work off the corruption

steady ocean
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Everyone else there will probably kill you before you get the chance

crystal beacon
#

so a lvl 5 character could basically kill every new player over and over?

dark jungle
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no

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they will reach a limit of corruption where they will not be able to kill even a level 1

steady ocean
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@crystal beacon They would either be killed or their stats be so degraded that even the lower lvls could fight back and kill them.

crystal beacon
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ok

steady ocean
crystal beacon
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But I can kill everyone at lvl 1, make a new character and start over

steady ocean
#

You are assuming you can kill anyone really. People can fight back and kill you instead

dark jungle
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there are not going to just be low levels around the starter areas

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there will be large nodes nearby as well

crystal beacon
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I'm thinking about a group of griefing players

alpine zodiac
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Another group is gonna make them cry

steady ocean
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Perhaps you can ask in #aoc-discussion. They may be able to provide some perspectives on why most likely people won't waste time doing that on launch, or ever really.

potent ingot
#

My biggest worry is that guild will farm bounty hunters by sacrificing one person to a ton of corruption and then waiting around for bounty hunters to show up.

crystal beacon
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ok thanks guys

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bounty hunters are only flagged for corrupted players I think

potent ingot
#

meaning that the other guildies would be attacking a non-combatant if they attack the bounty hunters fighting the corrupted?

steady ocean
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@potent ingot You can only get raw resources/craftables from bounty hunters, so it really isn't worth trying to "farm" them. They most likely won't be carrying any, and corrupted don't get gear from killing bounty hunters.

potent ingot
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ohh okay

steady ocean
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Only corrupted players potentially drop gear

potent ingot
#

thanks for clearing that up. figured there'd be a griefing guild that did that.

blissful meteor
#

Hi everyone, i have two things that are worrying me about the game:

  1. The availability limit on freeholds- is it going to stop players from being able to choose a non gathering profession?
  2. Is it possible to filter or get low noise spell effects from other players? I worry i won't be able to see my on character spells on a small 8 person party.
ivory latch
#

The map is big plenty of spaces

steady ocean
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@blissful meteor 1: Players will have the ability to use friends/"familys" freeeholds, so that will keep your options open. 2: Steven has talked about the option to turn down effects, so I would assume you can cut down on those. You should also have buff icons showing what is affecting you also

blissful meteor
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Thank you very much @steady ocean

low garden
#

Hello everyone,

shooting this message regarding upgrading my Braver of Worlds KICKSTARTER tier to Leader of Men through the intrepid store. I have already submitted a ticket through support to get this issue fixed but so far they have only gotten back with "leader of men pack should be visible now in the store". This wasn't really the issue as I was able to see the pack before submitting the ticket. The issue is how do I upgrade my account for free as the KICKSTARTER Braver of Worlds is equivalent in price to Leader of Men in the Intrepid Store. This was mentioned by mods here that this is possible. I moved it to my cart but when I go to checkout there is only payment methods. Do I have to pay the $500 again? Will it get refunded? Or is there a different way that anyone here upgraded their KICKSTARTER Braver of Worlds to Leader of Men in the Intrepid Studio. I have linked my account with the Kickstarter code so the $500 is in my transaction history. If there isn’t a solid answer, I will continue to wait but it has been almost 3 days since the last response, and I know the next alpha is right around the corner.

quasi karma
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the world map looks pretty basic. Are there no flying island magic barriers Tornado zones pitless holes or any other magic stuff to break the monotonous world?

steady ocean
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@quasi karma There could be, but it depends on which nodes the players in the server choose to progress.

low garden
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Oh, so what I am seeing in my store is already the discount? So if someone else who didn't have the BOW from kickstarter linked to their account they would see $1000 for LOM?

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well then....big oof....thanks for clearing that up

spark cobalt
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How long do you stay a combatant after becoming one from attacking another combatant?

Until you die or after accumulating a certain amount of exp. or after waiting some amount of time?

I know if you leave an open world BG you will become a non-combatant after waiting a little bit

distant charm
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Should i contact support if i don't have any of my forum badges? or are they only cosmetic on the forums and will eventually be added to my account?

steady ocean
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@spark cobalt I'm not certain it has been clarified as of yet.

cold wasp
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How the talent changing will work? for exemple if you want to swap your 2nd class, or you messed up on a skill. will it cost something or will you just have to go to a certain place to be able to reset and swap 2nd class

spark cobalt
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@steady ocean thanks. I think that has a big impact on pvp.

