[2024] Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Bard Archetype Preview

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20s	hello everybody and welcome to another
24s	day in Vera and we have an exciting
28s	stream for you today for the first time
31s	in ashes of creation history we are
33s	going to be showing off The Bard and it
38s	is a good as you can see it is a good
41s	looking Bard right now this armor set
44s	the uh what is the name of this armor
46s	set this the rose rose Thorn Rose Thorn
48s	armor set oh my God I am in love with
51s	this and Manny did this right mhm it
54s	looks so good I mean we we have a great
56s	shot here I am joined as you can see by
60s	uh five of our glor actually F all five
62s	of you are designers we don't have any
64s	Engineers today we don't have any
65s	artists today we're all designers how
68s	how selfish is that of us but but I am
72s	joined uh by five of our glorious
74s	designers many of whom have been on the
75s	show before but for the first time we
77s	have a sound dude with us Tori how you
79s	doing Tori doing great and you know I
82s	think I would put myself in the artist
83s	category Mor designer cuz I don't really
85s	get the numbers I just make go that is
87s	true you're representing here the
89s	artists that is very true I didn't even
91s	think about that but Tor we're excited
92s	to have you because of course The Bard
94s	is an very sound oriented class probably
97s	the most of all of our archetypes in the
99s	game and you have done a phenomenal job
101s	with these sounds um thank you yes so
103s	excited to have you and chat about what
105s	you've been working on with Bard we also
107s	have some of our regular uh combat dudes
110s	specifically three on the arch type
113s	combat design side uh TRD Brian Bucky
116s	how you guys
118s	doing doing good to show off
121s	theard yes and and I also see not only
125s	The Bard but we have a floating giant
128s	Spellbook in front of us and for the
129s	first time we're going to be looking at
131s	the Spellbook weapon as well Brian I
134s	know you did a lot of work on that yeah
137s	um myself um and other members of the
140s	team like Noah and Matt especially put a
144s	lot of work into this cuz it's it's
146s	animating by itself it's not using the
148s	typical uh way we attach weapons so yeah
152s	we'll get into that in a little bit I
154s	love it I love it and then we also have
156s	with us one of our glorious NPC senior
158s	designers Doug how you doing buddy I'm
161s	doing great looking forward to killing
162s	some monsters yes and we have some new
165s	and interesting monster types that we're
167s	going to talk a little bit about that
168s	have been implemented that is going to
170s	shake up a little bit of the encounter
171s	design uh which I know you and your team
173s	have been doing a lot of work on yeah
175s	excited to shut things off very cool so
179s	first and and foremost where are we we
183s	are in the riverlands of course but we
186s	are in an
189s	area uh that I don't think we've ever
191s	been at before this is the where is this
193s	Bucky this is the deral states yep
196s	that's right we're going about to
198s	venture through the daral estate and
200s	there's some used to be owned by the
202s	family of daral way back in the day now
205s	after the return to Vera uh bunch of
208s	peasants moved in and we're farming the
209s	land for while but now I think some more
212s	Sinister forces have taken over and are
215s	reanimating the dead and all sorts of
217s	bad stuff's going on here so we got to
218s	go love this love it and it is it is
222s	daytime out currently uh in the in the
225s	spring time uh 3 days 3 hours and 35
229s	minutes remaining until summer I love
232s	that that is very
237s	cool okay
239s	so normally what we've done in the past
242s	when we have new archetypes is we kind
243s	of go through each of the abilities and
247s	uh Bucky I know that obviously you are
249s	the master of The Bard this is your uh
252s	uh class design as as many of you know
255s	Dr Bucky has um a wide repertoire of
258s	skill sets uh as well as his work on the
261s	system side he's been doing a lot of
262s	work on the combat side and The Bard is
264s	near and dear to his heart so Bucky talk
266s	to me a little bit about the inspiration
268s	for this Bard class before we start
269s	getting into some of of the
271s	abilities oh man yeah we had tons of
274s	different Inspirations obviously you
276s	know the lineage archage sword singer uh
279s	blade dancers I believe um but then
282s	other from other OS as well like some
284s	Concepts from Wow and stuff we really
286s	gravitated towards um but one of the big
289s	things we wanted to do with this part
290s	specifically was not to focus
291s	specifically on just song or dance what
294s	but have kind of a culmination of a
295s	bunch of different of these themes Al
297s	together in the same kit so as you can
299s	see down the ability bar you know we got
300s	some Melodies dances songs all working
304s	together to build out this kit all right
306s	so I'm I'm I'm opening up the skill tree
309s	Here and Now obviously we're level 10 so
312s	for those of you guys who are tuning in
313s	for the first time I just want to
315s	preface as is necessary and our
317s	obligatory kind of of of of discussion
320s	Point here everything you see is a work
322s	in progress that includes mainly the UI
326s	elements the uh the uh effects visual
329s	effects um uh but what you're going to
332s	see right now we have a lot of these
334s	abilities already speced um you wouldn't
337s	normally
340s	have of today's demonstration um we are
344s	obviously going to go outside of what is
345s	typical uh in order to kind of give you
348s	guys insight to the class um so this
350s	skill tree that we we've done a little
352s	bit of a rework on skill tree
354s	progression Trad do you want to talk a
355s	little bit about what we've changed for
357s	the purposes of Alpha 2 uh with the
359s	skill train and how it's set
361s	up absolutely yeah so um for those who
366s	uh were were accustomed to some of the
369s	structures that we had in place before
371s	they were very uh rigid right like there
374s	there were very specific paths that were
376s	linear and in if you wanted to get to a
378s	particular skill um you would have to
380s	take a very set path to get there and
382s	while some of that is desired like you
384s	if you if you don't have any of that
385s	then you don't really have a skill tree
387s	at all um but we wanted to open it up
389s	and and give a little bit more freedom
391s	of choice um so in this version of the
394s	tree you'll notice that rather than
397s	these ongoing linear branches going in
399s	different directions um you have
402s	essentially tiers of skills so you'll
404s	you'll see three tiers the bottom the
406s	middle and the top as you invest points
408s	into each tier eventually you'll unlock
410s	access to the next tier so for example
412s	to get to that second tier um you need
415s	to put four points into the tier below
418s	so it gives you a bit more freedom of
420s	which skills you pick with while keeping
422s	you within that tier before it lets you
423s	go on to the next one and usually each
425s	tier has a bit more advanced um
427s	abilities um so it's also a good way of
429s	introducing you to the archetype awesome
431s	and and this is obviously something that
432s	we have distributed across all of the
434s	archetypes for the purposes of alpat to
436s	that's something that you and your team
437s	are going to be collecting a lot of
439s	information from from players as they
441s	you know give us their feedback and and
444s	and play through kind of the uh the
445s	skill tree progression we'll be tuning
447s	that as as as that information comes in
450s	I notice here Bucky that at the start of
453s	this tree there is an instrument
455s	selection talk to me a little bit about
457s	that yeah so the way we decided to do
460s	instruments is they're mainly just a
462s	cosmetic choice right now so players can
465s	choose as their first choice at The Bard
467s	what instrument they want to play all
468s	their Melodies with and so this will
469s	actually change the animations and
471s	change the sound effects of um what how
473s	The Melodies will play love it that's
476s	super cool and obviously this is
477s	something that we'll be expanding upon
478s	in the future right with different
480s	instruments that you'll have access to
482s	um but it allows obviously players the
485s	opportunity to kind of customize um
487s	their own personal barred experience now
491s	after this um after this instrument talk
495s	to me a little bit about some of the
496s	first abilities we're going to take a
497s	look at I see they're they're here on
499s	the uh skill bar one through um one
503s	through five where do we want to start
506s	so we can just start with one so these
508s	these first five abilities are all of
509s	your Melody abil
510s	and so they all share someon someon
513s	similarities um so basically they're all
516s	large persistent AOE Buffs or debuffs um
520s	so the first one is cheerful Melody
521s	which applies a healing received bonus
524s	to your party and heals them over time
526s	okay so I see that here that this
528s	lightly heals the party for
533s	15% magical power healing magical power
537s	every two seconds and if I look at my
540s	uh magical power I'm at 33 magical power
545s	and and and you know in the past we
547s	haven't really talked too much about our
550s	primary attributes their waterfall stats
552s	do you want to talk a little bit about
554s	magical power how we derive that
556s	waterfall um and what contributes to it
559s	sure yeah so your main uh attribute that
561s	waterfalls into magical power is going
563s	to be intellect and so that's a large
565s	portion of intellects giving you magical
567s	power but it also gives you other stats
568s	such as um
570s	critical power I believe accuracy and uh
575s	one other one perhaps casting speed cool
578s	yeah so each of each of the attributes
579s	will waterfall into a variety of these
581s	stats but um magical power is an
582s	important one for increasing the you
584s	know damage or healing of your abilities
586s	okay so to demonstrate this we probably
588s	need somebody in the party to to have
591s	some lower
593s	Health yeah who should we do that
597s	to you know Brian is the tank Brian I
601s	can't even see you you're literally
602s	hiding behind a shield you're smaller
604s	than the shield I think this book is
605s	larger than
609s	youf DW Strat right there oh no I nked
613s	him okay he's nuked all right so you've
616s	lost some health Brian now we are going
618s	to um oh by the way I think this is the
621s	first time since alpha 1 that we have
623s	had a duner uh in one of the live
626s	streams so very cool love it all right
630s	so now let let me use this cheerful
632s	Melody and see how it affects your
634s	healing you're at
637s	578 oh very cool and talk to me about
640s	cheerful Melody kind of how it
642s	works yeah so this applies a buff to the
644s	whole party um so everyone's getting
646s	this little very very light healing over
648s	time but the biggest thing this does is
650s	it increases all the other healing you
651s	receive so obviously this whole combo
653s	great with the cleric it's kind of like
655s	you know the clerics are still going to
656s	be our Premier healers right but BS are
657s	more of a support role and they'll
659s	really will power up clerics and all the
660s	other archetypes when they're in the
661s	party okay so I can I can click on this
664s	melody and it says it's a it's a 20
666s	second cast so basically it's ticking
670s	throughout that time and can I use other
671s	abilities while the melody is playing
674s	that's right yeah that's another big
675s	part of that Melodies is that they work
676s	concurrently with your other abilities
678s	so you can be casting in the other stuff
680s	doing weapon combos Dodge rolling and
681s	that'll all not interrupt your Melody
683s	that's active very cool and now Tori we
687s	don't have kind of the final versions of
689s	our our composed uh music in for these
692s	Melodies but the intent there is to have
694s	our composer be creating these Melodies
697s	to kind of live harmoniously with the
701s	ambient music of the biome as well as
704s	the other skills and abilities correct
706s	it's going to be a uh decently complex
709s	system so it will take a while to get it
710s	properly implemented but we won't want
712s	the music to interfere with your
714s	experience in a very atonal way
717s	especially for uh at least those barred
719s	uh Melody abilities um those are going
722s	to be happening enough that you don't
723s	want them to be too annoying very cool
726s	and now Bucky specifically you mentioned
728s	that this cheerful Melody it augments
732s	the healing received from the primary
735s	healing Arch type which of course is the
736s	cleric and talk to me a little bit about
