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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
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.
Best Of
TTK "fix" went from few weeks away to "no ETA"
For me this was the biggest disappointment of this week's stream. I can only hope this is addressed during early P3 stages, before we start hitting gear enchanting.
Named Mobs Not Spawning
Hello,
I searched to see if this subject has been brought up in the last few weeks, if it has let me know.
There are a number named mobs throughout the world that are no longer spawning; I am unsure of how many. Two of them are Doomed Researcher and Wailing Widow. I am unsure if this was a deliberate change made by Intrepid or if it is an unresolved bug. I have submitted bug reports for both of these named mobs already.
My main concern with this is that these named mobs drop very good items/recipes/crafting materials for casters and they have previously been in PH 2. If Intrepid sees this I would hope they can easily re-enable the spawn of these named mobs so that the players that have been unable to get these items have a chance to get them.
Maybe I'm the minority here in thinking that this is a problem, but here it is and I'm hoping for them to come back to the game. Thanks.
I searched to see if this subject has been brought up in the last few weeks, if it has let me know.
There are a number named mobs throughout the world that are no longer spawning; I am unsure of how many. Two of them are Doomed Researcher and Wailing Widow. I am unsure if this was a deliberate change made by Intrepid or if it is an unresolved bug. I have submitted bug reports for both of these named mobs already.
My main concern with this is that these named mobs drop very good items/recipes/crafting materials for casters and they have previously been in PH 2. If Intrepid sees this I would hope they can easily re-enable the spawn of these named mobs so that the players that have been unable to get these items have a chance to get them.
Maybe I'm the minority here in thinking that this is a problem, but here it is and I'm hoping for them to come back to the game. Thanks.
Re: 🌼👋 Dev Discussion: Gatherable Spawning System
So basically, the way gatherables currently work is they can be anything from Common to Legendary rarity. I do not think this should be how it works. I think gatherables having rarities is good, but the rarities should not be as drastic as a single material being able to be anything from Common to Legendary.
The way I propose it should work is based on the tier of material. So Tier 1 materials like Oak or Copper or Daffodil's should only be able to be Common or Uncommon, maybe Rare. Tier 2 materials could then be Uncommon or Rare, Tier 3 Rare or Heroic, etc.
This also fixes the problem (which is a problem, in my opinion, but some people may disagree) of walking around at level 10 with Legendary Copper Armour. It makes no sense for crafted gear at level 10 to be Legendary rarity.
The way I propose it should work is based on the tier of material. So Tier 1 materials like Oak or Copper or Daffodil's should only be able to be Common or Uncommon, maybe Rare. Tier 2 materials could then be Uncommon or Rare, Tier 3 Rare or Heroic, etc.
This also fixes the problem (which is a problem, in my opinion, but some people may disagree) of walking around at level 10 with Legendary Copper Armour. It makes no sense for crafted gear at level 10 to be Legendary rarity.
Talents
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Bard Feedback + Bugs
Hello,
I have been playing bard for a good Amount of time and some might know me as bardash and here are some feedbacks and Bugs related to Bard.
-Melodies:
In general I'm happy with all of them except but too many things will turn them off even getting on a mount let me have the melody running when im on my mount but melody effect be disable unless i get off of my mount and below are my two complains regarding melodies:
1) Cathartic, Personally I have not seen a single bard use this melody in pvp or pve, Consider increasing the Life steal chance from 25% to 33% or allow us to be able to stack the bleed or add some other debuff/buffs to it that every party member with this melody apply that debuff upon landing their weapon finishers.
2) Music Mastery: Counterpoint aka 2x Melody:
-Reasons we dont use it like at all:
1) any silence, sleep, trip, nejash poison or getting on mount will disable my melody which takes me 20 second to let the first melody charge up fully to turn on the second one and wait 20 second for it to charge and switch back to the first melody which is 1/2 second left of it by the time second melody is charged.
So why should i do all that every 20 second for it to be cancel easily and take long time at reduced efficiency as well to run them back up again?