If low level players stay a combatant for a long time after becoming one then they won't want to pvp until they are near max level because a high level combatant will eventually find and one shot them

steady ocean
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@cold wasp Probably a bit of both, the specifics have not been fully released. Only that we will have the ability to respec.

stable cedar
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Just got back to following this game, saw some posts a couple of days old about my.com publisher and Steven mentioning we would get more info soon, has that happened?

cold wasp
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@steady ocean OK thank you, will soon see then

desert ivy
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@stable cedar No

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It's almost certainly just info regarding the my.games store

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Probably just that the store will soon have Ashes on it again

cold wasp
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I really really really really hope that the gear will be optimised for all the classes , even if you chose a weird class. It's important having this freedom, probably the most important. I know they are doing their best. But I don't want to see in late game all the same classes in pvp.

Something else, I hope there won't be any dps/healing meter like in wow, it brings toxicity to mmorpg.

Anyway, you're doing a really nice thing, always dreamed about creating my own big mmo, keep it real!

white bluff
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a hour ago, i just got an email from aoc.my.com about preordering. but you can´t preorder. Unfortunately purchases are currently disabled due to technical difficulties. trollin

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btw nice videos jahlon. keep it up

brittle ferry
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They're using the trinity method @cold wasp so there should be a place for everyone.

The hard part is going to be figuring & fleshing out the secondary classes?

slow meadow
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gear will be customizable by crafters so that adjustments to stats can happen not just based on your class but also on your current build (remember two people both playing a class may have chosen different skills to put points in and different augments)

cold wasp
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@brittle ferry yes, I'm talking more about the balance when u pick your secondary class, for exemple if u do a main class range dps, and secondary class tank

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I hope you will feel your class

brittle ferry
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It is good that secondary can be switched

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It's not a permanent choice

cold wasp
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@slow meadow yes I know in theory it's perfect, but in late game, will it be enough, the synergy between this class and this one will be the same as others?

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@brittle ferry that's really important indeed, it's like in Archeage, it made this game really good thanks to this. They just fucked it up with the p2w

slow meadow
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@cold wasp no it will most certainly not equate to balanced classes. that's not the intended design. they are not balancing for 1v1, but more your role in a small scale pvp. You will have strengths and weaknesses and your effectiveness is going to shift based on content. Obviously they will try and keep things from being too drastic but shooting for perfect balance ends in homogenization and lack of interesting and deep gameplay.

cold wasp
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@slow meadow OK I see, to have more synergy between the members of a group, it makes sens

cold dune
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When will we be able to reserve our name if you brought the pack?

steady ocean
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During Alpha 1

cold dune
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Didn't alpha 1 already come out?

fickle island
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No

crisp holly
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@cold wasp Steven has said before when asked that it will feel like there are 64 classes

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So in theory each will be pretty different than another

cold dune
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How do I get access to alpha 1 then?

alpine zodiac
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You can't

cobalt glen
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@cold wasp I am just speculating like everyone else, but the way I have understood the explanations that the creators have provided is that the secondary class will be more of a customization of the abilities that your Primary class has. So if you were a Fighter Primary with a Tank secondary, you might get a little more Threat generation or CC with your abilities, as opposed to a Rogue that could possibly give you some Stealth or additional Backstab damage, or a Cleric could give you some Healing as you deal damage. Again the concepts that I have listed are just random ideas, but that is the concept of how the Secondary classes will effect your character, as I understood it.

crystal beacon
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Question: Will each subclass have a strong fantasy identity or will the indenity of the class mostly be determed by the first class that would make it around 8 classes

true ridge
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Have they ever said anything about whether or not you can plant things in the open world like ArcheAge?

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illegal farms plz

dense shore
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Main class is your identity, subclass gives variety in these identities.

crisp holly
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@crystal beacon first archetype

dense shore
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A fighter with a dash could augment it as a mage secondary, to remove the cast time and make it a blink, or change CC effect to a freeze instead of a normal stun. With a different subclass, you get different effects

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You don't have 64 different class identities, that's unreasonable. But you'll have a lot of variety between the same class due to the subclasses

woven vale
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Your primary class will dictate skills, your secondary dictates how the skills can work, it adds no new skills but builds upon existing ones.

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@true ridge You can plant crops in your freehold

true ridge
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Yes... but can you plant them not-in-your-freehold

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that's kind of the main point of the question

steady ocean
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We don't know

true ridge
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kk, thanks

tardy granite
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Hey there! Ive a quest ion about the arena system in the game. I heard there will be 1v1 and 5v5 arena, are there any plans one 3v3? I feel like 5v5 is a bit much and 1v1 is obviously almost impossible to balance

steady ocean
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The devs are not trying to balance around 1 v 1, more closely to groups of 8.

limber tendon
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so how will that affect arenas?

steady ocean
tardy granite
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Yeah I know that @steady ocean but they said there will be 1v1 and 5v5 so as @limber tendon says how does that affect the arena thingy

stoic charm
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I woulda thought arenas would be 4v4, 8v8 and 16v16

steady ocean
tardy granite
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That will most likely be the case and thats fine I guess, as mentioned 1v1 is basically impossible to balance

