Great show. Keep them coming.

You are forgiven! Enjoyed the show as always.

Hoot hoot! Fun listen

I agree with JB. We need that rare feeling, 100%

So happy we are simpatico about what an alpha actually is. It’s not going to have polish and many testers and content creators may have whiplash if they haven’t tested actual alphas

For me, I love when rare things are common. Which means: I want more things to be close to unique. So I don’t want a Diablo: here’s some super rare things that never ever ever drop. I want a story arc to conclude and some very rare things drop and never drop again. But, I want many, many story arcs that produce those things.

The Essence is much like The Weave/Dark Weave in D&D is the best way I could explain it, I guess.

Epic show! Good to see jibbs held his own against kash lol.

i like loot!

I always miss the live shows 😅. Connected with lore i would love to hear your take on the Elven lore. How it relates to your conceptions on how those lore points and the real world basis for the concepts in Ashes of creation. My theory for them is Roman Empire elves as city and military force with Navajo Elves as the outskirts first defense of the Pyrian Kingdom

Ugh I felt my accomplishment of the Winterspring Saber mount completely destroyed when it was made into a daily. I farmed that grind for 8 months every day to then years later it was obtainable in a month of dailies... I hated wow ever sense then. and wouldnt it be AWESOME if say goblins could loot players dead bodies but then when you go back to your body and get your gear if its missing you then need to kill those goblins until you can find your item again. I would again love it if that sword or whatever the goblin took was added to their loot table and then lootable potentially by anyone killing those goblins!!! So you might never find it again!

False on the King Atrax being the first person who figured out how to use the Essence/magic. The Elves were doing it long before Atrax was a twinkle in his father's eye.

So might I suggest that y'all follow/stream the ARPG seasons circuit (Diablo 4, Last Epoch, Path of Exile/2 and, etc. ) until which version of AoC you're going to play comes out (Alpha 2, Beta 1, or Beta 2) because ARPG are gear grinds much like every MMORPG ever created for the most part.

I think games, like most creative endeavors, were better before open development. Too many cooks in the kitchen and all that. There’s a reason why BG3 and Zelda and great games don’t ask for much player feedback on direction. Players, by and large, do not accurately attribute why they are having fun in a game. I’d rather Intrepid black box it until every stage. I wish A2 had a full NDA, too. People will judge Ashes launch based on what is streamed in A2. It’ll crush hype, just like Crowfall.