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Reminds me of the days of DaoC. Soloing was not viable and a significant amount of time was spent fonding hunting parties if you arent already playing with friends. Finding hubting parties was a great way to make friends though.
actually makes me want to try solo in this more, because i know it wont be afk faceroll on keyboard PvE difficulty that every other mmo designs around for that mainstream $$$. finally mmo pve content that's designed for (if inadvertently) experienced gaming hobbyists, that's not relegated to 3% of content - at endgame
i did a solo bard during the testing and had a blast but i was using a sword and shield with the bard but i didnt get to any more than level 9 or 10 i can't remember. Yes it is a hard grind.
Great video, however Mages absolutely crank. They have some of the highest single target dmg and the highest AoE dmg. Being able to AC>DBL Shatter is massive, plus balancing your debuffs. Far ahead of the other classes when minmaxed
@@SilentSolvent I mean his video is pretty spot on. I just wanted to chime in on Mage since it's so good. I'm currently working on a video titled "I played Ashes of Creation for 500 Hours..." Where I go over my experience in an hour long video. It won't be live until tomorrow, but I'll copy paste what I said about Mages in below so I don't have to type it all again. I'll also have a video after that will be a mage guide. Mage felt fantastic and looks stunning. Mages are easily the best DPS in the game right now. Objectively, in the right hands, Mages have superb single target dmg and unparalleled AoE thanks to all the amazing abilities they gave us. Shatter, which if you played World of Warcraft, it’s pretty much the same thing except in Ashes it procs when you hit a frozen target with a Lightning Spell and it does an insane amount of dmg. Your single target spells like Firebolt, Frostbolt and Lightning Strike crank, and all have linked talents that make them do decently more dmg and some even turn them from Single Target abilities to AoE abilities . And speaking of AoE, Intrepid definitely followed the MMO Mage trend of dominating AoE. We have 10 different ways to do AoE, some are extremely powerful, like Ball Lightning(which wasn’t always working while testing) but when it was working it does very high damage and applies Volatile to all enemies hit, which reduces their magical mitigation by 15%, making all your spells do more dmg. Magma field erupts when you put it down, turning that area into Lava, setting every enemy inside that area on fire, dealing very high burning damage as well as the Magma field dealing separate dmg. Plus there’s another skill called Pyromania that makes your Magma Field cast faster and ticks two extra times. Chain Lightning was absolutely cracked when it was working, When paired with the talent Aftershock, casting Chain Lighting on a target that has the Staggered debuff causes your Chain Lightning to trigger twice. Which when paired with the Shatter talent we talked about earlier takes you to the next level. One of my favorite things about the Mage was my talent choices going from PvE to PvP. You’re able to use pretty much the same talents when swapping quickly to PvP. This is nice because many times you will be PvP’ed while in the world, to the point where I'd suggest other classes build their character to be pretty defensive with talents that will help you in a PvP situation. However mage had so much crossover that it feels flawless, which is important because while they’re letting us respec for free on our skill tree, it won’t be that way in the actual game. And in terms of PvP’ing I don’t think anything beats a Mage in a straight up 1v1. I’ve heard Rangers talk all this shit about manhandling mages and how good clerics are at 1v1’s, but i’ve never had an issue dealing with any class in a 1v1 scenario. With absorb shields, slows, blinks, DoT’s, shatters and more, enemies barely can even touch me. Rangers are the most deadly and a very good ranger will give me a run for the money, but unlike when you’re playing against the other classes and you’re trying to range them, you can’t outrange or outrun a Ranger, so just nut up and slam in their face. They can’t handle the dmg burst and even though other DPS classes like Fighter and Ranger can have very high burst, Mages have a MASSIVE absorb shield and can range you before you get your big abilities off. So trust me, i’ll get my opener off before yours even does dmg to me. Lastly, leveling as a Mage was as easy as ever. One of my Mages I leveled purely Solo, so I can get a good judge on how it felt, which as you’ll learn in the leveling section, is giga slow. But even solo, you have no problems fighting mobs since you can kite them with slows and whatnot. You’ll have no problem finding groups for leveling parties, since nothing comes close to a Mage’s AoE and to top it off, Mages can do the big aoe pulls with ease since we have an absorb shield, roots and the ability to blink back out. I could talk about mages forever lol. But that should do.
I was working out to make T2 plate armor will require the input of 10 apprentice level skills so crafting is no joke when it comes to input from others. Had first hand experience with your mage, you know when your group of 8 attacked me at the farm. JK your healers kept me alive. So glad the verbal NDA has dropped. Have actually been playing solo on purpose so the POI will be new to me when I get a few guild mates come this weekend, if the servers hold up that is.