738s	the differences between the types of
740s	healing effects conferred Through The
742s	Bard archetype versus the types of
744s	healing effects convert through the
747s	cleric yeah for sure like like I was
749s	saying a little bit earlier uh bards are
751s	definitely going to be they'll be able
752s	to do some healing but it's going to be
754s	more kind of regenerative healing over
756s	time lighter the real you know th burst
760s	healing is going to always come from
762s	clerics um but bards will be able to
765s	keep you know a couple players alive and
767s	they'll just have to you know play
767s	defensively and careful but uh yeah so
770s	it's a little bit slower healing cool
772s	very cool so obviously we're keeping
773s	that burst healing towards the cleric
776s	those are the people who are going to be
777s	able to actually sustain you in a pinch
779s	or
780s	through significant damage received
782s	whereas The Bard is an augment to that
785s	and empowers the cleric's ability to
787s	kind of confer those effects on the
789s	party okay very cool cheerful Melody
791s	that's awesome I love the effects for
793s	this I think that was SAA that did these
795s	yeah Ste did all the effects on the bar
796s	and he really he really did a great job
798s	he was killing it looked phenomenal and
800s	Nat did the uh the icons yep Nat did the
803s	icons and all the concepts for the
805s	effects which really you know helped the
806s	whole process Out start on the right
808s	foot very well done love but okay let's
811s	talk about our next
812s	Melody yep so this next one's called
814s	pensive Melody and this is just a slow
817s	Mana regen over
819s	time okay so this is kind of a yeah just
822s	if your part is low on Mana doesn't need
823s	healing doesn't need some other effects
825s	you can switch to a Mana regenerations
827s	to give everybody a little bit of uh
828s	sustain for longer you know fights and
831s	stuff like that now we've seen one other
833s	Mana um recovery ability in the past I
836s	believe and that was on the cleric uh um
840s	and that was that was uh conferred Mana
844s	restoration through your weapon
847s	attack yep I've got a spec right now and
849s	I'll be using that as well so those two
851s	things in conjunction will be really
852s	nice for the lucky Target that gets it
855s	um the the biggest difference obviously
857s	is that that is a single Target ability
859s	that you can only maintain on one target
860s	at a time so it's more potent but again
862s	uh kind of reinforcing the theme of The
864s	Healing uh the the strength of The Bard
866s	is is party-wide benefits um there not
870s	to say the cleric won't have some party
871s	wide stuff to but that's really where
873s	the B shines is in in a in an eight
875s	eight-man party very cool so Doug as
878s	you're kind of authoring the encounter
880s	designs for you know obviously party
883s	compositions you guys are taking into
885s	account the restorative ability of a
888s	particular arct type design or party
890s	comp around these like these these Mana
893s	abilities right because you want to tax
895s	those parties uh significantly in
898s	between different po PS and taking into
901s	account what restorative Mana there is
903s	available to a party design um is
905s	calculated in in the NPCs correct yeah
909s	and you're going to see that a little
910s	bit today I think we're going to start
912s	without uh Trad here dealing is the
914s	cleric so we're going to go in with a
915s	tank and and only a barge and have that
917s	sustained support uh heal us uh I think
921s	and then we're going to have a cleric
922s	join us later and fight stronger enemies
924s	and that's really going to be the
925s	determining factor is like you know if
927s	you're you're a small group you might be
928s	able to get away with B uh as your only
931s	support/ healing um if you have a tank
933s	but then maybe if you don't have a tank
935s	you'll want to bring a cleric U so
937s	composition strength enemies these all
939s	things that matter now I notice that um
943s	when activating these Melodies that the
947s	radius uh seems to be pretty
950s	significant um I'm assuming that uh on
953s	the um visual effect side that uh this
957s	ring as it expands and kind of ends out
960s	there um that's the distance that I need
963s	to maintain as a Bard within or rather
966s	my party needs to maintain within
968s	proximity of of myself that's pretty
971s	generous yeah the idea was we wanted to
974s	have just something Baseline for BS that
976s	they can as long as they upkeep this
977s	ability it privides just kind of like a
980s	default you know bonus to your party
982s	depending on which one you choose um
984s	whereas the other abilities are more man
985s	intensive cool and intensive um to
988s	differentiate them a bit cool cool I can
990s	also speak a little more to the the
992s	general Paradigm between um party and
995s	AOE abilities um usually with things
998s	that are party based um we're a bit more
1001s	um lenient on on the radius just because
1004s	it is already limited on one axis to to
1007s	members only within your party um but
1009s	then we'll also have abilities that
1011s	Target an area and it'll hit any number
1014s	of people or whatever like regardless of
1016s	whether they're in your party or not but
1018s	they're more proximity throttled very
1020s	cool now talk to me about epic
1024s	Melody this one is a movement speed
1026s	boost to your whole group so if you need
1028s	to run away or get to someplace quick or
1030s	do you just want to grind through a POI
1033s	really fast then you can switch to this
1035s	one yeah they'll have some great uses in
1037s	PvP as
1038s	well oh okay I see he gets a little bit
1041s	more down and dirty in this one the
1043s	animations look great yeah yeah yeah so
1045s	we kind of have different different
1047s	styles of animations for each of the
1048s	instruments depending on like you know
1049s	if the song's a kind of a more calm song
1051s	or an intense song um but yeah this is a
1055s	nice speed boost for the whole team you
1057s	guys got to get some
1059s	place very cool that's awesome of course
1062s	Soward would be complete without some
1063s	type of movement modifier exactly
1066s	exactly right I love it um okay talk to
1069s	me about cathartic
1071s	Melody this one will give uh everyone in
1073s	your party a chance to heal themselves
1075s	so it's kind of like a leech song so
1077s	it's kind of an alternative way to apply
1079s	some some healing support um but
1083s	obviously it only will work with the
1084s	group that has a lot of people doing a
1085s	lot of damage so if you're in kind of
1086s	like the Healer group or the tank group
1088s	maybe it wouldn't be as good to use that
1089s	one but if you're in a group full of you
1091s	know all DPS it might be more effective
1094s	to provide some bonus healing now I see
1096s	this says that your attacks have a 25%
1098s	chance to heal yourself for the for 50%
1102s	of the Damage Done is that 50% of damage
1104s	done on a per ability basis or just for
1107s	your weapons attack or all the
1110s	right right now it's all of the above
1111s	but um you know we can keep iterating on
1113s	this but uh it feels in in practice it
1115s	feels like it gives a little bit of
1116s	support but obviously you wouldn't be
1118s	able to just completely replace the need
1119s	for a cleric with this so uh yeah but
1122s	obviously all the exact numbers are you
1123s	know we're still eating on as we get
1125s	closer to Alpha 2 yeah one one extra
1127s	thing to add to this I I like the um
1130s	strategic or tactical choice that year
1132s	kind of constantly making between
1134s	cathartic and um and the other healing
1136s	one um cheerful just because you know
1139s	you you want to keep cheerful going
1142s	maybe when you're running between
1143s	encounters or packs you know there's not
1145s	a lot a lot of like activity going on
1146s	and then when you see like a bunch of
1148s	like burst combat or something happening
1150s	you probably want to switch over to that
1152s	so you're almost like kind of bouncing
1154s	between them while healing instead of
1156s	just passively having one going on all
1158s	the time and then also there's a little
1160s	bit of weaving opportunity that I think
1161s	we'll get into in a little bit later too
1163s	absolutely I mean how often in you know
1166s	raids or you know in hunting grounds
1169s	that you will want to burn through Mana
1172s	right I mean during that time you may
1174s	want to have your cathartic Melody
1176s	active while your DPSS are burning
1178s	through their Mana versus when you're in
1181s	a lull pull or you know something a bit
1183s	more um uh sustainable keeping that 20%
1187s	healing received and the uh and the
1189s	regen up that makes a lot of sense um so
1193s	effectively at this 25% chance to heal
1195s	for 50% of the Damage Done that's almost
1197s	like a on average probably around 12
1199s	133% consistent life steal exactly yeah
1203s	so it kind of really depends on the
1204s	situation right like you guys were
1206s	saying so it's nice to have the options
1208s	absolutely all right talk to me about
1210s	menacing
1211s	Melody okay so this one is the one
1213s	different one This only affects enemies
1216s	so it applies a debuff to all nearby
1218s	enemies that'll make them take increased
1220s	damage so you can see over there that
1222s	myet in the background has this menacing
1224s	Melody debuff yeah see so uh it'll make
1228s	him be taking more damage
1230s	I like the Synergy between that and
1232s	cathartic as well yeah yeah that's those
1234s	are two great ones to weave
1236s	together okay so this basically um you
1240s	forego benefit to the party directly and
1243s	in instead apply that 10% debuff uh to
1247s	enemies within the radius and again that
1250s	that's a pretty significant
1251s	radius yeah I think uh we were planning
1253s	on making that uh Target limited to the
1256s	like the rest of the Melodies are um but
1258s	uh yeah that's something we're going
1259s	we're going to add probably like eight
1261s	nearest Targets or something like that
1263s	right okay so it's not yeah so some type
1265s	of diminishing return on that effect
1267s	yeah yeah yeah
1269s	cool okay so those are the five Melodies
1272s	let me open this back up again just so I
1274s	can take a look we wanted now we could
1276s	just talk about the uh the two Melody uh
1279s	passive specialization options because
1281s	we were kind of mentioning that like the
1282s	weaving Style versus like the charge up
1284s	style mhm that's going to be the uh up
1286s	at the top in the middle the plus sign
1289s	that's where you can choose yeah so this
1290s	is a passive that unlocks level 10 so
1293s	there's the two options here so one of
1295s	them is called Crescendo which is your
1297s	Melodies just power up slowly over time
1298s	over the course of that 20 second cast
1301s	and then the second option is called
1302s	Counterpoint where every 20 seconds you
1305s	can switch between Melodies and the last
1306s	Melody will its effects will still be
1308s	active so you can kind of weave two
1309s	Melodies at once which opens up a lot of
1311s	cool potential very cool yeah now that
1314s	that is
1315s	um that is something that I think uh is
1319s	even expandable upon as we continue
1321s	beyond Alpha 2 above level 25 you may
1325s	add additional um uh Melody concurrency
1329s	is that is that what you're saying
1331s	exactly exactly yeah we might we might
1332s	even just make this Counterpoint thing
1334s	just something that you get for sure
1335s	like weaving we want all Bs do because
1337s	that's you know that's a really fun
1338s	gameplay a lot of Bard players gravitate
1339s	towards and it it really does make it
1341s	fun with the Melodies you know when you
1343s	can combine two of five that's a lot of
1344s	different options right right so this is
1347s	this is kind of a a broader Spectrum
1350s	Choice versus a higher vertical uh
1352s	effect and so you you said this increase
1355s	in power over the course of 20 seconds
1357s	this is something that scales on a step
1360s	uh essentially over that 20 seconds or
1361s	or rather linear it's linear right now
1364s	but um we were talking about
1365s	experimenting with making it steps like
1367s	every every you know 5 seconds or
1369s	something make it chunks up a little bit
1371s	but um that's kind of the option for
1373s	people who don't maybe want to have to
1375s	deal with weaving back and forth and
1376s	want to just kind of stick to a song and
1377s	get rewarded for staying in one song for
1379s	longer one Melody for longer cool are
1382s	these also Melody Centric the other two
1385s	uh the other two so those are for the
1386s	other groups of abilities there's dance
1388s	Mastery specialization and song Mastery
1389s	specialization but um if you wanted to
1391s	demo we could demo the Counterpoint one
1392s	really quick just take a look uh yeah so
