Raids, Dungeons, Release Dates. Etc

So been keeping an eye on this game via email for a while now but am I am not part of beta or anything. I wanted to see what the plans where for end game raids, dungeons, etc? I am so tired of WoW and having to run keys to gear up and the gear from crafting being worthless. Cant take it anymore. Any insight on this?

Also do we have an actual ETA on release date so I can be there on day 1

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mcstackerson

It's hard to tell how exactly it will play.

We know we will have raids and dungeons, most of which will be open world. Crafters are capable of making the best gear in the game but it will require materials from high level pve content.

No release date yet.

Vaknar

The endgame loop in Ashes of Creation is player-driven. This will make it quite different than some other popular MMOs, such as the one you (OP) are familiar with

You can take a deeper dive into the endgame loop here!

Another thing I'd love to introduce you to is the node system of Ashes of Creation. This is one of the central focuses of player endgame and progression. The server and world of Verra is living, much like a character. This means it'll constantly be changing and evolving. The content you do throughout your time playing the game will in turn also be changing and evolving. This means players will be able to unlock different dungeons, raids, and world bosses depending on how they interact with each other and with their environments! You can read more about nodes here

One last thing - The dungeons and raids in Ashes of Creation work a bit differently. 80%~ of them are open-world and 20%~ will be instanced. This means PvP will be a factor in most dungeon and raid content

Please feel free to ask any more questions about endgame or how the game works compared to other MMOs and myself and the community will do our best to explain ^_^

Dygz

Vaknar wrote: »

The endgame loop in Ashes of Creation is player-driven.

Ashes doesn't have an endgame.

Songcaller

Dygz wrote: »

Ashes doesn't have an endgame.

Digs is slang for verbal roasts in my area. I wonder what came first, dygz or digs lol.

Dygz

Why not both??

Noaani

Dygz wrote: »

Vaknar wrote: »

The endgame loop in Ashes of Creation is player-driven.

Ashes doesn't have an endgame.

I'm assuming you are just meme'ing at this point. However, on the off chance you are not, or on the off chance that someone else would read your drivel and believe you;

Your original assertion that Ashes will not have an end game was always incorrect. It was based off Jeff answering a question that used WoW's end game as a framing device (specifically about content becoming stale, iirc), and Jeff started off his answer by saying that Ashes will not have an end game in that style. He never said Ashes will not have an end game - the end, he said Ashes will not have an end game in that style.

He followed the above up by saying that because Ashes content will change, the end game content will not become stale.

However, even if we assume the above is incorrect, it is now old information and we have newer information that Ashes will indeed have an end game (source for that to be found here...) With this new information (assuming you still want to hold on to the notion that your old information was true - which it never was), when Intrepid say "here is information on what we intend end game content in Ashes to look like", surely even you can't then say "Ashes won't have an end game" and not just be doing it for the memes.

LegendKillerOne

Appreciate all the feedback. How we just wait for a release date

Bonfield

I'm betting non-instanced dungeons/raids are going to lose their novelty pretty quickly.

Inb4 the inevitable "wait and see" comment.

And yes, there will be an end game. There invariably is. Question is whether or not it'll be interesting enough to keep people playing.

Ludullu

Bonfield wrote: »

I'm betting non-instanced dungeons/raids are going to lose their novelty pretty quickly.

There's no novelty though. It's going back to the roots of mmos instead. They were way more interesting than wow instances, because you'd meet people there and pvp with them a ton of the time. And human prey is way more fun than some random mobs.

Taleof2Cities

Bonfield wrote: »

I'm betting non-instanced dungeons/raids are going to lose their novelty pretty quickly.

Instanced PvE content just isn’t going to be an emphasis in Ashes, @Bonfield.

The earlier you prepare yourself not to be let down, the better you’ll be in the long run.

Noaani

NiKr wrote: »

Bonfield wrote: »

I'm betting non-instanced dungeons/raids are going to lose their novelty pretty quickly.

There's no novelty though. It's going back to the roots of mmos instead. They were way more interesting than wow instances, because you'd meet people there and pvp with them a ton of the time. And human prey is way more fun than some random mobs.

Fighting other players for content gets pretty boring, pretty fast. The greater the disparity between the sides fighting - which is a state that is inevitable - the faster it gets boring. On the bright side, the greater that disparity, the shorter the time span is until one side just doesn't bother to show up any more.

When this happens, you are left with sub-standard mobs to fight against, with no opposition to challenge you.

