How about gear?

ArchivedUser

I really love Black Desert Online, so much you can do in that game but one thing really kills it for me and it's how gear works in that game.
You have a set of armour and a weapon and throughout your gaming time you have to enchant your gear over and over and over and over, no matter if It's crafted or boss dropped, you have to enchant it to get better stats, It is a HUGE grind to do it.

I really hope Ashes does Everquest style gear, where there many different type of gear a lot of different stats and sets, big changes both in stats and visual and would also be very nice with rare and legendary gear to have some lore attached to it like you learn its past very much like in the old Baldurs Gate games, you read the history of sead gear, who made it, who used it and why and if you the player who got the first drop will have a tag on It's info panel with your name on it like in Everquest.

It's kinda boring to find a cool looking sword and you notice that It only do +3 more damage, that's it, or the classic +1 sword, +2 sword ect, also very boring.

I really hope the gear in Ashes are varied in both stats, visual and lore.

ArchivedUser

+1 to this :)
I am also coming from BDO. I don't mind the RNG part all that much when it comes to gear progression...but the lack of choice makes the gear progression boring, less motivating...

ArchivedUser

I agree I hope we have a lot of weapons and armor with different states and set bonuses rather then just enchanting over and over. An hope the weapons and armor just aren't re-skins of the same thing at higher level.

ArchivedUser

Agreed, I hated how BDO only has THE weapon and THE set for each class, (even some classes share set) and your progrression is basically upgrading that same items, nothing else.

ArchivedUser

The gear is going to be like SWG where it is not a grind and there is not much of a difference between high level gear and entry level gear. They also will have a large selection in gear.

I would say watch the videos and they will talk about the game a lot and the direction.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfbi2EvzQmIJ55TJvZumNZw/videos

ArchivedUser

This has been discussed in the Youtube developer videos.

ArchivedUser

I realy like the GW2 system where you could transfer any good weapons/armour stats and bonuses into your fav looking gear. SWG had an appearance tab which was cool too. It allowed you to ware clunky hidious armour for protection and have your cool looking cosmetic armour as the apearence.