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An old noob feedback of the game

Hello glorious members of this beloved forum and developers,
I am going to give you a feedback from the perspective of a chill player who prefers spends more time gathering, questing and exploring rather than grinding mindlessly to level 25.
In fact right now I am still level 16, only 1 character

I will start from the most important point of the review:

---ECONOMY FOR LOW LEVELS---
Have you ever seen a homeless elf asking money to a Dwarf?

I haven't, until this game. Clearly inflation and tariffs affects to everybody (well, but not to the greedy dwarves...)
I am getting ahead of myself, let me tell you my story:

All began in january 2025, when a newbie elf at level 7, tired of being scammed by the NPCs at lionhold, decided to go to a node to make some good silvers selling the mats the elf gathered, despite the dangers that lurk on the paths hidden in the shadows.

I teamed up with other low levels to go to Joeva as we tought: "Bears don't attack big groups of people".

So, anyway.... I was the only one who reached Joeva, covered in the blood of the others that didn't make it... I just needed to run faster than them while i heard their pleas of help. It was worthy, the city was fucking beautiful, their sacrifice wouldn't be in vain and I started to have HOPE, dreams of getting out of the rot of the beggar... now, I would be a humble peasant making my way in the big city.

As we say in spanish, my joy in a well...is gone down the drain!...when i found out i couldn't sell anything because I wasn't level 10

So, I hope in the future with AH one can place a buy order so newbies have a way to make some money at the start of the game...because keeping us out until level 10...doesn't feel right.

So, more tips:

1) The game is challenging for beginners who doesn't know anything about the game. I love it. If you lack knowledge...ask people. Read carefully the quests and look for the answers.
Good design here. We all know that nowadays in other games one literally doesn't need to read the questnever ever, one goes to the marker on the map... please, don't do this misake, for now u are doing good .
2)Quest Markers: Every time you complete a quest, the marker remains... also, when you don't have the option to pick it up, could the NPC give you a hint about what to do to complete the quest?. Repeatable quests could also have a different color.
I know it is a work in progress, but don't forget these details
3)Maps*: I need my map empty at the beginning. Exploration should be rewarded . I would love as well to be able to add private markers on my map... if possible
*I have been looking at the wiki but found no reference to it.
4)Crafting and Levelling: In these games I always try to level up my character and my artisan classes... I did notice that it is currently very hard to do it.
5)Leatherworking: So, to level up this artisan skill to level 1 to 10 you can only use grems? I got so many skins of wolves, bears, ravens that i can't use to level up leatherworking . It doesn't feel good that one can gather these skins and not be able to use it at novice level.

Lucascp92

Re: Looking for the best GPU to run Ashes of Creation

Laetitian wrote: »

@Caww
You typo'd in the most ambiguous way possible. Were you recommending 1440 or 1080? And while you're at it, what does "more options when it comes to price" mean? Not disagreeing, just figured I'd ask for clarification..

Thank you, fixed typo. Since OP is not looking to go 4K for a screen resolution as part of his upgrade all the mid-range GPUs will accomplish what he is looking to do. The "more options when it comes to price" just means OP will not need to suffer the indignity of grossly over-paying (when available) for one of the higher-end GPUs (think nVidia) and can consider AMD GPUs since they are heavily focusing on the mid-range price/performance market segment.

I would still like to draw attention to the OP about the 500 watt power supply and suggest budgeting-in extra money for replacement (I know it hurts to replace a functioning piece of hardware, especially since all power wires will need to be removed and re-routed with the new supply but 500 watts really won't do the the job, even the plain 4060 has a recommended minimum of 550 watts)

Caww

Re: LOVE the PVX potential in this game

Yep, I've been saying for years now that fighting for spots is the best content this game can bring, and that Intrepid should do their best to make it the first truly PvX experience, where players have some abilities to control the mobs and where mobs are way closer to player abilities in their toolkit.

And I fully agree with Azherae's plea to not make zones "lawless". It was a dumb idea with the seas, it was a dumb idea with the current A2, and it'll be an endlessly dumber idea for the full release.