@@empire5235 I mean the game is push as a group game wether that is guild or node groups, you shouldn’t expect to do everything yourself, let alone in the end you will only grandmaster in one of each group of artisan groups
@@Ragecon87 I am very well aware of that, it is putting the multiplayer back in MMO. Looking very much forward to getting into the test with my guild, well when some others finally get in. Was just pointing out the number of skills needed. Thought it was grand master in any 2 skills and 2 skills only, can be from the same tree or different trees.
I have a key, I do not plan on using it in Phase 1, I’ll be honest, the current state of this Alpha seems too small on scale and too time consuming to be worth my time investment. Once Phase 2 comes out, or even Phase 3, I’ll consider joining in, till then, I’ll watch from afar through content creators and see what the main feedback seems to be.
You said you wanted all our questions, heres my quick list haha: Which nodes were the most popular in your playthrough? How good was the character customization? Is there anyway to save your character appearance templates? How many character slots did you have? Did you see a lot of GM's ingame interacting with players? Do you know the names of the realms? Did you ever have queue times, if so how long and do you expect them to be an issue in the 25th? Do we know when downloading will be available for the alpha? Do you know what time the alpha is live for those of us considering taking off work? Is seasons available yet? Is trading and caravans available yet? Do you know if housing is available yet? How was the lawless zones?
I can chime in here a little: On Resna, Joeva and Miraleth were the two best developed nodes. You can save your character template, but reloading them has been buggy. 5 character slots GM's were present in game a lot. Resna, Norlan, and Eradal were test realms. We queued a lot during the queue system testing, but otherwise thre was never a long wait. On the 25th, it'll really depend on server population. No idea on when the download will be available. In testing, it varied. But I can tell you, if it's ready early, they'll let us know. No idea of the time of day yet. Seasons were tested (LOVE fall!) and time of day works too. Caravans worked, but there are bugs. Housing was not available in the pre-A2 testing. Lawless zones are there, but empty mostly.
lol ill do this now 1. Winstead- has the most developed content around it 2. Not very good.. slightly more than A1.. CC really doesnt have much to it right now besides sculpting, and not even close to what we saw in the CC showcase. 3. 5 4. Yes they were pretty active. sometimes working, sometimes just playing for fun. 1 even nuked me with his GM powers for fun. Earlier tests a few months ago were all GM run 5. Resna, Norlan, Eredal are what we had 6. Most queues were only for testing purposes but i do believe there will be lots of waiting on 10/25 7. No info yet 8. Seasons are in, yes 9. Trading and caravans both in 10. no housing yet 11. Lawless Zones only became functional this test. While I visited them, I didnt see anyone to PvP... Desert looking nice tho
I’ve been playing, it’s not a solo game, but I dont mind that. I’m also playing T&L I can count on one hand how many times I’ve died after weeks it’s not challenging at all. This game is challenging and it is not forgiving and I love it! Lineage 2 is my favourite game…
Haha yeah it definitely isn’t whilst there’s a lot of similarities with mobs and other systems it’s wayyyy off, honestly i wish they did lineage 3 and kept 90% of the systems the same especially karma system and added in other cool stuff
The 25th cant come soon enough, ill be working though so hopefully ill at least be able to make a character before servers probably crash hard Im 100% playing a dunir bard
@RitchieSH omfg nooooo Idk how i didn't realize, i haven't been keeping up on news honestly because I didn't want to get hyped with no testing date. That sucks a bit, oh well I know it's testing anyway, it'll get there:)
@@T_Birmingham nov 8th if you bought access after a certain point 25th for previous testers and ppl who bought bundles earlier (i got mine in 2020/ 2021)
Highly agree on most of your takes Ritchie. Mage was rough, I've also mained that. Fighter was much more enjoyable! Thanks for the content, love seeing you grow.
Mage is at its best when you can form your prestigious mage circle with friends and just start mowing everything down with fire, lightning, and ice. 3-4 mages in a group can play off of each others spell effects. It is a sight to behold when a group of people charge up their spell and then make everything in from of them just crumple.
Mage is a group class similar to bards their role is just dps instead of support. They are ment to be played with a frontline and idealy a healer and support basically mage is one of those classes that you can build a team around because of his strong aoe. If you play solo mage you should have a hard time in my opinion. Also keep in mind nobody is really playing their classes correctly right now the learning curve just began
I have an older system atm. I did test what I could, which for me was windowed mode when I started it was fairly wonky. It s a lot less wonky now.The graphics are fabulous.