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Ohh that you alot @steady ocean last thing I heard was 1v1 and 5v5

limber tendon
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omg death match thats news to me GWseremePeepoGGERS thanks for the answer

feral cloud
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Will there be open world duel? Like, if both players concent then there wont be any penalty besides ego loss.

fickle island
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I believe so @feral cloud

steady ocean
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Yup! We don't have many details, but we may be able to assume that they will be tied into military nodes. TBD though 🙂

wary steppe
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Has there been many specifics about the crafting system yet? I just got turned onto this game’s existence 2 days ago, and still haven’t caught up on everything announced yet.

fickle island
steady ocean
fickle island
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About all that's out there

onyx knoll
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Do you mean details like what the process for it would be in details? then no

wary steppe
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Yeah @onyx knoll that was mainly it.

onyx knoll
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Yeah sorry they haven't finished fleshing it out so we don't have much at the moment

wary steppe
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I’m not going to say I’m hyped for this game. I will definitely say I’m intrigued and invested to see how it turns out

crystal beacon
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Dont know if this has been decided yet, but if i were to first pick mage and then fighter, how would that work?

steady ocean
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you would choose from 4 augments that change parts of your fighter skills in various ways @crystal beacon

onyx knoll
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@crystal beacon your first archetype determines your skills, the second one will give you augments that will change those skills. We don't know yet what the augments will do in details

crystal beacon
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ah yea wondered if any1 knew

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what the augments would be

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but ty anyway!

onyx knoll
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we don't have any detail on those yet

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expect them around alpha 2

abstract barn
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@idle siren Do you have any concerns about what effects the head start will have on the economy, landscape, and power balance of the server?

crystal beacon
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ait

fickle island
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It's only going to be a few servers, possibly only 1 or 2, there will be servers without headstart. @abstract barn

onyx knoll
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@abstract barn Headstart is only on specific servers, so it won't affect most servers. Additionally, most of the features will be disabled for those two days like node progression

steady ocean
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The head start servers will be severely limited @abstract barn

onyx knoll
vagrant barn
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If we go into Kickstarter and back with 25 does that mean we get all the skins and such for backers?

steady ocean
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the kickstarter campaign is no longer available if that is what you are asking @vagrant barn

vagrant barn
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Ah bummer, some of those mounts were cool.

onyx knoll
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yeah sorry, kickstarter ended in 2017 :/

errant chasm
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so with intrepid bucks ( referral money ) does it count for the 4 people that got $375 packs that were referred to me?

onyx knoll
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@vagrant barn Only thing you can buy now is the monthly packs on the official shop https://accounts.ashesofcreation.com/shop the cosmetics change every month or so, so maybe you'll get one you like eventually

wary steppe
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My biggest decision is gonna come down to if I wan’t to be part of a guild, or if I want to try to run as a non entity. On one hand, might be fun just being some guy with a homestead building up a trade and paying my taxes like a good citizen, watching the powers that be duke it out for royalty status....
On the other hand, kinda want a griffin.

unreal zealot
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i mean theres nothing to say there wont be griffins as tier 2 mount that can glide

onyx knoll
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@wary steppe You don't need to be in a guild to have a griffin. 1- they are actually gliding mount which everyone can use, and 2- if you want the flying version then you can be the mayor of a metropolis-size node, which is irrelevant of having a guild (tho probably would be easier with people backing you in some cases)

reef osprey
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Flying Griffin = Mayor
Flying Dragon = King

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or Queen of course

wary steppe
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Didn’t realize that they could be gliding mounts! Non entity it is.
And yeah, I know about the mayor of metro Royal status, but that’s still going to be just as fought over as king.

unreal zealot
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all i wish for is the phrog pet skin to be a mount skin one day ❤️

undone trout
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Question - In regards for LEFT HANDED PLAYERS - many of us plays vastly different from our counterpart and even within other Lefties.
For me - one of the biggest make it or break it is the KEYBIND FUCTIONS.
Are we able to Keybind the following Keys: ENTER - Left Shift - Left CTRL - Left Alt - all of the NUMPAD Keys - Insert/Home/Pg up/down / End / Del?????
Are we able to add combination keys such as Left Shift + Numpad 1.
I like to reiterate certain keys are vastly important - for me personally - ENTER key is my jump key and I hate games that has a hard bind and forces us to use enter for chat log and not being able to re-bind it. Most lefties don't play WASD. Left hand on mouse - right hand on numpad - so those shifts/ctrl/alt keys are VITAL for us.

steady ocean
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I think Steven has mentioned there will be some form of customization, but you may be able to post on the official forums or reddit if a dev does not respond here for clarification.

