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McShave;d-56391

I was watching a video about old-style mmo dungeons and how they would have places to farm mobs in front of the entrance while you wait to find party members. My only experience with this is in Classic WoW dungeons and I would consider it a failure. This is only because the goal of WoW is to do everything as fast as possible, and waiting for any reason is "not optimal". In Ashes' open-world dungeons, I hope we will approach them with a different mindset. The goal of open-world dungeons, as far as I understand, is that people are there to kill bosses (who respawn) and gather resources, implying you can spend as much or as little time as you want.

My question is, is it reasonable to expect players to wait somewhere in the world for a chance to not even do what they are planning to do? In principle, I like the idea of areas in the world where you see lots of players hanging out (that's not in the cities, it gives a sense o...

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Tyranthraxus

Without a group-finder function, the entrances to dungeons/group-content have greater social potential. This seems to be an overarching theme for a lot of the design for AoC, so probably yes; Waiting around will be functional, at times.

Let's not forget Bulletin Boards either! ;)

NiKr

Well do I have some good news for you
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Addons

Nice wiki link drop! \o/

There are lots of friendly and helpful advice in this thread! Love to see it :)

Personally, I'd recommend making friends with people who are both patient and PvP lovers. Find out what excites them about PvP and what makes them good at it, and see if you can learn from them. When you're in-game, I believe you will have many opportunities to make friends like this :)

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tautau

Let me introduce you to the friend that Neurath mentioned: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/

This! The wiki has tons and tons of information to comb through for Ashes of Creation :)

We're also hard at work on the website... Exciting things to come there ;)

\o/ Glad to have you on the forums. We're hard at work making the best possible MMORPG that we can! <3

Glorious Ashes Community,

Dev Discussions are YOUR chance to participate in a conversation about topics that our design team is looking for feedback on. This is an opportunity to have your feedback impact the direction of Ashes of Creation.

Dev Discussion - Basic Attacks in Combat Rotations

How important is it for you to have basic attacks be a part of your combat rotation? Do you enjoy using other skills and abilities in between auto-attacks, or are you having the most fun when basic attacks are less important to how much damage you’re doing?

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Here are a few additional discussion starters which may help you provide feedback on this topic. Please don’t feel limited by these, and give us any feedback you’d like on this topic:
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[*] What rol... Read more

Hello glorious community,

We’d like your feedback on the Alpha Two Event System Update shown during the September 2023 Development Update Livestream.

To help guide this conversation, here are a few thought starters you can choose from:
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[*] How do you feel about the Event System Update so far?
[*] What excites you about playing and interacting with the Event system?
[*] Is there anything in particular you’re excited or concerned about regarding what was shown with the Event System Update?
[*] Are there any particular Events you hope to see in-game?
[*] Are there Events you’ve seen in other games that you like or dislike? If so, please explain!
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Please don’t feel limited by the thought starters above. Feel free to share anything you’d like about Ashes of Creation’s Alpha Two Event System Update shown during the September Development Update

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The Twitter feed is due to a somewhat recent API change on Twitter's end, to my best understanding. If you're signed in to Twitter on your browser, the feed should appear normally. If you're not signed in, you'll see the same old tweets, as others are describing.

There are a lot of changes we'd like to make to the forums before Alpha Two, and certainly before release. As @TheDarkSorcerer mentioned, this is a template from Vanilla! We appreciate this feedback, and I'll bring this up with the team. Thanks all! <3

Interesting discussion to read through!

I think you ask some excellent questions in your OP -

George_Black;d-56308

Why do you like combat pets?
Why don't you like them?
What are the benefits to the game?
What negatives do they bring?

These questions are great thought-starters for constructive feedback and conversations! However, I do think including "[So far only negative views] in your title might skew or affect the kind of conversations that happen here. Though, this may have been the intent <3

Another question I might add to this thread is - How would you like to see Combat Pe... Read more

forsh;d-56270

Really looking forward to it.

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Maaybbeeeeee this could be a Q&A question :)

This could perhaps be a decent question for the Q&A ;)

I can't personally speak on the technical side of the transition. However, I assume there are resources out there for a better understanding of Unreal Engine! :)

NiKr

There're no different types of servers for Ashes https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Server_types

And afaik it's industry standard to have "low/mid/high population" indicators during the server choice stage of login.

The only way for you to "pick the right server" is to get involved with the game's community before release and see what's their plan for servers is. There'll be community-designated RP servers, streamer servers "pve" servers and "pvp" servers, but Intrepid have nothing to do with that.

Nice wiki drop 😏👍

This discussion was fun to read through! We're doing some Dev Discussions on loot soon. I'd love to see some of these thoughts brought there, when that day comes :)

This is an interesting thought-starter :) In fact, there were a few discussions around this idea of both the Tank and Cleric Office Hours discussions! If you haven't joined in on those, and you enjoy discussing topics like this, then I highly recommend them :)

We're doing one next week on Nodes! https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/56269/office-hours-village-node-discussion-tues-sept-19-2023-at-11am-pdt#latest

Vulfr;c-417804

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Races ^^ the Wiki is really helpful, and often updated after dev streams etc

\o/ --- Tough choice. Feel like I have to play a Vek named Veknar lol