2)my 2x melody doesn't allow me to proc both of their resonance stack on my auto attack finisher.
3) Duration is too little again every 20 second we have to switch
Suggestion: maybe add a saga that when we use the saga it allows us to have both songs run for longer time or simple increase the duration and allow 2x proc on weapon finisher for both melody buffs like mana and dps procs at same time if this is too much of a buff then idk i like to see other ppl suggestions or your devs can surprise us :]
-Abilities:
1) Mock aka tomato doesn't need line of sight which is weird shooting tomato out of (sry) my ass make it so it needs line of sight like marionette.
2) silence animation needs some love. maybe a slap animation when we silence someone or a joker face that is laughing or add a laughing sound to it which would be nice.
3) misdirection does work sometimes and we dont know how far/close to be to our allies and enemy in order for it to work discerption needs some love and ability it self is not reliable to work all the time in pve but in pvp its a must to break cc which is nice.
4) Dark Lullaby nerf was too hard consider a little buff its only useful for adding cc right now but not even all the time since dmg is too low and also takes a few second to apply the stun i would just rather to stagger ppl and then into mesmerizing dance for the stun which is 1sec less but still i prefer that.
5) Dynamism is Buggy when you spec into it and buffing a caravan after a server worker change or might be something else it wont allow me to target the caravan to buff it so i have to unspec it press confirm then spec into it and press confirm for it to be fixed and i have realized that sometimes it doesn't even apply the pep buff to nearby allies and caravans when i use flourish.
6) Dance Mastery Energy: sometimes gets bugged and mesmerize dance doesn't refresh my flourish CD and it usually happens when i switch back from dance mastery power to energy when i need to catch someone fast or run away but i have not been able to find a way to reproduce it effectivly but it does happen often.
7) Get of stage Knock back Doesnt work properly most of the times to send the target away you have to use it a lot to know how to aim it in order for the target to be pushed back.
-Stories:
i Do love most of them and how they give me different options depending on the team and situation but some of them need some love.
also i would like to see stories have a white effect around the icon when they are active for example when we make a saga with our stories or when a melody is running there is a white effect either around the saga icon or as for melodies icon and its clear that it is active i would love to see the same effect for each saga when we have one active because where there are too many buffs on my bar i dont really see how much time is left on my story buff on me to reuse it again so i dont lose the buff.
1) Destiny provides 5% base accuracy and if used again to turn it into destiny II its only 8% base accuracy which is really low to consider and also now enough situations to use it even for rouge and bards evasions its nothing bard gets 50% with nimble dance and rouge has like idk 80% evasion with abilities and this 8% accuracy seems like a joke i rather removing their buff with my maddening dance or just wait till their evasion duration is over.
2) Same goes for triumph 3% to start with and 5% when reused which again its too little make it like 10% or rework it.
-Sagas:
Some sagas are in good place which are useful in pve or pvp but some of them just doesn't make sense to even make for example:
1) apocalypse: this saga is so weak and has such a long CD (i do love the CD if it was useful and it does make sense for a big spell only if the spell was big) and does basically nothing its like you are level 25 and a goblin from lionhold is attacking you so please consider a dmg buff not a rework so it would make sense for me to spend 2 points for this ability and 2min CD to use it also animation is a bit lame a Disney Castle with a dragon head, really? let me see a dragon appear behind me and Breath fire or a phoenix also when i use the ability my bard start floating and the book will open in my hand and all pages are going crazy which is so nice to see but then it all disappears in a way that makes me say what?? i would have love to see when the cast time is over for my bard to slam the book and close it same way it opens and pages are rolling when cast starts.
2) Return to verra: its great and has its own use but animation is very bad, i mean you made such good animation for lovely serenade, hymn of mind plus all other dances and you came up with this animation for return to verra aka my big healing saga?
3) myth of creation: this is just bad it needs a rework or what i can think of is that the debuff applied by myth of creation cant be cleansed until the duration runs out, i need to spend 4 skill points into this again with 2min CD for it to be cleansed in 1s?
