Weekly Feedback Request - 01/23/2025

[bitter portal]

Greetings, Glorious <@&1296581208184066129> Testers!

Please share your top 3-5 most critical issues or feedback topics in the thread below using the following format:

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Important Note: While we greatly value your insights, please understand that we cannot guarantee all bugs or feedback topics will be addressed, or provide a specific timeframe for fixes.

Thank you for your continued support, feedback, and dedication to improving the Alpha Two experience!

[exotic grove]

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[bitter portal]

Weekly Feedback Request - 01/23/2025

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Node Upkeep - Its been 3-5 weeks and no node has ticked for building upkeep. Unsure if this is implemented or bugged. But important to discuss so we dont have nodes fall over.. unintentionally
2. When flying to another node sometimes the character will desync and not load the node. Upon relog you will be spawned back halfway (not an emberspring)
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3. Desert Expansion and Development
4. Reiterate the six week patch cycle for the people who forgot
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[hoary vale]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. PvP events letting helpful spells effect flagged players
2. Bard songs keeping you in combat for years.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Make caravan attackers have some risk. Currently all gain with basically 0 cost. Caravans are also too lucrative, halving gold gain may feel better.
2. Make hunting gatherables for higher rarity more realistic.
3. servers servers servers
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[real crown]

Editing

[tacit ruin]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Items being deleted when traded instead of appearing in the other players inventory.
2. Mobs constantly exiting combat or resetting aggro.
3. Mobs spawning within walls or under the map, which screws up farming areas.
4. Mobs being dragged away from their original spawnpoint. MAKE MOBS RESET IF NOT WITHIN A CERTAIN RADIUS OF INITIAL SPAWN AFTER AN AMOUNT OF TIME.
5. Harvestable resources not being able to be interacted with.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. The delay of Level 4 Nodes until Phase 3 feels like a major failure and in need of being directly addressed.
2. The delays in Rogue being showcased or playable feel like a major failure and in need of being directly addressed.
3. The current state of Artisan systems, in particular how Rarity works and the availability of certain resource spawns, does not feel good, which is further compounded by the lack of Level 4 Nodes to allow more stations. In specific, Weeping Willow is needed for FAR too much compared to Oak/Ash/Larch/Hemlock, and spawns FAR too rarely and with spawns either overlapped by other trees or with too long of a spawn timer.
4. Static-rarity harvestable nodes lead to people mining high-tier mats, writing down a timer, and camping the nodes on-timer. This results in a hyper-accumulation of certain resources for a very small handful of players, and rewards random luck and camping more than it does actually getting good gear for artisan skills.
5. Pyromancers, Firestarters, and any other fire-based casters have obscenely overtuned damage values both in terms of single-target and AoE.

[fathom grotto]

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[lyric swan]

Weekly Feedback (01-23-2025)

**Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs: **

1. Hunting animals is not abiding by the certification requirement. For example, being able to hunt bears while only being a novice hunter.
2. Mobs getting stuck in terrain and/or not being targetable.
3. Right clicking on items in your inventory while interacting with the storage clerk, does not always transfer the item. It seems to be random as to when it will work and when it won't. I've noticed the problem more frequently in Joeva
4. Fighter whrilwind cancels itself randomly most of the time it gets used.
5. Graphical settings in the menu don't seem to get saved, settings will be reset in the UI sometimes during play or when re-opening the client.

**Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics: **

1. Processing - Allow us to have the ability to process multiple different tiers of an item for a single job. For example, if I have 1 uncommon Zinc and 4 common Zinc, let me run a job of 5 with all of them. Or instead of limiting the player to run jobs of only 1/5/10/25, let us choose any number of materials to process for a single job. Lastly, I would prefer there to be no timer to process materials and just let the job complete immediately much like crafting. But if this is not preferred then there should also be some kind of global notification for your character that a job has finished and the mini-map should point the player to where that is.
2. Storefront updates - Being able to have more granular customization as to how we manage our storefront is something I've wanted. I would love the ability to not only change the description of the storefront, but also the name of it that appears. Also, for when the UI inevitably gets updated, having the UI elements that represent each store have space to advertise specific items or list sales on specific items to incentivize potential customers seems like an interesting idea to expand upon what's currently in-game.
3. Create a "New Player" channel so new testers can ask questions about certain mechanics and not have their question get lost in the current version of global chat (which I know will disappear at some point).
4. Dungeons - I personally feel like mob spawns in dungeons is too fast, and so far my experience in the dugeons has been getting into a group and sitting in a single spot while we farm mobs (I'm sure there is tuning planned for this). But I think developing some kind of dynamic system to gauge what mobs to spawn back based on what group has killed it would be helpful. For example - Group 1 enters the dungeon and kills all the mobs and is currently fighting the boss, Group 2 enters the dungeon and each player has a spawn radius around them, because Group 1 didnt kill the mobs, spawn the pack of mobs that is within the given radius of the group.

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[potent socket]

give rogue you hacks also quit banning people for speech you cowards

[dull laurel]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. desync
2. general server performance
3. armor/character model flickering when it clips
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. tanks are boring asf
5. gameplay flow, give me more direction early game
6. world is too large/content too sparse
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[charred bay]

Some number

[hollow whale]

CARAVANS GETTING THE PVP PROTECTION FROM THEIR DRIVER BEING KILLED

[pure parcel]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory bugs
2. Looting bugs
3. Party bugs
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[rich vapor]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory desync (inventory not updating properly), I think this is a major issues since it happens quite often and it's very frustrating
2. Commodities dissappearing in Caravans (one cause could be changing to raft in "allowed" location (blue hologram) but once placed the game decides that the water is not deep enough and therefore forcefully changes/resets it back to a caravan a few meters back, potentially resetting the commodities as well)
3. Not gatherable resources, it's very frustrating to find a rare resource, e.g. Weeping Willow and not being able to chop it (no F action) or able to chop it but nothing happens (no materials gained, no xp and tree stays there), this amplifies the frustration around the scarcity of these resources.
4. Looting issues where it is not possible to loot items or just partial items, restarting game fixes this, but it's very frustrating.
5. Party/Raid related issues related to events like caravans, you currently need to leave party/raid to accept a caravan event.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. I want to be able to "swap" materials in my material bags only if the space allows for it, e.g. swap 5 Heroic Zinc in one bag with 15 Common Zinc in another bag, but only if the amount would fit in the same slot of the bag you are swapping to/from, so if you are swapping 5 Heroic Zinc from a Novice Mining Satchel which has stack size limit of 43, to a slot in the Sanctus Bag where there is 15 Common Zinc with stack size limit of 20, this should be fine, another example when it's not fine: When you have 25 Common Zinc in your Novice Mining Satchel (43 limit) and want to swap that with 5 Heroic Zinc in your Sanctus Bag (20 limit), this should do nothing because you can't fit the 25 Common Zinc in that 1 slot (2x2) you are trying to swap things in and should therefore not do anything. This makes inventory management a bit easier when dealing with rarity.
2. I want to see the player levels in the guild roster interface (U) just like in the Friends list (O) in the column "Archetype", I also want to see the actual Archetype in this column instead what it shows now "Healer", "Ranged" etc.. just show "Cleric", "Bard", "Fighter" etc.
3. Be able to link items/materials in the chat, to share the stats of.
4. Show player name of caravan event or some kind of indication, maybe a randomized number for each event, or a color, so that it's easier to say to the group, "become attacked for caravan event ......." when there is multiple events on the screen, there is no way to tell which is which, and sometimes you want to raid only one specific.
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[umbral gazelle]

Crashes

[deft stone]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mount becomes frozen in motion and sound stops.
2. Croc speeds, c'mon already.
3. Blinding light or complete darkness.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. More gatherable nodes of course. We're all in a tight space and got little room to breath on the more rare items. Especially the more rare ones.
5. When you log in, make it be at an ember spring so people can't camp items by parking their characters at spawn points unless they logged off inside of a town. Most grind zones have ember springs close by so should be no big deal.
6. Make caravans give less rewards. The market sucks because nobody wants to go out and farm mats causing prices to be pretty bad. And he lack of special things like willow even more punishing and hunting monsters for non zerg guilds that have a life.
7. Spread out resources like raptors across the map, and add more. Again terribly camped item. All within 100 yards of one another and no other spawns across the entire map. Hunting is already pretty bottlenecked, give them a break.
8. Better corruption system, shouldn't go red for 1 kill when you're competing for items. After all it's a pvp game, and one which you can force flag. If you want to defend your grind zone or fight over a material node, should not result in instant red, again it's a pvp game. Please look into black deserts PvP corruption system. AOC far too punishing for the attacker and little to no punishment for the victim not defending themselves or willing to fight and compete over goods. Again, it's a pvp game. Making it so only one side is punished is pretty much killing pvp. Atleast make it so you don't drop your items you worked so hard to get but maybe drop your gold or something? The victim drops only a small portion of materials and no gold or items. It is very unblanaced.
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[paper smelt]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
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[bitter portal]

Please follow the provided format in the pinned message and remember this is for issues you experience during **this ** (1/23/25 - 1/27/25) test, not previous ones ❤️

[dark obsidian]

Only feedback I have is if you actually want us to test your game and find issues and bugs, don’t force us to grind weeks to level up, some people have jobs and a life hard to test everything when limited accessibility

[hardy current]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. gathering professions rarity system sucks and is super abusable.
2. not enough random spawns of materials:
3. gathering stats do nothing
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[modest lark]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Alpha Two Phase II Feedback

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Chat settings reset every time you exit and re-enter the game.
2. Character equipment textures flickering/disappear.
3. TAA - Temporal Anti-Aliasing makes the game look bad.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Monsters keep aggro for too long.
2. Mosters appearing out of thin air.
3. Add more marking options like: 1, 2, 3 etc. (like on the screenshot)

[tribal anchor]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Being attacked by mobs that I cannot see. "Invisible Mobs".
2. Frequent rubber-banding where I need to completely stop moving for it to cease.
3. Not being able to quickly move items to and from storage with hotkeys, forcing me to relog to fix it and even then it only works for a few minutes before stopping.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Need a mail system to send items to each other and other characters.
5. Need a deconstruction system for unwanted items that returns a portion of the materials used to make them.
6. Better search filters for the player market.
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[eager axle]

1. Action Cam combat, specifically targeting while in large pvp fights, feels awful.

Best of luck on the progress 🫶 👋

[past carbon]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Gathering Rarity abuse for Mining and Trees
2. The Croc is still bugged and with JM mounts coming out our entire profession is wasted until this croc issue gets resolved. The croc is the same speed as the fastest rare spawn JM Mount the Lion's Pride. Please don't kill our profession before it even begins.
3. Caravan issues in general (Drivers getting nuked, Caravans going friendly, healers able to heal both while outside of combat)

[hard vortex]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
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[fresh sleet]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravan receiving PvP protection after killing a player
2. Healers out of caravan not becoming combatant when healing players in caravan event from the outside
3. Unsure if intended but wand finishers interaction with bard actually one shotting anyone

[wicked jolt]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Fighter Blitz should have an option for Root, Incap or Stagger depending on the stance using

2. Give option to move castbar and error message

3. Let us use keybind: scroll wheel up and scroll wheel down for skil usage

4. Let us keybind deselect target

5. Give us class color nameplates option

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[red kettle]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Quest bugs/incompletable quests
2. Desyncs
3. Monster bugs/teleports/ai issues
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Guild progression is really important, and should be prioritized IMHO
5. More in game info about how things are supposed to work
6. Better corruption mechanics
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[robust birch]

1. Error code 32, 33, 34 while logging in.
2. Raid frames need debuffs.
3. Render distance on nameplates during large wars.
4. Black box on map/minimap.

[tiny hazel]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Node rarity remaining static when a specific metal/rock/gem/tree/flower is harvested in the exact same spot at a different time. The types can change which provides different rarity, but when the original one respawns it retains rarity. So If a Copper node came up Legendary, the next time I loot it in that same spot the copper will be Legendary. If a Basalt re-spawns in its place that Basalt will always be its own static rarity in that exact same spot. If it turns back into Copper then it will be Legendary again. We have mapped out many of the locations and test after every patch day to see if they still come up this way and they do time after time.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
2. Character wipes from receiving duplicated gold or duplicated items during trades. Going after the victims just feels like a double loss no? Whether or not the characters get restored now, as apparently a lot of them are now on appeal, it was a huge shot to a lot of peoples confidence that they have for the dev team. It feels like a drive by shooting a line of people got downed because they were trying to hit one person in the crowd. Probably ruined a lot of peoples days for no fault on their end.

[agile shuttle]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. From last week still - Inventory deleted: The third storage in the items tab added a row to the items tab. However, anything I put in this line is deleted upon logging. In the same avenue, I had crated material in the cargo tab in Halcyon that was deleted also.
2. Animal Rarity is still a HUGE bottleneck for all crafts
3. Server lag, memory leaks and rubber-banding are big concerns still
4. Unreachable mobs - whether they're stuck in the ground, or a tree, or like the rock golem I just saw running across the sky over the river - they are a constant thorn in the side of progress. Same goes for all the harvestables stuck under the ground.
5. Lumber Foremen both bugged out when the Lumbermill and Carpentry stations upgraded to JM.
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6. Chat features: Currently NOTHING saves on the chat. I cannot set up a window for the features I want and have them remain if I log out.
7. Items storage is a concern now that I've been playing for a bit longer. Currently there's nothing in game (save for expanding the rows by a bit - when they don't bug out and delete all your items) to increase your ITEMS storage. If you have any gear, recipes, map items, etc... that storage space disappears QUICK.

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[mild grotto]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Invisible enemys recking me
2. Moveing items to and out of storage is bugged constanly where i can't move items.
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[acoustic tiger]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

• 1. T1 resources being too rare.
• 2. Inventory Glitches

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[torn void]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025__**
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1. When killed in caravan pvp, players should not be able to spawn at the closest emberspring (or Maybe a timer)

[tardy gate]

FIX TRADE BUREAU

[hexed crane]

Most Important Bugs:

• Steelboom Performance -Anecdotally, I notice hardly any groups grind here as opposed to RoS (for levels below 20), due to the performance issues that this PoI has.
• Fixed Resource Rarity & Timers - Resource nodes have a fixed rarity, and allow people to set up timers to come back to specific resource nodes if that node produces high rarity materials.

Most Important Feedback Topics:

• Solo Progression Avenues - How are new players likely to progress if they are unable to find low level groups. This can cause the feeling of being softlocked. This issue might also become exacerbated when Rogue releases, and 50% of the low level players are all rogues.
• Death Penalty On Tanks - With Tanks dying so often, there are long term economic implications for those who are playing Tanks. They will earn significantly less glint, and therefore gold during their playtime.

[pale mesa]

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[lapis leaf]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs

1. Hunting rarity. Please change it.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. PLEASE RANDOMIZE RESOURCE SPAWNS SOMEHOW. This is a disaster and going to get worse. It makes testing crafting frustrating and creates degenerate and unfun but highly efficient gameplay loops.

2. Revise gathering rarity to incorporate the amount of the stat into the second roll in addition to the first. Right now, it’s a nearly useless stat.
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[sleek parrot]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
Caravans
Rubber banding is a major issue which causes unnecessary deaths
Storage causes for an insane amount of crashes and glitches

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
Please have a deeper insight into freeholds. Freeholds. Freeholds can be obtained only by the rich and powerfull. Once you have it only YOU can use the buildings there this causes an insane gap between the realm and freehold owners where gatekeeping is inevitable…. Example solution:

make it so people can use freehold buildings in towns aswell but give those in town a limit use and CD and give freehold users unlimitted acces

Animal Husbandry & Hunting needs more love. Right now these 2 skills feel neglected.
we have barely any rarity when hunting
The rarity that drops on mounts is only usefull 50% of the time (as a beast of burden)
The amount of animals we can collect is basically 10 in total as a journeyman (apprentice and novice animals excluded)
The price of a husbandry animal is very expensive its like 55s for a t1 animal this causes an big advantage over those who picked husbandry and those who dont. People should not be going broke because they chose the wrong artisan system

3 Pvp ranking system <-- major feed back IMO

I think it will be good to have a pvp ranking system. A pvp ranking system will go as followed:

Rank 1 - 2 (gain 200 points)
Rank 2 - 3 (gain 400 points)
Rank 3 - 4 (gain 700 points)

If you kill people 2 lvls below/ above you you gain points (based on if they are below or above you)

If you kill someone more then 2 lvls above or below you you decrease in rank (this instantly stops low lvl killing) but with this syste, you get more organic pvp then opt in pvp like a caravan. Because right now there is no risk in running around as people do not attack randomly

4: Give us more resources plz I know we are in a testing phase but right now we cant test everything as the resources are to scarce and we need to spawn camp them for a chance at 1 item

[dusk cliff]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Tree’s around Winstead node are all underground
2. Survey Pylons do not work
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
3. Better search feature for market stalls
4. Freeholds don’t return same rarity as planted
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[unique radish]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Game crashing on a daily basis and causing my computer to freeze and to require a reboot. On startup, I fall through the world, and/or Halcyon is in a deep hole which I fall through.
2. When walking in the world, I rubberband and have to walk backwards a few steps in order to continue walking forward.
3. When transferring items form my bag to storage, the item is added to storage but is still showing in my bag.

