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That’s certainly a wider aspect of endgame for sure! Appreciate the additional notes to my video. To that point, crafters may not fall into that category though so there’s an element of game loop(s) which falls out of that a little. I think the overarching message is you technically make your own endgame depending on what aspect of the wider game you want to engage in.

@@BlandPickle I don't recall what the looting rules are for the game, but in full-loot or partial-loot PVP games, you'd run into that loop for crafters, as they'd continually have high level customers needing to replace gear. Looting aside, you'd still need crafters for repairing damaged structures, and likely for reparing high end damaged gear. Then you would also have all the caravan and ships stuff that would need to be crafted. The consumables... would be consumed and there would need to be new ones. Etc. Given the nature of trade routes and caravans and such in game, and the dangers associated with transporting across multiple continents, what you may end up having happen at end-game for crafters is having them go with groups across continents to gather resources from those regions that aren't present in the home region and crafting said items there as well. It would be high-risk to do such, but doing cross continent trade routes may be near impossible. There could also potentially be scenarios where you have to physically be present at any given location to learn specific rare recipes or something. There may also be the potential for crafters to be put in positions where they are actively repairing during sieges, be it the walls and defenses they are defending, or the siege equipment that their side is using to attack. Typically, in games with enchanting to very high degrees, like Archeage, the chance to get that last 1% quality on items or to get that very final tier of rarity is astronomically small, like 1/1,000,000 (or basically 1 of that rarity in entire server) which can give a sense of chase and competition between crafters of opposing metropolises and such.

Yep absolutely to all of this. Makes perfect sense and likely the scenario for ashes. You mention ArchAge and one of the pillars of inspiration for AoC is ArchAge which I’m sure you’re already aware of. There are many features we’re yet to fully understand and which may even undergo focal changes when we hit full production. I figure a lot of what you and I have discussed and the details in my video will be close but change so always possible. To that end, one example - apparently there’s a stat squish coming for enchantment because TTK in PvP is too quick or something. So in my video I touched upon various non systemic aspects of endgame, there is a reality and pattern to these types of games, I am always open to things being a little different depending on mechanics.

@ have they ever explicitly stated if nodes can forcibly downgraded by some means? The structures of course can be destroyed by sieging, but have they ever explicitly stated that, say, a Metropolis node can be forced back down to a City?

@@JeremyB8419 Yeah, good question, not to my awareness. Other than Seiges as you mentioned, the only way I know node levels being controlled is via the vassal system, but that is more of a "you can only level up to" rather than "lets level this node down by choice". Curiously, why would such a mechanism be of interest to you?

Yep! During the time of recording there was a bug that triggered multiple deadly finishers, from your inactive weapon and also from weapons you had used in the past hence the confusion.

Thanks for the comment! At the moment you can’t get journeyman tools to gather iron ore and willows but that’s purely because the level isn’t in the alpha, I believe journeyman tools will be coming in phase 3 which will then allow you to collect these items. I understand it’s frustrating though. I’m going to try execute on that plan, it may fail haha

Thanks for the comment man! There are defo better builds out there, and plenty of different synergies. This videos focuses on the basics and isn’t intended to be a perfect guide but more a basic run though :) I plan on doing an updated one where I focus on more of the Clerics cc and stun kit etc.

Oooer that is interesting as hell! I kinda wanna find out now haha

@@BlandPickle when I log on later will wander over to new aila see what’s up if anything.

Let me know!!

Hey! No worries. Ashes of Creation has its own FPS and screen ms measurement tool, if you press shift+alt+f you’ll get to fps and ms counter to the bottom right of your mini map

@@BlandPickle nice nice. thank you ;) i rly hope AoC gets big. thx for explaining the deadly finisher. i was all time thinking who the hell is that finisher, hah.

No problem!! I hope AoC does well too

See this where I’m conflicted, how I understood it was that only tanks and clerics were getting access to the second class system. Sounds like I’ve misinterpreted this and what you’re saying is, everyone will be getting access to the second class system but the only classes they can use will be clerics and tanks? If so I really missed the mark there haha. I dug through the wiki a while back on this - what I understood was we will get skill points to contribute to a tree, that augments our existing skills. To my understanding that augment either makes a new skill entirely or it enhances the current one. I think (I hope) it a choice we get to make. To that end, if it’s anything like arcages system (it’s based off of it) then it’ll be new classes and not just augments.

