Thanks for having me on brochacho!

UPDATED INFORMATION: Keys will now grant $15 of value in embers for in-store purchasables (NO P2W!) and one free month of in-game time ($15) as well as access to all phases of alpha and beta from purchase date. Source: ashesofcreation.com/news/2024-08-18-alpha-two-roadmap-and-ama

Hey Llwed you from vegas too?

Thank you guys for having level headed takes on this, and completely agree that Phase 3 was what A2 was meant to be and we got "the big D" in all but name.

I always expect the Big D.

Was a great stream! had fun being there for it!

I think some of the funniest and most frustrating instances of vertical progression to deal with for me was when Blizzard started introducing mythic raid encounters with devastating mechanics at both time markers and health %. So many times dps jerk-offs would push us in to a 75% health mechanic and a 1 minute mechanic simultaneously, which would cause wipes because they weren't 'meant' to be dealt with at the same time. It got so frustrating having to ask people to slow dps (which they didn't bc jerk-offs), that I would eventually ask 1-2 of my better players to just /dance in the corner for the first 30 seconds of combat so we didn't overlap mechanics (thank you Ologhai, you were always my favorite rogue). But conceptually it was a fun way to f over vertical progressors. Great video.

Appreciate you guys taking the time to break this down.

Verran Khan Academy! Well done.

So just like blizzard does for wow?

Pvx is awesome!! Only beta males have problem with pvp

Thank you so much for having me on! Had a great time! =)

I think its one of the most exciting things about Ashes. As you head out to go do a dungeon, gather resources, or sell goods etc.. You dont really know if youre going on a PvE or PvP adventure. It might be different every time you go. I can 100% see the problem PvE only players would have with it. I just hope this game moves some people more towards PvX than just one or the other.

A stream just for meeeee

@1:33:19 My belief is that Augements will only apply to a select number of base archetype skills that the devs predetermine. I don't think its realistic to expect *every* skill to be augmented. Having just a select few (maybe 5 major skills, like the charge skill example for Tank) be augmented seems WAY more manageable but still offers the potential to pretty dramatically change the playstyle of the base archetype.

Finally KZfaq version I was waiting for this!

Subbed! ❤

excellent paint skillz :)

Oh Wow thank you for that!

Nice video Lloyd 🤟🏾🙏🏾

Crafters make the BEST Shit.

Boooootiful!

The idea of having pve instances tied to pvp is a no go for me, I’m not trying to be in a castle,node, or any other form of siege that gives the enemies an advantage just because they killed an enemy designed to lose. I get wanting the pve player base to feel involved but I’ve never liked the idea of pve interfering with a PvP event. Especially any that would potentially give the enemy a buff for doing so or being a win condition. If it’s something set up like new worlds opr were an events pops up and you can compete for the advantage that’s better imo but even that I didn’t like. Definitely not for the idea of needing set gears it gets tedious to constantly sort all that. Figure a way to balance one set for both forms of content imo.

Very nice! Love it!

@28:10 I personally DONT like the idea of segregated gear sets (pvp exlusive stats, pve exclusive stats). Not in a game thats looking to blend into PvX and be a "sandpark". Something about it feels so gamey. That being said, pve should still have a portion of it be difficult and rewarding (without the possibility of pvp trampling it) via weekly/daily loot limits but farmable cosmetics, titles, mounts, etc for the "real" pve players.

Initially I didn't think it was a big deal and thought the PvE side of PvX was fine but I think I'm starting to agree with Virtek on this. PvE does need to have *some* degree of meaningful progression loops. The point he's making I think is that in PvX, the pvp side of the equation can always effect the pve side but never visa versa. I think some kind of solution could be having the instanced portion of PvE actually be difficult *and* rewarding BUT be limited as far as how much you can farm it (daily/weekly loot limit) to preserve the overall balance of Risk vs Reward (you can't create instanced safe spaces for infinite progression separate from the open world and not destroy risk v reward).

Hopefully, PvX can be regulated by the penalty.

somewhere around 30:00 he talks about pve players fighting a dragon and then using it for a seige. new world has this in opr. you kill mobs they drop essence and you spend that on summoning monsters and etc. if thats what pve players need then thats an easy fix. having seperate gear for pve and pvp is a bad idea and divides the players more. you should have system that need human players not systems that need pvp only players or pve only players.

by the way i totally understand raiding or even mythic plus dungeons being chill and calm to do but i also feel like we can let the artisan stuff be our chill and calm thing to do in this game

21:00 he thinks the game will die if we dont have pve people but the game will die if you we dont have pvx people. if we dont have those people then the economy is dead. nodes are dead. no node wars. no seiges. no guild wars. im just curios what system does ashes of creation have that we so desperately need a ton pve players at all times to keep the world alive and functioning.

by the way pvper are always neglected in mmos. look at new world. you had to pve the whole way to level up and gear and you couldnt do opr until you were max level and that was suppose to be a pvp game. pve people always get to level up and gear doing pve only content. i think the issue is pve get it there way so much that they dont actually know what it really means to be neglected

i never understood people that only like one. if you dont like pvp and pve which is pvx then maybe ashes isnt your kind of game and thats okay. when i saw ashes back in 2017 i never thought o man this looks like a really good pve only game.