1396s	yeah like the weaving Counterpoint all
1398s	right if you confirm that and
1402s	now yeah so now if you do for example if
1404s	you do the cheerful
1406s	Melody um you'll see the buff we're all
1408s	getting is going to start lasting longer
1410s	and longer on our party frames mhm um so
1413s	once we get to 20 seconds it'll be
1415s	applied at 20 seconds so that means the
1417s	next 20 seconds we can switch to a
1418s	different Melody and then this one will
1420s	kind of be going the whole time so we'll
1421s	be effectively having two stacked up at
1423s	the same time that's kind of what this
1426s	this Stinger right here that's that's
1428s	showing you okay your Melody's at 20
1430s	seconds full charge now you could switch
1431s	to you know yeah cathartic orive oh wow
1436s	so yep so we have both Melody Buffs are
1439s	active right now as you can see cheerful
1440s	is starting to wear off so after 20
1442s	seconds in cathartic cheerful is going
1443s	to fall off and we'll have to weave back
1445s	to that one or weave to a different one
1446s	so that's a lot of different options so
1448s	you're so you're upkeeping um so as I
1452s	see now cheerful has fallen off I can
1455s	add the cheerful back yep so you kind of
1459s	you know weave back and forth between
1460s	two you want to use or you know
1462s	alternate to whatever the part is
1463s	needing in the current time so lot of
1465s	different ways to play
1467s	it that's pretty cool
1470s	yeah I like that gameplay so that's
1472s	that's that's essentially you know as
1474s	The Bard you you are very cognizant of
1477s	kind of the situation that the party is
1478s	in and you have all of these different
1480s	types of effects that you can confer
1482s	you're essentially you know monitoring
1484s	what the party needs at a any given time
1486s	and able to swap in between these
1488s	without without letting the last
1491s	utilized uh Melody go to waste M that's
1495s	very cool that's what I do with that one
1497s	weaving is a classic I feel like a lot
1499s	of even older MMOs um you know some
1503s	people love it some people hate it
1505s	that's kind of why we have it as a spec
1506s	option so it you know you can choose
1508s	whether that's your style of gameplay or
1510s	not um but we we think it's cool and I
1512s	think we've taken it to um another level
1514s	that you know in some games in the past
1516s	at least I know weaving has been kind of
1519s	janky or clunky or even unintended but I
1521s	think we're leaning into it and I think
1523s	it's it's a better version yeah I agree
1525s	that's that's awesome okay what have we
1528s	got next Bucky uh so next on your bar is
1531s	a different ability this is a Mobility
1533s	ability called flourish oh whoops oh oh
1537s	no spoiler spoiler
1545s	alert I'm sorry I must have the auto
1548s	attack uh enabled do you want that
1551s	enabled Bucky um no you can turn it off
1553s	if you want okay oh let me let me uh
1556s	open up my game options and go to combat
1559s	there it is the third check box and I
1561s	will uncheck my auto attack I apologize
1564s	everybody your auto attack privileges
1566s	are revoked yes you you saw you saw a
1569s	preview of the
1571s	Spellbook I'm watching that guy like
1574s	slowly get closer to us little by little
1577s	I didn't expect us to attack him curious
1580s	mushroom oh now that would have been a
1582s	good opportunity for me to use flourish
1583s	actually to get out of Dodge right yep
1586s	you could have done that yeah but uh
1588s	yeah that's yeah number six so this is
1589s	just like a Mobility ability so similar
1591s	to Blink in some ways however this has
1594s	the added bonus that you can use it
1596s	during any other abilities so kind of
1597s	like with your Melodies you can cast
1598s	them while you're doing other abilities
1600s	this flourish you can cast during other
1603s	abilities use it while you're turning
1605s	Stephen yeah and it lets you Seer a
1607s	little bit too like move your character
1610s	as wait what your character while you're
1613s	dashing while I'm dashing yeah
1617s	spin there
1620s	that's cool I love this one oh that's
1624s	awesome I love that
1626s	Mobility how cool is that I also love
1629s	the uh the effects for this yeah it
1633s	looks pretty pretty exciting but uh yeah
1636s	so it's a great ability like especially
1638s	as you see later the next group of
1639s	abilities we're getting into are uh the
1640s	dance abilities and this move combos
1643s	really well with those because it lets
1645s	you get into position to do the dances
1648s	um it also lets you you know get out of
1650s	get out of Dodge like you were saying or
1651s	you can also use it to like uh slide
1654s	through enemies too it it turns off your
1656s	Collision so you can not get blocked or
1658s	trapped different ways yeah that's
1660s	pretty awesome um now obviously guys as
1663s	I said before I do have my cooldowns
1665s	turned off for the purposes of
1667s	demonstration here uh but the cool down
1669s	here would normally be um I think it's
1673s	like a 15-second cool down with two
1674s	charges or something like that oh okay
1676s	cool so it has a couple of charges that
1677s	you can use yeah you can save it up and
1679s	use it okay so you're talking a little
1681s	bit about these dance abilities and I am
1683s	absolutely in love with the icons
1686s	here yeah they're great they're pretty
1688s	great um yeah so this next category of
1690s	abilities are dances and so they're all
1692s	kind of uh in contrast to the large
1694s	radius Melodies these are all lot
1697s	shorter range uh abilities but with
1699s	pretty powerful effects so this first
1701s	one's called shielding dance which uh
1703s	heals everybody for a little bit over
1704s	time and also applies a a heavy temp
1707s	Health Shield so this is is a great one
1709s	to use when people are about to die and
1710s	the cleric needs some more time to heal
1712s	you can give everyone a shield okay so
1715s	this applies a shield to everyone around
1717s	me uh yep heal yourself and nearby
1721s	allies for 50% of your magical power
1723s	every second and apply up to one
1727s	instance of The Shield to each Target if
1729s	you hold shift you can see the tool tip
1731s	for a shield which is yeah just some
1733s	temp Health oh wow that's awesome 400%
1738s	of your healing power mhm for 15 seconds
1741s	wow okay and my healing power we saw was
1743s	like 40 or something yeah yeah so it's a
1745s	decent decent little chunk of Health um
1747s	or temp Health that is and but the
1749s	downside of this one is that it's only a
1751s	5 meter range so it's quite it's
1753s	basically melee range so that's why you
1755s	really need flourish to you
1757s	know there we go oh my
1761s	God Tori I love the sound of that holy
1765s	smoke that is so much that is so good
1768s	absolutely one of my favorites from the
1770s	whole
1772s	set oh I love this so now I can move
1774s	while I'm using this as well yep you can
1777s	move while you're doing it and you can
1778s	also KNE slide while you're doing
1780s	it so with the long longer cast duration
1784s	um you know you might hit hit some close
1786s	by people with initially then you want
1787s	to knee slide to another group of people
1789s	to get it with the end so it kind of
1791s	since it has a decent duration you get
1792s	you have some time to apply the buff to
1793s	as much as people as possible is kind of
1795s	the idea with that
1796s	one I just want to comment on on the
1798s	shield application as well like how it
1801s	materializes is just awesome that is so
1804s	good SAA did such a great job with this
1807s	holy smokes I love
1809s	that great and then the little lights
1812s	above you little sigil notes hold on you
1815s	know let me let me put myself in walk
1817s	mode just so I can see myself slow move
1819s	on the dancing here hold
1825s	on yeah that's it role play
1828s	Alex Alex MP did all the animations for
1831s	this one I think
1833s	yeah that the RP so great I literally
1837s	would just use that single ability the
1839s	entire time that's all I want to do with
1842s	this so hold on let me let me give the
1844s	cheerful Melody while doing this oh
1847s	that's so
1850s	great love that that is super cool
1853s	that's a cool one it's a great one um oh
1856s	yeah next one Nimble dance
1859s	let's see grants Nimble and pep to
1861s	yourself and nearby allies every second
1863s	what is
1864s	Pep shift uh it'll sh tell you what
1867s	those effects are so Nimble is just a
1870s	pretty high base evasion buff um so just
1873s	another form you know of mitigation
1874s	damage reduction hopefully people will
1875s	Dodge right um and then Pep's uh short
1879s	movement speed boost which a couple of
1881s	the different abilities around the B kit
1882s	are giving um kindar wow so if I have if
1886s	I have both um the Epic Melody as well
1890s	as Nimble dance playing those
1894s	stack yep right now they stack yeah so
1896s	it'll be an additive bonus of 40%
1898s	movement speed so yeah you can get going
1899s	pretty quick oh my God put that up and
1903s	then this is me
1905s	running actually we should all run
1907s	together let's run together when we do
1908s	this let's start at this tree and then
1909s	we'll run the other
1911s	way okay all right
1914s	ready um hold on let me turn this off
1916s	first we'll see we're run to that bigger
1919s	tree there in the distance okay it's
1921s	going to be it's going to take about 10
1923s	seconds to drop okay hold on three two
1926s	one
1931s	go oh my
1935s	goodness that is so good that's a great
1938s	combo if you're trying to run away from
1940s	like a PVP engagement or you know
1942s	getting out of a counter gone bad oh
1946s	whoops who do we run into over here
1948s	mushroom respawn oh from earlier okay
1953s	let me let me do this one
1958s	again I love those animations that kick
1961s	is so cool yeah it's really great these
1964s	animations actually started out MOA and
1966s	then Alex MOA by Matt and then Alex did
1970s	a great cleanup job and added some added
1971s	some spins and stuff so turned out
1973s	pretty cool let me let me just get this
1978s	wow that looks so great Alex did a great
1982s	job with these yeah he did a good job it
1985s	looks really cool looks really cool and
1986s	running too like the the jump kind of
1988s	just seamlessly works with the split
1990s	body the effects are great well
1993s	done so good you'll notice this one also
1996s	has a lot of percussion as the main
1998s	focus all the dances are going to be uh
2001s	at least from the audio side I wanted
2002s	that to convey the feeling of Mo motion
2005s	and uh just the hits of each of the
2008s	dance moves oh it sounds so great you
2010s	know what actually let me let me try
2012s	something um hold on real quick I just
2015s	want to I want to check to see if I can
2018s	turn on the music real quick hold on
2023s	where is my a
2029s	audio oh
2032s	okay all right and then let's see how it
2035s	Blends in with the audio
2041s	oh that sounds so
2044s	good awesome that sounds awesome Max
2047s	Mana let me get myself some more
2049s	Mana yeah those that it it does sound
2052s	really good Tor with the audio that's
2054s	great yeah I I specifically a lot of The
2057s	Bard abilities because they have so much
2059s	musicality to them we have to make sure
2061s	that they stay ambient enough that they
2065s	don't mess with the overall feel of the
2067s	music while also matching up in uh you
2071s	know tonality and key for the musical
2073s	ones so there's a lot of stuff going on
2075s	but I think we're doing a pretty good
2076s	job of combining it so it feels in world
2079s	and in place yeah
2081s	absolutely all right after Nimo what do
2083s	we got mesmerizing
2086s	dance Yep this next one is a offensive
2089s	CC type spell so this will it's a little
2092s	bit shorter cast than the rest um but it
2095s	basically applies incapacitate to all
2096s	nearby Targets
2098s	so we have to have some
2100s	enemies do you want to drop party maybe
2104s	sure yeah it' be good to have that for
2106s	the some of these offensive abilities
2107s	coming up all right you're going to have
2109s	to flag on me
2113s	first all right now let me put you to
2116s	sleep go to sleep oh wait I have to flag
2120s	flag I have to
2121s	flag go to sleep wait a minute what's my
2125s	flag what did we change the hot key too
2127s	I can't remember
2133s	uh yeah right there we go okay there we
2135s	go all right here we go and go to
2140s	sleep
2141s	ooh nice that's awesome that's a quick
2144s	cast too yeah that one's a bit quicker
2146s	because it just has a just a sudden
2148s	effect and it's not as much of about the
2149s	duration but uh yeah nice be able to
2152s	knee slide in flourish in and get a stun
2154s	off flourish out you know oh I put him
2157s	to sleep again he's
2159s	incapacitated oh and now he has
2162s	immunity that's a nice segue what is
2164s	this diminishing
2166s	returns yep talk to us about this trap
