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would make it even harder to see friendly from foe.

Fippy wrote: »

nanfoodle wrote: »

I cant think think of any mmo that took Racial identity this far.

I was idly thinking about this while I was at work, and realized I wanted to push back on it a bit.

EQ literally had every single race have a unique armor. I'll grant that was likely due to tech limitations, but the same armor on different races looked completely different, so it's not like that's at all a unique concept here.

WoW didn't have unique armors per race, but each race was its own unique rigged model that had *completely* different dances, jokes, flirts, weapon swing animations, running animations, mounts, jumping animations, idle posture, etc. Racial identity ran extremely deeply in WoW.

Final fantasy races are all visually distinct even when wearing the same armor.

As Crazysam said:

crazysam87 wrote: »

First thing I felt when creating my char was how inconsequential and boring it was to pick one. In the current state, they could just remove selection and I would not see a difference.

Everquest had unique skills and vision systems for different races. Iksars started with 100 swimming skills because... lizard. They also had forage across the board. Ogres had frontal stun immunity. Trolls had base health regen bonuses. Multiple races had bonuses to their vision systems. Gnomes were the only race who could access the tinkering tradeskill. Every single race had a different base stat allocation.

WoW races all had unique abilities for increased base resistances, stuns, CC breaks, combat speed bonuses, gathering bonuses, attack power boosts.

Picking my race has felt important in every other MMO I play, but it hasn't felt like it mattered at all here.

How is having some armor be slightly different sometimes, everyone having the same dances, and literally no racials existing the MMO that's taken racial identity the farthest?

I highly agree, I feel like intrepid are diving so deep into systems and forgetting as MMO players a big part of why we play is immersion and for the people saying ashes isn't a high fantasy game because of the realism aspect I disagree, I think everything about ashes is extremely fantasy driven, from the lore to the distant planets and magic, I just think intrepid are absolutely terrible at bringing this to life in their game and would rather it looks like earth for what ever reason, with character models just mimicing humans, bears and wolves and frogs and oaks and willows some how all being native to a distant magic planet just makes no sense to me

I think that the only armour that even looks slightly different so far is the level 1 armour sets you find from the goblins, but past level 10 sets the differences are so miniscule that you can hardly notice them

Been testing since phase 1 and I must say in the current state the game is very enjoyable. There are numbers of bugs and systems not fully working properly, but as a tester I can understand and forgive all of the shortcomings and issues currently present in the game.

However, what myself and many guild mates and testers are extremely concerned about, is the "Gathering" system. I put it in quotes because its not actually a gathering system, its a camping system. The way the current system works is that when the mining veins or trees are seeded at server reset or on whatever timer they are set to seed, the rarity of that vein or tree remains the same until another server reset or reseed. With this, all one needs to know is the respawn timer of the vein or tree you just hit, and you can essentially camp that node all day and reap the rewards. Find a legendary TIN at 8:00 AM, you can farm upwards of 40 legendary TIN in 1 day, from 1 vein, camping it every 2 hours.

This current system makes a major part of the game illegitimate and un-fun. Gathering should be random, and rewarding for people who just want to run around and pick flowers, or mine rocks, or chop trees, at anytime, in any node. The rarity roll of a spawn should RNG roll (taking into account the users rarity rating) at the moment of picking, chopping, or mining. NOT when the resource is spawned on server reset or reseed.

Gathering is a staple point in most MMO RPGs and i feel like a pretty basic system to implement. If the current system is intended, that's extremely concerning. If its not intended, also concerning that Intrepid couldn't implement a better working system at this point in development given the massive amounts of examples there are with other games.

PLEASE, I and others I know are begging that you fix this immediately. I would wager about 25-35% of players know that this is how the system works, and the Riverlands are already fully camped out by large guilds. Once 75%+ of the player base knows how to camp gathering nodes, it will be impossible to find even a heroic material for the average tester. There will be 5-10 people sitting on spots camping spawn timers, which I would imagine is NOT the intention of the gathering system from Intrepid.

If this is not fixed soon I fear it is going to steer a TON of player base away from testing this game. A quick fix to keep the RNG in gathering could be to re-seed the gathering nodes every 4-6 hours or so or on some random timer, if the permanent fix is too hard to implement quickly. At least then players would only be able to camp 1 extra gatherable spawn before everything is re-seeded. Please please please fix this.

A concerned but loyal tester
- Bater

Mhyth wrote: »

That opens up the opportunity for even lone players to CC or kill healers or otherwise interfere and troll with absolutely ZERO CONSEQUENCE.

How is it zero consequence? That lone player is flagged and killable

For the OP:

1) I think some bosses should be that way, but not all. We're in Alpha, so there are not a lot of bosses to do different things with
2) Flag when attacking the boss only, rather than an area. That's more "opt-in"