[2024] Development Update with Bard Archetype Preview -11AM PT Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Transcript (by Youtube)

17s	hello everyone Welcome to our glorious
20s	ashes of creation July development
22s	update we hope that you've all been
23s	having a wonderful month and everyone
25s	has been keeping well and safe uh we
27s	know it's been it's been crazy for me
30s	it's like when it rains it pours I don't
31s	know why work stuff is great just
33s	everything else is falling apart my
35s	house is leaking my cat is in the back
38s	no I'm having a baby I know people have
41s	been asking about the baby the baby's
42s	not born yet it's still the baby's
44s	coming baby's ready for some barred
47s	gameplay the bar yeah the baby's ready
49s	for some music that's true um so we're
53s	uh we're only nine weeks away well you
55s	know they'll come whenever they want but
57s	that's where we're at it's uh crazy so
60s	exciting I can't believe it I know it's
65s	nuts have you have you and Brian
67s	realized that it's happening yet or
68s	you're still like wait a minute oh
70s	believe me I know what's happening I'm
72s	like feeling this thing kicking me every
74s	day um it's kind of like you know
77s	exciting and then also nerve-wracking
79s	because we've been planning this for
80s	like four years but then it's like it's
82s	going to happen I also I also in charge
84s	of a human I know I was about to say I
86s	also love that like the planning around
88s	the baby is like was perfectly timed for
92s	the Alpha 2 launch as well like so we
96s	thought we did not know that we were
97s	gonna get pregnant like our first try so
99s	it was like uh we we were thinking oh
102s	we'll try and but we did not think that
104s	it was going to happen like right at
106s	that so this is a you know not great
110s	timing but we'll see I I like that you
113s	said there's nine weeks remaining and
114s	then people are like nine weeks
115s	confirmed Alpha 2
118s	date yeah oh my gosh let's try not to
121s	have Alpha 2 at the same time as Literal
124s	time we should turn the servers on as
126s	the baby is born that'll be like your
128s	gift to you allia right you have to
130s	you're you're going to have as much of a
132s	surprise as us in regards to the time
133s	frame um but anyways we'll talk about
136s	what's happening today obviously you can
138s	see the itinerary down below if you're
140s	new here uh we always keep that up to
142s	date for you guys so we're going to do
143s	some reminders and a little bit of
145s	announcement stuff and then we will have
147s	uh our B archetype preview which is long
150s	going to Buckle in it's 2 hours long
153s	just that yes so so just just to be
155s	clear though let me just say that like
157s	we listen to feedback and the core
160s	audience here and look everybody's
162s	saying yes a two hours hell yeah holy
164s	smokes you know oh my goodness like you
167s	guys in chat the the faithful followers
170s	and viewers that come to Twitch to watch
172s	the show you have said to us that you
175s	enjoy the longer shows the majority of
178s	you have said that twitch streams I
181s	think AB ones people are like I just
183s	want the Snippets and
185s	that's exactly that's why we have social
187s	media team that's why we have content
189s	creators they get to take and distill
192s	down the actionable you know highlights
195s	that they want to take and that gives
197s	them something to do but for you guys
199s	you enjoy the long stream so you know
202s	what we did yesterday or was it
204s	yesterday or day before yesterday day
205s	before yesterday God I can't even
206s	remember what time the time now um day
209s	before yesterday when we were playing we
210s	just decided to play just to play the
213s	game tell that they're just playing at
215s	one point Steph's getting chased down by
217s	a poor Goblin he's coming for you man I
220s	know they were all coming for us poor uh
222s	poor Brian died we lost the tank in one
225s	of the encounters is like Ste saying
227s	tanks are expendable so they are all the
230s	tanks out there Rest In
234s	Pieces it was a good time we enjoyed it
237s	also you know Stephen just runs into
240s	build
240s	like oh look there's mobs in here let me
243s	tell you though let me tell you though
246s	the eye adaptation makes it difficult to
248s	see in the interior of buildings from
250s	the outside now you're making excuses
252s	yeah no it's intended that's game design
255s	right like if it's during the day and
257s	you walk through a door like you it's
259s	hard to see inside and then boom there's
261s	a thousand mobs what are you going to do
264s	like it's true it's true uh you run you
268s	run away but maybe not into your your
271s	party um of course after our B archetype
274s	preview which will be long so uh Buckle
276s	in grab your snacks um uh we will have a
279s	little bit of a studio update a tiny art
281s	update and then we'll do our Q&A for our
284s	forums we will also be pulling some live
286s	questions from uh right after the barar
288s	type preview as well so um if you do
289s	have questions while you're watching
290s	that feel free to paste them in the chat
293s	or if you're watching over on Discord I
295s	know we have a Discord party and I
297s	always watch the chat over there too and
299s	on social um our team is watching in all
301s	the places our you know Peter vnar and
304s	Roshan are kicking butt all the time
306s	whilst whilst we're live streaming to
308s	ensure that you guys are being engaged
310s	and uh they're watching if there's
312s	anything that uh we need to be aware of
314s	to answer and address but let's get this
316s	show on the road uh first and foremost
319s	we have our uh Spotlight YouTube
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325s	know if you come check out our full
327s	development update and leave a comment
329s	on it like this video will be up next
331s	week um as long as you are a subscriber
334s	and you have it as public you can be
336s	spotlighted uh so your comment may be
339s	selected um this person is s silis I
343s	don't know if I'm saying your name right
344s	so I'm sorry uh they want to know since
346s	you made multi-threading work have you
348s	tried to delegate work to multiple
350s	servers or is it sending the data to
353s	process across servers too expense or or
356s	is sending the data to process across
358s	servers too expensive you were talk
360s	talking about how fixing faulty servers
362s	isn't having a system to detect and
364s	replace them automatically possible like
366s	a backup server and then the final
368s	question is is it possible to have a
371s	server swap system like having a bunch
373s	of monsters monster servers that take
376s	authority over crowd crowded areas that
379s	are not usually crowded so it's like
381s	three-part they're cheating three that
383s	yeah that there yeah I was going to say
385s	is this a single question is a
387s	three-parter it's so common okay let's
390s	let's break this down so uh the first
392s	part of this question is with regards to
395s	delegating work uh across multiple
397s	server so the work the the the
399s	Brilliance of this approach uh from the
402s	server architecture perspective is that
403s	work is delegated uh to the multiple
405s	servers each server has its own
408s	multi-threaded replicator um so that
410s	that is that is obviously one of the
412s	strengths of the system um the second
414s	part of the question when talking about
416s	like hot fixing faulty servers having a
418s	system that detects and replaces them
419s	automat automatically is that possible
421s	backup servers yes so that automatically
424s	happens whenever a server crashes a new
426s	one takes its place and players get to
428s	relog in within a few seconds of that
430s	this can happen um you know at any time
432s	and it doesn't affect the broader realm
434s	the broader server realm right we
436s	actually had this happening during our
439s	stress testing and load testing with
441s	some of our Alpha 1 testers uh when was
444s	that test it was last week or before
446s	last Friday last Friday so we invited
450s	right oh my bad okay well I mean I'm
452s	allowed to talk about that you can talk
454s	about it we had we had we we invited
456s	about 1500 testers 1500 Alpha One
458s	testers roughly um and we actually uh
462s	knock on wood and congratulations huge
465s	milestone to our networking team and our
468s	devops team and our IC teams um we did
471s	not experience a single realm crash we
475s	did experience four server worker
478s	crashes which is like a section of the
480s	world and when that server worker
482s	crashed a new one took its place and
485s	anyone who was on that server worker was
487s	able to relog in and it did not affect
490s	the broader realm health so that was a
492s	huge successful stress test um and props
495s	well done to to obviously again the
497s	network team the ICS teams and devop
499s	team and also our testers um who helped
501s	us test there yeah they figured out some
503s	of those crashes already they've
505s	resolved them we found a few extra ones
507s	because we've done we've done some uh
509s	extended Tes continually and we're going
511s	to be doing some more testing too so
513s	it's uh we're definitely getting
514s	ourselves prepped and ready yeah we got
516s	another test I think uh Friday right
518s	this Friday yeah Stephen's leaking all
521s	the things oh my gosh I'm
523s	sorry leaky today um okay and then the
526s	third part of the question let's see
527s	this says um is it possible to have a
529s	server swap system um having a bunch of
532s	monster servers that takes authority
533s	over crowded areas yes so um that's part
536s	of the dynamic griding right uh whenever
538s	a server isn't crowded we mer merge
540s	servers together to save costs obviously
542s	and then this gives us another server
544s	that goes and joins the server pool uh
546s	that we can add into a specific region
548s	of the world uh as load gets higher all
551s	right and so that is the answer to your
555s	to your lovely YouTube comment thank you
557s	for being an awesome subscriber for us
558s	and of course if you want to be
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563s	that on our next de our July development
565s	update that you are a public subscriber
567s	and that you leave a comment and perhaps
570s	you will be chosen um now to move into a
573s	bit of announcements of ass something so
576s	I'm going to kind of hand this off to
577s	Stephen to uh to tell to tell you guys
581s	absolutely and super excited about this
583s	we talked last month about providing an
585s	alpha 2 date and you know the reality of
588s	it is there is a lot that goes into what
591s	Alpha 2 uh is going to be delivering
594s	what Alpha 2 testing is going to look
596s	like when Alpha 2 testing begins how
599s	we're going to ramp up in play time
601s	during Alpha 2 um those are all super
604s	important topics we have a lot of
606s	information to deliver about that we
608s	also have a road map that is going to be
611s	detailing how we intend to release
614s	content throughout Alpha 2 along with
617s	additional features uh as well um
620s	however some ways that you guys get to
622s	engage with that process as well
624s	absolutely that that that presentation
627s	is going to be a longer one and I know
629s	that we talked about about providing you
630s	dates today on this stream what I'm
632s	going to tell you is the month that
634s	Alpha 2 is going to begin in and then we
636s	have planned two weeks from today or is
640s	it two weeks from today no it's the 16th
641s	of August August 16th so we have planned
645s	on August 16th and AMA where we are
648s	going to take um all the questions that
651s	you have related to Alpha 2 we're going
653s	to host a Reddit thread with that we're
655s	going to host it on our forums and we're
656s	going to take live questions about Al
659s	forums but we'll we'll link to theit um
663s	that'll go out after this live stream's
665s	over so you'll be able to start adding
666s	your stuff there and and I'm gonna give
668s	I'm GNA give it to you in just a second
670s	here but we're going to take that we're
672s	gonna take that ama and we are going to
675s	detail and talk about the Alpha 2 road
678s	map when it's going to start what we're
679s	going to be showcasing during those uh
682s	during Alpha 2 and when new content and
684s	features are going to be released what I
686s	can tell you
688s	today is that
691s	Alpha 2 will begin in the month of
693s	October so we are a little bit beyond
696s	what we expected for quarter three
698s	slightly Beyond however that's okay we
701s	have got to do what's necessary in order
703s	to make sure that the uh that the Alpha
706s	2 is um is stable and that we are able
710s	to collect the data that we want to
711s	collect that we are able to have the
712s	uptime that we are intending to have
714s	October is when Alpha 2 is going to
716s	begin so you can walk from today knowing
719s	that that October is that going to be
721s	that time frame and then come August
723s	16th we're going to have probably an
725s	hour to two hour long roughly live
727s	stream again where we're going to answer
730s	all your questions about Alpha 2 and
731s	roll out the road map for Alpha 2 so
733s	that you guys have um all the
735s	information and then that will also be
737s	put into an article as well so for those
739s	of you who don't necessarily want to
740s	watch an hour or two long live stream
743s	you'll also have an article that you can
744s	uh go uh see the kind of recap and the
747s	highlights of the most important
748s	information from that which will have
750s	some of the roadmap information as well
752s	as um answers to your questions um and I
754s	know I know that I was watching you know
757s	kind of in Discord and across the
759s	community you know different thoughts
760s	about other games that have releases in
762s	August and in September did we did we
766s	take into account that around Alpha 2 I
768s	mean obviously we take a lot of things
770s	into account right when we are
771s	determining when we're going to do
773s	certain days um those were definitely
776s	taken into account to a degree um but
779s	you know also at the same time when it
780s	comes to stability when it comes to the
782s	Polish that we want the intro to Alpha 2
784s	have October landed around that time
786s	frame uh so we're pretty confident in
788s	October very much so to at least give
790s	you that month and um coming up for the
792s	Roop map discussion on August 16th when
794s	we have that ama we're going to go into
796s	detail around what the plans are for
798s	Alpha 2 yeah so prepare yourself for
801s	that uh it's going to be a lot of
803s	information a lot of information you
804s	guys have been asking us about uh it
806s	will set the expectations so you guys
808s	have an understanding of what to expect
810s	going into Alpha 2 and then what to
811s	expect as we continue forward um and how
814s	long the testing phase will be because I
816s	know that that those have been some of
817s	the frequently asked questions we have
819s	we know you guys have a bunch of them
820s	we're going to try to address as many of
822s	the frequently asked questions as
823s	possible in that upfront road map
825s	section um and then of course any
826s	additional questions that we uh see
828s	coming down the line we'll make sure are
831s	are added to the
833s	mix now with that being said I think we
838s	have a pretty exciting
840s	video gameplay to show the preface to
845s	The Bard
846s	action yes and uh do we have a prepped
849s	on um YouTube as well um we do we are
852s	going to play a preview but uh I do want
854s	to bring up one more thing on the
856s	reminders front um is that we do have a
860s	Dev discussion um it's still up the one
863s	for camera perspective so if you uh can
866s	we'd love to know what camera
867s	perspective you prefer in terms of both
869s	angle and distance from your camera your
871s	character and do different situations
873s	call for different perspectives kind of
875s	anything that you are interested in with
877s	camera or camera tools too I I don't see
879s	a problem with adding some details into
881s	that and our next one is going to be
882s	about storytelling with archetypes which
884s	kind of fits perfectly with the segue of
886s	The Bard um so yeah go for it Stephen
889s	very cool okay so quick preface
891s	obviously everything you're going to see
893s	here is a work in progress specifically
895s	as it relates to uh UI along with uh
899s	visual effects however you are going to
902s	see a lighting update uh as well with
905s	this uh barred gaml the lighting update
909s	is not complete yet however you are
912s	going to see some visual differences
915s	particularly as it relates to um
917s	exposure settings eye
920s	adaptation um interior lighting uh those
923s	types of things in addition to that
926s	there are still musical compositions
928s	that are outstanding for some of the
930s	barred abilities um so some of these
933s	abilities might be placeholder audio as
935s	well uh particularly the um uh the um
940s	the chance I believe it's called um so
944s	um with that being said we had a lot of
946s	fun it's a two-hour long gameplay
948s	session we're going to start out by
949s	showcasing each of the individual
951s	abilities um and then we're going to
953s	move into uh a point of a point of
955s	interest that you guys haven't seen
956s	before called the dereal Estates uh
958s	there's a lot of story behind the Dall
960s	Estates with regards to the riverlands
962s	area um I think you guys are going to
964s	enjoy it right we will see you all in
968s	about two hours um if you have any
970s	questions or anything like that like we
971s	said make sure that you're just posting
973s	them in the chat or if you're over on
975s	Discord having fun enjoying it over
977s	there we'll be kind of grabbing those uh
979s	because our lovely Community managers
980s	are they're watching all the things um
983s	so see you in the flip slide
1005s	hello everybody and welcome to another
1009s	day in Vera and we have an exciting
1012s	stream for you today for the first time
1015s	in ashes of creation history we are
1018s	going to be showing off
1020s	The Bard and it is a good as you can see
1024s	it is a good looking Bard right now this
1028s	armor set the uh what is the name of
1030s	this armor set this is the rose rose
1032s	Thorn Rose Thorn armor set oh my God I
1035s	am in love with this and Manny did this
1036s	right mhm it looks so good I mean we we
1040s	have a great shot here I am joined as
1042s	you can see by uh five of our glor
1046s	actually all five of you are designers
1048s	we don't have any engineers today we
1050s	don't have any artists today we're all
1051s	designers how how selfish is that of
1055s	us but I am joined uh by five of our
1058s	glorious designers many of whom have
1059s	been on the show before but for the
1061s	first time we have a sound dude with us
1063s	Tori how you doing Tori doing great and
1066s	you know I think I would put myself in
1068s	the artist category more designer
1069s	because I don't really get the numbers I
1070s	just make things go true that is true
1072s	you're representing here the artists
1074s	that is very true I didn't even think
1075s	about that but Tori we're excited to
1077s	have you because of course The Bard is
1079s	an very sound oriented class probably
1082s	the most of all of our archetypes in the
1084s	game and you have done a phenomenal job
1085s	with these sounds um thank you yes so
1088s	excited to have you and chat about what
1089s	you've been working on with Bard we also
1092s	have some of our regular uh combat dudes
1095s	specifically three on the archetype
1097s	combat design side uh Trad Brian Bucky
1101s	how you guys
1102s	doing doing good ready to show off the
1106s	board yes and and I also see not only
1110s	The Bard but we have a floating giant
1112s	spell book in front of us and for the
1114s	first time we're going to be looking at
1116s	the Spellbook weapon as well Brian I
1118s	know you did a lot of work on that yeah
1121s	um myself um and other members of the
1125s	team like Noah and Matt especially put a
1128s	lot of work into this cuz it's it's
1131s	animating by itself it's not using the
