Next Livestream + Q&A Submission - Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 11am Pacific

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Glorious Ashes of Creation Community!

Our next Development Update Livestream featuring an Alpha Two Artisanship Preview will be Thursday, November 30, 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 Tuesday, November 28, 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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Edit:

👀 We have made some updates to our Artisanship systems! https://youtu.be/V9F_AJl9ozY

Cadac

Excluding Caravans, are there any forms of Node to Node Public Transportation that I can engage with in the manner of a highwayman?

Gaul_

Is it correct that Intrepid is building the western continent first and then the eastern continent is coming afterwards, or is that not the right way to think about the game's direction of development?

Ludullu

With this being pretty much the last "real" stream before the end of alpha2 sale (if you do a recap again this year for december), I hope you provide PC requirements for A2. Or at least give a date for when you'll do so.

In other words, the question is: what are the PC requirements for A2?

SonicXplosion

Last stream Steven said "When stolen by attackers, the supplies become stolen/corrupted glint and/or stolen resources...", can Steven clarify what supplies would become stolen/corrupted glint? I imagine it's when crates carrying commodities are broken, but would like clarification.

Liniker

Which biomes/zones will be available at the start of alpha two? Is it still around half the world map?

Cygnus

Is Bacon still on the team? Can we see him on stream again? I pretty much always miss Bacon.

Edit: I did not know he left for Amazon Studios to work on New World.

Drunkninja

Will every crafting profession be able to make a form of consumable?

Liz_Vermillion

How will raw material gathering work in regard to item quality/rarity? In other games, the low level zones have leveled herbs/minerals which produces the same end product. Will we see different nodes within biomes have rarer resources or mobs that higher quality/leveled goods can be gathered from?

Also, with the crafting mini game, what happens if you lose? Can oozes spawn for a bad alchemy attempt, or your food is poisoned when cooked badly?

Fantmx

As character artisanship skills improve will RNG in the process go down.

BaldorDarkfire

While there be rules regarding harassment and the like? Or perhaps areas where pvp will be disabled?

Tryol

Given how Alpha 1 had 200+ quests, approximately how many quests are in scope for the Alpha 2 launch?

Viriz

Will there be any forms of transportation on water at the start of A2? Rafts, aquatic mounts, etc?

Hutchy1989

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Roubi

At the launch of alpha 2, how many tiers of materials will be available?

Rattie

Please Lord and Saviour Steven Sharif could you kindly provide insights into the list of weapons that are planned for inclusion in Alpha 2?

Babayugah

With the plan of PvE raiding content intending to be "in the single digits of population that will be capable of defeating certain content." Is that taking into account player friction or just the content itself?

PlasticLemons

Will the instanced content you have planned be repeatable or just one time for story reasons?

Leonerdo

We know some things in AoC are going to require coordination on a large scale, like raids and node development. But, if most players/guilds are unwilling or unable to meet those coordination requirements, will Intrepid step in to make those things easier?

Lyon

Could you please show some armor and weaponstats in the stream? Thank you

Maouii

hi steven
would you consider reconsidering your decision to have 2 trades in one family?
crafting is cool if you can manage the three stages of a trade.

FatalSyndicate

At the start of alpha 2, how many race variants will be available for nodes?

Dawmery

What is your approach towards consumables like potions? Will they have cooldowns? What effects can we expect to see from in-combat consumables?

Roofian

wich is/are going the (best) way/s to be rich/millionaire? are there some of them compatible with having a job irl? job+friends/hobbies? those + girlfriend?

Pshields

Can I farm mushrooms on my freehold and then turn those mushrooms into alcohol? AKA Mush-rum

George_Black

Would you consider adding a movement speed debuff for raids of more than 20 people, as part of a set of measures to counter zerging playstyle, and favour smaller groups?

BraydenS

What is the intended interaction with HP and Mana potions in Ashes of Creation, assuming you're going to have them at all? Are they going to be big heals on long cooldowns or are they going to be smaller heals that you can use far more often?

Lash

Will mob level keep scaling past max player level as an indicator for power level? (Like a Level 80 raid boss)

Imnotkio

Are resource extractors still planned or is it scrapped? If is still planned, how do they work?

MackArrel

hello steven
because of the language barrier, in order to improve immersion in the game.
can you consider not having worldwide chat per server.
only local, group and guild chat?

Aniion

What plans do you have to mitigate the supply bottleneck that crafters may run into due to high-tier processing goods being gated by the much higher barrier to becoming a Master Processor, the unique combination of a player gaining control of a Freehold while also choosing to master in a processing profession, and only allowing their Family/Guild to process there?