Next Live Stream + Q&A Submission - Friday, May 29, 2020 at 11AM PDT

LieutenantToast

Glorious Ashes Community!

Our next live stream will be Friday, May 29 at 11AM PDT! (Click here to convert this to your local time.)

For this upcoming stream, we'd love to gather some questions from you to answer live! Please submit your question for our development team in the thread below, and we'll select 10 of them at random to answer at the end of our live stream. In order to accommodate a variety of questions from our community, please only post ONE question below, and the more direct/succinct the better! Submissions end Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 11AM PDT so we can select your questions before the stream.

We'll see you next week for our development update live stream! https://www.twitch.tv/ashesofcreation

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In case you missed it, our monthly development update live stream video is now up on our YouTube channel!

👇🏼 Click the link to watch our journey as we shape Ashes of Creation, including a preview of early Freehold footage! https://youtu.be/SUkEWE6kBMc

Magic Man

It was stated that ''there will be no one-shoting in Ashes''.(fights lasting between 30 seconds to 1 minute) How exactly will this be achieved - by reducing the effectiveness of gear (so that it doesn't become overpowered) and/or by balancing the abilities or something else?

burnthefern

How involved will the sailing of ships be? Will it be something a single person can do, or will it demand an entire crew to raise, lower and turn the sails, drop anchor, etc.

Karthos

What is a feature you're excited by that no one has asked about yet?

Tronicz

Is there an Adventure's Guild/Bounty Board to recruit people to help in sieges/caravans/etc. that are not citizens but want money/reputation for their work.

skearnz

considering that mages, rogues, clerics and tanks have largely explained utility, what kind of utility can we expect for summoner?

Wong

Will there be a Summoner+Something class combiantion that is holy/light/divine themed in contrast to the undead/dark magic themed Necromancer? (If Necromancer is kept as a theme for Summoner+Cleric)

P.S. You guys are amazing!

Wandering Mist

I've noticed from the gameplay we've seen so far that weapon-specific abilities are on the hotbar and that activating those abilities immediately switches the weapon with no discernible cooldown (aside from the global cooldown). Is this how the gameplay is designed or is this just for testing purposes?

Jahlon

How do you craft in a node (defensive items, siege engines) when a siege has been declared if all your gatherables are locked in storage, craft directly from storage or some other mechanic?

tricksykitsune

Will there be more to do in the world than just the classic mmo formula activities like dungeons, crafting, and raiding; Things that bring life into the world, help flesh it out, tell stories through, and give points of interest to keep visiting/participating in?




Brief Example -
Such as a mysterious giant sized labyrinth that players can attempt to explore. Having a lofty entrance that players gather around before entering in groups. Randomly generated layouts with more than just walls, but obstacles, traps, and monsters that are within as well. Something people can keep coming back to and enjoying for fun or some form of gains/mysterious world knowledge/backstory hidden within. Things like this that may not even have creatures to fight, but have platforming or anything you can think of to give fun stuff to do with friends.

shintaro

Have you already checked back with Epic Games how easy it will be for you to upgrade to Unreal 5 with your engine code changes?

Oyerth

I know you guys get this question every time Unreal Engine updates, but with the Unreal Engine 5 announcement they showed off some of the impressive new tech (especially Nanite). Is there any possibility you guys are looking to upgrade to UE5 in a future expansion/major update?

Tycondraes

Will there be any classes that can shapeshift? Maybe into an animal or something like a werewolf/werebear.

Pacha

So, I'm posting it here once again because No, Toast, it's never been answered. We got a Yes at one point, and a No at some point.

I'd like to know if we'll be able to do text emotes in the game-chat. Not emoji, not animated emotes. Text emotes.

example:

Plateau

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superne

would it be possible to visually accent your spells for additional customisation (as in just a change of particle colour) e.g. change the wavey aoe thingy to appear red instead of golden. or would we be restricted by whatever is set by the devs.

this would allow someone to appear to cast like the red of a bloodmage healer or the green of a druid healer without changing the actual function of abilities (because function is restricted by primary/secondary class)

Etalim

Hi,

I'm intrigued by the way you'll let the players shape the world around them.

Have you considered making it so that i.e. if a lot of players take a shortcut or walk a lot on the same paths, the vegetation would gradually be replaced by a dirt trail? (which of course should be reclaimed by nature if not enough players per "unit of time" walked on it)

Thanks.

sunfrog

Will the NPCs befriend you and give you stuff like in Animal Crossing?

Anvil

Will PvP be TOTALLY open world? Or Will There be Non-PvP Zones (other than inside a town.) I have nightmarish visions of stepping out into the World and Getting Hit by the first griefers that spot my character trying to Harvest/quest/ or Farm. (Yes, Yes, Corruption system.. It Ain't working on a lot of MMOs I've seen so far, Some players just Don't Care)...

Catspurr

With the node system you guys are planning to have, how are you going to incentivize people to go into rivaling nodes and do various activities like gathering, exploring and killing mobs?

mccheshire

Here's my Question: In the Latest tease from Steven that showed mage gameplay, we saw spells that used ground visuals to represent the cast time of that particular spell. Is this a standard with all cast time spells and abilities? Or will we eventually see traditional cast bars?

OdynStar

Will crafting have set animations as well as tool / armor sets for each type of crafting specialization similar to FFXIV or will it be more like WoW how you have 2 professions to have but no gear required with basic animations?

Lyon

Who is in all honesty right now the most skilled AoC player in the company? And Hi Toast *waves*

IRavenI

A question regarding crafting: Will, for example, crafting work where you create components such as a blade, hangle, crossguard, pommel, and then combine these into a weapon? Or will it work like other games where you collect 5 ingots, 2 gemstones, and then poof you have a fully forged weapon?

This could also lead to more interesting loot potential such as a boss dropping a sword blade, or an axe head, which can then be combined with other parts into an amazing weapon, as opposed to always dropping fully formed weapons/armour.

ProfesorReis

Which languages you want to add this game? To support the game's continuity and create new communities such as "Turkish Ashes Community" are you planning to work with someone except than moderators about translating game? If the answer is yes what will be the requirements?

dairrizzle

As it was announce earlier this month we saw the release of unreal engine 5 and what it promise to do for game development in the future, are you guys planning on utilizing or upgrading to the new version once is out?

Hexcat

Is there a plan to include the weapon in every skill and cast animation instead of the character only using it in the basic attack /combo?

Hjerim

Is the progress that we currently seeing (weapons, armor and creatures) final passes, or how far are we from seeing finished "bi-products"?

Caelron

For those of us who love adventuring and exploring the beautiful world of Vera, will there be a profession or skill related to Cartography (map-making)?

This could be related to "unlocking" parts of maps either by yourself, or by purchasing maps and discovered areas from other players. Possibly with adding the ability to include 'notes' like "hidden winter passage here" or "hidden cave" marked over there, or "field of herbs found here" - similar to "stamps" like in other games, but more customization/personalization, up to and including letting other players see your notes/scribbles/treasure-locations/etc. (i.e. creating a "legend" to your map with markers, or a hidden 'key' to the legend). Perhaps this could lead to a secondary "treasure hunting" profession, unlocking quests, rare finds, and more!?

UncleChickenHam

How will group PvE work in such a dynamic world? Will there be a few set locations that won't depend on node progression or will end game PvE players be forced to find a new raid should a node regress too much?

unknownsystemerror

Weight or volume(meaning stack limits) for inventory management? We have been given both answers in a flip-flop-flip.