[fading isle]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
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1. Remove enchanting scrolls from the stalls for all tiers. This feature completely removes scribes as a basic needed crafter in the game

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[inner otter]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. General performance is really bad for no clear reason
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[random chasm]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Gild/Node war declaration and fishing
2. Caravan receiving PvP protection after killing a player
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
3. Cooking is too costly and Alchemy need boost
4. Respawn after killing a caravan defender should be proportional to the distance to emberspring
5. Hunting need more work

[fiery dirge]

Alpha Two Phase II Feedback

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1)Caravan Bugs and issues. Healers able to heal defenders without joining to be attackable. Joining attacker on one, defender on another for multiple caravan events can make you unattackable to some while you can still attack them, etc.
2)Mage talent "aftershock" doesn't reliably work. Apply staggered with firebolt, immediately chain lightning, does not double hit.
3)Looting/Inventory bugs. Have to relog to see items in inventory or loot corpses sometimes.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1)Time to Kill is still too fast. Offensive stats scale better than defensive stats leading to an ever shortening time to kill. The nerf to legendary gear helped some (more maybe required), but now you need to look at how offensive stats scale vs. defensive stats. Another way to approach it would be to have a PVP-only damage modifier, so abilities only do say 80% damage in PVP instead of 100%. Then it makes it easier to balance PVP without impacting PVE balance.
2)There needs to be more open world PVP activities. Once level 25, there's not much "end game" other than chasing gear score. We need more frequent pvp activites. More open world pvp objectives/events. Hourly/Daily/Weekly activities. NOT INSTANCED BATTLEGROUNDS OR ARENAS. Open World PVP activities.
3)Corruption system is too harsh. Limit gear loss to 1 piece per death. Killing mounts should be a lesser penalty than instantly red. Killing players of equal or higher level shouldn't be instant red (maybe 2 kills instead of just 1).

[plucky bone]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Loot bug where you can't see stuff going into your inventory and you have to either relog or mount up to fix.

2. Mob Leash distance is way too far.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Mages Need some sort of interupt!

2. let us search marketplace by item

3. we need less cumbersome chat functionality.

[junior hedge]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Getting sent to carphin randomly from halfway across the map
2. Caravans Lol
   3.Taxes
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
3. Clear favoritism/nepotism from the devs and server admins
4. Punishments not reflecting the crime/extreme for what happened
5. Time to kill for PvP is way too fast, A global HP buff for players with a pve monster damage buff would be the best way to handle it so as to keep pve balanced.
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[quasi acorn]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. UI nameplates persist even when toggling on/off or combat options
2. Shield disappears at random times
3. shooting animation locked while riding the mount
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. heavy performance with light rays sometimes ruin the ambience
5. artisan tutorial should include armor/weapon crafting and directions to trainers or how to start
6. profession bags should be seperated to each category, wood, stone, etc
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[scarlet bough]

1. More rewarding questing / commissions
2. Reward for participation in caravan defense as random player
3. Clarity on the place casual players will have in this game world

[vagrant heart]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Hunting rarity is still broken compared to the other gathering.
2. Verdant Voyager land speed is still not fixed. T0 mount should not have 170% ms
3. Global illumination bugs in the Forge- Still getting way too bright or way too dark.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Improve marketplace search function to not be solely reliant on the shop description or seller name
2. More defensive focus on pvp (time to kill too fast)
3. Add separate chat channels for LFG and trade
4. Make resource spawns more variable in the time they spawn and completely random rarity.
5. Treasure maps are too rewarding compared to conventional resource gathering.
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[karmic sundial]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Spider silk is not gatherable
2. Crafted gear rarity bug, you craft any rarity and receive legendary
   3.High Setting is the most stable FPS wise somehow
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3. Performance issues like memory leaks(idk how to call it but restart the game solves it) are too frequent, every 2h with the client open my fps starts spiking
   2.TBD
   3.TBD
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[worn oriole]

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Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Certain NPCs are either spawning behind unpassable barriers or not at all until a server restart happens (possibly being out of bounds).
2. Trouble moving between server worker borders (seems to be only when mounted and possibly is due to the massive increase in server population)
3. Certain NPCs seems to spawn imporperly. They have health and can be attacked but does not move client side and can attack back if you stand close to them

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Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Easier UI to get to Guild list (currently only accessible through keybind a physical button would be nice to have)

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Will add more if I remember something```

[tawny bison]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory bugs still making it so your materials inventory doesn't update when you move things around, or occasionally when you pick things up.
2. Debuffs occasionally not showing in the party roster display.
3. City guards lingering on top of storage vendors. (Maybe also consider having more than one storage vendor per node. Same storage, just different points of access. Same for market.)

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Caravan risk vs reward needs to be adjusted. Caravaners at an extreme disadvantage in every way, disincentivizing running them.
2. The chat system leaves a lot to be desired. Custom setups aren't saved atm. We should have custom setups, appearance of text colors/size, and possibly even the ability to make custom channels (as Aion did way back when).
3. Keep working towards quests being rewarding and doable. Lore-heavy quests should also be consistent and explorable.
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[obsidian escarp]

Top 3 bugs:

1. • enchantments on gathering, processing, and crafting gear breaks the rarity and quantity bonuses for all gathering, processing, and crafting.
2. Sleep/Marionette needs to maintain PvP flagging, don't let Bards and Mages freely knock gatherers off a node without being subject to a beat-down for the next few minutes!
3. Broken / incomplete quests, and I don't know which are fixed.

Top 3 feedback topics:

1. Where is Item Deconstruction?
2. Can we get a rubric for frequency/severity of activities that lead to actionable punishment?
3. Discovering treasure dirt mounds in uneven terrain and under structures is still questionable. I was having trouble with this on PTR too.
4. Need better reporting on prospective quest fixes. I can't test fixes if I don't know what's been fixed!

[wide estuary]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Game crashing a LOT on caravan events even tho my computer specs are realy good (2024 2k€ gaming specs)
2. Random game crashes.
3. Code 32, 33, 34 bug when you want to log in. (takes like 5m to log in, since game crash a lot... it's meh!)
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Damage a bit too high in PvP. Time to kill too low.
5. The way stats are driven now. Peaple just want intelligence or strengh depending if you're magical/physical. Const for tank ofc. Other stats should be more relevant, for exemple for the healer & healing power.
6. Give us some quality of life for travels, not a big one, but something! (a recall with 1h CD, for exemple)

[glossy pollen]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/25

1. Marking and selecting targets. I wrote an extensive thread on this here: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/65291/the-targeting-marking-system-and-how-it-relates-to-pvp#latest

2. Market needs a complete rework. Please please please just make it a normal broker like other games have. Look at this screenshot below as an example. The user searches "Enchantment Stone" and all relative items appear, by default sorted cheapest to most expensive.

[slow rock]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

• 1. Caravans bugs
• 2. Mobs getting stuck in terrain and/or not being targetable even for the tank chain
• 3. Right click storage transfer
• 4. Rendering performance
• 5. Gathering tools stats are broken

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

• 1. Caravans are currently highly unattractive to operate. The high-risk/high-reward principle is only present on one side. Attackers face no risk compared to the high rewards they can gain. Meanwhile, defenders must invest Glint, silver, and significant time—none of which attackers are required to contribute, yet they still reap the full reward. Introducing scrolls, preparatory measures, or even cooldowns would make the system more balanced and encourage thoughtful decision-making about whether engaging in a caravan raid is truly worth it
• 2. Need more punishment for looting corpses or flagged PvP, going purple for a few seconds isn't enough. Du can deactivate PvP during the fight. That isn't acceptable for some reason
• 3. The current disparity between farmed gear and crafted gear is minimal. At present, players can essentially craft the same armor as farmed gear, just at a higher quality tier. While the crafting process itself is enjoyable, taking time and providing a sense of accomplishment, the range of unique items available through crafting pales in comparison to the variety of items obtainable through grinding. Crafting needs to be more rewarding. Steven initially stated that crafting would represent the ultimate endgame when it comes to obtaining the best gear. Was this always intended to apply solely to the highest quality tier of existing gear? If so, it feels deeply unsatisfying. Crafting should stand on its own with unique gear, exclusive set bonuses, and significantly higher stat evaluations—independent of quality tiers. To balance this, crafting could be made even more time-intensive and grind-heavy than it is now. Additionally, the drop rate for gear from farming seems excessively high and should be reduced accordingly
• 4. Physical and magical armor are broken. The values are extremely low compared to the attack points. The current endgame content in PvP is a one-shot parade of laughter.
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[dapper moth]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Karma system may need a redo. Atm karma system is a black or white system, I would suggest to make it a progressive system where you start gaining negative karma until you reach a certain treshhold for the big penalties. TLDR a system like the archeage one. Why? you may ask. It would solve to major issues at my point of view. First of all atm fighting for the spot consist in dragging mob and/or sleep healer, you can answer that agression by killing the purple guy, however atm the group of people are standing next to the purple so you kill them and go red, so basically fighting for a grinding spot is a completely mess. It would also solve the caravan issue (see next feedback).

2. Attacking caravans is too much free atm, you have nothing to lose and all to win. I would remove the event system and just make it a normal pk. Atm that is impossible as pk system is too much strict, however, with the system I suggested in feedback 1 would be possible a progressive one.

3. Exploiters need to be banned more frequently and more info about them need to be shared. I know it's impossible to share exact names, however, it would be good to know from which server where the bans/wipes. Also they need to be punished faster, I can't say names here, however theres a well known guild in EU that do a well ammount of exploits and still need to be banned, there are even videos of them killing the firebrand bugged in the trees. This seems like something of lesser importance, however, a good image against the exploiters is needed to sustain a good PR with the general public and the health of a saturated server.

4. Increase the CD for joining a guild (maybe a week starting the moment you join the guild). Atm people in red just get kill by they guild mates to loot their gear and then join back after the 24h CD.
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[chrome arrow]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Hunting animal carcasses barely get higher quality as rare
2. A few armour items don't have their set boni still (like The Brace of Balm light armour gloves)
3. Desyncing is sometimes insane and sometimes it makes you teleport at the end of the map when dismounting or causes you being unable to dismount at all.
4. Monsters still agro healers randomly first and train agro
5. Some debuffs cause monsters to glow like a disco ball.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Prime Time feels barely playable because the rarity of things is too insane rewarding everyone else who can choose when to play. Named are still too crowded while ressources are always gone. Dynamic changes when areas are more crowded would be increase the joy during prime time.
2. Hunting materials, cocoons and such are way too limited especially during prime time causing big campings ruining your experience in the process as it is all about who gets the first hit. The
3. Hunting creatures of some kinds are way too rare like Plumed Haleberder or not even existing besides being a named drop like Protector's Pride. Journeyman hunting is barely existing and way too contested.
4. The fact that you cannot spawn some monsters as huntable like you can for novice hunting feels bad and would fix so much like for example for otters.
5. In PvP damage is way too high for the defence values of the armours to make a battle even a battle and not a oneshot viesta. Introducing PvP damage multipliers that reduce the damage would be a solution for that.

[finite escarp]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory Bug (mounting or relogging to see the correct inventory)
2. Rubberbanding on high load of SW or while transfering between 2 SWs
3. Freehold items do not drop what they are intended too (e.g. every tree is an oak)

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. distance rendering is too short for large pvp groups (even when doing big carvan fights)
2. Way to less apprentice material for herbalism etc. (would love to see Bluebells, Moonbels, ... by gathering low tear)
3. Marketplace should be sorted by item and not by player name

[neat marten]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Recipe: Beambender's BBQ Birds is bugged and does not show up in the cooking recipes after you learn the recipe. I am level 50 cooking and cannot make this recipe, because when I learned it the yellow icon showed up but the recipe does not appear in the known recipes. I imagine there are other recipes from crafts that are also bugging out but this one is specific to cooking, and the food would greatly increase carpentry rarity.

2. After sending large craft orders of 100-250 to my inventory I am no longer able to right click the item to store it quickly in storage. This happens almost every time I acquire a large stack from crafting and the mounting dismounting quick fix does not correct the issue. Relogging does correct this issue but I know for power leveling and large craft orders this is a huge slow down to storage.

3. Action combat mode bug where ranged weapon is stuck firing but not actually shooting projectiles. This appears to happen when switching between weapons for fighter, but most notably when you are using a range weapon to start, and then begin to use your skills. The game will naturally swap to your main hand weapon and when you hold down attack for action combat mode you will keep swinging with the main hand. However if you stop, there are times when the game switches back to range weapon as if it has stored the ranged weapon in a equipped cache to keep it out which then causes the bug of not being able to fire or swing your weapon. Holding block in action combat mode while pressing switch weapon fixes this bug and allows you to attack and switch weapons properly.

Top 3-5 Most Important
Feedback Topics:

1. Keep up the amazing work in communication and transparency of your road map. So far this has been the best showing of a game studio that I have been apart of a road map for, and the community is showing its support so thank you.

2. Perhaps add some more options for bug reporting, or allow us to be more granular with designation. Sometimes I have trouble deciding which section to put a specific bug in and I would like to be able to help declutter the bug reports with proper tagging.

3. Maybe add some way for us to check in on our crafting. I am usually pretty good about tracking my 4hr large crafts, but the mix of values between 10-100 means I am probably hanging around the node to keep processing. Perhaps a page that shows what crafts are processing and completed in the nodes would be a really nice quality of life upgrade for people like me that craft mostly at one node but spread out smaller amounts to other nodes. That way we don’t lose track of where items are completed and have stuff that is forgotten or not picked up till days later.
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[dire wing]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Hit boxes could use a little tuning.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Taxes should be monthly instead of weekly.
2. When killed the items dropped should all be retrievable.

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[cinder roost]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Random in game freezes need to be worked out. Mostly happens in the first couple minutes of gameplay. When it happens, reloading the game doesn't resolve. Sometimes PC reboot works.
2. Items potentially disappearing after trades conclude. See my lengthy bug report.
3. Rubber-banding and desyncing when connected to congested regions.
4. Nodes occasionally locking in congested regions.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. There are problems with moving inventory items. Right-click moving can get bugged pretty easily. Sometimes dragging can be tedious because the game doesn't recognize the left click properly.
2. Flying mount presents way too much of a power imbalance. This allows a skilled player to massively increase any power gap between themselves and a competing group. One thing that could replace a flying mount for governor would be a "hero buff" that made them a bit more powerful AND made them say 20% larger so they stood out. This buff could be used during pvp events like node wars and guild wars and be limited to pvp encounters.
3. World bosses need to be on timers that aren't cleared by server resets.

[gaunt pivot]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Please fix the tiny render distance.
2. Server performance still can't handle 20 players fighting, making actual guild wars or god forbid the future sieges completely unplayable.
3. Will edit later.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. You should only be allowed to vote on one character per server, or cap the amount of times you can vote in the same election. The current meta already is for guilds to all vote on 5 level 10 characters and flood elections with hundreds of extra ballots. Stop the steal 🙂

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[kindred mountain]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
3.

[small dock]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Storage right click to move items breaks all the time. I have to relog to fix it.
2. Rendering performance
3. Tools and other gathering buffs don't seem to affect gathering. Great gear, surveys, and food buffs and I'll harvest 20 trees and get nothing but common. Could be the design, which would be bad design IMO.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Gathering should ALWAYS be a random roll on rarity. If you want to buff up the odds on rarity in dangerous areas or something like that, then great.
2. Resource spawning shouldn't be predictable. There should be a large variable spawn time for each node so a few people can't monopolize without pvp. IF you are insistent on having nodes that are always legendary, than these MUST be more random. So many times I see people standing by a node spawn because they know a epic or legendary will spawn there at an exact time.
3. I get punishing death. But currently you are punished with time loss, XP dept, items perma deleted, glint deleted, and glint and items lootable. I understand most of that and think dropping half your loot makes sense, but nothing should be deleted IMO, at least not items. It's just too much.
4. Processing item should have the exact system as crafting. Using varying rarities of materials should net the average result. Procuring a legendary animal fat is nearly impossible as of now, as I've never seen anything higher than rare hunted animals and am almost journeyman hunting.
5. This is a social MMO but we don't have the basic chat functions that make communicating with other players fluid. Please prioritize Guild functions and chat functions. Being able to whisper easily by clicking on their name and respond easily would be amazing. Being able to have a larger number in our guild would be awesome as well.