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Perhaps @plucky pawn you know? In regards to @undone trout's question

wintry seal
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@wary steppe You don't need to be in a guild to have a griffin. 1- they are actually gliding mount which everyone can use, and 2- if you want the flying version then you can be the mayor of a metropolis-size node, which is irrelevant of having a guild (tho probably would be easier with people backing you in some cases)
@onyx knoll wait i have a question....what goes up must come down concept...if u have griffons to glide down...ad not fly....u need to first be in air or be able to fly to glide down first right? whats the point of gliding mount if u cant have a fly mount and u are only on land?

plucky pawn
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We do plan to give you lots of options to customize, including the ability to set your own keybinds - some of that was present in Apocalypse testing as well thumbsup

steady ocean
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@wintry seal Different terrain heights my friend. Some places are higher than others, and it is faster to glide down a mountain than it would be to go down by land on a land mount.

unreal zealot
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@wintry seal well there will probably very high areas that would be easier to get down from with a gliding mount than walking back down or through what ever way you got there originally the gliding mount is stil la normal mount used on the ground with the extra function

reef osprey
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@wintry seal hills, mountains, roofs

wary steppe
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@wintry seal I’m sure there will be cliffs, valleys, ect. The gliding will be a good strategic advantage in such places.

reef osprey
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also gliding mounts might have a jump ability that gives you a bit of height initially

slow meadow
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@undone trout if you watch the apoc videos you can see people deploying the gliding gryphons, it would be something along those lines, obviously tweaked for the mmo. so jumping off a cliff and gliding down to another area and the like.

crystal beacon
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Would be cool if there are mountain guild halls

wary steppe
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Honestly... I’m was just more interested in the fact it was a griffon. Call me an old fashioned nerd, but there’s something about a knight wielding spear and shield riding atop a Griffin that appeals to me.

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The tactical advantages are just a plus.

errant chasm
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so with intrepid bucks ( referral money ) does it count for the 4 people that got $375 packs that were referred to me?

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yup i got them all to show up before they bought in

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fat stonks

crystal beacon
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You got 4 people buying the biggest pack?

errant chasm
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yea and 1 is getting the 250 pack

crystal beacon
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Are there officiall numbers how many pre order packs have been sold so far?

errant chasm
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not as far as ik

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jesus

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wonder how many alpha 2 servers they'll actually have or if were gona deal with a queue to get in at this rate

fresh elbow
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@simple ether Hi we should chat let me know what works best for you.

crystal beacon
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2018

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That should have at least doubled

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If not multiplied by 10

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Due to the progress the last few months

tulip ember
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How many console gamers do I need to sacrifice for a Alpha 1 key? @idle siren unless we are somehow planning to port to consoles

rotund herald
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What is the average time for the support team to answer a support ticket ?

steady ocean
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Que times are extended at the moment as the customer support team is getting a lot of tickets with the influx of new people, try to give them a few days to a week @rotund herald

rotund herald
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Okay all good ill just wait patiently not like it a dire needs question

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i guess ill ask here again maybe you guys know. If i fx upgraded my current Kickstarter package to warrior of old would the upgrade to Braver of world then also become cheaper for a later upgrade?

steady ocean
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You pay the difference between what you have and what you want to upgrade to. So if you have a $250 pack, and BoW costs $500, you would pay the $250 difference

rotund herald
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Okay great to know and thanks.

limber magnet
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I just did the 375 for all the things. I just felt you get more value for money for in game sub and more embers

opaque nacelle
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Will a characters health and defenses be tied to the class they choose or is it tied to a more armor. So like will a tank class's health and defenses be better than a like rouge because of the class, or can a rouge have better defenses than they tank if they wear the right armor?

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Yes to what? The class giving stats, armor being the main thing for stats, or is it a mix of both?

steady ocean
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It's a mix of a lot of stuff. Class/race/armor/etc

opaque nacelle
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Oh ok thanks

limber tendon
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Does that mean that you'll need 2 different kinds of tanks for dungeons? One with Cloth gear for magic mobs and one with Heavy Armor for physical damage mobs?

craggy panther
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I had a question asked by one of my guild members, Will NPC's and such be voice acted? Figured it would be a good question to ask here and see if it had been answered previously

steady ocean
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Probably just a good healer @limber tendon

limber tendon
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ah ok

steady ocean
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@craggy panther Just a few greetings, no fully voiced quests. Although they may do more voice work after launch as a way to add polish to quests and such

errant chasm
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most dungeons are open world from what we've seen so doubt you get a full run waiting for some bosses / mobs to respawn @limber tendon

limber tendon
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yeah that sounds about right will be difficult to finish an entire dungeon with all the competition around

primal hawk
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@steady ocean what is BoW I thought 375 was the highest package on the shop? Are there other packages I’m missing?