1133s	typical uh way that we attach weapons so
1136s	yeah we'll get into that in a little bit
1138s	I love it I love it and then we also
1140s	have with us one of our glorious NPC
1142s	senior designers Doug how you doing
1144s	buddy I'm doing great looking forward to
1147s	killing some monsters yes and we have
1149s	some new and interesting monster types
1151s	that we're going to talk a little bit
1152s	about that have been implemented that is
1154s	going to shake up a little bit of the
1155s	encounter design uh which I know you and
1157s	your team have been doing a lot of work
1159s	on yeah excited to shut things off very
1161s	cool
1163s	so first and foremost where are we we
1168s	are in the river lands of course but we
1171s	are in an
1173s	area uh that I don't think we've ever
1176s	been at before this is the where is this
1178s	Bucky this is the deral Estates yep
1181s	that's right we're going to about to
1182s	venture through the daral Estates and
1184s	there's some used to be owned by the
1187s	family of daral way back in the day now
1190s	after the return to Vera uh bunch of
1193s	peasants moved in and were farming the
1194s	land for a while but now I think some
1196s	more Sinister forces have taken and are
1199s	reanimating the dead and all sorts of
1202s	bad stuff going on here so we got to go
1204s	this love it and it is it is daytime out
1207s	currently uh in the in the spring time
1212s	uh 3 days 3 hours and 35 minutes
1214s	remaining until summer I love
1217s	that that is very
1221s	cool okay
1223s	so normally what we've done in the past
1227s	when we have new archetypes is we kind
1228s	of go through each of the abilities and
1231s	uh Bucky I know that obviously you are
1234s	the master of The Bard this is your uh
1237s	uh class design as as many of you know
1239s	Dr Bucky has um a wide repertoire of
1242s	skill sets uh as well as his work on the
1246s	system side he's been doing a lot of
1247s	work on the combat side and The Bard is
1249s	near and dear to his heart so Bucky talk
1251s	to me a little bit about the inspiration
1252s	for this b class before we start getting
1254s	into some of the uh
1256s	abilities oh man yeah we we had tons of
1258s	different different Inspirations
1260s	obviously you know the lineage archage
1262s	sword singer uh blade dancers I believe
1265s	um but then other from other OS as well
1268s	like some Concepts from Wow and stuff we
1270s	really gravitated towards um but one of
1273s	the big things we wanted to do with this
1274s	part specifically was not to focus
1276s	specifically on just song or dance but
1279s	have kind of a culmination of a bunch of
1280s	different of these themes Al together in
1282s	the same kit so as you can see down the
1284s	ability bar you know we got some
1286s	Melodies dances songs all working
1288s	together to build out this kit all right
1291s	so I'm I'm I'm opening up the skill tree
1294s	Here and Now obviously we're level 10 so
1296s	for those of you guys who are tuning in
1298s	for the first time I just want to
1299s	preface as is necessary and our
1302s	obligatory kind of of of of discussion
1304s	Point here everything you see is a work
1306s	in progress that includes mainly the UI
1310s	elements the uh the uh effects visual
1314s	effects um uh but what you're going to
1317s	see right now we have a lot of these
1319s	abilities already speced um you wouldn't
1321s	normally
1325s	have of today's demonstration um we are
1328s	obviously going to go outside of what is
1330s	typical uh in order to kind of give you
1332s	guys insight to the class um so this
1335s	skill tree that we we've done a little
1336s	bit of a rework on skill tree
1338s	progression Trad do you want to talk a
1340s	little bit about what we've changed for
1342s	the purposes of Alpha 2 uh with the
1344s	skill tree and how it's set
1346s	up absolutely yeah so um
1349s	for those who uh were were accustomed to
1353s	some of the structures that we had in
1355s	place before they were very uh rigid
1358s	right like there there were very
1359s	specific paths that were linear and in
1361s	if you wanted to get to a particular
1363s	skill um you would have to take a very
1365s	set path to get there and while some of
1367s	that is desired like you if you if you
1369s	don't have any of that then you don't
1370s	really have a skill tree at all um but
1372s	we wanted to open it up and and give a
1375s	little bit more freedom of choice um so
1378s	in this version of the tree you'll
1380s	notice that rather than these ongoing
1383s	linear branches going in different
1384s	directions um you have essentially tiers
1388s	of skills so you'll you'll see three
1389s	tiers the bottom the middle and the top
1392s	as you invest points into each tier
1394s	eventually you'll unlock access to the
1395s	next tier so for example to get to that
1398s	second tier um you need to put four
1401s	points into the tier below so it gives
1403s	you a bit more freedom of which skills
1405s	you pick with while keeping you within
1407s	that tier before it let you go on to the
1408s	next one and usually each tier has a bit
1410s	more advanced um abilities um so it's
1413s	also a good way of introducing you to
1414s	the archetype awesome and and this is
1416s	obviously something that we have
1418s	distributed across all of the archetypes
1419s	for the purposes of Alpha 2 that's
1421s	something that you and your team are
1422s	going to be collecting a lot of
1423s	information from from players as they
1426s	you know give us their feedback and and
1428s	and play through kind of the uh the
1430s	skill tree progression we'll be tuning
1432s	that as as as that information comes in
1434s	I notice here Bucky that at the start of
1437s	this tree there is an instrument
1439s	selection talk to me a little bit about
1442s	that yeah so the way we decided to do
1444s	instruments is they're mainly just a
1447s	cosmetic choice right now so players can
1449s	choose as their first choice at The Bard
1451s	what instrument they want to play all
1452s	melodies with and so this will actually
1454s	change the animations and change the
1456s	sound effects of um what how The
1458s	Melodies will play love it that's super
1460s	cool and obviously this is something
1462s	that will be expanding upon in the
1463s	future right with different instruments
1465s	that you'll have access to um but it
1467s	allows obviously
1469s	players the opportunity to kind of
1470s	customize um their own personal barred
1473s	experience now after this um after this
1478s	instrument talk to me a little bit about
1480s	some of the first abilities we're going
1481s	to take a look at I see they're they're
1483s	here on the uh skillbar one through um
1487s	one through five where do we want to
1489s	start so we can just start with one so
1492s	these these first five abilities are all
1493s	of your Melody abilities and so they all
1495s	share some common some common uh
1498s	similarities
1499s	um so basically they're all large
1501s	persistent AOE Buffs or debuffs um so
1504s	the first one is cheerful Melody which
1506s	applies a healing receive bonus to your
1509s	party and heals them over time okay so I
1511s	see that here that this lightly heals
1514s	the party for
1517s	15% magical power healing magical power
1521s	every two seconds and if I look at my uh
1525s	magical power I'm at 33 magical IC power
1530s	and and and you know in the past we
1532s	haven't really talked too much about our
1535s	primary attributes their waterfall stats
1537s	do you want to talk a little bit about
1538s	magical power how we derive that
1540s	waterfall um and what contributes to it
1544s	sure yeah so your main uh attribute that
1546s	waterfalls into magical power is going
1548s	to be intellect and so that's a large
1550s	portion of intellects giving you magical
1551s	power but it also gives you other stats
1553s	such as um critical power I believe
1557s	accuracy and
1559s	uh one other one perhaps casting speed
1563s	yeah so each each of the attributes will
1564s	waterfall into a variety of these stats
1566s	but magical power is an important one
1567s	for increasing the you know damage or
1569s	healing of your abilities okay so to
1571s	demonstrate this we probably need
1573s	somebody in the party to to have some
1576s	lower
1577s	Health yeah who should we do that
1582s	to you know Brian is the tank Brian I
1585s	can't even see you you're literally
1587s	hiding behind a shield you're small than
1589s	the shield I think this book is larger
1590s	than
1593s	youf dwarf Strat right there oh no I
1598s	nuked him okay he's nuked all right so
1600s	you've lost some health Brian now we are
1602s	going to um oh by the way I think this
1605s	is the first time since alpha 1 that we
1607s	have had a
1609s	duner uh in one of the live streams so
1612s	very cool love it all right so now let
1615s	let me use this cheerful Melody and see
1618s	how it affects your healing you're at
1622s	578 oh very cool and talk to me about
1625s	cheerful Melody kind of how it
1627s	works yeah so this applies a buff to the
1629s	whole party um so everyone's getting
1631s	this little very very light healing over
1633s	time but the biggest thing this does is
1634s	it increases all the other healing you
1635s	receive so obviously this whole combo
1637s	great with the cleric and it's kind of
1639s	like you know the clerics are still
1640s	going to be our Premier healers right
1642s	but BS are more of a support role and
1643s	they really will power up clerics and
1645s	all the other archetypes when they're in
1646s	the party okay so I can I can click on
1648s	this Melody and it says it's a it's a 20
1651s	second cast so basically it's ticking
1654s	throughout that time and can I use other
1656s	abilities while the melody is playing
1658s	that's right yeah that's other big part
1660s	about Melodies is that they work
1661s	concurrently with your other abilities
1662s	so you can be casting the other stuff
1664s	doing weapon combos Dodge rolling and
1666s	that'll all not interrupt your Melody
1668s	that's active very cool and now Tori we
1671s	don't have kind of the final versions of
1674s	our composed uh music in for these
1677s	Melodies but the intent is to have our
1679s	composer be creating these Melodies to
1682s	kind of live harmoniously with the
1685s	ambient music of the biome as well as
1688s	the other skills and abilities correct
1690s	it's going to be a uh decently complex
1693s	system so it will take a while to get it
1695s	properly implemented but we won want the
1697s	music to interfere with your experience
1699s	in a very atonal way especially for uh
1702s	at least those barred uh Melody
1704s	abilities um those are going to be
1707s	happening enough that you don't want
1708s	want them to be too annoying very cool
1710s	and now Bucky specifically you mentioned
1713s	that this cheerful Melody it augments
1716s	the healing received from the primary
1719s	healing archetype which of course is the
1721s	cleric and talk to me a little bit about
1723s	the differences between the types of
1725s	healing effects conferred Through The
1726s	Bard archetype versus the types of
1728s	healing effects conferred through the
1731s	cleric yeah for sure like like I was
1734s	saying a little bit earlier uh BS are
1736s	definitely going to be they'll be able
1737s	to do some healing but it's going to be
1739s	more kind of regenerative healing over
1741s	time lighter the real you know through
1744s	burst healing is going to always come
1746s	from
1746s	clerics um but bards will be able to
1750s	keep you know a couple players alive and
1751s	they'll just have to you know play
1752s	defensively and careful but uh yeah so
1755s	it's a little bit slower healing cool
1757s	very cool so obviously we're keeping
1758s	that burst healing towards the cleric
1760s	those are the people who are going to be
1761s	able to actually sustain you in a pinch
1764s	or
1765s	through significant damage received
1767s	whereas The Bard is an augment to that
1769s	and empowers the cleric's ability to
1771s	kind of confer those effects on the
1774s	party okay very cool cheerful Melody
1776s	that's awesome I love the effects for
1777s	this I think that was CA that did these
1780s	yeah SAA did all the effects on the bar
1781s	and he really he really did a great job
1782s	he was killing it look phenomenal and
1785s	Nat did the uh the icons yep Nat did the
1788s	icons and all the concepts for the
1789s	effects which really you know helped the
1790s	whole process out good start on the
1792s	right foot very well done love it okay
1795s	let's talk about our next
1797s	Melody yep so this next one's called
1799s	pensive Melody and this is just a slow
1802s	Mana regen over
1803s	time okay so this is kind of a yeah just
1806s	if your part is low on Mana doesn't need
1808s	healing doesn't need some other effects
1809s	you can switch to a Mana regenerations
1811s	to give everybody a little bit of uh
1813s	sustain for longer you know fights and
1816s	stuff like that now we've seen one other
1818s	Mana um recovery ability in the past I
1821s	believe and that was on the cleric um
1825s	and that was that was uh conferred Mana
1828s	restoration through your weapon
1831s	attack yep I've got a spec right now and
1834s	I'll be using that as well so those two
1836s	things in conjunction will be really
1837s	nice for the lucky Target that gets it
1839s	um the the biggest difference obviously
1841s	is that that is a single Target ability
1843s	that you can only maintain on one target
1845s	at a time so it's more potent but again
1847s	uh kind of reinforcing the theme of The
1848s	Healing uh the the strength of The Bard
1851s	is is party wide benefits um there not
1854s	to say the cleric won't have some party
1856s	wide stuff to but that's really where
1857s	the B shines is in in a in an eight
1859s	eight-man party very cool so Doug as
1863s	you're kind of authoring the encounter
1865s	designs for you know obviously party
1867s	compositions you guys are taking into
1870s	account the restorative ability of a
1872s	particular Arch type design or party
1875s	comp around these like these these Mana
1878s	abilities right because you want to tax
1880s	those parties uh significantly in
1882s	between different poles and taking into
1885s	account what restorative Mana there is
1887s	available to a party design um is
1890s	calculated in in the NPCs correct yeah
1893s	and you're going to see that a little
1894s	bit today I think we're going to start
1896s	without uh Trad here healing is the
1898s	cleric so we're going to go in with a
1900s	tank and and only a barge and have that
1902s	sustained support uh heal us uh I think
1905s	and then we're going to have a cleric
1907s	join us later and fight stronger enemies
1909s	and that's really going to be the
1909s	determining factor is like you know if
1911s	you're you're a small group you might be
1913s	able to get away with a Bard uh as your
1915s	only support/ healing um if you have a
1918s	tank but then maybe if you don't have a
1919s	tank you'll want to bring a cleric uh so
1922s	composition strength of enemies these
1924s	all things matter there now I notice
1927s	that um when activating these Melodies
1930s	that the radius uh seems to be pretty
1934s	significant um I'm assuming that uh on
1937s	the um visual effect side that uh this
1941s	ring as it expands and kind of ends out
1944s	there um that's the distance that I need
1947s	to maintain maintain as a Bard within or
1950s	rather my party needs to maintain within
1952s	proximity of of myself that's pretty
1956s	generous yeah the idea was we wanted to
1958s	have just something Baseline for bards
1961s	that they can as long as they upkeep
1962s	this ability it privides just kind of
1964s	like a default you know bonus to your
1966s	party depending on which one you choose
1968s	um whereas the other abilities are more
1969s	man intensive cool and intensive um to
1972s	differentiate them a bit cool I can also
1975s	speak a little more to the the general
1977s	Paradigm between um party and AOE
1980s	abilities um usually with things that
1983s	are party based um we're a bit more um
1986s	lenient on on the radius just because it
1988s	is already limited on one axis to to
1992s	members only within your party um but
1994s	then we'll also have abilities that
1996s	Target an area and it'll hit any number
1998s	of people or whatever like regardless of
2000s	whether they're in your party or not but
2002s	they're more proximity throttled very
2005s	cool now talk to me about epic Melody
2009s	this one is a movement speed boost to
2011s	your whole group so if you need to run
2013s	away or get to someplace quick or do you
2015s	just want to grind through a POI really
2018s	fast then you can switch this one yeah
2021s	they'll have some great uses in PvP as
2023s	well oh okay I see he gets a little bit
2025s	more down and dirty in this one the
2027s	animations look great yeah yeah yeah so
2030s	we kind of have different different
2031s	styles of animations for each of the
2032s	instruments depending on like you know
2034s	if the song's a kind of a more calm song
2035s	or an intense song um
2039s	but yeah this is a nice speed boost for
2040s	the whole team you guys got to get
2043s	someplace very cool that's awesome of
2047s	course snow bar would be complete
2048s	without some type of movement modifier
2050s	exactly exactly right I love it um okay
2053s	talk to me about cathartic
2055s	Melody this one will give uh everyone in
2058s	your party a chance to heal themselves
2060s	so it's kind of like a leech song so
2062s	it's kind of an alternative way to apply
2064s	some some healing support um but
2067s	obviously it only work with a group that
2068s	has a lot of people doing a lot of
2070s	damage so if you're in kind of like the
2071s	Healer group or the tank group maybe it
2073s	wouldn't be as good to use that one but
2074s	if you're in a group full of you know
2076s	all DPS it might be more effective way
2078s	to provide some bonus healing now I see
2080s	this says that your attacks have a 25%
2083s	chance to heal yourself for the for 50%
2086s	of the Damage Done is that 50% of damage
2088s	done on a per ability basis or just for
2092s	your weapons attack or all the above
2095s	right right now it's all the above but
2096s	um you know we can keep iterating on
2098s	this but uh it feels in in practice it
2100s	feels like it gives a little bit of
2101s	support but obviously you wouldn't be
2102s	able to just completely replace the need
2104s	for a cleric with this so yeah but
2107s	obviously all the exact numbers are you
2108s	know we're still erating on as we get
2109s	closer to Alpha 2 yeah one one extra
2112s	thing to add to this I I like the um
2115s	strategic or tactical choice that you're
2117s	kind of constantly making between
2118s	cathartic and um and the other healing
2121s	one um cheerful just because you know
2124s	you you want to keep cheerful going
2126s	maybe when you're running between en
2127s	counter or packs you know there's not a
2129s	lot a lot of like activity going on and
2131s	then when you see like a bunch of like
2133s	burst combat or something happening you
2135s	probably want to switch over to that so
2136s	you're almost like kind of bouncing
2138s	between them while healing instead of
2140s	just passively having one going on all
2142s	the time and then also there's a little
2144s	bit of weaving opportunity that I think
2146s	we'll get into in a little bit later too
2148s	absolutely I mean how often in you know
2151s	raids or you know in hunting grounds
2154s	that you will want to burn through Mana
2157s	right I mean during that time you may
2158s	want to have your cathartic Melody
2161s	active while your DPSS are burning
2163s	through their Mana versus when you're in
2166s	a lull pull or you know something a bit
2168s	more um uh sustainable keeping that 20%
2172s	healing received and the uh and the
2174s	regen up that makes a lot of sense um so
2178s	effectively at this 25% chance to heal
2179s	for 50% of the Damage Done that's almost
2181s	like a on average probably around 12
2184s	133% consistent life steal exactly yeah
2188s	so it kind of really depends on the
2189s	situation right like you guys were
2190s	saying so but it's nice to have the
2192s	options absolutely all right talk to me
2194s	about menacing