2170s	for a little while our game was a bit
2172s	unbalanced when it came to the crowd
2173s	control so uh I figured it was time for
2175s	a diminishing return system to be put in
2177s	place um I can I won't get go into like
2180s	super detail about it but the basic idea
2183s	is we have created different like
2186s	categories of CC so you've got
2188s	um hard CC you've got movement CC you
2191s	got activation CC like silence and
2193s	disarm and each of those categories will
2196s	um tick up as the duration ticks uh and
2199s	once you've hit a max amount of duration
2201s	of that CC category it'll kick in a
2203s	temporary immunity period um so you know
2206s	we'll we'll probably iterate on this
2208s	more just as we do with everything else
2210s	but we wanted something in place just so
2213s	that people can't like Perma lock you
2214s	down cuz nobody likes that and just to
2217s	just to give some clar obviously to the
2218s	audience you have bucke tized
2221s	essentially the different types of
2223s	control effects so that they don't all
2226s	share the same diminishing return values
2230s	but rather each of these effects share
2232s	with some other effect types and they
2234s	will communally grant um some Dr based
2237s	on the effect type yeah I mean real
2239s	quick um the movement ones are snare
2242s	chill root and freeze um the hard ones
2246s	are the one you're seeing here um
2248s	incapacitate which is breakable on
2249s	damage but there's also um tier 2
2251s	versions of that which is trip and stun
2253s	which do not break on damage uh and then
2255s	you have your activation CC's which are
2257s	silence and disarm and um potentially
2259s	more in the future but that's what we
2261s	got right
2262s	now very nice that is awesome I know
2265s	that from a from a user experience
2267s	standpoint obviously um we were getting
2269s	a lot of feedback from the test that hey
2271s	when is this system going to be in place
2272s	it's really feeling crappy and PVP and
2275s	in the encounters to just consistently
2277s	get tripped or snared or you know
2280s	whatever um and now you guys have
2282s	implemented this so well done very nice
2284s	that's definitely going to help remember
2285s	being rooted for like 30 seconds during
2287s	that node War live stream like yeah I'll
2290s	get out of here one day my my primary
2292s	motivation was playing as a fighter in
2293s	PvP and getting Perma rooted I'm like
2295s	nope nope we're changing this right now
2297s	my gosh it was so good okay so
2299s	mesmerizing dance that's that's super
2300s	useful and that's obviously uh short
2303s	radius AOE effect with a 5 m range there
2306s	but pretty significant considering that
2307s	it's an cast that's a pretty strong
2309s	ability um yeah yeah okay cool what do
2313s	we got next maddening
2315s	dance so this one's just more of a
2317s	general AOE damage ability um that
2319s	scales up if there's less targets so
2322s	there's a lot of targets it'll do 40%
2323s	magical power but if there's just a few
2325s	it'll do more um and it also has some
2327s	interaction with uh status of the bar
2329s	that can apply which is demoralized and
2331s	it'll promote that to humiliated which
2333s	decreases Damage Done okay so this is
2335s	cool this is kind of like um you know
2338s	decision to make here obviously uh if
2340s	you're using it as a solo player solo
2343s	barard you're going to have greater
2344s	damage efficacy um against single
2346s	targets or something but if you're like
2348s	pulling large you know groups of mobs um
2351s	it's going to automatically deprecate
2353s	some of that damage mhm exactly cool
2356s	let's test this on dread care again
2368s	okay he's gone
2371s	mad he's
2373s	G so we're doing about 17 damage a tick
2376s	there mhm okay that's pretty good that's
2379s	pretty
2380s	significant yeah just let the Bard get
2382s	in there and get some AOE in as well I
2385s	also love the screen effects that are
2387s	applied there there's some there's some
2389s	like screen Distortion effects a little
2391s	bit Yeah I think the internal of the
2393s	effect has some distorts going on
2395s	something like that I don't know it
2396s	looks pretty uh cursed in a good
2399s	way I like how discont toed the the body
2402s	is yeah exactly you know going for some
2404s	sort of like weird ELR thing right I
2407s	love it we should get some weird
2409s	tentacles flying out of them that be
2411s	cool that's super cool okay cool that's
2414s	uh those are our dances are those all
2416s	the dances yep those are all dances
2418s	right now
2420s	um yeah there's also a there's also a
2423s	dance Mastery passive as well but uh
2425s	we're still it's still getting some
2427s	iterations so we can show that one off
2428s	later okay like we said we're not you
2430s	know this isn't the entire kit there's a
2431s	couple abilities in here we're not going
2432s	to be showing off today but you know for
2434s	the most part uh we got most of it here
2436s	cool all right what have we got next
2439s	next up is a knockback ability it's
2443s	called get off the stage get off you see
2446s	next on your bar uh after the dances
2449s	yeah so this is just like a short range
2452s	melee knockback um which applies snared
2456s	and also has some uh Interac
2458s	with staggered it'll disarm your targets
2460s	if they're staggered so okay so knock
2462s	back enemies in front of you with your
2464s	instrument dealing 175% of your um
2467s	magical damage as oh is that physical
2469s	damage physical Dam yeah it does 100% of
2472s	your magical damage as bludgeon damage
2473s	so okay got it kind of yeah and applies
2475s	three stacks of snared that taper off
2478s	over the course of 6 seconds also
2480s	applies disarm to the target with
2481s	staggered that's a nice combo for the
2484s	tank and the
2486s	fighter exactly yeah so if you know
2488s	melee's up on you and you you're able to
2489s	stagger them you can just knock them
2491s	back get off the stage snare them and
2492s	then they will get disarmed as well if
2493s	you have them staggered all right so
2496s	Trad let's use this on you you want to
2498s	flag on
2499s	me I think you guys are still flag I'm
2501s	flaged yeah oh okay all
2506s	right nice that was cool what did I use
2508s	there was that like a fiddle see I'm I'm
2511s	pretty snared it was your uh flute my FL
2513s	that's right
2514s	a
2516s	yeah obviously we'll probably crank up
2519s	the knock a little bit like it's pretty
2521s	small right now but um we're still
2523s	working on some of that stuff I would
2525s	definitely Crank That Thing Up I put
2526s	that like what is that set to like a
2528s	meter uh yeah I think it's not set too
2531s	high but yeah like tried saying we're
2532s	still yeah knockbacks yeah impulse is
2536s	kind of what that's called um for pushes
2537s	and pull please don't kill me oh wow
2542s	you're corrupted now oh no oh
2545s	no you jerk
2550s	please don't kill me Stephen how'd you
2552s	die aren't you a Healer can't you heal
2555s	thyself he's dead look what you've done
2558s	oh now I'm now I'm not even read this is
2560s	your character Bucky oh man whoops my
2565s	bad oh
2567s	no as I was
2570s	say um so so uh pushes and PS we um
2574s	refer to as impulse um impulse Tech and
2577s	they use a special kind of stuff that
2580s	we're we're still kind of working on um
2583s	that will make them a little more
2584s	reliable but um yeah that there will be
2587s	some changes to this kind of stuff like
2588s	knockbacks I would set I mean I I would
2590s	push them back by at least like four or
2593s	five yeah for sure yeah that's cool that
2596s	looks great can also show disarm if you
2598s	have a stagger Source oh yeah somebody
2601s	stagger we could um we can maybe come
2603s	back to these once we get to the
2604s	abilities that apply those things like
2606s	this next one applies to M to so check
2607s	it out with maddening Dance all right
2609s	which one is that quick so this next
2610s	one's quick wh this is actually your
2612s	starting ability as a Bard um so it's a
2615s	it's a dual function ability that
2617s	changes depending on whether your
2618s	Target's Allied or enemy so the default
2621s	if you're targeting a friend is you'll
2623s	give them um well trad's not a friend
2625s	but if you target like
2627s	me on your guy uh it'll give me a you
2630s	mean Target me yeah Target me Target me
2634s	other me oh yeah for those of you who
2636s	don't know um we're Bucky and I are
2638s	going to be switching obviously bucker
2639s	bucker bucker that's like a Mak Buck
2642s	Buckaroo Buckaroo Bucky being the master
2646s	of The Bard uh is going to be playing
2648s	The Bard today when we when we move in
2650s	uh into the um darala States um okay so
2654s	I'm targeting
2655s	me yep so if you use it on me it's going
2658s	to apply uh some some direct healing and
2660s	apply this buff called Glee which is a
2662s	heal over time that lasts for a while oh
2664s	let's see that Glee you are amused by
2666s	the wit of a bar
2668s	heals for 60% every 2 seconds lasting 15
2672s	seconds and can be extended up to 30
2674s	okay interesting and then it says
2676s	ridicule Target so for an enemy it's
2678s	going to damage them and apply
2680s	demoralized which is a multiplier
2683s	reduced by 10% damage multiply reduced
2685s	by 10% for 8 seconds duration can be
2688s	extended for up to 20 seconds by
2689s	subsequent applications that's cool yeah
2691s	so it's kind of like a dual function
2693s	ability we've seen this before with like
2695s	the cleric having judgment and some some
2697s	different abilities here and there so it
2699s	kind of swaps depending on the context
2702s	oh yeah GLE is just like kind of a very
2704s	light healing like if you compare it to
2705s	the cleric for example the cleric heal
2707s	over time heals very a lot more but this
2710s	one's kind of just some more nice light
2711s	healing potential for The Bard and
2715s	uh okay that's
2717s	cool and then now we should try the
2719s	other effect yes and as you can see the
2722s	icon changed you can guess what it's
2724s	going to be oh oh that's cool so as I
2728s	Target friendlies you can see your
2731s	friendly icon okay so we got some UI
2733s	support finally coming in here and then
2736s	we also have uh now a tomato it looks
2739s	like mhm talk to me a little bit about
2742s	the concept for the
2743s	Tomato oh man this is something Natalie
2745s	was just instantly like oh we got to do
2747s	a tomato toss somewhere in this kit you
2749s	know it was so good especially when we
2751s	were talking about what the effect would
2753s	be called like you know what else would
2754s	demoralize You by getting some Tomatoes
2756s	thrown your face I want to see like a
2758s	trip status interaction so you just like
2761s	fall on your butt when you get hit by
2762s	this yeah so this uh yeah the status the
2767s	one that interacts with the knockback on
2769s	the uh get off the stage is actually
2771s	from a different ability but this would
2773s	uh you can be promoted this through
2775s	maddening dance so if you use maddening
2777s	dance after you throw a tomato them
2779s	it'll promote their demoralized to a
2782s	humiliate oh I see I see I see okay okay
2785s	yeah
2792s	oh yeah that's cool so damage D reduced
2795s	by 30% towards targets other than the
2797s	applier of this effect so that means as
2801s	he as the demoralized target if it
2805s	doesn't Focus their abilities or effects
2808s	on me that it's reducing outgoing damage
2811s	by
2812s	30% that's right yeah so this is a
2814s	shared status we're also using some
2816s	spots in the tank kit as well
2818s	um trying to experiment with making ways
2820s	for you know more classical abilities
2822s	like Taun and stuff to have a still have
2823s	a use in PvP right where you know
2825s	players don't have threat ta wouldn't do
2827s	anything to players under normal
2828s	circumstances but if you know we have
2829s	these stat interactions then it'll still
2831s	have a a great use in PvP as well that's
2834s	cool that's I I'm liking these
2835s	interactions that's very cool yeah and
2838s	the exact interactions where things are
2839s	like might change here and there you
2841s	know like we're still working on the
2842s	fear status as well I think that could
2844s	have a really good place on the
2845s	maddening dance cuz more thematically as
2847s	well um but for now we got this and it's
2850s	it's a pretty good combo that's very
2852s	super cool and by the way guys as you're
2853s	kind of watching this uh demonstration
2855s	obviously you're going to see some bugs
2857s	here or there one of the bugs that we
2858s	have currently that we're currently
2860s	working on is um some of our name plates
2862s	and targeting plates uh respecting uh uh
2865s	hit point updates um that's something
2867s	that we're actively working on right now
2869s	okay um so quick wit super cool love it
2873s	what's next next up is on the next bar
2877s	so this this next group of abilities are