4) Horrors of the void: another saga which not only bad to use but also a very bad animation tbh this has to be fully reworked again i need to spend 4 skill points which i could very much use in other abilities that are good rather than this saga.
So please Consider a rework or buff for the sagas above so bard would have more unique playstyle and a good reason for us to sacrifice other abilities and skill points just to use this sagas and stories :]
added last minute which i forgot make the Bard circle icon to be have numbers like a clock which has 12 numbers but bard should be divided to 10 so we can see our resonance stack numbers better i have added a pic to show what i mean.
I have been playing bard for a good Amount of time and some might know me as bardash and here are some feedbacks and Bugs related to Bard.
-Melodies:
In general I'm happy with all of them except but too many things will turn them off even getting on a mount let me have the melody running when im on my mount but melody effect be disable unless i get off of my mount and below are my two complains regarding melodies:
1) Cathartic, Personally I have not seen a single bard use this melody in pvp or pve, Consider increasing the Life steal chance from 25% to 33% or allow us to be able to stack the bleed or add some other debuff/buffs to it that every party member with this melody apply that debuff upon landing their weapon finishers.
2) Music Mastery: Counterpoint aka 2x Melody:
-Reasons we dont use it like at all:
1) any silence, sleep, trip, nejash poison or getting on mount will disable my melody which takes me 20 second to let the first melody charge up fully to turn on the second one and wait 20 second for it to charge and switch back to the first melody which is 1/2 second left of it by the time second melody is charged.
So why should i do all that every 20 second for it to be cancel easily and take long time at reduced efficiency as well to run them back up again?
2)my 2x melody doesn't allow me to proc both of their resonance stack on my auto attack finisher.
3) Duration is too little again every 20 second we have to switch
Suggestion: maybe add a saga that when we use the saga it allows us to have both songs run for longer time or simple increase the duration and allow 2x proc on weapon finisher for both melody buffs like mana and dps procs at same time if this is too much of a buff then idk i like to see other ppl suggestions or your devs can surprise us :]
-Abilities:
1) Mock aka tomato doesn't need line of sight which is weird shooting tomato out of (sry) my ass make it so it needs line of sight like marionette.
2) silence animation needs some love. maybe a slap animation when we silence someone or a joker face that is laughing or add a laughing sound to it which would be nice.
3) misdirection does work sometimes and we dont know how far/close to be to our allies and enemy in order for it to work discerption needs some love and ability it self is not reliable to work all the time in pve but in pvp its a must to break cc which is nice.
4) Dark Lullaby nerf was too hard consider a little buff its only useful for adding cc right now but not even all the time since dmg is too low and also takes a few second to apply the stun i would just rather to stagger ppl and then into mesmerizing dance for the stun which is 1sec less but still i prefer that.
5) Dynamism is Buggy when you spec into it and buffing a caravan after a server worker change or might be something else it wont allow me to target the caravan to buff it so i have to unspec it press confirm then spec into it and press confirm for it to be fixed and i have realized that sometimes it doesn't even apply the pep buff to nearby allies and caravans when i use flourish.
6) Dance Mastery Energy: sometimes gets bugged and mesmerize dance doesn't refresh my flourish CD and it usually happens when i switch back from dance mastery power to energy when i need to catch someone fast or run away but i have not been able to find a way to reproduce it effectivly but it does happen often.
7) Get of stage Knock back Doesnt work properly most of the times to send the target away you have to use it a lot to know how to aim it in order for the target to be pushed back.
-Stories:
i Do love most of them and how they give me different options depending on the team and situation but some of them need some love.
also i would like to see stories have a white effect around the icon when they are active for example when we make a saga with our stories or when a melody is running there is a white effect either around the saga icon or as for melodies icon and its clear that it is active i would love to see the same effect for each saga when we have one active because where there are too many buffs on my bar i dont really see how much time is left on my story buff on me to reuse it again so i dont lose the buff.