2195s	Melody okay so this one is the one
2198s	different one This only affects enemies
2200s	so it applies a debuff to all nearby
2203s	enemies that'll make them take increased
2204s	damage so you can see over there that
2206s	myet in the background has this menacing
2209s	Melody debuff yeah see so uh it'll make
2212s	him be taking more
2214s	damage I like the Synergy between that
2216s	and cathartic as well yeah yeah that's
2219s	those are two great ones to weave
2221s	together okay so this basically um you
2224s	forego benefit to the party directly and
2228s	in instead apply that 10% debuff uh to
2232s	enemies within the radius and again that
2234s	that's a pretty significant
2236s	radius yeah I think uh we were planning
2238s	on making that uh Target limited to the
2241s	like the rest of the Melodies are um but
2243s	uh yeah that's something we're we're
2244s	going to add probably like eight nearest
2246s	Targets or something like that right
2248s	okay so it's not yeah so some typee of
2249s	diminishing return on that effect yeah
2252s	yeah yeah
2253s	cool okay so those are the five Melodies
2256s	let me open this back up again just so I
2258s	can take a look we wanted now we could
2261s	just talk about the uh the two Melody uh
2264s	passive specialization options because
2265s	we were kind of mentioning that like the
2267s	weaving Style versus like the charge up
2269s	style mhm that's going to be the uh up
2271s	at the top in the middle of the plus
2273s	sign that's where you can choose yeah so
2275s	this is a passive that unlocks level 10
2278s	so there's the two options here so one
2279s	of them is called Crescendo which is
2281s	your Melodies just power up slowly over
2283s	time over the course of that 20 second
2284s	cast and then the second option is
2287s	called Counterpoint where every 20
2289s	seconds you can switch between Melodies
2290s	and the last Melody will its effects
2292s	will still be active so you can kind of
2293s	weave two Melodies at once which opens
2295s	up a lot of cool potential very cool
2298s	yeah now that that is
2300s	um that is something that I think uh is
2304s	even expandable upon as we continue
2306s	beyond Alpha 2 above 25 you may add
2310s	additional um uh Melody concurrency is
2314s	that is that what you're thinking
2315s	exactly exactly yeah we might we might
2317s	even just make this Counterpoint thing
2318s	just something that you get for sure
2320s	like weaving we want all Barts do
2321s	because that's you know that's a really
2322s	fun gameplay a lot of Bard players
2324s	gravitate towards and it it really does
2325s	make it fun with the Melodies you know
2327s	when you can combine two of five that's
2329s	a lot of different options right right
2330s	so this is this is kind of a a broader
2334s	Spectrum Choice versus a higher vertical
2337s	uh effect and so you you said this
2339s	increase in power over the course of 20
2341s	seconds this is something that scales on
2343s	a step uh essentially over that 20
2346s	seconds or or rather linear it's linear
2348s	right now but um we were talking about
2350s	experimenting with making it STS like
2352s	every every you know 5 seconds or
2354s	something it chunks up a little bit but
2356s	um that's kind of the option for people
2358s	who don't maybe want to have to deal
2359s	with weaving back and forth and want to
2361s	just kind of stick to a song and get
2362s	rewarded for staying in one song for
2364s	longer one Melody for longer cool are
2367s	these also Melody Centric the other two
2370s	uh the other two so those are for the
2371s	other groups of abilities there's dance
2372s	Mastery specialization and song Mastery
2374s	specialization but um if you wanted to
2375s	demo we could demo the Counterpoint one
2377s	really quick just take a look uh yeah so
2380s	yeah like the weaving Counterpoint all
2383s	right if you confirm that and
2386s	now y so now if you do for example if
2389s	you do the cheerful
2390s	Melody um you'll see the buff we're all
2393s	getting is going to start lasting longer
2394s	and longer on our party frames MH um so
2397s	once we get to 20 seconds it'll be
2399s	applied at 20 seconds so that means the
2402s	next 20 seconds we can switch to a
2403s	different Melody and then this one will
2404s	kind of be going the whole time so we'll
2406s	be effectively having two stacked up at
2408s	the same time that's kind of what this
2410s	this Stinger right here that's that's
2412s	showing you okay your Melodies at 20
2414s	seconds full charge now you could switch
2416s	to you know yeah cathartic orive oh wow
2421s	so yep so we have both the melody Buffs
2423s	are active right now as you can see
2425s	cheerful starting to wear off so after
2426s	20 seconds in cathartic is going to fall
2428s	off and we'll have to weave back to that
2429s	one or weave to a different one so
2431s	that's a lot of different options so
2433s	you're so you're upkeeping um so as I
2436s	see now cheerful has fallen off I can
2439s	add the cheerful back yep so you kind of
2443s	you know weave back and forth between
2445s	two you want to use or you know
2446s	alternate to whatever the part is
2447s	needing in the current time so lot of
2450s	different ways to play
2451s	it that's pretty
2453s	cool yeah I like that gameplay so that's
2456s	that's that's essentially you know as
2458s	The Bard you you are very cognizant of
2461s	kind of the situation that the party is
2463s	in and you have all of these different
2464s	types of effects that you can confer
2466s	you're essentially you know monitoring
2469s	what the party needs at a any given time
2471s	and able to swap in between these
2473s	without exactly without letting the last
2475s	utilized uh Melody go to
2478s	waste that's very cool that's what I do
2480s	with that one weaving is a classic I
2482s	feel like in a lot of even older MMOs um
2486s	you know
2488s	some people love it some people hate it
2489s	that's kind of why we have it as a spec
2490s	option so it you know you can choose
2493s	whether that's your style of gameplay or
2494s	not um but we we think it's cool and I
2496s	think we've taken it to um another level
2499s	that you know in some games in the past
2501s	at least I know weaving has been kind of
2504s	janky or clunky or even unintended but I
2506s	think we're leaning into it and I think
2508s	it's it's a better version yeah I agree
2510s	that's that's awesome okay what do we
2513s	got next Bucky uh so next on your bar is
2516s	a different ability this is a Mobility
2518s	ability called flourish oh whoops oh oh
2522s	no spoiler spoiler
2529s	alert I'm sorry I must have the auto
2532s	attack uh enabled do you want that
2535s	enabled Bucky um no you can turn it off
2538s	if you want okay well let me let me uh
2540s	open up my game options and go to combat
2544s	there it is the third check box and I
2545s	will uncheck my auto attack I apologize
2548s	everybody your auto attack privileges
2551s	are revoked yes you you saw you saw a
2554s	preview of the spell
2555s	book I'm watching that guy like slowly
2559s	get closer to us little by little I
2562s	didn't expect us to attack him curious
2565s	mushroom now that would have been a good
2567s	opportunity for me to use flourish
2568s	actually to get out of Dodge right yep
2571s	you could have done that yeah but uh
2572s	yeah that's yeah number six so this is
2574s	just like a Mobility ability so similar
2576s	to Blink and some ways however this has
2578s	the added bonus that you can use it
2580s	during any other ability so kind of like
2582s	with your Melodies you can cast them
2583s	while you're doing other abilities this
2585s	flourish you can cast during other
2587s	abilities use it while you're turning
2590s	Stephen yeah and it lets you Seer a
2592s	little bit too like move your character
2595s	as wait what your character while you're
2598s	dashing while I'm dashing yeah
2604s	spin that's cool I love this one oh
2608s	that's awesome I love that
2611s	Mobility how cool is that I also love
2614s	the uh the effects for this yeah it
2618s	looks pretty pretty exciting but uh yeah
2620s	so it's a great ability like especially
2622s	as you see later the next group of
2623s	abilities we're getting into are uh the
2625s	dance abilities and this move combos
2628s	really well with those because it lets
2629s	you get into position to do the dances
2632s	um it also lets you you know get out of
2635s	get out of Dodge like you were saying or
2636s	you can also use it to like uh slide
2638s	through enemies to it it turns off your
2640s	Collision so you can not get blocked or
2643s	trapped different ways yeah that's
2644s	pretty awesome um now obviously guys as
2648s	I said before I do have my cooldowns
2650s	turned off for the purposes of
2651s	demonstration here uh but the cool down
2653s	here would normally be um I think it's
2657s	like a 15-second cool down with two
2659s	charges or something like that oh okay
2660s	cool so it has a couple of charges that
2661s	you can use yes so you can save it up
2663s	and use it okay so you're talking a
2666s	little bit about these dance abilities
2667s	and am absolutely in love with the icons
2670s	here yeah they're great they're pretty
2673s	great um yeah so this next category of
2675s	abilities are dances and so they're all
2677s	kind of uh in contrast to the large
2679s	radius Melodies these are all lot
2681s	shorter range uh abilities but with
2684s	pretty powerful effects so this first
2686s	one's called shielding dance which uh
2688s	heals everybody for a little bit over
2689s	time and also applies a a heavy temp
2691s	Health Shield so this is a great one to
2693s	use when people are about to die and the
2695s	cleric needs some more time to heal you
2696s	can give everyone a shield
2698s	okay so this applies a shield to
2701s	everyone around me uh yep heal yourself
2705s	and nearby allies for 50% of your
2707s	magical power every second and apply up
2711s	to one instance of The Shield to each
2713s	Target if you hold shift you can see the
2715s	tool tip for shield which is yeah just
2718s	some temp Health oh wow that's awesome
2721s	400% of your healing power mhm for 15
2725s	seconds wow okay and my healing power we
2727s	saw was like 40 or something yeah yeah
2730s	so it's a decent decent little chunk of
2731s	Health um or temp Health that is and but
2734s	the downside of this one is that it's
2735s	only a 5 meter range so it's quite it's
2737s	basically melee range so that's why you
2740s	really need flourish to you
2742s	know there we go oh my
2746s	God Tori I love the sound of that holy
2750s	smoke that than so much that is so good
2753s	absolutely one of my favorites from the
2754s	whole set
2757s	oh I love this so now I can move while
2759s	I'm using this as well yep you can move
2762s	while you're doing it and you can also
2763s	KNE slide while you're doing
2765s	it so with the long longer cast duration
2768s	um you know you might hit hit some close
2770s	by people with initially then you want
2772s	to knee slide to another group of people
2773s	to get it with the end so kind of since
2775s	it has a decent duration you get you
2777s	have some time to apply the buff to as
2778s	much as people as possible is kind of
2779s	the idea with that
2781s	one I just want to comment on the shield
2783s	application as well like how it
2785s	materializes is just awesome that is so
2789s	good CA did such a great job with this
2791s	holy smokes I love that yeah be great
2795s	and then the little lights above you
2798s	little sigil notes hold on you know let
2800s	me let me put myself in walk mode just
2802s	so I can see myself slow move on the
2804s	dancing here hold
2809s	on yeah that's it yeah Alex Alex did all
2814s	the animations for this one I think yeah
2819s	that is the RP so great I literally
2822s	would just use that single ability the
2823s	entire time that's all I want to do with
2826s	this so hold on let me let me give the
2829s	cheerful Melody while doing this oh
2832s	that's so
2834s	great love that that is super cool
2838s	that's a cool one it's a great one um oh
2841s	yeah next one Nimble
2842s	dance let's see grants Nimble and pep to
2845s	yourself and nearby allies every second
2848s	what is Pep hold shift uh it'll tell you
2852s	what those effects are so Nimble is just
2854s	a pretty high base evasion buff um so
2857s	just another form you know of mitigation
2859s	damage reduction hopefully people will
2860s	Dodge right um and then Pep's uh short
2864s	movement speed boost which a couple of
2866s	the different abilities around the B kit
2867s	are giving
2869s	Umar wow so if I have if I have both um
2873s	the Epic Melody as well as Nimble dance
2876s	playing
2877s	those
2878s	stack yep right now they stack yeah so
2881s	it'll be an additive bonus of 40%
2882s	movement speed so yeah you can get going
2884s	pretty quick oh my God put that up and
2888s	then this is me
2890s	running actually we should all run
2891s	together let's run together when we do
2892s	this let's start at this tree and then
2894s	we'll run the other
2895s	way okay right all right
2898s	ready um hold on let me turn this off
2901s	first we'll see we're going to run to
2903s	that bigger tree there in the distance
2905s	okay it's going to be it's going to take
2907s	about 10 seconds to drop okay hold on 3
2910s	2 1
2915s	go oh my
2920s	goodness that is so good that's a great
2923s	combo if you're trying to run away from
2925s	like a PVP engagement or you know
2927s	getting out of a counter gone bad oh
2930s	whoops who do we run into over here
2933s	mushroom respawn oh from earlier okay
2937s	okay let me let me do this one
2942s	again I love those animations that kick
2946s	is so cool yeah it's really great these
2949s	animations actually started out MOA and
2951s	then Alex MOA by Matt and then Alex did
2954s	a great cleanup job and added some added
2956s	some spins and stuff so turned out
2957s	pretty cool let me let me just get
2962s	this wow that looks so great Alex did a
2966s	great job with these yeah he did a good
2969s	job it looks really cool looks really
2970s	cool in running too like the the jump
2972s	kind of just seamlessly works with the
2974s	split body the effects are great well
2977s	done so good you'll notice this one also
2981s	has a lot of percussion as the main
2983s	focus all the dances are going to be uh
2985s	at least from the audio side I wanted
2987s	that to convey the feeling of Mo motion
2990s	and uh just the hits of each of the
2993s	dance moves oh it sounds so great you
2995s	know what actually let me let me try
2996s	something thing um hold on real quick I
2999s	just want to I want to check to see if I
3002s	can turn on the music real quick hold on
3008s	where is my audio
3014s	audio oh
3017s	okay all right and then let's see how it
3020s	Blends in with the
3025s	audio oh that's sounds so
3028s	good awesome that sounds awesome Max
3031s	Mana let me give myself some more
3034s	Mana yeah those that it it does sound
3037s	really good Tori with the audio that's
3039s	great yeah I I specifically a lot of The
3042s	Bard abilities because they have so much
3043s	musicality to them we have to make sure
3045s	that they stay ambient enough that they
3050s	don't mess with the overall feel of the
3052s	music while also matching up in uh you
3055s	know tonality and key for the musical
3057s	ones so there's a lot of stuff going on
3060s	but I think we're doing a pretty good
3061s	job of combining it so it feels in world
3063s	and in place yeah
3066s	absolutely all right after Nimo what do
3068s	we got mesmerizing
3070s	dance Yep this next one is a offensive
3074s	CC type spell so this will it's a little
3077s	bit shorter cast than the rest um but it
3079s	basically applies incapacitate to all
3081s	nearby
3082s	Targets so we have to have some
3085s	enemies care do you want to drop party
3087s	maybe sure yeah it' be good to have that
3090s	for the some of these offensive
3091s	abilities coming up all right you're
3093s	going to have to flag on me
3098s	first all right now let me put you to
3100s	sleep go to sleep oh wait I have to flag
3104s	flag I have to
3106s	flag go to sleep wait a minute what's my
3110s	flag what we change the HCK key too I
3112s	can't
3113s	remember
3115s	uh is it
3118s	yeah all right there we go okay there we
3120s	go all right here we go and go to
3124s	sleep
3126s	oo nice that's awesome that's a quick
3129s	cast too yeah that one's a bit quicker
3131s	because it just has a just a sudden
3132s	effect and it's not as much of about the
3134s	duration but uh yeah nice to be able to
3137s	knee slide in flourish in and get a stun
3139s	off flourish out you know oh I put him
3141s	to sleep again he's
3143s	incapacitated oh and now he has immunity
3147s	that's a nice segue what is this
3149s	diminishing
3151s	returns yep talk to us about this trap
3155s	for a little while our game was a bit
3156s	unbalanced when it came to crowd control
3158s	so uh I figured it was time for a
3160s	diminishing return system to be put in
3162s	place um I can I won't get go into like
3164s	super detail about it but the basic idea
3168s	is we have created different like
3170s	categories of CC so you've got um hard
3173s	CC you've got movement CC you got
3176s	activation CC like silence and disarm
3179s	and each of those categories will um
3181s	tick up as the duration ticks uh and
3184s	once you've hit a max amount of duration
3186s	of that CC category it'll kick in a
3188s	temporary immunity period um so you know
3191s	we'll we'll probably iterate on this
3192s	more just as we do with everything else
3194s	but we wanted something in place just so
3197s	that people can't like Perma lock you
3199s	down cuz nobody likes that and just to
3201s	just to give some clarity obviously to
3203s	the audience you have bucke tized
3205s	essentially the different types of
3208s	control effects so that they don't all
3210s	share the same diminishing return values
3214s	but rather each of these effects share
3217s	with some other effect types and they
3219s	will communally grant um some Dr based
3222s	on the effect type yeah I mean real
3224s	quick um the movement ones are snare
3226s	chill root and freeze um the hard ones
3231s	are the one you're seeing here um
3232s	incapacitate which is breakable on
3234s	damage but there's also um tier 2
3236s	versions of that which is trip and stun
3238s	which do not break on damage uh and then
3240s	you have your activation CC's which are
3242s	silence and disarm and um potentially
3244s	more in the future but that's what we
3245s	got right
3247s	now very nice that is awesome I know
3249s	that from a from a user experience
3252s	standpoint obviously um we were getting
3254s	a lot of feedback from the test that hey
3256s	when is this system going to be in place
3257s	it's really feeling crappy and PVP and
3260s	in the encounters to just consistently
3262s	get tripped or snared or you know
3264s	whatever um and now you guys have of
3267s	this so well done very nice that's
3269s	definitely going to help I remember
3270s	being rooted for like 30 seconds during
3272s	that node War live stream like here one
3275s	day my primary motivation was playing as
3277s	a fighter in PvP and getting perar
3279s	rooted I'm like nope nope we're changing
3281s	this right now oh my gosh it was so good
3283s	okay so mesmerizing dance that's that's
3285s	super useful and that's obviously uh a
3287s	short radius AOE effect with a 5 meter
3290s	range there but pretty significant
3291s	considering that it's an instant cast
3293s	that's a pretty strong ability um yeah
3296s	yeah okay okay cool what do we got next
3298s	maddening
3299s	dance so this one's just more of a
3301s	general AOE damage ability um that
3304s	scales up if there's less targets so
3306s	there's a lot of targets it'll do 40%
3308s	magical power but if there's just a few
3309s	it'll do more um and it also has some
3312s	interaction with uh status of the bar
3314s	can apply which is demoralized and it'll
3316s	promote that to humiliated which
3318s	decreases Damage Done okay so this is
3320s	cool this is kind of like um you know a
3322s	decision to make here obviously uh if
3325s	you're using it as a solo player
3327s	solo barard you're going to have greater
3329s	damage efficacy um against single
3331s	targets or something but if you're like
3333s	pulling large you know groups of mobs um