You touched on some of the classes and their ability to play solo, such as cleric being OP and bard being almost group exclusive, how about the others? I'm obviously asking since I'm planning to play Tank and want to know if I can actually do something or will I be a crappy fighter?
I mean.. Tank is the best tank you can find.. I havent played much as 1 as they are never my go to, but from what people have told me they really enjoy it and it seems to hold up well even solo
If the melee class is action combat and the casters are tab, casters are sure to dominate. For a pvp-heavy game this is not good. I hope they don't mess up on that department
This is not at all true lmao. U have one teleport as a mage for example. I have multiple gap closes as a warrior. Tab target wont help you one bit here your gonna get shredded either way. Positioning class knowledge group play etc are so much more important then if you use Tab or action target that it basically doesnt matter you just do what works better for you. You get no advantage for using either
Making it hard to solo basic levels is an issue for me , a lot of the time I get when I have time , so loosing that aspect of being able to just grind out some levels on my own is disappointing
I see your point a little bit, but in reality, I have never played an MMO where you can solo content where being able to solo content didn't make PvE completely mindless and boring. Because what tends to happen is you just get a group of four DPS (maybe optionally a healer) and blitz through everything, and it's super boring (looking at you, ESO). Therefore, I'm really glad Ashes takes the old-school approach of making PvP challenging, which to me makes it fun and interesting. There will 100% be people that will solo stuff that is meant for groups, but usually, you need an optimized build for things like that, and we are not at a point in Ashes' lifespan where people have specialized knowledge of their builds, all the synergies and gear, and can really play their characters to maximum efficiency.
Yea, I got tired of Narc being a weirdo in his videos. He began to creep me out. When I called him out on being "strange" in a bad way he silenced me LOL. Now I need to find new people to watch for my Ashes of Creation info.
@henrythegreatamerican8136 I never liked narc, but tolerated him. Then every video he put out started to look like he's campaigning against this game, so I'm searching for a different channel to follow for AoC. He's just kind of obnoxious, and proud of it apparently.
personally i'd rather see mages be weak at low level. that's the way they should be, weak and frail at the beginning, very powerful later on. mages should need assistance to grow, but the groups investment in the mage pays off later. and mages utility shouldn't just be lobbing nukes, that should be the least interesting and important part of having a mage in your group.
I played a level 15 ranger in earlier tests when they gave us a boost scroll, but it wasn’t a very long test. I still didn’t like it much at that point from the little time I had
For a game that was announced about 8 years ago, I can't say I'm too impressed. Looks like it will still be another 2 years before it'll look somewhat polished.
@@buddybarlow9604no, 8 years to get to a extremely basic alpha is not normal, the game has serious development problems, just admit it and set yourself free from the cult
Are there any classes that run faster than everyone else outside of combat, and can they bring that extra speed to anyone in the group? This is one of those things that made pvp oriented games like DAoC a miserable experience unless you were grouped with one of those speed classes. You'd always be run down by bigger groups with no way to win or escape. Hope this game learns from that and at least lets mounts have the fastest speed in the game outside of combat. While in combat I don't mind speed differences, but outside? Nope. Yea, sorry for the long rant, but need to know.... It will show whether or not this game understands fundamental pvp balance.
@@RitchieSH Yea, that might be the nail for anyone who likes to be with one or two friends. It means someone will have to play a bard whether or not they really want to or you will be killed non stop. Goes to show this game is not paying attention to past games. Can't wait to see how they handle stealth. Is it permanent invisibility? That's another nail in the coffin for most pvp games that makes them miserable experiences for anyone not playing a stealth class.
@@henrythegreatamerican8136bro, bard runspeed is standard Ib tabletop games and stealth is standard too, you want two unique things removed? Every class Will have its pros and cons
@@Erumyr In a pvp game it needs to be balanced properly, not completely removed. Nobody cares what is standard. When players can't find a bard for their own small group and are constantly chased down by a larger group with a bard, the last thing on their mind will be what a standard tabletop game offers. They'll most likely log into the game less and less until they quit. Nobody wants to play a pvp game where you can't escape large roaming groups. And the solution is simple. Give everyone access to mounts that all have the same speed when OUT OF COMBAT. As for stealth, there are ways to implement it without permanent invisibility.
I have to say, I've lost all enthusiasm I had for this game. After finding out all the showcases were essentially fake assets to see how bare bones and grindy this A2 will be, they're nowhere near the vision that Steven has been proclaiming on every single live stream. This game seems more like vaporware with each update. I guess this is what happens with a game studio founded by a guy that made his money in MLM schemes.