@blandpickle I’m agreeing with you. I may have worded myself poorly but I like the idea that cleric and tank are getting their secondary classes made available. How it goes down? I wouldn’t refute what you saw on the wiki but I’m not exactly sure how they’re going to pull it off and make it fun and differentiable. Take the cleric for example; what about the existing ranger kit could be incorporated into the cleric kit to make it a (insert whatever that class combo is called)? Can we make the smite bleed? Is it druidy now and our heals root enemies in an aoe underneath? Like, I’m just concerned that it’s going feel really flat and instead of the class combos making a whole new playstyle, instead it’s just cleric with a bow.

Ahh got you, sorry I totally misunderstood haha. I’m not feeling 100% atm so good chance I missread your comment. I think we are on the same page now! I agree, I think there is a lot of work to do and like with a good chunk of the systems we have I wouldn’t be suprised if we got a watered down version as a starting point. To be honest it’s really hard to gauge. I have heard, yet I can't remember when or where, Steven talk about Clerics getting a death skill when comboed with a particular class. So I'm hopefully, but as always with these types of things, it's pinch of salt until we see more. The design pillars of the game would suggest that these will be stand-alone classes with enough differentiation, so I'm remaining hopeful for that :)

Yes! About a day after posting this video I found the details on the wiki 🤦🤦

@@BlandPickle You posted this video "1 day ago", so I will just assume my comment was what led you to find it on the wiki, lol

@@Cimarb😆😆 ah I should explain. I schedule my videos - I upload them about a week before they release, I usually have a queue of two scheduled. So technically I found out about a day ago but this video was uploaded before I found it out! I hope this helps. Regardless, appreciate you pointing this out :D

Firstly this is a sandbox not a theme park. It’s PvPvX. While there is a reality where this may happen, like any other game, it already has a strong following. It’s not trying to compete in the same market as wow, it’s trying to corner a niche gameplay style to the likes of Albion online, archage, lineage 2 and Eve Online. Its focus is for players to build the landscape we play in. I’m hopefully they achieve this vision but the game is in alpha and has a long road ahead of it. The studio is passionate and driven to deliver so I wish them the best outcome :)

Thank you for the subscription! As a starting point part of this video may help - ua-cam.com/video/3BGjWCY3K4Q/v-deo.htmlsi=zkO58hPjPg00k3qw the combo system is effectively predicated on landing your auto attacks in rapid succession to trigger deadly finishers. So you configure your finishers on your weapon tree and auto attack away to trigger it. It creates a pattern in your rotation outside of just mana dumping skills. So you auto attack to trigger DF, while you have passives running, skill dump, manage npc rinse repeat. As you maybe aware each passive skill tree of a weapon is different, so finding which weapons best suit your character is up to you and your play style. I run a great sword and longbow as a cleric because great sword has bleed on it and the extra damage for me is required! Hope this helps as a starting point?

@BlandPickle i appreciate that, thank you. I was over thinking it. There's really very little in game explanation on it, so I wasn't really sure. Not out of the realm for an alpha , im sure a better more detailed explanation will appear in game before launch. I am so excited for this game.

Me too! Yeah I think they will eventually be improving took tips and so on as we move toward beta, right now it’s core systems focus. I can’t wait to see where this all leads to!

Ah that sucks! Have you been on the discord in the questions tab to see if anyone can help there? I know a lot of people work through the issues of game crashes and solve it with the community. If you’ve already done that, there’s not too much more I can recommend without knowing more about the steps you’ve taken so far.

Fair call! I’m optimistic given I’m someone who’s watched large alliances and corporations that controlled major pockets of space tumble in eve online. I never played all that much but I followed the videos detailing the complex interactions. My favourite narrative was about goonswarm haha. One of the Sol Deus guild members posted a video of their fight with a group of people fighting back on reddit. I commented saying it was good to see peeps challenging them and he agreed. his words were approximately “yeah they’re finally fighting back”. Says all I need to know haha. Cheers for watching the vid!

I literally cannot wait to see how it all unfolds! Watching the first node go down will be epic!!