steady ocean
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@primal hawk Braver of Worlds. Anyone that purchased kickstarter packs or summer backer packs can still upgrade to those higher tier packs. Similar to how we can upgrade the current pre-order packs

sharp wing
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Only one summer backers can't upgrade to is avatar of the phoenix. Learned that the other day.

crystal beacon
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?

distant charm
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If people upgrade to those larger packs will they get access to say A1 if that said package comes with it?

steady ocean
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Yup, just need to put in a ticket to get the email.

distant charm
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got a link to that support ticket page xD

tropic garden
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Hello, I need help, I send a Ticket for accessing NDA Channels for Alpha 1 testing but 2 days already but I got No Reply. Is it working or I need to wait longer?

steady ocean
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@tropic garden The customer support team is pretty backed up right now, so I'd give 'em a few more days. They are going down the tickets in order they receive them, so you will be taken care of it might just be a bit longer than normal wait

tropic garden
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OK,

grizzled latch
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it has been about 5-7 days for a response recently

tropic garden
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that long for them to response to a Ticket?

crystal flax
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Like Tavern said, they've been getting a lot lately

onyx knoll
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they've been swamped since the Asmon/Peon etc videos

tropic garden
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Ya, I got it

hollow wadi
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this : Of all these games that are coming with a more realistic theme, AOC is the one that has more enchanted. I ask the developers to give life to the characters. The Mage or I heard a lot of "haaa" "Huuuu" some sounds of effort. Make her say something, like invocations. More life to the characters = more immersion.
Success for AOC.

candid lava
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are the 5 zones equal sized?

onyx knoll
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@candid lava what 5 zones?

candid lava
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the Castle Regions

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The entire map is divided into 5 Castle regions right? and not just 1 continent?

narrow eagle
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it in my searches... but will classes that choose a primary archtype that is NOT tank, but choose a secondary archtype of tank be balanced around being able to tank end game content?

candid lava
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I doubt it, as the 2nd archetype just provides the augments to your primary skills iirc

crystal beacon
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as of right now, the only tank we know is tank.

narrow eagle
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Thank you! disappointed to hear that, but definitely understand it, would be a lot of tank classes if that was the case, lol, and would be probably difficult to balance a mage tank with a full tank. Thanks for the quick reply!

unreal zealot
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I think the secondary does alot more than just augment a new flavor onto existing skills as they can change the way you would use them or depending on circumstances say for a fighter/cleric give self healing on attacks. and i think thats an important distinction when people say they add flavor to existing abilities imo

past pewter
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tank/tank is probably immortal

slow meadow
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@unreal zealot secondaries can change your playstyle but not your role. its more than flavor, but doesn't fundamentally shift what you are expected to do.

narrow eagle
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Hopefully there is a way to play tank to do some decent damage as well, so I can play tank on my own but roll into guild raids to help dps, or maybe it won't be as strict as current games of only needing 1 or 2 tanks for encounters

candid lava
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Yeah so hopefully picking Rogue/Fighter/Mage as a secondary should help with that

unreal zealot
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@slow meadow oh yeh i wouldnt expect a cleric/tank to be able to fully change how the base archtype is meant to be played i can imagine this perticular combo to probably have one of your heals can increase the targets threat generation by x amount for x seconds or vise versa

tropic garden
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@tropic garden Have you signed your NDA already?
@simple ether No, I try to, I make a Ticket but I got not Reply yet.

frozen dune
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During Sieges/Node Wars, will there be destructible environments?

pseudo nest
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any chance we can get another example of augments besides the rush example?

versed hollow
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@pseudo nest Unfortunately, it was exacly that, an example. Specific details on what secondary classes will provide won't be known till later

pseudo nest
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i know 😢 i just want another crumb lol

crystal beacon
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i have an important question

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will we get musical instruments in the game

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playing animations

candid lava
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@pseudo nest Have you seen the predator cinematic video they launched couple years back...in that they show the character using bow which kills 2 guards in 1 shot...that might be an example of ranger augment on Rogue Primary

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I have a question based on that...are weapons class locked?

pseudo nest
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i heard they werent class locked but you would need certain weapons for certain abilities

fickle island
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No gear is class locked.

pseudo nest
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for example shield bash or something would require a shield

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and no i havent seen it

slow meadow
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correct you dont have to use a shield to tank but it may influence the abilities you want to put skill points in to like that shield bash

grand tendon
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Is there any prediction of another lifetime sub package being made available this Christmas?

proven root
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can assume tank will use some shield skills, ranger some bow skils, etc. so not using these weapons would make these skills not worth investing into

grand tendon
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JAHLON!