My first day won't happen till 2027 swing the game is fully released. Only suckers pay to be testers on a incomplete game. Lmao.. I like to enjoy myself and play full completed games ..
@@jjswigger8591 I really want to know, are you actually fucking retarded? I am 29 years old and would never touch that piece of shit Throne and Liberty since I saw the gameplay months ago.
You're using the word "game", it aint a game yet. It's good that's it's buggy NOW and not when it actually releases. It'll give them time to fix those bugs so the product is better for launch
Guess I'm delusional then. I will have fun when phase 3 launches in May. I don't need the game to be perfect or the best ever to have fun. No other game I've ever played has been perfect either. I feel like I have realistic expectations. I'm excited anyways. 🤷♂️
The dumbest thing game companies do nowadays is make content only playable with a group. The hardest thing to do in gaming today is find a group of stable people to play one single game with during a certain period of time. The majority of gamers are casual and hop on when they have time. Gone are the times when you schedule playing time with your group, hopefully they make a party find tool that's easy and intuitive.
@@lukeit7949 I'm just saying if you want more numbers and to bring players in you can't just cater to the neck beards who have nothing better to do than transpose their life into an MMO.
@@RitchieSH I'm just finding it difficult as a returning player to MMO's. Tried coming back to WoW after years, completely overwhelmed and confused, tried GW2 and that was a little easier to follow but after not getting into a guild after about a week I ultimately gave up.
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Reminds me of the days of DaoC. Soloing was not viable and a significant amount of time was spent fonding hunting parties if you arent already playing with friends.
Finding hubting parties was a great way to make friends though.
DaoC mentioned. What a legend
actually makes me want to try solo in this more, because i know it wont be afk faceroll on keyboard PvE difficulty that every other mmo designs around for that mainstream $$$. finally mmo pve content that's designed for (if inadvertently) experienced gaming hobbyists, that's not relegated to 3% of content - at endgame
Yeah FFXI is/was like this too, it's something I really enjoy about old mmos
good old DAoC
i did a solo bard during the testing and had a blast but i was using a sword and shield with the bard but i didnt get to any more than level 9 or 10 i can't remember. Yes it is a hard grind.
Great video, however Mages absolutely crank. They have some of the highest single target dmg and the highest AoE dmg. Being able to AC>DBL Shatter is massive, plus balancing your debuffs. Far ahead of the other classes when minmaxed
would love to hear more about this, sounds like you have experience with it so please enlighten those of us who intend to play mage!
@@SilentSolvent I mean his video is pretty spot on. I just wanted to chime in on Mage since it's so good. I'm currently working on a video titled "I played Ashes of Creation for 500 Hours..." Where I go over my experience in an hour long video. It won't be live until tomorrow, but I'll copy paste what I said about Mages in below so I don't have to type it all again. I'll also have a video after that will be a mage guide.
Mage felt fantastic and looks stunning. Mages are easily the best DPS in the game right now. Objectively, in the right hands, Mages have superb single target dmg and unparalleled AoE thanks to all the amazing abilities they gave us. Shatter, which if you played World of Warcraft, it’s pretty much the same thing except in Ashes it procs when you hit a frozen target with a Lightning Spell and it does an insane amount of dmg. Your single target spells like Firebolt, Frostbolt and Lightning Strike crank, and all have linked talents that make them do decently more dmg and some even turn them from Single Target abilities to AoE abilities .
And speaking of AoE, Intrepid definitely followed the MMO Mage trend of dominating AoE. We have 10 different ways to do AoE, some are extremely powerful, like Ball Lightning(which wasn’t always working while testing) but when it was working it does very high damage and applies Volatile to all enemies hit, which reduces their magical mitigation by 15%, making all your spells do more dmg. Magma field erupts when you put it down, turning that area into Lava, setting every enemy inside that area on fire, dealing very high burning damage as well as the Magma field dealing separate dmg. Plus there’s another skill called Pyromania that makes your Magma Field cast faster and ticks two extra times.
Chain Lightning was absolutely cracked when it was working, When paired with the talent Aftershock, casting Chain Lighting on a target that has the Staggered debuff causes your Chain Lightning to trigger twice. Which when paired with the Shatter talent we talked about earlier takes you to the next level.
One of my favorite things about the Mage was my talent choices going from PvE to PvP. You’re able to use pretty much the same talents when swapping quickly to PvP. This is nice because many times you will be PvP’ed while in the world, to the point where I'd suggest other classes build their character to be pretty defensive with talents that will help you in a PvP situation. However mage had so much crossover that it feels flawless, which is important because while they’re letting us respec for free on our skill tree, it won’t be that way in the actual game.