3336s	it's going to automatically deprecate
3338s	some of that damage mhm exactly cool
3341s	let's test this on dread care
3351s	again
3353s	okay he's gone mad did we
3357s	got so we're doing about 17 damage a
3360s	tick there mhm okay that's pretty good
3363s	that's pretty
3365s	significant yeah just let the Bard get
3367s	in there and get some AOE in as well I
3370s	also love the screen effects that are
3372s	applied there there's some there's some
3373s	like screen Distortion effects a little
3375s	bit Yeah I think the internal of the
3378s	effect has some distorts going on
3380s	something like that I don't know looks
3381s	pretty uh pretty cursed in a good
3384s	way I like how discont toed the the the
3386s	body is yeah exactly you know going for
3389s	some sort of like weird El thing right I
3392s	love it we should get some weird
3393s	tentacles flying out of
3395s	them that be cool that's super cool okay
3398s	cool that's uh those are our dances are
3400s	those all the dances yep those are all
3402s	the dancers right now
3405s	um yeah there's also a there's also a
3407s	dance Mastery passive as well but uh
3410s	we're still it's still getting some
3411s	iterations so we can chill out it one
3413s	off later okay like we said we're not
3415s	you know this isn't the entire kid
3416s	there's a couple AB in here we're not
3417s	going to be showing off today but you
3418s	know for the most part uh we got most of
3420s	it here cool all right what do we got
3423s	next next up is a knockback ability it's
3428s	called get off the stage get offage you
3430s	see next on your bar uh after the dances
3434s	yeah so this is just like a short range
3437s	melee knockback um which applies snared
3440s	and also has some uh interaction with uh
3443s	staggered it'll disarm your targets if
3445s	they're staggered so okay so knock back
3447s	enemies in front of you with your
3449s	instrument dealing 175% of your um
3452s	magical damage as oh is that physical
3454s	damage physical D yeah it does 100% of
3456s	your magical damage as bludgeon damage
3458s	so okay got kind of yeah and applies
3460s	three stacks of snared that taper off
3462s	over the course of 6 seconds also
3464s	applies disarm to the target with
3466s	staggered that's a nice combo for the
3469s	tank and the
3470s	fighter exactly yeah so if you know
3472s	melee's up on you and you you're able to
3474s	stagger them you can just knock them
3475s	back get off the stage snare them and
3477s	then they will get disarmed as well if
3478s	you have them staggered all right so
3480s	Trad let's use this on you you want to
3482s	flag on
3484s	me I think you guys are still flag I'm
3486s	flagged yeah oh okay all
3491s	right nice that was cool what did I use
3493s	there was that like a fiddle see I'm I'm
3495s	pretty snared it was your FL my FL
3497s	that's right I a
3499s	FL
3501s	yeah obviously we'll probably crank up
3504s	the knock a little bit like it's pretty
3506s	small right now but um we're still
3508s	working on some of that stuff I would
3509s	definitely Crank That Thing Up i' put
3511s	that like what is that set to like a
3513s	meter uh yeah I think it's not set too
3516s	high but yeah like Tred saying we're
3517s	still yeah knockbacks yeah impulse is
3520s	kind of what that's called um for pushes
3522s	and pull please don't kill me oh wow
3526s	you're corrupted now oh no oh
3530s	no
3534s	youer stepen how'd you die aren't you a
3538s	Healer can't you heal thyself he's dead
3542s	look what you've done oh now I'm now I'm
3544s	not even red this is your character
3546s	Bucky oh man whoops my
3550s	bad oh
3552s	no as I was
3555s	saying um so so uh pushes and PS we um
3559s	refer to as impuls um impulse Tech and
3562s	they use a special kind of stuff that
3564s	we're we're still kind of working on
3567s	um that will make them a little more
3568s	reliable but um yeah there will be some
3571s	changes to this kind of stuff like
3573s	knockbacks I would set I mean I I would
3575s	push them back by at least like four
3577s	five years yeah for sure yeah that's
3580s	cool that looks great can also show
3582s	disarm if you have a stagger Source oh
3585s	yeah somebody stagger we could um we
3586s	could maybe come back to these once we
3588s	get to the abilities that apply those
3589s	things this next one applies to mated
3591s	too so we can check it out with
3592s	maddening Dance all right which one is
3594s	that quick so this next one's quick whip
3596s	this is actually your starting ability
3597s	as a Bard um so it's a it's a dual
3600s	function ability that changes depending
3602s	on whether your Target's Allied or enemy
3604s	so the default if you're targeting a
3606s	friend is you'll give them um well
3609s	trad's not a friend but if you target
3610s	like
3611s	me on your guy uh it'll give me a you
3615s	mean Target me yeah Target me Target me
3618s	other me oh yeah for those of you who
3620s	don't know um Bucky and I are going to
3622s	be switching obviously bucker bucker
3624s	bucker that's like a mi
3627s	Buckaroo Buckaroo Bucky being the master
3630s	of The Bard uh is going to be playing
3632s	The Bard today when we when we move in
3635s	uh into the um darala States um okay so
3639s	I'm targeting
3640s	me yep so if use it on me it's going to
3642s	apply uh some some direct healing and
3645s	apply this buff called Glee which is a
3646s	heal over time that lasts for a while oh
3649s	let's see that Glee you are amused by
3651s	the wit of a Bard heals for 60% every 2
3654s	seconds lasting 15 seconds and can be
3657s	extended up to 30 okay interesting and
3660s	then it says ridicule Target so for an
3662s	enemy it's going to damage them and
3664s	apply demoralized which is a multiplier
3667s	reduced by 10% damage multiplier reduced
3669s	by 10% for 8 seconds duration can be
3672s	extended for up to 20 seconds by subse
3674s	applications that's cool yeah so it's
3676s	kind of like a dual function ability
3678s	we've seen this before with like the
3679s	cleric having judgment and some some
3682s	different abilities here and there so it
3683s	kind of swaps depending on the context
3686s	oh yeah GLE is just like kind of a very
3688s	light healing like if you compare it to
3690s	the cleric for example the clerics heal
3692s	over time heals very a lot more but this
3694s	one's kind of just some more nice light
3696s	healing potential for The Bard and
3699s	uh okay that's
3702s	cool and then now we should try the
3704s	other effect yes and as you can see the
3707s	icon changed you can guess what it's
3709s	going to be oh oh that's cool so as I
3712s	Target friendlies you can see your
3715s	friendly I con okay so we got some UI
3717s	support finally coming in here and then
3720s	we also have uh now a tomato it looks
3724s	like mhm talk to me a little bit about
3726s	the concept for the
3728s	Tomato oh man this is something Natalie
3730s	was just instantly like oh we got to do
3732s	a tomato toss somewhere in this kit you
3733s	know it was so good especially when we
3736s	were talking about what the effect would
3737s	be called like you know what else would
3738s	demoralize You by getting some Tomatoes
3740s	thrown in your face I want to see like a
3742s	trip status interaction so you just like
3745s	fall on your butt when you get hit by
3747s	this yeah so this uh yeah the status the
3751s	one that interacts with the knockback on
3754s	the uh get off the stage is actually
3756s	from a different ability but this would
3757s	uh you can be promoted this through
3759s	maddening dance so if you use maddening
3762s	dance after you throw a tomato them
3763s	it'll promote their demoralized to a
3766s	humiliate oh I see I see I see okay okay
3773s	yeah yeah
3777s	oh yeah that's cool so damage D reduced
3779s	by 30% towards targets other than the
3781s	applier of this effect so that means as
3785s	he as the demoralized target if it
3790s	doesn't Focus their abilities or effects
3793s	on me that it's reducing outgoing damage
3795s	by
3796s	30% that's right yeah so this is a
3798s	shared status we're also using some
3800s	spots in the tank kit as well um trying
3803s	to experiment with making ways for you
3805s	know no more class abilities like Taun
3806s	and stuff to have a still have a use in
3808s	PvP right where you know players don't
3810s	have threat ta wouldn't do anything to
3812s	players under normal circumstances but
3813s	if you know we have the status
3814s	interactions and it'll still have a a
3816s	great use in PvP as well that's cool
3819s	that's I I'm liking these interactions
3820s	that's very cool yeah and the exact
3823s	interactions where things are like might
3824s	change here and there you know like
3826s	we're still working on the fear status
3827s	as well and I think that could have a
3828s	really good place on the maddening dance
3830s	because it more thematically fits as
3832s	well um but for now we got this and it's
3834s	it's a pretty good combo that's very
3836s	super cool and by the way guys as you're
3838s	kind of watching this uh demonstration
3840s	obviously you're going to see some bugs
3841s	here or there one of the bugs that we
3843s	have currently that we're currently
3844s	working on is um some of our name plates
3847s	and targeting plates uh respecting uh uh
3850s	hit point updates um that's something
3852s	that we're actively working on right now
3854s	okay um so quick wit super cool love it
3858s	what's next next step is on the next bar
3861s	so this next group of abilities are
3862s	called the songs um and so these are all
3865s	single Target abilities that are also
3867s	channeled but have a variety of effects
3869s	as well um so this first one here is
3872s	called lovely serenade and that's kind
3874s	of just like a heal over time that also
3875s	applies Glee let me let me damage you a
3878s	little
3878s	bit yeah we can nuke we can nuke or
3881s	actually if you want to heal a friendly
3882s	we could use somebody else maybe you
3884s	could heal
3889s	Brian I'll nuke Brian a little bit so
3892s	you can heal him up oh okay yeah there
3893s	we go thank you all right
3900s	oh how cool is that let me add let me
3904s	add this and then do
3909s	it we're doing
3912s	it that's a great combo of course you
3914s	know increased healing received yeah
3916s	your
3918s	target very cool I like I I like The
3921s	Duality between the archetype designs
3923s	right obviously the cleric being the
3925s	bread and butter the healing but having
3928s	this augmented you know bar rooll um to
3933s	kind of secondary uh regen SL heal
3936s	effects um and also empowering the
3938s	cleric I think is a is a very healthy
3940s	complement in the party comp yeah we
3942s	want to give bards a lot of ways to you
3944s	know obviously as our Premier support
3946s	archetype we want to give them a lot of
3947s	ways to support all the other archetypes
3948s	so they can spec more for a healing
3951s	support way or a damage support way or
3953s	you know maybe going more for a cc
3955s	oriented play style so there's a lot of
3956s	different options on how you can bring
3957s	value to the team love it okay I think
3959s	the next one is probably one of my
3962s	favorite uh visual effects designs yeah
3965s	this one turned out great um this is a
3968s	this is a single target attack speedcast
3971s	speed bonus so can really speed up
3975s	someone's power with this
3978s	one all right oh yeah so you can give it
3980s	to yeah that's
3984s	good ooh
3986s	oh yeah that was pretty significant so
3988s	that's giving you 25% faster casting
3991s	speed and attack speed
3995s	yeah and it lasts for 10 seconds mhm
4000s	that's pretty significant long most of
4002s	the songs have a bit of a longer cool
4003s	down I think they're about at 30 second
4005s	range but um yeah it's a pretty strong
4008s	uh DPS bonus to uh your
4013s	target love it dread you can have some
4020s	too I don't know if I think since you're
4022s	uh you're Fly some you're not going to
4023s	be able to use friendly abilities on him
4025s	my bad
4026s	TR I got myself covered I'm a cleric I'm
4030s	a
4030s	cleric I love that and the sound there
4033s	is awesome too I'm I'm loving the uh it
4037s	almost reminds me of one of my like
4038s	grandparents uh clocks oh yeah that's
4042s	what I was going for a lot mechanical
4045s	noises yeah really cool yeah
4047s	Incorporated a lot of classic clock
4049s	sounds so they're pretty sweet uh you'll
4051s	also notice that all these songs have uh
4053s	some heart backing them that we put that
4055s	in there to simulate uh almost like
4058s	singing because there songs the ideas
4059s	your character would be singing but we
4061s	don't actually want singing because that
4062s	would be a chaotic mess so you'll hear
4064s	each of those harp sounds which convey
4066s	The Melody of the uh actual song that
4069s	you would be singing love it yeah I
4071s	think it turned out
4073s	great that's super cool
4076s	CA did such a great job with these
4078s	effects yeah he killed it okay after the
4084s	anthem what do we got next next up so
4087s	these are two offensive single Target
4089s	songs so you can use it on tread for
4091s	Trad um so this next one is called the
4093s	chilling lament and this is just a
4096s	ticking ice damage and also Stacks up uh
4098s	chilled on the Target and has
4101s	interaction if they're already Frozen
4102s	it'll just deal bonus damage instead
4104s	okay so you can kind of you know with
4106s	the Mage you know you can kind of combo
4107s	some of the stuff with the Mage right
4109s	all
4115s	right oo that's chilling that's pretty
4119s	cool the chill effect looks great too
4122s	status condition yeah yeah that one look
4125s	that one looks good they're still
4126s	iterating a lot of status conditions but
4127s	uh the ones they did for the Mage so far
4129s	are looking really
4132s	good yeah that's awesome what instrument
4134s	is that that is a harp really okay I
4138s	like it nice yeah yeah I thought it had
4140s	a nice haunting tonality to it which
4142s	works really well especially with these
4144s	attacking
4148s	abilities very cool love that all right
4152s	what we got oh I think this is my
4155s	another one of my favorite visual
4156s	effects as
4157s	well yeah so this one's called the dark
4160s	lullabi and this will deal uh spirit
4162s	damage which is kind of a new damage
4164s	type we were adding esally once we get
4166s	to Summoner to it might do more Spirit
4168s	damage type stuff um but this uh is a
4171s	scaling damage so it scales up in power
4173s	and it also notably won't wake up
4175s	incapacitated targets so normally
4178s	incapacitated targets will break out
4180s	upon damage but this one will uh not
4183s	wake them up and if they if the final
4185s	hit hits them while they're still
4186s	incapacitated they become stunned so
4188s	it's kind of like a a Punisher for
4189s	things that are already sleeping and you
4191s	like you know give them even worse
4193s	dreams right that that means this combos
4195s	well with MES
4196s	correct yeah yeah hit me with that first
4199s	Hit Me With Your Best okay
4203s	sleep got it and
4208s	now oo see now I got the stun off so
4212s	normally that would have broken the
4213s	effect but because uh that specific
4216s	ability has that interaction yeah that's
4219s	cool fre damage
4222s	death but now I'm immune
4231s	that looks
4233s	awesome yeah I love how the way the
4236s	stars are going around the
4238s	sky cool super super cool
4242s	okay now we have discordance so now
4246s	we're moving on we have a couple more
4248s	kind of miscellaneous abilities
4249s	throughout of the songs now but this is
4251s	just uh a single Target ability that
4253s	shoots some discordant notes of your
4255s	target that kind of bounce around and
4256s	apply
4258s	stagger yeah if there was more enemies
4261s	these would actually bounce between them
4262s	and apply stagger to all of them um yeah
4266s	it's kind of just an extra little damage
4267s	ability just to give The Bard some more
4269s	damaging spells um and obviously the
4272s	staggered interactions we saw was with
4275s	um uh the get off the stage ability had
4278s	an extra disarm if they're staggered so
4281s	it would combo well with that and any
4283s	other things that one of the things
4285s	trying
4287s	to I love the little note sounds they're
4290s	so good I had a lot of fun with this one
4293s	they're responsive yeah so it's a it's
4296s	there's an entire octave that it's
4297s	choosing between so there's all 12 uh
4299s	notes in
4302s	there it's really chaotic when
4304s	especially if you have like three or
4306s	more enemies around you and it all the
4308s	notes are bouncing in between them it
4310s	becomes a full discordant mess living up
4312s	to its name yeah we'll see make sure to
4314s	demo that demo that when we get into
4316s	this POI that's pretty awesome I I do
4319s	love those notes it sounds really good I
4320s	like the uh the staggered impact also it
4324s	it feels very uh responsive
4327s	mhm yeah and this one uh will combo with
4330s	to get off the stage so if they're
4331s	staggered when you hit them with get off
4332s	the stage uh they'll get disarmed the
4334s	last uh building on the last row one
4336s	back in the last row the weapon hit
4339s	one oh okay okay okay so that has that
4342s	has interaction with staggered they'll
4344s	get disarmed so that's a good combo to
4345s	discordance them
4347s	then the head oh
4351s	yeah nice okay so now I'm trying to
4354s	attack you but I can't but as soon as it
4356s	wears off you'll see I can start
4357s	attacking again very cool very cool kind
4360s	of adds to the adds to the anti like
4361s	Melee on you right you can disarm them
4364s	and knock them back and snare them a
4365s	little bit run
4370s	away that's awesome yeah eventually a
4373s	little extra polish touch we want to
4375s	make EV is it actually makes the weapon
4377s	kind of go away from your hand but at
4378s	the moment it's just mechanical all
4380s	right cool um that is discordance next
4385s	up Gambit this one is an interesting one
4389s	I'm going to Nan you have a Target to
4391s	use it on the way this ability works is
4395s	you will swap Health with a Target so
4399s	since Brian is low Health you'll be
4400s	giving him some of your health to try to
4401s	heal him back up and you can use a vice
4405s	versa and you can only use it on party
4406s	members so it's it's a very risky
4408s	ability because it'll put somebody at
4409s	low Health but it can sometimes mean
4412s	difference between life and death if
4413s	your Tank's really low you can Gambit
4414s	give some of your health to him and save
4416s	his life it also applies a uh healing
4419s	receive bonus to Target that lost life
4421s	so kind of you know if you lose much
4423s	life you can you can gain some
4425s	back as you can see it took a lot of
4427s	your total H percent HP to give it gr
4430s	has more Health than you so you're not
4431s	you're not actually not gaining Health
4434s	in the process so it's not like
4436s	yeah so you kind of great punishing for
4439s	you but it help grind a little bit or
4441s	you know
4443s	decently wow that is that is a very
4446s	strong ability this one has a longer
4449s	cool down I think it's a minute or
4450s	something like that use it super
4453s	often that's amazing it strength is part
4456s	of why we gave it such a bright visual
4458s	effect because if a Bard uses this you
4461s	know The Bard's low on health so which
4464s	targets blow them up yeah
4466s	that or you know their targets low on
4468s	health right depending on the type of
4470s	bar they
4471s	are
4472s	exactly talk about a troll
4476s	ability yeah we party locked at least so
4479s	your keeps some bars are going to be
4482s	known as the Gambit
4485s	bars they're like the risky plays you
4487s	know I love the effect there that's
4489s	super cool yeah those cards looked great
4493s	that's awesome that looks very cool
4497s	very
4499s	nice okay what do we got next all right
4502s	so we're on to the last couple abilities
4504s	here so these next two abilities are
4505s	what we're calling
4507s	stories and so these are simple party
4510s	wide Buffs that go out that last for 30
4512s	seconds um and they provide you with a
4514s	theme that you can use to cast more
4517s	powerful ability called a
4519s	saga so if you use uh let's see your
4522s	cool ons are off right yep mhm yeah so