2878s	called the songs um and so these are all
2881s	single Target abilities that are also
2882s	channeled but have a variety of effects
2884s	as well um so this first one here is
2887s	called lovely serenade and that's kind
2889s	of just like a heal over time that also
2891s	applies Glee let me let me damage you a
2893s	little
2894s	bit yeah we can nuke we can nuke or
2897s	actually if you want to heal a friendly
2898s	we could use somebody else maybe you
2900s	could heal
2905s	Brian or I'll nuke Brian a little but so
2907s	you can heal them up oh okay yeah there
2909s	we go thank you allor
2914s	right oh how cool is that let me add let
2919s	me add this and then do
2925s	it we're doing it we're that's a great
2929s	combo of course you know increased
2930s	healing received yeah your
2934s	target very cool I like I I like the do
2937s	ity between the archetype designs right
2939s	obviously the cleric being the bread and
2941s	butter the healing but having this
2944s	augmented you know bar role um to kind
2948s	of secondary uh regen SL heal effects um
2952s	and also empowering the cleric I think
2954s	is a is a very healthy compliment in the
2956s	party comp yeah we want to give bards a
2958s	lot of ways to you know obviously as our
2960s	Premier support archetype we want to
2962s	give them a lot of ways to support all
2963s	the other archetypes so they can spec
2965s	more for a healing support way or a
2967s	damage support way or you know maybe
2969s	going more for a cc oriented play style
2971s	so there's a lot of different options on
2972s	how you can bring value to the team love
2974s	it okay I think the next one is probably
2976s	one of my favorite uh visual effects
2980s	designs yeah this one turned out great
2983s	um this is a this is a single target
2985s	attack speedcast speed bonus so can
2989s	really speed up
2991s	someone's power with this
2993s	one all right oh yeah so you can give it
2996s	to yeah that's good
3001s	ooh oh yeah that was pretty significant
3003s	so that's giving you 25% faster casting
3006s	speed and attack speed
3011s	yeah and it lasts for 10 seconds mhm
3015s	that's pretty significant long most of
3017s	the songs have a bit of a longer cool
3019s	down I think they're about at 30 second
3020s	range but um yeah it's a pretty strong
3024s	uh DPS bonus to uh
3029s	Target love it here dread you can have
3032s	some
3035s	too I don't know I think since you're uh
3038s	you're flyi against some you're not
3039s	going to be able to use friendly
3040s	abilities on him my bad
3042s	TR I got myself covered I'm a cleric I'm
3045s	a
3046s	cleric I love that and the sound there
3049s	is awesome too I'm I'm loving the uh it
3052s	almost reminds me of one of my like
3054s	grandparents uh clocks oh oh yeah that's
3057s	what I was going for a lot mechanical
3060s	noises yeah sounds really cool yeah
3062s	Incorporated a lot of classic clock
3064s	sounds so they're pretty sweet uh you'll
3066s	also notice that all these songs have uh
3069s	some harp backing them that we put that
3071s	in there to simulate uh almost like
3073s	singing because their songs the ideas
3075s	your character would be singing but we
3076s	don't actually want singing because that
3077s	would be a chaotic mess so you'll hear
3079s	each of those harp sounds which convey
3081s	The Melody of the uh actual song that
3084s	you would be singing Love It yeah I
3087s	think it turned out
3089s	great that's super cool CA did such a
3092s	great job with these effects yeah he
3095s	killed it okay after the anthem what do
3100s	we got next next up so these are two
3103s	offensive single Target songs so you can
3105s	use it on tread po Trad um so this next
3108s	one is called the chilling lament and
3110s	this is just ticking ice damage and also
3113s	saacks up uh Chill on the Target and has
3117s	action if they're already Frozen it'll
3118s	just deal bonus damage instead okay so
3120s	you can kind of you know with the Mage
3121s	you know you can kind of combo some of
3123s	the stuff with the Mage right all
3130s	right oo that's chilling that's pretty
3134s	cool the chill effect looks great too
3137s	status condition yeah yeah that one look
3140s	that one looks good they're still
3141s	iterating a lot of stat conditions but
3143s	uh the ones they did for the Mage so far
3144s	are looking really good
3148s	yeah that's awes what instrument is that
3150s	that is a harp really okay I like it
3154s	nice yeah yeah I thought it had a nice
3156s	haunting tonality to it which works
3158s	really well especially with these
3159s	attacking
3164s	abilities very cool love that all right
3168s	what we got oh I think this is my
3170s	another one of my favorite visual
3171s	effects as
3173s	well yeah so this one's called the dark
3175s	lullabi and this will deal uh spirit
3178s	damage which is kind of a new damage
3179s	type we were adding especially once we
3181s	get to Summoner two it might do more
3183s	Spirit damage type stuff um but this uh
3186s	is a scaling damage so it scales up in
3188s	power and it also notably won't wake up
3191s	incapacitated targets so normally
3193s	incapacitated targets will break out
3195s	upon damage but this one will uh not
3198s	wake them up and if they if the final
3200s	hit hits them while they're still in
3201s	capacitated they become stunned so it's
3203s	kind of like a a Punisher for things
3205s	that are already sleeping and you like
3207s	know give them even worse dreams right
3209s	that means this combos well with
3211s	Mesmerize correct yeah yeah hit me with
3213s	that first Hit Me With Your Best okay
3219s	sleep got it and
3223s	now o see now I got the stun off so
3227s	normally that would have broken the
3229s	effect but because uh that specific
3231s	ability has that interaction yeah that's
3234s	coolage of death
3238s	but now I'm
3246s	immune that looks
3248s	awesome yeah I love how the way the
3251s	stars are going around the
3253s	sky that's super cool super super cool
3258s	okay now we have discordance so now
3262s	we're moving on we have a couple more
3263s	kind of miscellaneous abilities we're
3265s	out of the songs now but this is just uh
3267s	a single Target ability that shoots some
3269s	discordant notes of your target that
3271s	kind of bounce around and apply
3274s	stagger yeah if there was more enemies
3276s	these would actually bounce between them
3278s	and apply stagger to all of them um yeah
3281s	it's kind of just an extra little damage
3282s	ability just to give the B some more
3284s	damaging spells um and obviously the
3287s	staggered interactions we saw was with
3291s	um uh the get off the stage ability had
3294s	an extra disarm if they're staggered so
3296s	it would combo well with that and any
3299s	other things that one of the things
3300s	you're trying
3302s	to I love the little note sounds they're
3305s	so good I had a lot of fun with this one
3308s	they're responsive yeah so it's a it's
3311s	there's an entire octave that it's
3313s	choosing between so there's all 12 uh
3315s	notes in
3317s	there it's really chaotic when
3320s	especially if you have like three or
3322s	more enemies around you and it all the
3324s	notes are bouncing in between them it
3325s	becomes a full discordant mess living up
3327s	to its name yeah we'll see I'll make
3329s	sure to demo that demo that when we get
3331s	into this POI that's pretty awesome I I
3334s	do love those notes it sounds really
3335s	good I like the uh the staggered impact
3338s	also it it feels very uh
3343s	responsive yeah and this one uh will
3345s	combo with to get off the stage so if
3346s	they're staggered when you hit them with
3347s	get off the stage uh they'll get
3349s	disarmed the last uh building on the
3350s	last row one back in the last row the
3352s	weapon hit
3355s	one oh okay okay okay so that has that
3358s	has interaction with staggered they'll
3359s	get disarmed so that's a good combo to
3361s	discordance them
3362s	then hit over the head oh
3367s	yeah nice okay so now I'm trying to
3370s	attack you but I can't but as soon as it
3371s	wears off you'll see I can start
3373s	attacking again very cool very cool kind
3375s	of adds to the adds to the anti like
3377s	Melee on you right you can disarm them
3379s	and knock them back and snare them a
3381s	little bit Yeah run away
3386s	that's awesome yeah eventually a little
3389s	extra polish touch we want to make
3390s	eventually is it actually makes the
3392s	weapon kind of go away from your hand
3394s	but at the moment is just mechanical all
3396s	right cool um that is discordance next
3400s	up Gambit so this one is an interesting
3405s	one I'm going to n Brian you have a
3406s	Target to use it on the way this ability
3409s	works is you will swap Health with a
3413s	Target so since Brian is low Health
3415s	you'll be giving him some of your health
3417s	to try to heal him back up and you can
3419s	use it vice versa and you can only use
3421s	it on party members so it's it's a very
3423s	risky ability because it'll put somebody
3425s	a low Health but it can sometimes mean
3427s	difference between life and death if
3428s	your Tank's really low you can Gambit
3429s	give some of your health to him and save
3431s	his life it also applies a healing
3435s	receive bonus to Target that lost life
3436s	so kind of you know if you lose a bunch
3438s	of life you can you can gain some
3441s	back as you can see it took a lot of
3443s	your total H percent HP to give it more
3446s	in you so you're not you're not actually
3448s	like not gaining Health in the process
3450s	so it's not like yeah so you kind of
3454s	great punishing for you but it helps
3455s	grind a little bit or you know
3458s	decently wow that is that is a very
3462s	strong ability this one has a longer
3464s	cool down I think it's a minute or
3465s	something like that use it super
3468s	often that's amazing it strength is part
3472s	of why we gave it such a bright visual
3474s	effect because if a Bard uses this you
3477s	know the B's low on health so which
3479s	targets blow them
3480s	up that or you know their targets low on
3483s	health right depending on the type of B
3485s	they
3486s	are
3488s	exactly talk about a troll
3492s	ability yeah party locked at least so
3495s	your keeps some bars are going to be
3497s	known as the Gambit
3500s	BS they like the risky plays you know I
3503s	love the effect there that's super cool
3506s	yeah those those cards looked great
3508s	that's awesome that looks very
3511s	cool very
3514s	nice okay what do we got next all right
3517s	so we're on to the last couple abilities
3519s	here so these next two abilities are
3521s	what we're calling
3522s	stories and so these are simple party
3525s	wide Buffs that go out that last for 30
3527s	seconds um and they provide you with the
3530s	theme that you can use to cast more
3532s	powerful ability called a
3535s	saga so if you use uh let's see your
3538s	clol ons are off right yep mhm yeah so
3540s	the first one there is conflict um so
3543s	this will give everyone just a physical
3545s	power bonus
3547s	multiplier um to your whole party for 30
3551s	seconds oh okay very cool yep and so
3554s	that's a that's a short-term buff that
3556s	lasts 30 seconds yep and it also you got
3559s	a note of tragedy I think up up in the
3561s	top left on your character yeah so
3564s	tragedy so this gives you a little
3565s	little boost and also you can spend
3568s	three of these themes uh to cast this
3571s	powerful ability called a saga that has
3573s	different effects depending on which
3574s	themes you have so once you get to three
3576s	you can use a combination of conflict or
3578s	chaos chaos does
3581s	um chaos does magical crit and these
3584s	abilities normally have a 30 second cool
3585s	down so you can only have one story
3586s	active for now at a time
3591s	um I see I see I see okay so I can apply
3595s	this every 30 seconds and it keeps a
3597s	record on myself of the of the last
3601s	used
3603s	um uh story story yeah and so um does
3609s	that does that story composition change
3611s	ever unless I cast another story or I'm
3615s	just it'll stay until you cast a new
3617s	story okay cool um right now we're only
3619s	showing the stories that Grant the
3620s	tragedy theme but there's uh four other
3622s	stories that uh Grant both the comedy
3625s	theme and the Mystery theme which will
3626s	change your uh yeah so you can see the
3628s	other ones on the to the right those
3630s	grant that different themes that have
3631s	different
3632s	bonuses so mystery will give you I think
3635s	increased Mana regen and the comedy
3638s	theme gives you increased healing um but
3640s	depending on the combo of these three
3642s	it'll allow you to cast a specific Saga
3645s	ability which is kind of like your
3646s	ultimate ability as a Bard oo okay all
3648s	right so let me so put up a third
3651s	tragedy so now I have three tragedies
3654s	which has activated my
3657s	Saga yeah so right now we just got one
3659s	of these done so far but the three