The good gear seems to be topical for many people. Skill well haha I certainly have to work on aspects of my rotation :P

hey, thanks for the comment. I can understand that. This game certainly does tip the scales toward group gameplay and the make your own quest approach is very much what fills that grind gap. I've said a few times I do worry just a tiny bit about how solo gameplay will feel and if it's out of sorts with balance atm, but we are also in a hyper confined environment where a lot of the other content isn't yet revealed. Either way, for me, two hours of fishing, or collecting or killing some skeles is fun content so long as it remains chill and manageable , so I think I'll always find something to do, but from a wider-players perspective, I can see how it can feel jarring. I reckon keep and eye on the development. I think this will be a fun game to play.

hey, thanks for the question. At the time I thought that was the intent of the weapon system, that both weapons synergised given they were both equipped. I thought it would be cool if you could run ward on one weapon and refreshing follow-through on another without switching over, it made the power fantasy aspect of character building feel awesome. Hind sights is 20/20 and from a sensibility perspective I think I was just being a tad bit too excited. At the time the weapons were bugged, and they were procing both deadly finishers via the one weapon, so my comment was due to that in part. It makes good sense how the weapons currently work (that is to say separately) given the prior interaction you can see in the first few minutes of the video (my confusion too) has been fixed. Hope this answers your question?

Yay thank you so much for the support. That’s actually an interesting take! I never thought of that, thanks for the suggestion!!

Thanks man! I think it has to do with how close it looks like wow or other mmorpgs. It will take time to build the understanding.

To some it may not be, the game is a pvpvx game and reflective of archage mechanics, eve, lineage 2 and so on - which all had elements of the mechanisms being implemented in AoC. It’s not to say this is all you will experience, it’s just an aspect of a game that is a burden players will need to find ways to deal with. If that doesn’t sound like something you’re willing to game through that’s ok, the team at Interpid recognise this well.

It's amazing and will continue to become even better. This isn't Darkfall, there's a punishment for people just outright killing you. You have to understand the mechanics to be able to use them to your advantage.

Exactly! Game the game! 🙏🏻

@ Is there a punishment? Cause right now it doesnt seem like there is. The ganking is unreal - which will only get more frustrating as zones cut off the lower leveled population. All im hearing from this is "If you arent keeping up, you'll be left behind." which doesnt sound like a healthy approach to the game at all.

@ Yes of course, check out the corruption system. If someone attacks you and you don't flag and fight back then they will go corrupt when they kill you. Resources are suppose to be fought over, it's the life blood of the gameplay loop. Just because you lose one resource to a higher level doesn't mean you'll lose every resource to a higher level. If you're being trained by mobs then my previous statement still applies. Learn how to act when that happens, what can each class do to CC the person trying to train you? What can you do to control the mobs to help people get away? If leveling and gathering was too easy then shelf live of the game is greatly reduced. Some of the best gameplay experiences come from conflict in some way or another, even in your single player games

Yep, very subjective opinion based on my experience of a mage in phase 1. Given your play style it would make sense for it to be higher of course. I’m not married to my tier list nor did I try and claim it as a universal reflection of the archetype, so no ill intention there. I just never found the balance and alway had an empty mana bar even with inner fire and refreshing followthrough so I’d love to hear what your rotation is because I plan on having mage as an alt and I don’t wanna be sitting down all the time haha

Sorry in what sense do you see it being weak? As in not enough to do? Or not engaging enough?

@BlandPickle weak as in not enough to do since it's not the emphasis of the game to grind end game progression

Ah got you! Yeah I think it’s more defined by us as players, I suspect it will have a lot to do with node control, zone control and resource chasing.

Yep in your first two paragraphs I think we’re more or less saying the same thing. I was a little less structured but my goal was to express similar aspects to the same points you’re making! Nicely worded! In terms of caravans I hate the mechanic: it’s profitable yes but my thought is always “I have two hours to play, do I want to spent 45 of those two hours sluggishly pushing a caravan or do I wanna go pet things to death, pick flowers and fight skeletons for a sword?” And the answer is the later for me always hahaha

Clerics spells scale of magic rating only so your auto attack combos would scale from physical damage and your spells would be a wet tissue only useful for burn and cc. I am actually going to get myself some strength gear to see how the game responds to it, but my above is my current expectation of what would happen haha.

I actually didn’t realise Albion was a CF game! That’s actually really fascinating. I enjoyed playing it causally on my iPad for a time, but ultimately couldn’t settle into a groove with it. I think AoC had a lot of potential and I’m here for it. All I can do is keep my fingers crossed for Intrepid and support this journey. It’s shaping up to be an excellent game.

​@@BlandPickle Indeed it is, and I am enthusiastic about it! If you happen to read this message and have the opportunity, I would like to inquire about your opinion on a cleric equipped with strength gear. Does the majority of the cleric's damage stem from auto attacks? If so, I believe it could be enjoyable to experiment with a retribution paladin type build, particularly when playing solo. Cancel Reply

I did catch this question, I thought I responded to it on a seperate comment. My bad if I didn’t, physical attack would just contribute to your auto attack, your magic skills would be wet tissues used for cc, and you’d need healing dedicated equipment to cover the loss of magic power boosting your healing stats. I want to test this thought because I wonder if in some alternative reality it may scale off just whatever is bigger number which would be funny. I’ll test.