Basically, with open world mobs, if you and your guild are actually good, you end up having a totally shit time playing the game.

Ludullu

Noaani wrote: »

NiKr wrote: »

Bonfield wrote: »

I'm betting non-instanced dungeons/raids are going to lose their novelty pretty quickly.

There's no novelty though. It's going back to the roots of mmos instead. They were way more interesting than wow instances, because you'd meet people there and pvp with them a ton of the time. And human prey is way more fun than some random mobs.

Fighting other players for content gets pretty boring, pretty fast. The greater the disparity between the sides fighting - which is a state that is inevitable - the faster it gets boring. On the bright side, the greater that disparity, the shorter the time span is until one side just doesn't bother to show up any more.

When this happens, you are left with sub-standard mobs to fight against, with no opposition to challenge you.

Basically, with open world mobs, if you and your guild are actually good, you end up having a totally shit time playing the game.

And to me, fighting mobs is boring right from the start, so even if the pvp exist for a short period of time, it'll be way more exciting than just killing mobs.

I've also pvped people for 12 years and it never got boring. The only reason I stopped playing Lineage 2 was because the class design went to shit in the later updates so I had to play the older versions, which at that time scale does indeed become boring because there's literally nothing new when you know the game from A to Z and you play with the same people over and over again.

Noaani

NiKr wrote: »

And to me, fighting mobs is boring right from the start

Play games with better PvE then.

PvE, when done right, is far more of a challenge than PvP could ever be.

I've had mobs in PvE that I have pulled literally 2,500 times and only had a small handful of kills with. I've played games where some mobs were literally not killed in the content cycle at all.

Yet in PvP (1v1 PvP at least) there is always a winner.

PvP is absolutely better than shit PvE. You'll never hear me say it isn't. However, even the best PvP doesn't hold a candle to the best PvE.

Ludullu

Noaani wrote: »

I've had mobs in PvE that I have pulled literally 2,500 times and only had a small handful of kills with. I've played games where some mobs were literally not killed in the content cycle at all.

Yet in PvP (1v1 PvP at least) there is always a winner.

Uhm, in your own example the winner was the mobs. I understand that you don't consider them as smth that can win, but if you lost against a mob - the mob won. Otherwise you wouldn't have lost to it.

And I'm glad that you find fighting the same mobs for 2500 times w/o killing them, but to me it's way more interesting to fight people where I never know whether I can win or not. Your example just shows that there's mobs that are too ez and you know you gonna kill w/o a problem and then there's mobs that require you to increase your skill by so much that they might as well be impossible to kill.

And yet both of those skill bars won't move (unless you add some randomness to each mob), while a human enemy might become stronger themselves while you try to catch up to them.

I hope there's enough content for both sides of the preference spectrum, but to me mobs will never be interesting.

Noaani

NiKr wrote: »

Your example just shows that there's mobs that are too ez and you know you gonna kill w/o a problem and then there's mobs that require you to increase your skill by so much that they might as well be impossible to kill.

Yeah, there are.

But there are also other players that are too "ez" and you know you are going to win.

The thing is, in PvP, you are ignoring that fact and only talking about the parts of it that you like. If you were honest with yourself, you would see that in this regard, PvE and PvP are literally identical - both have times where you know you are going to win, and times when you do not know if you are going to win or not.

That said, if you spent 12 years playing L2 - you haven't seen any PvE content in that time that is any more than base level trash in an MMO with actual PvE. The game isn't exactly known for it's PvE - as I am sure you will agree.

Ludullu

Noaani wrote: »

The thing is, in PvP, you are ignoring that fact and only talking about the parts of it that you like. If you were honest with yourself, you would see that in this regard, PvE and PvP are literally identical - both have times where you know you are going to win, and times when you do not know if you are going to win or not.

I mean, I didn't fight people who were wearing gear that's below mine by a few tiers. And when I fought dudes in the same tier as me, I never knew whether I'd win or not, because a lot depended on their skill lvl. I've had pvp against classes that I should've easily won, but opponent's skill lvl prevented me from winning. I also fought against overboosted characters that didn't know how to play, so I managed to win against them.

You could say that it's the same with mobs, but if at max lvl you still have mobs that you can easily beat - that's an even worse case than I thought. And I'm not talking about lvl20 mobs that you can destroy at lvl50. I'm talking about a thin dumb AI that you almost oneshot.

Noaani wrote: »

That said, if you spent 12 years playing L2 - you haven't seen any PvE content in that time that is any more than base level trash in an MMO with actual PvE. The game isn't exactly known for it's PvE - as I am sure you will agree.

