Next Livestream + Q&A Submission - Friday, July 28, 2023 at 11am Pacific

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Glorious Ashes of Creation Community!

Our next livestream featuring Alpha Two Cleric Archetype Updates will be Friday, July 28, 2023 at 11am Pacific! (Click here to convert this to your local time).

Similar to our past streams, 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 during the end of our livestream. In order to accommodate a variety of questions from our community, please only post ONE question below - the more direct, and succinct the better (think one to two sentences)! Submissions end Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 11am Pacific, so we can select your questions before the broadcast.

We'll see you soon for our development update livestream! twitch.tv/ashesofcreation

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VODS are now available!

Development Update
https://youtu.be/TpBSGYWxd38

Alpha Two Cleric Archetype Update
https://youtu.be/Lzlhdy3Hr2s

Fantmx

For freeholds, will giving permissions to guild members count towards the previously stated 9 person cap associated with families or is it a separate number?

OlympusBurns

What kind of scoreboards will be available after castle sieges?

I know you want to avoid DPS meters, but it would be nice to have personalized in depth metrics that I can follow for myself. Thanks!

unknownwon

Will there be a system in place where a player who wants to hire other players to escort their caravan would be able to ask players or guilds who will guard the caravan for collateral which will be repaid upon completion of the escort in addition to payment for the escort service?

SomeRandomName

Steven has said many times that Ashes of Creation is not for everyone. Who exactly are you making it for or what type of player?

boshean

Can we expect Rogue to be at the start of A2, or perhaps see some sort of update for that?

Lash

Will freeholds have outdoor mini games (such as miniature golf) or are all mini games relegated to taverns.

Lineager

Has anything changed in the Augmentation system? Can Steven describe in detail what he now has to say about Augmentation system and how it gonna work ingame?

Thank you

Daggial

Are shrines and arenas something you will consider adding as freehold buildings?

SonicXplosion

We've heard before that there will be 20 buffer nodes that exist alongside the 5 metropolises. Can we get clarification/confirmation whether these 20 buffer nodes are outside the vassalage and/or zone of influence of the 5 metros?

-T0Mb-

Have you planned to give us a proper showcase about playable races (except Tulnar) and their racial abilities before Alpha 2 or are we going to see only pictures of new character models in upcoming streams?

Ayeveegaming1

Being that you are showcasing the Cleric, I am excited. I want to possibly make a rogue/cleric and was wondering if there is any update on the cleric secondary augmentations. I remember seeing something on the wiki about it once about it transforming the rogue into something evil looking, but that might have changed. Thank you.

Raven016

Why is Steven coughing so much?
He should take care of his health. We need him to finish this game

Norkore

Will some kind of technology be utilized to delay data mining, e.g. by holding assets/data on the servers instead of clients and only streaming it to the clients on-demand?

Drunkninja

Can you give us an example of a skill from the Guild Skill Tree that mega guilds won't have access to because of having too many members?

simpetar

Do you plan to introduce archetype-specific resources and mechanics, or is Mana going to be the be-all end-all for everybody?

Ebonborn

With a Hybrid Combat System for healing, the only real option at high levels is tab targeting. Have you thought about how you could better require the use of both tab and action vs people only playing tab because they know it's always more efficient/accurate? Maybe requiring action targeting for certain spells or its impossible to cast and requiring the swap to action target button. Or having action targeting spells heal for more?

SkylarckTheBotanist

Similar to the mendelian inheritance of animal husbandry being best in freeholds, will gatherers find the best crops to be mendelianly modified crops on their freehold?

Ebonborn

Leveling in Alpha 1 seems extremely limited for healers because it heavily relied on having a damage counterpart. How do you plan to balance the capabilities of a healer leveling vs the damage leveling? Are their systems implemented that require that dps needs a healer just as much as a healer need a dps? It seems like the dependency on healers is missing in large parts of the leveling process. This allows dps/tank players to bypass the goal of working as a "group" and also rewards them for solo leveling.

NyceGaming

Will guild banks, guild halls, or freeholds have deposited player gold vulnerable after a failed siege defense or is it strictly materials?

Ace1234

Can you influence npcs/mobs when interacting with them, by using your knowledge of their unique personalities/routines, the lore, and general knowledge of the world state?

Klasiko

How does the Clerics healing system work? Does it have AoE heals, Direct Heals or Heals Over Time effects and does it have dedicated skill line for each? For example you could become an AoE healer who can heal with less output but over a larger group of players, or you can be a direct healer who outputs large amounts of heals but at a specific player rather than multiple or a mix of both?

Roofian

talking about average players, will having a freehold be the best way to be reach? will there be other ways for people focused on pve or pvp (not being corrupt)?

Cornicul

Is it possible to acquire multiple guild halls? Can a guild achieve patron status in a node to obtain a guild hall and also acquire a freehold guild hall once the guild master obtains the certificate? Furthermore, could a guild become the patrons of multiple nodes simultaneously?

daveywavey

Are you open to the idea of removing the Family System if Alpha-2 feedback points that way, or is it something that is in the game for good regardless?

Dragonslyr

My favorite mmo has a feature where you can play every single class on one character, I personally am a person who enjoys the fantasy of being able to be a master of all forms of combat. It’s also a lot easier for me to be able to get into the game when I know I can just stick to one character instead of having to make alts to play other classes. Even if it is not as easy as changing load outs, is it a possibility we would be able to swap base classes around on one character. Or something that could be considered and implemented into the game.

Hutchy1989

Is lower tiers of animal husbandry available to everyone or is this purely a freehold profession.

KLC_Rocsek

Will gathered materials have a quality, something akin to the SWG system? I thought we had heard something like this a long time ago. I liked being able to gather rare versions of regular materials to sell once there was no supply.

Voeltz

One of my favorite games was Warhammer Online. In that game you could fully level up and gear from PvP. Have you considered at least granting xp to players involved in objective based PvP such as Wars, Sieges and Caravans?

George_Black

Would you consider Lv50 taking 6-8 months and unlocking freeholds at Lv35-Lv40?

LowQuey

You've previously described the cleric as "a master of life and death" and gone into details of the Necromancer subclass having healing buffing spirits or hideous undead as an example of this. When will we get to see the "darker" or "death" side of the cleric?