Hello
First of all I wanted to thanks Ashes of Creation team on this huge new step onwards with the game and I am really excited to finally try the game out.
My background with mmorogs mostly comes from wow, FFXIV ( mostly ff14) and tera online and from each of those games I like something else.
Let’s start with my experience when it comes to AoC, to start with I know it is alpha and I expected long queues and servers going down etc. My first day I couldn’t play as I had to link account and page was down. On 2nd day I was in the queue for about 2 hours manage to create character , played for 10 minutes and it kick me out and went back to queue for 2 hours then servers went down. On day 3 I finally get to play clerick which I didn’t enjoy much for the first 2 hours so I created Bard and played until I reach like level 8 for time being so about 7 hours.
This feedback will only be from those 7 hours I spend in game and seen so far.
Let’s start with character creation, I like the races and lore. However, for modern days it’s lacking many things and hair have weird texture, also I would like to see different body types and overall more customisation. Please also add lock button to the tattoos once you place them, as I struggled not to move previous one if I tried to put more on.
Graphic and UI
Graphic is really nice and game run smoothly on my computer, there are some wired things happening with the lighting in some places and you need to reset your settings etc. UI does not feel very modern for those days so I think it could be better. Also add lock button to when you edit UI it will also stay in the signed area we choose, sometimes it does not snap to place where you want.
Why hire have different interact button to get on top of it ? Can it be on same button as interact button instead of G ?
Weapon swapping button ? Not sure what is the point of it ? From what I saw weapons don’t have active skill so what’s the point ? Perhaps do same thing like in throne and liberty where it swaps weapon automatically when you use their skills. Otherwise we have this extra key-bind to use for not sure reason.
New player experience, Quests and Leveling
I would like to have better new player experience and perhaps have tooltips with images/ icons as sometimes it says about something I have no idea what it looks like etc.
Questing and leveling
I think that is the biggest issue , overall it’s very slow and so little quests , you also need to run across places quit some distance. I think main story quest will be great and I hope you will introduce it to build up the lore etc. from where I am from usually MSQ takes you to max level which I enjoy also it build world better for long term in my opinion. I’m not fan of endless grind monsters for levels it’s boring and exhausting
Crafting and Gathering
I think it’s a little bit confusing , I’m not sure how many I can level etc. needs more tutorial on it.
Currency
Please also explain currency I was struggling to find that I need to sell glint to get currency .
This is my experience so far. I will add more the more I play . Overall I enjoy it, well done team.
