Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
The New Player Guide
Kriddon
Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
Hello fellow adventurers to the world of Verra. Since I believe that finding information about the game can be hard at times. And that I want to make sure the community is well up to date on the game I made this guide. Also please bear in mind that ashes is a game in active development and certain things may change over time. This is the new version of my old new player guide you can find here https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/post/editdiscussion/42013 hope there is no confusion 
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FAQ
A Lovely basic overview of the whole game done by TheLazyPeon
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1s82xJnx1EY&t
Nodes are a very big central part to Ashes of Creation. And that may make you ask what are nodes? They are explained by intrepid here.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvubbX-SHg
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44HChA1Kkfk
In Jahlon's series they are explained in way more in depth here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGdZLAUNfR0
The game has no box price but will have a subscription fee of 15$ per month.
There are 40 man raids.
The server cap goal is currently 10,000.
They are aiming for stable 500vs500 battles but are very confident in stable 250vs250 battles.
The map size is about 480km^2 with an additional 100km^2 of Underrealm which is the underground home of the Tulnar race. For reference vanilla wow is 207 km^2 and skyrim pre expacs is 37km^2
There is ship combat. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Naval_combat
There is mounted combat. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Mounts#Mounted_combat
There are no separate pvp and pve and RP servers, you'll all just have to get along.
The servers for Ashes of Creation Apocalypse are down and currently have no date for coming back up.
There are nine races with the Tulnar being the ninth mutant race who survived after the great calamity. Which you can read about here. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Lore#The_fall
Picture breakdown of the other 8 races
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXf7jGAWoAAjn05?format=jpg&name=large
There is fishing and many other professions.
Explanation of how the pvp flagging system works. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Player_flagging
If any one has more ideas for FAQs I will add them.
Link to Intrepid's FAQ
https://ashesofcreation.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001990954
Now since your new here's your guide on the community.😁
Here's some links from around the community:
https://twitter.com/AshesofCreation
https://www.facebook.com/AshesofCreation
http://aocwiki.net/Main_Page
News sites about the games
https://www.theaocdungeon.com/ (Not sure if site is still a thing, had trouble reaching)
https://www.ashespost.com/
Jahlon from the Paradox Gaming Network. He focuses on quality informative videos about ashes and is also an official content creator.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbUBV64rrQSIFjorua7sMsg
And here is a helpful website by Jahlon https://www.ashes101.com/
The Big Cheeked Giant
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa8p_tU0dJ37CCE0R0OX3wQ
Some of the latest MMO gameplay footage May 31 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkwaYLOuw2s
They stream on the last friday of every month at 2:00PM EST with updates check the discord to see if there are any changes. (The embed is a bit broken so just click the twitch logo to get to there page)
Great place to discuss the game and get news updates about it.
https://discordapp.com/channels/256164085366915072/270797463907074048
Quotes about the game from Steven Sharif (Creative Director/CEO of Ashes) this is really old but I believe most of it will still be relative.(Bear in mind this was in 2018 and a lot may have changed)
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/10158/quotebin-quotes-of-intrepid-team-from-discord/p1
Ashes' release schedule
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Release_schedule
Live launch is TBD
The directors letter in which the CEO talks about the state of the game
https://ashesofcreation.com/news/2020-04-01-creative-directors-letter
I don't know everything but I do know a lot so if you have any questions I'm your guy.
P.S.
If there are links I should add or anything else wrong please tell me.
Also if anyone wants to link this or copy pasta it somewhere that's cool. I want as many people to be up to date as possible especially since I will periodically update this
.FAQ
A Lovely basic overview of the whole game done by TheLazyPeon
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1s82xJnx1EY&tNodes are a very big central part to Ashes of Creation. And that may make you ask what are nodes? They are explained by intrepid here.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvubbX-SHgPart 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44HChA1KkfkIn Jahlon's series they are explained in way more in depth here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGdZLAUNfR0The game has no box price but will have a subscription fee of 15$ per month.
There are 40 man raids.
The server cap goal is currently 10,000.
They are aiming for stable 500vs500 battles but are very confident in stable 250vs250 battles.
The map size is about 480km^2 with an additional 100km^2 of Underrealm which is the underground home of the Tulnar race. For reference vanilla wow is 207 km^2 and skyrim pre expacs is 37km^2
There is ship combat. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Naval_combat
There is mounted combat. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Mounts#Mounted_combat
There are no separate pvp and pve and RP servers, you'll all just have to get along.
The servers for Ashes of Creation Apocalypse are down and currently have no date for coming back up.
There are nine races with the Tulnar being the ninth mutant race who survived after the great calamity. Which you can read about here. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Lore#The_fall
Picture breakdown of the other 8 races
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXf7jGAWoAAjn05?format=jpg&name=large
There is fishing and many other professions.
Explanation of how the pvp flagging system works. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Player_flagging
If any one has more ideas for FAQs I will add them.
Link to Intrepid's FAQ
https://ashesofcreation.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001990954
Now since your new here's your guide on the community.😁
Here's some links from around the community:
https://twitter.com/AshesofCreation
https://www.facebook.com/AshesofCreation
http://aocwiki.net/Main_Page
News sites about the games
https://www.theaocdungeon.com/ (Not sure if site is still a thing, had trouble reaching)
https://www.ashespost.com/
Jahlon from the Paradox Gaming Network. He focuses on quality informative videos about ashes and is also an official content creator.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbUBV64rrQSIFjorua7sMsg
And here is a helpful website by Jahlon https://www.ashes101.com/
The Big Cheeked Giant
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa8p_tU0dJ37CCE0R0OX3wQ
Some of the latest MMO gameplay footage May 31 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkwaYLOuw2sThey stream on the last friday of every month at 2:00PM EST with updates check the discord to see if there are any changes. (The embed is a bit broken so just click the twitch logo to get to there page)
Great place to discuss the game and get news updates about it.
https://discordapp.com/channels/256164085366915072/270797463907074048
Quotes about the game from Steven Sharif (Creative Director/CEO of Ashes) this is really old but I believe most of it will still be relative.(Bear in mind this was in 2018 and a lot may have changed)
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/10158/quotebin-quotes-of-intrepid-team-from-discord/p1
Ashes' release schedule
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Release_schedule
Live launch is TBD
The directors letter in which the CEO talks about the state of the game
https://ashesofcreation.com/news/2020-04-01-creative-directors-letter
I don't know everything but I do know a lot so if you have any questions I'm your guy.
P.S.
If there are links I should add or anything else wrong please tell me.
Also if anyone wants to link this or copy pasta it somewhere that's cool. I want as many people to be up to date as possible especially since I will periodically update this
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I sill have it in the thread compendium
New player guide
I can be a life devouring nightmare. - Grisu#1819
It is and i've been thinking what is better. To make a new one or to update the old one. What do you think? At the moment I've up dated both to 2020.
I don't think it matters what the size is since we don't know the scale or how fast our characters move in the game.
Ill keep the original one in the compendium.
I can be a life devouring nightmare. - Grisu#1819
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/
The wonderful team of @Lex and the others have an amazing resource already done. And you can search it!
Of course