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Alpha Two Phase III testing has begun! During this phase, our realms will be open every day, and we'll only have downtime for updates and maintenance. We'll keep everyone up-to-date about downtimes in Discord.
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
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Re: Ashes Terrain Topography and Cohesion
@Vaknar just look at it mate, this is Chrono. This is actual forest, that's how forests should look in ashes, that's how Jundark should look.
Snekkers
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Mob drops, coexisting with crafters
I've been mulling over this idea and figured I'd bring it forward as an idea.
Currently when gearing you either hope someone suffered enough to level an artisan skill high enough, are settling for epic and legendary 10s, or are farming mobs for hours on end to maybe get a blue if you are lucky.
The idea I'd like to propose is return mob drops to their pre 2.5 drop rate, or an improved drop rate rather than our current suffering. The only difference is, make all mob drops worse than a crafted piece of gear. If intrepid could make all mob dropped gear cap out at 75% the power of the same piece crafted it would allow people to gear easier while farming and still allow for the need of crafters to make full powered gear.
Currently when gearing you either hope someone suffered enough to level an artisan skill high enough, are settling for epic and legendary 10s, or are farming mobs for hours on end to maybe get a blue if you are lucky.
The idea I'd like to propose is return mob drops to their pre 2.5 drop rate, or an improved drop rate rather than our current suffering. The only difference is, make all mob drops worse than a crafted piece of gear. If intrepid could make all mob dropped gear cap out at 75% the power of the same piece crafted it would allow people to gear easier while farming and still allow for the need of crafters to make full powered gear.
The melody is always on!
Make it so that the melodies are not interrupted by controls. It is already a big problem to understand that the melody is working at all. And in PvP, when everyone has a bunch of different controls, you have to constantly press the melody again. Why is such an inconvenience made? Not only is it impossible to understand whether the melody is working, but you also have to press it an infinite number of times.
Re: What keeps me from playing
....Another theoretical solution is to give casual players best in slot gear, but in a way where it is only best in slot for casual content....
Another, possibly easier solution to enact and manage, would be to remove crafting restrictions and allow players to craft their own decent but not BIS gear. Also, stop the insanely long processing times, 1 minute per item??!!! Hell, I processed 25 timber and for 25 minutes I went out back and cleaned the rear deck. That is just insane, make people stare at the screen for no good reason, a process per item shouldn't be longer than 5 seconds each (I think I hi-jacked this thread a little bit to vent on how stupid the timetables are for processing).
true , i dont think they understand that good game play isnt stupid grind but accessibility and then making higher tier stuff have a mix of easily gathered mats, mid difficulty stuff and a piece or two that are hard to get which is what leads to adventure ,group play,pvp and conflict not having everything in the game require a billion mat,hours and money even a beginner tool ..its so stupid
Re: 📝 Dev Discussion #77 - Let’s Talk Quests! ❗
One more note for the Dev: Please add a completed quest tab to our journal.
Re: The Great Hunt (named mobs drops)
There should always be multiple ways to achieve the result. If you can't tag the boss, farming mobs in the vicinity should drop key mats that let you craft the item. Similar to how it was in Lineage 2 ... minus the dwarf/spoil thing.
Andi
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Re: The Great Hunt (named mobs drops)
How can you not like static respawn locations and static respawn timers on gatherable resources and named mobs? /sarcasm
The current meta both for economy and gear wise is FUBAR. This isn't a game I would like to play in the future for sure.
The current meta both for economy and gear wise is FUBAR. This isn't a game I would like to play in the future for sure.
Re: Add 'Corruption' Thunderstruck Gatherables - Make them give 5-20x output heroic or above
At first though, "ew no" but on second thought, sure, but MANY natural events can affect materials in an area, not just lightning.
Also... THUNDER and LIGHTNING are two different things. Please don't mix them up like that other game!
Also... THUNDER and LIGHTNING are two different things. Please don't mix them up like that other game!
Re: Add 'Corruption' Thunderstruck Gatherables - Make them give 5-20x output heroic or above
We're AAing with this one 
Ludullu
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Dance Mastery: Energy's PTR fix makes bard substantially less fun
Throughout this post i will refer to "energy" and "power" while referring to Dance Mastery: Energy, and Dance Mastery: Power
DANCE MASTERY: ENERGY
- On live Energy works at the start of a dance's cast
- In practice: nimble, maddening, shielding dance can be cast back to back for very powerful burst movement: 3 flourishes in less than a second, at the cost of 3 of your strongest abilities being put on cooldown
- Whenever you cast mesmerizing dance (and it doesn't bug out, which happens often) you get one last little burst of movement that helps you land a 5 meter range skill, words ill express how much joy i get from this interaction
WHAT CHANGED?
- Energy was changed on PTR today to match the tooltip
- Now your flourish resets at the end of the cast for every dance (Get off the stage is unchanged)
WTF DOES THAT MEAN?
- Nimble Dance, Shielding Dance, and Maddening dance can no longer be "traded" for burst movement. What took us less than 1 second before now takes 12 seconds
- Mesmerizing dance is substantially weaker and WAY LESS FUN if you run Energy as you will always lose one final burst of movement, this was one of, if the most fun interactions I have on bard, and it really saddens me to see it go
MY ARGUMENT: THIS CHANGE DOESNT REALLY MAKE BARD WEAKER, JUST KILLS A FUN PLAYSTYLE
- Bards are already heavily susceptible to CC: Melodies and Resonance are removed by it, and the flourish reset from Energy often bugs while being slowed and tripped
- Because of the above weakness, playing in the backline as a bard with Power is already a meta playstyle
- Nimble Dance and Maddening dance were already heavily incentivized to be fully channeled: whether or not to cancel them is an impactful and important decision
- The other main style of bard currently is one that dives in and out of the frontline and side flanks, applying pressure before making a quick escape: burst mobility is obviously extremely important to this playstyle of playing out by yourself
- This change only hits one style: the fast paced disruption playstyle of bard, which, has more counterplay and is more fun to play as and against vs. the bard sitting in the back at max range with a longbow that never walks forward
MY CONCLUSION
- The team, accidentally or not, created the best class I have ever seen in any MMO.
- The foundations of that class are being fundamentally adjusted by this decision that was made as a bug fix, not as a balancing change
- An entire playstyle is being killed by the collateral damage
- The playstyle being removed is one that has more counterplay, is more fun to play as and against
- Several key abilities and fun decisions are being hurt or removed by the collateral damage
MY SUGGESTION
- Remove the ability to cancel cast mesmerizing dance, make the ability go on cooldown when the cast starts likes other dances, not when the cast finishes
- Rework dance mastery energy to trigger on dance start
IF INTREPID IS DEAD SET TO REDUCE BARD MOBILITY (PLS BUCKY NO) PLEASE RECONSIDER THE FOLLOWING
- Rework Dance Mastery Energy to no longer work on Get off the Stage, remove the 1 flourish charge limitation
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE BARDS WEAKER, PLEASE HIT THE THINGS THAT FEEL LESS FUN / CORE TO A PLAYSTYLE (NIMBLE EVASION %, SHIELDING #, RESONANCE IN GENERAL, GAMBIT ICD PER TARGET)
