Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Ashes of Creation has the most frustrating and unfun crafting system I have ever experienced
Flashfirez23
Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
This is coming from someone who enjoys crafting in other MMOs.
Crafting in this game is absolutely terrible right now. I understand that crafting is not a focus right now but it’s in an unbelievably horrible state. I truly think that the whole design philosophy for crafting is completely flawed. Every other MMO I’ve played does crafting 10 times better. And I’ve played alphas with crafting systems in better states than this.
First of all being a solo crafter is basically impossible. You are not going to get very far or accomplish anything meaningful by your self. Sure, maybe eventually level 40-50 items should take a lot of effort. But right now you have to do so much just to get to journeyman level to craft level 10 items. This is insane design.
Secondly, even a guild struggles to gear up their guild with low leveled gear. Why is it so hard for a guild to get everyone geared up with level 5 gear. It should not be this way! It takes so much coordination, time, and effort just to make crappy gear for your guild. In any other game you would be able to get low leveled gear to everyone in your guild easily. It’s not the case in this game.
Finally, the reward you get for crafting just doesn’t match the effort required to make things. It really demotivates you to even want to engage with the crafting system. I enjoy crafting in every other MMO. But, it’s honestly just so terrible in this game that I don’t even want to bother with it.
Honestly, the devs should just copy a crafting system that works from another MMO because the crafting is so far off the mark from where it needs to be. I am enjoying the rest of the game. Just hate the crafting system.
Crafting in this game is absolutely terrible right now. I understand that crafting is not a focus right now but it’s in an unbelievably horrible state. I truly think that the whole design philosophy for crafting is completely flawed. Every other MMO I’ve played does crafting 10 times better. And I’ve played alphas with crafting systems in better states than this.
First of all being a solo crafter is basically impossible. You are not going to get very far or accomplish anything meaningful by your self. Sure, maybe eventually level 40-50 items should take a lot of effort. But right now you have to do so much just to get to journeyman level to craft level 10 items. This is insane design.
Secondly, even a guild struggles to gear up their guild with low leveled gear. Why is it so hard for a guild to get everyone geared up with level 5 gear. It should not be this way! It takes so much coordination, time, and effort just to make crappy gear for your guild. In any other game you would be able to get low leveled gear to everyone in your guild easily. It’s not the case in this game.
Finally, the reward you get for crafting just doesn’t match the effort required to make things. It really demotivates you to even want to engage with the crafting system. I enjoy crafting in every other MMO. But, it’s honestly just so terrible in this game that I don’t even want to bother with it.
Honestly, the devs should just copy a crafting system that works from another MMO because the crafting is so far off the mark from where it needs to be. I am enjoying the rest of the game. Just hate the crafting system.
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