What do you want and not want in Ashes?

Hey guys back with another post to keep community together and hyped.
Simple put in 1 system or really anything that you want in Ashes and same for one you don't want to see!
What I want to see is good class design meaning all classes feel unique and not like others .
What I don't want to see is poor raids. I want them to be hard feel epic and more than a handful of bosses.
Love you guys can't wait to hear what y'all have to say!

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Robben DuMarsch

Want: Action Combat. Hardcore PvP.
Not want: Tab Target

Caeryl

I want choices to matter, for focusing on one path to have notable rewards over a jack of all route.

Unique classes that don’t feel like recolored versions of each other.

I want stealth and proper ambushes to be a real factor, not showing everyone on a map, or showing nameplates at all times.

I want artisans to be independent entities, able to have influence without stepping foot in raids if that’s the route they want to take.

I want PvP to have real purpose besides slight benefits to yourself, big impactful guild wars, strategic benefits of PvP/corruption-friendly towns.

I want to the world to feel like its own place, where I don’t control it and it will continue as it pleases if I don’t raise a finger.

I want logical approaches to different biomes, different bonuses and penalties to harsh weather, noticeably different experiences depending where you settle down.

Freeholds to be important but available in moderate amounts, with practical uses beyond flavor text.

Azathoth

I would like robust character design from avatar appearance all the way through classes/abilities/augments.
What I would not want is a free-to-play or pay-to-win end result.

Elmagar

What I want from Ashes of Creation:

1. Robust lore with lots of mysteries that will grow gradually with each patch and will allow for tons of speculation. I hope that stories will feel meaningful, engaging, and they won't be just a forgettable background for flashy effects and lovely sceneries. I want to grow into these stories, learn all there is about them, get to know them just like you learn about for example Norse mythology. I want the story to be meaningful, not shallow, easy-go and ridiculous. Of course we need some humor, but we also need something dark to give our actions meaning, urgency, that feel of dread. We need to feel that what we do is important and there's no sudden Chekhov Gun pulled out to waste our efforts.
2. Diverse skillset. I hope every class will feel unique, no copy-paste recolored skills. So when you play mage you do not think "block, stun, damage, oh just like my rogue", you think "this spell with block, this spell that also stuns, this spell is kaboom, wow that's so cool". Make skills do something more than just cripple or kill enemies - that spells from early trailers give me hope.
3. Engaging stuff to do in open world - because how many times you want to run the same dungeon after all. Dynamic events with cool rewards, huge meta events like in Guild Wars 2 here and there where lots of players need to work for to progress and lead to final encounter, some cool linear quests to follow a story with it. Some cool world bosses, bounty hunting, champion trains, meaningful rewards hidden behind different content types. And overall balance of things - don't tunnel vision into one thing. If you want to make dailies, make them diverse also - some for each type of players, but some to encourage them to try other content.
4. I would love to see only subscription and no cash shop at all. I assume we will have cosmetic shop anyways, but then make sure cosmetic shop stuff does not look better than legendary items in game. Also keep as big variety of skins in-game as you can. Things you work your ass off while you play the game should be rewarding, should give you this acknowledgment you went a long way to be where you are now.
5. I want this game to keep me engaged for many years, just like Guild Wars 2 did, and World of Warcraft before it.
6. I want world to breathe it's own life, like it's not centered around me, I'm just a tiny part of it. I want it to slowly change in time, but that's a core mechanic of AoC which is amazing. But still - even then huge events could impact parts of maps to make them look and feel differently, not overdo it but still make world change even beyond nodes growing.
7. I want devs to keep being engaged with community, even after the release.
8. And I want devs to take as much time as they need to polish the product before release. We need a smashing hit the day servers open. People will flood it, following the promise of no P2W great new western MMO.