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Dude I took some heavy time off discord

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I hope you're well man

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Aye, ty. I need to hit your channel up again

deft raptor
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has there been any info on what would be higher dps a rouge with a ranger augments or a ranger with rogue augments. new to the hype train so sorry if its a dumb question

pseudo nest
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not even a little info related to that

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sadly

deft raptor
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gotcha, the beauty of new games and the curse. no "this is the build for this" but you get to figure it out with everyone on the way

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gotcha @simple ether i know its still early and a lot is subject to change was just wondering if any info for best tank best dps etc. has been released

pseudo nest
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hopefully they wouldnt just outright say what the best dps and tank spec is

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also if you take into account race augments, religion, social, etc. theres no way to know what best will be

past vortex
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Dual-wielding: will any class (fighter?) be able to wield two weapons?

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ok, ty

hallow venture
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Yeah our theorycrafting so far has been akin to trying to make a cake with a single egg

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And nothing else

crystal beacon
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what about wielding two two handed weapons

main mason
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Are there going to be scythe weapons?

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon not unless you find a 4 handed race to play

sick whale
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Will there be weapons/armor that can not be dropped in corrupted mode?

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Like legendaries

final oxide
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Will weapons that are made be very customizable? Like a selection of gaurds, blades, ect?

tall beacon
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Will I be able to level entirely within my home node or nodes in that nodes ZOI?

reef osprey
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@sick whale
this hasn't been explicitly confirmed or denied from the side of Intrepid
but i would go under the assumption, that regular death penalities for corrupted players will apply to all types of equipment, as it wasn't denied explicitly
i'm not sure either why you'd need legendaries to slaughter people who don't fight back in the first place

tall beacon
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For example

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I want to focus all my Xp into my home node

reef osprey
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@tall beacon theoretically yes, will it be optimal for your personal progression? probably no

final oxide
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I don't see why you couldn't

tall beacon
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I plan to be an islander, is there a global node map I can look at?

reef osprey
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there is a global map, the nodes aren't marked on it though

final oxide
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Beat me to it

tall beacon
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that left island gonna be poppin, hope theres good node there

sick whale
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@reef osprey True, but if you do happen to lose rare items it's gonna be a real pain considering you probably grinded weeks for those good weapons

tall beacon
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am I correct in saying, if I need resources that exist only in the snow mountain area, that's going to be super fucking expensive "most likely" on that island?

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If thats a thing that is

reef osprey
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@sick whale that's the risk you took when you decided to kill an innocent

tall beacon
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@sick whale Probably just have a world pvp set for such situations

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Have they spoke to the viability of gear optimal for pvp/pve, I'd hope they're similar as the systems are intertwined

sick whale
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What if you accidentally become corrupt tho

tall beacon
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good good

sick whale
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or whatever

reef osprey
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@tall beacon different resources are more likely to be in different area, yes
which will cause different items to have different values in localized market place
which in turn creates an incentive for caravan runs

sick whale
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Like you decide to obliterate that annoying guy who attacked you, but you AoE'd and insta killed a gearless player in 1 hit

reef osprey
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how do you accidentally become corrupted?
accidentally hit your keyboard with your head while falling asleep?

tall beacon
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Do caravans have set routes? Or could I theoretically sail all the way around, for example. If my ship building is super leveled and its better for me to do so than not

sick whale
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You get penalties for killing ''innocents'' in other games all the time, while they tried to attack first

cobalt shale
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Do you have to kill someone to become corrupt, or just attack them once?

sick whale
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you gotta kill someone who doesnt fight back

final oxide
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You kill a non combatant as a combatant

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Right?

sick whale
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You guys are gonna say how r u gonna get corrupted accidentally, butbelieve me. It will happen

tall beacon
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i feel like you could game that pretty hard. As if I were attacked by someone I'd want them to get corrupted but, that means I must die per say if they're going for a node I am as well

final oxide
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To get to the point of dropping items you have to kill multiple. Corrupt has levels.

marsh tulip
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Will we be able to swim to an island day one?

final oxide
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You choose were you start

reef osprey
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@sick whale
they mentioned some type of "checkbox" you have to tick for your aoe skills to accidentally hit greens
@simple ether please correct me if i'm wrong there

final oxide
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Oh that's nice

tall beacon
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I dont think any islands are a starting point @marsh tulip but I think you could probably head there day 1

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Unless theres surface level water mobs that will get you

sick whale
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ok well that makes sense

tall beacon
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Can you flag/unflag anywhere or just towns

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cooldown, based on players in radius, or

sick whale
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I assume when you clap some flagged cheeks in a town guards will kill you?

glossy flicker
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Is flaging instant or do you have to hold down key for a while to flag yourself?