3661s	tragedy one is called the
3664s	apocalypse and so this is kind of all
3666s	these are kind of just you know very
3667s	powerful ultimate abilities you can do
3670s	that have a big effect to the
3671s	battlefield okay so apocalypse conjures
3673s	a scene at your location that depicts
3675s	this fabled event enemies in front of
3677s	you will be hit for 150% fire damage
3680s	burning burning and Afflicted with
3683s	shaken a lingering zone of flames will
3685s	be left behind H dealing 30% fire damage
3688s	each second and lasts for 8 seconds
3689s	that's
3690s	significant yeah so since this has such
3692s	a long charge up time and cool down
3695s	because of that uh you know we're giving
3696s	it a pretty powerful effect as like you
3698s	know a big Battlefield okay let me light
3701s	this Forest on fire oh yeah make sure
3704s	trad's going to be hurt kids don't do
3706s	this at
3708s	home and uh what is that what is that uh
3713s	phrase that they use uh for forest fires
3715s	I can't remember
3717s	stop drop and roll only you can prevent
3719s	for only you can
3724s	prevent oh my
3728s	God that looks so
3732s	awesome oh that is so
3735s	cool so it consumed my tragedies that's
3739s	correct yeah so you'll have to spend the
3741s	next uh you know minute or two to get
3744s	them back up for your next Saga
3748s	oh wow that looks great SAA holy
3755s	smokes awesome that is
3759s	unbelievable I'm sorry I just I want to
3761s	see it from the front
3769s	now it's a huge area yeah that is so
3773s	great so I mean that I mean that takes a
3775s	lot of setup though because as you said
3776s	the cool down on these on these
3780s	um stories are 30 30 seconds yeah
3782s	stories are 30 seconds so at least 90
3786s	seconds yeah exactly and they're all
3788s	it's also pretty uh Mana intensive as
3790s	well so just SP this on cool down you
3793s	you go pretty
3795s	quick um yeah so you already
3801s	went so
3803s	good so good and I saw I saw an earlier
3806s	iteration that I think SAA is still
3807s	working on where it actually burns down
3809s	like a castle it's like a popup book
3812s	yeah exactly that's kind of what we were
3813s	going for it's like a story popup book
3815s	where you know there's like a whole
3816s	scene that kind of plays out but uh yeah
3818s	still eer on that but I think it's off
3819s	to a great start that's pretty cool all
3823s	right is there anything else we should
3825s	take a look at skill treewise before we
3827s	get this party
3829s	started um I think we're doing pretty
3831s	good there's some other passive things
3833s	with the songs but I think we covered I
3834s	think we covered things mostly there's
3836s	just some other yeah passive bonuses to
3837s	different abilities oh yeah we can go
3839s	into resonant weapon really quick that's
3841s	kind of like the bards uh weapon combo
3844s	Pro we want to do really quick yeah so
3847s	this ability um it's passive you get
3849s	pretty early on and it'll give your
3850s	weapon combo um a different proc effect
3853s	based on which of your current Melodies
3854s	are active so uh with cheerful Melody
3857s	active for example it'll give a little
3859s	automatic heal to a nearby Ally uh on
3862s	your weapon combo finishers well that's
3864s	cool okay so so The Bard gets
3866s	these passive kind of you know secondary
3869s	benefits as they're using their weapon
3872s	attacks yeah like we're doing with a lot
3874s	of different classes too you know a lot
3875s	of our classes have this kind of concept
3877s	of weaving back and forth with weapon
3878s	combo and your abilities and what making
3880s	that you know rewarding back and forth
3882s	game playay there this is kind of The
3883s	Bard's version of that
3885s	interaction all right let me
3889s	um let me find this
3893s	Melia oh yeah so the there's different
3896s	procs with that one based on if you have
3898s	I think menacing music or cathartic
3899s	music have an offensive
3910s	proc yeah so got wounded from that
3913s	weapon combo finisher with
3914s	cathartic the healing he
3918s	received I love the uh spell
3922s	book yeah it looks so cool
3927s	Spellbook is also an AOE it's a ranged
3929s	AOE weapon you guys want to talk about
3931s	that a little bit Brian yeah I guess
3933s	they talking about the spell book we're
3935s	ready for that yeah absolutely yeah so
3939s	this is actually the second iteration of
3941s	the spell book or third if you count the
3943s	APO book um we we de it started in the
3947s	hand and you were flinging stuff out and
3949s	you're holding it in the hand and it was
3950s	a lot smaller than this but um we
3952s	decided we want to go in a different
3954s	direction with it being self animated
3956s	and and much larger so is what we came
3959s	up with um it's part of the slow weapon
3961s	group alongside the great sword so it's
3963s	focused on slow chunky attacks that deal
3966s	a good amount of damage per hit um it's
3968s	also like Bucky mentioned the first
3970s	weapon with a splitting projectile um so
3974s	it's it's going to be the first ranged
3975s	weapon that has a little bit of AOE
3977s	capability baked in but the first Target
3979s	will get hit for a good amount of damage
3981s	and then it'll split for minor damage to
3983s	other nearby Targets if if there are any
3985s	nearby
3988s	U more notably than that though it's the
3991s	first self animating weapon um so it's
3994s	not attached like normal to a
3996s	character's socket um well it is
3999s	technically but
4000s	that's not really for the normal
4003s	purposes of of how you uh attach a
4005s	weapon to a character and it's it's
4008s	animating by itself instead of based
4010s	directly off what the character is doing
4012s	um that's a challenge that Matt was able
4014s	to figure out and make look super
4016s	awesome oh that this I mean this does
4019s	look great I mean oh I love the the
4022s	large kind of tome look to it right
4026s	obviously as you said in the past we had
4027s	that that one-handed kind of book look
4030s	and and that's that's relatively
4032s	standard right that's a safe route to go
4034s	when it comes to animating a weapon
4035s	that's a book essentially but this kind
4038s	of heavier looking tone that's you know
4040s	floating kind of in front of you I think
4042s	that's super unique and it's a great
4044s	look to it yeah I I definitely love that
4047s	you pushed us to do a little bit more
4050s	with it take it a little bit further cuz
4052s	what we came up with is definitely
4053s	something that's unique and and super
4055s	awesome for sure we wanted the book to
4058s	be the star of the weapon combo more
4060s	than the player so you'll notice that
4063s	all the very flashy animations and
4065s	particle effects will be around the book
4066s	itself and attached to the book itself
4069s	instead of playing off of the uh
4071s	character that's has the book there's
4073s	still some supporting animations and
4075s	visual effects on the Caster but it's
4077s	very minor compared to what's playing on
4079s	the
4087s	book and some other stuff that we'll get
4090s	into whenever the skill tree is in a
4092s	more showable state is through the skill
4095s	tree you'll have access to Elemental
4097s	status effects Mana recovery effects
4100s	passive stat effects and combo damage
4102s	increasing
4103s	effects and that's actually all active
4105s	and how spec out now it's just the front
4107s	end's a little bit messed up so we can't
4109s	show
4110s	it that's super
4113s	cool that looks
4115s	awesome okay well I think we might be
4119s	ready to delve into the story side of
4122s	this perhaps and Bucky I would love for
4126s	you since you are The Bard Master
4128s	extraordinaire to swap seats with me I
4132s	am literally seated behind Bucky I'm
4136s	going to walk in front of this desk and
4139s	sit down on the Mage and Bucky I'm going
4141s	to hand over the reins of The Bard to
4143s	your very capable hands so give us one
4147s	moment and while we do that um perhaps
4151s	uh we could talk a little bit about the
4153s	types of NPCs we're going to see here
4155s	and I I know we saw some Undead Doug
4157s	talk to me a little bit about uh what's
4159s	the story behind this stuff yeah so um
4162s	we saw a skeleton and um we're going to
4164s	see more skeletons here I this is the
4166s	first time we're showing them off um and
4169s	uh with skeleton being such a common you
4171s	know fantasy Undead NC that we're going
4173s	to see throughout the game we decided to
4175s	make sure to give them sort of a variety
4177s	of different uh Buffs and um sort of
4182s	effects that they can spawn in with so
4184s	some skeletons will have like an effect
4187s	Spirit of the undying on them and if you
4189s	see this indicated by sort of red
4192s	blowing eyes and a buff icon you know
4193s	that they're going to resurrect uh with
4196s	some health uh when they die so have to
4198s	kind of keep that in mind uh some of
4199s	them will spawn with fields in their
4201s	hands some of them without fields in
4203s	their hands we're going to see a few
4204s	that are here that are actually risen
4205s	Farmers so they're actually going to
4207s	have farm tools um and then we might see
4209s	some some other variants later on some
4212s	Reapers which are more powerful
4214s	skeletons with the sies and wearing
4217s	robes and they have a totally different
4219s	set of abilities available to them
4221s	so very cool that is going to be a lot
4224s	of fun and and Bucky you were talking to
4226s	me a little bit about kind of the story
4228s	behind deral um obviously this is an
4232s	ancient and old uh land so prior to the
4235s	apocalypse talked me a little bit about
4237s	what daral states was all about and and
4240s	why we have these dead
4242s	farmers yeah so you know I'm not on the
4245s	lore team but this is the lore that's
4247s	been uh granted to me the download but
4250s	gist of the story is that the deral
4252s	family used to live here um way back
4255s	before you know uh they left for Vera or
4258s	they left Vera um and they were kind of
4261s	a rich family that you know had a big
4263s	farm here and a bunch of houses but
4265s	after the return to Vera
4269s	um uh we came back humans kind of
4272s	initially populated the area and started
4273s	farming again but then more recently uh
4276s	goblins have are now in the area and uh
4281s	started doing necromancy and raising all
4282s	the farm hands and it's causing a lot of
4285s	uh evilness in
4287s	general um I'm actually gonna go grab
4290s	the quest really quick I think this guy
4292s	right here Rondo has a quest for us
4295s	Rondo okay
4298s	Rondo I like his name Rondo Horner
4303s	sharp yes um so here's his quest uh
4308s	let's see C lot ah yes it's called daral
4312s	Estates historically known as a source
4314s	of pure essential water okay maybe
4316s	that's why the Goins moved in yeah you
4318s	got to read the quest here uh oh yes
4322s	okay yep so it's been over with goblins
4325s	Vermin everywhere so he wants to just
4326s	get in there and uh kill some goblins
4329s	and quiet the Lesser Lords of daral that
4331s	have been summoned because the Goblins
4332s	have been shaking up this land and
4335s	Performing evil not even not even
4337s	greater Lords or lesser Lords I guess so
4341s	oh no so the ultimate goal is to get the
4343s	elemental water from dalls well
4347s	cool okay so I'll accept this Quest so
4350s	all right so we got to investigate the
4351s	mill first dude Brian is already up here
4354s	like training
4356s	everything uh send me a reinvite oh
4359s	that's right we didn't have Trad in the
4362s	party I'm sorry buddy busy murdering him
4365s	I know test nobody's in danger yet yet
4369s	being the key
4370s	word they only catch you up to the group
4372s	tread
4378s	I mean these poor skeletons are just out
4380s	here farming their life
4382s	away and we are
4385s	interrupting their job oh wow we just
4388s	pulled we just pulled a bunch of
4396s	goblins all right oh nice marks
4407s	huh trivial monsters if only there was a
4410s	greater challenge up
4411s	ahead I know
4414s	right if only if only oh my God they
4418s	have a star next to their
4420s	name oh what are these
4423s	Stars so yeah this is the uh first live
4426s	stream we be showing off our Elite
4428s	system um and uh as he would expect the
4431s	star rank means that they are stronger
4433s	more dangerous there's going to be one
4435s	out here and there's going to be some
4436s	two stars inside as well so definitely
4438s	take this encounter a bit more seriously
4441s	than the the enemies we might have found
4443s	up until
4444s	now agreed Brian we should probably have
4447s	you
4449s	pulling what we need to
4453s	pull we got a two star rip in my celion
4455s	here watch out for his knock
4458s	back I'm going to demoralize him with
4460s	the Tomato in the face they hate
4463s	that I would they might like the us
4466s	actually oh give him a buff
4475s	no oh that was so pleasant
4478s	actually your Little Harp
4484s	yes I love the lighting in here yeah