4525s	the first one there is conflict um so
4528s	this will give everyone just a physical
4530s	power bonus
4531s	multiplier um to your whole party for 30
4535s	seconds oh okay very cool yep and so
4539s	that's a that's a short-term buff that
4540s	lasts 30 seconds yep and it also you got
4544s	a note of tragedy I think up up in the
4546s	top left on your character yeah so
4548s	tragedy so this gives you a little
4550s	little boost and also you can spend
4552s	three of these themes uh to cast this
4555s	powerful ability called a saga that has
4557s	different effects depending on which
4558s	themes you have so once you get to three
4560s	you can use a combination of conflict or
4562s	chaos chaos does
4565s	um chaos does magical crit and these
4568s	abilities normally have a 30 second cool
4570s	down so you can only have one story
4571s	active for now at a time
4575s	um I see I see I see okay so I can apply
4579s	this every 30 seconds and it keeps a
4582s	record on myself of the of the last
4586s	used
4588s	um uh story story yeah and so um does
4593s	that does that story composition change
4596s	ever unless I cast another story or I'm
4599s	just it'll stay until you cast a new
4601s	story okay cool um right now we're only
4603s	showing the stories that Grant the
4605s	tragedy theme but there's uh four other
4607s	stories that uh Grant both the comedy
4609s	theme and the Mystery theme which will
4610s	change your uh yeah so you can see the
4613s	other ones on the to the right those
4614s	grant that different themes that have
4616s	different
4617s	bonuses so mystery will give you I think
4620s	increased Mana regen and the comedy
4623s	theme gives you increased healing um but
4625s	depending on the combo of these three
4627s	it'll allow you to cast a specific Saga
4629s	ability which is kind of like your
4630s	ultimate ability as a Bard oo okay all
4632s	right so let me so put up a third
4635s	tragedy so now I have three tragedies
4638s	which has activated my
4641s	Saga yeah so right now we just got one
4644s	of these done so far but the three
4646s	tragedy one is called the
4648s	apocalypse and so this is kind of all
4651s	these are kind of just you know very
4652s	powerful ultimate abilities you can do
4654s	that have a big effect to the
4655s	battlefield okay so apocalypse conjures
4658s	a scene at your location that depicts
4659s	this fabled event enemies in front of
4662s	you will be hit for 150% fire damage
4664s	burning burning and Afflicted with
4667s	shaken and lingering zone of flames will
4670s	be left behind dealing 30% fire damage
4672s	each second and lasts for 8 seconds
4674s	that's significant
4676s	yeah so since this has such a long
4677s	charge up time and cool down because of
4680s	that uh you know we're giving it a
4681s	pretty powerful effect as like you know
4683s	a big Battlefield okay let me light this
4686s	Forest on fire oh yeah make sure trad's
4689s	going to be hurt kids don't do this at
4692s	home and uh what is that what is that uh
4697s	phrase that they use uh for forest fires
4700s	I can't remember stop drop and roll only
4703s	you can protect Forest only you
4706s	can
4708s	prevent oh my
4713s	God that looks so
4717s	awesome oh that is so
4719s	cool so it consumed my tragedies that's
4723s	correct yeah so you'll have to spend the
4725s	next uh you know minute or two to get
4728s	them back up for your next
4732s	Saga oh wow that that looks great SAA
4737s	holy
4740s	smokes awesome that is
4744s	unbelievable I'm sorry I just I want to
4746s	see it from the front
4753s	now it's a huge area yeah that is so
4757s	great so I mean that I mean that takes a
4759s	lot of setup though because as you said
4761s	the cool down on these on these um
4765s	stories are 30 30 seconds yeah stories
4767s	are 30 seconds so at least 90
4770s	seconds yeah exactly and they're all
4772s	it's also pretty uh Mana intensive as
4774s	well that's so you're spam this on cool
4777s	down you you go pretty
4780s	quick um yeah so you already
4785s	went so
4787s	good so good and I saw I saw an earlier
4790s	iteration that I think CA is still
4792s	working on where it actually burns down
4794s	like a castle it's like a popup book
4796s	yeah exactly that's kind of what we were
4798s	going for it's like a story popup book
4799s	where you know there's like a whole
4800s	scene that kind of plays out but uh yeah
4802s	still ler on that but I think it's off
4804s	to a great start that's pretty cool all
4807s	right is there anything else we should
4809s	take a look at skill treewise before we
4812s	get this party
4814s	started um I think we're doing pretty
4816s	good there's some other passive things
4818s	with the songs but I think we covered I
4819s	think we covered things mostly there's
4820s	just some other yeah passive bonuses to
4822s	different abilities oh yeah we can go
4824s	into resident weapon really quick that's
4825s	kind of like the bards uh weapon combo
4828s	proc we want to do really quick yeah so
4831s	this ability um it's passive you get
4833s	pretty early on and it'll give your
4835s	weapon combo um a different Pro effect
4837s	based on which of your current Melodies
4839s	are active so uh with cheerful Melody
4842s	active for example it'll give a little
4844s	automatic heal to a nearby Ally uh on
4847s	your weapon combo finishers well that's
4848s	cool okay so so The Bard gets these
4851s	passive kind of you know secondary
4853s	benefits as they're using their uh
4856s	weapon
4857s	attacks yeah like we're doing with a lot
4859s	of different classes too you know a lot
4860s	of our classes have this kind of concept
4861s	of weaving back and forth with weapon
4863s	combo and your abilities and want making
4864s	that you know rewarding back and forth
4866s	gameplay there this is kind of The
4868s	Bard's version of that
4870s	interaction all right let me
4873s	um let me find this
4878s	myia oh yeah so the there's different
4881s	procs with that one based on if you have
4882s	I think menacing music or cathartic
4884s	music have defensive
4894s	proc yeah so got wounded from that
4897s	weapon combo finisher with cathartic
4900s	produces the healing he
4903s	received I love the uh spell
4907s	book yeah it looks so
4910s	cool spell book's also an AOE it's a
4913s	ranged AOE weapon you guys want to talk
4915s	about that a little bit Brian yeah I
4918s	guess they're talking about the spell
4919s	book we're ready for that yeah
4921s	absolutely yeah so this is actually the
4925s	second iteration of the spell book or
4926s	third if you count the APO book um we we
4930s	de it started in the hand and you were
4932s	flinging stuff out and you were holding
4934s	it in the hand and it was a lot smaller
4936s	than this but um we decided we wanted to
4938s	go in a different direction with it
4939s	being self- animating and and much
4941s	larger so this is what we came up with
4944s	um it's part of the slow weapon group
4946s	alongside the great swword so it's
4948s	focused on slow chunky attacks that deal
4951s	a good amount of damage per hit um it's
4953s	also like Bucky mentioned the first
4955s	weapon with a splitting projectile um so
4958s	it's it's going to be the first ranged
4960s	weapon that has a little bit of AOE
4961s	capability baked in but the first Target
4964s	will get hit for a good amount of damage
4966s	and then it'll split for minor damage to
4968s	other nearby Targets if if there are any
4972s	nearby U more notably than that though
4975s	it's the first self animating weapon um
4978s	so it's not attached like normal to a
4981s	character socket um well is technically
4984s	but
4985s	that's not really for the normal
4987s	purposes of of how you uh attach a
4990s	weapon to a character and it's it's
4992s	animating by itself instead of based
4995s	directly off what the character is doing
4997s	um that's a challenge that Matt was able
4999s	to figure out and make look super
5001s	awesome oh that this I mean this does
5004s	look great
5005s	I mean oh I love the the large kind of
5008s	tome look to it right obviously as you
5011s	said in the past we had that that
5013s	one-handed kind of book look and and
5015s	that's that's relatively standard right
5017s	that's a safe route to go when it comes
5019s	to animating a weapon that's a book
5020s	essentially but this kind of heavier
5023s	looking tone that's you know floating
5025s	kind of in front of you I think that's
5027s	super unique and it's a great look to
5029s	it yeah I I definitely love that you
5032s	pushed us to do a little bit more with
5035s	it take it a little bit further cuz what
5036s	we came up with is definitely something
5038s	that's unique and and super awesome for
5041s	sure um we wanted the book to be the
5043s	star of the weapon combo more than the
5045s	player so you'll notice that all the
5048s	very flashy animations and particle
5050s	effects will be around the book itself
5052s	and attached to the book itself instead
5054s	of playing off of the uh character
5056s	that's has the book there's still some
5058s	supporting animations and visual effects
5061s	on the Caster but it's very minor
5062s	compared to what's playing on the book
5073s	and some other stuff that we'll get into
5075s	whenever the skill tree is in a more
5077s	showable state is through the skill tree
5080s	you'll have access to Elemental status
5082s	effects Mana recovery effects passive
5085s	stat effects and combo damage increasing
5088s	effects and that's actually all active
5090s	and how he spec out now it's just the
5092s	front end's a little bit messed up so we
5093s	can't show it
5095s	that's super
5097s	cool that looks
5100s	awesome okay well I think we might be
5103s	ready to delve into the story side of
5107s	this perhaps and Bucky I would love for
5110s	you since you are The Bard Master
5113s	extraordinaire to swap seats with me I
5116s	am literally seated behind Bucky and I'm
5120s	going to walk in front of this desk and
5123s	sit down on on the Mage and Bucky I'm
5126s	going to hand over the Reigns of The
5127s	Bard to your very capable hands so give
5131s	us one moment and while we do that um
5134s	perhaps uh we could talk a little bit
5137s	about the types of NPCs we're going to
5139s	see here and I I know we saw some Undead
5141s	Doug talk to me a little bit about uh
5143s	what's the story behind this stuff yeah
5146s	so um we saw a skeleton and we're going
5149s	to see more skeletons here this is the
5151s	first time we're showing them off um and
5154s	uh with the skeleton being such a common
5156s	you know fantasy Undead NC that we're
5158s	going to see throughout the game we
5159s	decided to make sure to give them sort
5161s	of a variety of different uh Buffs and
5166s	um sort of effects that they can spawn
5168s	in with so some skeletons will have like
5171s	an effect Spirit of the undying on them
5174s	and if you see this indicated by sort of
5176s	red blowing eyes and a buff icon you
5178s	know that they're going to resurrect uh
5180s	with some health uh when they die so
5182s	have to kind of keep that in mind uh
5184s	some of them will spawn with fields in
5185s	their hands some of them without fields
5187s	in their hands we're going to see a few
5188s	that are here that are actually risen
5190s	Farmers so they're actually going to
5191s	have farm tools um and then we might see
5194s	some some other variants later on some
5197s	Reapers which are more powerful
5199s	skeletons with the sides and wearing
5201s	robes and they have a totally different
5203s	set of abilities available to them
5206s	so very cool that is going to be a lot
5209s	of fun and Bucky you were talking to me
5211s	a little bit about kind of the story
5213s	behind daral uh um obviously this is an
5216s	ancient and old uh land so prior to the
5220s	apocalypse talked me a little bit about
5222s	what deral states was all about and and
5224s	why we have these dead
5227s	farmers yeah so you know I'm not on the
5229s	lower team but this is the lore that's
5232s	been uh granted to me the download but
5234s	gist of the story is that the daral
5237s	family used to live here um way back
5240s	before you know uh they left for Vera or
5243s	they left Vera um
5245s	and they were kind of a rich family that
5247s	you know had a big farm here and a bunch
5248s	of houses but after the return to Vera
5253s	um uh we came back humans kind of
5256s	initially populated the area and started
5258s	farming again but then more recently uh
5261s	goblins have are now in the area and uh
5265s	started doing necromancy and raising all
5267s	the farm hands and it's causing a lot of
5270s	uh evilness in
5272s	general um I'm actually going to go grab
5274s	the quest really quick I think this guy
5276s	right here Rondo has a quest for us
5280s	Rondo okay
5282s	Rondo I like his name Rondo Horner
5288s	sharp yes um so here's his quest uh
5292s	let's see called lot ah yes it's called
5295s	daral
5296s	States historically known as a source of
5299s	pure essential water oh okay maybe
5301s	that's why the Goblins moved in you got
5302s	to read the quest here uh oh yes
5306s	okay yep so it's been over with goblins
5309s	Vermin everywhere so he wants to just
5311s	get in there and uh kill some goblins
5313s	and quiet the Lesser Lords of daral that
5315s	have been summoned because the Goblins
5317s	have been shaking up this land and
5319s	Performing evil not even not even
5322s	greater Lords or lesser Lords I guess so
5325s	oh no so the ultimate goal is to get the
5328s	elemental water from dalls
5330s	well cool okay so I'll accept this Quest
5334s	so
5335s	all right so we got to investigate the
5336s	mill first dude Brian is already up here
5339s	like training
5341s	everything uh send me a reinvite oh
5344s	that's right we didn't have TRD in the
5346s	party TR I'm sorry buddy busy murdering
5349s	him I know a test nobody's in danger yet
5353s	yet being the key
5355s	word they only catch you up to the group
5361s	tread I mean these poor skeletons are
5364s	just out here farming their life
5367s	away and we are
5369s	interrupting their job oh wow we just
5372s	page we just pulled a bunch of
5381s	goblins all right oh nice
5391s	marks trivial monsters if only there was
5394s	a greater challenge up
5396s	ahead I know
5399s	right if only if only oh my God they
5402s	have a star next to their
5405s	name oh what are these
5408s	Stars so yeah this was the first live
5411s	stream will be showing off our Elite
5412s	system um and uh as he would expect the
5415s	star rank means that they are stronger
5417s	more dangerous there's going to be one
5420s	stars out here and there's going to be
5421s	some two stars inside as well so
5423s	definitely take this encounter a bit
5425s	more seriously than the the enemies we
5427s	might have found up until
5429s	now agreed Brian we should probably have
5432s	you
5434s	pulling what we need to
5437s	pull we got a two star rip in my celion
5440s	here watch out for his knock
5442s	back going to demoralize him with the
5444s	Tomato in the face they hate
5447s	that I would they might like the
5450s	tomatoes
5451s	actually oh give him a buff no
5461s	oh that was so pleasant
5463s	actually your Little Harp
5468s	yes I love the lighting in here yeah
5472s	they did a great job looks all like nice
5475s	and weathered all the overgrowth on the
5477s	mill as
5479s	well yeah no wonder these guys moved in
5481s	here this place is uh damp
5488s	makes
5490s	sense going to pull some mobs down after
5494s	this are we going upstairs or what are
5496s	yeah we're going upstairs I think the
5498s	guy we're looking for is upstairs Let
5500s	Brian pull down carefully that I think
5503s	we can go up until the
5512s	left okay we're making good work with
5514s	this all right yeah you can move up into
5516s	the left we'll use this ledge I'll pull
5520s	here safe haven
5526s	yes
5529s	who's oh I think the party leader has to
5532s	Lucky okay oh you
5536s	guys key I got a axe axe dude
5549s	switch for my bars a little
5556s	bit you guys are doing great yeah we're
5559s	doing uh pretty good here not too
5562s	bad good thing we got a cleric here can
5565s	imagine what it would be like with that
5567s	one me
5572s	neither the bar definitely makes my job
5575s	easier oh there he is who is this the
5579s	Everlasting sewer so this is one of the
5581s	Lords of daral ancient Lords come to
5585s	re populate his land come to re yes
5590s	populate he's come to he's come to read
5592s	what the Goblins have done to his
5594s	land reap what the Goblins have swn if
5596s	you will very nice well all done oh no
5601s	did we like piss off all his friends cuz
5604s	he did Back to Life oh no I was trying
5607s	to loot him he just jumped back up oh
5609s	how'd he come back to
5611s	life yeah so the the skeletons have a
5614s	chance uh to have the effect that they
5616s	will resurrect if they're killed so you
5618s	can notice it ahead of time um via the
5621s	buff icon or via the red glowing eyes
5624s	and actually uh these Reapers can also
5626s	steal the uh Resurrection effect from
5628s	nearby other simpler skeletons and they
5631s	did that because you guys pulled those
5633s	other skeletons so this is going to come
5634s	back again um you might want to kill off
5637s	his uh his friends first he's just going
5639s	to get another resurrect from them all
5641s	right don't Focus the re SE Tori and
5644s	Bucky are getting low on o the sun guy
5647s	has a kill this sun
5651s	guy killing the sun killing Sun doing
5655s	good we
5661s	recovered all right I think we managed
5663s	it in time before before the the reaper
5665s	could steal the
5666s	buff
5671s	excellent I'm back on the sun
5675s	again let me see if I can loot
5678s	him a yes I got
5681s	the seeds of prosperity yeah so when
5685s	you're encountering a Reaper with a
5686s	multier skeletons it's good to make sure
5688s	that you kill each of the skeletons of
5690s	the Resurrection effect at least one so
5692s	he the reaper can't steal that
5695s	okay let's get out of here so you got
5697s	the you got the seats this way I think
5699s	it's good Brian okay side side exit us
5702s	to the next uh objective I'm just going
5705s	to sit and drink for a second yeah let's
5707s	get some Mana back this is a safe spot
5709s	to recover take a
5712s	breather where'd you guys go oh
5716s	no little
5719s	door I was looting sorry that's
5722s	important
5728s	ah so
5730s	beautiful it's very nice PE look awesome
5733s	so we've got the
5735s	seed now we have to investigate the
5737s	warehouse that's next on the
5739s	quest that's East right yeah you can
5742s	kind of see it out there in the distance
5744s	yeah I guess like Southeast yeah I'm
5746s	ready I'm ready here we
5750s	go yeah
5752s	oh yeah R ahead
5756s	got some goblins over
5759s	here going disarm
5764s	them oh we got a kidnapper back here I'm
5766s	going to try and sleep
5768s	him oh you got broken
5772s	up yeah careful this guy's a three star
5774s	I mean a two star excuse me oh where's
5776s	the three star sorry two star oh two
5779s	star a
5781s	kidnapper my God what a monster
5784s	you hear him laugh you should run
5788s	away I heard him laugh oh my
5791s	God
5793s	ah Kane red
5796s	him you can nice nice
5802s	M we did
5806s	it man I could really trip you guys up
5808s	just by doing that laugh whenever I want
5810s	since that's my
5812s	voice wait was it really
5818s	wow that was so good that was on the
5820s	spot
5822s	too audio guy be be able to do
5827s	that that was awesome
5835s	good oh this is cool building what's in
5839s	here this is the warehouse more mobs
5843s	Goins maybe uh
5845s	oh no oh no Steven I got I I had no idea
5850s	there is a lot there's an ambush we're
5853s	going to need we're going to need marks
5855s	we need marks on which ones who's
5858s	marking I'm too busy dancing we need
5861s	marks okay I got a
5865s	Mark it's all right stay calm I'm on the
5868s	sun I'm on the
5871s	sun don't stand in the green standing in
5874s	it just a little
5876s	bit or I will not heal you oh go yeah
5881s	they can buff their
5887s	allas so can I
5891s	ha is this battle of the
5894s	BS yes I'm the best Bard though oh I got
5896s	a dog on
5898s	me you guys got this let me just move my
5900s	bars around some more yes
5905s	looks
5908s	better okay that wasn't too bad yeah we
5911s	need to fight into in there all the way
5912s	up to the second floor though yeah let's
5914s	go let's keep this train
