Any chance of outdoor dungeons?

I know there will be, if not mostly, dungeons that are apart of the open world, but will there be and dungeons that are in the open? I guess an example would be, an old ruined castle, or an enemy NPC encampment. So far, the dungeons shown have been mainly underground/cave-like, and with the talks of underwater dungeons, I'm sure we'll have varied types of dungeons in the game?

EDIT: Folks, I KNOW that the game will be 80% open world content, and the rest 20% instanced content; that's what I'm excited about most. However, that's not what I'm getting at. What I meant when I posted this was that, in the loosest sense, I just hope the game has dungeons that are OUTDOOR(castles, enemy encampments, towers, etc.) in the world. I hope that cleared up a few things, sorry if I wasn't explaining myself better.

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Boom1

BlizzardEntertainment wrote: »

So basically you just want instanced dungeons set in outdoor environments.

No. The players wouldn't be segregated to their own space in the case of a straight up dungeon, only in an instance.

Amist

80% of the dungeons in Ashes of Creation will be in the open world, with the remaining 20% being instanced and much more lore based

Undead Canuck

You can check out the Wiki:
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Servers#Server_instancing

Dungeons and Raids
Alpha-1 open world dungeon entrance.[43]

80% of the content that will exist in Ashes of Creation is open-world and there's a specific reason for that. So because of the way that friendships and or enemies are forged in the game and people have the opportunity to create their own friends or foes. We want that to play out from a contesting standpoint as well. So a lot of these hunting grounds or raid bosses that people are going to have opportunities to kill, they're going to be essentially contested potentially by your your enemies that you've created in the game or you can work together to create alliances in order to defend those contested zones.[44] – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation will be a seamless open-world experience.[45]

No loading time or loading screens between regions.

There will be open world dungeons and raids. The aspiration is to maintain the open world feel while being able to capitalize on the benefits of instanced mechanics.[46]

Instancing is only going to happen in certain dungeons where the desire is to have greater narrative appeal. Outside of these and arenas there will not be too much instancing anywhere else.[45]
There will be an 80/20 split between open world vs instanced encounters.[44][47][48]

We're probably going to do instancing only in certain dungeons and in arenas. You probably won't see instancing too much anywhere else. What you see is gonna be what you get.[45] – Jeffrey Bard

XerayReaper

BlizzardEntertainment wrote: »

So basically you just want instanced dungeons set in outdoor environments.

No, I just want OUTDOOR dungeons, if that makes sense.

Atama

I don’t see an issue with an outdoor dungeon if it’s inaccessible aside from the usual exit/entrance. Maybe a fort without a roof, or a winding forest path, or the side of a mountain.

Make it so the few flying mounts can get in or out and you are good. How cool would it be if you could get into a nearby tall place and look into the dungeon from above at a distance, watching the little adventurers as they scramble around fighting things.

Beeper

Aardvark wrote: »

They have said that 80% of dungeons will be noninstanced

This is the right answer.

Some of the most fun I've had in MMOs comes out of sprawling outdoor dungeon areas. From EQ to WoW, I think my favorite was Jintha'Alor - even though I loathe trolls of all types.

HiddenDaggerInn

yes outdoor dungeons are always a good idea, you never know who might come visit you

Caeryl

As long as there’s distinct entry points, I don’t see why there couldn’t be outdoor dungeons. A dense corrupted forest, a mountain ascension, fortified bandit encampments.

They’d have to get creative with the path creation and segmenting, but that’s not a bad thing.

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