marsh tulip
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I know they're not starting points, just I kind of see what kind of out of the way spot I could make it day one

tall beacon
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Island does seem like the play for that reason @marsh tulip "sorry for discussion comment"

reef osprey
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@sick whale no, killing other combatans is consentual pvp and you don't get corruption from that

tall beacon
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is there an estimate on Alpha 2 release?

glossy flicker
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becasue if it's going to be instant beleive me it's going to happend on accitend that's where my qestion is going.

tall beacon
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I aska bout alpha 2 estimate because I'm waiting to choose my class based on research of augments. Bard with Cleric Secondary sounds awesome

sick whale
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bard does sound like the best class ever

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ngl

tall beacon
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You think within a year? I remember reading somewhere they estimated a 2020 release a while back, unless I read it wrong

reef osprey
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@tall beacon that was delayed a long time ago

hallow venture
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Tbh even they won’t know at this point

tall beacon
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9 month setback?

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was that from re-writing the base architecture I read about

slow meadow
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yeah

reef osprey
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ai

hallow venture
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Better to scrap and rebuild than just bake in the tech debt

tall beacon
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I agree, idk why anyone would think its stupid. I love the idea of a separate game that is just as fun on its own, but for testing content for AoC

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very unique

sick whale
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@simple ether So because of the producer the game takes a lot longer? So the game would have been really trash then if it released now basically

tall beacon
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which producer is that @simple ether

sick whale
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😂

tall beacon
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is he, the senior producer?

reef osprey
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well, i won't judge him as long as his poor taste won't translate into ashes kappa

sick whale
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^this guy knows what's up

crystal beacon
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they planned to release before 2020

main mason
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Jahlon are you making a guild? becoming mayor?

crystal beacon
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that would have flopped the game

sick whale
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Delaying games is a big brain move almost every time

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except for cyberpunk

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that game looks like trash judging from the recent trailer

errant chasm
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not gona go well for new world now that ashes got all this hype who would be caught dead playing that game

sick whale
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isn't AoC ramping up marketing because of the delay?

crystal beacon
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i have an important question

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@plucky pawn what is if i want to buy the current pack on eu?

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sorry to ping

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the one with the red skins

errant chasm
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that 1's been gone for months

crystal beacon
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since the shop is down

slow meadow
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@sick whale they aren't marketing at all yet. the influx was all from the lazy peon vid and big streamers reacting. steven did those interviews on the fly

crystal beacon
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it technically is still on eu

sick whale
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Yeah I guess that, that's where I found the game from. The peon vid

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which was pretty epic ngl

errant chasm
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id imagine if fix the current shop it'll let u buy the current 1

reef osprey
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@crystal beacon wait for stevens announcement end of the month

everything else is speculation

crystal beacon
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i really want the current one on eu

errant chasm
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thats busted

crystal beacon
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the one with the red luminated skins

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technically it is still this one displayed, no?

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was there another one before?

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on eu that is

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i mean

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is this the first time it is shown on eu

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so the shop has been down since march?

main mason
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@simple ether are you making a guild?

sick whale
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If this outfit is obtainable without pre-order I ain't even gotta pre-order

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That looks nutty

crystal beacon
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so is the eu shop down since march

sick whale
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frick.. So I won't be able to get it

crystal beacon
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lol

winter field
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does anyone have a list of all previous monthly cosmetics?

eternal wraith
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What is the estimated length Alpha1 and 2? Like 3 months each?

desert ivy
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HA

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Way longer

tall beacon
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ive seen more creativity in this games cosmetics than any other

winter field
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good looks thanks

main mason
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@simple ether are you planning on becoming mayor, and if so have you thought about a name for your town?

tall beacon
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I wouldnt worry about availability of awesome looking gear

winter field
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i hope they cycle back in older cosmetics that already past

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that blacksight watcher pet skin is crispy

eternal wraith
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Is there a place I can check on for length of time on alphas and betas?

winter field
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the length isnt disclosed i believe

sick whale
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I LOVE the fact that mayors aren't voted through polls only. This way anyone can become mayor if they have the willpower, and not just popular streamers/guild peoples become mayors

winter field
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its until needed

coral raven
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Will they cycle outfits? I won't be able to get any but I hope that those who invested early get their exclusive items.

eternal wraith
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Oh, that makes sense. Ty

winter field
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ah that makes me big ole sad

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that raven pet skin

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this is why we missed having ya here bud, you are a wiki by yourself

sick whale
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is there a public roadmap?

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to see what they are working on now

coral raven
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Wait, we're doing werewolves?

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Oh shit..

