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Attuning to Emberspring, confusing first time experience

AleccarAleccar Member, Alpha Two
in General Discussion
I just joined in to try out Ashes of creation as I have been following the progress for several years and decided that I also want to help out and report bugs and give feedback to the best of my ability.

Since I just started out I made my way down to the western side of the Aelan divine gate, Lion hold (so unsure if the same thing applies to the eastern side). This is where you get the quest to attune to the Emberspring. There is an NPC called Cleric Petrah who stands in front of an emberspring here, and gives some exposition as to what they are and some general Lore. This was really interesting and fun to listen to, but when I then tried to attune to the Emberspring I could not. It turns out that I have to outside of Lion Hold in order to attune to that emberspring.

This was a bit confusing and I spent a good few minutes running around the priest seeing where I could attune before looking at the minimap and realising the objective marker was outside the gates.

Comments

  • MhythMhyth Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Had the same experience. Took me a bit to realize the Emberspring wasn't that pond or the ruin near the priest NPC but the glowing orb up the hill. None of the quest dialog really made it clear this was the character respawn node - which would have had me looking for an object and not a location.

    Quest markers in general need a fair bit of work. I expect better text and quest markers are on the way when phase 2 of Alpha 2 starts in a few weeks.
  • unknownsystemerrorunknownsystemerror Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    The first-time user experience is something that's going to have a lot of love and attention during Betas, but is not going to have much attention during Alpha-2. But it is intended for us to have a very in-depth first-time user experience to introduce players to the number of different systems. They're not going to be super in-depth. We don't believe that first-time user experiences should handhold players through all of the processes and reveal the world, so to speak, but just to give them a shallow touch for these systems so that they understand the concepts and essentially how to navigate.[4] – Steven Sharif
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  • wakkytabbakywakkytabbaky Member, Alpha Two
    edited December 2024
    the emberspring was originally next to cleric petrah but they moved it for whatever reason and have not moved the npc or the surrounding rocks from where it was
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