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.
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Master Assassin
(Yes same Tyrantor from Shadowbane)
Book suggestions:
Galaxy Outlaws books 1-16.5, Metagamer Chronicles, The Land litrpg series, Ready Player One, Zen in the Martial Arts
And, he wasn't disagreeing with me. He was in fact coming at me whenever we had a discussion. Talk shit get hit.
The answer is simple. No game EVER has created a challenging open world bosses when the boss fight could be influenced by PvP. The PvE challenge was always laughably easy by coordinated players when there was no PvP going around - basically just free loot box that takes 5-15minutes to open
I am completely fine if the boss loot (the hunting certificates) are in PvP danger after you finish the boss and are transporting the loot to town. What I do not want is for that PvP to happen DURING the boss fight. The difficulty of the fight always suffers and it becomes just a place for another giant PvP battle
― Plato
Nope, you don't. I can see it from your responses in my thread relating to PvE difficulty. You were incorrect there too. Not just about caravans, but about my whole post in general. You refused to read any solution past the 3rd one, which happened to also be the one that I clearly stated was controversial, and you paraded the 3rd one as the one and only solution that I wanted to see being implemented into the game.
Guess you boys can always buy that epic loot from a crafter, auction house (if available in your area) and of course some free hold/trade market.
Master Assassin
(Yes same Tyrantor from Shadowbane)
Book suggestions:
Galaxy Outlaws books 1-16.5, Metagamer Chronicles, The Land litrpg series, Ready Player One, Zen in the Martial Arts
If you want to have the best gear, then you need to have loot from raids. And all we want is that ALL bosses are "challenging" without any regard to PvP.
All it seems that you are asking for are piss easy training dummies with a lot of hp so it takes a few minutes to kill and distribute loot for your PvP battles. Am I wrong?
@Tyrantor
― Plato
Its proven in other games where AI played against itself for 300+ years worth of play time and still got outsmarted and beaten by humans.
What you are referring to must be in a PvP setting with equal footing. Which can hardly applied to MMO PvE encounters that are scripted in such a way to give multiple dangers for wipe and essentially being a benchmark for how good the raid is.
I don't think that raids should be unbeatable, but in my opinion it would be shameful if any raid group could fully clear any AoC raid on the first night the nodes managed to open it
― Plato
I am talking about clearing the raid on the day of its own opening any amount of months after the game launches
― Plato
Amen!
I would settle for using you, capt and noaani as my training dummies. Though you do understand this isn't WoW where items and gear are constantly soulbound right? Most if not all of the best gear is going to be crafted do you think this means we all need to take crafting to gear out? Do you think this means we can't trade or buy high end / epic type gear?
If your concern is you won't get special loot because it's not instanced and you might die, you could just farm low level mobs and save up the gold to buy them.
Master Assassin
(Yes same Tyrantor from Shadowbane)
Book suggestions:
Galaxy Outlaws books 1-16.5, Metagamer Chronicles, The Land litrpg series, Ready Player One, Zen in the Martial Arts
Can't see this happening, 8k to 10k on a server surely 1 guild (300 cap) not going to rule the whole map
Very little
Just a quick correction @Deadly Dave it will be 50k accounts registered to a server with 8-10k players playing at any given time. That's the goal anyway
Nah @Noaani would resort to boting as this would be too hard for him...
Ok let me digest this one, because im not sure whether ive got the right end of the stick.
So i pick a server to play on, my understanding was 8 to 10k players, playing at any given time.
But 50k registered accounts to the same server ? Am i understanding this right. So what happens if 20k or 30k want to play on the server at the same time, thats one hell of a que ?
Very little
I literally don't understand your PvP bloodthirst - I'll just will not return any fire and watch you get corrupted so bounty hunters might take your gear xD
I honestly don't understand what your PvP ganking itches have to do with the want to make PvE encounters hard and exclussive to a portion of the playerbase
― Plato
Some people's whole game is standing in front of an auction house and printing money. I don't understand why you don't want to PvP and would rather just sit there and get farmed so that makes two of us who don't understand things.
Also people that stand in front of an auction house and printing money are rarely active PvP players - at least in my experience.
Also what I tried to say is that we do not yet know the supply and demand for the raid materials. Also in my experience guilds sell raid materials if they are in surplus of it or the materials are no longer relevant to them.
However this is a big topic about the gear system which I think deserves its own thread.
If it is possible I'd be glad if the topic of the discussion returned to its start - which was about people zerging bosses with hundreds of people and thus the promised difficulty of the raids being in question
― Plato
What other games that are gonna be similar to ashes have you played? Anything like L2, eve, star wars galaxies, etc?
Either way I really really recommend you stick around and see if the PvE content is "good enough" and don't just write the whole thing off. I had some of the best times in my MMO gaming span playing open world MMORPG and all the shenanigans that goes on in them. Going to war and making peace, fighting over bosses and control of areas, running gank squads looking for enemy guilds. I have been chasing that feeling I had in L2 for a long time now.
Lineage 2 had very challenging open world fights in the later patches, Antharas and Valakas, both dragons, needed very specific tactics to be killed and even had anti zerg mechanics that were triggered if you brought too many ppl.
I didnt play l2 and all I could find now for the Antharas fight is simple tank&spank with spawning adds as he looses hp.
Edit: My bad I found the original strategy for it. Seems pretty advanced for the time, periodic add spawns with raid wide dmg and some crowd control. Seems though that the player count was intended between 49 and 200 which means that the difficulty was never intended to be high otherwise it would not have such a wide intended player count. If the boss is killable by 49 people then the 200 people make it a literal target dummy (unless the players you bring are target dummies)
Wow I just had to laugh really hard when reading the description - seems that pvp was disabled in the Antharas's room.
I am sorry if this sounds elitist or arogant, but I need to say this.
Having bosses that have 90-300 people "required" to kill them are just loot boxes. I am not saying that such events are not cool or that they do not entice guild drama. All I am saying is that any difficulty with such bosses is just to organize enough people to get them to the spot.
Difficult raids are about playing well and not making any mistakes while following a strategy. If Ashes does not have that then I very much doubt that there might be a goal for me to strive for.
The only reason why I am actually participating in this forum and waiting for the game is this quote from Steven:
― Plato
You should probably add "and has loot and is safe from pvp" because you're against it otherwise right? Let's not forget the challenge your striving for requires loot otherwise "meh" right?
Master Assassin
(Yes same Tyrantor from Shadowbane)
Book suggestions:
Galaxy Outlaws books 1-16.5, Metagamer Chronicles, The Land litrpg series, Ready Player One, Zen in the Martial Arts
― Plato
how is that mental gymnastics?
In your quote, you layed out criteria that can be present in a game that has pvp.
If anything, it's your own mental gymnastics that makes you believe "Difficult raids are about playing well and not making any mistakes while following a strategy" can't involve pvp.
And if this quote is to be believed to be true:
It is literally impossible to have raids that are like: "It would definitely be in the single digits of population that will be capable of defeating certain content..." and being in any way shape or form being doable with active PvP around it.
― Plato
You don't necessarily design raids with the expectation that people will do them while fighting in pvp. It's in the open world, just because pvp can be present doesn't mean it will always be. You are supposed to do them with minimal if not any pvp.
This a good point.