Weapons

Alpha-0 lion bow.

Alpha-0 Mace.

Tank Sword concept (by Michael Bacon) and Shield concept (by Javier Perez).

Polearm concept by Michael Bacon.

Staff concept art.

Weapons will determine a player's damage output alongside other conditions and stats.

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Концепция танкового меча (от Michael Bacon) и концепция щита (от Javier Perez).

Оружие разделено поровну на оружие ближнего и дальнего боя.

• Топоры (одноручные и двуручные).
• Луки.
• Дубины.
• Арбалеты.
• Кинжалы.
• Молоты.
• Пики.
• Булавы (одноручные и двуручные).
• Сферы.
• Древковое оружие.
• Зельеметатель.
• Скипетры.
• Щиты.
• Копья (одноручные).
• Книги заклинаний.
• Посохи.
• Мечи/Рапиры (одноручные и двуручные).
• Жезлы.

Class weapons and armor

Оружие и броня не привязаны к классам, но определённые классы более эффективны при использовании определённого типа оружия, или брони. Определённые умения требуют экипировки конкретных предметов.

• Стрелковое оружие.
• Щиты.
• Двуручное оружие.

Оружие должно быть несколько агностическим в том смысле, что вы можете найти способ, которым оружие может использоваться разными классами. Не только разбойник сможет использовать кинжалы. Потому что, если вы таким образом ограничиваете оборудование, экономике становится труднее обеспечивать устойчивость на рынке товаров. – Steven Sharif

Расовые оружие и броня

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Расовые облики брони в ранней Alpha-1.

У нас с Violet light абсолютно одинаковый комплект доспехов: те же характеристики, всё то же самое, но когда этот комплект выпадает ей, он выглядит так, для меня — иначе; и… частично это из-за разного пола, но в основном из-за разных рас. Так как я выбрал расу Вэлун в том прохождении, моя броня была в стиле Вэлун; а когда она подобрала свой комплект, он был в эльфийском стиле, потому что она была эльфом. Это пример того, насколько по-разному можно будет выглядеть в игре и как мы стараемся передать то, насколько уникально может выглядеть ваш персонаж, позволив вам создавать таким образом свой внешний облик. – Jeffrey Bard

Концепт-арт доспехов в расовом стиле Дюнир и Эмпирийцев за авторством Keith Kovach.

По сути, у нас есть комплекты, которые существуют для всех рас; и каждая раса, которая надевает эти комплекты доспехов, будет иметь свое собственное расовое влияние на облик этих конкретных комплектов. Мы стараемся обеспечить уникальность внешнего облика для каждой из рас. – Steven Sharif

Оружие и броня не будут уникальными для каждой расы, но броня будет принимать внешний вид, характерный для расы.

Персонализация снаряжения для рас сосредоточена на комплектах брони, но не на моделях оружия. Модели оружия, в отношении их внешнего вида, будут практически идентичными для всех рас. – Steven Sharif

• Характерный для расы внешний вид снаряжения будет иметься у брони, но не у оружия. Внешний вид оружия меняться не будет, но будет меняться его размер в зависимости от расы.

Допустим, у вас есть комплект брони с меткой Орла. У этого комплекта свой арт, свой тематический дизайн, который включает в себя определённые накладки на броню. У него своя цветовая схема и тема. У него будут определённые аспекты, позволяющие понять, что это именно комплект брони с меткой Орла. Его может надеть и эльф, и орк, а это разные культуры, которые мы не хотим обезличивать, говоря "вот комплект брони с меткой Орла, и он будет одинаково выглядеть на всех". Мы хотим, чтобы культура разных рас играла роль в том, как будет смотреться тот или иной комплект брони. – Стивен Шариф

• Характерный для рас внешний вид комплектов снаряжения привязан к модели персонажа этой расы.

Предположим, вы говорите "я орк, но хочу выглядеть как эльф, чтобы мой комплект брони с меткой Орла имел эльфийский внешний вид". Проблема в том, что, как вы знаете, у орков другая органическая модель. Их тело отличается от эльфийского. Таким образом, с точки зрения масштабирования, одно дело - добавить влияние различных культур рас, которые надевают эту броню. Другое дело - адаптировать каждое влияние как матрицу, которую могут носить все. С точки зрения масштаба, это очень сложная задача для художников по персонажам. Вместо этого, чтобы обеспечить разнообразие культурных аспектов между расами, но позволить иметь общие детали у комплектов брони, мы даём разные облики этих наборов брони каждой расе. – Стивен Шариф

Gear slots

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Alpha-1 character sheet early concept UI.