4487s	they did a great job looks all like nice
4490s	and weathered all the overgrowth on the
4493s	mill as well
4495s	yeah no wonder these guys moved in here
4497s	this place is uh
4503s	damp makes
4505s	sense going to pull some mobs down after
4509s	this are we going upstairs or what are
4512s	yeah we're going upstairs I think the
4514s	guy we're looking for is upstairs Let
4516s	Brian pull down carefully but I think we
4518s	can go up until the left
4528s	okay we're making good work of this all
4531s	right yeah you can move up into the left
4533s	we'll use this ledge I'll pull
4536s	here safe haven
4542s	yes
4544s	who's oh I think the party leader has to
4548s	Lucky okay oh you
4551s	guys key I got a axe axe
4563s	dude switch for my bars a little
4571s	bit you guys are doing great yeah we're
4574s	doing uh pretty good here not too
4577s	bad good thing we got a cleric here can
4581s	imagine what it would be like with that
4583s	one me neither
4588s	the bar definitely makes my job
4591s	easier oh there he is who is this the
4595s	Everlasting sewer so this is one of the
4597s	Lords of deral ancient Lords come to
4601s	re populate his land come to re yes
4605s	populate he's come to he's come to re at
4607s	what the Goblins have done to his
4609s	land reap what the Goblins have sewn if
4612s	you will very nice we're all done
4616s	oh no did we like piss off all his
4618s	friends
4620s	now life oh no I was trying to loot him
4623s	he just jump back up oh how' he come
4625s	back to
4626s	life yeah so the uh the skeletons have a
4630s	chance uh to have the effect that they
4632s	will resurrect if they're killed so you
4634s	can notice it ahead of time um via the
4636s	buff icon or via the red glowing eyes
4639s	and actually uh these Reapers can also
4641s	steal the uh Resurrection effect from
4643s	nearby other simpler skeletons and they
4647s	did that because you guys pulled those
4648s	other skeletons so this Reaper is going
4650s	to come back again um you might want to
4651s	kill off his uh his friends first he's
4655s	just going to get another resurrect from
4656s	them all right don't Focus the SE Tori
4660s	and Bucky are getting low on o the sun
4662s	guy has a res kill this sun
4667s	guy killing the sun killing son doing
4671s	good we recovered
4677s	all right I think we managed it in time
4679s	before uh before the the reaper could
4681s	steal the buff
4686s	excellent I'm back on the sun
4690s	again let me see if I can loot
4693s	him a yes I got
4696s	the seeds of prosperity yeah so when
4700s	you're encountering a Reaper with a
4702s	multier skeletons it's good to make sure
4704s	that you kill each of the skeletons of
4705s	the Resurrection te at least one so he
4708s	the reaper can't steal that buff okay
4710s	let's get out of here so you got the you
4712s	got the SE this way I think it's good
4715s	Brian okay side side exit this will lead
4718s	us to the next uh objective I'm just
4720s	going to sit and drink for a second yeah
4722s	let's get some Mana back this is a safe
4724s	spot to recover take a
4727s	breather where'd you guys go oh
4731s	no little door
4736s	I was looting sorry that's
4743s	important so
4745s	beautiful it's very nice peel looks
4747s	awesome so we've got the
4750s	seed now we have to investigate the
4752s	warehouse that's next on the
4754s	quest that's East right yeah you can
4758s	kind of see it out there in the distance
4759s	yeah I guess like Southeast yeah I'm
4762s	ready I'm ready we go
4766s	yeah oh yeah R
4770s	ahead got some goblins over
4774s	here going disarm
4779s	them oh we got kidnapper back here I'm
4782s	going try and sleep
4784s	him oh you got broken
4787s	out yeah careful this guy is a three
4789s	star I mean a two star excuse me oh
4791s	where's the three star sorry two star oh
4794s	two star a
4796s	kidnapper my God what a
4799s	monster you hear him laugh you should
4801s	run
4804s	away I heard him laugh oh my
4808s	God krupt
4812s	him you can nice nice
4818s	M weit did
4822s	it man I could really trip you guys up
4824s	just by doing that laugh whenever I want
4825s	since that's my
4827s	voice wait was it
4832s	really wow that was so good that was on
4835s	the spot
4838s	too guy be be able to do
4842s	that that was awesome so
4850s	good oh this is cool building what's in
4854s	here
4856s	this is the
4857s	warehouse Goins
4861s	maybe oh no Steven I God I I had no idea
4866s	there is a lot there's an ambush we're
4869s	going to need we're going to need marks
4870s	we need marks on which ones who's
4873s	marking I'm too busy dancing we need
4876s	marks okay I got a
4880s	Mark it's all right stay calm I'm on the
4883s	sun I'm on the
4886s	son don't stand in the green standing in
4889s	it just a little
4892s	bit or I will not heal you oh go yeah
4896s	they can buff their
4902s	allies so can I
4907s	ha is this battle of the
4909s	bars yes I'm the best B though oh I got
4912s	a dog on
4913s	me you guys got this let me just move my
4916s	bars around some more
4919s	yes looks
4923s	better okay that wasn't too bad yeah we
4926s	need to fight into into there all the
4928s	way up to the second floor though yeah
4930s	let's go let's keep this train
4932s	moving this guy has a resurrection that
4934s	risen bone guard keeps getting
4937s	Shield he powerful need to do some burst
4939s	damage to break his shield or or let him
4942s	get into melee range
4950s	nice oh no ste's getting borked I got
4953s	another dog another
4963s	bork watch out these guys are going to
4964s	resurrect too no dud
4976s	okay last bone
4983s	guard
4988s	oops very nice all head up well done
4991s	yeah yeah yeah coming
4992s	up there he is who is it re Reaper nice
4997s	our next he has assault of the
4999s	land where is that's it kill the shaman
5004s	first here we
5007s	go oh yes
5013s	glorious there another Shaman back here
5016s	yeah kill this guy oh I see him okay I
5018s	got him got warlord silver tooth from
5020s	downstairs oh
5024s	no and you pul the shaman from the
5026s	window oh
5033s	no we can do this we can do this we got
5037s	it I'll dance at you guys oh he's doing
5041s	his move away run away oh
5048s	Brian I'm out of Mana I'm out of Mana
5052s	switch to the Mana
5055s	song I'm really low
5060s	oh oh no I'll sing you a serenade
5064s	goblins from below not too bad though we
5068s	need a
5072s	Target oh
5074s	God I'm so low on Mana right now all
5078s	right I'm switching back to the
5081s	music um oh the Reaper's going to Res
5087s	here ah getting hit by down tank is down
5092s	all right oh and I fell through the
5093s	ground no no no no no okay no no
5098s	noap now now
5101s	now oh he's powerful yeah we need to get
5105s	did we get uh Brian back up oh no the
5108s	Reaper's back too somebody can we get a
5110s	stealth res on
5111s	Brian uh no such thing as a stealth res
5114s	can we just get a res on
5118s	Brian maybe we should uh keep training
5121s	no keep training them while we get the
5122s	res while we get the res we need
5125s	I can't stop to Res are you kidding me
5127s	what yeah stop to Res try to Res him
5129s	who's still alive oh God everything is
5132s	I'm jumping I'm sorry okay jump off jump
5134s	up jump off jump up we'll reset we'll
5136s	reset Brian we'll come and get you oh
5139s	God there's nowhere nowhere is safe I'm
5142s	kind of hiding behind oh
5146s	nope
5150s	okay right here we go we're over here
5153s	let's let's yeah let's pick up Brian as
5157s	soon as we can should I run back what do
5160s	you think um no hold on wait for us
5162s	let's see if we can get
5164s	you oh wow just take it
5167s	easy but you guys could probably clear
5169s	through Revenant I've got the Revenant
5171s	Reaper very low all right if we kill
5173s	this guy try to kill the Revenant
5178s	Reaper yeah try to kill him okay okay we
5182s	killed him okay
5186s	I got the salt of the land all right
5188s	we're going to we're going to get Brian
5190s	back up hold on we're doing it live
5192s	we're doing it
5199s	live just stay around this tree just
5201s	stay around this tree Focus fire getting
5203s	rid of the shaman okay next up risen
5205s	bone
5212s	guard okay we're close
5217s	I'm the tank I
5218s	guess there you go B
5221s	tank they're pissed of The Bard there we
5226s	go all right all right let's get our
5229s	let's get our Mana back and then we'll
5230s	go pick up
5232s	Brian good plan that was chaotic that
5236s	was chaotic but you know what all we
5238s	lost was the tank and the tank is
5242s	dispenda it's why you're always the
5244s	first
5245s	I got UPG off that uh why we always get
5247s	the fattest loot it's okay that's right
5249s	part of the deal
5251s	exactly I got some blue leather bracers
5253s	off that Shaman equip
5256s	those heck
5258s	yeah okay three minutes till release by
5260s	the way okay Stam so my opinion let's
5262s	mantle up let's mantle up over here yes
5267s	parkour hardcore parkour parkour is here
5270s	we go I think we can manle up right
5273s	here oh yeah
5276s	oh
5277s	yeah I like this new mantle by the way I
5279s	just want to call that out oh yeah oh oh
5283s	no oh no did you jump in the side lower
5286s	floor yeah it's okay it's okay it's okay
5288s	all right we're upstairs oh there's a
5290s	lot of oh boy Stephen Sten don't it's
5293s	okay no no no it's okay it's okay I'm
5294s	going a
5295s	mantle you have to really spam it Tad
5298s	there we go I made it up I made it up
5301s	okay uh oh my God the mobs made it up
5303s	with me
5305s	out for that Shaman there's a couple
5307s	creep oh there's stuff Roaming In all
5309s	right I'm killing the one on
5311s	meak get the oh there's a oh my
5316s	God I'm coming over to you guys I'm
5318s	coming over to you guys
5322s	okay let's AOE them
5326s	down oh that's that's huge
5337s	okay all right I think I can get a res
5340s	working on it go for it healing this you
5344s	got it you got it I'm healing just uh
5350s	steal yes he's up we got
5358s	him recovery look at that we did
5362s	it we were so ingenious if I had if I
5367s	had a nickel for every time I've done
5368s	that in an MMO I'd have
5371s	like couple dollars several
5377s	dollars nice all right well we got the
5381s	we got the uh salt of the land the
5383s	reaper so now we just need to go to the
5384s	manor next right all right let's do it
5387s	jump off the manor that kind of sounds a
5389s	little for
5390s	boing yes it's where they glor you made
5394s	some friends Brian hold
5397s	on
5402s	oh ow that stupid little mushroom
5406s	child my least favorite kind of child a
5409s	mushroom child make sure you DOD when
5412s	they die my second
5418s	least TR you rebound loot from F to G
5423s	just messing with me gr that's the one
5426s	that's messing with
5431s	you well can see the
5434s	man but you can definitely see the
5437s	difference in the population in terms of
5439s	rank like from the interior spaces to
5441s	the exterior spaces oh yeah for
5448s	sure I love these
5450s	uh these Gates what what happened here
5454s	what story does this place
5458s	tell it's great question you know for
5461s	players to find out they Venture through
5463s	here
5467s	themselves oo look at this Manor how
5470s	cool towards an interior so should
5472s	expect more Fierce
5474s	resistance yes there's a b behave
5477s	accordingly
5490s	that second risen bone guard has the uh
5491s	spirit the dying so prepare for a
5495s	res oh I see that this enemy will
5498s	resurrect when
5500s	defeated yeah it's so you can see his
5502s	glowing red eyes as well that's another
5504s	indicator
5506s	nice oh he's back
5518s	hold some more from inside and then work
5520s	on getting us in the right hand side
5528s	here oh wa the exited Seekers there's
5531s	aided Seeker on me oh
5535s	ow oh I'll get him we going to go
5537s	interrupt him
5541s	H oh and Steven instantly broke it oh my
5544s	bad my bad here here I'll put him to
5547s	sleep I'll put him to sleep I'll put him
5548s	to sleep I would I would kill them
5549s	quickly pretty
5551s	squishy oh oh the Gambit saved
5555s	him did you save him with Gambit yeah
5558s	dude yeah look out for the Green Cloud
5561s	oh yeah that's that's not
5564s	good yeah he was channeling me with
5566s	something all right nice do we have time
5568s	for a little break here yeah let's break
5570s	in the courtyard let's breaking the MP
5572s	is a good idea let's break the courtyard
5575s	and just kind of Tak in the
5578s	view was quite
5584s	nice yes so I'd say inside here the
5587s	cultists are a priority Target because
5588s	they're not Elites but they do a decent
5590s	amount of damage and aren't they don't
5592s	have too much health look at how
5594s	beautiful this is in
5597s	here yeah it looks super cool I love the
5601s	stained glass windows up there I'm
5602s	digging those windows too they look good
5607s	I know uh chance did a great job with
5610s	this it's looking
5615s	good all right I think we're
5618s	ready yes we're going through here to
5620s	the
5621s	left okay yeah think this way's good
5637s	trying to soften up the room a little