Figure out mob AI, figure out player abilities, figure out ttk, figure out PK/BH balancing, figure out proper node/guild wars - and you'll have yourself a perfect PvX world. And I know that all of those figures and outs are far from easy, but that's just the reality of trying to make this kind of game and succeeding at it.

We all followed this game exactly because yall said you'd at least try to succeed.

Ludullu

Re: Action camera mode - Targeting - Something have to change

This is a perfect illustation of how bad the state of this targeting is.
I can aim dead center (know its off center in screenshot) at a target infront of me.
But it will not target but it wants to target something way off to the left instead

Can we please get a update on the targeting in the game.
Make it in action to always target closest to crosshair unless focus-target, or tab-target selected an enemy.

and the tab-targeting in the game is also horrible it does not should select based on your viewing direction to start then it should select close to the previous target before going way off to the side or off screen.

Also the target selection is super short when in tab-camera you can select miles away. let us focus target mobs further way then we can hit.

Zettrex

Re: Action camera mode - Targeting - Something have to change

Action camera has worsened in the last several updates.

Right now you also struggle to attack or cast abilities even if you have crosshair over target or even if you have target targeted with focus-target or tab-target in action camera.

and what you have to do is swap into tab target cast an ability (sometimes need to tab to the same target again) and then swap back to action camera. Sometimes it works by interacting with e interface (open and close, the one worked the most is escape menu)

This is making me have to play tab-camera even if my preference is action-camera.
When its working its so good game-play, targeting is still not fixed and if that gets fixed its gonna be amazing to play in action camera mode.

Can we please get some focus on fixing this issue?

Zettrex

Re: Fast travel

Imanek wrote: »

This topic has already been widely debated, but we are in a game where fast travel clearly has no place. Adding it would kill a large part of the game experience just to please a few people who don't even take the time to fully enjoy the game.

The game is built around trade, exploration, and immersion. Allowing fast travel would ruin many of these essential features.

Steven and the developers have repeatedly confirmed in the dev blogs that fast travel will not be part of Verra, and that’s a very good thing.

You want teleportation? Well, scientific cities will be connected to each other. For everything else, you have your mounts and your feet.

Because we know you, the ones who complain about the lack of fast travel because you only have two hours to play. Then, you’ll whine because you have to walk to the instances, you’ll be tired of looking for a group for a dungeon, and then you’ll ask for an automated group finder. And once that’s in place, you won’t even bother saying hello when joining your instance groups. If something goes wrong, it’s always the tank’s or the healer’s fault, a little taunt, and you leave.

Yes, I admit it; I’m salty against this mentality that always wants to simplify everything in the game.

The studio’s stance is clear, and I really hope they never listen to you.

Then we hope that they will bankrupt soon. It sounds like you only pay money, and only your opinion is important there.

uNworn1

Re: Fast travel

Imanek wrote: »

Adding it would kill a large part of the game experience just to please a few people who don't even take the time to fully enjoy the game.

This makes no sense.

Adding it doesn't remove anything. If you want to spend an hour running from one location to another, you still can. If you want to use the argument of "I would walk if I have to, but would use fast travel if it is available", then you should reconsider. You are literally saying you want to a part of the game.left jn thst you would happily bypass for more enjoyable content if you had the option to do so.

It doesn't lower the chances of PvP, as it isn't taking players out of the game world - it is just moving then to a different part of the game world. If anything, it should mean there is more PvP because the population would be generally more concentrated than spread out. Rather than running around the open world looking for players traveling, you just go to the areas they want to be in and PvP there.

The only (and I do mean only) valid reason to not want fast travel is to prevent players massing in one location quickly - and so any fast travel suggestion that avoids this is 100% valid.

Noaani

Re: Quest - The Whispering Skulls

A little bird has told me something about this quest ... interesting.

Lucascp92

Quest - The Whispering Skulls

I am just curious about this quest... did someone was able to resolve it?
(It is a level 10 quest)
I only got 1 Skull....by chance, no clue where to look for the others... i don't know if the quest description is a bug or a feature

If you are wondering where i got this quest, around here, exploring, nearby Carphin:

Lucascp92

Re: LOVE the PVX potential in this game

I'll bet that we get to see the team's vision for this when we have 'Top of Carphin' PvX again without the Devs controlling the bosses.

Azherae