And in terms of PvP’ing I don’t think anything beats a Mage in a straight up 1v1. I’ve heard Rangers talk all this shit about manhandling mages and how good clerics are at 1v1’s, but i’ve never had an issue dealing with any class in a 1v1 scenario. With absorb shields, slows, blinks, DoT’s, shatters and more, enemies barely can even touch me. Rangers are the most deadly and a very good ranger will give me a run for the money, but unlike when you’re playing against the other classes and you’re trying to range them, you can’t outrange or outrun a Ranger, so just nut up and slam in their face. They can’t handle the dmg burst and even though other DPS classes like Fighter and Ranger can have very high burst, Mages have a MASSIVE absorb shield and can range you before you get your big abilities off. So trust me, i’ll get my opener off before yours even does dmg to me.
Lastly, leveling as a Mage was as easy as ever. One of my Mages I leveled purely Solo, so I can get a good judge on how it felt, which as you’ll learn in the leveling section, is giga slow. But even solo, you have no problems fighting mobs since you can kite them with slows and whatnot. You’ll have no problem finding groups for leveling parties, since nothing comes close to a Mage’s AoE and to top it off, Mages can do the big aoe pulls with ease since we have an absorb shield, roots and the ability to blink back out.
I could talk about mages forever lol. But that should do.
I was working out to make T2 plate armor will require the input of 10 apprentice level skills so crafting is no joke when it comes to input from others.
Had first hand experience with your mage, you know when your group of 8 attacked me at the farm. JK your healers kept me alive.
So glad the verbal NDA has dropped.
Have actually been playing solo on purpose so the POI will be new to me when I get a few guild mates come this weekend, if the servers hold up that is.
@@empire5235 I mean the game is push as a group game wether that is guild or node groups, you shouldn’t expect to do everything yourself, let alone in the end you will only grandmaster in one of each group of artisan groups
@@Ragecon87 I am very well aware of that, it is putting the multiplayer back in MMO. Looking very much forward to getting into the test with my guild, well when some others finally get in. Was just pointing out the number of skills needed.
Thought it was grand master in any 2 skills and 2 skills only, can be from the same tree or different trees.
I have a key, I do not plan on using it in Phase 1, I’ll be honest, the current state of this Alpha seems too small on scale and too time consuming to be worth my time investment. Once Phase 2 comes out, or even Phase 3, I’ll consider joining in, till then, I’ll watch from afar through content creators and see what the main feedback seems to be.
@@makkura9245 yeah I feel the same..I’ll jump on to have a look but not planning on investing any major time until Phase 2
You said you wanted all our questions, heres my quick list haha:
Which nodes were the most popular in your playthrough?
How good was the character customization? Is there anyway to save your character appearance templates?
How many character slots did you have?
Did you see a lot of GM's ingame interacting with players?
Do you know the names of the realms?
Did you ever have queue times, if so how long and do you expect them to be an issue in the 25th?
Do we know when downloading will be available for the alpha?
Do you know what time the alpha is live for those of us considering taking off work?
Is seasons available yet?
Is trading and caravans available yet?
Do you know if housing is available yet?
How was the lawless zones?
I can chime in here a little:
On Resna, Joeva and Miraleth were the two best developed nodes.
You can save your character template, but reloading them has been buggy.
5 character slots
GM's were present in game a lot.
Resna, Norlan, and Eradal were test realms.
We queued a lot during the queue system testing, but otherwise thre was never a long wait. On the 25th, it'll really depend on server population.
No idea on when the download will be available. In testing, it varied. But I can tell you, if it's ready early, they'll let us know.
No idea of the time of day yet.
Seasons were tested (LOVE fall!) and time of day works too.
Caravans worked, but there are bugs.
Housing was not available in the pre-A2 testing.
Lawless zones are there, but empty mostly.
lol ill do this now
1. Winstead- has the most developed content around it
2. Not very good.. slightly more than A1.. CC really doesnt have much to it right now besides sculpting, and not even close to what we saw in the CC showcase.
3. 5
4. Yes they were pretty active. sometimes working, sometimes just playing for fun. 1 even nuked me with his GM powers for fun. Earlier tests a few months ago were all GM run
5. Resna, Norlan, Eredal are what we had
6. Most queues were only for testing purposes but i do believe there will be lots of waiting on 10/25
7. No info yet
8. Seasons are in, yes
9. Trading and caravans both in
10. no housing yet
11. Lawless Zones only became functional this test. While I visited them, I didnt see anyone to PvP... Desert looking nice tho
You both are awesome thanks! :)
I’ve been playing, it’s not a solo game, but I dont mind that. I’m also playing T&L I can count on one hand how many times I’ve died after weeks it’s not challenging at all.