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I can wait for that lol

sick whale
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I always found werewolves quite boring

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ngl

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same for vampires btw

coral raven
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Who said they have to be traditional werewolves?

winter field
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I'm hoping they do more racial skins like the old angel one

coral raven
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Just saying, doesn't have to be very traditional

tall beacon
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That red and black galleon ship is Bis, its the only thing I want

coral raven
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Maybe a summoner fighter? Sorry this is more of a discussion.

ruby swift
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Morning @simple ether Got the two updates about My.Games and Apoc from around 5 hours ago. Anything else I miss?

floral iris
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hahaha, let's face it. If it's a spreadsheet for work, most of the times you're not going to be happy. If it's a spreadsheet for personal use..... well....... make that page shine baby

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Yo here's a question... Are you able to have your friends who are let's say a part of your family, work on your freeholds? like say i wanted to make one thing, can you get someone to work on another task?

lilac cloud
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Is it true mobs don’t drop currency but items that U have to turn in / sell to get money ?

junior pagoda
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I would think spreadsheets would be fun, if they have to do with classes, professions, augments, etc

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if it is just numbers than f that

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Do seasons have any impact on farming/ crops

stray current
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Yes

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Seasons can affect crops, mobs, even routes.

junior pagoda
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neat. So is farming not possible in certain regions, like the desert?

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neat, ty

severe flame
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Thats not what he said

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there might be crops for desert

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season is not region

ruby swift
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Nope, is possible, you just may not be able to grow certain crops, while others will be fine.

junior pagoda
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I understand season is not region, his answer made me curious about the desert regions, as seasons have less of an effect there.

crystal beacon
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Do religions have some sort of mechanic interaction with divine nodes?

brittle ferry
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I don't believe we know those specifically but I'll take a looksee

crystal beacon
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Ive looked at the wiki and we just have so little information on it. 😦

dreamy temple
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i'll be disappointed if there arent religious wars.

brittle ferry
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Yeah, we've seen talk about passives related to people's characters but exact info on the mechanic to the interactions of any of the nodes isn't known knowledge

crystal beacon
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Religions give augments to abilities and other passives. And all of the node types have superpowers when they reach metro status.

Also I think there will be religious wars. I think religions may stronger depending on how many nodes they have a temple in.

marsh tulip
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I'm wondering if there will be evil God religions

crystal beacon
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Dont you lack abilities then if you choose to be an atheist

slow meadow
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You may lack augments but not abilities. Abilities are granted by your archetype.

floral patrol
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Are there PC spec recommendations anywhere yet? Helping build a pc for a friend for the game.

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This works for me.

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Thank you

slim dagger
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just get top end market now

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solved. pc for ashes.

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and every other game for the next 5-7 years

crystal beacon
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Wait

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Majors in military nodes are determined by a gladiator arena

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So free for all?

slow meadow
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1v1 tournament fought via a champion you raise and control

crystal beacon
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Is that fixed?

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It says it is an idea on the wiki

slow meadow
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A design they are thinking to use to combat pvp imbalance so that skill wins that node

crystal beacon
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Sounds like the node I want to live in

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No friendship mayor electing

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Pure skill

slow meadow
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Its effort and skill really, since you need to put in the effort of raising the champion then skill to win the tournament. Its a good idea if it pans out during testing.

crystal beacon
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In an economic node you buy your mayor title or what?

fickle island
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Yeah it goes to the highest bidder

slow meadow
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Sort of. There is a separate currency that you can gain from quests and successful economic transactions so its not just pile in on the money, though this isn't super detailed yet.

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There some light details on the wiki but they want to find a way like with the military node to add some balance to it.

crystal beacon
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I so have to play the test server, else this is way too confusing

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Also sorry to ask again but

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How long is the eu shop down already

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The pack it shows there is 2 packs behind

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Thanks yeah, i am more concerned about the cosmetics haha

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So is the pack it shows there gone for sure?

ruby swift
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The red one? Yes

winter field
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damn jahlon you are still here answering questions

ruby swift
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It is what we do.

crystal beacon
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I do have a mygames account that is older than the pack

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But is there any other requirement

ruby swift
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We don't know the requirements or what will happen there. There has been no info.

crystal beacon
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I see

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Rip then

steady ocean
dark jungle
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That's in there my friend

steady ocean
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Ah, I must be looking in the wrong area.

dark jungle
steady ocean
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Ah, just not listed by name. Gotcha

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What about the potential unofficial leak about cannons being on ships? Was that ever clarified?

ruby swift
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They had said long ago that there would be cannons, just not black powder cannons.

desert ivy
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@dark jungle Stallion Prime isnt in the cosmetic mount list Dad

dark jungle
steady ocean
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Doesn't list cannons, but perhaps falls under the "arcane arts" part. Cool. I'll keep a look out for more stuff!

half apex
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Look for ships on wiki an you can find it at naval combat.

dark jungle
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@desert ivy added now, thanks!

steady ocean
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None of that mentions cannons, which was something that Jeff said and not Steven @half apex

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All good though, you all have an excellent night. I'm signing off for the night.