Всего в Ashes of Creation: 16 слотов снаряжения

• 8 слотов брони
• 5 слотов украшений
• 2 слота оружия
• 1 слот стрелкового оружия

Ranged weapons

Alpha-2 bows 3D-рендеры.

A character may equip up to two hand weapons and also wear a ranged weapon on their back.

• Characters performing ranged abilities will switch to the ranged weapon, then can switch back to the melee weapon and shield or two-handed melee weapon.
• There will be a setting to determine if the ranged weapon or main/offhand is the primary weapon to use for Q or left-mouse-button basic attacks.
• Rangers do not have a minimum distance requirement for using their ranged weapons. Previously rangers were intended to have a minimum distance requirement.
  • Instead of a minimum range requirement, certain Ranger skills, such as Thundering Shot, currently have variable effects conferred at different ranges.
• Some Ranger skills require a bow to be equipped.

Melee weapons

Low-level shield, one-handed mace, and two-handed staff 3D-рендеры from Alpha-2.

You can see by the quality of these types of weapons: these are relatively lower level. These are some of the earliest types of weapons and or gear that you can acquire within Ashes of Creation. – Steven Sharif

Melee weapons and abilities have a maximum range of effect.

• There are two melee weapon slots: One on each side of a character's belt.

Dual wielding

Dual wielding will be permitted for one handed weapons.

• Shields cannot be dual wielded.
• Great swords probably can't be dual wielded.

Weapon swapping

Alpha-2 Mage swapping from a Greatsword to a Wand while in combat.

• It is possible to store and swap gear loadouts with a single hotkey button press when out of combat.

There will be a loadout system that you can use in your inventory to help manage those different types of set that you can customize. So you can do a simple hotkey press and be able to swap your armors, out of combat of course, with a single button click. – Steven Sharif

• Снаряжение умельцев and adventuring gear do not need to be swapped for either to be effective when they are equipped on a character.

• Switching weapons is possible while in combat but armor cannot be swapped while in combat.
  • Previously it was stated that swapping weapons (from inventory) into a hand or range slot is not possible in combat. Prior to this, weapon swapping was said to be subject to a cooldown period (in the range of a few seconds) following any damage taken or done by the player.

You may not swap armor when you're in combat, but you may swap your weapons; and there's obviously a few reasons of why this can be important: We're a itemization agnostic class design, so players equip with items that there are most necessary based on the adversary or the challenge that they're facing; and so we want that to be available for players to swap with weapons. – Steven Sharif

Guns and gunpowder

Gunpowder weapons will not be present in Ashes of Creation.

Weapon progression

In-game achievable sword and polearm 3D-рендеры.

Power creep is a balance issue... When it comes to gear progression specifically, the idea is to create an open market that is not heavily dependent on soulbound items; and having many item sinks and gold sinks within that economy that allows for the potential degradation and loss of assets within that closed economy; and not introduce items from the market that companies put in from a pay-to-win perspective or from a pay-to-convenience perspective that undermines the economy that players have built. That is a huge mistake that companies have made in the past and that lends to the imbalancing of what designers maybe have actually balanced well. – Steven Sharif

Weapons have their own progression paths.

• Each type of weapon has its own skill tree that grants passive skills and proc effects and other status conditions.
• The weapon combo system determines special effects that proc based on weapon progression.
• Ancillary effects proc based on enchantment types.
• Gear enhancements (power stones) can be applied to add elemental or energy types of damage.
• Dual wielded weapons will have its own progression based on weapon type.
• Weapon proficiency (based on length of use of a weapon) is not a planned feature.

