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I think this forum and all related AoC discussion would greatly benefit from a huge toxicity reduction.

Been seeing a lot of the usual.. get good.. this game isn't for you.. I'm the best there ever was, type of talk.

Yall need to chill. No one cares how good you think you are at a video game.

P.S. I am way better at PVP than you!

couple thing with corruption

1 being hit or healing while purple should reset your couldnt down timer (this prevent people unflagging mid fight causing accidental corruption and corruption baiting
2 Corruption lvl 1 shouldnt drop gear item drop should only start at corruption 2 at it earliest , i would say lvl 2 should drop a random mount from the inventory and then lvl 3 can drop gear pieces.

Server downtimes for patches are announced on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/256164085366915072/1299155635220512788

This article outlines the general server uptime during the 2nd phase of Alpha 2: https://ashesofcreation.com/news/-alpha-two-phase-ii-testing-schedule

lukedawuke wrote: »

"One big advantage I see is that it would GREATLY incentivize people to leave lowbie caravans alone"

what a loser lmao

I too want a game that’s dead on arrival by providing no guardrails to the new player experience, thank you for this valuable insight, please move on to the next thing that will hold your attention for fifteen minutes.

rits1 wrote: »

The Corruption mechanic is fine, once the issues with PvP flagging are fixed there is nothing wrong with losing gear from it. if you want to kill non-combatants you gain the risk of losing gear, so don't do it in gear that you're not willing to lose. If you don't want to lose your really nice gear then don't do things that will cause you to flag for corruption, it's as simple as that.

I disagree with the OP but also with this. Corruption mechanic is not fine, people are getting accidental corruption isn't the only problem. The other issue is people bypassing corruption entirely by having their friend kill them and take their gear. Yes they do get blight but it's not enough of a deterrence to people still going red.

There's plenty of ways to make the person who originally got murdered have a shot at getting the drop from a corrupted player so that his friend/ally can't just loot him. I don't think it should be always that a red player can't get away, which pretty much is the case right now they need to die somehow.

Next problem with corruption is that a red player can't even fight back. I think someone attacking the red player should flag them just to that one red person. Right now defending themselves as a red player means they will go more corrupt. If the original event was accidental or even warranted/deserved, then they should be able to defend themselves.

If these things can't be done, the question should be, why does this system even exist? Steven wanted to be able to kill anyone anytime if you accept the consequences, but if those don't even function correctly or can be bypassed, then I question why the system isn't just paused for now.

Great, thanks for the information, can't wait.

Completely agree.

Camping resources takes all the fun out of the gathering system. Seeing people afk in front of known "high-tier" spawns is just silly and removes life from the world. Really hoping to see the mentioned changes come into play soon.

the "god" node aka rare node that give the higher quality is an issue especialy since they respawn same spot everytime with a set timer so anyone who find it that tree will be camped on spawn which is why we have like 2-3 large guild monopolizing weeping willow above heroic quality, the pesants can only get the normal willow spots which have a chance to proc to green or rare from logging rarity but anything above that is super low chance to get