​@@BlandPickle I appreciate all the responses. I will be sure to test this out eventually. I enjoy running unorthodox builds as long as they are viable. Theory crafting is enjoyable and your videos have helped me gain a better understanding of the mechanics. Most importantly, I did not know about mousing over the weapon icon to see effects, percentages, etc., and holding shift to get different tooltips about things. Your content has provided me with a lot of value.

No worries! That’s my aim in all of this and glad it’s helped!! Nice chatting to you :)

Nice snag! Yeah the static rarity thing is a bit booty butts and something they need to fix but as the term goes “it’s alpha” haha. That being said the scarcity of resources in full production should level that out given the resources won’t spawn at the same rate everything is heavily dialled up. So I guess in your scenario snagging a legendary bluebell would be a wild accomplishment in full production as the respawn timers won’t be minutes, but rather 10-12 hours or something. Current estimates based on the wiki to hit 50 is 225 hours or there about, for most guilds that’s about 2 weeks of hardcore grinding, for a solo player well depends on your progress through early game and luck on loot drops. I think the levelling journey for solo players will be a lot more fun comparatively, given it’s a quest every time for us with more peril haha.

I’m a little sad to read this honestly as it wasn’t my intent to turn you off the game but rather present an aspect of the game which has been a design pillar since the get go. There’s no one player in this game that can outdo another without cooperation and so long as you find your place across Verra you’re likely going to be fine, especially when the map expands. My intent wasn’t to deter anyone, rather point out that there will be elements of this game which aren’t traditionally theme park. Toxicity and griefing have no place in any game, but the reality is this type of arena is intended to be played with zone control in mind hence battles and siege wars and so on. Ultimately one of the quests I’m going to need to complete myself is finding a group to coordinate with because solo gameplay will only get me so far, that’s one of my major hurdles at this point in time. Sorry again if this has put you off Ashes :(

@@BlandPickle Please don't think this reaction is from your video. I have been trying to play this on and off for quite some time. I find the slog to do anything in this game artificially made as difficult and time extracting as possible. I find the current type of player I run into is growing ever less cooperative for teamwork and more toxic and unpleasent to deal with. This is less like a fun game and more like a second fulltime job and thats completely not what I enjoy. My plan was similar to yours. I choose to spend skills onto specific crafting but that is not anywhere ready yet to invest my time into. I want to try out the rogue and that will probably be it for another period of time until more systems are actually functional.

Ah I see, appreciate the clarity. I hear you I will likely play this a lot but I don’t want to burn myself out before full launch so at some point I’m going to balance it with other games while I wait for more to come too. That said, I’ve been looking for a “home game” and I’m hopefully it’s AoC. I think when we have a massive map it may be more muted. Let me know if you move onto anything interesting as I’m always looking things to do between AoC up time.

@ i play alot of eso, swtor and manor lords right now. Im hoping that once the map grows on aoc the levels of foolishness will drop and I can return to crafting and gathering there. The world is beautiful but the idiot factor is too high for me

I have swotr on my long-term list of “to try” but never got around to it so I really should! Manor Lords is a new to me so I’ll give it a Google. ESO never landed for me but I did give it a crack! Thanks for sharing those with me. I’m currently obsessed with a game called The Bazaar which is a deck building auto battler I’m intrigued by. I tried quinfall recently but see no reason to play it given black desert online is far more polished, it offers nothing new so I stopped. I also tried pantheon but that was a mistake too haha.

You’re very welcome!! Glad you found it useful!! I’m doing my best to continue explaining things like this!

Absolutely! I’m super excited to see where they take it. I personally cannot wait to see the first overthrow of control :D

PVE wise are the changes super impactful or is it mostly a nothing burger?

Yep! My point in the video was more or less to say that I interpreted Steven’s response as solo play is getting tweaks and balances but, To my words in the video and yours above the goal is for ashes be group focused which is not lost on me :).

Yeah it’s on the list! I have a few videos to finalise on community request but one is coming soon. If you have any questions more than happy to try and answer until then :)

This is the way! Thanks heaps for subbing and supporting the channel ❤️

Yeeeeeeee boiiiii, next 69420 lets gooo

@ keep it up!! Won’t be long!!

@@izerathh thank you for the kind words!

