Glorious Alpha Two Testers!

Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III testing schedule can be found here

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Re: Artisan testers being tortured

Sorcres wrote: »

If you missing just one, and wanna do 100 stack, why not buy missing materials on market?

Maybe this is the purpose, to convince you to buy something from other players, even just one last material for your 100/100.

you understand some materials cost like 30 gold each, and guilds process whatever their members donate, and sometimes the donations gonna be 48, 37, 97 etc.... right?

Liniker

Re: Partical Effects

I've been playing for roughly 1 weeks and I love the progression of devlopment since Alpha 1 in April-May 2021. The particle effects are cool, but I'd like the ability to turn them down or even off so battle among many can be seen. If reduce particle effects has been miplemented in settings, I've missed it. Otherwise, the game's outstanding at this stage.

ValaAule

Re: AOC Guild Summit - Server Discussion Recap

daveywavey wrote: »

Why is it that only guild leadership of large guilds have worthy feedback?

Thats quite a stretch. This is a community run situation, and many small guilds pop up and dissappear quite often so it has nothing to do with if they have "worthy" feedback. It's posted here so you can also submit feedback too.

Srixun

Re: AOC Guild Summit - Server Discussion Recap

I want wipes after a fix to enchantment and gatherables rarity/spawns. Otherwise they'd be pointless.

Ludullu

Re: Fierce Wit Trip - Is this design intended?

Nope. The trip is unreliable and not well thought out. The burn damage is minimal and potentially breaks CC.

I only use it for pve.

Calibix

Re: Consensual PvP System in Ashes of Creation

Noaani wrote: »

I agree - and this will also be the case on live servers when people hit the level cap.

But then, what is the point of PvP?

Well yeah I thought the PVP was based around building up and taking down nodes. I was hoping that once I was max level and close to max gear, I would be spending most of my time and effort gathering, glint grinding, running caravans and PVPing in order to empower the node and fight other nodes. If our node gets destroyed then we need to build it up again, etc.

Like I thought the end game "loop" was preparing for and executing node wars basically. We dont have to keep chasing player power if we can keep chasing node power which has a reset mechanism.

Xeeg

Re: Why The Game Needs Fast Travel

Tjaeden wrote: »

Albion Online topped out over 350,000 BEFORE they released Asian servers.

And that MMO is more PVP focused than most.

Saying anything is "on it's deathbed" is so 2006 WoW.

No, it's perfectly appropriate to say it, but people need to understand that a genre death takes years or decades, not weeks or months as was the case back then.

As to Albion Online hitting a peak of 350,000 players - that is specifically for Steam. As of writing this, there are 7,458 players playing the game on Steam.

Don't use Albion as an example of anything good for the PvP focused MMORPG sub-genre.

As to your comment that the basis of this game is that PvP changes the world - I know, I was the first to phrase it like that (before Steven did).

The problem is, PvE is supposed to build the world, and the PvE is shit. Why PvP over the PvE building blocks if that PvE itself is shit?

Ashes core design - the one you are talking about where PvP changes the world - it requires thst Ashes have better *PvE* than any other MMORPG out there.

Noaani