Ashes of Creation is all about providing many progression paths... The reason why we don't like the term endgame is because with the amount of progression that's available with the amount of diversity and player agency that impacts the world... We want the weapon system [to] add an element of that as well... You can determine special effects that proc from currently the combo system; you can determine ancillary effects that proc based on enchantment types; you can power stone weapons to add different either elemental types of damage and/or energy that play rock-paper-scissor with player defenses ... and then you can skill tree out how those effects that are granted ... you can make them better you can branch them off into a different direction. – Steven Sharif

Gear enhancement

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На оружие могут накладываться усиления (в виде камней силы/рун), чтобы добавить элементальный или энергетический тип урона.

• Усиления снаряжения не повышают требование к уровню у предмета.

У нас, скорее всего, будет система рун, а ещё, помимо этого, будет возможность наложения усилений на оружие… Прогрессия при этом не всегда будет вертикальной… Иногда придётся менять что-то одно на другое, например, оружие начнёт наносить меньше физического урона и больше магического. – Jeffrey Bard

• Прогрессия в различных PvP-системах разблокирует камни усиления, дающие снаряжению временные бонусы в PvP (посредством системы гнёзд для добавления камней в снаряжение). PvP-сезоны составляют 6 месяцев, на протяжении которых измеряются результаты PvP-активности игрока.
  • Войны гильдий.
  • Арены.
  • PvP-сражения за караваны.

Не будет такого, что как только вы один раз их получили, вам больше нужно беспокоиться о PvP-усилениях, нет, вам месяц за месяцем нужно будет показывать хорошие результаты в PvP, чтобы у вас оставались эти усиления в гнёздах снаряжения. – Steven Sharif

Enchanting

Enchanting is not an artisan profession in its own right. Scribes create scrolls that can be utilized by different professions to create enchantments relating to that profession.

• Enchantment scrolls can be sold on the open market.

• Enchanting does not increase an item's level requirement.

You don't really push a particular item's level requirement or the identity of that item. You can enhance it, you can add enchantments to it, but it's still the item it is. – Steven Sharif

Weapon use ability

Alpha-2 greatsword weapon combo animation.

Whenever you get stab hits on the third and the fourth hit, those are actually procs. So, if you connect with the second hit of that proc hit you'll receive the additional effects, but you actually have to connect with a monster or player to receive the effect; and I think the proc rate is at a static 25 percent right now. We're looking at other ways to scale that. Maybe it scales with a stat, or maybe it scales with additional nodes, but right now it's kind of low. – Brian Ferguson

A weapon combo system (also referred to as Weapon use combo, Weapon attack combo, Weapon combo, and Weapon use ability) is utilized instead of a traditional auto-attack ability in Ashes of Creation.

• The combo system consists of a sequence of combat animations based on the weapon type, referred to as a combat animation montage.
  • Combos are triggered by performing basic weapon attacks (default Q or left-mouse-click).

Let's say for example you're using a two-handed warhammer or something and you have a number of weapon combos that play animation style based on how many combos deep you go into an attack with that warhammer. So the first is going to be like a forward swing. Second is going to be a back swing. The third is going to be swing down and the fourth is going to be some twirl that you do; and that's what we call the combo animation montage. – Steven Sharif

• The number of steps and passive effects that trigger during weapon combos can be customized in the weapon skill tree.

We wanted to have a combo length progression available to players so that certain builds could have longer weapon combos and other builds can have shorter weapon combos with more passive effects.; and this has been the result of our exploration. So, when you start out you've got a pretty quick four-hit combo, but whenever you unlock the additional hits you get the fifth and sixth hits, which are at approximately 50% to the overall combo length. But we found that that gave a pretty satisfying floor and ceiling to how long the combo can be. – Brian Ferguson

• Depending on class skill choice these effects will have synergy with the combat montage.

Depending on what your class skill choice has been those are going to have synergy effects with the weapon skill tree. So my skill called spin-to-win might do 30 additional damage on a staggered target. So I see when my proc occurs with the stagger effect on my first swing, like for me as a player I might be only interested in landing that first swing, so every now and then I'm gonna swing once and then I'm gonna use a skill and then I'm gonna come back and swing again because that'll play my first swing montage, because it's been interrupted. So I won't move to the second one because I'm really just wanna hit that stagger effect. So that's going to be how my rotation lines up. However I might have some skill that on a stun target it might be an immediate cast and it's like some power you push or power hit; and that does- it knocks back a stun target. So if the target's stunned when this skill plays, it has an added effect of knock down and now they're gonna get knocked down for an additional two seconds. Now I might spec into that and as a result I want to finish through: swing, swing, and then knock down. So I get my chance at stunning that target with that weapon skill. – Steven Sharif

• Weapon progression such as set bonuses may change at what level any proc effects occur and therefore enable different combo rotations.