1) Destiny provides 5% base accuracy and if used again to turn it into destiny II its only 8% base accuracy which is really low to consider and also now enough situations to use it even for rouge and bards evasions its nothing bard gets 50% with nimble dance and rouge has like idk 80% evasion with abilities and this 8% accuracy seems like a joke i rather removing their buff with my maddening dance or just wait till their evasion duration is over.
2) Same goes for triumph 3% to start with and 5% when reused which again its too little make it like 10% or rework it.
-Sagas:
Some sagas are in good place which are useful in pve or pvp but some of them just doesn't make sense to even make for example:
1) apocalypse: this saga is so weak and has such a long CD (i do love the CD if it was useful and it does make sense for a big spell only if the spell was big) and does basically nothing its like you are level 25 and a goblin from lionhold is attacking you so please consider a dmg buff not a rework so it would make sense for me to spend 2 points for this ability and 2min CD to use it also animation is a bit lame a Disney Castle with a dragon head, really? let me see a dragon appear behind me and Breath fire or a phoenix also when i use the ability my bard start floating and the book will open in my hand and all pages are going crazy which is so nice to see but then it all disappears in a way that makes me say what?? i would have love to see when the cast time is over for my bard to slam the book and close it same way it opens and pages are rolling when cast starts.
2) Return to verra: its great and has its own use but animation is very bad, i mean you made such good animation for lovely serenade, hymn of mind plus all other dances and you came up with this animation for return to verra aka my big healing saga?
3) myth of creation: this is just bad it needs a rework or what i can think of is that the debuff applied by myth of creation cant be cleansed until the duration runs out, i need to spend 4 skill points into this again with 2min CD for it to be cleansed in 1s?
4) Horrors of the void: another saga which not only bad to use but also a very bad animation tbh this has to be fully reworked again i need to spend 4 skill points which i could very much use in other abilities that are good rather than this saga.
So please Consider a rework or buff for the sagas above so bard would have more unique playstyle and a good reason for us to sacrifice other abilities and skill points just to use this sagas and stories :]
added last minute which i forgot make the Bard circle icon to be have numbers like a clock which has 12 numbers but bard should be divided to 10 so we can see our resonance stack numbers better i have added a pic to show what i mean.
Atash
4
Re: guard system sucks
To go back to what they planned them to be before the change. You only get gear decay on death. That's it. All the pvpers can pvp to their heart's content, while people who are getting destroyed only lose some durability instead of, as you yourself say, "just leaving the game until the war is gone" or "leave the node to avoid the war".How do you want event death penalties to change?
Pvp events should be about fun organized pvp. Keeping big penalties there would just remove as much pvp from the game as possible, and the remaining pvp will always be a "who's got more shit they can lose" situation, which always favors the strong and creates a bigger snowball for their power.
fuck im an idiot. Turns out I had flagged "defender" when the seige was first declared because i didnt know wtf. Thats why i was red. I just turned it off... Thought it was node citizen vs citizen.
Still doesnt help with the guards being dumb.
Xeeg
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🐱👤🌆 March 2025 Development Update Livestream Discussion Thread 🏝🚢
Glorious community,
Our latest Development Update Livestream has wrapped up, and we unveiled some exciting new content! This showcase featured the stealthy new Rogue archetype, node sieges, relics, and the naval system!
What were your favorite moments from the stream? What new content has you the most excited? Let’s chat below! 👇
Our latest Development Update Livestream has wrapped up, and we unveiled some exciting new content! This showcase featured the stealthy new Rogue archetype, node sieges, relics, and the naval system!
What were your favorite moments from the stream? What new content has you the most excited? Let’s chat below! 👇
Vaknar
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Rogue Sneaks into Alpha Two!
🗡😈🗡 The shadows have a new master. The Rogue is LIVE!
⚔ Learn about their deadly kit, and then sneak into Alpha Two to put your skills to the test!
