Ashes of Creation - Cleric Gameplay (Level 10)

[@macdaddyswag2585]

Here's my current thoughts about the first week of alpha two testing: The best way I can describe this game as of right now is its a korean grindfest that has the feel/movement of Neverwinter, and has the gameplay of retail WoW without all the stupid shit that ruins the game (no smart healing, no modifiers, no raid cooldowns). From what I can tell quests barely work and/or give no xp, so the only thing to do is to explore the world and find a spot to grind xp. Grouping up to grind xp is massively more fun because there's open world dungeons to explore with extremely dangerous enemies inside. You have a bunch of different spells to unlock and choose from as you level which makes leveling up feel rewarding. I have chosen the following 3 healing spells from the spell tree to tackle group content: Spell #1: A HoT spell with 3 charges that I maintain on the tank at all times (keybind F) Spell #2: A small direct heal, instant cast, 5 charges (keybind C) Spell #3: A spammable casted heal (keybind shift E) Hard to say if this game has potential or not ... the class design is surprisingly good which I'm happy about. But as of right now I spend all of my time in pugs standing in 1 spot grinding the same 2 or 3 mobs over and over for hours which is kinda boring and will certainly never appeal to anyone under the age of 30. If they can design the mob grind to force players to move around, kill different enemies, kill different bosses, explore different areas etc then I can see the game being a lot of fun.

[@kassema9527]

Its an alpha of course xp balancing will be off

[@EB-bl6cc]

Yeah it looks very promising to me but at their current rate of development it's (minimum) 3 years off, probably more because of the giant scope creep they have going on. Game is possibly the most ambitious game ever developed. If you've read about all the stuff they have planned they're trying to make WoW + several other games all in one. Hope they can pull it off, but for now I'm not messing with the alpha bc there's little point unless you're a content creator trying to get clicks.. it's just so far off still, I'll jump in a few years from now lol

[@jasonvanthuyne2850]

Is the cleric more fun than it looks? Is it possible for a “pally” like cleric melee build?

[@Redbaron_Gaming]

Is it possible to play to Cleric like a Warrior priest in WaR/RoR?

[@madmage4207]

My cleric is level 7 atm and group healing can be taxing if there's an over-pull of mobs, I hope there's some group heal abilities at later levels

[@daltoncunningham2762]

dude I'm healing firelands and even 10m normal is hitting hard, I'm hard casting more heals as disc as I ever had since TBC, you need to get involved and send it, greater heal is back on the menu, tanks get absolutely smashed

[@НинаЦереня-щ3р]

Why is a cleric with a book? Can you tell me please where to get it (book for cleric)?

[@macdaddyswag2585]

I got mine from a drop in the open world, but I think you can pick one up on the right wall in the starting area.

[@stephy409]

I MUST BE DUMB BECAUSE I CANT FIGURE OUT THE DIVINE POWER SYSTEM OR HOW TO TRACK/USE IT... ANY HELP?

[@macdaddyswag2585]

yeah its the resource on your portrait in the top left. That yellow bar. I'm not exactly sure how it works but it seems like it goes up if ur actively doing stuff in combat.

[@cleitomnierotka8503]

My god.. that archer "BrucePain" is blind....

[@darksinge]

7:56 “Don’t tell people about it” 😅

[@LaureTheGamer]

YOOOOOO, you're in the Alpha 2 too? I'd love to have a cleric buddy. We playing some mana regen/off-heal bard.

[@macdaddyswag2585]

see me on Lyneth :)

[@AlexikoGS]

you killed an elite and barely survive but gave nothing, sounds good.

[@JeromeBakerSmoke]

Triple the amount of skill slots..........

[@CourtneyFox-d7y]

If this comes to consoles I'd quit FFXIV

[@liamnissanS2K]

Game has no identity. Add this to "extremely generic fantasy MMO"

[@mazmundie]

Well yes it's based in a high fantasy world but to say it has no identity is just delusional. Half of MMOs are wow clones but the systems in ashes with nodes ect make it have more identity than any other game

[@adrienaliphon5384]

This is so wrong

[@liamnissanS2K]

@@adrienaliphon5384 I have eyes

[@Xceedpvp]

This game looks like Neverwinter 2 lol and that is not a good thing 😂

[@Mediiiicc]

Mixing PvP and PvE removed any interest I had in this game. In the alpha there aren't enough players for it to be a problem, but on release you can expect to be blobbed by enemy players mid encounter.

[@macdaddyswag2585]

yeah that'll definitely ruin it for me to if it ends up being the case. Imo forced pvp is something that could kinda work (like forcing everyone to participate in large pvp battle events). But forced nonconsensual pvp will never work.