Oh most definitely, L2's mobs are pretty much non-existent. But I've also played Terraria with its bosses, Elden Ring with its mobs and have seen a ton of videos about WoW's and FF14's raids. And all of those things are just scripted fights where the only thing you need to learn is the pattern and the timing. Is that difficult? Yes, I'd assume top lvl raids are quite intricate (that is if you don't look at WoW and its fucking addons that tell you what to do). Is that still boring to me because it's the same shit over and over until I just learn it? Also yes.

Noaani

NiKr wrote: »

I mean, I didn't fight people who were wearing gear that's below mine by a few tiers.

And I don't raid mobs that are a few tiers below me.

When I do raid mobs that are in the same tier as me, I never know whether I will win or not.

NiKr wrote: »

Oh most definitely, L2's mobs are pretty much non-existent. But I've also played Terraria with its bosses, Elden Ring with its mobs and have seen a ton of videos about WoW's and FF14's raids

First, FFXIV has group content that they mislabel as raids. It has no actual raid content. For group content, it is fairly good, but it is not raid content. However, we can look over that.

So, I have to assume you know what is wrong with the above.

First, looking at videos is like looking at someone's social media profile and thinking that is a fair representation of their entire life. It is forgetting that they are only showing you the bits that they want you to see.

If I watched videos of some top end PvP'ers in MMO's, I would think that MMO PvP was easy, because they only show the parts that make them look good.

This is what you have made your judgement of MMO PvE on. The parts of it that people want you to see so that you might think those people are really good. People that know what they are doing make the thing they are doing look easy. It is only really others that know what they are doing that fully appreciate what it is they are looking at.

To your last point about it being the same every time - no it isn't. Depending on the game and the encounter, different pulls of the same mob can be as different as PvP against different people of the same class. Sure, they are likely to use the same abilities, but not necessarily in the same way.

Again though, if all you have done is played L2 and watched some videos of FFXIV group content and a few WoW raids, you are still totally unaware of the effort that goes in to even getting to that stage, let alone what is needed once there.

Ludullu

Noaani wrote: »

When I do raid mobs that are in the same tier as me, I never know whether I will win or not.

Do you only kill a single mob once then? How would you not know whether you can kill a mob or not, unless there's constant randomness of abilities/stats on that mob that change you every new interaction with it?

Noaani wrote: »

This is what you have made your judgement of MMO PvE on.

You glanced over Terraria and Elden Ring bosses, which afaik are considered somewhat difficult and usually require several, if not countless tries to beat.

It took me ~4h to beat the Tree Sentinel as my first mob in a Souls game (not counting the boss in the starting location). I figured out his pattern of moves on maybe 5-10th run and figured out the timing of dodges soon after. The only thing I needed then was the good execution of my own moves to survive the fight. The fight itself wasn't in any way more exciting than any pvp fight from the L2 days.

And I had the same experience with the Fairy or Moonlord in Terraria. They both took a few dozen tries, but the exhilaration from beating them wasn't any higher than from defeating an opponent in L2 that I had lost to 10 times before.

But in both of those games I knew the mobs' exact limits of animations, moves and overall AI thinking. I knew that if I moved in some particular direction, they'd most likely make a particular move. And by watching FF14 videos I see that bosses do exact same moves and usually even in the exact same patterns.

Like I said, I realize that defeating those bosses requires skill and knowledge of the game, but a finite battle is not interesting to me. I can't predict a human's movements. Because if I could, I'd be the undefeated pvp champion, but sadly I'm not, even after 12 years of trying. But I'm damn sure that it wouldn't take me 12 years to clear AI bosses or mobs in mmos, because unless their movesets are completely randomized - you can always see the way to beat them.

Noaani wrote: »

Depending on the game and the encounter, different pulls of the same mob can be as different as PvP against different people of the same class.

Could you give an example of such games. I'll gladly be proven wrong, because that'd mean that there's still hope for me liking pve in mmos. But if those examples are just based on randomizing movesets, then I'd just prefer fighting people because you can build relationships with them, based on your pvp history, while randomized mobs just give you something difficult to grind and nothing else.

Voxtrium

@Noaani You come across as the most pretentious MMO player i have ever had the pleasure to run across on the forums.

PVP content is more variable than PVE because its not scripted that is the only argument i need for PVP content to be fun. More fun the PVE? Who cares, they are both fun.

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