[median brook]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Alpha Two Phase II Feedback

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. When a target is frozen and staggered, hitting them with chain lightning will only proc shattered and not shattered and aftershock.
2. Repeatedly freezing targets, they will begin to move through the freeze on the 3rd time even though they still have "frozen" status effect. Makes it hard to fight alone.
3. Grems having a ranged bite that can take half your hp from like bow ranges.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Absolutely hate caravan targetting change. Thought it was intended that you cant target the rider, and so you need to take down the caravan to take them down. Makes no sense that under attack your caravan slows down when they can just kill you off it to make it stop much easier. Where is the love for small groups and solos?
2. Let us search the marketplace by shops that have that item.
3. New Aela's tower (near mountains bottom right) has chests that spawn and give XP, no one fights the mobs at the tower (I used to when they were 17+), people just sit there and farm the chests for xp and free money. Take the XP away so they stop. Please bring the level back of tower mobs to level they were in alpha 2 phase 1.
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[wary sundial]

it is to hard to get to a point where you can craft items you can use that are close to your level it takes long time to get the buildings up to make the the crafting tables and there is to littel space to make the buildings as it is now. so not all crafts are able to make items for level 10 or 20 and so on

[vestal sentinel]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Treasure Maps

2. Loot mechanics constantly glitching.... having to mount up and unmount to loot. or Harvesting an ore and seeing exp but no item till you relog...

3. Storage..... Having to relog to get storage auto transfer to work right/well with right click transferring and whatnot... its a major pain-point every time i return to a town having to relog and having a 1-3 minute window of it working as intended..

4. Mounts, Fix the Croc Speed and HP. Some mounts still have 700 hp.

5. Corruption, If a player takes pvp damage while flagged for PVP, that flag should NOT disappear for X amount of time.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. **No Loot for low level farming... WTF... Why even have this feature... its so immersion breaking.. it feels bad.. its not realistic.. its not logical.. a level 12 in good lvl 10 gear can solo farm a MASSIVE amount of kills per hour more than a level 25 solo of mobs around their own level... but the 25 cant go back and farm lower level things that are easier to kill.. instead, the 25 is punished.... This incentivizes twinks who stack 100% exp debt to keep themselves in level range to farm more T1 and T2 materials than higher level players..... this is very VERY bad game design.. **

2. Gatherable Resource Spawns..... Its a Cataclysmic mistake to have static locations and timers. People have this cracked already with where to go and when.. Apparently also Legendary nodes that give Legendary resources for a period of time... Why is this even a system.... NEED randomized locations, randomized timers.

3. Solo Experience. Some classes can solo pull many mobs and be fine, while others like Rangers and Mages have no self sustain. its annoying seeing a Fighter or Tank face pull 3-6 1 star mobs and kill them while a Ranger or Mage may only be able to pull 1-2 of those same mobs and hope for the best with zero self heals...

4. Quests feel like 1998 garbage. sorry, just how it feels. They also need real exp rewards... Node commissions should also pack a MAJOR punch with rewards to HEAVILY incentivize people into doing them.

5. Guilds Features.... We want them.. we need them... Guild Storage, Many custom ranks with privileges

6. Render distance... i have a NASA grade PC.... Why does it feel like i am on Jimmys Walmart PC from the 90s with render distance..... its disgusting....

[oblique shore]

Weekly feedback tips 1/23/2025

1. Healers who are not part of a caravan event being able to heal players who are active participants in the caravan event. This creates unfair gameplay scenarios

2. Please please let me customize my chat windows and control which chat channels appear in customizable chat channel tabs. QoL feature is DESPERATELY needed.

3. caravan bug teleporting you to carph. Creates HUGE disadvantage and potential to lose dozens of hours of resources.

[errant arch]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Game Locking up
2. Graphical items disappearing and reappearing
3. Character freeze in game

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Player exploits
2. Either lower the xp to level or increase the xp from NPC kills
3. Guild Member list

[static frigate]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Broken woodshop foreman in Winstead
2. Taxes resetting and saying they are due again when already paid.
3. Inventory bugs (particularly not updating / not interactable until restarting).
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. The diversification of apprentice+ wood within forests. It's easy to gain access to hemlock / larch but willow (and seems braidwood will be the same) don't have nearly the availability of apprentice+ of other gatherables from what I can tell.
5. Marketplace UI updates to allow improved searching (by item) and filtering (by rarity and price ranges).
6. Improvements to the chat system would be nice, such as adding tabs for whispers to track them, adding options for all of the types of chat messages so you can better organize tabs (such as a tab for all whispers + guild and nothing else; and the like).
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[hollow kettle]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Bard Weaving is broken. In phase 1 A2, you could weave melodies. Since start of phase 2 A2 it has been broken. Now, when you weave you get less and less time on your melody. Before you could keep 2 up constantly and do a 3rd or 4th for a few seconds, as party requires. Now you cannot even keep 2 melodies up. Considering how it works with resonant weapon, it is completely broken. You need time to have the second melopdy up, long enough to proc a Resonant weapon, then siwtch back to the other melody. There is no reason to spec weaving atm. I have noticed what seems to be a rounding error of some sort. The up tics are not enough to cancel the down tics. Therefore, even if you start with full time one one melody, by the time you switch back and forth 4-5 times, you are down to 0 seconds on both melodies. (I already reported it, but I assume very few bards in phase 1 actually weaved melodies)
2. Monster Pathing (and its exploitation)
3. Caravans breaking

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Enhanced nameplates
2. Need for PvP. Right now, pvp seems like griefing. (at least on Vyra). Pvp should be something desirable. You can be a defensive mercenary guild if you dont want to instigate PvP. These systems, and caravan systems in general, need to be enhanced greatly. sure its an alpha, but you asked 🙂
3. Dynamic Gathering Locations. As long as a bot can gather items, gathering will be broken. You need thousands of gathering locations, and RNG which of those nodes pops a gatherable. For example, 90% or greater of the nodes should have nothing pop. This means a bot will require 10x as much work as a human, if it just goes to all the nodes. A human, can search an "area", like a cave or seashore, riverbank (like Steven said in the Pirate video). For example, if you gather copper ore, there should NOT be a cooldown at that node. But rather an RNG that first predicts the time, then an RNG that predicts chance to spawn, then an RNG that predicts type of gatherable.
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[lyric swan]

m,..,m,

[calm zodiac]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1.Bard is stacking multiple buffs and 1shots with Wand finisher trough Cleric 50% magic mitigation.
2. Caravan die and ride the caravan with pvp protection. Just add cooldown on death if you are in a caravan EVENT.
3.
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1.Bard needs a damage nerf, its a support class not a 1shot 1 tricket perma running and bursting on cd class that can kill any1 even healers by themselves
2.We need more HP pools for cleric to be relevant. right now damage is too high considering the small Health pool. (full gear cleric with 4k HP can do 2k damage judgement - and this is a cleric not a DPS class)
3.

[visual cosmos]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. eternal sweeper (named mob at carphin) doesnt drop any named items
2. singed stomper (named mob at forge) doesnt drop any named items
3. books finishers bug (dont proc purfect timing / echo effects)
4. craft enchanting scrolls doesn't work (reduce gold cost)
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
   need dps meter

[inland saddle]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Grem attack distance feels very aggravating, due to being hit from grems with their bite attack even after having dodged them (and now being a distance away from them)
2. Raid frame bug when in a party and needing to relog.
3. Bard songs/buffs interrupting you from summoning/unsummoning your mount.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Ability to be able to simply reply to people who have whispered you directly.
2. Chat colour customisation/distinction between different chat channels when they are all aggregated within the same tab
3. The ability to create our own chat tabs, and have them persist between game sessions and relogs.
4. Being able to see how many tax receipts you have to pay, in such a case where you have already payed your taxes, however the amount increases due to level increase. Therefore instead of seeing just the new full amount, you will also see how many you have left to pay without thinking you still have the whole amount to pay.
5. I think it would feel better if scrolls were split into 2 different categories (stats / experience), so that you can have a constitution and experience scroll active at the same time instead of having to decide between the 2 scrolls.
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[ionic chasm]

Thank You Intrepid
1 - Pylons can not be traded player-to-player
2 - Vendors and Gear Drops make crafting obsolete
3 - Verdant Voyager is still speed bugged

[ruby granite]

The bag bug or zoning issues, server meshing or whatever it is that causes it is by far the worsr bug in the game all other can be managed.

[restive galleon]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory bug seems no longer as ubiquitous, but still present in high-load server workers. Usually the "Sanctus Bag" slot is the culprit.
2. Under-map players seem more common since the return (Jan 16th?). Not sure if they know they are appearing under the map with their heads popping through the ground.
3. Stuck mobs; and resources can - rarely - end up not being harvestable - this can be annoying, but only just.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. I actually think dragged mobs are great because it gives a certain unpredictability to the overland map. Sure they should respawn after a short time, but in lieu of roaming mobs - this is great for now. Good job!
2. Phase II needs to stick to task/topic/testing purpose and not worry about every single Q-O-L being present. And that means leveling nodes from 0 through 4 again. You can always spawn the buildings that are currently there at node level attainment. Stick to your guns!! And your planned testing cycle (six weeks).
3. Don't be afraid to reset nodes for testing and and spawn/respawn buildings as needed for testing.
4. If one Q-O-L needs to happen it is Marketplace search imho as this enables a fuller picture on resource availability and related data points.
5. Whiners for balance should not expect balance passes - esp. for class skills - before beta and this should be commonly known.

[topaz comet]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

• Inventory (rightclick moving/ghosting/residual of moved items being in orginal spot)
• Trade Bureau BUGGED on lyneth server Winstead we have put in hundreds (we are a large guild) of /bug reports and nothing has changed. cant del building as its a prerec for others now but it gives NO benefits
• Hunting/skin/fat is a bottle neck stopping testing on all other crafting (and cant get around it cause of that WILD nerf to processing gear that FEELS HORRIBLE NOW)
• Enchanting Number the ui presents are 1000000% not accurate. i have had & seen people lose 10+ rolls in a row MULTIPLE TIMES on 60% success rates the odds are astronomical to fail that many times in a row, on multiple occasions, there is a number being held over or something. There is no way this is working as intended or the ui is reflecting the real % chance. Same thing with beast of burdens in testing its 20% success 80% failure after hundreds of attempts.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

• Crafting/processing/gathering Rarity numbers FEEL horrible, it would be nice to see some consistent proc's but near impossible it feels like even at JM
• I hate flying mount is restricted to mayors. the advantage is unreal
• REALYYYY want more nodes as stations are unable to be placed so testing all aspects and their interconnectedness isnt possible due to this limitation D:
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[tropic sundial]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory Bugs that makes items seems as if they are not there.
2. Inventory Bugs preventing right click to transfer a stack.
3. Not able to loot Glint from defeated mobs.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Having resources with a set spawn point on a set timer is insane. People are just spawn camping resources and monopolizing them on rotation with timers. You cant even contest the resources with PvP as you do not see them until they respawn. This significantly handicaps players, especially casual players.
5. XP for Apprentice crafting, processing, etc. rewarding only like 10% more xp than novice while requiring more mats that are more difficult to get is insane.
6. Crafting and processing XP not getting boosts for rarity is not fun.
7. Mobs leash for ridiculous distances.
8. Lag in Wreckage of Carph makes it almost unplayable.
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[smoky rampart]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. healing non marked for pvp people kills them and corrupts me instead... !!
2. still keyboard bug where every typed letter will trigger its bound key thus making it impossible to report stuff. THIS NEEDS FIXING COZ IT LITERALLY MAKES REPORTING BUGS IMPOSSIBLE!!!
3. sometimes when i swim i cant get back up and the air keeps draining
4. some enemies are again invincible or desynced so not hitable
5. some gatherables are again bugged with not being able to gather them
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
6. clearer indication that even mayoral comissions can be turned in via "j" and not some "comissions depot" "Comissions Chest" or any other thing...
7. node taxes are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too high.. level 12 nothing owned in the node 97 taxes?! thats nearly 300 glint. also then level 22 only 30 taxes? seems wrong^^
8. while maybe not for after release, but during alpha i think it would be nice to have an easier way to even if limited swap stored stuff to a new character, e.g. testing out new archetypes etc. to not having to drop everything or have a third party help!!
9. the aggro range till they leave is WAY to high, if i have to run 1-2 minutes before they leave me alone its honestly not really fun

[distant umbra]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1 - World Bosses respawning on MESH CRASHES and server resets PLEASE fix this the current meta is log off in tumok
2 - World Bosses respawn after maintenence same as the above please fix

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1 - World Bosses on respawn/reset/mesh crash is verry annoying, we need to get rid of 7am bosses and "log off at tumok" metas
2 - Corruption being ridiculously punishing kills open world PvP theres just no point if we drop 3 item pieces on the first PK and blight cant be reset
3 - TTK is just too short, classes can burst down players with similar gear in 2-3 seconds this is insane, makes combat have zero skill its all items, we need a "reduced pvp damage" stat to make the gama balanced

[vague plume]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mob glitching: Mobs can sometimes become stuck in place, continuesly healing to full without getting aggro on you. I noticed that a lot of the time mobs can become invisible for some players and not to others, but they can still attack the players that can't see them. Or sometimes Mobs cannot even get attacked, when you try to use spells on them, the spells will stop mid cast and attacks don't work.
2. Map glitching: in many places especially when climbing, you can accidentally glitch into the map, Although it isn't very frequent it still happens sometimes.
3. Some plants don't disappear after you harvest them, they are still there and it gives you the prompt to harvest them, although when you try it just starts the animation and instantly cancels it.
4. Named Mobs not spawning, I have no idea what it is with the named mobs but sometimes they spawn every 5 minutes and the next day they're nowhere to be seen, not at night or at day.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
5. Gathering Minigame: Gathering is a core part of the game, it allows the processing and refining of equipment, maybe adding a minigame that you could turn on for extra resources or turn off for default amount would be cool.
6. Group Finder: rn Global Chat is basically a Group finder, it would be cool if there was a way to find groups, especially for lower lvls it can feel like ur stuck when u can't find a group near the mobs u want to grind, and grinding them alone takes too long or is impossible.
7. Character Slots: This is probably very low priority but when new classes will be added it'd be nice to have more character slots so you can try out your characters, I currently have all 5 characters in use with different classes but I still really wanna play rogue or summoner when they come out.
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[daring bronze]

1. give tanks more base stats or more hp.

the end.

[charred birch]

1. Performance is terrible in combat on my rtx 3070. 8+ people group in SB = 5-10 fps on the lowest settings at 2k res

[true dune]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Healers being able to heal players inside of caravan event while not being active in the event, allow them to heal without being attackable.
2. Only being able to select Attack or Defend on Caravan events while either out of party or party leader.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

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[echo dock]

Weekly Feedback (01-23-2025)

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1 - Caravans - I am spending hours of my time crossing the map... only to be teleported back to my emberspring over and over. Sometimes I reach the destination, the event counts down to an end, the caravan despawns, and then either my commodities are poof - gone - or they're visible, but the vendor wants to offer me ZERO copper for them. There is a list of bugs associated with caravans...and everyone is making it one of their top feedback items. For many of us, this is what funds our ability to test out the other aspects of the game...
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1 - Dead body timers. I believe the timer isn't long enough. As a solo, it forces one to be very reckless in trying to retrieve loot because of the fear of it disappearing. This often results in compound losses as a consequence of taking a poor route or trying to do a drive-by run. In groups, I often find that everyone just abandons their bodies entirely because of the risk associated with trying to get them quickly.

[acoustic kite]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mayoral Quests, can not hand in
2. When moving inventory items, they disappear, need to hop on and off mob to fix
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
3. More Copper and Willow spawns - I have not seen a willow as yet
4. More intense Gathering Quests with higher rewards of experience
   3.Better timer on body retrieval as per above.
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[void stirrup]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1.hunting rarity
2.storrage/inventory bug
3.desync with movement abilities/mounts
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Open a feedback channel you can give/take view permission from A2 weekly so there is no limitations on participants VIA threads and it's a LOT easier to find/see.
2. Make all resources common and rework raity rating to work for both node upgrade and to increase your chances for higher rarity nodes. You can break the rarity into tiers ( novice rarity, apprentice rarity, etc) to prevent mass flooding the market with legendary/epic T1 mats and will add value to low tier outfits and keep them viable.
3. Please add more hunting, willow, and braidwood spawns.
4. Please consider adding VS player modifiers to spells/abilities as to not unbalance PvE when making adjustments for PvP. Currently PvP TTK seems like its unanimously reported as being way too fast, however PvE encounters feel pretty decent.

[harsh karma]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Storage deleting items
2. Gatherables being stuck underground or in rocks blocking harvesting
3. Unable to save chat tab settings to customize chat
4. Mount 'gliding' issue, where mounts get their animations frozen

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Nodes Not changing rarity on spawn, causing players to camp specific lego and etc respawns defeats the point of a lot of things economically. Players can farm a specific node many times during a day since they know it will respawn as legendary.
2. Need some way to merge caravan events to prevent screen clutter when running many caravans in a large group
3. Need a method to flag groups for caravan content on the same team without having to disband groups
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[jolly ravine]

Please resolve various 525 errors preventing players from logging in and playing / testing entirely. This has to be a top priority. Or if the issue is not solvable, at least communicate that clearly to the affected players so they can move on. It’s been disappointing to see our Tank “Dum - Lyneth” and others in this discord being completely locked out of their characters for over 3 weeks now, without clear communication or resolution through the formal ticket / CS process. Thank you!