This game is challenging and it is not forgiving and I love it! Lineage 2 is my favourite game…
@@sneakz7120 throne is a zvz focused mmo with pve undertones. Ashes is the opposite, so....
Ironically, T&L is supposed to be the spiritual successor to Lineage lmfao
Haha yeah it definitely isn’t whilst there’s a lot of similarities with mobs and other systems it’s wayyyy off, honestly i wish they did lineage 3 and kept 90% of the systems the same especially karma system and added in other cool stuff
@sneakz7120 yeah I agree completely. I think the age of old school style mmos might be returning, here's hoping
Just noticed that Steven crouches at 1:41 in the video. Did anyone else notice this? As far as I was aware crouching wasn't available.
i think you can /kneel emote it
@@RitchieSH ahh okay that makes sense
The 25th cant come soon enough, ill be working though so hopefully ill at least be able to make a character before servers probably crash hard
Im 100% playing a dunir bard
@@PinkKitten002 on the website it says Nov 8th. Do Alpha participants gain access on the 25th while all new Alpha members wait until Nov 8th?
This is correct T_Briningham.
Also dunir isn’t in phase 1 :(
@RitchieSH omfg nooooo
Idk how i didn't realize, i haven't been keeping up on news honestly because I didn't want to get hyped with no testing date.
That sucks a bit, oh well I know it's testing anyway, it'll get there:)
@@T_Birmingham nov 8th if you bought access after a certain point 25th for previous testers and ppl who bought bundles earlier (i got mine in 2020/ 2021)
Highly agree on most of your takes Ritchie. Mage was rough, I've also mained that. Fighter was much more enjoyable! Thanks for the content, love seeing you grow.
appreciate the watch, thank you!
Mage is at its best when you can form your prestigious mage circle with friends and just start mowing everything down with fire, lightning, and ice. 3-4 mages in a group can play off of each others spell effects. It is a sight to behold when a group of people charge up their spell and then make everything in from of them just crumple.
Mage is a group class similar to bards their role is just dps instead of support. They are ment to be played with a frontline and idealy a healer and support basically mage is one of those classes that you can build a team around because of his strong aoe. If you play solo mage you should have a hard time in my opinion. Also keep in mind nobody is really playing their classes correctly right now the learning curve just began
I have an older system atm. I did test what I could, which for me was windowed mode when I started it was fairly wonky. It s a lot less wonky now.The graphics are fabulous.
You touched on some of the classes and their ability to play solo, such as cleric being OP and bard being almost group exclusive, how about the others?
I'm obviously asking since I'm planning to play Tank and want to know if I can actually do something or will I be a crappy fighter?
I mean.. Tank is the best tank you can find.. I havent played much as 1 as they are never my go to, but from what people have told me they really enjoy it and it seems to hold up well even solo
If the melee class is action combat and the casters are tab, casters are sure to dominate. For a pvp-heavy game this is not good. I hope they don't mess up on that department
You can definitely go tab as melee, I meant that as melee classes are the only ones that make action feel viable
Meh, melee is generally devastating with gap closers, bleeds, stuns, huge numbers, tanky... don't worry about melee.
This is not at all true lmao. U have one teleport as a mage for example. I have multiple gap closes as a warrior. Tab target wont help you one bit here your gonna get shredded either way. Positioning class knowledge group play etc are so much more important then if you use Tab or action target that it basically doesnt matter you just do what works better for you. You get no advantage for using either
well made video, good stuff ill fire that our discord for the others to watch.
thanks!
Nice video, almost feel bad for nuking your group the other day.
Almost. C:
😂😂❤️
imagine you and your friends actually have/want to spend the money on this.. I'm looking forward to full release in 2035
Making it hard to solo basic levels is an issue for me , a lot of the time I get when I have time , so loosing that aspect of being able to just grind out some levels on my own is disappointing
you can solo up to 5/6 pretty easily then you gotta be careful where you go
I see your point a little bit, but in reality, I have never played an MMO where you can solo content where being able to solo content didn't make PvE completely mindless and boring. Because what tends to happen is you just get a group of four DPS (maybe optionally a healer) and blitz through everything, and it's super boring (looking at you, ESO). Therefore, I'm really glad Ashes takes the old-school approach of making PvP challenging, which to me makes it fun and interesting. There will 100% be people that will solo stuff that is meant for groups, but usually, you need an optimized build for things like that, and we are not at a point in Ashes' lifespan where people have specialized knowledge of their builds, all the synergies and gear, and can really play their characters to maximum efficiency.
