Next Live Stream + Q&A Submission - Friday, October 30, 2020 at 11AM PDT

LieutenantToast · October 2020

Glorious Ashes Community!

Our next live stream will be Friday, October 30 at 11AM PDT! (Click here to convert this to your local time.)

For this upcoming stream, we'd love to gather some questions from you to answer live! Please submit your question for our development team in the thread below, and we'll select 10 of them at random to answer at the end of our live stream. In order to accommodate a variety of questions from our community, please only post ONE question below, and the more direct/succinct the better! Submissions end Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 11AM PDT so we can select your questions before the stream.

We'll see you soon for our development update live stream! https://www.twitch.tv/ashesofcreation

VOD

https://youtu.be/ndtjwBxhwtw

psym3x · October 2020

The combat pets are like a cut off part of the player's character in terms of power. If I made a Cleric that was more DPS oriented, using gear and augments, would my pet also be more DPS oriented or could I somehow make my pet more TANK oriented?

Magic Man · October 2020

Will the ''Narrative'' quests (presumably main story quests) take us all 'around' Verra or be specific to a node with each one having its own version of the story? (beside quests that are unlocked after an alliance is formed- which apparently do allow inter-node questing)

Jahlon · October 2020

Can you go into detail about the loot rules, specifically why there is no just Free-for-all looting and how Need before Greed will work if any class can use any weapon and any armor?

Thanks much!

Catspurr · October 2020

Since the tulnar has lived in the underrealm for a long time, from a lore perspective it would make sense that there are already built cities in the underrealm at the start of the game. But from a gameplay perspective this doesn't make sense. How do you plan on solving this?

gunmandude2 · October 2020

Are there any chances in the future of adding ways that the players of different nodes can wage indirect war against each other, based on the type of node they belong to?

For example, a military node being able to send raiding parties to an adjacent node, an economic node being able to disrupt trade and services of an adjacent node, or even a divine node converting the NPCs of an adjacent node?

nuro · October 2020

Hi! Thanks for doing these Q and A's.

My question is about ranked arenas and specifically, what the goal is for them. As a competitive player, its nice to take a break from the chaos of open world PVP every once in awhile and engage in something with fewer variables.

Will there be any kind of gear normalization? Stat normalization? If not, are there any plans for ranked arenas other then to pit X number versus X number.

Thank you for reading this!

raisler · October 2020

With the monthly cosmetics, we have seen Freehold skins and Freehold "Building" skins. Can the "building" skin be applied to any building or only certain types of buildings?

AntVictus · October 2020

I know that you guys are holding a lot of lore (the majority of it) close to your chest, but on the topic of gods/goddesses, is there going to be a god of Wrath? Not necessarily war, but pure unbridled Wrath.

Emberstone · October 2020

Will my partymembers be able to deposit items in my mule's bag directly?

Shinaso · October 2020

Are you planning to lift verbal NDA??

Jaykcub · October 2020

As an avid MMO/PVP player I’m curious to know what implications will be set in place for balancing. Most MMO’s struggle to set proper balancing creating an unfair and “meta” type of experience. In which most players will only play the classes that are the most overpowered. What will you do to alleviate this?

Liniker · October 2020

Will citizens or mayors be able to know details such as a list of new citizens in their nodes, citizens that left the node or who participates in elections?

Sent · October 2020

What about tavern brawls? Can I smash a chair on the head of a card sharper?

McShave · October 2020

When the world has obtained all 5 metropolis nodes and I have killed the legendary world bosses, will I be "done" with end game PvE in the sense that I have defeated the hardest PvE content and will it be possible to have these legendary world bosses on farm?

I really am looking forward to this game, thank you for making it!

unknownwon · October 2020

How many players could 30 people in a guild (or the max guild membership limit without speccing into more) that's focused in all passive combat skills be able to fight on equal terms? i.e. how strong will the passive buffs that guilds can spec into rather than additional membership limit be?

Nagash · October 2020

As it is the season of ghost and ghouls could we have an info dump on the summoner

Deehn · October 2020

Will the minimap & map display the location of quest objectives or will it be required to properly read the quest to know where to go ?

Thank you

container · October 2020

Can you give us a broad idea of what we shouldn't expect in the upcoming Alpha 1 testing.

Bricktop · October 2020

Will guild wars be a few hour long event at primetime? Or will there be an option for longer lasting guild wars?

Anduin Kayvaan · October 2020

On the topic of Customization and cosmetics. What system is Ashes going with for Dyeing? Is there going to be multiple slots to put different dyes into it, will there only be a few slots or one slot? How will dyeing operate in the game?

Sockski · October 2020

On the topic of the mentorship, you've said that certain node buildings and organizations will offer quests, such as dungeon runs or escorts. Any chance that there would be a way for player-run taverns to also offer mentorship quests? With the idea that taverns who choose to provide this offering could become social hubs and havens for mentors and mentees to gather?

Xyls · October 2020

Will PvP be allowed to happen in towns and cities or will there be mechanics to prevent it such as guards attacking anyone who flags as a combatant?

BoncleEPC · October 2020

If you're planning on increasing the level cap in future updates, how do you plan on avoiding the problem of leveling taking an ungodly amount of time to complete once you get to the higher levels?

Sorf · October 2020

Placeholder.

90Bubbel · October 2020

on the wiki on transmog it says - Gear will have appearance slots (Transmutation/Transmog/cosmetic slots) that are used to copy the appearance of an item (in some cases), could you clarify what "in some cases" means?

My other question was about bulkier armor and larger weapons, i know you dont want some giant swords and oversized shoulderpads like wow for example, can we still expect some bulkier/larger armor like a medieval version of a juggernaut and some larger swords like zweihanders

In the world pvp do you have some kind of mechanic to stop people from jumping infront of your attack towards something else and forcing you to either get killed or become corrupted

Cadac · October 2020

It has been said that smaller guilds will have access to more numerous guild passive skills/augments than larger guilds. If a guild reduces in population, can they rebalance their guild skill point allocation, to access those previously unavailable benefits, or are they locked at their current guild progression?

Altec · October 2020

Summoners summons will be different in appereance like a summoner/rogue summons shadows or a summoner/ranger summons different animals? Or all summoners as primary class will have the same appereance?