5917s	moving this guy has a resurrection risen
5919s	bone guard keeps getting
5921s	Shield he powerful yeah need to do some
5924s	burst damage him to break his shield or
5926s	or let him get into melee
5930s	range nice
5936s	oh no ste's getting borked I got another
5938s	dog another
5947s	bork watch out these guys are going to
5949s	resurrect too
5960s	noted okay last bone guard
5973s	oops very nice head up well done yeah
5976s	yeah yeah coming up oh there he is who
5979s	is it re Reaper nice our next he has
5982s	assault of the
5984s	land where is he that's it kill the
5988s	shaman first here we
5992s	go oh yes
5998s	glorious there Shaman back here yeah
6000s	kill this guy oh I see him okay I got
6002s	him I got warlord silver tooth from
6004s	downstairs oh
6009s	no and you pul the shaman from the
6011s	window oh
6018s	no we can do this we can do this we got
6022s	it I'll dance see you guys oh he's doing
6025s	his move run away run away oh
6033s	Brian I'm out of Mana I'm out of Mana
6037s	switching to the Mana
6040s	song I'm really low
6044s	oh oh no I'll sing you a serenade oh
6049s	more goblins from below not too bad
6052s	though we need a Target
6057s	good oh
6059s	God I'm so low on Mana right now all
6062s	right I'm switching back to the
6066s	music um oh the Reaper's going to Res
6072s	here ah getting hit by two
6074s	many tank is down all right oh I and I
6078s	fell through the ground oh no no no no
6080s	no okay no no no
6083s	reaper now now
6086s	now oh he's powerful yeah we need to get
6090s	did we get uh Brian back up oh no the
6093s	Reaper's back too somebody can we get a
6094s	stealth res on
6096s	Brian uh no such thing as a stealth res
6099s	can we just get a res on
6102s	Brian maybe we should uh keep training
6105s	no keep training them while we get the
6107s	res while we get the res we need a res I
6110s	can't stop the res are you kidding me
6112s	what yeah stop the res try to Res got
6114s	who's still alive oh God everything is
6117s	I'm jumping I'm sorry okay jump up jump
6119s	up jump up jump up we'll reset we'll
6121s	reset Brian we'll come and get you oh
6124s	God there's nowhere nowhere is safe I'm
6127s	kind of hiding behind oh
6131s	nope
6135s	okay here we go we're over here let's
6139s	let's yeah let's pick up
6140s	Brian soon as we can should I run back
6144s	what do you think um no hold on wait for
6146s	us let's see if we can get
6148s	you oh wow just take it
6152s	easy but you guys could probably clear
6154s	through Revenant I've got the Revenant
6155s	Reaper very low all right if we kill
6158s	this guy try to kill the Revenant
6162s	Reaper yeah try to kill him okay okay we
6167s	killed him
6169s	okay I got the salt of the land all
6172s	right we're going to we're going to get
6174s	Brian back up hold on we're doing it
6176s	live we're doing it
6183s	live just stay around this tree just
6185s	stay around this tree Focus fire getting
6187s	rid of the shaman okay next up risen
6190s	bone
6196s	guard okay we're
6201s	close I'm the tank I guess
6204s	there you go B
6206s	tank they're pissed of The Bard there we
6210s	go all right all right let's get our
6213s	let's get our Mana back and then we'll
6215s	go pick up
6216s	Brian good plan that was chaotic that
6220s	was chaotic but you know what all we
6223s	lost was the tank and the tank is
6227s	dispenda that's why you're always the
6228s	first to go I got an upgrade off that uh
6231s	that's why we always get the fattest
6232s	loot it's okay that's right part of the
6234s	deal
6235s	exactly I got some blue leather bracers
6238s	off that Shaman equip
6240s	those heck
6242s	yeah okay three minutes till release by
6245s	the way okay St so my opinion let's
6247s	mantle up let's mantle up over here oh
6250s	yes
6251s	parkour parkour parkour parkour is the
6254s	here we go I think we can mantle up
6256s	right
6257s	here oh yeah oh yeah
6262s	wait I like this new mantle by the way I
6264s	just want to call that out oh yeah oh oh
6267s	no oh no did you jump in the side lower
6270s	floor yeah it's okay it's okay it's okay
6273s	all right we're upstairs oh there's a
6275s	lot of oh boy stepen Sten don't it's
6277s	okay no no no it's okay it's okay I'm
6278s	going to
6280s	mantle you have to really spam it tread
6282s	there we go I made it up I made it up
6286s	okay uh oh my God the mobs made it up
6288s	with
6289s	me out for that Shaman there's a couple
6291s	creep oh there's stuff Roaming In
6294s	all right I'm killing the one on
6296s	me you get the oh there's a oh my
6301s	God I'm coming over to you guys I'm
6303s	coming over to you guys
6307s	okay let's AOE them
6311s	down oh that's that's
6318s	huge
6322s	okay all right I think I can get a res
6325s	working on it go for it heal while doing
6328s	this you got it you got it I'm healing
6331s	it's happening just uh
6335s	steal yes he's up we got
6342s	him recovery look at that we did
6347s	it we were so ingenious if I had if I
6351s	had a nickel for every time I've done
6353s	that an MMO I'd have
6356s	like couple dollars several
6362s	dollars nice all right well we got the
6365s	we got the uh salt of the land the
6367s	reaper so now we just need to go to the
6368s	manor next right all right let's do it
6371s	jump off the manor that kind of sounds a
6374s	little for
6375s	boating yes it's where they some friends
6379s	you made some friends Brian hold
6382s	on oh
6387s	ow that stupid little mushroom
6391s	child my least favorite kind of child a
6394s	mushroom child make sure you DOD when
6396s	they die my second
6403s	least Trad you rebound loot from F to G
6407s	just it's really messing with me that's
6411s	the one that's messing with you
6416s	oh I can see the
6419s	man but you can definitely see the
6421s	difference in the population in terms of
6423s	rank like from the interior spaces to
6426s	the exterior spaces oh yeah for
6432s	sure I love these
6435s	uh these Gates what what happened here
6439s	what story does this place tell
6444s	it's great question you know for players
6446s	to find out they Venture through here
6451s	themselves oo look at this Manor how
6454s	cool back towards an interior so should
6457s	expect more Fierce
6459s	resistance yes there's a b guard
6462s	accordingly
6474s	that second risen bone guard has the uh
6476s	spirit be dying so prepare for a
6480s	res oh I see that this enemy will
6482s	resurrect when
6484s	defeated yeah it's so you can see his
6486s	glowing red eyes as well that's another
6488s	indicator
6490s	nice oh he's
6502s	back well some more from inside and then
6505s	work on getting us in the right hand
6507s	side
6513s	here oh wa theed Seekers there's sided
6516s	Seeker on me oh
6520s	ow oh I'll get him I'm going to go
6522s	interrupt him
6526s	ha oh and stepen instantly broke it oh
6529s	my bad my bad here here I'll put him to
6531s	sleep I'll put him to sleep I'll put him
6532s	to sleep I would I would kill them
6534s	quickly Prett
6536s	squishy oh oh the Gambit saved
6539s	him did you save him with Gambit yeah
6543s	dude yeah look out for the Green Cloud
6546s	oh yeah that's that's not
6548s	good yeah he was channeling me with
6551s	something all right nice do we have time
6553s	for a little break here yeah let's break
6555s	in the courtyard let's break MP is a
6557s	good idea let's break in the courtyard
6559s	and just kind of take in The View M was
6564s	quite
6569s	nice yes I'd say inside here the
6571s	cultists are a priority Target because
6573s	they're not Elites but they do a decent
6575s	amount of damage and aren't they don't
6576s	have too much health look at how
6578s	beautiful this is in
6582s	here yeah it looks super cool I love the
6585s	stained glass windows up there I'm
6587s	digging those windows too they look
6590s	good I know uh chance
6593s	did a great job with this it's looking
6600s	good all right I think we're
6603s	ready yes we're going through here to
6604s	the
6605s	left okay yeah think this way's
6621s	good kind to soften up the Ro a little
6623s	bit by pulling out what I can nice this
6627s	place is nasty I think this guy's going
6628s	to R but just bring him in if he does he
6632s	is indeed we going in yeah yeah come
6638s	in
6646s	uh-oh
6648s	oh oh my little discordant notes started
6651s	bouncing
6657s	oh yeah the Poison's still here careful
6659s	I'm going to sleep this guy the undying
6661s	servant over
6663s	here he's
6666s	asleep he's the one doing the poison
6670s	nice over here as
6680s	well okay I got this guy over here
6694s	I'm on the axe
6698s	Target one sec singing to myself a
6701s	beautiful
6703s	serenade I feel
6705s	loved sometimes you got to pep yourself
6707s	up you got to pep goes a long way
6713s	all right we're doing it all right next
6716s	guy's up here the
6717s	tiller wait let's deal up the uh let's
6721s	deal with the smaller enemies first yeah
6724s	this is good clear this room out oh oh
6727s	there's a lot in
6729s	here I'm going to do the
6732s	Saga a
6735s	Seeker oh my
6739s	God yes well played that was nice
6745s	oh Lots from the
6747s	back oh I have Arro I'm getting low Mana
6750s	now
6755s	though put a little ball lightning down
6758s	there doing some man regen for
6761s	you
6766s	perfect Brian I will do the Gambit oh
6770s	nice every time I'm casting a he he like
6774s	gamp keep casting dude he's low I
6777s	am I I'll dance for you dance for me yes
6782s	dance for me
6784s	clown all right can we bre can we rest
6787s	now yes first we got to loot then we can
6790s	rest ah super
6794s	based I love the lighting this looks
6799s	great beautiful so much character in it
6802s	I know
6807s	no oh let me sit down
6812s	here oh well guess
6815s	not down over here we go with the
6818s	tiller Corner oh the Timeless tiller
6822s	there he is oh we need to watch fly he's
6824s	a two star the last piece before we can
6828s	summon the
6831s	Taskmaster the Tas askm that sounds for
6835s	boating also watch behind I think mobs
6838s	spawn in
6839s	there I'm ready when you guys are I'm
6842s	ready when you we should I'm going to
6843s	pull him into this room oh oh I just
6846s	right into
6847s	that just slice my neck yeah watch out
6850s	that slice isn't for
6852s	decoration I will humiliate him now oh
6855s	wait where'd he
6858s	go right here oh no he's hiding in the
6861s	cabinet
6865s	oh he the res res
6867s	buff yep G is not guaranteed to have one
6871s	okay
6877s	cool and luckily we cleared out all the
6880s	other skeletons so he didn't have a
6881s	chance to steal from them nice Pro
6884s	Gamer's detected kill Pro Gamer
6888s	alert even Corner tank look at that nice
6893s	oh wait oh he blew up this is final I
6897s	got the uh watch
6903s	fly
6905s	okay we just need to go to the
6913s	well oh you got a lot of damage on you
6916s	oh God let me just take
6919s	Health you were being you were being
6921s	life drained you could break that by uh
6923s	breaking distance or line of side yeah
6926s	that was happening to me at the entrance
6927s	you guys broke him through
6929s	death BR with a chain
6933s	pole
6935s	nice I had to uh Gambit your health to
6938s	me you didn't mind I got to say Brian
6942s	for a we little dude you're doing a
6944s	doing a good job tanking
6946s	there what's that supposed to mean
6952s	Mighty in spirit that's
6955s	right
6957s	concentrated
6959s	I this is this is home
6963s	territory nice and comfy skeletons even
6967s	has a nice DF roll it it's
6975s	glorious take out the Su servant oh what
6977s	do we got down
6980s	here a lot of pain
6984s	if you get life
6985s	drains stun him or or get away so that's
6989s	the servant doing that yeah that's that
6992s	it's on you right now Bucky just get
6994s	away from him oh no Brian's getting
6997s	Brian's getting hurt oh oh
7000s	God I had to run into some another pole
7004s	well listen you told me to run away I
7006s	ran oh guys this might be tpw this might
7008s	be tpw we should move out we should run
7010s	run run I can't even see where to run
7014s	good
7015s	luck yeah front okay okay okay okay okay
7018s	soon as we get out here let's let's oh
7020s	no there's a kidnapper there's a
7024s	kidnapper I'm going to sleep him I'm
7026s	going to try to sleep the kidnapper
7028s	didn't agress keep running down the
7030s	driveway
7032s	here we
7034s	should oh I'll run with you guys stand
7038s	by o b speed
7040s	showcase yes we were showcasing it there
7043s	for a moment let's
7047s	go it's going so well speed boost was
7050s	perfect though you actually I'm to try
7053s	to kill this risen bone guard I'm all
7056s	out of Mana though they're on the other
7058s	side of the POI what's the play here
7060s	guys should we just run through yeah
7063s	around yeah let's try to go
7065s	through well if you guys want to meet us
7067s	at the well we should can we res can we
7071s	res tor
7073s	well we're running over to you guys
7074s	we're just going to try and run through
7075s	to okay okay okay okay we have
7078s	speed come
7082s	on we should be able to oh my God oh my
7085s	God if I die I'm going to die next to
7087s	Tori so it's easier for
7089s	you okay corpses up in one spot for
7096s	convenience I don't have any pots
7101s	though oh my my God look at this thing
7104s	look at that
7106s	thing that Goblin should be in the
7109s	Olympics R almost
7112s	there oh you guys are I have I have 30
7116s	hit points no no I'm by where are you
7119s	just outside the entrance to the left
7120s	there he is found him oh my God Gambit
7124s	him oh yes yes thank
7128s	you I got everything else killed oh good
7132s	work oh that was so
7134s	close you're running around at like 30
7137s	for Good 2 minutes there dude that was
7142s	crazy get some Mana back Tory dead
7145s	nearby I yeah I'm right I'm right by the
7148s	uh therea light
7151s	post well we got what we needed out of
7153s	the Mana at least we have to just go to
7154s	the well now yeah that Mana is no joke
7158s	yeah it's Doug told me to run from that
7160s	one skel I'm like all right I just ran
7161s	into the Next Room there's five ctis and
7163s	they're like
7164s	hello yeah you could you could have just
7166s	stepped out of the door right next to
7167s	you the line of sight him listen bro I
7170s	panicked right it was
7177s	scary all right finally got some
7188s	Mana all right where are we off to next
7191s	we just have to go to the well and cast
7195s	all the sacred skeleton items we got to
7199s	summon the
7200s	Taskmaster the
7205s	Taskmaster let's go where is the well um
7209s	it's just straight north of here pretty
7210s	much can just cut through this these
7214s	lands a little swim this is refreshing
7218s	yeah I like that you should uh you
7219s	should jump a little more Brian I should
7223s	oh that's a nice jump right there look
7226s	at him go who knew that the duner was so
7233s	acrobatic oh I pulled a flower evil
7236s	flower from the swamp what are these
7239s	flowers doing
7243s	here got a
7246s	shaman I'm on the bone Chopper tring
7249s	your Mana if you let them live long
7250s	enough
7259s	I love that that
7263s	harp yeah I think that's my favorite one
7265s	we got a res bone
7271s	chopper get
7277s	him yeah I had a blast making all those
7279s	different heart melodies for the
7280s	different songs I think they came out
7282s	really cool convey the emotion that they
7284s	need to I think there's a very long
7286s	patrol around here so we have to keep an
7289s	yeah the big goblins come through here
7291s	there's a shaman to the right who's
7293s	going to patrol all the way over here I
7295s	think that flare off in the distance
7297s	that Brian's head towards is this the
7300s	well this is the well this is a huge
7304s	well
7306s	yes Wonder What Lies
7309s	Beneath get the shot get the shot first
7312s	and then get the flar BR
7317s	B oh dog get off
7320s	me oh
7326s	no all right we got a kidnapp
7339s	her think he's going to spin
7343s	no Ryan run he's
7350s	good
7361s	oh we did
7363s	it all right ready to summon wait what
7367s	are we
7368s	summoning the Taskmaster of the land oh
7372s	yeah that's right it's like the fourth
7374s	time you said
7376s	Taskmaster I'm most Taskmaster so just
7378s	to be clear we're summoning the
7380s	Taskmaster yep the master of tasks let
7383s	me see here he's a master of tasks ah it
7385s	says a tarnished plaque at the base of
7387s	the statue reads Eternal praise to our
7389s	Lord Taskmaster keeper of dall's
7392s	essential water or well essential are
7396s	you guys ready I'm summoning him what
7398s	should we
7400s	expect uh a three star
7406s	roing there's a bunch of them take him
7409s	out we need
7410s	targets uh kill any of the skeletons
7413s	with the buff yeah probably just kill
7414s	the ads first then kill the boss okay we
7417s	do have an out Houser coming in from the
7419s	side too I'll put him to sleep where is
7421s	he oh yeah it's a good
7424s	idea you can fall up with the Mage sleep
7427s	Steven
7428s	okay following with the Mage sleep oh
7431s	he's already out oh and I'm sleeping him
7433s	in 3 two one he slept yeah don't hit him
7437s	we got this out
7439s	Hower for two more seconds no The
7443s	Bouncing thing you're to kill him I
7445s	don't know who that could have been
7447s	somebody yeah rain of bone he's using
7451s	rain of
7453s	bone oh don't get hit by those bones
7456s	they on the Taskmaster I think if we cut
7458s	him out I can try and sleep him again
7460s	it's it's not going to last long enough
7462s	he's getting too much resistance I think
7463s	you're going to have to kill him run
7464s	away run away oh
7469s	yeah
7470s	o whose idea was it to pull a two star
7473s	and a three star the task all of ours I
7477s	think we should just kill
7479s	the
7488s	yeah I'm menacing
7490s	him oh bro
7492s	that's big damage fortify up for a
7496s	second this guy's beefy I'm getting low
7498s	on Mana Bucky's getting low on Mana I'll
7501s	switch to the Mana who's knocking no
7504s	Mana is
7507s	dread all
7509s	right bom binder is De got
7528s	all right he's going to Res here after
7530s	he goes down the first time he's going
7531s	to get he's going to try and uh steal
7535s	some souls to get his resurrection buff
7537s	back so no keep an eye on
7540s	that you ready to interrupt that I'm
7543s	going to Mesmerize him with my dance I'm
7545s	going to
7548s	give weapon
7552s	all right I'm ready ready is not
7554s	complete there it is he doing it
7557s	extraction on I interrupted him nice
7560s	interruptions well done he saved me I
7563s	bedazzled him with my bedazzling dance I
7566s	I interrupted his ice storm oh yes nice
7570s	or bone storm trashed oh I'm going to
7572s	finish with the
7573s	Saga yes a yes nice
7579s	burn so clean oh o
7582s	two maybe melee cler don't stand in
7585s	front of the boss oh he's blowing up I
7588s	fell for that last time there we
7590s	go nice I have gotten it the essential
7593s	water of the daral well you did it yes
7598s	let me complete the quest
7600s	here ah yes Rondo will be pleased oh
7604s	whoops great got some glint some
7608s	XP very nice complete we did it
7613s	yay yay we actually succeeded well that
7617s	was that was actually fun that was that
7619s	was crazy I mean the uh The Bard wow you
7623s	can really feel the difference in the
7625s	party comp with that Bard
7627s	present yes I do my best very nice
7631s	nicely done well you're coming to the
7633s	show Absolutely guys well done thank you
7636s	for walking us through this bucky bucky
7638s	you've done an amazing job with the bar
7639s	everybody who's who participated in
7641s	creating this bringing it to life SAA um
7644s	amazing job with the with the visual
7646s	effects I know you're not here right now
7648s	but uh Tori Brian Trad um Doug everybody
7652s	congratulations this was a lot of fun um
7655s	I know I speak for the community when I
7656s	say it is looking good it's playing good
7659s	it's feeling good um I know there's a
7661s	lot of people very excited to get into
7663s	Alpha 2 and test with us um I want to
7667s	thank you guys for joining us today and
7670s	obviously we do these these developer
7673s	updates to get your guys' feedback and
7674s	of course as you know everything is work
7676s	in progress towards Alpha 2 but tell us
7678s	your thoughts what did you like that you
7679s	saw today about The Bard what are some
7680s	of the things that you would want to see
7682s	uh done differently um obviously you
7685s	don't really know um you know how how
7688s	you're going to enjoy The Bard until you
