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This should be 100% a priority, this also makes it near impossible to test if systems such as rarity/quality on tools are even working right now.

Welcome to the testing. Tue and Wed is the down time for the IS team to update the game from what we broke Thu-Mon when we play. See ya in game Thu =-)

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

Top 3-5 Most Important Bugs:

1. Caravans Issues (bad performance with 5+ caravans on screen / crashing the game, vanishing, teleporting you to carphin, healers healing caravans without being defenders,etc)
2. Speed desync issue (seem to be a speedhacking protection but you desync everytime you go a little bit faster or use a disengage ability)
3. Mining resources having fixed rarity for a set amount of respawns
4. Getting corruption on a legit kill (caravans, wars, fake purple players)
5. World bosses respawning with server restarts/crashes (tumok has been disabled but firebrand still respawns sometimes with server resets, other times every 3 hours by some bugged respawn

Top 3-5 Most Important Feedback Topics:

1. Corruption (overpunishing causing more griefing than preventing (karma bombing and mob training), going from purple to green mid combat, flagging options on menu and not on HUD (more flagging options) and more. see all at: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/comment/491743/#Comment_491743
2. The small pvp TTK (making group pvp coordination all about doing damage) and all the problems it causes (Like the irrelevancy of the debuff system (wounds, weakened, shaken)). Expanded: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/63918/current-pvp-ttk-design-is-bad-for-the-game
3. Action cam polish (more nuanced target system and ability to lock the target in the center of the crosshair, ability to access menus in action cam, better mount action camera usage)
4. PvE encounter design (less static and more mobile, more constant pressure less insta kills). Expanded: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/63848/feedback-on-pve-encounter-design
5. Gear progression and power creep. Expanded: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/64606/gear-progression-and-power-creep and https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/65691/the-problem-with-gear-waterfall-stats-and-enchanting

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I'm pretty sure they've already said in Dev chats that there will be PvP enabled world events, and I assume by that they mean world bosses too. Possibly not all world boss events will be PvP enabled or not every time they spawn.

Assuming a "little of both", I just want a clear opt-in for PvP events. Tagging the boss and getting flagged sounds a lot cleaner than a sudden area-wide flagging, especially if the boss roams

Iv had very few generic pvp encounters
- Tropics dont have enough in them to warrant people going into that lawless unless its caravan related
- The pvp spot in the desert is a nice place to gank but more often than not you find people leveling.
- Shardlings are hit and miss as most people farm the non lawless zones.

Caravan PvP
- Very few times have I actually said, wow this is good pvp.
- Killing the driver and holding the van till your group arrives is boring and a shit meta.
- Very Rarely do you get solos who will fight you 1v1 instead of just dying at the helm.
- Large Caravan runs are pure cancer in terms of attacking and defending
- the way to engage the event needs to be improved and perhaps be based on a radius around the caravan.
- Could cap attackers / defenders but large guilds would just circumvent this by having guildies attack and defend.
- Crowbarring should be based on the quality of the crates and not just all common.
- If you didnt actively do X% dmg you shouldnt be able to walk up and just pop crates.

GvG
- Good for putting people in their place, while the instant pvp is pretty toxic
- Good for contesting spawns, etc
- Could use a small activation spin up

Node War
- If you fight towns that are of actual players, the fights are slide shows.
- Render range is almost always shit
- Fighting in the town node its self is extra laggy
- Needs to not be instant

Respawning / Embersprings
- This design needs to be reworked imo
- Increase respawn time based on # recent deaths / make respawning at an emberspring all make you unable to attack others for the duration of the protection buff.
- During a node war, your main town node should be the only respawn point

PvP Loot
- ALL deaths related to PVP should allow the attacker to have a chance to get the loot before it opens up to everyone.
- Iv seen tons of people get killed while they were corrupted and their friends just loot faster

Corruption
- Its a good system atm but clearly some bugs (and this is I guess the harshest version of it)
- Shouldnt be able to drop guild, etc to avoid it.

I am in a pretty large guild (we have maxed several guilds)

Blatantly dishonest eh? They die, take durability damage, xp debt, respawn and have to travel back, and possibly end up on a KoS list. Sure, in alpha KoS lists matter less and the rest is about 15 minutes of inconvenience.

But zero consequence is hyperbole. It's low consequences matched up to low chances of success. They're trying to take down a raid solo in your example

This is real and proven