[merry remnant]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Most Important Bugs:
1: Caravan Flagging and performance bugs: If a group is a defender of two or more caravans and the attacking party chooses defender on one caravan and attacker on the other it can causes issues, namely that the defenders may not be able to attack them allowing the attackers to attack without reciprocation and or allow the attackers to destroy a caravan while the defenders cannot attack them. Needs a hot fix ASAP imo
2: Inventory Issues not properly displaying the correct mats and transfers.
3: Weapon Skill Line Bugs, finishers not proccing effects such as longbows Bull’s Eye for example.
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1: Corruption: From corruption baiting to accidentally killing someone the corruption system needs a lot more TLC
2: General Performance, especially when you are running 4+ caravans or 20+ people PvP'ing at the same time caravans it becomes incredibly laggy and glitchy.
3: Healers able to heal those in a caravan event while being outside of it and not flagging for doing so, this is an exploit which is currently being abused quite often.
4: Fighter and Melee in AoC is very risky and not very rewarding, in PvE Clerics and supports don’t like fighters because they steal heals from the tank and are in harm’s way allot, in addition to that they generally don’t do the same amount of dmg as their ranged counterparts. This extends to group PvP where fighters are largely useless outside of small encounters. Less dmg and more risk with little to no reward for danger required to add any actual value in large scale PvP, I know balance is not based around 1v1 but in largescale PvE and PvP Fighters are more of a liability than an asset outside of very specific niche scenarios ranged dmg is king and melee is dooky in PvP right now.
5: Rarity of Hunting Gear is terribly low, I am lvl 30+ hunting with an Epic hunting bow and 3 hunting bags yet I have only ever gotten 1 epic and 2 heroic carcasses, I have hunted literally thousands of animals in phase 2. This just feels bad so much effort for so little high rarity carcasses. I believe this needs a bit of adjustment/rework.

[limber grove]

Alpha Two Phase II Feedback
Katla the Ranger, Vyra Server
22 Ranger, Apprentice Leatherworker, Weaver, Tanner, Farmer, Hunter

Weekly Feedback – 1/23/25
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1.) Graphical Bugs: Too many to list but some are: Weapons not showing on player, gear or cloaks disappearing, distortions of character face, mount graphical bugs, landscape graphical bugs
2.) Inventory issues with storage warehouse. Not able to transfer or getting bugged.
3.) Various monster bugs, ghosting, mobs hitting me from underground where I cannot attack
4.) I have abandoned most quests long ago because they don’t function… but not a quester
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1.) There see to be group bugs where the frames have issues.. or loot doesn’t drop
2.) The rarity of T1 resources, particularly Willow and extreme difficulty getting Bear Carcasses, and in general carcasses of any rarity makes leatherworking dysfunctional. Need to balance rarity of T1 resources like spider silk, bear carcass, wolf carcass. There need to be more Willow trees … not a massive amount.. just maybe double or triple. Makes getting middle tier leatherworking sets overly difficult and basically obsolete
3.) Continued lighting issues, flashbangs, particularly in Forge but have lighting issues throughout the world.
4.) MONSTER AI: As far as I can tell trained mobs still lose agro and then attack randoms vs going back to reset. I see lots of higher level players training mobs to kill lower levels and other toxic behavior.
5.) Decorum: Things are improving but I still see lots of toxic behavior .. needs to be an easier way to report abusive and toxic players in chat. Also there needs to be a separate system for WTB/WTS chats and Looking for grp… looking for X Class chat and a better way to report abusive behavior.
Thank you!

[glass pulsar]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravans despawning and then teleporting you across the map.
2. Moving Inventory breaks sometimes and you have to do it all manually, mounting and dismounting so that you can see changes in the inventory.
   3.Not being able to loot sometimes during combat unless you mount up and dismount. Make summoning mounts in combat possible so we can pick up our glint.
   4.Crazy issues with chains of restraint. Sometimes it stuns before I see the animation.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
   1.Crafting needs to get its first iteration and if you are going to reset professions when you do iterate you need to let us know now. There isnt a reason to craft lvl 10 items.
3. All of the trees around the nodes being halfway in the ground is not a good look for anybody watching the streams of others. This wasnt like this in Phase 1.
4. The way you contribute to nodes is currently very annoying. For instance I fish all day during work and have lots of fish but I have to find copper or zinc to combine with it in order to create an order. Nobody wants to trade fish for metal at any rate. 50 fish for 1 copper still is not an attractive offer. Create more thoughtful city orders.
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[steady sigil]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Game Freezes resulting in having to force shut the game down.
2. Rubberbanding and server lags where you get teleported back to a previous location.
3. Visual bugs that make the game extremely dark or extremely bright suddenly.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Hunting Rarity - I believe the chance of getting higher rarity hunting resources in general are extremely low compared to other resources. Combine this with the fact that you can't even get the resource you need like an animal or a carcass and limited spawn points for animals like raptors/gryphons just makes it almost impossible to get the resources we need.
   My suggestion is atleast give us the ability to butcher an animal for it's carcass at the tanning station or something.
2. Give characters protection upon logging in for a few seconds. As of right now with the amount of DCs happening, there are times when we would relog after a DC in the middle of mobs and die by the time we load in.
3. Need some descriptions on windows for different processes. For example, I tried enchanting earlier and wasn't sure why I couldn't enchant my weapon and had to realize after a while that I my weapon was lvl 20 and it was only an apprentice level enchant scroll. It would be nice to have some basic info on processes on their respective windows.
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[unique ether]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Trade Bureau in Windstead on Lyneth isnt working
2. Caravans are invul after you kill the driver
3. Caravan Leave button doesnt work
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Just make caravan drivers not killable, so the object is to kill the caravan. Else you just kill the driver, and then the caravan sits there till your 500 buddies show up.
5. Resources should have a randomized timer and a randomized respawn (Currently everything is a static respawn, and if you gather something thats legendary, that exact same spot will be legendary when it respawns.)
6. Rangers need a semi deep dive, we share the same range as melee, our silence is the crappiest silence and rng to set up, camo still doesnt work most of the time, every class wins in a fight vs us unless we are allowed to get a snipe off to begin with. (Make snipe castable while moving)

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[deft crown]

Grinding is fun but fighting over spawns to level isn't fun

[true turtle]

please fix this graphical bug i've had all A2 when i have enemies selected.:

[rare minnow]

1. Chat blocks not working- can't always block people, even if people are making super obscene "red light" comments, straight up rpey threats, racism, etc, not being able to block people is awful in an mmo. Many of us deal with harassment irl, and don't want to deal with nasty people in-game too.
2. Inventory bugs- these bugs are frequent, they can cause deletion of items, they can cause all sorts of issues, and for some of us, they can force us to constantly log in and out. It's exceptionally frustrating and it's been months since they were first reported.
3. Rarity bugs- whether rarity is bugged or disabled, or not working properly, it's so frustrating to have hunting mobs be so difficult to get better rarity on. Same for various types of wood. With how limiting the freehold system is, if you guys do not plan on letting at least half of us have freeholds, it's not very fun for us to be fighting over a small number of spawns, have a low rate of good rarity, and not have access to freeholds.

Feedback:

1. Please consider expanding your freehold system. The cost of maintaining them should be high enough that a lot of casual players will already be locked out of them. But having so few people be able to participate in such a fun part of the game is just really unrewarding compared to other mmos. It makes sense to have incredibly limited guild halls and freeholds for guilds, but for a small family system that is limited per account, it would be a lot more fun and be something to really strive for, and it would make freeholds accessible to small groups of casual players to farm hard for when casuals will otherwise be completely restricted from this aspect of the game.
2. Let block and friendslists carry to all characters on a server.
3. Let us have the option to only hide names of blocked characters, rather than all characters please. 🙂 I don't wanna see sexually explicit names that I block, but I wanna see other peoples names.

[prime herald]

1. Caravans disappearing when converting to raft
2. Caravans disappearing when I get to my destination
3. Hunting rarity blocking crafts

[polar harness]

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Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravans seeming to randomly sink in water sometimes.
2. Caravan combat UI nameplates persisting even after finishing caravans
3. Inventory bugging sometimes and making it to where new items are "ghosted" and you do not see them until you relog
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Players aren't able to compete well with vendors selling bows and apprentice caravan parts especially

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[summer dust]

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Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Unharvest able trees (why is this still an issue, feels intentional)
2. Rarity in hunting nearly impossible to find heroic or higher animal fat
3. Rendering distance in pvp
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Lack of recognizing or admitting there is a problem with unharvest able trees. Again this feels intentional.
5. Is server meshing really working?
6. Contracts, crafters specifically processors need the ability to create contracts. Processing takes time, and in a game of trust that is involved with having someone process your materials, insurance is needed. Item Exchange
   A basic trade of items or gold will use an item exchange contract. You specify the item you wish to sell or buy and the price you wish to pay or receive.

I will pay: The money you give to the player who accepts your contract.
I will get: The money the player has to give you when accepting the contract.
Expiration: The number of days the contract should be available.
Also request items from buyer: Choose items you want to get from the player who accepts your contract. (taken from Eve onlines description of contracts)
Additionally Being able to create a contract with materials in the contract with specific instructions on what you want processed and what reward you will provide once completed. If a Processor accepts a contract they have to put down an insurance fee they will recieve back once completed.====================

[sleek parrot]

Weekly feedback - 01/23/2025

Feedback only:

1: PvP system:

I get that we want a PvP oriented game. I am 101% supporting this! But right now we do not have a real pvp MMO. How come?

People do not just randomly start pvping. The reason: no benefit. My advice make the system into points:

Gain 200 points in pvp and you gain a rank/ grey resource of your apprentice skill/ whatever intrepid decides. To get points you need to kill people 2lvls below or above you. If you gank, grief, kill people 3 or more lvls above or below you you get a decrease in points (this too stop low lvl ganking etc). I know many people think this will leave openings for griefs but that happens anyway so why not work on it do we atleast have organic pvp…. Right now I can run out of halcyon to miraleth without any pvp in a “heavy pvp oriented game”

2: resources are too scarce..: we get that you want conflict over resources. But it just isnt happening. Atleast in EU there are no brawls over dandelions or blue bells. We just have players spawn camping items (weeping willows, raptors, turtles, bluebells,copper, rare or epic only trees). In an MMO atleast everyone should have a fair chance. And not only the masses that camp 24/7.

3: husbandry is too punishing…
T1 55S default t2 1 g 56S default for a mount or a beast of burden “chance” of which the odds are bugged is just not right. I have leveld husbandry on 5 different characters and all of which hit 15+ and it feels nothing short a punishment rather than a fun artisan. Especially when you see your friends lvl their artisans with ease to lvl 20 when you’re slacking to get to 10 or 14

[stone hearth]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025 Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1.Caravan drivers getting teleported to Carphin
2.Almost no high quality in hunting materials
3.Node buffs are gone after server reset
4.
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Current rarity rate of resource gathering feels bad. Fixed respown times for resources feels terrible, it destroys entire artisan system - its outdated idea that promotes behavior close to exploiting and demotes hard working gatherers
2. Running a caravan is a big risk (You can loose cargo and caravan and time). Attacking a caravan also should be a risk (currently its only time). Current risk-reward part of the system does not feel good.
3. Not being able to mix rarities of resources in proccesing feels terrible. Not being able to craft multiple items during leveling feels bad.
4. Inflation feels bad. There should be some more gold sink, maybe new items to buy with gold.
5. Item saturation feels bad. All items should be destructible/decaying in some way.

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[agile lion]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. The Verdant Voyager Speed bug (if for no other reason than to clear out towns)
2. Invisible MoBs
3. MoBs that have green names and can't be attacked but can attack you
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. The Marketplace should be searchable by item name
5. Attacking Caravans should give a lot of corruption.
6. Reduce time/fuel costs for large crafting orders
7. Make Crafting an enterable number so we can craft in other quantities than 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, and 250
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[tropic hull]

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. No reply button in chat

2. I really wanna see my shield while tanking.

[fallen adder]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

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1. Material Inventory Bug while putting items in the storage. Items sometimes disappear and appear and needs to relog for it to be fixed.
2. The scatter shot of Ranger needs to be checked. Though it already follows the terrain but it still misses and does not hit its target.
3. Resource gathering interaction which needs to be pressed twice before the gathering interaction starts.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

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1. FULL Action Bar swapping/switching : The action bar for skills and consumables right now is kind of too static and lacks flexibility. This will have tons of constraints in terms of competitive combat since with the current design of it with only simple key binding, we will surely not be able to access all those key binds with our fingers. A Full Action Bar Swap will be a God send. As you can see in the picture i attached, there are three Full Action Bars named Action Bars 1, 2 and 3. This Action Bars should be able to be swapped by assigning a Key Bind on that specific Action Bar. All key bindings per slot shall remain, only the skills and consumables on the entire row will be switched/swapped.

For example: Action Bar 1; Key Bind (alt+1), Action Bar 2; Key Bind (alt+2), Action Bar 3; Key Bind (alt+3)

By pressing the "alt+2" for example, the full Action Bar 2 and all its skills and consumable assigned to it will then be swapped to the main priority Action Bar which is by default in the position of Action Bar 1. This concept is heavily similar to Guild Wars 2's swapping of weapon to access new set of skills if you need some reference.

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[naive moat]

Top Three Bugs:
Rubberbanding back to previous spots; my guild mate rubberbanded from New Aela all the way back to Miraleth today
Mobs getting stuck and uninteractable: Mobs keep glitched out when respawned in and they can be targeted but they cannot be killed
Horse/mount animation freeze, i know its more of a minor thing but it happens so frequently I really think this makes the game look severely unpolished, especially with how often we use mounts in game.

[rapid plover]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Logging out/ disconnecting after launching a cravan (getting the item in inventory) makes the caravan impossible to deploy until server restart.
2. Boss respawns on server restarts and general bugged out respawn times such as firebrand respawning every 3 hours.
3. Arrow storm from shortbow shooting 3 arrows per 1 barrage hit. Assuming not intended since arrow storm tooltip says it should be a single arrow.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Overall damage on all classes with gear is too high, killing people in 2 hits is not fun gameplay, has low to no skill expression. Time to kill needs to be increased.
2. Itemization in its current state makes most items useless. Enchanting gives +1 to every stat on the item which makes items with multiple main stats way more valuable than items with secondary stats. The increase in offensive stats from items heavily outscales the defensive stats.
3. Tanks have no place in the game after leveling. Lack of defensive stats on items makes them not that hard to kill. Not having a tank in an 8v8 fight is more often beneficial than not since a lot of classes do way more when they get their weapon procs after completing combos, which is easier to do on a tank standing in front and then swap the big damage on squishies. Tanks cant farm anything solo and 8 man group farming is not rewarding enough to justify the time investment (u don't get more glint/dungeon items are useless since you cant enchant lvl20 items and crafted gear is better).
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[dapper cobalt]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. turn down brightness of snow.

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[past monolith]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravans become invulnerable when conductor dies and it's teleported a certain distance away, or while it's in a loading screen. This is constantly abused by some players.
2. A lot of buff foods , scrolls, and most pylons straight up don't work, like hunter's ragout
3. Nodes keep becoming unharvestable over time
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Bards still oneshot people when they get their buffs on, and they usually do since they can prepare for an engagement ahead of time. Makes 0 sense.
5. Ranger's silence is dependent on a 50% concussion chance, which none other of the armaments share. This feels like tossing a coin to win or loose against casters instead of actual skill.

[glossy oak]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Start-up sequence now requires me to get through error 32, error 33 and error 34 before the game loads - this adds 5m to any re-log or start-up.
2. Gatherable nodes that are bugged are disproportionately frustrating (those adult willows...)

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. More stuff to do in desert and/or bigger map please.
2. LFG/LFM chat section
3. Randomisation in resource spawns would be good.