You may have items or set bonuses that change at what level those proc occurs. So I may have a full set of battle armor that changes all third hit combo procs to second hit requirements and now I have a chance not only on my second hit to land that tapering slow but I also have a chance to land my one second stun proc because I have the full set that changes my weapon progression. So that's the way itemization works with your weapon skill tree, is you can enhance when those weapon skill trees become available in your combat montage and that can be a relevant factor in how your skill rotations come to play; and mixes with your weapon attacks.

• Weapon skill choices and rotations will vary based on whether the player is more focused on PvP or PvE.

Right now some people might just say, "I don't care at all about my weapon attacks. I'm not going to invest a lot of points into that. And if I do, it's going to be primarily PvE focused where I'm more comfortable using just swinging my weapon, and I may not use them as much in PvP. I'm just going to be focused on skill rotations." That's okay, but the reason for those skill montages- back to your question- is they have a very relevant role in when certain procs come online from a weapons skill tree perspective. – Steven Sharif

• Using a skill/ability other than a basic attack will in general reset the combo.
  • The developers are considering specific abilities that might be able to be used without resetting the combo system.

It acts similar in the sense of the core loop of what an auto attack is so to speak; where typically your other skills have a cooldown period, they have a rotation or whatever: Our combo system is a repeatable skill effect that you can continually attack with but it's a little bit more involved than what a traditional auto attack is; and it has components from a from an advancement standpoint when it comes to the types of procs that your weapon can have during that combo system... It's not going to have the quick time event that you guys saw early on in PAX and gave great feedback on, but it is going to have development with regards to the power of the weapon the type of weapon you're using, the additional proc effects that you can skill into: Those types of things are going to make it a little bit more complex of a system capture. – Steven Sharif

Предметы легендарного качества

There is a small RNG chance of looting rare and legendary items or crafting materials from mobs based on the level, status and type of mob. This also applies to harvesting resources with a gathering profession.

• There is a much higher chance that materials and unique recipes are dropped that can be used to craft items of equitable value.
• Легендарный equipment is only dropped by Legendary world bosses.
  • Legendary equipment will have a roughly 6-12% improvement in base stats, subject to testing and balancing.

At each stage from Gatherer to Processor to Crafter you are required to have certain prerequisites before those elite types of materials can be essentially gathered, processed, or crafted. – Steven Sharif

• Gatherers must have high quality tools to gather rare resources.
• Processors must have high tier processing buildings on their freehold to produce rare materials.
• Crafters must also satisfy certain prerequisites to craft legendary equipment.

The amount of effort needed and interdependencies across the different types of players – between raiders and PvPers and crafters and even role players and the taverns and businesses: the processors and gatherers – all of those systems will likely have a component that lends toward creating or crafting that legendary item... We want to stay away from the highly RNGd system, and instead take our multiple progression paths that we are offering the players and put the construction components for achieving these legendary items within them so it encourages communities to work together because it's going to be difficult for just one person by themselves to gather everything. Not to say that they couldn't in an economic sense, by buying those components, that's possible. But achieving them from a time investment standpoint we want it to be considerably less RNG focussed. – Steven Sharif

Certain legendary items may be limited to one per server at any given time.

• If the player character leaves the server then the item will become available for acquisition through whatever means it was acquired previously.

There are absolutely legendary items and they're not items that are attained easily nor are they granted out in a volume. There might even be items that are single items that will exist on the server at any given time.

A legendary weapon is easily distinguished by its visual appearance.

It will be a very ornate and detailed weapon, more so than any other weapon or piece of equipment in the game. It will also include some awesome looking effects that won't too gaudy, they won't be too bright and shiny so that it doesn't look good, but they will be subtle and people will notice it and know wow that guy has this weapon. – Steven Sharif

Legendary items are not intended to be temporary.

• A notable exception to this is Royal mounts.