NIce. Was busy listening to guild chat :)
Still got your 5 cents
Bro talking to us all casually like he's not a serial murderer :D
CORRUPTION IS KEY
Yea, I got tired of Narc being a weirdo in his videos. He began to creep me out. When I called him out on being "strange" in a bad way he silenced me LOL.
Now I need to find new people to watch for my Ashes of Creation info.
@henrythegreatamerican8136 I never liked narc, but tolerated him. Then every video he put out started to look like he's campaigning against this game, so I'm searching for a different channel to follow for AoC. He's just kind of obnoxious, and proud of it apparently.
personally i'd rather see mages be weak at low level. that's the way they should be, weak and frail at the beginning, very powerful later on. mages should need assistance to grow, but the groups investment in the mage pays off later. and mages utility shouldn't just be lobbing nukes, that should be the least interesting and important part of having a mage in your group.
Are people not worried that all these devs that are kept off of other things to fix/patch the game is gonna slow the game down so much more
actual braindead comment lol
I don't know if you messed with healing but super curious to know how playing healer feels pvp/pve wise
I didnt play cleric much, but the cleric has a pretty rounded out kit, and everyone ive had healing me love it
man those running animations are pretty rough, hopefully they get fixed up down the line.
I think they’ve said animation passes won’t come until much closer to the betas
@@RitchieSHwhich is fine imo, there’s other things I want them to work on much before the animations. If they’re place bolder for now I’ll live 😃
At level 4 you said the ranger was trash? Maybe their slow to ramp up or have you experienced one say level 10 or 12?
I played a level 15 ranger in earlier tests when they gave us a boost scroll, but it wasn’t a very long test. I still didn’t like it much at that point from the little time I had
Sounds like i should wait...got the alpha 4 years ago and dont feel like grinding 100 hours for 25 levels only on mobs...where the content at...
For a game that was announced about 8 years ago, I can't say I'm too impressed. Looks like it will still be another 2 years before it'll look somewhat polished.
Yea that's game development, it is a alpha still
sound like you comparing making a game in the 2000s and a next gen one.
10 years to make a game is insanely Long time with The game Technology we have now. Its embarrasing
@@buddybarlow9604no, 8 years to get to a extremely basic alpha is not normal, the game has serious development problems, just admit it and set yourself free from the cult
it'll be more like 3 years
How does getting the secondary archetype work? Do you get them at lvl 1?
They arent in the game yet. Supposed to be around 25
@@RitchieSH Ah, explains why the Bard isn't a viable solo leveling class. Can't go Bard/Fighter or Bard/Tank
Grouping up and mob grinding? That actually sounds amazing.
Yeah it is pretty fun
How does that sound amazing?
@@lukeit7949 solo leveling is boring as hell. FFXI it was all party leveling and it was so much better.
Crafting reminds me of Crowfall 😅😅
RIP
are you playing this weekend?
@@acebeaupre7306 hell yeah!
@@acebeaupre7306 Absolutely!
Are there any classes that run faster than everyone else outside of combat, and can they bring that extra speed to anyone in the group? This is one of those things that made pvp oriented games like DAoC a miserable experience unless you were grouped with one of those speed classes. You'd always be run down by bigger groups with no way to win or escape. Hope this game learns from that and at least lets mounts have the fastest speed in the game outside of combat. While in combat I don't mind speed differences, but outside? Nope.
Yea, sorry for the long rant, but need to know.... It will show whether or not this game understands fundamental pvp balance.
Only speed buffs I’ve noticed is bard has one they can cast on the party that increases movement speed
@@RitchieSH Yea, that might be the nail for anyone who likes to be with one or two friends. It means someone will have to play a bard whether or not they really want to or you will be killed non stop. Goes to show this game is not paying attention to past games.
Can't wait to see how they handle stealth. Is it permanent invisibility? That's another nail in the coffin for most pvp games that makes them miserable experiences for anyone not playing a stealth class.
@@henrythegreatamerican8136bro, bard runspeed is standard Ib tabletop games and stealth is standard too, you want two unique things removed? Every class Will have its pros and cons
@@Erumyr In a pvp game it needs to be balanced properly, not completely removed. Nobody cares what is standard. When players can't find a bard for their own small group and are constantly chased down by a larger group with a bard, the last thing on their mind will be what a standard tabletop game offers. They'll most likely log into the game less and less until they quit. Nobody wants to play a pvp game where you can't escape large roaming groups. And the solution is simple. Give everyone access to mounts that all have the same speed when OUT OF COMBAT. As for stealth, there are ways to implement it without permanent invisibility.