[gloomy parcel]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Build Tax Receipts is also taxed-. Buying 1 costs 3 for me, but buying 2 at once costs 7. I can save lots of glint by buying 1, 90 times.
2. Chat settings reset everytime you relog, let me save these settings
3. Crocodile speed
4. Hunting rarity fix
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
5. The exact timer for resource-spawns is annoying and leads to every good resource being camped. A slight randomizer in would fix that problem a bit. Also the rarity is set forever, which makes my gear useless. It's frustrating and needs a fix asap in my opinion
6. Monsters
7. LFG/LFM Chat section additional to the Global Chat
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[unkempt plover]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Feedback Topics:

1. What's will be the viability of a small guild in Ashes? It seems everything is built for massive player groups. How many players can a guild user to attack a castle? Can anyone attack a castle? What's the maxium number of players that can attack a castle? Do all the attacking players need to be in the attacking? Do all the defenders need to be in the defending guild?
2. What will be done to balance the power in open world pvp between the MEGA groups vs the smaller guilds? There is nothing preventing a MEGA group of players from forming 20 guilds and picking all the passive perks. This would give them a massive advantage to open/over world pvp.
3. Why isn't there a REPUTATION system with the nodes? Players that kill citizens or raid caravans of a specific node should become hostel to that node and guards of that node should attack them on sight.
4. Why are we grinding to test? Boost the exp and materials so we can actually test stuff. What actual value do you get from this style of test? You're losing a lot of testers from this.
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[deep gyro]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Please improve the marketplace search functions and filters.
2. Please work on allowing processing crafting to mix and match rarity levels similar to crafting.
3. Please expand the desert so it has unique metals that will allow zone to zone trade.
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[cloud wind]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Continue to increase server performance, especially under big events like node wars.
2. Almost everything Caravan. (too many even notifications in big groups, having to leave to join an event, people stealing their own loot with crowbar just to grief)
3. Fix mobs (aggro range, boring to attack, some are just pure farmable with no danger)

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Overhaul the entire Crafting system and progression in conjunction with adventure leveling. Novice gathering, crafting, and processing becomes useless extremely fast, and becomes even more useless as node levels up. Novice crafting items, to level up, must be crafted within bulk, for you to sell them pennies on the dollar. Legendary mats at novice barely have purpose too. Example, (A +9 enchanted Legendary Ruby necklace is barely on par with a non-enchanted Heroic Bronze Necklace in terms of stats). The ratio of time and money is off in this regard, and makes it even more useless that by the time you find all the legendary materials to craft a legendary novice item, everyone is past level 10 and is wanting apprentice. Not to also mention it takes 11 silver or so to craft bare basic common apprentice items, and most people believe 11-12 silver for a common apprentice is too expensive because a lot of the innate recipes you receive on level have atrocious stats that no one cares about. I wouldn't even mind, capping the adventure level based on node progression as well.

2. Make Caravans have something to do with the actual development of the map
   The caravans are essentially ONLY a money machine to use your glint on. It's a rinse, wash, repeat mechanic that is being used by individuals in large groups to......profit? individually? as a group? Kinda doesn't make sense. It would be better to have caravans be something towards Node development, node tickets, and pay a little money for doing it. But it feels more world-building to have it be needed for the map, not just yourself in a rinse, wash, repeat induvial money making mechanic. you can easily add other money making mechanics that are more engaging, and make defending and attacking caravans worth something as well.

3. **Quality of life, Quality of life, Quality of Life **

A way to ping for party, An organize or deposite all into your storage button, Glint auto-combining in your inventory, a job buttong for more than 1 crafting job. All of these are needed.

[vagrant nest]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Invisible mobs killing you

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Processing rarity. I don't like that I need everything to be the same rarity to process.
2. gathering rarity /economy needs work
3. More content please

[languid path]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Importance is subjective. However, as a Dunir cleric (after speaking to other Dunir) we are unable to critically heal at all. We can crit with damage spells/weaps, but not with heals. It appears other races are able to critically heal. This has been bug reported since the beginning of this phase. Before the wipe (non-Dunir) we had critical heals.
2. Crafting complaints are universal and this comes down to resource management/rarity/hoarding due to respawn camping and the same materials being required amongst multiple crafts + node resources requiring the same. This might be something where adding a "break down" skill to metalcrafting or stonemasonry etc might allow you to pull materials from more common mats.
3. Caravan loss due to disconnects, crossing SWs
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[pastel crag]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravan bugs
2. Desync
3. Exploiters. Non-combatant healers interacting (healing/reviving) caravan attackers/defenders etc.
   Top 4 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Boss/ named mobs dropping their guaranteed loot to players of any lvl. If you rush to max lvl you shouldn’t be able to grind low lvl mobs for rare items, makes the game unfair for everyone else.
5. The stronger stance on exploiters is a move in the right direction. Keep it up! 👍
6. The game is very unfriendly towards casual players. Very important quests such as ,, The sweat of your brow`` should have a different indicator.
7. Need a lot more optimization for large scale PvP ( render distance is atrocious)
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[tight patio]

1. Artisan - so many rarities that especially for processing trees the ability to select all to process or simply select say the “ max amount in your inventory to process “ instead of having to process a stack of 7 as 5 / 1 / 1 would really help .
2. Artisan - would be nice to be able to craft in node from node storage
3. Artisan - rate of leveling artisan skills is greatly outpaced by combat leveling- rendering gear useless once you finally can craft .
4. Marketplace needs better search functions / ability to price better .
5. Artisan - if the algorithm for average material being inserted into a craft is a simple average - we should be able to show in the ui the expected rarity outcome .

[twilit salmon]

Weekly Feedback 01/24/2035
Top 3 Important Bugs:

1. Several quests (the parcel along the road one for example) need to be delivered somewhere, but the recipients can't be found, nor is there any map indication
2. landscape mobs: some get stuck, cant be damaged, but sure as hell can damage you - through landscape, withouth LOS, over incredible distances.
3. • yet
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4. trying solo-crafter is frustrating to a degree that cant be expressed with words. the whole experience consts of: you cant do anything, and anything you try is frustrated by something. and if you achieve something (for example making your first pickaxe that you worked 2 days for because there is no copper to be found) it makes absolutely NO difference. two days for nothing.
5. crafting: instead of making quality of crafting items purely resource controlled, make them player-skill controlled. some kind of minigame that gives better results when done well (see: Vanguard SOH). as it is now its purely a time dump with negative entertainment value

[analog kite]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. (Mount) Desyncs and rubberbanding. If you get desynced on a mount while mobs are chasing you, you are toast.
2. Mobs spawning in walls, or bugging into walls during combat and then damaging you through terrain and randomly leashing.
3. Bugged quests. It's difficult to know whether a quest is vague, broken, or a combination of both. Some quest kills don't count while being in a party and it's hard to tell when it's intentional and when not.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Every low level boss that drops something useful is being farmed by level 25 characters. It feels like a design failure when multiple "max" level characters are waiting for a 60 minute lowbie boss spawn. Maybe limit boss drops to a reasonable level range?
5. Currently many quests are vague in a way that it pushes the player to just wiki everything. For example, "The Glyphs" wants the player to find "someone who can interpret" a quest item. While it's okay not to give the player a direct map marker to talk to the right NPC, currently the player has no other option than to just talk to every scholarly looking npc in the game, until one of them acknowledges the situation. This would be okay if there were multiple "correct" NPCs, or the player could ask around for the right person through dialogue. But right now the NPCs feel unconnected quest vending machines.
6. After many hours of gathering, I don't like the undirected nature of gathering professions. For grinding items/xp/gold, I can target a certain area or mob and work towards achieving my goal while actively playing the game. For gathering I am just running around the world checking when the nodes have respawned and I don't feel like I am playing the game. I'd like more static resource farming areas (with danger), or for moving around the world to be more engaging.
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[fierce summit]

1. Enemy NPCs that show as friendly and you are unable to attack and also don't move but still hit you from far far away.

2. Mob agro - It is still an issue, better, but still an issue. I sat next to a road near steel bloom the other day and watched a zombie run back and forth between travelers for over 15 min.

• 3. Marketplace - only store description is searchable, make items searchable.

-4. Rubber banding/teleport backwards. I have run across maps before and everything seems fine, global chat still going, but suddenly, getting off my mount I will shoot back like 5+ min of running. There is rarely anything to indicate a problem until you stop.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Crafting rate of progression vs gathering and processing. Most Crafting seems way too slow compared to gathering and processing. Think level 5 in scribing (using XP boosters) and then being level 14 in alchemy (not purposefully using XP boosters), and only making alchemy items for scribe leveling. Not only does it take a lot longer, but it is too slow to keep pace with adventuring levels, making everything you create (which is a lot) pointless until people hit level cap and you catch up. Adjusting this down may also help with complaints for lack of resources.

2. UI Improvements - primarily party/raid/Target/player frame customization for now. Being able to set party/raid to a horizontal layout, adjust sizes/visibility of buffs/debuffs, and being able to choose between party/raid frames. As a healer UI is massively important, especially being able to monitor health bars and still see what is going on around me.

3. Death & Permanent Material Loss - I love death being meaningful, and I think you get that now with XP loss, repair costs, and the chance someone loots your corpse. However, I think the permanent loss of materials on death is too much, especially for a buggy alpha where a bugged out 3 star level 25 mob that one shots people can literally be just outside a town.

[calm owl]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Various crafting mats not having any rarity
2. Items in the Winstead (probably all) cargos disappear I've lost several stored cargo shipments that have just disappeared never to be seen again in storage
3. Treasure maps piles not spawning in or perhaps spawning underground or just generally not being very visible.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Guild storage would be really nice to have as soon as it's possible to implement it's really taxing on crafters to have to meet up and create third party tools to try and just organize mats
2. Crafting I know is just functional and not at all what it will be in end game but it's just currently sooooo restrictive. Lvl 10 armor above rare shouldn't be so hard to craft that it nearly breaks the spirit and the backs of 50-70 people that's just silly. It's lvl 10 gear not 50.
3. Some more meaningful quests would be very nice some quests that reward like 50-150k exp to complete even if it were just grind quests or maybe visit every node for 50k simple things but that offer meaningful xp so that we aren't forced to stand in a corner in carphin for 22 hours to get from 19-25 would be cool. It doesn't need to be as efficient but just being possible would be great.
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[polar mesa]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Shield Disappearing Bug
2. Minataur clones that stand still and unkillable
3. Treasure Map pile spawns
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Bears dont drop Bear Carcass' enough. When wearing Hunting Gear and Rarity increase chance up, bear mount items spawn more often. I need to be able to find a recipe to convert Bear mount items and Wolf mount items into carcass'. Also out of all the gathering professions hunting is the hardest to get higher quality items. Yes, the return value is good when you process 1 carcass into 5 skins, but i still only get a rare or heroic grem skin every blue moon.
5. Willow Trees...unfindable, and camped respawns. How can I progress into leatherworking/tanning if I can't make Willow Woodchips. ALSO, 1 willow log to 1 willow chip is a terrible ratio. It should be 1 log into 5 chips. Sure Freeholds can grow more willow, but if they are selling willow for high I still can't buy and acquire it. I can't get my own freehold because all of them are already purchased and owners can be evicted. I see so many empty freeholds not growing anything, its annoying because I would gladly grow willow after willow.
6. I hate how during node wars the enemy can enter the village and the guards do literally nothing. I could be in a building and still be unsafe. I think when instanced apartment housing is active this could solve the unsafe villages during node wars. So maybe prepare instance player housing next. Even if we can't place anything, it would be nice to have a place to safely afk.

[viscid perch]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1. Invisible opponents are freaking terrifying.
2. Named NPCs for quests not spawning at all, or spawning incredibly rarely. Example: I've not even seen Captain Bloodbane spawn in Phase 2 at all.
3. Quests that can't be resolved. I've reported a growing number than won't complete, point to the wrong place, or the NPC/Object won't trigger.
4. Mobs getting stuck in strange locations, becoming unresponsive, and unkillable. Which seems to prevent them from spawning where they should be, and occasionally it turns out the creature standing far from home is actually still mobile and hostile and you die.
5. Chat filter settings and new tabs still don't save.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1. Don't go after the hardest working and well-regarded animal husbandry trainers and sellers if someone else made a purchase from them with bad money. Or at least take a softer approach than wiping characters.
2. Taking down sellers that would have no idea how the coin from others was earned is already having people avoiding doing any trading for fear of having their characters wiped.
3. As it is, we're looking at issues of people specifically trying to get and trade bad money to some people just to attempt to get their target's character or account taken down. We need to avoid this possibility.
4. Unrelated to those concerns, a lot of commission board quests still seem to favor the southeast quarter of the Riverlands, in turn driving experience gains to Zones of Interest covering that area.
5. If we could get more of the world chat channels indicated in filters up, that could help improve the quality of the in-game chat.

[hot willow]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Red frag still up after dying on pvp making you loose 6 items.
2. Inventory desync forcing you to relog.
3. Different video settings arent working or doesnt work as they should be.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. As red frag on pvp, if another player hits you, he should be at least fragged purple if not, other color, but something so you can defend yourself.
5. Resources need to be randomized, they cant have fixed spawn, you are just calling for bots.
6. Take a look at how the game "Tibia" has its pvp system, i feel you guys have a lot of it, and maybe you can extract some good ideas from it.
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[neon garden]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravan's disappearing between sw lines. Seems like other recover options are available when the caravan disappears but under this circumstance, the caravan is just unrecoverable.
2. Caravan fails to deploy from inventory
3. Party or raid member locations on the minimap and full-size map are not accurate/don't render at all.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Rarity on wood or other nodes is static. I would like to see more randomness for rarity on nodes like willow and mining. As of right now, the rarity seems static to certain locations - causing them to be camped. Not a great gameplay loop for me personally.
5. Rarity on carcasses - The rarity drops on carcasses just doesn't seem at all comparable to other gathering systems. This has massive downstream affects as the artisans who need these materials are starved unfairly. Some artisans have an easier time getting their materials causing the class power to skew in favor of those classes which can get heroic+ gear. Medium armor for example is simply impossible to gear up.
6. Defending caravans could use some more rewards, especially for those outside of the direct benefit (random people coming to defend).
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[remote spindle]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mount and Caravan Teleportation Bugs
2. Ambient Audio bugs - When going near dungeons the ambient audio plays endlessly. I have to relog anytime I move near a POI. There is no slider to turn it off. This 30 second ambient audio loop isn't just annoying, it makes the game unplayable until I relog.
3. Node Buffs Expiring on Server Restart - Commissions are hardly active because of this.
4. Hunting Rarity is All Common - Legendary Hunting drops is so low it's destroying crafting of certain types

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Artisan Material Rebalancing - Right now Herbalism is the least useful of all gathering skills. It can nearly be replaced by farming. Tailoring requires just as much Lumberjacking and Carpentry as it requires Herbalism and Weaving which is completely unrealistic and limits the ability to specialize. It's far more profitable to just lumberjack and cut endless Weeping Willow than anything else. The same is true for Alchemy. Mining is more important for Scribing and Alchemy than Herbalism is.
2. Artisan & Node Rebalancing - Currently in the game Combat grinding, Mining, and Lumberjacking is just hands down the most profitable way to spend your time. Due to the extent of this imbalance, if you want to compete in GvG or NvN combat you need either large wealth or spend lots of time gear grinding.
3. General Economy rebalancing - Right now almost everything in the game is going to be limited by Willow or Braid wood.
4. Add rewards for defending caravans
5. Fixing Quests and adding more solo play options
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[royal lion]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Desync issues moving players large distances after dismounting
2. Bugged NPCs can attack you back but are un-killable.
3. 3 star mobs will chase you obscene distances sometimes (unsure if this is level difference related, or related to the specific mob types - but either way I was chased half way across a node zone by a monster)
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Static rarity on resource nodes is just bad for so many reasons. Either make everything common and buff player rarity to be significantly more effective or do a roll before the player rarity calculations to determine the resource nodes rarity.
5. Just far too many bottlenecks. The ability to get certain resources (i.e. copper/willows) should never be the biggest bottleneck - the rarity of the resources should be.
6. Player defensive stats are not strong enough in general but especially for tanks - the only thing tanks feel like they are good at is their ability to get threat, their damage reduction/hp/sustain is simply not good enough by default. They are only viable in groups because they really aren't that much more tanky than any other class with the same gear on - but also do less damage. If this is just a low level scaling issue I would buff the ward value on vengeance to give a larger flat amount.
7. Some mobs at low levels just do way too much damage compared to others. You can fight zombies that hit for 50s and then get hit like 500 against some other monster of a certain level.
8. The accessibility of gathering tools needs to be reconsidered - not meaning the difficulty of obtaining resources to craft them but the ability to craft them in general.
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[blazing olive]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. I report in game each bug I find. I have nothing specific report right now because I play less lately.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. The game is boring for a citizen not part of a guild.
2. The game is not offering a way to interact with citizens, to chat and know each-other. If I team up with randoms, we fight mobs. We never chat. If I arrive to my node, everyone is in front of an NPC, no social interaction, no chat, no duels, no games, nothing.
3. The game feels boring. I expected more excitement, more adrenaline but nobody tries to kill me to steal my stuff. No NPC ambushes either to compensate lack of random danger.
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[wind parcel]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
Make a LFG tab, the global spam is insane
Make a LFG tab, the global spam is insane
Make a LFG tab, the global spam is insane
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
Make a LFG tab, the global spam is insane
Make a LFG tab, the global spam is insane
Make a LFG tab, the global spam is insane

[lament gorge]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. If you leave being a citizen of a node and then buy a bank slot there every time you log out everything in the second bank slot gets deleted.
2. Mobs getting glitched into walls and other locations and greatly reducing the amount of spawns in a location "Carph Tower is a big one"
3. Crashes when near towns.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Resource spawn rates need to be adjusted at prime time. I logged in at off hours once and had no idea so many nodes were in the game.
5. Needing so many professions to craft apprentice/journy gear but being limited to 5 is kinda lame. Transfering to alts is a workaround but its just a drag.
6. PVP engagements are pretty limited and often unbalanced.
7. Limited bank space with different qualities of goods is frustrating.
8. I spend more time traveling then I do playing the game.
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[torn vector]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
-Caravans
-Rubber banding

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

• More Bug options like caravan
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[fleet path]

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. The crafting is beyond dull (im so sorry, the game just feels sooo boring)

[mild grotto]

As someone that refunded the game, but still wants to play - optimisation kinda piss poor (Gforce 2060 and i7-7700K CPU)

[odd quail]

1. Keep caravan flag until caravan is destroyed or turned in. Cannot unflag from doing caravans

[cursive scroll]

Top most important feedback

1. when leaving a caravan event actually leave the event not just take the health bar away

[stoic veldt]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Frequent crashing, requiring a hard restart. This happens frequently enough to make group play very problematic.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
2. Unavailabilitly of metal (particularly Copper) makes testing of most artisan trees very limited - and no fun at all!
3. We need to be able to search by items, not by only the Storefront test. Currently, searching for "copper" yeilds 18 pages of storefronts - most of which have no copper currently.
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[fresh scarab]

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Finding a group, especially during PST night, is a challenge, would love to see a group pairing mechanism, that you can join a queue to find a group, pairing together clerics, tanks, dps, etc.