5639s	bit by pulling out what I can nice this
5642s	place is nasty I think this guy's going
5643s	to Res but just bring him in if he does
5647s	he is indeed we going in yeah yeah come
5653s	in
5661s	uh-oh oh
5665s	oh my little discordant notes started
5671s	bouncing oh yeah the Poison's still here
5674s	careful I'm going to sleep this guy the
5676s	undying servant over
5678s	here he's
5681s	asleep he's the one doing the poison
5685s	nice over here as well
5696s	okay I got this guy over
5709s	here I'm on the axe
5714s	Target one sec singing to myself a
5716s	beautiful
5718s	serenade I feel
5720s	loved sometimes you got to pep yourself
5722s	up youve got to pep goes a long
5727s	way all right we're doing it all right
5731s	next guy's up here the
5733s	tiller wait let's deal with the uh let's
5736s	deal with the smaller enemies first yeah
5739s	this is good clear this room out oh oh
5743s	there's a lot in
5745s	here I'm going to do the
5748s	Saga a
5750s	Seeker oh my God was
5754s	yeah yes well played that was
5759s	nice oh Lots from the
5762s	back oh I have Agro I'm getting low Mana
5766s	now
5771s	though put a little ball lightning down
5773s	there doing some man regen for
5776s	you
5781s	perfect ran I will do the Gambit oh
5786s	nice every time I'm casting a heal he's
5789s	like gamp keep casting dude he's low I
5793s	am I will Dance For You Dance For Me Yes
5798s	Dance For Me
5800s	clown all right can we can we rest now
5803s	yes first we got to loot then we can
5805s	rest ah super
5809s	based I love the lighting this looks
5812s	great
5815s	beautiful so much character in it I
5823s	know oh let me sit down
5827s	here oh well guess
5830s	not down over here look up for the
5833s	tiller right around the corner oh the
5836s	Timeless tiller there he is oh we need
5839s	watch fly he's a two star the last piece
5841s	before we can summon
5845s	the
5846s	Taskmaster the Taskmaster that sounds
5849s	for
5850s	boating also watch behind I think mobs
5853s	spawn in
5855s	there I'm ready when you guys are room
5857s	I'm ready when you should I'm going to
5858s	pull him into this room oh oh I just
5861s	walk right into
5862s	that he just sliced my neck yeah watch
5865s	out that slice isn't for
5867s	decoration I will humiliate him now oh
5870s	wait where'd he go oh there
5874s	right here oh no he's hiding in the
5880s	cabinet oh he the res res
5883s	buff yep he is not guaranteed to have
5885s	one okay
5893s	cool and luckily we cleared out all the
5895s	other skeletons so he didn't have a
5896s	chance to steal from them nice Pro Gamer
5900s	detected kill Pro Gamer alert
5904s	even Corner tank look at that
5907s	nice oh wait oh he blew up this is final
5913s	I got the uh watch
5919s	fly
5921s	okay we just need to go to the
5928s	well oh you got a lot of damage on you
5931s	oh God let me just take health
5936s	you were being you were being life
5937s	drained you could break that by uh
5939s	breaking distance or line of side yeah
5941s	that was happening to me at the entrance
5943s	you guys broke him through
5945s	death broke with a chain
5948s	pole
5950s	nice I had to uh Gambit your health to
5954s	me hope you didn't mind I got to say
5957s	Brian for a we little dude you're doing
5959s	a doing a good job tanking
5961s	there what's that supped to me
5967s	ster Mighty in spirit that's
5971s	right
5973s	concentrated I mean dwarf this is this
5977s	is home
5979s	territory nice and comfy skeletons even
5982s	has a nice DF roll it it's
5990s	glorious take out the Sund servant oh
5992s	what do we got down here
5996s	a lot of
5998s	pain if you get life
6001s	drains stun him or or get away so that's
6005s	the servant doing that yeah that's that
6007s	it's on you right now Bucky just get
6009s	away from him oh no Brian's getting
6012s	Brian's getting hurt oh oh
6016s	God I had to run into another po well
6020s	listen you told me to run away I ran oh
6022s	guys this might be tpw this might be a
6024s	tvw we should move out we should run run
6026s	run I can't even see where to run good
6030s	luck yeah the front okay okay okay okay
6033s	okay soon as we get out here let's let's
6035s	oh no there's a kidnapper there's a
6039s	kidnapper I'm going to sleep him I'm
6041s	going to try to sleep the kidnapper
6043s	didn't agress keep running down the
6045s	driveway here
6048s	oh we
6049s	should oh I'll run with you guys standby
6054s	oh B speed
6055s	showcase yes we were showcasing there
6059s	for a moment let's
6062s	go it's going so well speed boost was
6065s	perfect though you actually I'm to try
6069s	to kill this risen bone guard I'm all
6071s	out of Mana though they're on the other
6073s	side of the POI what's the play here
6075s	guys should we just run through yeah
6079s	yeah let's try to go
6081s	through well if you guys want to meet us
6083s	at the well we should can we res can we
6086s	res
6088s	Tori well we're running over to you guys
6090s	we're just going to try and run through
6091s	to okay okay okay okay we have
6094s	speed come on
6097s	TR we should be able to oh my God oh my
6101s	God if I die I'm going to die next to
6102s	Tori so it's easier for
6104s	you okay corpses up in one spot for
6111s	convenience I don't have any po
6116s	though oh my God look at this thing look
6119s	at that
6121s	thing that Goblin should be in the
6124s	Olympics we're almost
6127s	there oh you guys are I have I have 30
6132s	hit points no no I'm by the where are
6134s	you outside the entrance to the left
6136s	there he is found him oh my God Gambit
6139s	him oh yes yes thank you
6144s	I got everything else killed oh good
6147s	work oh that was so
6150s	close you're running around at like 30
6152s	for good two minutes there dude that was
6157s	crazy I get some Mana back Tory dead
6160s	nearby I yeah I'm right I'm right by the
6163s	uh light
6167s	post well we got what we needed out of
6169s	the manner at least we have to just go
6170s	to the well now yeah that Manor is no
6172s	joke yeah
6174s	Doug told me to run from that one skill
6176s	I'm like all right I just ran into the
6177s	Next Room there's five cultists in they
6178s	like
6179s	hello yeah you could have you could have
6181s	just stepped out of the door right next
6182s	to you the line of sight him listen bro
6185s	I panicked right it was
6193s	scary all right finally got some Mana
6204s	all right where are we off to next we
6207s	just have to go to the well and cast all
6211s	the sacred skeleton items we got to
6214s	summon the
6215s	Taskmaster the
6221s	Taskmaster let's go where is the well um
6224s	it's just straight north of here pretty
6226s	much can just cut through this these
6230s	lands a little swim this is refreshing
6233s	yeah I like that you should you should
6235s	jump a little more Brian I
6238s	should oh that's a nice jump right there
6241s	look at him go who knew that the duner
6243s	was so
6249s	acrobatic oh I pulled a flower evil
6252s	flower from the swamp what are these
6254s	flowers doing
6258s	here got a
6261s	shaman I'm on the bone
6264s	training your Mana if you let them live
6265s	long
6274s	enough I love that that
6278s	harp yeah I think that's my favorite one
6281s	we got a res bone
6287s	chopper get him
6293s	yeah I had a blast making all those
6294s	different heart melodies for the
6296s	different songs I think they came out
6297s	really cool convey the emotion that they
6299s	need to I think there's a very long
6301s	patrol around here so we have to keep
6305s	yeah the big goblins come through here
6307s	there's a shaman to the right who's
6308s	going to patrol all the way over here I
6310s	think that flare off in the distance
6312s	that Brian's head towards is this the
6316s	well this is the well this is a huge
6320s	well yes wonder what light
6325s	beneath get the shaman get the shaman
6327s	first and then get the flers
6332s	br oh dog get off
6336s	me oh
6341s	no all right we got a kidnapper
6356s	I think he's going to spin
6358s	no ran run he's
6365s	good
6376s	oh we did
6378s	it all right ready to summon wait what
6382s	are we summoning
6384s	the Taskmaster of the land oh yeah
6388s	that's right it's like the fourth time
6390s	you said
6391s	Taskmaster I'm Taskmaster so just to be
6394s	clear we're summoning the
6396s	Taskmaster yep the master of task see
6398s	here he's a master of tasks ah it says a
6401s	tarnished plaque at the base of the
6402s	statue reads Eternal praise to our Lord
6405s	Taskmaster keeper of dall's essential
6408s	water or well essential you guys ready
6412s	I'm summoning him what should we
6415s	expect uh a three star
6419s	o roaming there he is there's a bunch of
6423s	them take him out we need
6426s	targets uh kill any of the skeletons
6428s	with the buff yeah probably just kill
6430s	the ads first then kill the boss okay we
6433s	do have an out Houser coming in from the
6434s	side too I'll put him to sleep where is
6437s	he oh yeah that's a good
6440s	idea you can follow up with the Mage
6442s	sleep Steven
6444s	okay following with the Mage sleep oh
6447s	he's already out oh and I'm sleeping him
6448s	in 3 two one he slept yeah don't hit him
6453s	we got this out
6454s	Hower only asleep for two more seconds
6457s	no The Bouncing thing you're going have
6460s	to kill him I don't know who that could
6461s	have been somebody yeah yeah rain of
6465s	bone he's using rain of
6469s	bone oh don't get hit by those bones
6471s	stay on the Taskmaster I think if we cut
6473s	him out I can try and sleep him again
6476s	it's it's not going to last long enough
6477s	he's got too much resistance I think
6479s	you're going to have to kill him run
6480s	away run away
6484s	oh
6486s	oh whose idea was it to pull a two star
6488s	and a three
6489s	star the task all of ours I think we
6493s	should just kill the
6504s	I'm menacing
6506s	him oh Brian that's big damage fortify
6509s	up for a
6511s	second this guy's beefy I'm getting low
6514s	on Mana Buck's getting low on Mana I'll
6517s	switch to the Mana was knocking no Mana
6520s	is dread
6522s	oh all
6524s	right bone binder is dead
6543s	all right he's going to Res here after
6545s	he goes down the first time he's going
6546s	to get he's going to try and uh steal
6550s	some souls to get his resurrection buff
6552s	back so no keep an eye on
6555s	that um you ready to interrupt that I'm
6558s	going to Mesmerize him with my dance I'm
6561s	going to give there he is
6567s	weapon all right ready ready task is not
6570s	complete there it is he's doing it
6572s	extraction on bri I interrupted him nice
6575s	Interruption well done you saved me I
6579s	bedazzled him with my bedazzling dance I
6582s	I interrupted his ice storm oh yes ni or
6585s	bone storm trashed oh I'm going to
6587s	finish with the
6588s	Saga yes oh yes nice
6595s	so clean oh oh two maybe melee cler
6599s	don't stand in front of the boss oh he's
6602s	blowing up I fell for that last time
6605s	there we
6606s	go nice I have gotten it the essential
6609s	water of the daral well you did it yes
6613s	let me complete the quest
6615s	here ah yes Rondo will be pleased oh
6620s	whoops great got some glint some EXT
6624s	very nice Quest complete we did
6628s	it yay yay we actually succeeded well
6633s	that was that was actually fun that was
6634s	that was crazy I mean the uh The Bard
6637s	wow you can really feel the difference
6640s	in the party comp with that Bard
6643s	present yes I do my best very nice
6646s	nicely done well you're coming to the
6648s	show Absolutely guys well done thank you
6652s	for walking us through this bucky bucky
6654s	you've done an amazing job with the B
6655s	everybody who's who participated in
6656s	creating this bringing it to life SAA um
6660s	amazing job with the with the visual
6662s	effects I know you're not here right now
6663s	but uh Tori Brian Trad um Doug everybody
6668s	congratulations this was a lot of fun um
6670s	I know I speak for the community when I
6672s	say it is looking good it's playing good
6674s	it's feeling good um I know there's a
6677s	lot of people very excited to get into
6679s	Alpha 2 and test with us um I want to
6683s	thank you guys for joining us today and
6685s	obviously we do these these developer
6688s	updates to get your guys' feedback and
6690s	of course as you know everything is a
6691s	work in progress towards Alpha 2 but
6693s	tell us your thoughts what did you like
6694s	that you saw today about The Bard what
6695s	are some of the things that you would
6696s	want to see uh done differently um
6699s	obviously you don't really know um you
6703s	know how how you're going to enjoy The
6704s	Bard until you play it in Alpha 2 um but
6706s	what you saw today give us your thoughts
6708s	do it on social media do it on our
6709s	forums uh do it in Discord um this is
6711s	why we do these updates so you can
6713s	participate in providing uh feedback to
6715s	us um guys once again thank you for
6717s	joining me and uh very very fun really
6721s	enjoyed this um all right we'll see you
6724s	all back on
6726s	stream bye bye bye thanks it was fun see
6729s	you

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