7689s	play it in Alpha 2 um but what you saw
7691s	today give us your thoughts do it on
7693s	social media do it on our forums uh do
7694s	it in Discord um this is why we do these
7697s	updates so that you can participate in
7698s	providing uh feedback to us um guys once
7701s	again thank you for joining me and uh
7704s	very very fun really enjoyed this um all
7708s	right we'll see you all back on
7711s	stream bye bye bye thanks it was fun see
7725s	you and we are back we'll play uh the
7729s	video a little bit in the background so
7731s	you have something to to watch but we do
7733s	want to touch on a couple things as well
7735s	as answer some questions that were kind
7737s	of asked in the community in various
7738s	spaces uh so I'll toss it to you Stephen
7741s	to first talk about those uh topics that
7742s	you went to preemptively ABS absolutely
7745s	so you know judging obviously by you
7747s	guys's commentary as I'm watching um
7749s	with my old man glasses uh chat um loved
7753s	the perspective from old man man I don't
7757s	know about that like but anyways um
7760s	seeing a lot of people are are are
7762s	liking the direction of The Bard uh
7763s	gameplay in the class um three points uh
7766s	want to comment on very quickly um with
7769s	regards to lighting lighting is actively
7772s	literally being updated and worked on
7775s	right now that work probably will not be
7778s	in a good representative State until I
7781s	would say the end of August roughly but
7783s	you're getting a preview of what that
7785s	looks like now with regarding with
7787s	regards to the daytime light with
7789s	regards to interior lighting with
7791s	regards to eye adaptation exposure
7793s	settings like all of those things can
7796s	kind of play nice or not nice with
7799s	visual effects as well um so some of
7802s	those exposure settings inside of the um
7805s	uh inside of buildings inside of Darker
7807s	areas are going to feel a little too
7809s	bright until we dial that in those are
7811s	all that's just tuning right that's
7813s	tuning that we do with the lighting guys
7814s	we have a fantastic lighting team I
7816s	fantastic visual effects artist oh yeah
7817s	the stained glass is really cool I saw
7819s	some people noting that it looks it was
7822s	it's way to bring in light second Point
7826s	um with regards to sound effects um
7829s	there were a few things I think that
7830s	were happening in this video recording
7832s	um one was that the different
7834s	perspectives had a different scaler
7836s	setting on uh iname sound effects uh but
7839s	second thing is that um the uh audio
7842s	team is still working on um sound
7844s	layering and attenuation um so those are
7847s	going to get refined better over the
7850s	course of the next month as well um and
7852s	you will see some significant
7854s	improvements there obviously you know we
7856s	don't want uh that intensity of sound
7860s	even in battle um it is something that
7863s	they're very well aware of and is being
7865s	addressed um the third thing with
7867s	regards to the book I know there's a lot
7868s	of questions about well is The Bard a
7870s	book class the book is just one of many
7872s	weapons any class can use any weapons um
7875s	right there's still some outstanding
7877s	animation and um uh animation work that
7881s	needs to be done with the book uh such
7882s	as having it immediately disappear when
7885s	you're in an idle State versus um having
7887s	it kind of either get equipped to the
7889s	back or get equipped to a you know hip
7891s	slot or something that's something
7893s	that's still being done um so those are
7896s	those are just the three big things that
7897s	I saw Margaret I know you were taking
7898s	some notes and question the wonderful
7901s	Community team and social folks have
7903s	been adding stuff so thank you thank you
7905s	to them um but the other thing that
7908s	people wanted to ask questions about
7910s	that were not related to the bar hard
7912s	stuff was the animations uh like
7915s	creatures in the background
7917s	animating to touch on that sure
7919s	absolutely yeah um so essentially one of
7922s	the ways that we address kind of client
7925s	side performance right when you're
7926s	rendering all these things on your PC uh
7929s	one of the ways that we kind of help
7930s	with that is we have a significance
7931s	manager that um uh essentially will
7935s	throttle uh NPC animations depending on
7938s	how many NPCs are on screen depending on
7940s	where those NPC are in proximity to your
7944s	client um and right now we need to tune
7947s	that manager a little bit more um so
7950s	there's some bugs still with that with
7952s	that manager that um that essentially we
7954s	need to tune so that's why you saw some
7956s	of the NPCs some of the goblins and
7958s	whatnot um animating at kind of a a
7961s	weird looking uh speed that's a result
7964s	of that uh uh manager okay um yeah a lot
7969s	of people like the book and some people
7970s	don't you could choose which weapon you
7972s	have you don't have to have a book if
7973s	you don't want to um I saw some people
7976s	talking about that quite a bit um so the
7979s	first question here is if there are
7980s	multiple bars in a party do all their
7983s	Buffs stack with each other Buffs of the
7986s	same type do not stack but you could
7989s	have multiple bars in the party that are
7990s	keeping up multiple um uh uh different
7994s	different Buffs essentially right so um
7997s	if you have if you have two of the songs
7999s	going at once you're not going to stack
8001s	the same bus
8002s	okay um and then do heals
8006s	crit heals do crit yes heals heals crit
8009s	for any class yeah um yeah uh are all of
8014s	these B abilities purely AOE based or do
8017s	they require being in a
8020s	group um all of the Buffs that are
8024s	conferred are group um our group Buffs
8027s	mhm okay so you must be partied up uh
8031s	can bards use Melodies while mounted and
8034s	they basically from that they're also
8035s	wondering do bards Buffs such as speed
8038s	apply to players when they're
8040s	mounted um that is not something we've
8043s	implemented with yet it is something
8044s	that we have discussed having some
8046s	abilities um being uh capable of being
8049s	used while mounted uh as it stands
8052s	currently uh the player character cannot
8054s	utilize abilities while on a mount uh
8056s	but it's something we'll be looking to
8058s	add potentially in the future and then
8060s	the next one here is if players have
8062s	other movement speed increases will
8065s	those stack with the bars Buffs SL
8068s	pet yeah as long as it's not the same
8071s	buff name uh the intent is for those
8073s	Buffs to stack yeah so you can't have
8075s	two bar now there might be right one
8079s	there might there might be diminishing
8081s	returns on certain waterfall stats that
8083s	are getting affected by Buffs right so
8086s	for example if you have a set bonus
8088s	that's conferring a casting speed bonus
8091s	uh for your for your casting speed
8092s	waterfall stat and then you have a buff
8095s	applied and you have some other effects
8097s	that are applied all of those things
8099s	combined as you as you reach a certain
8102s	you know diminishing return threshold um
8105s	you may start to get those Buffs
8113s	deprecated muted myself next one here is
8117s	if you are outside of the range of the
8119s	initial Melody cast and move in do you
8122s	receive the melody effects yes so the
8125s	the melody is a channeled effect um so
8128s	as you move out or back in you'll become
8130s	subject to the effect again um uh and
8134s	remember you can use the Melodies and
8136s	it'll just keep going on in the
8137s	background and other abilities uh while
8139s	the melody is active and then do the
8142s	instruments do anything or are they
8145s	purely cosmetic people are
8148s	asking um the instruments are at this
8152s	moment in time cosmetic but we have
8154s	plans for instruments in the future and
8156s	can they like take out their instrument
8157s	so they are like holding it for yeah we
8160s	have we have we have a lot of plans for
8162s	instruments to be incorporated in the
8164s	future including like custom song
8166s	authoring for players to utilize um to
8168s	have skills within um and then for you
8170s	to be able to to use those also in a
8173s	roleplay fashion um there's a lot of a
8176s	lot of ideas there okay and then can
8179s	players use macros to help bars like
8181s	weave Melodies I think macros have come
8183s	up before in the past in regards to many
8186s	classes but or archetypes yeah that's a
8190s	good question um we need to be careful
8193s	about macros right
8197s	um yeah that's a good question I would
8200s	say I don't remember how I answered this
8203s	in the past um we'll touch Bas with you
8206s	more on Macros in the future exactly
8208s	good call there's a balance of it right
8210s	like we want to make that people are not
8212s	Bing or we're not promoting that type of
8215s	behavior because we want people to be
8216s	actively playing the game generally I am
8219s	opposed to macros just to you know give
8221s	my personal stance on it um I don't
8223s	think that we should be building classes
8225s	around the idea that people need to use
8227s	macros in order to to effectively you
8231s	know leverage their skill with a
8233s	particular class um so in that regard
8235s	and given the dispense given the uh the
8238s	uh likelihood of macros really to lead
8240s	down a path that's not desired from a
8242s	gameplay perspective um my disposition
8244s	is no to macros um and that's likely
8247s	going to be the stance um that we will
8249s	use for gameplay in general so um you
8252s	know I would say no we are not going to
8255s	be friendly to macro usage uh macros
8258s	should not be required to play our
8259s	classes right this is a skill uh cealing
8262s	issue that we want players to be able to
8265s	to be able to play the class themselves
8267s	right without needing to to have a macro
8269s	in order to
8270s	play um um and
8272s	then the next thing here is in regards
8275s	to the humiliate status effect they saw
8278s	it on the stream and they're wondering
8279s	what it does um and I don't know if you
8281s	want to touch base on that I know that's
8282s	something that we may not have as the
8285s	Alpha 2 feature in the future so it's
8287s	like humili which one is this again this
8289s	is humiliate as a at a s condition
8291s	yeah um humiliate I did we show what
8295s	humiliate did I thought we might have
8297s	hovered over that um let me ping um
8301s	Bucky and I'll have him let me know what
8303s	humiliate
8306s	does I know because they're con they're
8309s	constantly tuning other than the
8310s	humiliator oh that's right it was 30 I
8312s	think it was 30% um reduction um against
8317s	targets that are not the source of the
8319s	humiliate for de for uh
8323s	damage and we could be here all day if
8325s	we answer all the questions so we're
8327s	going to kind of move on from here uh
8328s	from this point but we do want you to
8330s	know that we have a barred archetype
8332s	preview feedback thread uh We've pinned
8334s	it a couple times it might be pinned
8336s	right now actually again um for you if
8338s	you're here watching us live on Twitch
8340s	uh we really appreciate you guys coming
8341s	and watching us live on Twitch um and uh
8345s	yeah toss your feedback over there if
8346s	you have thoughts I'm sure I saw lots of
8348s	thoughts in the in the chat so if you if
8350s	you have them be sure to send them our
8352s	way we love compiling those and sending
8354s	them to the development team they look
8356s	through everything uh a lot of the times
8358s	we're on the same page as you guys and
8359s	the things that we are wanting to
8361s	improve and change um so it kind of it
8364s	just it's a good touch point for us to
8365s	ensure that we're we're on the same page
8367s	as what the community is looking for as
8370s	well um with that we will switch over to
8374s	our studio update to talk a little bit
8377s	about what's been going on on the studio
8379s	front uh you want to kick us off on that
8381s	front Stephen yeah absolutely um a few
8384s	things I mean one obviously as we move
8386s	towards Alpha 2 things are getting very
8388s	hectic here but hectic in a good way
8390s	because
8391s	you know we are we are getting some
8393s	winds um significant wins uh especially
8397s	as I talked a little bit about the
8398s	beginning of the stream uh with regards
8400s	to last week and the uh live player
8402s	testing that we did for our alpha 1
8404s	testers that was a very big win for the
8406s	studio um in addition We are continuing
8409s	to hire we still have jobs that are
8411s	posted and
8412s	open I know that there has been some uh
8415s	announcements recently I think it was at
8418s	um was it Bungie
8421s	we is they announced today that they
8423s	just had layoffs yeah and and you know
8425s	obviously it continues to be uh pretty
8428s	hectic and the only company though right
8430s	I was going to say pretty hectic in
8431s	turmoil industry right now um you know
8434s	Intrepid intends to be a Bastion uh of
8437s	light in in that in these dark times um
8441s	so you guys in the community have done
8443s	an awesome job in helping to spread the
8444s	word for the company in the project uh
8446s	continue to do so because you know
8449s	people are in need of this help and and
8450s	we have a a a awesome place and an
8454s	awesome project for them to come and
8455s	participate and join us um we've hired a
8458s	lot of people um for those of you who
8460s	are waiting on responses from us we have
8462s	a wonderful recruiter but he's doing as
8465s	fast as he can he's going through
8466s	everything um and of course all of us
8468s	who are hiring managers we're powering
8470s	through reviewing the resumés and stuff
8472s	like that so we're trying to get through
8473s	them as quickly as we can um and then of
8475s	course there's you know times where we
8478s	have to basically interview quite a few
8479s	people before we make our final decision
8481s	who we moving forward um and for those
8483s	of you who have seen scams there's been
8485s	quite a few of those that have gone
8487s	around as well I just want to touch base
8488s	on that we've pinned a post about that
8490s	already on our LinkedIn as well we can
8492s	we continue to remind people but you
8494s	will never ever get a hire an offer from
8496s	US unless you have had an interview with
8498s	Stephen Steven is your final boss mob to
8501s	get into the gate to interre Studios so
8503s	if you do not have an interview with him
8505s	you are not going to get a cover letter
8507s	from us or an offer from us um it'll be
8511s	careful be very careful out there guys I
8513s	mean anybody who's watching this who
8515s	talks to anybody there are some some
8517s	unfortunately sketchy sketchy the yeah
8520s	the the reality is dark and full of
8523s	Terror and there's a lot of people out
8525s	there who try to take interviews with
8527s	people I know it's crazy we've had
8530s	people interview with some random person
8532s	who's like not at our company and get
8534s	like scammed and send them fake fake
8536s	offer letters to try to collect their
8538s	personal information you guys need to be
8539s	super cautious about that like Margaret
8541s	said no one will ever get an offer
8543s	letter unless they have directly spoken
8546s	with me live um so be very very careful
8549s	about that make sure to communicate that
8551s	message yeah I just wanted to touch base
8553s	on that but we are Trucking towards
8555s	Alpha 2 um you know obviously we already
8557s	said that we're going to be showcasing
8560s	um kind of a road map as well as um I
8565s	guess I can just bring that up on screen
8566s	here too so you guys can if you if you
8568s	missed it before because we did have a
8569s	bunch of people thank you for The Raid
8571s	we appreciate you guys joining in but we
8573s	will be doing an alpha 2 road map AMA
8575s	with Stephen um so we'll be covering all
8578s	of that stuff um for that as well as uh
8581s	people have been asking about you know
8582s	Alpha 2 access and how they can get
8584s	access that'll be included in that so um
8587s	I know we didn't touch on that earlier
8588s	in the Stream but we will we will be
8590s	announcing we will be announcing on
8591s	August 16th when and how and why and
8595s	where and what um the alpha the new
8598s	Alpha 2 key access will look like um so
8601s	if you guys are I know we've gotten a
8602s	lot of questions about that I was seeing
8604s	it through chat obviously um tune in on
8607s	August 16th or or wait for the content
8609s	creator coverage of that um afterwards
8612s	we will have we will have information
8614s	then yeah it'll be another mey stream so
8616s	uh definitely come tune in with us on
8617s	August 16th we'll try to answer as many
8619s	questions and ensure that you walk away
8622s	not confused um and of course we'll also
8624s	have an article if you want to consume
8625s	that in like a more direct path uh that
8628s	is like just the highlights as well um
8631s	anything else in the studio front you
8633s	want to make sure we share
8635s	Stephen know we could be here all day if
8637s	we go over what everyone's working on
8640s	the whole team's working hard um all
8643s	right we have a little small art update
8645s	um so we're showing off obviously you
8647s	saw the amazing rosethorn outfit that
8650s	Manny worked on um iname so good so good
8655s	look so
8657s	great I think there's a concept art here
8660s	too where you can kind of to see um like
8662s	where he started with it and where it
8664s	ended which you know looks
8666s	phenomenal look at that
8670s	violin oh look at that violin looks so
8674s	good okay so that's where the concept
8676s	started but looks pretty
8678s	spoton the
8680s	turntable yeah and I mean as as you guys
8683s	can see right we've always talked about
8685s	this in the past you guys see these
8686s	armor sets coming online these are all
8688s	achievable in-game armor sets
8691s	um you know compared to Cosmetics that
8695s	we have that we have sold in the past uh
8698s	this is the level of parity that exists
8701s	um between what's achievable in game and
8704s	what's purchasable yeah there will be
8705s	plenty of cool things that you can uh
8707s	get I know that was definitely a concern
8709s	was they're like oh the Cosmetics look
8711s	so cool I'm like oh the in game stuff is
8713s	going to look pretty cool too just just
8715s	because we have Cosmetics that are for
8717s	sale or will have Cosmetics that are for
8719s	sale does not mean that you will look
8720s	like a cardboard box if you do not buy
8722s	one and reminder that our the way that
8725s	our Cosmetics work is you still have to
8726s	have the base armor that has a Cosmetics
8729s	lot that you put it on so you still have
8730s	to earn the armor in game in order to
8732s	use the Cosmetics so um we are very much
8735s	trying to not have the Pay to Win
8738s	available but you know keep us to it you
8740s	guys we're we're trying our best um and
8742s	then we also have some images of ins um
8746s	so this is a Kar Inn that they're
8748s	working on um and a lot of you guys have
8750s	been about player housing especially as
8753s	it as it pertains to Alpha 2 um and
8755s	there will be instance housing through
8757s	in so um they're starting to ins are ins
8760s	are looking good remember the these ins
8763s	um they as Margaret said these are
8765s	instance essentially introductory
8768s	instanced housing right they this is the
8770s	cheapest lowest level of housing that
8772s	you can acquire grants you some benefits
8775s	with regards to like Furnitures that you
8776s	can place and utilize that give you know
8779s	mechanical bonuses as as well as some
8781s	storage um you know the citizenship side
8783s	of it obviously um these are spaces I
8787s	mean this looks great they did a great
8789s	job with this in game I think it I would
8791s	love to live at an end like this yeah
8793s	and then the last one here is this is
8795s	more we're creating some marketing
8798s	assets that you're going to see for
8799s	Alpha 2 U but we're going to give a
8800s	little teaser here I think Stephen has