[split haven]

1. If someone heals of buffs caravan combatants, that should automatically flag the person on the same side of the conflict. Healing outside of caravan attack / defense should not exist.

[astral dawn]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 1-5 Most Important Bugs:
Top 1-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Reply on tells implement a key bind option for this people name there char to stupid things and chatting with them is horrible.
2. click on names in chat to reply
3. Fix friends so it's per account not per char
4. Storefronts are horrible search don't work and also the ability to refine searches materials, weapons, mounts and rarity would be nice
5. mob spawning is to fast first game I have been grinding in the same spot for hours because of lack of real dungeons where you actually move forward complete it and resets...

[grand scaffold]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory and storage display bugs.
2. Bard melody continues to leak irregularly. The visual effects around the character also seem buggy.
3. Loot in group play occasionally freezes. Frequent relogging is frustrating, as the group display often bugs out and needs to be switched between raid and group modes repeatedly.
4. Quality rolls should occur with every new spawn. Farming specific spots on a timer feels tedious and unengaging.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Loot should automatically move into the bag after winning a dice roll.

2. The marketplace needs a search function for price comparisons and more effective item discovery.

3. Item transfers between alts should be possible, allowing players who enjoy crafting to create a variety of items themselves.

   One suggestion is to introduce a housing system with a shared crate accessible by all characters on the same account and realm. Additionally, profession-specific crates could be implemented, with capacity scaling based on a character's profession level. These crates would also be available to all characters on the same account and realm.

   This system would provide more storage space specifically for players who have invested effort and dedication into leveling multiple professions across different alts.

[hardy eagle]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. TTK is too short: Especially PvP, this makes fights less meaningful and heavily favors ranged classes.
2. Skill trees have no choices at max level: Because there are not enough nodes in the skill tree relative to the amount of skill points we get, each archetype has only a single build at max level. Adding more nodes, and deeper branches could lead to meaningful choices both on max level and lower.
3. Non-combat mobs bloat: Having to deal with the hunting-only, non-combat mobs feels like a struggle for both the content devs and players. Implementing a basic hunting mechanic that can interface with normal mobs, and removing these would be an easy win IMO, even if said mechanic is still very far from the final one.

[summer briar]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
1: Communal restoration buff/regen ends with loss of bonus hp, not the 6 seconds the tool tip states.
2: Crossing server boundary in caravans teleports you to Carphin.
3: Node buffs applying repeatidly filling your buff bar over and over.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
1: Willow and Braidwood being needed for most crafting is a huge imbalance
2: Rewards for participating in caravans would be nice
3: Account based friends list please.

[copper urchin]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. You should nerf Power Rating from the main stats (Int \ Str) from 3 to 1. Because current TTK 1-2 sec. And any defense stats too weak. If you fix this it will open new ways for Builds: also peoples will craft some items with defensive stats, not only with damage stats. In addition if you will nerf from 3 to 1, monsters HP should be nerfed for some value.

[potent trail]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory and storage display bugs, still continuing.,
2. Trees even being chopped down still appear upright by myself or other people.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

Sorry 1-4 are in one rant. Artisan Material Rebalancing - Right now Herbalism is the least useful of all gathering skills. It can nearly be replaced by farming. Tailoring requires just as much Lumberjacking and Carpentry as it requires Herbalism and Weaving which is completely unrealistic and limits the ability to specialize. For example Apprentice Tailor's Skivvies you need apprentice in all of the following herbalism (2 piece), lumbering (3 pieces), tanning(1 piece), hunting (1 piece), metalwork (1 piece) and mining (1 piece) all to make 1 item in tailoring. When looking at journeyman level its the same so impossible to do unless buying item from AH at impossible price or be in good guild. At the moment I can see only Chop wood/mine and kill things it the only thing worth doing in game. Yes AH price may stabilise but that is years down the road and sensible supply and demand as it is present its so one sided as I have yet to see weeping willow and only completed 2 hunt for copper quest. I want to test crafting but lost the will to play currently.
5) Miss balancing of gathering materials in the wild and quests are miss-balanced 4 wood quests 4 mining quests, 3 for fishing (why take the fish away when they could be used for cooking), 2 herbalism quests, none for hunting 3. The bonus exp for lvl gathering from quest is useful from misbalanced.

[hollow kettle]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. After last night there is only 1 bug I want fixed. Its the flagging system. our guild had a raid in Steelbloom, sharing the sewer spawn with another guild group. Somehow, I flagged and got killed. I presume it was heal flagging. Since if you heal a nongrouped memeber you can get flagged. Welp, they saw I was flagged and killed me. (no looting so no corruption). But my guild cannot respond, or risk getting corrupted. I checked my pvp settings, and they were the same as the other two bards. I had this happen with a cleric ealier while I was soloing in the desert. I grabbed 2 L25 1 star mobs, and was low health. He healed me out of kindness, and he became flagged. My next AoE, hit both him and his horse. Neither one of us wanted to hit, or flag the other person.

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[stiff dragon]

This game is going to be incredible! Amped to be a part of it from these early days.

Bugs: First entry is the Shield Vanishing. Graphic bug.

Second is the Frozen and Gliding Mounts. Graphic bug.

Lastly, Inventory delay and un-lootable mobs, and resource nodes remaining on the board.

Suggestions: Naming Conventions. Limit brands, initials and non-name names. "MuthaFrackerXPROcleric" drains the RP from a MMORPG instantly. Hoping Darwin wins out here, and just no one invites a player named IIIIIlliiiillllliiII11, but a policy would be great insurance the game remains within the vision advertised early on.

Some Global Chat changes. It gets really bad and distracting at times. Similar to above. Perhaps an LFG channel and a Buy channel could cover public messages? At present the Chat Channel Filters are not working consistently enough to replace Global.

A less predictable (gameable, camp-able) gathering system for resources. Folks with jobs deserve copper and willow too!

Thanks for all the hard work and the open updates, SUCH a beautiful world you've built!

[runic bough]

I would like to first start by saying GREAT JOB! On this project so far, this Alpha II test is far more playable in mechanics and stability than many of the launched mmo's I have played (im 45 years old so this is too numerous to list here). I have been waiting for this game my whole life. That said I will try to do my part and help polish this project and realize the dreams of the people who are invested in this project the best I can.

BUGS that bother me most

1. Shield – disappears constantly for seemingly multiple reasons
2. Reflect - does not proc half the time, does not work with auto-attack on, will not reflect if hit half way through its full duration. The skill seems cancelled by anything else you do block, turn, breath, attack.
3. Target/mouse modes – transitioning from target to mouse modes is buggy and unclear, I think it is supposed to switch to mouse mode when a window pops up and it does sometimes but closing the window does not prompt it back into the chosen target mode, and also is hard to get into target mode, you have to play with it and your directional controls to kick it in. The chat also takes over everything, if I unknowingly get stuck in chat it will do this “eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” (I map my keyboard that is my chosen forward button, then get my cursor back at all I have to run a backspace and hit enter, maybe allow esc to cancel all that and get back to the chosen default cursor mode?

Things I would be amazing to me to see in game:

1. Mules: Many games have pets that run around with the player these pets serve a purpose only in the cosmetic and entertainment sense, I think Ashes could take it a step further and increase the realism factor in gathering by adding Mules simultaneously lessening the ability to carry an entire forest and mountain on our backs. The mule could also be vulnerable like a horse and lootable. They would follow us around and carry the heavy wood and stone that we collect, and we would have to protect it, if it dies their would be a lootable corpse on the ground for a time.
2. Honour Buff: I think we can all agree that it is dishonourable to attack someone significantly lower level, but being dishonourable is also a freedom of choice. The penalty for for attacking someone lower level then you should be in the form of both a buff and debuff for the duration of the fight. This should scale according to the delta, and this should not be so significant that the lower level gains an advantage 1v1 but enough that 2 or 3 of him (say his team members) should be able to have the advantage of numbers) The buff could just be higher accuracy, health, def, attack, to more equal the playing field. This buff/debuff should not occur if the lower level player or group started the fight.
3. Map – I would love to be able to make my own permanent but also editable and removable marks and pins that I can label on my map. I enjoy exploring maps and as an explorer I would mark my own points of interest on the map or routes I would take in my repeated travels. Also it would help by keeping track of what I buy and sell at different nodes as a trader.

[coral pulsar]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Only thing im really concerned about atm because im sure anything else I can put has already been said but I feel that cooking/farming needs to be looked at because at the moment there is no real way to make what you cook worth the time/money spent to cook or farm items. For example to make butter it is more to buy the cows and hay and water and making them into adults then to once again turn those into milk then take milk to make into butter and if you look at what they sell for or even meals you make with the butter there is no real profit to be made and for someone who chose these as a profession its kind of putting me off from progressing any further because im constantly broke. 😦
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[night path]

When will the shield be fixed?

I'm tired of seeing my character without a shield

[sleek parrot]

bug:

• My character crashed and when i relogged there is a clone of my character....now the system will think im duping whenever im doing any interaction and it makes my character unplayable....

[reef delta]

1. Marketplace item search
2. Mining nodes - Less Basalt, More Copper
3. Processing - Process any number on a sliding scale.

[lavish trail]

mobs that dont respond and just stand there doing nothing .

venders that sell potion cheaper then we can make them

[barren raptor]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. cant declare caravan attacker/defender while in group
2. NPC's and gatherables spawning in rocks, or trees not disappearing once gathered.
3. Charged ability settings don't get applied to cleric abilities (Deliverance and Resplendent Beam)
4. Mount animation bugs (animation gets stuck)
5. Right clicking items to deposit them into storage sometimes does not work, especially with item stacks.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. PvP zones should have the best gathering nodes/resource, but currently they have very few. Please add higher rarity nodes in lawless zones.
2. Static spawn points/node rarity turned the "end game" into spreadsheets and timers for camping willow spawns, named NPCs, and legendary nodes. Please better randomize spawn points and rarity.
3. It might be nice to have "safe zones" in un-sieged cities or at least better guards (mages/rangers in watch towers who have larger aggro range).
4. temporary immunity (5-15 seconds or until player moves/acts?) when logging in might help prevent "griefing" or logging in and being dead from random aggro.
5. I'd prefer if NPCs wouldn't aggro below a certain lvl difference, or at least greatly reduce the aggro range.
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[wary hill]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. all action mode bugs
2. rubberbanding seems increased in the last two weeks
3. invisibility ai objects need a fix

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. work on the action mode
2. server griding soon pls
3. make gatherables spawn random so people cant plan routes to camp them
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[kindred nova]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. bugged mobs / resetting agro / can't deal any damage
2. friends tab (o-key) fixed. would be appreciated to get friends xD

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. maybe consider not spawning mobs on their location when player near 3 meters. Its nearly impossible to clear a field of skeletons to get to the quest when a skeleton spawns right besides me and attacks me, while i am fighting another one.
2. gatherabels have different percentages to get rare materials. I think when comparing mining and wood chopping have great differences
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[sweet lynx]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. FIX FISHING DERBY
2. FIX FISHING DERBY
3. FIX FISHING DERBY
4. FIX FISHING DERBY
5. FIX FISHING DERBY
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
6. FIX FISHING DERBY
7. FIX FISHING DERBY
8. FIX FISHING DERBY
9. FIX FISHING DERBY
10. FIX FISHING DERBY
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[subtle dagger]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Marketplace taxes
2. guild wars
3. node wars
4. More than one person can start to harvest a gatherable
5. Clones at server borders
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
6. Simple Economy Balancing - the economy loop for each skill feels too unbalance due to two factors the rarity from each gathering skill and that some items are not "consumable". The easiest change to make is to make gear and tools have a destruction point after repairing a number of times. This will drastically improve the game play loop for crafters. The longer you want to add this feature the harder it will impact the community.
7. Gathering Rarity Balancing - personally it feels like the community is legendary or bust. Forcing legendary items to really be legendary, like it is with hunting, will be a major improvement along with the the economy changes above for crafting. To hear someone got legendary should be something crazy that the whole server will be talking about. Right now its the expected minim.
8. Visual Display for Carried/Gathered Items - There is currently no visual incentive to attack someone who has items of high rarity. Having some way to make the risk of carrying/transporting an item will improve the over all PvP risk of the game. Even just having a flash of light when item is gathered will cause more people to PvP
9. Improve Wars - add more time and points to make wars last longer to let more people participate.
10. PvP Force Flag with Raid/World Bosses - World bosses right now are just a damage race. Players are to scared to PvP as the healers will be picked off. having something around with when damaging the world boss it causes PvP combat flagging. This will add more risk to the reward, making player really think when going to fight over a world boss.
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[errant parrot]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mobs spawning in Walls and Floor
2. bugged mobs / resetting aggro / can't deal any damage

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Artisan Tab Having more information on it.
   1.1. Such as what you can do or collect.
   1.2. what level is needed for next cert.
2. Party Map Marker color change/customize. sometime marker blends into map.
3. Being able to see station of map when far away. it would be nice if you already visited a node to remember what level each station is at.
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[regal pollen]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Party glint drops/distribution does not seem to work all the time and party has to disband and or everyone needs to log out before it works, but then it happens again. Seems to affect item drops as well.
2. Harvestable nodes, and possibly treasure mounds, are spawning in terrain features making them inaccessible. Some harvest nodes can be interacted with but are bugged and do not yield mats nor disappear.
3. Gathering as a whole. When a harvestable item is seeded at server reset or on whatever timer they are set to seed, the rarity of that vein or tree remains the same until another server reset or reseed. This results in camping of single harvest items by players on a set timer. A RNG of both the timer and the rarity needs to be implemented
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Monster aggro is still terrible and allowing for training on others/ griefing.
5. Harvesting needs to be addressed, per my above bug comment #3.
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[pliant epoch]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. My wife and I play side by side. We have issues of not seeing each other when logged in. We can attack the same mob. We can send group invite. But we both have to log completely out and hope we can see one another. 2. My characters Beard is always stretched 3 foot above his head until I zoom in, this happens mainly while on a mount. 3. When farming goblins after the first 4 or 5 killed, new ones pop up and are not killable, but my character is being attacked and I cannot see the goblin nor attack it or target it.

[warm valve]

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

TLDR: Everyone just picks the "best" mount or BoB because it's the fastest. All you see in town is everyone on crocs, when they get fixed it'll be runic steeds most likely. This is boring and makes getting the others a bit pointless as they aren't worth anything. Also means T1 mounts are quickly unnecessary. System needs adjustment so that each tier is always worth it and allows for player expression to pick what they like based on looks rather than stats so we don't just see the same mounts everywhere. You'll have hopefully 100s of mounts. I want to see all of them, not just 5 because they are the "best (fastest)"

1. I don't like mounts and beasts of burden speeds and stats as they currently work. People will always just choose the best stats so you very quickly just see the same mounts or BoBs over and over and over. This also means the others are just not worth anything.

I think they would work better if they all had the same two speeds speeds based on the terrain they are on. Instead of just aquatic/ground, if it is possible, have it more like grassland, sea, rivers, mountains, forests, sand, snow. Then have each tier have say a flat 130 speed or whatever on all terrain but the 155 or whatever speed on their preferred terrain. T1 might be say good for grassland, T2 are river animals, T3 are mountainous. You get the idea. I'm sure you could take the idea and turn it into something that actually works. Just trying to provide a different angle 🙂

This way everyone would always need animals at all tiers and within the tier it'll then come down to what do people like the look of. That will make for a much more interesting game rather than seeing the same mount all the time because that's the "best" mount. Right now you can go to any city and it's just full of crocodiles. That's boring and uninteresting. When the crocs are fixed it'll probably be the runic steed that everyone runs around on.

