Next Livestream + Q&A Submission - Friday, March 29, 2024 at 11am Pacific

Vaknar · March 22

Glorious Ashes of Creation Community!

Our next livestream featuring an Alpha Two Fighter Archetype Preview will be Friday, March 29, 2024, 2024 at 11am Pacific! (Click here to convert this to your local time.)

If you have a question for our team, then you’re in the right place! 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, March 27, 2024 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

Ace1234 · March 22

To me, some marks of a great story is that it is profound, insightful, thought provoking, and can cause conflicting emotions, through experiencing new perspectives and context that make me question my own real-world beliefs and understandings. For example, I think that concepts such as philosophy, morality, psychology, and poetry can help craft these kinds of stories. Without spoiling anything, are you able to say if these types of things will be heavily explored themes in Ashes' story and gameplay?

Leukael · March 22

Are there any differences in how clerics function in the different racial societies? Does a cleric's choice in patron deity change how they play in game? Could we get a lore drop on cultures and how the classes/archetypes functioned in Sanctus?

NiKr · March 22

What lvl are the mobs in npc-occupied castles?

Rattie · March 22

Immortality · March 22

Will Ashes of Creation feature a World of warcraft style old school Armory feature where we can look up certain characters/Players?

Wateru · March 22

How does Ashes of Creation plan to differentiate its fishing system from typical MMO implementations, and what unique challenges or opportunities does this present in terms of player engagement, progression, and satisfaction

anarcx · March 22

How will Ashes of Creation effectively address the challenge of sustaining an engaging player experience
when one or multiple servers experience a significant decrease in population density, thereby impacting
the core gameloop's functionality, especially when server merging is unfeasible due to the constraints
of a dynamic server node system?

s1zzl1n · March 22

At the start of Alpha 2, to what extent do you plan on allowing players to test the augment system at launch and how much of that progression will be available throughout the entirety of the Alpha 2 testing period?

SnowElf · March 22

Will players get a chance to view a dual archetype class such as Battlemage or some other type of combo before the launch of alpha 2?

SonicXplosion · March 22

What is the goal for housing numbers for a village stage node? I believe the previous numbers were around 8 in-node houses and 50 apartments, but that has been said to be outdated.

Leukael · March 22

Frost01 · March 22

When will we have access to the character creator for Alpha 2?

Pallywagz · March 22

Will the corruption system be active during the launch of Alpha 2? Also, if I cut down and drop trees on my friends does that count towards the corruption system? - A guy who thinks friendly fire is funny.

Fantmx · March 22

Are Economic nodes and In node marketplaces still planned to be available at the launch of alpha 2, and therefore, do players have access to the personal shops and Player Stalls feature for testing?

Gaul_ · March 22

15 months ago, Intrepid revealed some concept art for the Redwood Forest and that the studio was beginning to do work on that biome. Can you provide a big picture update on the studio's progress with the Redwood Forest?

Vardailuvitar · March 22

Hey devs, thanks for all you do.

Is the intention to have raid like encounters where there are multiple bosses, or more like a set of world bosses? Sorry if you've covered this, I'm a bit PvE lover as well as PvP.

Mematt · March 22

AoC's Node System is exciting. Unlocking new dungeons, mobs, quests, and other mysteries is a compelling feature to add to the MMORPG landscape. I foresee gear that is unlocked by the metropolis node to be the most powerful. I also foresee that this gear could potentially trivialize the lower-level node progression because of the inevitable gear score-to-content level difference. Is there something in place to ensure the players don't faceroll lower-mid level node content? Or if you don't see this as a potential issue, what am I missing?

Ryve · March 22

What are the Benefits to In-Node Mansions. We know freeholds have a lot of benefits, especially regarding boosting the processing branch of the artisan system. But what are the benefits to owning one of the few In-Node Mansions at the Metropolis stage of a node?

Barab · March 22

Will the corruption pvp system be enabled at the start of alpha 2 ?

Arunteli · March 22

When a node is destroyed, does the world state revert back to reflect this ( story arcs reset back to node level 1, gained access to points of interest is denied etc ) ?

Falkath · March 22

Could we get a list of systems, races, archetypes, node levels that will be there for the launch of Alpha 2 ?

Soliton · March 22

Will Fighters, or any melee capable of both Tank and DPS builds, be able to transition between DPS and Tanking so they can group or Solo more effectively? I understand that different archtype combos will have different effectiveness for each, but it would be nice to know if playing a melee (or anything for that matter) will have some versatility in their playstyle options. Thanks.

Kalnazzar · March 22

1. Can guilds establish independent shops with unique names, allowing guild members to act as merchants without freeholds?

Wredigo · March 22

I just have a simple question.
How friendly will Ashes of Creation be to people new to MMORPGs, such as myself?

Livu · March 22

Will players need multiple mounts on their skill bar for various purposes like immunity, gliding, combat, and escaping, or will the gameplay be more focused on using just one mount?

OsFur · March 22

hi steven
will our characters be sensitive to heat and cold. and will the equipment be adapted accordingly?

MeLlamanOsaka · March 22

The tulnars will we have them in alpha 2 ? if not, in which devstream will we see them ? greetings from the spanish community of ashes of creation steven you are more handsome with a beard.