8802s	also shared a teaser of the The Bard one
8805s	uh as well but we have a bunch of stuff
8807s	going up on our our website that we'll
8810s	be launching with Alpha 2 as well um but
8813s	this is one of the pieces this is one of
8815s	the uh creatures that is going to be
8817s	play a big role similar to tumac uh this
8820s	is a fire brand who is a pretty badass
8824s	dragon who you may be seeing soon you
8827s	might be seeing him soon he is a he is a
8830s	fire brand indeed also I think he has
8833s	another form too doesn't he that yes
8835s	that is a boss that's in Alpha 2 uh
8839s	entrance of Alpha 2 that it's going to
8841s	be he's going to be a doozy yeah so uh
8845s	give a little sneak peek of some of the
8847s	the marketing work that and this is what
8850s	uh Sam has been working on doing an
8852s	amazing job with a lot of really cool um
8856s	concept pieces that we're going to be
8857s	working towards Drake Drake Drake hero
8860s	said I soloed that guy you're not gonna
8862s	solo this guy Drake hero will need a
8865s	raid for this guy there's no he will eat
8868s	you he will eat you alive the end we'll
8870s	move on to our Forum Q&A and of course
8873s	while I'm doing
8875s	that um I will have the video playing in
8878s	the background something went weird with
8880s	it so I'm going to fix that and we will
8885s	continue um so we I'm doing that the
8888s	first question here is from ace1 12 3 4
8891s	and they're wondering about uh skill
8893s	ceiling how important will knowledge and
8896s	deduction be in the game and will you
8899s	avoid tedious data gather in methods for
8901s	example will players need to observe
8903s	enemy mechanics to progress instead of
8905s	grinding to learn skill
8909s	effects so the question is how important
8912s	will data Gathering be how important
8914s	will knowledge and deduction be in the
8916s	game and will you avoid tedious data
8918s	Gathering methods oh I see um knowledge
8921s	and deduction should be pretty important
8924s	both from an encounter design
8926s	perspective with regards to like enemy
8928s	NPC behaviors uh but also certain
8931s	puzzles and quest lines um you know the
8934s	intent there is to create an interactive
8938s	you know style of gameplay that requires
8941s	problem solving
8943s	deduction um you know across across the
8946s	board especially as it relates to like
8949s	certain crafting results I mean that's
8951s	something that's riddled across you know
8953s	General design um uh uh playing field
8957s	for a lot of our systems um we don't
8960s	want it to be tedious right if it's not
8962s	if it's something that you're doing that
8964s	doesn't feel fun right then then you
8967s	know from a relevant standpoint it's not
8969s	what we want to incorporate in the
8971s	gameplay Loop um but yeah there's a lot
8973s	of different systems that I think
8975s	Leverage The Art of you know deduction
8977s	and and
8979s	um um and Gathering and more information
8983s	um rather than just you know smashing
8986s	your face into the keyboard repeatedly
8988s	of course and then uh we have a question
8991s	from neurotoxin who wants to know about
8992s	Bard utility will BS have the
8995s	opportunity to specialize into tasks
8997s	like Caravan or ship buffing uh like
9001s	pacifying enemy aggro range speed up
9003s	Summoner rituals improving Gathering uh
9006s	interactions nearby and other like
9008s	specific combat and non-combat skills
9012s	test I mean utility overall is something
9014s	that is spread across all different
9017s	archetypes right so um the idea isn't
9020s	that any one particular archetype is
9022s	going to excel far beyond its ability to
9025s	utilize these more utility oriented
9028s	skills um each each archetype should
9031s	have a healthy you know semblance of
9033s	those utility kind of skills uh that
9035s	address different types of Hazards
9037s	threats you know um uh again puzzle
9041s	related type of gameplay um and The Bard
9044s	uh has its own use case there now to be
9047s	fair in the archetype designs you
9050s	utility skills are a little bit light um
9053s	in the archetype designs it's something
9055s	that we will be incorporating more of as
9057s	we flesh out the kits a little bit
9059s	further in like Alpha 2.1 release and
9061s	2.2
9063s	releases and speaking of you know
9065s	flushing out the the kits a little bit
9067s	more alandria would like to know about
9070s	Bard as a secondary archetype can you
9073s	give us an idea of how The Bard will
9074s	augment the other archetypes when
9076s	creating secondary classes yeah I mean
9079s	this you know to answer that question
9083s	um when thinking about how augments work
9086s	they represent kind of the core function
9089s	of the archetype that you're then
9091s	getting augment schools for right so
9094s	like what are the core purposes of The
9096s	Bard right these are
9098s	regenerative effects these are uh buff
9102s	effect types um you know when you think
9105s	about then the active skill that you
9107s	might apply those augments to you are
9109s	likely going to be adding certain
9111s	effects types that relate then to those
9114s	barred primary um effects so if you're
9119s	you know a tank and and right now you
9122s	know you have an ability to cast ages
9124s	that kind of absorbs damage from nearby
9128s	party members now you might be
9130s	conferring a certain buff to those party
9132s	members as a result of that or
9134s	inspiration or you might be um you know
9138s	applying some type of regenerative
9139s	healing effect or Mana restoration as a
9142s	result um that's available so we haven't
9144s	fully fleshed out what those augments
9146s	are going to look like on a per
9147s	archetype basis our Focus for Alpha 2
9149s	has been establishing the core
9151s	archetypes the active ability archetypes
9154s	um and then when we get into having the
9157s	Rogue and Summoner added into the base
9160s	archetypes that's when we're going to
9162s	start focusing on
9164s	augmentation um and the uh secondary
9166s	class
9167s	choices exciting exciting um and then re
9171s	Rel llamas wants to know about big Bard
9175s	gameplay so we showed off party gameplay
9179s	um and now they were curious about how
9182s	how will BS have Unique Mechanics that
9185s	allow them to significantly influence
9187s	like large scale battles if so can you
9190s	give an example of
9192s	that um I think the sagas are probably
9195s	where those larger scale effects live
9198s	right uh we saw one of those examples
9199s	with our get Saga um that was the large
9203s	fire breath that was kind of a damage or
9205s	AOE uh Focus uh but there's a lot of uh
9208s	intentions behind additional Saga
9210s	effects I think there's three more that
9212s	are planned that are just pending kind
9213s	of visual effects updates uh which we
9215s	can probably showcase as part of like
9217s	Social Media stuff going forward over
9219s	the next couple months I know Bucky
9220s	already has those designs in place for
9222s	the bar but they're like I said yeah but
9224s	um buy send to us yeah those are those
9227s	are probably where you get the larger
9230s	types um and and to answer that question
9233s	shortly yes we do have some plans for
9235s	that raid fun um and then Storyteller
9239s	AOC wants to know about Bard utility
9241s	will bards or Rogues have the ability to
9243s	mask their appearance such as disguise
9246s	or some kind of illusion
9248s	spell yeah right now we don't have plans
9250s	for that yet um and I don't know if we
9253s	will by the time of launch um I know
9256s	we've talked a little bit about um stuff
9260s	like that in the past like with name
9261s	plates potentially um but right now I'm
9264s	not sure that's going to make it in um
9267s	uh in scope okay um and then folks are
9271s	wondering uh this is from Phillips is
9273s	and I I think I've seen a few other
9275s	people ask about this too um will BS
9278s	have like long lasting or even customiz
9281s	customizable uh applicable above Buffs
9284s	applicable to other players by
9286s	performing let's say like they want to
9287s	perform in a Tavern and give Buffs to
9289s	folks that way or outside of combat um
9293s	something that like you know they can
9295s	kind of get paid to like give Buffs and
9297s	be able to kind of Le people with
9299s	long-term Buffs or is it going to be
9301s	more like you want to have them actively
9303s	with you for Alpha 2 we don't have plans
9305s	for that um right now it's strictly you
9308s	know linked to your party alignment um
9312s	but I know in the past we have talked
9313s	about having those types of Buffs
9316s	available um um but I'm not sure when
9320s	that's going to get developed probably
9322s	it's going to be a post level 25 uh
9324s	development which would be later in
9326s	Alpha 2 so there is still plans to do
9328s	that
9330s	yes all right and then um blatus was
9334s	wondering if you could touch base on
9338s	um what the four schools of augmentation
9341s	for B the B AR type are well we know
9345s	that two of them are regeneration and
9346s	Buffs um the other two as I said when we
9350s	get into augmentation development
9352s	there's there's a number of different
9353s	thoughts around augments for each of the
9356s	archetypes that design has yet to kind
9358s	of settle on um so I would I would pen I
9362s	would wait for updates on that as we get
9364s	into augmentation development all right
9366s	and then joury wants to know about B
9368s	Siege summon does the team have a a b
9371s	Siege summon or something similar in
9373s	mind when it sieges no we don't have a
9376s	Siege summon intended for Bard um for
9379s	Summoner that's a different story uh but
9380s	for Bard there's not a Siege summon
9384s	intended uh and then I think this is
9387s	however just just to be clear by the way
9389s	like on that front the sagas that we
9391s	talked about um visually the intent
9394s	there is to have kind of a popup book
9396s	story look to them um so even though
9399s	it's not a summon per se it is something
9402s	that on the battlefield will be a pretty
9405s	pretty visible Hallmark of massive Bard
9410s	ability right like when you see that
9411s	popup book looking you know for for for
9414s	what you saw here with the dragon
9416s	breathing the fire the original of that
9420s	um actually which actually I could
9423s	probably send that to you Margaret if
9424s	you want to kind of show it um let me do
9429s	that real
9430s	quick um but the original for that that
9433s	you guys can kind of see the direction
9435s	on um is to have this to to tell the
9439s	tale of of that Saga right that that's
9442s	kind of that was kind of the thought
9444s	process Behind These sagas is that there
9446s	is some rooted story within the history
9448s	of Vera that you are seeing when this
9451s	ability gets cast and for example this
9454s	the dragon breath ability is telling the
9456s	story of an ancient castle that was laid
9459s	Siege against by um um essentially by a
9463s	dragon um so what was included in those
9467s	visual effects was um here we go was
9472s	essentially this popup looking book of a
9475s	castle and then the dragon is kind of
9477s	breathing down fire um uh on the castle
9481s	now we took that out because it wasn't
9483s	ready yet per se so we just kind of kept
9484s	the bragon the dragon breath in um but I
9488s	will find the original one and we can
9490s	probably move on the next question while
9491s	I look for it and we come back to it
9492s	Margaret yeah for sure uh so grilled
9495s	cheese U mojito which is an interesting
9498s	combination uh once know about Bard line
9500s	of sight so are Bard's abilities
9503s	generally affected by The Bard's line of
9504s	sight to the party or uh different in
9508s	difference in elevation or can you know
9510s	if they're just within the vicinity
9511s	they're going to get that
9513s	buff oh here we go thank goodness seea
9516s	sent it to me he is Johnny on the spot
9517s	okay so the question the question was
9519s	for those AOE types of effects are they
9522s	obstructed by line of sight yeah um and
9524s	I don't believe I don't believe they are
9526s	right so this is not this is not a
9528s	single targeted ability so it doesn't
9530s	require line playing pretty much yeah if
9534s	you're like behind a wall and The Bard
9536s	is is still within vicinity of you um
9539s	you are able to get that
9541s	buff okay and then um I think that these
9545s	are all answered already in the Stream
9547s	So I will move to one of these ones um L
9552s	I'm forwarding this over to you by the
9553s	way I just sent it to you I have not
9556s	seen something come in yet once it does
9558s	I shall grab it my bad you should have
9561s	it now I do have it now shall okay so
9565s	while while Margaret's pulling this up
9566s	just to give you some context again we
9568s	pulled this out because there's still
9570s	some work that CA is doing and and CA is
9572s	one of our glorious uh visual effects
9575s	artists he did he did a majority I
9577s	believe if not all of the ability
9580s	effects for The Bard and again these
9584s	are these are not complete yet right um
9587s	so there's still work to be done on a
9589s	lot of these abilities but to give you
9592s	kind of an idea of the direction of
9593s	these sagas they tell that popup story
9596s	and for this castle that you're going to
9598s	see this is kind of like a stubb in but
9600s	we're going to we're going to uh rotate
9602s	some of those a little bit and kind of
9604s	um disjoint the parts of the castle a
9606s	little bit more to again make it feel
9609s	like a popup book story on the
9612s	battlefield okay I have it now up all
9616s	right
9620s	it's kind of like a little castle and
9622s	the dragon and right right now that that
9625s	castle was very 2D but we're going to be
9627s	adjusting that a bit and again these are
9630s	apologies no worries these are these
9633s	this is a major ability right so so
9635s	we're trying to get into that kind of
9637s	class fantasy of The Bard not just being
9639s	delegated to musical ability but rather
9641s	to tell a
9643s	story
9646s	cool um and we'll grab one more question
9649s	here
9650s	uh this is from Lulu and they want to
9653s	know about castle sieges what will
9655s	happen to the siege attacker side if the
9657s	castle owning Guild has 250 members and
9660s	one of the attacking guilds successfully
9663s	cast the seal to move ownership to the
9665s	castle to
9667s	themselves that was a what what will
9670s	happen to the defending Guild what will
9672s	happen to the the seege attacker side if
9675s	the castle owning Guild and one of the
9679s	attacking guilds successfully cast the
9681s	seal to move ownership to the castle to
9685s	themselves the castle event will end and
9689s	the ceiling Guild will now become the
9692s	owners an easy one there you go I think
9695s	we answered that
9697s	question we made it the end of the
9700s	stream um so thank you all so much for
9704s	joining us we super appreciate you uh
9706s	sticking around with us I know it's a
9708s	long one um we we adore all the raids
9711s	and for all the new folks who have
9712s	joined us we hope that you will come in
9714s	and tune in and follow our journey we
9716s	are developing ashes of creation is a
9718s	new mmrpg we're working our butts off um
9721s	and obviously like we said before we're
9723s	headed towards Alpha 2 that's kind of
9725s	our big thing that our next big
9727s	milestone for us and with that is um you
9731s	know we're going to be doing an alpha
9733s	Road uh Alpha 2 road map um showcase and
9736s	as well as an AMA and Steph will be
9738s	covering all your questions that you
9740s	could possibly have about Alpha 2
9742s	hopefully answering everything our goal
9744s	will be to kind of go over what you know
9747s	when what's going to happen the the
9749s	length of all of that stuff the details
9751s	what you can expect at the beginning of
9753s	Alpha 2 and kind of the Cadence of
9754s	updates that will be coming throughout
9757s	the the time frame of Alpha 2 as well as
9760s	how to get access for those of you who
9761s	don't have already have access and so on
9764s	and so forth so hopefully we'll answer
9766s	answer all the things I'm just reading
9769s	these comments somebody said damn
9770s	Stephen on his picture for the August
9772s	16th announcement had only black hairs
9775s	now I have gray hairs we we cleaned them
9779s	in so
9781s	good of course we are always looking for
9783s	feedback so if you uh have thoughts I
9785s	see a lot of comments in there regarding
9788s	what you saw today um you can head on
9790s	over to our forums. ashesofcreation
9794s	docomo we'll be reporting that and
9796s	consolidating that for the team as
9798s	well by the way just just yeah just real
9801s	quick um we are going to be taking down
9803s	the YouTube video uh shortly after the
9806s	stream oh my bad no you're good and the
9809s	reason for that is is because we're
9810s	gonna we're going to fix the audio there
9811s	a little bit we're going to switch over
9813s	to um my point of view track which I
9816s	think was uh was not exhibiting the same
9819s	issues that Bucky's Point of View track
9820s	was um so we'll rehost that later in the
9823s	day once that gets rendered out and um
9826s	uh is available uh we'll be doing the
9827s	same with the big Dev update do we will
9830s	put that video in there so it's like all
9832s	of it will have the new uh the new video
9835s	so um apologies if those of you who are
9839s	audio files are like what's going on
9841s	with the audio in here um we'll get that
9843s	resolved um and of course we do want to
9846s	say a huge huge thank you to uh Bucky
9849s	Tor Doug Brian and Trad for joining us
9852s	and helping showcase The Bard as well of
9854s	course you Stephen for your time and uh
9857s	for all of you thank you for tuning in
9859s	thank you for being here We Appreciate
9860s	You by the way I do want to I do want to
9862s	give one real quick shout out yeah L
9864s	Forge right that's lur Forge sent in
9867s	this really
9869s	cool um chest that you see back there
9873s	and I gotta say just a a quick shout out
9876s	the quality I know I did this in my ma
9878s	last time but lur forged H huge props to
9881s	you uh we on the team watch your videos
9884s	we love your videos they might they
9886s	might not be spot on obviously to the
9888s	lore but of course you're looking at it
9890s	through a keyhole right now given the
9891s	game isn't released yet but you guys do
9894s	a phenomenal job we love watching your
9896s	videos and thank you very much for that
9897s	chest is super cool yeah very very cool
9900s	um we we really appreciate it I think we
9902s	spotlighted your um your the thing that
9906s	you burned down there like a little
9907s	board on one of our fan Fridays as well
9910s	so um probably saw that at the beginning
9913s	um we will be uploading the full video
9916s	as well or we'll be uploading the the 4K
9918s	video with the new version of that as
9920s	well as the full development up video uh
9922s	update video probably tomorrow um you're
9925s	with us we'll kind of play it by ear
9927s	depending on when when YouTube uploads
9929s	things for us um but of course they will
9932s	be available for you in reminder that if
9934s	you comment on our full development
9936s	update video um and you are a public
9938s	subscriber so you have to make sure that
9939s	your subscription is public um your your
9942s	comment could be spotlighted in our next
9943s	update remember to follow us in all the
9946s	places we're ashes of creation super
9948s	easy to find us we post all the time we
9950s	try to keep you guys up to date on
9951s	what's going on so even if you don't
9953s	watch these full uh videos you'll get a
9955s	good snippet of kind of what's been
9957s	going on and what we're up to and maybe
9959s	some little sneak peeks here and there
9960s	or uh you know some some Alpha 2 codes
9964s	might just show up randomly on our our
9967s	you know socials so you might want to
9968s	just be keeping a little eye on on that
9971s	stuff as we head towards Alpha 2 but we
9973s	will see you all on August 16th so uh
9976s	thank you so much for tuning in and we
9978s	shall see you then as well as on our
9979s	next development update bye everybody
9983s	bye

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