[arctic igloo]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mount skill icons will randomly show on screen when you’re not on a mount, or even have one out.

2. As a bard, if you get on a mount while a melody is playing, the melodies’s visual will be bugged and show persistently, even when there is no melody playing. If you play a melody, the visuals will stack, and this bug can be repeated to stack melody visuals.

3. When you are moving (mounted or not), you can sometimes get bugged where it looks like your character is running into an invisible wall and keeps getting rebounded back. While moving, the bug will persist no matter what direction you’re facing. Stopping movement briefly and then continuing to move will remove the bug and operate as if nothing happened.

4. After a cleric performs a resurrection, sometimes the revive prompt won’t change to allow the player to resurrect themselves. Another resurrection skill must be used on the player until it works.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. When there are too many statuses on a character, it’s hard to see important ones. Example: nodes will sometimes apply 5 statuses to a character causing you be unable to see any applied buffs, melodies or important debuffs like burning. This makes it much harder to support as you do not know what statuses are on your party, and instead are looking at useless node buff info that is extremely static.

2. DLSS Frame Generation graphics setting doesn’t persist after game restarts.

3. Some keys can’t be bound to some actions. Example, descend can’t be bound to the left control key.

4. Keys cannot be bound to multiple actions.

5. Roads should give a small movement speed increase. This would improve the travel experience without undermining the absence of fast travel. It would also cause more active players to naturally crowd on the roads, making the world look much more lively as you travel. This speed buff can scale with nodes.

[rain turtle]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bug Topics:

1. Mob and gatherable spawns are way too buggy near Freeholds. They often can't be attacked or gathered.

2. Vertical object alignment to ground level needs massive improvement. There are way too many floating and buried objects.

3. Travel over long distances often requires a full client restart to fix server meshing disconnect (presumably) of inputs and item manipulation.

4. Mob pathing needs massive improvements. They get stuck on objects too often and struggle with vertical movement.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics

1. Camera viewing angles need a ton of work. I should be able to look around while gathering without interrupting the gathering process. Objects should never obscure my character.

2. Indoor environments need proper lighting.

3. NPC's need to be given 'life'. There is very little NPC movement and it makes the game feel static and dated.

4. Terrain needs an artistic makeover. Ground surfaces feel too flat and uniform as if they're just out of greybox with basic textures. We didn't spend time upgrading to UE5 for nothing.

5. UI overhaul needs to be prioritized, particularly Map functionality. Along with combat, UI is a tactile interaction for the player and it needs to feel much better. Menu/font resizing capability, menu logic, hyperlinks.

[noble garden]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Broken mob spawns
2. Mobs getting stuck in geometry
3. bard melody visual persisting after the melody is stopped.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Randomize resource node spawn times and rarity
   2.Trade chat
2. Marketplace overhaul

[shrewd wigeon]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Bard buffs interfere with summoning and dismissing mounts. They refresh every 3s which cancels the cast bar for whistling your mount.
2. Enemies resetting from different elevations. Enemies used to teleport to your elevation. Now they just reset their hp to full. Enemies should use ranged attacks, or climb down, or not be placed on different elevations. Ruins of Aela has Goblin Creepers throwing rocks, and Goblin Shamans standing on the parapets, they just reset now. Other enemies respawn incorrect inside the ground or up on the sides of cliffs. All enemies must perish, glitchy placement and respawns cannot save them.
3. Character creator. Panel system for final edits should be extended to full body. Maxing out chest on my girls makes them look more broad than she-hulk and more broad than hulk-hulk. They're intimidating. Plus in game their chests inflate to torpedo proportions. You have to mount to return your chest to designed proportions.
4. Character creator. Tattoos should overlap.
5. Character creator. Only the Aelans have sexy underwear.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
6. Loot rolls. Winning a loot roll should automatically place the item in your inventory, you shouldn't have to run back to find the body again and reloot. This especially slows down groups for tanks / healers. It's like the idea of, ooh here's this loot, k lets roll for it, ok so and so won it, toss it over, tada, in so and so's bags.
7. Tool Tip for Combo Attack button is awesome. It encompasses all the skill tree upgrades. Should make it more obvious what damage types benefit from physical and which benefit from magical power increases.
8. Soft locking targets is finicky, haven't worked out a recommendation yet, but default is kinda counter intuitive.
9. As we move towards Beta, graphics will need to increase more to compete with other Unreal 5 rpg's.
10. Keep up the great work!!!
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[granite thunder]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
-Glowing weapon animation repeating itself
-Constant GPU crashes
-Enemy leashing
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
3.
-Gathering node rarity / spawning is awful. Make base node rarity random.
-Gathering rarity has close to zero effect. Make gathering RNG based on rarity. the current system is awful and consists of timers and determined outcomes.
-Increase FOV.... please

[glass hare]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. World Boss every server restart, HORRIBLE PROBLEM, ends the competitiveness of guilds being able to compete, because for those who are still updating the game or connecting, they end up being at a disadvantage to those who connected before.
2. The World Boss spawn points being in a different place each time, makes it boring and pointless.
3. Is the healer's healing critting? Has this changed? Where can we get an idea of ​​what level of crit we need to have to make sense to build a critical magic or critical healing build?
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. World Boss every server restart, HORRIBLE PROBLEM, ends the competitiveness of guilds being able to compete, because for those who are still updating the game or connecting, they end up being at a disadvantage to those who connected before.
5. The World Boss spawn points being in a different place each time, makes it boring and pointless.
   3.Is the healer's healing critting? Has this changed? Where can we get an idea of ​​what level of crit we need to have to make sense to build a critical magic or critical healing build?
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[tired fossil]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. GPU crashes
2. Mobs resetting to the wrong places. (Had multiple encounters where suddenly 2 or 3 star mobs had stopped moving on tricky angles on slopes and other places, causing them to unfairly kill you without being able to react)
3. Ranger's Scattershot and it's upgrades are still buggy in alot of situations

Top 3-5 Most important Feedback Topics:

1. Willow tree's need (more) separate spawn locations around the map, having the whole server fighting over the few willow tree's and having high level players pretty much camp every spot makes it almost impossible to farm any of them for smaller groups/guilds.
2. We need to be able to craft items in custom amounts. Currently having 4-9-14 etc. of an item that needs crafting just feels like a huge pain in the ass and doesn't feel satisfying at all

[dapper spear]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mob buginess, mobs not respawning/invisible/frozen/missing. Mainly in Sunhaven.
2. Animation bugs with mount and character. Character shoulderpads animation appearing as fuzzy lines extended past the dwarf character model. Bear mount animations and model frozen in place while running.
3. Auto-attacking automatically and unintentionally swapping weapons without a key press.
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Flagging system needs iteration. Very unfun. Having to "opt-in" and flag AFTER being attacked feels like a 'quit moment' every time.
5. Dash cooldown being 30 seconds combined with the limited strafing movement (feels like -80% movespeed) makes mounted mobility feel unfun.
6. Shortbows and longbows movement speed slow on auto-attacks/weapon combos feel punishing. Weapon combo hit 'interrupts' or resets via being out of range feels punishing. Visual feedback beyond recognizing the Extended Finisher's animation, namely a weapon attack indicator or UI element would be nice.

[cursive dock]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. caravans gaining pvp protection / receiving healing from people not opted into the event
2. nodes spawning in rocks / set in stone respawns (instead of resources randomly spawning)
3. desync while on mount - dismounting teleports you somewhere you were at previously, i have been teleported 15 minutes back multiple times
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. mayor mounts being way too strong for resource gathering - add a duration to flying followed by a cooldown period. when servers restart mayors can just fly around very fast and find all rare resource nodes and then keep track of the respawn timers. if they find one of the limited legendary resources they can just endlessly farm it due to knowing the exact moment it will respawn. (everyone can do this however with a flying mount they can literally hover at tree line and find significantly more of the insanely limited tier 2 / tier 3 trees).
5. Make resource nodes (trees / ores / herbs / ect ) respawn randomly, please stop having the same node respawn as the exact same type of node and rarity everytime until it shifts with a server reset/restart/patch. creates very awful resource farming culture.
6. artisan refining - please just add a refine X option, being limited to 1 / 5 / 10 / 25 / 50 / 100 / 250 is an unnesesary time sink of baby sitting the que system (if you do a 50 refine, and it needs to be refined 2-3 times and you get the random 1 or 2 rarity procs it makes it so you have to sit there and endlessly do crafts of 1 over and over such a waste of time.

[leaden jackal]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. When mounted and crossing server workers, sometimes your character just stops at the line. But to you, you're still moving along. If that line is by a mob that aggros, there is a good chance you will die.
2. Journeyman lumbermill processing - Willow paper has the wrong recipe, requires only oak only.
3. Invisible mobs. Had a couple occasions now where a mob was visible to me, but not others in my party.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Visual effects overload. Give me some control over how many cast effects I see from others. It can be very overwhelming at times
2. Hunting rarity is too low. This is blocking a lot of progression in gearing
3. Static respawning of specific rarity resources causes camping and watching a timer for the next gatherable. This means if you get lucky at a server restart and find a legendary node, all you need to do is know the location and the timer to have that resource locked down until next reset. There should be some variability in this system.

[sudden crane]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Invisible Mobs / mobs not rendering / mobs underground but able to attack you - you can't target to attack back
2. rubberbanding when crossing server workers - can be running thinking all is normal, then mount sprint stops working or ticking, hop off mount and teleport back a zone or 2 cause of this. If mobs start attacking while this is happening, you have no way of fighting back at all and just die.
3. Player culling - there are times during small scale PVP events when the players I can target are not displaying until they get closer

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Would it ever be possible to turn off the visual effects of other's actions as a setting? (It can be visually overwhelming seeing a full raid +'s worth of spells/ actions going off at once, would be amazing to be able limit it to self or party or raid or everything sort of thing if possible)
2. Mob leashing - this seems to be working pretty well now, though there are still some mobs who get stuck on certain obstacles and sort of dance nonstop but they can't be attacked / their health never goes down.
3. Thanks as always for all of the hard work!
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[meager peak]

Most Important Bugs:

1. While gathering resources around the map, some resources don't despawn after their harvest, they cannot be harvested a second time. Consequently, it happens often that one walks up to resources only to realize its not possible to harvest them. Once or twice wouldn't be a problem but recently it has been a lot of that. (Due to profession, I mostly experienced that on trees)
2. The small crates of carpentry have a sell price of 1 copper/piece. That seems far to low.

Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. The Camouflage skill of the ranger-class is in my opinion hard to utilize. After casting, the player model sometimes turns invisible and sometimes it doesnt. In both cases the cooldown timer counts down from the maximum and its not quite clear to me wether the skill is in effect or not. Even when invisible there is no timer to show how long one is invisible. Furthermore, there are no indications of if an enemy has spotted you or is close to do so.
2. I recently obtained higher rarity apprentice gear, but even though the grind felt quite hard the difference in speed or rarity didn't quite match that.

[nocturne siren]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback:

1. Gathering logic - resource nodes having locked quality for the set amount of time. Which in turn makes it so there is no progression for gathering equipment. Also, a lot of people are being discouraged from gathering as there is no point in even starting, if you cant dedicate 4+ hours to it in one session.

2. Imbalance between hunting/fishing quality acquisition in comparison to other gathering professions - ores/woods/plants are abundant in legendary while for carcasses, rare is like legendary.
   The inconsistency discourages hunting.

3. Storage space is too small for any artisanship enjoyer - makes the management very tedious when you are forced to have alts just for storage.

4. More values in processing job size - 1/5/10/25 is very tedious, when people come with specific requests. This alone makes me hate the system and customers as i feel like my time is being wasted.

Good job, and thank you.

[wide rover]

weekly feedback - 01-23-2025
top 3-5 most important bugs:

1. upon login I receive all my equipped and quest items and get the complete notification of certain quests I did early on
2. elder zinjala ironhoof becomes the target of heals unless another target is forcefully targeted
3. being attacked by monsters when their nametag is green causing it to be impossible to attack them
4. my shield remains visible even when I change to my secondary weapon of a wand and focus

Top 3-5 most important feedback topics

1. I feel like grems are over tuned for the type of monster they are comparing to other beast like monsters especially since their snap attack has such a long reach of attacking
2. please make it possible to select multiple stacks of items when selling to a vendor perhaps in the form of a cart for selling where you select all the items you want to sell and then confirm to sell them
3. please let aquatic mounts use their dash while they are swimming since it feels like they should be able to do so
4. potentially more of a suggestion than feedback. Since freeholds are such a scarce thing, perhaps make it so that people who have a freehold have to also pay a tax for their freehold as to prevent inactive players from claiming a freehold and making it so that the freehold isn't used when an active player might actually make use of it
5. potentially more of a suggestion than feedback. when resource node scarcity gets introduced perhaps make it so that mayors can make buy orders to replenish certain of those resources for example with rootballs for trees and plants

[keen hawk]

Weekly feedback 23/01/25

Feedback

1. The biggest and only feedback I want to give as everyone else here has covered the other concerns. - enchantments this system has to change big time, I get that the game isn't here to cater to everyone but making the enchantments so ridiculous to the point where level 20 is supposed be an achievement just like level 10, but level 10 gear fully enchanted destroys level 20 gear is insane. The math is off. Also enchantments shouldn't be stat boosters they should be effects, fire damage on a weapon or Increased bleed chance not stacking strength so people have 3x the power of everyone else. No longer making it skill based pvp. Everyone shouldn't be afraid to enter pvp due to this or that guild having +10 on their entire set. It needs to be a case of we won because we outplayed them not we sank our guild bank into everyone's gear. So now we own the server.

[latent prairie]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Teleporting way back past in time at the border of server workers - while you can detect it with your mounts, its frustrating to have it happen on your caravan. No indicators unlike on mounts

2. Hunting Rarity. This Issue still affects everything related to crafting. Caravans have worse Beasts, Armor and Weapons have worse Molds, Food has less stats etc etc. Hunting needs the rarity fix

3. Not able to Flag up for caravan defense/attack while in a party, always having to break the party, flag up, invite everyone back

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Hunting spawn points. Its the least forgiving, most stressfull and least loved gathering profession. Being forced to stand on a single spot spamming F along with 5-9 more people just because you want a Plumed Haleberder for example, because they have a very timer-varying static spot respawn is not a good testing experience

2. Enchanting. Either Enchanting on level 10 gear is WAY too powerful, or level 20 gear in general is WAY too weak. Either way, something needs to be done, because its not good to have level 10 gear best in slot while being level 25 and having level 20 gear in the bags

[rugged pollen]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. missing items in storages! 😢 i really lost motivation to play with all my items missing
2. some hunt-able npc don't drop anything (still gives me exp) if i don't proc train-able ones. i.e. skinwalker
3. rending distance on caravans: if i pull up to ppl doing tons of caravans together, i won't be able to see them even when i am on them. but for those who were in the area sees me before i can even see them. therefore if i attacked them and approaced them after death, they start attacking even before i can even see them

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. I would like to know whos caravan i'm attacking/defending.
2. i do understand mayors should have advantages with the mount. but i do believe its unfair for them to use it for rare tree huntings (fly around and only farm willows and braided = monopoly on market without contest). there should be some kind of energy bar of how often/long they can fly
3. would love some duel system party vs party without actually dying. if they "died" they'll sit in spot till duel ends.
4. accepting caravan event while in party.
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thank you always for trying to listen to us.