Remember Wolves and Bears are NOT your friends!
fucking wolves man
@@RitchieSH de da devil!
@JohnAPrescott then why do they have friend ears?
Rock it Ricky
thanks M-X Fant
Always liked grinding better than wow like questing.
fair!
What happens when you die? Death run?
you can "attune" to a shrine, which gives you a home spawn, or choose to spawn at the closest shrine and run back to your body hoping no one looted it
I won't have any friends testing in this Alpha 2. So I will sleep starting solo. Anyone wanna hook me up with a guild?
Can apply to Genesis, link is in the pinned comment!
log in details ? :P
lolol
At present game is boring, needs people to be fun because there is like no content. Pvp is good though, game is grindy.
Phase 1 is meant to be stability/performance testing, content starts to come in more in december
I have to say, I've lost all enthusiasm I had for this game. After finding out all the showcases were essentially fake assets to see how bare bones and grindy this A2 will be, they're nowhere near the vision that Steven has been proclaiming on every single live stream. This game seems more like vaporware with each update. I guess this is what happens with a game studio founded by a guy that made his money in MLM schemes.
the assets weren't fake, they are there. Just not everything was functioning as shown in certain showcases.. but i can understand the frustration
I only have ONE Question.
When can I play?
I got 16,250 Embers. Back on Sept 5th of 2020 at 8:00 PM I bought the $300 Pack. When do I get to play?
To clarify, I have the Alpha 2 AND Beta 2.
Friday, 25 October
What time of day will the alpha 2 be released?
hasnt been announced yet
I want to know more about the weapon skills
You mean the skill trees and such?
how good is the archer so far?
Low tier on the rankings. I can’t get into it. Damage is low, and the overall kit needs work
@@RitchieSH dang thanks fam
looks like a worst version of every mmo currently out there
Extra MASSIVE...it is.
My first day won't happen till 2027 swing the game is fully released. Only suckers pay to be testers on a incomplete game. Lmao.. I like to enjoy myself and play full completed games ..
Is there a combat log that you have access to?
yep
@@RitchieSH Thank you for answering. Does that mean as in a file on your hard drive?
@@NKBrilloYT I haven’t actually dug in to see if it’s in a file too, just in game in a chat tab similar to WoW that I know of
@@RitchieSH Thanks again!
What the hell is this footage?? You basically ran in circles….
Ah, mob grinding for 100 hours. Just when I had the itch for maplestory.
lolol
hopefully less hackers than maplestory haha
@@jjswigger8591 I really want to know, are you actually fucking retarded? I am 29 years old and would never touch that piece of shit Throne and Liberty since I saw the gameplay months ago.
Game is way to buggy needs to go back to prealpha. Game is just not ready
You're using the word "game", it aint a game yet. It's good that's it's buggy NOW and not when it actually releases. It'll give them time to fix those bugs so the product is better for launch
Alpha's are meant to be buggy friend
The most overhyped mmo ever. Looks terrible 😂 8 years and this is where it’s at
Lack of action combat is not a deal breaker for me. Getting to old for that type of gameplay. Let me tab target!
Yeah, tab is fun enough where I don’t really care, plus as a mage main I’m not exactly choosing to aim over tab anyways
Intelligent gamer: "Lower your expectations"
Delusional gamer: "I don't mind anything I've heard. I'll have an absolute blast no matter what."
Guess I'm delusional then. I will have fun when phase 3 launches in May. I don't need the game to be perfect or the best ever to have fun. No other game I've ever played has been perfect either. I feel like I have realistic expectations. I'm excited anyways. 🤷♂️
So long as its better than TOL so we Can dump that korean crap mmo
Give cleric a melee strike please god
HARD pass for me
The dumbest thing game companies do nowadays is make content only playable with a group. The hardest thing to do in gaming today is find a group of stable people to play one single game with during a certain period of time. The majority of gamers are casual and hop on when they have time. Gone are the times when you schedule playing time with your group, hopefully they make a party find tool that's easy and intuitive.
Join a guild, there are plenty of guilds out there that cater to the more casual players!
Then don't play an mmo, it's as easy as that
@@lukeit7949 I'm just saying if you want more numbers and to bring players in you can't just cater to the neck beards who have nothing better to do than transpose their life into an MMO.
@@RitchieSH I'm just finding it difficult as a returning player to MMO's. Tried coming back to WoW after years, completely overwhelmed and confused, tried GW2 and that was a little easier to follow but after not getting into a guild after about a week I ultimately gave up.