📝 Check out the article: https://ashesofcreation.com/news/rogue-sneaks-into-alpha-two
✍️ Share your thoughts: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/66926/dev-discussion-74-rogue-archetype/p1
https://youtu.be/VnECi_F0mQw
⚔ Learn about their deadly kit, and then sneak into Alpha Two to put your skills to the test!
📝 Check out the article: https://ashesofcreation.com/news/rogue-sneaks-into-alpha-two
✍️ Share your thoughts: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/66926/dev-discussion-74-rogue-archetype/p1
https://youtu.be/VnECi_F0mQwVaknar
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Alpha Two Update Notes 0.6.2 - Friday, March 14, 2025
These are the update notes for changes to the Alpha Two that went to testers in the evening of Friday, March 14, 2025
As a reminder, if you come across bugs during Alpha Two testing, please report them to us in-game using /bug
Alpha Two Update Notes 0.6.2
Known Issue
As a reminder, if you come across bugs during Alpha Two testing, please report them to us in-game using /bug
Alpha Two Update Notes 0.6.2
- Guards should no longer attack characters for taking some combat action in their proximity
- Guards should attack any character that attacks another character in their proximity
Known Issue
- Phoenix Sentinels will only attack corrupted and combatant characters
- Some abilities and passives may cause Guards to aggro and kill player characters
Roshen
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Alpha Two Update Notes 0.7.1 - Friday, March 28, 2025
These are the update notes for changes to the Alpha Two that went to testers on Friday, March 28, 2025
As a reminder, if you come across bugs during Alpha Two testing, please report them to us in-game using /bug
KNOWN ISSUES
ALPHA TWO UPDATE NOTES 0.7.1 - FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2025
As a reminder, if you come across bugs during Alpha Two testing, please report them to us in-game using /bug
KNOWN ISSUES
- Deconstruction has been disabled as we investigate issues with this system
- Caravans may disappear on launch
- Some Enemy NPCs are not dropping anything besides Glint
- Turquoise Sea landscape and foliage at a distance will not render currently so the zone may look and feel sparse
- Caravel ships may lose their Potion Launchers when crossing a server boundary
- When declaring a Node Siege, if a mayor isn't online they won't correctly become the leader of their team. Mayors may want to stay logged in to ensure they get team leadership if their Node is sieged
- Unadorned Daggers, the Rogue archetype starting dagger, is missing textures and showing up green in-game
ALPHA TWO UPDATE NOTES 0.7.1 - FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2025
- Freeholds - Purchasing Freeholds and placing Rooting Balls on Freeholds has been reenabled
- Caravels and Potion Launchers can no longer be healed by characters
- Caravans can no longer be purchased or launched while a character is launching a Caravel ship
- Potion Launchers can no longer be targeted
- Potion Launcher visual effects have been improved, including the animation for a character controlling the Potion Launcher
- Deconstruction Kits have been changed to be tradable
- Possible Salvage Results from using Deconstruction Kits will show the correct number for possible results
- Fixed an issue that prevented some Plumeria from being able to be gathered
- Fixed issues with some Armorsmithing and Tailoring recipes
Roshen
2
Re: Our Issues with Combat and Gear in Alpha 2
A big thing for mmorpgs is to be very careful with CC, roots, stuns etc. You really do not want to overdo it.
If every class must have 1-2 of them fine but be sure to balance it for pvp by adding a strong and reliable diminishing returns. Immunity to having them spammed on you.
Do not take WoWs example.... Their diminishing returns are laughable at best. A 10 second CC in any form with no cooldown even with DR is NOT something we should ever see. Stuns need long cool downs....
If every class must have 1-2 of them fine but be sure to balance it for pvp by adding a strong and reliable diminishing returns. Immunity to having them spammed on you.
Do not take WoWs example.... Their diminishing returns are laughable at best. A 10 second CC in any form with no cooldown even with DR is NOT something we should ever see. Stuns need long cool downs....
Dryadez
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