Ashes of Creation Dev Tracker

Surveying is component of different Gathering professions.

We spoke a bit about Surveying when it comes to Mining here during the October 2022 Livestream (timestamp to conversation).

To answer your question about "what stops all servers from from progressing the same nodes," the answer to that question is "other players."

Certain content is locked behind different nodes that develop. If we assume that at some point all of the information regarding node progression is available, not all players on a server may agree on what content they want access to, or that they want other players to have access to.

Even if a certain perks from node progression are considered "best value" to players trying to solve a node meta, that doesn't mean all players on a server benefit from that in the same way. Because of this, some players make act against your best interests, because it isn't their best interest.

Nodes define (and redefine) the world around you, influence points of interest, world quest lines, story arcs, drop tables, resource pools, and even spawn tables for NPCs and bosses. The cycle of nodes leveling and triggering events is something we ...

We're very aware that this is a conversation happening in the community currently, and in the content of several content creators.

Since this is an active conversation, we wanted to address this. In case you missed it, we took some time to talk about PvP and griefing during the October 2022 Development Update Livestream (timestamp to the conversation).

One of our goals is that griefing should NOT be a viable playstyle. During testing, we'll refine game systems (if needed) until that goal is achieved.

Hey all,

As a quick note, this is concept art, not a real in-game render of the full body of a female Ren'Kai.

In the character creator, you'll be able to adjust your size (within the constraints for each player race).