[tame totem]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025-01/27/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Being teleported halfway across map when getting off horse
2. Being telported off caravan
3. "Invisible" mobs
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Imbalance caused by uncontestable / non-challenging world bosses (temp disable all boss items until this is fixed)
5. Flag for pvp should have an 'about to flag' timer that takes 1 sec longer to take effect than it takes to harvest a gatherable
6. Rng / luck seems very much non-random and potentially exploitable.
7. Add a refresh treasure map spawn on 5 minute timer or otherwise ensure dig mound is visible/reachable
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[summer siren]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravan bugs: killing the rider, supporting outside of the event, not able to select att/def while in a group
2. The automatic forwards roll that happens when landing to a lower elevation doesn't maintain movement speed
3. Chat customization in menus does not seem to do anything

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Limited choice with gearing/stats

• Ex. Healing power doesn't make sense to gear for when magic power is the same thing but better. For example, why would I take 16 healing power over 13 magic power? Idk what the balance between these should be, but it needs to change!
• Enchanting favors attribute stats like int and disfavors stats like max health, further limiting choice. In the healing power example, I can take hoodwinx earring for the int and have almost double the magic power than the healing power I get with a halcyonite earring

2. I like that hunting rarity is harder to get, but I don't like the disparity between other gatherable rarity. Having epic bluebell and weeping willow, but knowing I can only get rare tanned otter hide feels bad
3. Adding /duel would be really nice, but 100% not worth it if there's a chance of bugs that lead to someone dying & getting corruption
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[cold surge]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory still bugging out.
2. Trees that don't fall down when chopped / appear able to be harvested but cannot.
3. Crashes / freezes still common, despite how good the PC is.
4. When you crash, you can die, which is terrible.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Cannot unequip any gathering tools.
2. PvP events need a countdown.
3. More resource nodes.
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[barren stratus]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Invisible, stuck, and incorrectly marked friendly mobs significantly disrupt gameplay. These issues make encounters unpredictable and frustrating, especially in critical moments.
2. Desync issues frequently occur when switching server workers. Players are often teleported back a considerable distance, which disrupts gameplay flow and can cause progress loss.
3. Resources spawning inside rocks or beneath the ground are uncollectible. This prevents players from gathering essential materials and negatively affects crafting and progression.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. The Artisan category's functionality is severely limited, as most or all values appear broken. This issue makes crafting high-quality gear nearly impossible, hindering one of the core mechanics of advanced gameplay.
2. Certain mobs have an excessively high critical hit chance, which feels unbalanced. This is particularly evident with Grems using the Snap ability, where critical hits occur far too often, making encounters unfairly difficult.
3. Freeholds currently do not require taxes or maintenance costs after being purchased. This results in inactive players holding onto Freeholds indefinitely, preventing them from being reclaimed or reused by active players.
4. Players who secured Freeholds early now dominate the market for key resources like Weeping Willow and Bluebell. These players are exploiting their position to generate large amounts of gold with minimal effort, creating an imbalance in the economy.
5. There is a severe shortage of Tier 2 trees compared to other resources. While it is possible to find large quantities of Tier 2 and Tier 3 ores, the availability of trees in the same tier is extremely low, which hinders crafting and progression for woodworking professions.
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[sick dagger]

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Alpha Two Phase II Feedback

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Inventory Bug issue (need to relog or mount up to quick fix actually)
2. Hunter satchel which are good with living animals but not with carcass
3. Mobs stop to fight after some time (ashen warriors)

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Give griefers a true malus the same way as Corruption for Pkers. People bringing mobs on farming party or people CC farmers to loot their ressources have to face consequences. Don't know, maybe add corruption at engage and not at kill, the corruption vanish if the victim defend, and stay if the victim don't attack.
2. keep the tropics as an open pvp zone, but add some rare ressources spawn point in it to encourage pvp (like t2-t3 trees, mining, etc...), great to see some zone like this in the final game too (like abyss in DAOC, with a high reward / high risk system)
3. give guilds more role than recruit and guild master, and add some feature like a guild chest to share some ressources with guild mates.
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[flint linden]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. caravan flagging system. not being able to flag while in a group, being able to attack caravans without flagging to attack.
2. willows and other trees spawning so that they are not interactable
3. character duplication bug
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Caravans are not balanced atm. The person doing the caravan has all the risk while someone attacking it has no risk. Something needs to be done to create risk for the attackers when they have only high reward to gain from attacking if they flag as an attacker.
5. Please fix mob training

[balmy kraken]

Bugs:

1. when I press esc to leave a window, it cancels bard songs. Annoying when gear swapping on the run or when crafting/marketing
2. My caravan got ganked by a much larger force and I think it’s utterly insane I can’t set my raft on fire in an act of defiance as attackers and defenders get engulfed in flames
3. Some trees stay up when you chop them down

Feedback

1. SHRIMP NETS
2. LET ME SHELL FISH, STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST SHELL FISHERMEN
3. THE PEOPLE WANT SHRIMP

[subtle fern]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Mob’s attack hitting you even if it is facing away from you
2. Mobs under the terrain able to hit you

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Devs you are doing amazing job!

[thorn delta]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Dismounting continues to teleport users back to previous locations.
2. If mages have the "Enchant Weapon" skill unlocked, targeting does not auto-cycle to the next enemy when in action combat mode.
3. custom chat settings do not change for individual boxes (Example: Editing party chat tab to include "loot" does not save, however checking the parent tree's box will save)
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. Enchantments are currently too strong. It is recommended to limit the number of applied enchants based on certification level.
5. Freehold tax is not implemented, but they are allowed to generate materials, allowing freehold owners to generate excess amounts of material with little cost or risk of losing their freehold.
6. Resources spawn in the same spot each time (willow trees especially, as well as hunting animals). This is leading to people camping these spots. Can their locations be randomized?
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[coarse fox]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:
Dissapearing storage
Caravans

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
Its been 2 months... at the start, people were saying this game is like 4-5 years away from being good, and I was like nah. At this rate, Im starting to believe it.
Like you guys are wasting time doing useless "balance changes".
Maybe start by fixing the crocs? I can fix this in under 5 minutes.
Then, fix caravans? instead of spending 90% effort / patch notes on pvp balance, work to resolve the CRITICAL issues with the game. Dissapearing stashes, caravans being a mess, nodes being static, terrible world boss spawn system, theres so much you can fix. Some of these fixes can be simple even if theyre just temporary.
The gameplay loop rn is to farm static nodes and attack a caravan if you see it. If you made any attempts at fixing the boss spawns, we would at least have consistent boss spawns to fight over, bosses that dont spawn immidiately after restart (so its not a race of who loads in faster), etc.
Ik its just an alpha and not enough content, but with the content now, if you just tweaked it a little bit, there would be gameplay loops for people to engage with.
The fact that you left crocs at bugged speed, nodes just static and farmable, and boss spawns bad/bugged, shows that you guys need to have a team meeting and get some priorities straight.
Its been 2 months and it feels like nothing has changed, well for the better anyways.

[lusty tangle]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Unmineable nodes. The animations go through but no experience or item gained. Also nodes in the ground (mostly trees)

2. Rangers camouflage doesn't work 80% of the time. It either instantly falls off or mobs still see you

3. Rangers cc break doesn't work. It always unhighlights when cc'd

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. The toxicity level in discord and the game revolving exploiters and not enough being done has gotten to unbearable levels.

2. When a mayor of a node is wiped or deleted the re vote should be done almost instantly. This has left nodes without any commissions or buffs for an extended period of time. Also don't allow that mayor to be re elected.

3. Information on node tiers (namely 4 and above) and what they provide such as more building spots (so one node can have specifically all metalworking, armour and wrapon smithing). This way testers can prepare for this and know what to test for
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[polar vapor]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Party/Raid map icons not always showing.
2. Movement on mount or caravans "bugging" where it looks like you are moving and traveling across the map but if you dismount you get rubberbaned back some times all the way across the map.
3. Chat settings are not saved.
4. Hunting bags not letting carcasses to stack to the bags limits
5. render distance for players and nameplates becomes really short when in large groups of players.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Need ground raid markers
2. Need custom chat tabs
3. Citizenship should be account wide - node capes need to visual different only, all stats should be at all nodes.
4. Lv1 corruption is too harsh
5. Let us unequip used tools and caravan parts, similarly let us name caravans so having multiple is less annoying.

Neither list is in order of importance, just order of what my brain blurted it out.

[trim vault]

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Weekly feedback 28/01/25
top 3-5 most important bugs.

1. Storage bug, having to get on and get off the mount to work storage is annoying.
2. Steel bloom, there are parts in the POI where you fall through the world to a bottomless pit.
3. Mob spawning into walls.
   4.Mount still surfboards.

Top 3-5 most important feedback topics:

1. The ability to mouse over party members is a fantastic idea, however, not all healing spells work with this and it doesn’t work in raid frames. It would be extremely useful if all my spells worked this way, I’m still having to click on party members for certain spells and in raids frames I have to click everyone for all.
2. Mailbox system. I can’t mail anything to my other characters. It would be nice to be able to send gatherables/gold/gear and what not to my other toons via the mailbox.
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[glass mountain]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Teleporting after dismounting!!!!!! We were told it was fixed..... guess what? It's not.
2. Party minimap icons are not accurate. Either they don't show up, or they show old party members.
3. Lag, rubberbanding, stability. This was all supposed to be fixed or close to being fixed in phase 1. Why are you adding MORE content that will more than likely be broken on top of stuff this is STILL broken since Pre-A2?
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
4. I'm sick and tired of getting ganked by people who have enchanted level 20 gear from unintended war deccing. Delete ALL gear that is level 20 and enchanted. Journeyman enchanting scrolls currently cannot be crafted because of the need for all the proper buildings. So those who abused the war decs are super enchanted by that abuse and have had zero punishment. They just go out murdering everyone because they can and no normal player can stop them. I have never felt so weak on my class until now.
5. World bosses (Tumok specifically) is 50% or more dead before servers are even announced they're up. Why is this even possible????? Put a variable on the timer, or don't allow Tumok to spawn until a minimum of 15-30 minutes after a server reset.
6. Stop catering to the zerg guilds. They receive all the benefits for abusing the systems (or lack thereof) in place and world bosses and barely any punishment has been enacted. Normal players do NOT have access to journeyman enchanting scrolls, so why are you allowing those who abused the system (or who were part of a guild who abused the system) to keep something that is NOT obtainable right now? If I died to someone when I have the SAME opportunity to obtain what they have, then fine. I need to play better. When I die to someone when I CAN'T obtain the same things because of abuse or exploits, how is this right? You're sending a message that cheating is allowed even though outwardly you say it's not allowed. Prove that it's not allowed.

[misty hare]

1. Resources. It cant be intended for epic and legendary resources to spawn at the exact same location every time as they do now. It really disturbs the economy of the server.

[ember swan]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Dismounting teleporting back
2. Caravan disappearing - all glint lost
3. Invisible mobs attacking you
4. Performance seems to be bit worse.
5. **Night is too dark **- Overall Lighting seems to have gotten much worse and more buggy. Sometimes I have to relog to fix the lighting but still its too dark.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Gathering Rarity is broken, Legendary, Epic, etc.. spawning all the time on same spot. This ruining economy and making gear or any "increase of rarity chance" useless
2. Alchemy processing need more love - In a lot of processing I can see usefulness, but Alchemy seems to be useless now. Let us make Fine Paper (used for weapons, ring) or something like that so Alchemy can be more interesting.
3. We need server restart so badly, so many flowers are now Journeyman and we cant gather them. Even after few hours node is not changed for something else.
   4)** Fall - Winter season - Currently FALL looks more like trasngression between Summer and Winter, I did not had feeling of Fall. Winter is also too white,** after few hours of playing my eyes hurts.
4. Processing/Crafting has to be locked on Players level too. People creating Alts with lvl 3 to make processing and Crafting for their main caracters

[robust birch]

1. TTK has to get looked at. At 420-500 power players die in 200-400ms in any scale of PvP unless they dodge AND their healer reacts lightning fast. Dodging should feel impactful and be a big part of skill, but that TTK is still criminal.
2. With 1. In mind, cleric can’t have purify on a 1.1 sec cast
3. I’d like an external raid cd that’s big enough to call. Like priest in wow has a big cd called Power Word: Barrier that gives everyone standing in Damage Reduction (I believe 15%, they tune it every xpac). One big cd per class that’s worth calling out is a must. You have some rn, but not many.
4. Let us name caravans as PvP organizational tool

[willow wigeon]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Being teleported across the map when on a caravan randomly/losing caravan event as a driver. Leads to caravan disappearing and/or breaking future caravans
2. Dismounting teleporting back
3. Unlootable gatherables spawning. Either the prompt to harvest doesnt popup (not on freeholds) or it does but it throws and error when trying to harvest

Top 3-5 Most important feedback topics:

1. Caravan risk and balancing for defenders. Currently attackers have no risk when attacking a caravan making caravan attacks really difficult to fend off since they can keep respawning and throwing bodies at you.
2. Caravans interaction with War declaration. If a caravan defense is made up of 2 guilds, currently potential attackers can declare war on 1 of the guilds and be able to kill off one of the guilds without corruption and without flagging as caravan attackers. This effectively makes it so caravan defenses have to be fully mounted by 1 guild right now or risk being split.
3. More "official" information as to how core systems like node buildings, wars, caravans, etc... are supposed to work. Particularly with node development, its not clear as to how things are supposed to work or what is correct so reporting bugs or providing feedback on balance is harder

[tight wave]

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. still not gatherable Trees/ missing resourcen like coal

2. CC-able non-combatants

3. Dawn/Dusk changes still have some lighting issues. (way to dark sometimes)

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. I had this week more freezes than in all the time before and what was curious I didnt do anything other than walk around in Jeova and Lionhold.

[pearl raven]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. UE5 crashs and game freezes
   this has by far the most impact on me.
   because death is extremly punishing and a crash or freeze allows every random low level crow to kill you I've been playing low risk low reward things like cutting trees all week. and i still almost died a few times. so even if the game doesn't crash for a day i still need to play like it would crash every second.

2. invisible or out of sync objects npc's or players.
   i got often attacked by NPC's that i could not see and i haave obsevered that NPC's were fighting with invisible players.
   or that cut down trees were still standing on my screen after cutting them down so that i had to reconnect in oder to see the where i can continue because there were too many ghost trees to find the real ones

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. cooking seems useless at the moment.
   the vendors are selling common food really cheap completely erasing the market for them buit even without them. the effort of collecting materials, processing them and crafting is quite high so the final product price would need to be quite high so that everyone in the chain can make some profit.
   However the effect would need to be good enough so that people are willing to pay that price.

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[lyric crater]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravan Bug causing you not only to lose your caravan, (spawning in wrong node despite being in the right node) but getting constantly crashed out of the game towards the launcher, when you ask the caravan master and click on "I´d like to manage my caravans"

2. During war declaration if 1 Guild declares war on another guild, then other guilds should not be able to "heal" one of the parties and stay out of combat. Only way to deal with that would be to go corrupt and kill the one guild, that doesn´t participate.

3. If 1 guild declares war, then that guild should not be able to immediately attack.
   There should be a timer before a war actually breaks out, giving the defending party enough time to prepare for the war. This would prevent certain guilds from sniping others at the storage clerk on purpose in town.

4. Bard aura preventing trades and mounting up is still very annoying.

5. clicking on "defend" on a caravan and it putting you on attack is bad.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Rework the rarity system for wood, ore etc. I want the weapons and shirts and skivvies to ACTUALLY have an impact on quality and not have a set rarity in each node. Same goes for respawn timers. Bring more variety in the game.

2.There should be a cooldown between war declarations. One guild shouldnt be able to immediately declare war on another after having done a fight.

3. Have a proper "search" function for player stalls , so that you actually search for current items in the shop and not for the name of the shop.
4. Make Epic Melody of bards affect Caravans again and work on buffs properly applying to the caravan (mainly Pep from bards)
5. Fix hunting and tanning rarity variety. values seem to be too low on the hunting side.

[half grove]

Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Invisible mobs attacking and party de sync
2. Inventory vanishing during trading or transfer to storage
3. Server de sync and rubber banding for miles when dismounting.

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Processing is way to rigid. Allow for a mix of colors to give a processed end result with slightly lower or higher stats than a pure single color item. This will introduce differences in quality of items being sold just like a real economy.
2. Treasure maps. The maps need work. The only way to see the maps sometimes in thick undergrowth is to lower my graphics to that of a potato. There needs to be just a little better way to see them with full graphics.
   3.Hunting need more work. A lack of colored hides is handicapping the crafters. Droppings need a low level toon to be able to farm for them or they just don't drop (Pardon the pun)

[river yarrow]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. NPC spawns in location seem to bug out as the sever up-time increase, often finding them in walls or just simply don't react, very noticeable in high level grinding areas
2. When dismounting you may be teleported to your last dismounted position
   Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:
3. Lack of meaningful durability in a player crafting economy; I would like to see life time durability (similar to SWG or Pax Dei) on equipment and mounts to avoid market / gear stagnation
4. Huntable and gathering spawns should be more dynamic, players incessantly camping spawns with timers just feels a bit janky
5. Mob training continues to be a problem, corruption stops you from protecting yourself as chance to lose gear will always outweigh XP debt
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[solemn thorn]

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Weekly Feedback - 01/23/2025
Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Necrotic damage and mitigation - I submitted a bug and forum post. Requires someone to review from the testing I did this week. https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/65722/necrotic-damage-and-mitigation-appear-to-have-multiple-inconsistencies#latest
2. Mob spawn rates seemed to drop off as the week went on. By Monday night, there was only 1 group of us on Carphin 2nd floor, but there was hardly any visible mobs. Whether this is because backend "mob spawner service" stopped working (no idea how it works, but Im assuming you have something like this) or that all the mobs spawn out of map/in walls etc so were technically alive but not visible. to players to kill. Obviously running 24/7 need to fix these issues or restart every day 😦

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Haven't tried on my tank character yet, but prices to join a node are crazy, especially if you role alts, if it goes up for every person. Should be a flat fee.
2. As suggested previously, lack of direction IMO (and tools) on what each week players should play test. Currently players are treating it like a game. Perhaps IS to implement something similar to the referral system, but bug bounty's with rewards of in game currency etc for players actually testing, finding bugs and reporting them. Should not have to rely on tools to ban exploiters.
3. Weekly targeted feedback thread is nice, but is to wide and will invite the same ol' complaints of caravans not working - I saw your comment about just this week 🙂
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