Yaaaaaaaaay! I'm so stoked!

love your videos!!!!

The primary choice is permanent. However, any secondary augments can be changed.

One thing I truly hope is no time gated dailies/weeklies in AoC. Nothing kills my enjoyment of a game faster than the dread of a list of chores you need to do for player progression. If there's any weeklies/dailies it should be purely for cosmetic stuff. Just my 2 cents.

I really hope AoC takes inspiration from private shard Ultima Online:Outlands for its PVP. The basic skills you need to make a PVP template (classless system) can be done quickly, and gear plays a very little role in PVP. Relatively cheap crafted gear is great. However, there's insane depth and power progression you can imbue your armor with that ONLY works for PVE. That way, you're never outgeared or outleveled in PVP, which feels amazing (although if you run a glass cannon PVE build you're more vulnerable obviously).

The fundamental problem in MMO is content. No matter how fast you make it, your players will outpace you. WOW did a great job of creating content, but still, you had to have repetitive grinding to keep your players engaged. Work Dungeon for gear many times, play it in heroic mode where you work it for gear many times, then you can go on to larger instances once you have gear. Very soon, AI is going to solve this problem with dynamic content. You can have AI create dungeons WITH storylines and a challenge to any level and any gear combo. You can even tell it to make it harder or easier. And you simply have to be good at your classes and not go to youtube and learn how to master an instance. Even before that happens, AI will make the creation of new content SO much cheaper that you can create platforms with new instances out every week or so. The HUGE shift in gaming will come when adding content to a platform is either super cheap or completely dynamic. At that point, all of this changes.

what i find missing in MMORPGs for the past 10 years and i miss it dearly was during Dark age of Camelot days, the progression you had after hitting max lvl was to obtain extremely hard RNG gear from the dragon and your pvp levels if you dont know what im saying imagine pvping and you have a realm rank starting a R1 L1 as you progress you get R1 L2 up to L9 then you move to R2 L1 so on and so forth i was a R12 L6 nightshade when i stopped playing there are so many things you can add per lvl or every few lvls to aid you on your pvp journey stat bonuses quick heals you name it you can add it. there were also areas on the map on pvp zones that required 5 man groups to run, mobs that you couldn't kill alone and to get the gear from them that was very RNG time consuming. i also played AION back in the day where entire areas of the map required a full group to play in in order to kill mobs and bosses in the areas to try to get higher lvl gear. so it would be player max lvl is 50, the mobs in area 1 would be 55+, area 2 60+, area 3 65+ and area 4 70+, cant remember if it went that high, but being able to obtain the crazy gear or have it made so you can fight in these zones was incredibly hard to obtain. the playing pvp zone in AION and doing this one crazy quest to get this set of armor was insane i never did get all the pieces due to the very low chance of it rolling but i know others that got it.

Good content here lloyd.

I wonder what AI will be able to do in next 10 years

Like and comment for the Algorithm (I am a little late.)

Ashes of creation, an upcomming mmorpg that streamers speak about with lots of gaming potential and plenty of skill based gameplay. Inserted a few words here to help the video out. Looking forward to the next video.

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Those specs you pulled up are the old ones, the new ones are much more. Here are the new ones from their support website. Minimum Specs - 1080p Processor: Intel i5 8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Memory: 12GB Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1070 or equivalent DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 100GB SSD Storage Windows 10/11 Recommend Specs - 1440p Processor: Intel i7 8700 | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Memory: 16GB Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 3070 or equivalent DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 100GB SSD Storage Windows 10/11 *Please note that these requirements will change throughout our testing phases.

For the algorithm

Just remember these specs are for Alpha 2 and not the finished, polished game.

Camo is not the same as invisibility. The closer you are, the more visible you become. And with the bow distance, sniping is less of a concern. Your phrase of "un-fun" is not logical. The camo and invisibility are a skill and are part of their kit. That is how that class is played in both pve and pvp. No need to change their kit for a specific situation.

weak chinned man

first 9 minutes or so of this video are entirely useless