The fact there is only one of them... or very very few of them depending on what it is. I think that in and of itself is a balance component right and you need to make sure that the players who are striving for those legendary things and who are devoting the time energy, resources in order to achieve them are accurately rewarded... We do not intend on having legendary items that are temporary. – Steven Sharif

Некоторая из приведенной ниже информации не была подтверждена разработчиками и может не входить в текущую дорожную карту разработки.

Discovery of legendary items will unlock further chapters of the История мира.

Gear sets

2nd Sword Division non-cosmetic gear set 3D-рендеры. 3D model by Keith Kovach.

Not all armor sets will be the cookie cutter set. They will have the influences from the crafter available in it, if it's a crafted set. – Steven Sharif

Equipping the Titanbark gear set in Alpha-2.

We're going relatively traditional in the gear access points by being driven by level tier that players will have access to. So as you advance in your adventuring class you will begin to unlock the ability to equip gear of a higher level. – Steven Sharif

Gear sets (also known as tier sets) are a part of Ashes of Creation.

• In general, higher tier gear will be from gear sets.

Q: How often will armor be part of an entire armor set with other cosmetically matching pieces versus unique armor pieces that don't match or go along with anything else in the game?

A: There is a balance of both set pieces and non-set pieces and usually you're going to see at higher grades within a tier are going to be more predominantly set driven; and the lower interstitial power levels of the gear for that tier are the potentially bespoke pieces; and obviously those pieces are catered around a number of different interactions, such as ones you get from quests, ones that you get from drops, ones that you can craft, ones that you get from legendary bosses, ones that you get from guild-oriented tasks, or in-game favor and unique currencies. So there's different types of acquisition models and each of them has a spattering of either bespoke pieces or set-oriented pieces; and there are even varying levels of set pieces as well. So you might have a full eight piece set, or a three-piece set, or a five piece set, depending on where it lives within the tier. – Steven Sharif

• Players gain bonuses depending on the number and tier of pieces they have equipped.

• Внешний вид рас of gear sets is tied to the character model of that race.

• It will be possible to store and swap gear loadouts with a single button press when out of combat.

• Approximately 49 unique gear sets were obtainable in Alpha-1 from crafting, quests, drops and exploration. These were unique sets with different stats, but some may be similar in appearance.

Некоторая из приведенной ниже информации не была подтверждена разработчиками и может не входить в текущую дорожную карту разработки.

• There are passive abilities that can be chosen to become more adept with certain set types.
• There will be viable non-set builds.

Внешний вид снаряжения

Alpha-1 female plate armor 3D render.

We want to be realistic with the application of particular types of armor, such as plate armor. In this regard for the different sexes there's a fine line that has to be drawn between accentuating the form of the sex as well as making it somewhat realistic and actually applicable to the environment. – Steven Sharif

• Gear is intended to be realistic in appearance.

• There will not be "oversized" weapons.

• Armor will not be overly sexual in appearance.

  I'm more of the mind that it wouldn't really serve a purpose to have bikini plate armor, just in like reality, if you're going to have armor, it should be protective. I think from a fashion statement is enjoyable for some people, but it's a an immersive issue. – Steven Sharif

  • Some armor and costumes will be more revealing than others, but there will not be nudity in the game.

  There might be sliders, but there are not gonna be naked sliders. – Steven Sharif

• Armor will take on a racial appearance. Weapons will scale in size based on race.

Each race is getting its custom geo pieces, which then will share thematic components such as color palette, attachments, design filigree. Those types of things will get shared across the geo but generally you're going to see unique races with unique geo. – Steven Sharif

• The appearance of crafted gear is influenced by its rarity.
  • Particle effects are used to denote the importance and rarity of some weapons.

• Crafters are able to influence what their crafted items look like.

• Cosmetics can be used by all races but there may be slight variations to make them work with the body builds of each race.

• Dye cosmetics can be used to change gear colors.

• Helmet display can be toggled on and off.

• Hair will likely be masked if helmet display is toggled on.

• Weapons are able to be sheathed.

Kickstarter weapon skins

Kickstarter backers will receive a unique weapon skin.

• Usable on all types of weapons.
• Include subtle and tasteful glow/particle effects.

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