What I don't want from Ashes of Creation:
1. Cash grab pay to win to ruin all these years of hope and hype. Also for love of god please no "convenient" items in cash shop, sold under quality-of-life umbrella that will kill the "no-pay-to-win" story and the game as well in the process.
2. Don't let player housing be-all and end-all, keep metropolies relevant for people to meet and gather.
3. Attemtps to catter to small parts of community, ruining the game for everyone else in the process.
4. Lack of clear vision for game to grow after release.
5. Cosmetic shop being more robust than in-game items variety.
6. AoC going to second seat after release if devs figure out they want to do another game. MMOs are huge beasts, they should always be on top in development priority. WoW story show these games, if done properly, can run your business for decades. Unless you have a behemoth company producing several franchises at once - sure then. But before Intrepid grows that large, please maintain focus on AoC.

EDIT:
Forgot one thing - I want leveling experience to be meaningful and enjoyable. I don't want to be in this mindset of rushing towards endgame cus there's all to be.

Damokles

Wanted: Give me challenging and rewarding PvE content and the crafting that they have promised us

Unwanted: forced action combat

Noaani

What I don't want is content that just exists for no reason other than to be killed. It doesn't need a mechanics based reason to exist other than to be killed, but it needs to make sense that the population of any given place is where it is.

This includes changes to populations based on node configuration.

What I do want is content that requires some form of progression within that content type in order to defeat.

If players can clear all group content the day they hit the level cap, the game will not hold my interest very long. This also applies to solo content, raid content, crafting content, basically all content. Anything worth achieving should take actual effort.

Nagash

what I want - armies of the undead

what I don't want- stupid people who want to stop the army of the undead

Damokles

Nagash wrote: »

what I want - armies of the undead

what I don't want- stupid people who want to stop t6he army of the undead

The legion stands ready!

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Pitou

i don't want microtransactions , oh too late

Nagash

onewingedangel wrote: »

i don't want microtransactions , oh too late

That would be nice

Ferryman

I do not want too restrictive profession system.

I want much better names for classes.

Magic Man

I want: A skill based combat with action majority

I do not want: Hybrid combat being 'tab target with extra steps'

Undead Canuck

Want: Tab Target
Not want: Action Combat. Hardcore PvP.

Just kidding Robben. I am good with the combat system (I hope). Really want amazing graphics and an exciting world.

From what I have seen so far, amazing graphics and an exciting world are a go! Now just good questing, crafting, trading, and a great guild system are left.

Doomfett

I guess since people did more than one I'll throw another don't want. I also don't want a AoE fest.

Wololo

want : mmo
dont want : any cashgrab in what is not the mmo

Shoklen

Want: 16bit color and 8k textures
Do not want: People that scream about class imbalance when they are not even playing their own class correctly.

(joking. :P )

Hartwell

Want: A casual enough entry level for PvP to maintain an actual PvP population, with hardcore enough content in other areas in the game to keep myself engaged.

Do not want: Armor/weapons caked with spell auras and generic Asian MMO aesthetics.

Doomfett

hartwell wrote: »

Want: A casual enough entry level for PvP to maintain an actual PvP population, with hardcore enough content in other areas in the game to keep myself engaged.

Do not want: Armor/weapons caked with spell auras and generic Asian MMO aesthetics.

I think Steven said he wasn't going to do that if I'm not mistaken.

Hartwell

Doomfett wrote: »

hartwell wrote: »

Want: A casual enough entry level for PvP to maintain an actual PvP population, with hardcore enough content in other areas in the game to keep myself engaged.

Do not want: Armor/weapons caked with spell auras and generic Asian MMO aesthetics.

I think Steven said he wasn't going to do that if I'm not mistaken.

I hope. I've been in games where people thought I was an NPC, because I wasn't roleplaying a bowl of radioactive Fruit Loops in some kind of Japanese anime with the rest of the players.

Damokles

hartwell wrote: »

Doomfett wrote: »

hartwell wrote: »

Want: A casual enough entry level for PvP to maintain an actual PvP population, with hardcore enough content in other areas in the game to keep myself engaged.

Do not want: Armor/weapons caked with spell auras and generic Asian MMO aesthetics.

I think Steven said he wasn't going to do that if I'm not mistaken.

I hope. I've been in games where people thought I was an NPC, because I wasn't roleplaying a bowl of radioactive Fruit Loops in some kind of Japanese anime with the rest of the players.

Well, from what we have seen so far, most armours will have a western/western fantasy influence

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