Next Livestream + Q&A Submission - Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 11am Pacific

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Glorious Ashes of Creation Community!

Our next livestream featuring an Alpha Two Ranger Archetype Preview will be Tuesday, December 19, 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 Friday, December 15, 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

🙌 #ICYMI, we revealed some new abilities for our Alpha Two Ranger archetype! https://youtu.be/L5DeC8wIcuM

Drunkninja

Have you decided if Races will have racial abilities or will we choose from backgrounds?

Dawmery

Any chance of crossbows returning to the game later in development?

Talents

As it stands, the same armour set looks different for each race. How do you plan to have large varieties of in-game achievable gear for each race if you have to make 9 different looks for a single set?

Tryol

Will each archetype be equally efficient with archetype agnostic mechanics like dodging and active blocking, or will they have their own versions/flavours of them? If so, could you give some examples for both?

Rattie

Do you plan to have more than just the Kaelar node aesthetic at the launch of Alpha 2 and if so which racial nodes will we see?

Liniker

we know that the best processing is done in freeholds, and best crafting is done in nodes, which is great, but is that restricted to an academic node only? what benefits or restrictions do node types have in regards to crafting?

Yenn0war

Any chance of augments being shown too during ranger showcase?
Degree of how much augments change the skill is literally the only thing that will determine if I should give this game a chance or not.

Raven016

How many grand-master level crafting stations can a Node Tier 5 (City) have?

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?
Large armies move slower, special units are faster kinda thing.

NyceGaming

Is there a chance we can see the hybrid targeting / action camera utilized more often?

I know it’s Steven’s preference of course and this makes for better gameplay, but I’ve recently skimmed through every stream post melee and ranged weapon showcases and this targeting has been seldom been shown since (if at all). A lot of new viewers aren’t aware this exist.

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?

VrDynasty

With the map being as large as it is and recipes being potentially earned anywhere - Are there region specific recipes that would be very hard, if not impossible to earn on the other side of Verra? Thank you!!

Yenn0war

Is there a chance that we will see different types of basic attacks?
If yes, will those have different type of combos? Will there be different charging/ delayed attack based on weight of a weapon? Using Sword shouldn't feel the same as warhammer.

How do you feel about adding more telegraphed abilities present in MOBAs?

TrUSivraj

Are there any plans for a combat Chicken and/or chicken mount, and will there possibly be an (optional?) distance meter near the hp bar of your opponents?

Roubi

To what degree will augments be done on the release of a2?

SkinnyBruce

Please list the races that will be playable at the start of Alpha 2.

Frost01

How will the appearance and type of summon be determined for summoners? (Example desired: beastmaster summons)

Leonerdo

I'm wondering how the map will change as expansions are released. Will there be large new landmasses added, or just new POIs and story arcs addwd within the original map? Or perhaps a mix?

Tenguru

I know Steven wants to keep a lot of lore under wraps but I figure it can't hurt to ask, why did Steven refer to the destroyed moon as the Harbinger Moon in the previous stream?

Did a Harbinger crash into the moon on it's way to Verra? Are Harbingers pieces of that moon falling to the surface?

Sago65

Will there be objects in the environment that you can interact with that do not give items / experience and are not quest or profession related? For example, plant pods that can be clicked to release a toxic spore cloud.

Azherae

Can the individual 'buttons' in the hotbar be moved around as separate UI elements, for example to put one specific button on a different part of the screen away from the others?

Undead Canuck

When will Steven leak the Alpha 2 start date?

GrandSerpent

Will enemy NPC groups have the ability to actually temporarily capture or attempt to ransom important Node NPCs?

SongRune

Has the team considered weather-dependent procs in the Bow skill trees or Ranger Augments?

Ludullu

Once again, I'm asking for an updated/finalized spec requirements list for Alpha2

Tyranthraxus

While groups are standing around for any reason, it's can be kind of cool to have different players showing off different abilities, out-of-combat.

Will the Ranger have any just-for-fun abilities with no real effects, such as shooting a flaming beacon-arrow directly into the air?

GrilledCheeseMojito

Is the Tank's positional protection skill intended to also protect from aerial attacks like the Ranger's Air Strike?

Top

Is the impact of an AOE (offensive or defensive) limited to a number of target?
Or limited by an area?

For example, is an area attack limited to impact 5 targets or limited to impact an area of 3 m2?

DougBug27

More of a fun question: Does Steven or anyone at Intrepid ever feel sad that their dream mmorpg will be "spoiled" since they had to make it and know most of the content?

Cadac

If another player is gathering a tree, and I come in for the final chop, do I get the tree?