No worries and it’s super important for Intrepid to be aware of players like this who want to support the game but arn’t as hardcore or able to be as group orientated as required! Hoping we hear something soon about it soon! They mentioned on the dev stream that there’s some focus on it!

I would love to see that type of dynamic game play, it would keep us on our toes for sure! Imagine a 3 star spider dropping on you though ahahaha, hopefully they keep it tame xD

No worries!! Was a great update! Hope you’re keeping well mate.

Hey Erismo! Yeah I couldn’t really see much performance change on the combos last night, I did notice additional graphics on my attack combos but it’s not clear at all what they mean. I wonder if it was an engine balance thing or something? No idea, stat sheet doesn’t seemed to have changed

Cheers for the correction! For whatever reason I loose many brain cells the minute the camera turns on and I go from being able to speak to having to figure out language haha, the camera affect I guess, I’ll aim to use the right term moving forward. Hope you found the video valuable otherwise.

Yes my hope too, the alpha very much has us focused on testing so my thoughts here are very much a point in time. I can’t wait to play this game when it launches full swing!!

Thanks for the additional detail! The tier list was a best effort, I agree though for a support class bards clap hard!

I picked it up in the edit and was like nooooooooooo hahaha, I put some red text in the first time I spotted it to correct it but I was so far into editing I just accepted the mistake and moved on hahahah. Appreciate you commenting and watching the video!

@@BlandPickle Good video bro! I'm a little bit struggling myself, in terms of what I want to get out of Ashes of Creation, before it launches. I like playing Solo, but I'm not able to make my new armor and stuff, due to the artisan restrictions. I'm in a guild, that's nice for sharing resources, but I generally like playing alone more, or just with friends. Still figuring stuff out, I guess.

Thanks bro! Yeah man I love just doing things on my own hahah but I think I’m going to have to find a group - I had a Aussie guild lined up but it’s fallen through. Anyway I understand group play is a requirement, I just hope the dials on a few of these things are checked to avoid isolating many whom I think will want to just lone wolf it

Absolutely it makes up the pillars of their design, defo not lost on me and I did my best to point this out a few times, I guess this video makes it more obvious to those who don’t know this that this is the case and also me prodding some questions at could the dials be twisted left or right a little more. It’s not meant to be a definitive anti group play commentary so hoping it hasn’t gone that way. All in all it’s just some poking prodding and questioning :)

@ well to your point. If you only have a 2 hour session, there may be many days where you don’t accomplish anything in 2 hours because LFG takes forever and then the team dies over and over or gets trained on.

Yep this! There’s nothing more frustrating. Could’ve got 50k xp or some materials instead in that time and so on.

That’s so awesome to hear! I absolutely understand (and I think I even mention this 57:10 maybe?) that if it comes to it I will try I find people to play with! No questions about it, my concern is there maybe some dials that need some tweaking here and there. This game is awesome and I have done similar to you in having found a group to play with in phase 1 and really enjoyed it but I’m a lone wolf in many senses and I’ve levelled 1-20 so far, I’d say 95% on my own, and it’s been super enjoyably. This analysis wasn’t meant for one answer or another type decision, it’s just a chance for a discussion on some wider topics that may need reviewing! Power on glorious cleric brother!

The game is playable and live in a second alpha… while some of the earlier financial practises weren’t ideal they’ve been addressed. Where’s the scam?

@@BlandPickle yeah just make sure to never do any pvp because they will ban you for some made up reason. its legit 💯💯

I’ve done heaps of pvp and not been banned, I even blatantly pked someone, I have a short on it in my videos and intrepid check my page from time to time. Whatever got you banned for likely wasn’t pking. Doesn’t make this game a scam bud.

@ lmaooo yeah steven sharif has never banned anybody for no reason. keep telling yourself that

I never said that, I said you probably got banned for breaking the rules which is pretty consistent with most games and their terms of services. From a business perspective Steven likely doesn’t ban people for nothing and funsies, if that was happening in mass scale it would kill the game - so you’re an outlier from the norm for a reason, and based on what I’ve seen from the recent ban wave, the population of Verra remains healthy, so what did you do wrong?

And that’s true for a lot of players but not all of us have enough time to commit to one or the other or both (which is kind of what the video is trying to point out). It’s not a complaint, just a perspective on different player experiences like yours :)! Glad you’re enjoying the game!

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Thank you! I will! :)

Thank you for watching it all! I think in the future I may break these up into chunks maybe? Not sure, really appreciate your support!!