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Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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I personally don't mind a little RNG with something like enchants. I like it a whole lot more when that RNG has a progressive system. So if I have a 5% chance to get what I want but every time I fail it increases my next chance by 5% or something.
Or items that increase my chance. So at the basic level it is 15% but depending on maybe some rarer craft materials I add they increase it up to something like 90 or even 100%.
Heroes Fade but Legends last forever
Yea most of them aren't game features BUT those are the ones made me quit MMO.
Either limit the size of premade groups that can enter an arena, or try to primarily match majority premade groups against other majority premade groups.
What made me stop playing Destiny 2 is that I would spend hours grinding to get better gear and weapons only to realise that whatever the light level I was, overall it didn't even matter what weapons I was using as they were all viable. This made the game feel pointless to me as I figured there's no point putting the time in to get better gear when I could use anything anywhere.
It would be nice for weapons and armour to be needed in some areas of the game. For example, you require a specific chestplate with a specific effect in order to battle a boss. Or a specific weapon with a specific ability that makes this boss vulnerable - something along these lines.
If there is best in slot gear, I feel like the reasons why it is best in slot need to be obvious and visible to other players.
Did someone say escort Quests?
Oh boy games are rare that do this right
I really hate the fact that NPCS that walk, walk faster then you so you cant just walk beside them while running npcs are slower then you so you cant run as well.
AAAAAAAAAAARGH
Ah the hate came back. Please Intrepid. Do this right.
Also Legendary items that are not Legendary as everyone has them.
Intrepid thankfull is allready on the right path with Flying mounts so i hope they do the same for Weapons and Amor.
Other then that people allready said dailys.
Usally dailys mean you must do them if you want to keep up with people who do them.
Its never an option to not do them.
Its a Chore.
Thats why i hated Arch Age unchained. The dam Dailys.
And off course also like many said "Weak bosses"
Oh look at that boss. He attacks with his massive hammer and does 20% health dmg. *Healers heal* Tank is full again repeat until boss is dead.
Good Bosses have multiple phases. They change attack patterns and usally have some AoE to endanger the Raid / Group.
Adds are good too to force you to have an off tank.
There are so many mechanics to make bosses feel like bosses rather then meat balls.
The game will have Legendary World boss and i hope they will be dam difficult.
If only a small handfull of elite players can successfull kill legendary bosses then they did it just right.
Also
Danger music with no enemies
Stupid game tutorials - Training
Looting random chests in games
I absolutely hate how most "hubs" in MMOs are basically static. Sure you have a few bot villagers wandering around but for the most part they pretty much nothing. Especially those quest givers/rewarders that stand in the same place 24/7/365 to help you along the way. Really makes those places feel artificial.
I am really hoping that the villagers and city bots actually go through a complex routine and interaction. For instance the blacksmith could be a quest giver but he would be going about his tasks, making things, etc but when it comes 6pm he, like most other close up for the night. You might then have to catch them at the local tavern for a while but at say 11pm they go to BED. So if you want to start/complete that quest you will have to wait until 6am the next morning (probably like an hour real time) to do it. Maybe they even close up shop for 30 mins to run an errand or to have lunch.
IDK, maybe I'm going a bit too far on the realism but something MORE than what current MMOs like WoW have please.
Thing is that the night cycle in Ashes takes a little bit so people who have limited time might never catch that blacksmith.
Agreed, hated this in every game where it was used.
Second: Meaningless Power Farming. Another failing of WoW that has become a favorite of Blizzard for the past 3-5 years now. War Resources, Azerite, Corruption, and now Anima. While I dabble in Min-Maxing I don't want to be forced into spending hours gaining something that will barely give me an edge in any content, only to turn around and see that same grind I went through being given to new players to help catch them up.
Third: Hero NPC Disappearance. This is more from a storytelling perspective and hopefully, I'm not the only one that feels this way, but I can't stand it when an NPC character joins you in a quest, especially one that shows off powerful abilities, and is useless. They are either trapped or incapacitated in some way, or they just fly off into the sunset only to reappear after the fight is over.
Don't make it easy for the players to be toxic, find a way to penalize that behaviour, and encourage teamwork and community building. And most of all with large scale PvP if you say you can do it , great, but for the love of gold don't say it if players won't render or it will be a lagfest, so many have tried and failed , really hoping and it seems like they have a handle on it will not be the case here.
I totally get it but I would rather be inconvenienced for at most an hour vs having the blacksmith still pounding away on the same horseshoe at 3am in game. I guess it's a personal thing. Maybe you could leave him a note with the quest item and he could mail it to you when he comes back on duty?
An hour sounds alright, but I believe the night cycle in Ashes is 4 hours or so.
Edit: it's 2 hours or so after checking the Wiki, so that's not too bad.
It's easy to not do the hard content when you play WoW.
The game doesn't have any.
* RNG
I don't know if to laugh or be just weirded out - it is so interesting to read such delusional post - i don't mind badmouthing wow, it is in dogshit state now, but don't conjure nonexistant facts
― Plato
"hard" content in wow is usually hard because on an artificial brick wall. As it did in D3, pre-fix
Mage tower was hard, if you had lower ilvl, at the end of it's patch it was trivial.
Horrific visions were hard, if you had no corruption resistance and titan research, if you have it's trivial even on 5mask.
Any party based content is "hard", because you have multiple people doing multiple mistakes harming the entire party - but that's in any party based game.
Mythic wow content is "hard", because people enter it with lower gear. That's why every single mythic raid goes on farm/alt farm a couple of months after release.
I understand it's hard for a wow player, after years and years of mental abuse, to just agree on some general points.
On the features:
-dps meters.
-cliff fall scaling
The vertical enchanting system definitely worries me. I've never seen it work well in any game so I'm doubtful it can here.
If by Sprint you mean the "Hold down Shift to sprint" stuff then I agree. I don't want Sprint at all. Either I'm running or walking, that's it. I'd like to be able to hit my auto run key if I want and be going at max speed. Sprinting just makes whatever finger is on that keybind hurt after a while and it's annoying. It doesn't add anything to gameplay.
Getting items you could craft or farm from monster drops - To drive professions, people need an incentive to actually do them. If we can get all of the items we need from a monster or a dungeon/raid, then we can skip the mat farming/crafting. Most MMO's don't actually do this but a few do and it defeats the purpose of having professions altogether.
Stackable Items - Only a few items should be stackable and even then, they should have a limit. Players should also have a limit of weight they can carry. This is especially important in a game where caravans and trade are going to be one of the focal points. There would be little point in using a caravan if I can load up a million herbs into my bag and go to the next town to sell them.
Inflation - There needs to be a way for the game to get rid of currency and it needs to keep up with the market. Player driven economies are great...but what happens when more and more gold is added to the game without a relief function? Real item value is decreased and everything becomes too affordable. WoW does this with armor repairing, auction house tax, and WoW Tokens and seeing how AoC will not have the latter 2, other ways need to be devised.
Auction House - The death of fun in trading.
Agreed, I'm not a fan of sprint by pressing shift as well.
1- No group finders in ashes
2- Very limited flying available for certain individuals
3- No meters
4- Multiboxing is still yet to be decided but leaning towards allowing it
5- I hate themeparkish landscape as well - prob won't be a thing in ashes
6- Landscape will change through node development but das it
7- Yes endgame centric content sucks. Ashes plans to change that.
8- Raids are just a part of Ashes content available soo that's gud i guess
9- Ashes devs so far have been pretty good but ye no one likes liars
Also...this was a quite old thread. Interesting to see people revived it xd I got 33 notifications so just came to check c: