Compétences

Early preview de l'interface utilisateur des compétences dans l'Alpha-1.

C'est là que les joueurs attribuent des points de compétences à leurs compétences actives, leurs capacités passives - ce qui peut améliorer leur utilisation d'armes et d'armures et de régénération de santé et de statistiques passives et de trucs comme ça - mais du côté des armes, c'est là que vous allez vous spécialiser dans certains types de provocations basés sur des groupes d'armes. Nous avons donc un peu parlé de cela dans le passé : si vous avez une dague, les dagues pourront avoir une chance de provoquer un saignement sur votre attaque d'arme et cela fonctionnerait en synergie avec la capacité d'une compétence active comme disons Backstab qui fait plus dégâts si la cible est sous un effet de saignement. Nous avons également dit dans le passé que les joueurs pourront attribuer des points de compétence dans leurs compétences actives qui sont plus orientées vers le combat d'action ou le ciblage tab. – Steven Sharif

Les joueurs recoivent des points de compétences en gagnant des niveaux. Ceux-ci peuvent être utilisés pour augmenter les compétences (augmenter leur rang) dans leurs arbres de compétences actives, passives ou de combat/d'armes.

• Il ne sera pas possible de maximiser toutes les compétences dans un arbre de compétences.
• En ce qui concerne la progression des compétences, les joueurs pourront voir large et obtenir un certain nombre de compétences différentes, ou aller "en profondeur" dans un petit nombre de compétences spécifiques.
• Les joueurs peuvent réinitialiser et redistribuer leurs points de compétences.

Rendre les compétences actives capables de recevoir des allocations de points supplémentaires et de débloquer des fonctionnalités supplémentaires pour que du point de vue de la distribution du joueur il sera a vous de décider si vous voulez être plus diversifié mais moins profond - plus large mais moins grand, dans certains de ces choix de compétences. Ou si vous voulez être très très grand, ce sera quelque chose qui dépendra du joueur à cet égard. – Steven Sharif

Active skills

Alpha-1 Barre d'action du Tank, prototype de l'interface utilisateur.

Les joueurs peuvent créer leurs personnages avec les compétences actives de leur choix sur leur barre d'action.

• Le nombre de compétences sur la barre d'action sera limité (moins de 30).
• Il y aura une option pour inclure de multiple barres d'action additionnelles.
• Par exemple : un Fighter sera différent d'un autre selon les compétences qu'ils ont choisis.
• À travers les choix de compétences, les joueurs pourront personnaliser leur expérience de combat pour se focaliser sur les compétences tab targeted, action targeted, ou un mélange des deux.
• Les compétences ne seront pas directement données aux joueurs, en montant de niveau ils devront choisir lesquelles prendre.
• Il n'y aura pas de livres de compétence ou de mémorisation.

Il y aura bien sûr plusieurs barres d'action disponibles, car vous aurez vos consommables, vos compétences actives, et autres. Mais la quantité de compétences actives ne va pas nécessairement surcharger le personnage et devenir inutile surtout à certains niveaux. – Steven Sharif

Primary skills

Preview des compétences primaires lors de l’Alpha-1.

Qu’importe l’archétype secondaire que vous choisissez parmi les huit, vous recevrez un choix d’améliorations en adéquation avec l’idéal de base de cette classe. Vous savez comme le fait qu’un tank est le contrôleur du champ de bataille et doit survivre. Le mage d’infliger des dégâts, éléments et capacités dans ses AoEs. Le rogue d’être furtif et d’infliger des dégâts critiques. Ces améliorations vont donc pencher vers ces identités. – Steven Sharif

L'idée derrière le système est que vous contournez en quelque sorte la ligne à travers ces améliorations de votre rôle, n'est-ce pas. Nous avons la sainte trinité traditionnelle qui est présente dans les conceptions de classes des MMOs et souvent celles-ci n’en sont pas du tout déviées ou complètement déviées. L’amélioration consiste en quelque sorte à offrir un équilibre de ça où vous conservez toujours le semblant de ce système de trinité tout en offrant la possibilité de personnaliser votre expérience de jeu vers l'un des autres angles du triangle. – Steven Sharif

Les compétences primaires (capacités de classe) sont basées sur l’archétype du joueur. Les joueurs peuvent personnaliser leurs compétences primaires avec l’amélioration d’un archétype secondaire.

Le concept derrière les améliorations est non seulement de changer la saveur afin qu'elles reflètent l'archétype secondaire, mais aussi de changer fondamentalement les composants de base d'une compétence. – Steven Sharif

• Chaque archétype secondaire offre quatre écoles différentes d’améliorations. Chaque école d’amélioration affecte les compétences d'un archétype primaire de différentes manières.
  • Par exemple: Un Mage offre la Téléportation et des écoles élémentaires d’améliorations. Ces améliorations affecteront les compétences primaires d’un Combattant différemment d’un Clerc.
  • Chaque amélioration a une exigence de niveau et un nombre de points de compétences requis pour l’activer.

  Il y aura un certain seuil à partir duquel vous ne pourrez plus améliorer vos capacités actives à cause des décisions d’améliorations de capacités précédentes, vous devrez donc choisir lesquelles vous souhaitez appliquer les améliorations; et certaines améliorations requerront plus de dépenses du côté des points de compétences. – Steven Sharif

• Choisir le même archétype primaire et secondaire accroît la focalisation sur cet archétype.

• Les améliorations de compétences primaires changeront fondamentalement la manière dont fonctionne la capacité: Adapter ce que faisait la capacité pour incorporer l’identité de l’archétype secondaire.
  • Le système de progression des améliorations est très similaire au système de progression de classe.

• Changer les améliorations de vos compétences vous obligera à vous rendre auprès d’un PNJ dans un nœud Village ou au-dessus.
• Certaines couleurs de sorts et d’FX généraux changent en fonction de l’amélioration.
  • Les compétences actives pourraient sembler totalement différentes après l'application d'une amélioration.

Les compétences primaires dans l’Alpha-2 devraient être très différentes de celles de l’Alpha-1.

La liste de capacités dans l’Alpha Un est loin de ce que sera la liste de capacités, en particulier du point de vue du niveau/progression. Vous pouvez donc vous attendre à ce que ce soit incroyablement différent. – Steven Sharif

Weapon skills

Players can spec into weapon abilities on their weapon skill tree (also referred to as Combat skills, and Combat tree) based on their preferred weapon classes (weapon types/weapon groups) and the grade of the weapon.

• The more skill points that are allocated to the skill tree, the greater a player's weapon familiarity. This in turn unlocks various proc effects on weapon use that can offer synergy with other active skills. This synergy also applies to active skills from other characters.

  Let's say a dagger has some slashing effects that bleed the target or that cripple the target... Every time you attack you have a chance to proc that effect. That effect then can synergize with what your active skills tree has available to it. So let's say your backstab deals 30 additional damage to a bleeding target. If you attack with your main weapon first and the target gets the bleed proc off and you do your backstab skill then you're synergizing your effects. – Steven Sharif

  Let's say backstab that you can apply to deals damage to the target and it'll have a conditional modifier on that damage if you're behind the target, and it'll have a conditional modifier deal additional 50 damage if the target is under a bleed effect. So you want to synergize essentially your weapon proc conditions with your active skills so that you're timing your certain active skills appropriately with the status conditions that the target has taken. – Steven Sharif

• Weapon progression such as set bonuses may change at what level any proc effects occur.
• These procs may reduce or reset cooldowns on other skills on the player's hotbar.
• Using a weapon skill will in general reset the weapon use combo system.

Weapon use combo system

A weapon use combo system (also referred to as Combo system, 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.

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

• This system plays heavily into the weapon skill trees, which are planned for Alpha-2 and beyond.

The way that the weapon skill tree works is that at different stages of that combat montage you have available procs that can occur. The first swing might be a small stagger that decreases your opponent's accuracy by 15, that could be a proc that you could that you could spec into that decrease in accuracy- might be a status condition called stagger or bewildered or whatever- and that might exist for three or four seconds. Your second option from a skill tree perspective might be on the swing back. You have some type of tapering slow effect that lasts over three seconds- some type of tapering snare; and then the third step strike down might be some potential one second stun status modifier; and each of these you can spec into additional points to increase the chance that these proc. – Steven Sharif

• Depending on class skill choice these effects will have synergy effects 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 JcJ or JcE.

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 the weapon attack Q or left-mouse-click) will in general reset the combo.
  • The developers are considering specific abilities 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

Classes of weapons

In-game achievable weapons concept art.

Les classes d'armes (également appelées "types d'armes" ou "groupes d'armes") dans Ashes of Creation.

• Armes contondantes
• Armes tranchantes
• Armes Perçantes

Weapon attack cone

Cône d'attaque des armes dans l'Alpha-1.

Lorsque j'attaque je touche plusieurs de ces adversaires, et c'est important parce que toutes les armes, que vous soyez en mode réticule ou ciblage auront des attaque basées sur l'action. Pas des competences actives, mais des attaques d'arme. – Steven Sharif

Toutes les armes ont un Cône d'attaque frontal, que vous soyez en mode ciblage ou action.

• L'angle du cône et sa longueur varieront selon le type d'arme.

Les armes d'hast par exemple auront un angle bien plus important sur une plus grosse distance. Les dagues auront un angle bien plus réduit, alors il vous faudra être bien plus précis. – Steven Sharif

Ceci est décrit comme une attaque d'arme et non une compétence active.

• Le cleave devait être auparavant une compétence de classe pour certaines classes.

Skills and stats on gear

Crafters will be able to assign different skills/abilities and stats on gear.

• Master crafters will be able to influence several (but not all) stats on their crafted items.
  • Statistiques on crafted items will vary based on the item's rarity.
• There will also be methods of moving stat blocks around but this won't necessarily be an easy task.
• All gear will be able to be assigned any stat.

Crafters will be able to 'rejigger' stat blocks; and there will be a couple of other ways to move things around to create both the look and the stat block that you're looking for. It's not always going to be easy. There will be a lot of challenges involved with that. But the goal is to give you guys the option to customize your gear the way you want them to be. – Jeffrey Bard

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

Gear is broken down into Core Stats and Additional Stats.

Passive skills

Passive skills are used to augment weapon usage, armor usage, health regeneration, and passive stats.

• Passive skills can be levelled up by allocating skill points on the skills UI.
• Passive skills enable players to work toward mastery of a weapon.

All these passive abilities: mana regen, attack damage, critical hit damage, health regeneration, defense mitigation, maximum health: A lot of different changes from the passive side of things and these are based on what archetype you've chosen. – Steven Sharif

Passive skill	Icon	Archetype(s)	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Attack Damage		Mage	Increases attack damage by 5.
Block Chance		Tank	Increase chance to block attacks by 20% (Blocked attacks deal 20% reduced damage).
Cooldown Reduction		Cleric Mage Tank	Reduce all ability cooldowns by 5%.
Critical Hit Damage		Mage	Increase the damage and healing bonus from critical hits by 20%.
Critical Hit Rate		Cleric Mage Tank	Increase the chance for damage and healing abilities to critically hit by 5%.
Defense Mitigation		Cleric Mage Tank	Increase defense mitigation by 4.
Disable Chance		Mage	Increase chance to disable by 15%.
Disable Defense		Cleric	Increase maximum mana by 100.
Healing Received		Tank	Increase the amount of healing received by 10%.
Health Regeneration		Cleric Mage Tank	Generate an additional 1.5% of your maximum health per second.
Increased Healing		Cleric	Increase healing done by 10%.
Mana Regeneration		Cleric Mage Tank	Generate an additional 1% of your maximum mana per second.
Maximum Health		Cleric Mage Tank	Increase maximum health by 75.
Maximum Mana		Cleric	Increase maximum mana by 100.
Movement Speed		Cleric Mage Tank	Increase movement speed by 5%.
Physical Evasion Bonus		Tank	Increase physical evasion bonus by 5.

Universal skills

Outside of class-specific skills there may be a subset of universal skills, such as active block and dodge.

• Universal skill progression may align with a player's passive skill tree.

Outside of your class-specific skill tree, there's going to be a subsection of a few skills that are universal, like active block, like dodge; and I think what we're going to do- or at least what we're going to be discussing here- is those universal skills will have progressions that might align with your passive tree; and you can spec skill points into progressing additional features of those universal abilities that you will have access to. So I think that's probably going to be the direction that we're going to take. – Steven Sharif

Combat abilities

The aspiration for combat is for abilities to have corresponding counter-play abilities.

• The goal is to have special animations for parrying, blocking and evading.

They can be a challenge to implement sort of really reliably so you might not see them on every evasion or every block, but we do want that kind of stuff to show up. – Jeffrey Bard

Crowd control

Crowd control (CC/mezzing) abilities include root, snare, stun, sleep and slow.

• There will be diminishing returns on stuns, sleep and slows so as to avoid stun locking.
  • As of May 28, 2021, diminishing returns on CC effects have not yet been implemented in the Alpha-1 testing.

Diminishing returns in regards to crowd control and conditions like stun and sleep and slows and that kind of thing: Yes we will have absolutely diminishing returns. I think it's a necessary component to balance out classes that have high control ability. – Steven Sharif

• Crowd control won't likely be tab-targeted skills. This is to avoid imbalanced combos with skill shot (action targeted) abilities.

• Hard CC's are stuns, knock downs, sleeps, paralysis, some roots, some silences.
  • Hard CCs may be housed in action oriented skills because they are skill shots that are more difficult to land.

We're trying to stay away from hard locks as much as we possibly can. We want to have the system be very play, counter-play, counter-counter-play kind of feel. – Jeffrey Bard

• Some crowd-control abilities can dismount a mounted player. In that case the mount would persist with its own health pool and other stats.
  • In current Alpha-1 testing mounts are not separate from the player.

There's also going to be effects that just stun the mount or stun you on the mount. – Steven Sharif

• Summoner's summons will be able to use crowd control.

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Javelin		Pulls a target enemy to your location.	Deals damage and generates a great amount of threat.	Reduces cooldown by 5 seconds.
Jump		Dash with cooldown.	Cooldown is replaced by charges with individual cooldown.	Drops a bear trap at the location the ranger dashed from.
Onslaught		Charge and deal damage to your target.	Reduce the target's attack damage temporarily.	Knock down the target.
Snare		Foot pin roots target in place.	Adds a bleed.	Snares after root expires.
Trap		Place a bear trap under the caster that holds them in place and does damage. Also holds targets in place and does damage.	Traps stun instead of root.	Place up to two traps.

Directional attacks

There will be directional attacks (back attacks, flanking attacks, frontal attacks) that deal additional damage depending on the positional context of the attack.

• Rogues will generally have more of these.

Mobility

Revamped Alpha-1 Mage Fireball ability.

The general approach that we're kind of taking based on a lot of feedback and just good combat design in general. You know philosophy is that we want to give more agency in the hands of the player and the antithesis of that is locking the player down for really long amounts of time. The sort of concept behind that is like you could make an animation effects as glorious looking as possible but if it's taking away control of the player, none of that really matters. Especially the 100th or thousandth time you're using the spell you're tired of that happening you don't feel powerful: You feel the opposite of powerful. So we're trying to like give a lot of control back to the player while they're using these abilities so they can still control their movements, they can react simultaneously while they're taking actions; and we just want to get overall more of a fluid flow, I guess, of combat. And that's kind of the general design philosophy we're using to approach the overhaul. – Tradd Thompson

Skills with the greatest power may require the caster to remain stationary while channeling them. This is a risk vs. reward mechanic.

• Unreal Engine 5 has enabled improved forms of locomotion, such as crouching, tilting and mantling.
  • Previously it was said that crouching may not be in the game.
• Prone will likely not be in the game.
• Moving backward will likely not affect block and parry.

I think that that generally we want to tend to be more mobile in our classes. I think that it's a fundamentally old-school philosophy to have a lot of stuck in place type skills. That isn't to say we won't have skills that have mobility restriction on them- that require you to channel or require a casting time where you can't move; but I think it's a blend between the two. It's neither extreme. – Steven Sharif

It'll be something that you can spec around to. Again it's gonna be a risk/reward thing. We put a lot of thought into what skills are overpowered or have kind of this overpowering nature to them and those are the kinds of skills that will generally find that will be like in-place type of skills; where you are now at risk if you are going to cast this spell, but there's a big reward if you do manage to get it off. – Jeffrey Bard

The revamped combat system will feature split-body animations, where the character's upper body can be locked by weapon attack animations while the lower body is free to continue moving.

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Blink		Blinks forward in the direction you are traveling.	Now deals damage to enemies surrounding your departure location.	Reduced cooldown.
Jump		Dash with cooldown.	Cooldown is replaced by charges with individual cooldown.	Drops a bear trap at the location the ranger dashed from.
Rush		Rush toward a target; and upon reaching the target, deal an amount damage with a chance to knock the target down.	-	-
Sprint		Increases movement speed. Using an ability ends sprint.	Increased resistance to disable abilities.	Clears crowd control when sprint starts and removes silence.

Player movement

Walking and running shown in pre-alpha gameplay.

Sprinting will consume a percentage of a character's mana pool. Sprinting will not be permitted while in combat.

I've instructed design to incorporate a mana consumption that's percentage based for sprinting. So it'll be a similar amount of time that each class, regardless of their mana values, will have in order to sprint and it will not be accessible while in a combat. – Steven Sharif

There is a toggleable walk/run (autorun) capability.

There is not going to be any "go to waypoint" (auto-pathing) mechanics.

Back-peddling (walking backwards) and strafing are slower than normal movement speed.

Collision

There are player and spell collision mechanics in Ashes of Creation.

• Inertia and momentum physics will help prevent blocking doorways/access points. This is based on a character's direction and movement speed, and can be used to push people out of the way.

Dodging

Dodging in Alpha-1 early combat.

Another thing that's important about these action combats is the ability to dodge and moving out of the way of certain skill shots. – Steven Sharif

Dodge rolling type skills is currently housed in the action skill sets of agile classes such as Rogues or Fighters.

• The developers are considering the inclusion of dodging in a subset of universal skills that apply to all classes.
• Hybrid combat will likely have true evasion skills relating to action-oriented combat and also have I-frames (invincibility frames) that apply to tab targeting.

Q: Will there be evade frames/ I-frames on dodge?

A: I would say it's a safe bet with regards to how we're approaching the hybrid combat that not only are gonna have true evasion skills that apply to more action-oriented skills that are coming your way, but you'll also have you know I-frame type skills that would apply perhaps to a tab targetable skills coming your way. So I think you're gonna have a healthy balance of both with it when it comes to skills that you can spec into. – Steven Sharif

Active blocking

Le bouclier Paladin's Might dans Ashes of Creation Apocalypse posséde sa propre hitbox et point de vie (PV). Il peut bloquer les projectiles.

• Les développeurs n'ont pas encore décidé si le blocage actif sera intégré dans le MMO. Ils se dirigent pour le moment vers un système plus traditionnel basé sur la mitigation de dégâts à l'aide de buff mais tout en considérant l’interaction entre le positionnement du blocage avec un blocage passif provenant du système de stat en cascande

Dans APOC quand nous avions la posture active du bouclier- cela était un blocage actif du bouclier basé sur un système de combat d'action; et quand nous avons collecté les données du concept sur son efficacité et sa précision durant son utilisation par les joueurs, nous avons remarquées que cela n'était pas très élevés; et c'est préoccupant au moins quant à la mise en place d'un blocage par bouclier exclusivement actif par opposition à l'activation d'un buff qui donne un pourcentage de blocage universel aux dommages reçues- et en lien avec les stats- c'est vraiment quelque chose sur laquelle on tente d'intégrer dans le système de combat hybride – Steven Sharif

C'est quelque chose dont nous réfléchissons de manière récurrente et que nous testons activement dans notre système hybride et vous nous connaissez quand il s'agit de quelque chose que nous prenons en considération. Bien sûr nous voulons une partie action qui puisse interagir avec le système de stat par cascade; et vous savez que ça sonne comme un oxymore d'un point de vue action et ciblé, mais ce n'est pas nécessairement le cas. Il peut y avoir une partie action- par exemple si vous utilisez votre posture de bouclier et que vous interceptez correctement un projectile ou une compétence provenant d'un arc frontal, vous allez mitiger 80% des dégâts ou appliquer 80% de la défense physique du bouclier; et s'il provient d'une zone en dehors de cet arc frontal vous allez avoir un bonus moins élevé; et c'est essentiellement ce qui se passerait si l'on prenait en compte par exemple la valeur de la défense physique de votre bouclier, vous l'appliquez comme un facteur de mitigation des dégâts reçus, mais en plus vous ajoutez les stats en cascade à ce système responsable de la mitigation des dégâts du bouclier ou du taux de blocage; et peut-être vous savez que la compétence principal indique 80% de mitigation des dégâts provenant d'un arc frontal qui peut atteindre 87% grâce à vos stats essentiellement; et si cela n'est pas dans cet arc frontal, alors il s'abaissera à une valeur de 50% d'efficacité- voire 40% ou quelque chose comme ça. Donc ça vous donne une idée de qu'est ce qui est utilisé pour déterminer ces compétences et comment ils intéragissent d'un point de vue action. – Steven Sharif

Interrupts

Abilities with a cast bar can be interrupted during the cast.

• There are abilities to counter interrupts.
• Some interrupts are better than others.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Bulwark		Bash enemies in front of you twice. The second attack temporarily increases block chance. You must have a shield equipped to block.	Additional increased block chance.	The second attack knocks down enemies.
Onslaught		Charge and deal damage to your target.	Reduce the target's attack damage temporarily.	Knock down the target.
Rush		Rush toward a target; and upon reaching the target, deal an amount damage with a chance to knock the target down.	-	-
Thundershock		Shoots forward a beam of lightning that damages enemies in a line in front of you.	Increased damage.	Now knocks down hit targets.

Aggro/Threat generation

L’aggro (Menace/Haine) aura de l’importance dans le jeu.

• L’aggro est basé sur un taux de haine.

Compétence	Icône	Rang 1	Rang 2	Rang 3
Javelin		Pulls a target enemy to your location.	Deals damage and generates a great amount of threat.	Reduces cooldown by 5 seconds.

Animation cancelling

Animation cancelling will not be a combat mechanic.

Combat stances

The use of weapon stances in game is likely.

RNG

RNG elements pertain to combat relating to stats such as Critical hit, Evasion, Blocking chance.

• RNG plays a role in both JcJ or JcE.
• Action combat is far less dependent on RNG.

RNG is always going to play a role in Ashes of Creation whether that be in PvP or PvE, but one way to mitigate that is through the action system. The action system is going to be far less sort of dependent on those you know dice rolls and there'll be far more in your own hands. They won't ever completely eliminate that but it's a way for us to sort of reward skilled play versus sort of tactical strategies type play. – Jeffrey Bard

Combat targeting

Démo de combat hybride en Alpha-1.

Vous remarquerez que lorsque j'entre en mode action, j'ai un réticule et lorsqu’il survole une cible ennemie, il deviendra rouge, disant en gros "Hey on sait que tu as une cible valide" que vous pouvez voir; et quand vous pressez 'Q' vous pouvez verrouiller cette cible. Vous pouvez aussi maintenir tab pour alterner entre les cibles. Ceci est un aspect important du combat que nous essayons d'incorporer, qui est une mélange de ciblage et d'action, pour que vous ayez toujours des éléments d'actions tout en vous permettant d'utiliser des compétences à ciblage. – Steven Sharif

Le combat hybride fait référence au choix entre le combat en ciblage tab et le ciblage action dans Ashes of Creation.

• Un boutton d'activation (Z par defaut mais peut être associé à une autre touche) permet au joueur de passer du mode tab au mode action.

• Le mode action utilise un réticule de visée et est très proche d'un jeu de tir à la troisième personne.
  • Le joueur n'a pas besoin d’être en mode réticule pour utiliser des compétences de combat d'action.

  Si vous utilisez une compétence de combat d'action qui cible une direction, vous n'avez pas besoin d’être en mode réticule pour l'utiliser. Ça tirera là ou le réticule devrait être. Donc si vous jouez au feeling et que vous êtes en mode ciblage tab, vous pouvez quand même utiliser vos compétences orientées action. – Steven Sharif

  • Le réticule va mettre en surbrillance/changer de couleur (en rouge) pour indiquer si la cible actuelle peut être attaquée par la compétence préparée.
  • Les compétences d'action n'auront pas de fonctions de verrouillage mais appuyer sur Q en étant en mode action verrouillera sur la cible actuelle pour permettre d’utiliser des compétences orientées ciblage tab en mode action.

  Les compétences de combat d'action n'auront pas de verrouillage à proprement parler. Certaines d'entre elles seront seulement des tirs. Cependant comme vous pouvez avoir un mélange de compétence tab qui ont besoins d'une cible, vous pourrez aussi verrouiller en mode action. Pour le moment c'est associé à la touche Q par défaut, mais vous pouvez bien sûr l'associer à la touche que vous voulez, même la souris; et quand votre réticule survole une cible et que vous la verrouillez, si vous avez des compétences orientées ciblage tab, elle seront utilisées contre cette cible. – Steven Sharif

  • Maintenir Tab en mode action alternera entre les cibles.
  • Un clic droit en mode action passera en mode tab pour la cible en surbrillance.
  • La camera d'action est liée au réticule du joueur. Il y aura surement une touche qui si maintenue permettra des mouvement de camera libre.
  • A l’avenir l'utilisateur pourra choisir entre différentes apparences de réticules.

• Le mode tab (MMO mode) facilitera le combat en ciblage tab A tab-targeted ability requires a target in order to utilize that skill.
  • Un clic gauche en mode tab attaquera la cible (avec l'arme actuellement selectionnée).
  • Il y aura une possibilités de fonction "cible de la cible" dans l'interface utilisateur.

Le combat hybride est en cours de test dans l'Alpha-1.

• Les modes de ciblage peuvent être atteints par le choix des compétences/capacités.
  • Il ne sera peut-être pas possible de se spécialiser entièrement dans les compétences ciblées ou d'action. Il peut y avoir un plafond de 75 % sur le choix des compétences de n'importe quel type.
  • Différents rangs de la même capacité peuvent changer le mode de visée de tab à action ou vice-versa.

La progressions des compétences, l'attribution des points de compétence est déterminée par le joueur. Le joueur pourra choisir soit des compétences plus axées sur le ciblage, soit des compétences plus basées sur l'action et personnaliser son expérience de jeu en fonction de ses préférences. D'un point de vue d'équilibrage pour nous, les développeurs, nous devons nous assurer que certaines capacités hébergent certaines fonctions afin qu'il y ait un équilibre entre les tirs de compétences et les capacités de ciblage tab. – Steven Sharif

Les versions de capacités orientées action et tab auront des caractéristiques différentes. Les variables changeront en fonction de la version choisie.

• Dégâts.
• Temps de charge.
• Effets de CC (contrôles de foules).
• Temps de recharge.
• Consommation d’énergie.
• Coût d'utilisation.
• La portée d'attaque restera probablement la même; car elle dépend de la capacité ou de l'arme elle-même.

Par exemple : disons que vous jouez une classe à distance. Vous pourriez avoir un tir puissant axé sur l'action dans votre arbre de compétences ou vous pourriez avoir un tir puissant à cible unique qui augmente et fait plus de dégâts. – Steven Sharif

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

À des fins d'équilibrage, certains types de compétences seront des compétences orientées tab ou action. Par exemple :

• Les hard CC peuvent être logés dans des compétences orientées vers l'action, car ce sont des coups plus difficiles à placer.
• Des CC plus doux seraient logés dans des capacités ciblées par tab.

Headshot mechanics

There are no headshot mechanics in the Ashes of Creation MMORPG.

• Headshots were a part of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale.
• Previously it was stated that headshot mechanics may be implemented in the MMORPG along the lines of a higher critical chance and that they would not be one hit kills.
  • Headshots in action combat are equivalent to a critical hit in tab targeted combat.
  • Players relying on tab skills will have a fixed critical hit chance every time they use an ability or weapon.
  • Players using action-based skills are going to rely on getting a head shot or hitting a critical spot on the opponent.

Skills by archetype

Bard skills

Les Bards ont des capacités de combat, pas seulement des buffs.

• Les bardes auront une grande variété de compétences parmi lesquelles choisir, comme les aspects de maitrise des mots, acteur et musical.
  • Les bardes pourront jouer des instruments de musique, comme les Flutes et Cornemuses.
• Les Bards fourniront des soins de proximité ou basés sur des proc à un bien moindre degré que les Clerics.
• Les Bards ne seront pas la classe des "temps d'arrêt". Ça sera le rôle des espaces sociaux au sein des noeuds.
• Les Bards auront une utilité en dehors des combats, tout comme les autres classes.
  • Restorer l'XP de repos ne sera pas une dans les utilités du barde.

dans d'autres jeux, les Bards ont tendance à être du genre passif et ce n'est vraiment pas la direction que nous souhaitons prendre. Nous voulons que toutes les classes soient amusantes à jouer. Nous voulons que toutes les classes soient viable. Nous voulons que vous vous sentiez utiles: que chaque instant du jeu soit amusant; donc une grande partie de ce genre de choses sera basé sur les combos, sur des actions réactives entre votre groupe et le monstre que vous combattez, ou les joueurs que vous combattez. Il y aura beaucoup de mouvement entre le front et l'arrière garde pour permettre en quelque sorte d'aider et de faire en sorte que tous bénéficient d'un support quelque soit leur manière de faire. Vous ne serez pas assis à l'arrière à vous ennuyer en jouant passivement du luth. – Jeffrey Bard

Les Bards peuvent choisir d'activer des buffs qui augmentent les capacités à tanker, esquiver, causer des dégats et soigner autour d'eux.

• Certains buffs sont associés à la manière de jouer du Bard en combat: Si un Bard touche une cible avec un skill shot, les alliés à portée pourront bénéficier d'un buff temporaire en lien avec la capacité utilisée.

Disons que le Bard utilise une arme, il a une épée de sortie et... effectue une attaque ressemblant à une excellente performance de gladiateur. Cela inspirera ses amis proches qui bénéficieront d'une augmentation de leurs dégâts critiques, et maintenant ils infligent des dégâts supplémentaires contre les cibles pour les prochaines 10 secondes ou 8 secondes. Donc, vous aurez besoin de rester actif. vous aurez besoin de vous soucier de votre positionnement, la relation entre la position du groupe par rapport à vous afin de vraiment accentuer ce que vous lui amenez. – Steven Sharif

Cleric skills

Restoration. Enhancement. Debilitation. Clerics keep their team in the fight by bolstering their combat abilities and cursing their enemies. Far from simply supporting their allies through healing, a Cleric is also capable of wielding destructive force in the face of danger.

Clerics have control over life and this may relate to utility abilities that relate to corruption.

Cleric combat abilities

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Castigation		Lashes your target with holy energy whip, dealing direct damage and restoring health and mana to yourself over time.	Heals you instantly for an additional amount upon hit.	Restores health and mana to nearby party members for the duration.
Devotion		Launch an orb of energy into the air that will fall upon your target, healing them.	The energy orb will travel faster and heal for more.	The target will be infused with a slow, long-lasting healing effect.
Divine Censure		Hurls a radiant spear at the target, dealing damage.	Further attacks upon the target have a chance to heal the attacker.	The target has a chance to deal damage to itself when it attacks.
Divine Light		Heals your target with a flash of light. Reduces the cooldown of Devotion and Radiant Burst.	Increased healing.	Reduced mana cost.
Hallowed Ground		Fills the surrounding area with radiant energy that damages enemies.	The area provides a healing aura for allies.	Allies within the area will receive boosted magical defense. Enemies within the area will deal less physical damage.
Judgment		Holy power crushes your target, dealing direct damage.	Slows the target temporarily.	Temporarily reduces the target's defenses.
Radiant Burst		Heals allies around you in a wide area for a large amount. Stacks up to 3 times.	Heals for a greater amount.	Cooldown removed.
Regeneration		Bathe your target with restorative energy that heals them over time.	Reduced mana cost.	Applies a 5% healing received bonus to the target.
Resurrection		Resurrects a dead ally with 25% health and 15% mana.	Target resurrects with 50% health and 20% mana.	Target resurrects with 75% health and 25% mana.

Cleric passive abilities

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Cooldown Reduction		Reduce all ability cooldowns by 5%.
Critical Hit Rate		Increase the chance for damage and healing abilities to critically hit by 5%.
Defense Mitigation		Increase defense mitigation by 4.
Disable Defense		Increase maximum mana by 100.
Health Regeneration		Generate an additional 1.5% of your maximum health per second.
Increased Healing		Increase healing done by 10%.
Mana Regeneration		Generate an additional 1% of your maximum mana per second.
Maximum Health		Increase maximum health by 75.
Maximum Mana		Increase maximum mana by 100.
Movement Speed		Increase movement speed by 5%.

Fighter skills

The Fighter archetype will include maneuverability and "closing the gap" mechanics to enable the fighter to quickly traverse distances on the battlefield.

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Rush		Rush toward a target; and upon reaching the target, deal an amount damage with a chance to knock the target down.	-	-

What we want the Fighter warrior to do is to be able to cut through enemy lines, get to the support area of a raid perhaps and take out healers with some quick DPS burst damage. We want them to be masters of different weapons. We want them to be able to be versatile in whether or not they want to be a ranged fighter or melee one. It's going to be up to the player. – Steven Sharif

Mage combat abilities

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Black Hole		Summon a black hole at the target location that reduces movement speed of enemies in the area.	Increased duration.	Explodes for area damage upon expiration.
Blink		Blinks forward in the direction you are traveling.	Now deals damage to enemies surrounding your departure location.	Reduced cooldown.
Drain Essence		Drain your target for damage over time, and gain return mana to yourself over the duration.	Heals you over the duration.	Reduced cooldown.
Fireball		Hurl a ball of fire toward your target, dealing direct damage upon impact.	Increased damage.	Burns the target for additional damage over time.
Gift of the Magi		Restores mana upfront, plus an additional amount over time, to you and a friendly target.	Increased duration.	Increased initial amount restored.
Lava Storm		Creates a field of lava at the selected location. Deals area damage over time.	Increased damage. Increased duration.	Increased damage. Increased duration.
Meteor Storm		Summons forth a Meteor Storm, dropping 3 meteors in the target location.	Adds an extra meteor.	Adds an extra meteor.
Prismatic Beam		Spawns a giant prismatic beam of energy that can be aimed around you. Deals large damage to enemy targets.	Increased damage.	Snares hit targets.
Thundershock		Shoots forward a beam of lightning that damages enemies in a line in front of you.	Increased damage.	Now knocks down hit targets.

Mage passive abilities

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Attack Damage		Increases attack damage by 5.
Cooldown Reduction		Reduce all ability cooldowns by 5%.
Critical Hit Damage		Increase the damage and healing bonus from critical hits by 20%.
Critical Hit Rate		Increase the chance for damage and healing abilities to critically hit by 5%.
Defense Mitigation		Increase defense mitigation by 4.
Disable Chance		Increase chance to disable by 15%.
Health Regeneration		Generate an additional 1.5% of your maximum health per second.
Mana Regeneration		Generate an additional 1% of your maximum mana per second.
Maximum Health		Increase maximum health by 75.
Movement Speed		Increase movement speed by 5%.

Ranger skills

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Bow's combo		Target an enemy and use your bow to strike with two arrows. Dealing damage and powering up your focus with this weapon attack.	Prepares four arrows.	Prepared shot works on all arrow attacks.
Flame line		Shoot an arrow that leaves behind a trail of flames.	Arrow explodes upon reaching the end of its distance.	Enemies take burning damage for entering the flames.
Fleeting shot		Retreating shot rolls backward and does damage.	Increases max range.	Breaks crowd control.
Hail of arrows		If your focus is at 80%, use this skill to summon a template and launch multiple arrows within the template.	Adds movement slow.	Adds damage over time to targets in the area.
Jump		Dash with cooldown.	Cooldown is replaced by charges with individual cooldown.	Drops a bear trap at the location the ranger dashed from.
Knockback shot		Knocks a target back X distance.	Adds damage.	Add knockdown.
Marked arrow		Target an enemy to use this skill, causing that enemy to take additional physical damage.	Enemy takes additional magical damage.	Increases the duration of this debuff.
Power shot		Use this skill to charge up a shot that fires forward in a line, damaging all enemies it touches.	Chance to cause bleed damage over time.	Splits into a fan of arrows in a cone. Radius increases based on hold duration.
Slice		Cone melee attack.	Becomes a 360° melee attack.	Adds hemorrhage (bleed) damage.
Snare		Foot pin roots target in place.	Adds a bleed.	Snares after root expires.
Sniper's eye		Summon a zone around you, while within this zone, deal +200% damage for all attacks.	-	-
Sprint		Increases movement speed. Using an ability ends sprint.	Increased resistance to disable abilities.	Clears crowd control when sprint starts and removes silence.
Track		Use this skill to show nearby tracks, leading to unknown adventures.	-	-
Trap		Place a bear trap under the caster that holds them in place and does damage. Also holds targets in place and does damage.	Traps stun instead of root.	Place up to two traps.

Rogue skills

All classes are capable adventurers, but rogues excel at delving the deepest dungeons and finding the most hidden of treasures.

• Rogues will have utility skills that enable them to discover hidden doors, traps and additional treasures.
• These will be randomly spawned throughout different times of the day to ensure that encounters are not the same each time.

If you're in a party and you have a Rogue that's available, they'll be able to use that utility skill to discover these random doors that might exist in a dungeon. Now the way we make it so that it's not essentially the same door every time and it's just a first time thing and every time thereafter you know where that door's at, is these locations are randomly spawned throughout different times of the day so they'll change essentially as you go into a dungeon at different times. So it'll be important and relevant for parties to make sure that they have a diversity of archetypes available to them. And in particular for the rogues case because they can find those hidden type doors and then have access to different types of loot tables based off of that. – Steven Sharif

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Stealth		This does not render a player completely invisible. Instead, there will be indicators that can help players "feel out" where stealthed individuals may be.	-	-

Summoner skills

The summoner uses many abilities that channel through their summon (also referred to as class skill pets). The summoner is essentially playing through their summon.

• Summoners can summon up to three Summons.
• Abilities from the summon appear on the summoner's hotbar.
• Summoner has control over their summon.
• Summoners can summon Tank, DPS or Support summons.
• Summoner's summons will add to the summoner's power when they are summoned, unlike combat pets, which take a portion of the player's power.

  The Summoner archetype does not have that portion of power taken away when they summon their pet. That's part of their... power is their summon. – Steven Sharif

• Summons will exist until another summon is cast, the summon is killed, or the summoner logs off.
• Summoners will likely not be able to fuse with their summons (eidolons).
• Summons can be leveled through the application of skill points to their active skill.
• Summons will be able to use crowd control (CC).
• Summoners may be able to name their summons, but will not be able to change their creature type, which is part of the nameplate above the summon.

You gain your summons from your summoner class as an active skill and then skills can be further developed with points. – Steven Sharif

Summoners summon different summons, depending on the class and augments they choose.

• Animals.
• Spirits.
• Zombies, skeletons and other undead creatures.
• Corpses (potentially).
• Some summoners may summon multiple things.
• Other summoners may only summon one powerful thing.
• Certain summoners may only be able to summon effects and/or temporary energies.

Augmentation from a secondary archetype can be applied to a summons.

For example: If your summon had a sweeping attack with a claw, or had the ability to bite an opponent, or rush an opponent; and you took teleportation, you could rush them similar to how I've given an example with the tank: Teleporting to a target instead. Or, its claws could combust on impact on a target dealing some burn damage that persists. Or... let's say your summon traditionally was some type of bear or bear cat, you could apply an elemental augment and now it could be a transparent flaming bioluminescent cat; and its damage would be fire based. So, that's how we want to influence the active skills with how augments apply; and that's how it would apply with Summoners. – Steven Sharif

Summoner summons are not the same as combat pets.

Tank skills

Tanks will not be forced to have a shield but it will definitely be a viable option. – Jeffrey Bard

Tank combat abilities

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Javelin		Pulls a target enemy to your location.	Deals damage and generates a great amount of threat.	Reduces cooldown by 5 seconds.
Lacerate		Pierce your enemy, dealing instant damage and causing them to bleed for additional damage over time.	Increased bleed duration. If the target is bleeding from previous Lacerate, explode remaining bleed damage as instant damage.	Hitting an enemy with Lacerate already under its bleed effect will consume the bleed and deal 50% of the remaining damage instantly.
Myrmidon's Fury		Strike your target and gain a temporary buff that gives you a chance to counterattack each time you are struck.	Increased chance to counterattack.	Increased damage mitigation during the buff's duration.
Onslaught		Charge and deal damage to your target.	Reduce the target's attack damage temporarily.	Knock down the target.
Resounding Smash		Strikes in front of you, then deal additional damage after a short delay to any targets that were initially struck.	The delayed hit deals additional damage.	The delayed hit returns mana to yourself.
Shockwave		Strike the ground with your weapon, dealing damage to enemies in front of you and leaving a fiery patch of earth that continually deals damage to enemies in the area over its duration.	The fiery patch left behind deals additional damage.	Slows enemies standing in the area.
Ultimate Defense		Become immune to damage for 3 seconds.	Duration is increased to 5 seconds.	Grant damage mitigation to all party members.
Weapon Toss		Throw your weapon at a target.	Bounces to two additional enemies.	Explodes upon hitting the final target, dealing damage to enemies in the area.

Tank passive abilities

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Block Chance		Increase chance to block attacks by 20% (Blocked attacks deal 20% reduced damage).
Cooldown Reduction		Reduce all ability cooldowns by 5%.
Critical Hit Rate		Increase the chance for damage and healing abilities to critically hit by 5%.
Defense Mitigation		Increase defense mitigation by 4.
Healing Received		Increase the amount of healing received by 10%.
Health Regeneration		Generate an additional 1.5% of your maximum health per second.
Mana Regeneration		Generate an additional 1% of your maximum mana per second.
Maximum Health		Increase maximum health by 75.
Movement Speed		Increase movement speed by 5%.
Physical Evasion Bonus		Increase physical evasion bonus by 5.

Siege abilities

War Beast Rendu 3D by Jessica Jennings.

Huit joueurs avec le même archétype primaire pourront se regrouper pour créer des effets combinés pendant un siege.

• Les classes devront être dans le même groupe ou raid.

Ce sont les genres de systèmes qu'on veut mettre en place où un groupe du même archétype primaire peuvent se regrouper et invoquer ce genre d'effets qui correspondront à l'identité de l'archétype. – Steven Sharif

Summoner

Summoners can collaborate to summon larger summons, such as Golems.

• A siege summon will have an incremental size based on the number of summoners participating in that summon activity, with a maximum of eight.
• The number of summoners participating in the summon will determine its overall size.
• All summoners must be in the same party and the party leader must be a summoner.
  • The party leader initiates the summon and then takes control of it.
  • Once summoned, the party leader cannot be changed.
  • If the party disbands, the summon ends. There will be a grace period to handle disconnects.
  • The party may also contain non-Summoners.

It doesn't have to be just summoners, but it has to be a party led by a summoner with other summoners in it. – Steven Sharif

Tank

Alpha-1 castle siege combat featuring a Tank siege ability.

If eight Tank archetypes each use one of their summon wall abilities it might construct a larger wall that can divide two raids in a moment; and would require damage and block skills and abilities for a momentary lapse of battle between those two raids. – Steven Sharif

Healing skills

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Devotion		Launch an orb of energy into the air that will fall upon your target, healing them.	The energy orb will travel faster and heal for more.	The target will be infused with a slow, long-lasting healing effect.
Divine Censure		Hurls a radiant spear at the target, dealing damage.	Further attacks upon the target have a chance to heal the attacker.	The target has a chance to deal damage to itself when it attacks.
Divine Light		Heals your target with a flash of light. Reduces the cooldown of Devotion and Radiant Burst.	Increased healing.	Reduced mana cost.
Drain Essence		Drain your target for damage over time, and gain return mana to yourself over the duration.	Heals you over the duration.	Reduced cooldown.
Hallowed Ground		Fills the surrounding area with radiant energy that damages enemies.	The area provides a healing aura for allies.	Allies within the area will receive boosted magical defense. Enemies within the area will deal less physical damage.
Radiant Burst		Heals allies around you in a wide area for a large amount. Stacks up to 3 times.	Heals for a greater amount.	Cooldown removed.
Regeneration		Bathe your target with restorative energy that heals them over time.	Reduced mana cost.	Applies a 5% healing received bonus to the target.

Ultimate skill

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

The ultimate skill is a very powerful skill.

• Can be used when enough focus has been accumulated from using the Weapon use combo system.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Hail of arrows		If your focus is at 80%, use this skill to summon a template and launch multiple arrows within the template.	Adds movement slow.	Adds damage over time to targets in the area.
Ultimate Defense		Become immune to damage for 3 seconds.	Duration is increased to 5 seconds.	Grant damage mitigation to all party members.

Utility skills

Pre-alpha rogue climbing a Métropole wall.

We have what are called utility skills and a lot of MMORPGS really only focus on active combat skills, but some of the favorite things that I've had as a gamer is tabletop RPGs like Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons, and there are skills in those games that are relevant to either your environment or the quest line; and they're a little bit you know sometimes "story mode". – Steven Sharif

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

A utility skill is a non-combat skill that interacts with the environment. Utility skills lend themselves toward how classes navigate and deal with hazards in the world.

• Different classes excel at different skills.
• All classes will have maneuverability/traversal utility abilities.
  • There will be a grappling hook utility skill or item.
• Classes will have utility abilities, such as detecting traps and other hazards. For example: The Mage's detection spell casts light and reveals magical explosive hazards.
• Certain classes are able to climb/parkour in certain areas.
  • Climbing/parkour ability is not free-form and will likely be restricted to certain quests, locations or objects.
• Certain classes (such as Rogues) will have stealth abilities.
  • Rogues may also have a spyglass utility skill.
• Certain objects exist in the world (such as ladders and slides) that aid player mobility.

We don't just have the approach of your class being reflected in your combat abilities but also there are utility abilities that certain classes have that other classes don't have. – Steven Sharif

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Family summon		Long duration cast (30 seconds to a minute) with an approximate 30 minute cooldown that slowly summons each of your family members to your location (up to eight members). Players cannot be summoned in the following cases: While in combat, if they are corrupted, or if they are engaged in an event, such as node wars, guild wars, sieges, arenas or participation in the caravan system. If they have mats, gatherables or certs in their inventory. This will be tested in Alpha-2.	-	-
Pathfinding		Reveals corrupted player locations on the bounty hunter's map. Activating this ability will flag the bounty hunter for combat only to corrupted players for a period of one hour from the time of activation. The pathfinding ability can be toggled on or off.	The accuracy of the pathfinding skill is determined by a player's progression in the bounty hunter system.	The accuracy of the pathfinding skill is determined by a player's progression in the bounty hunter system.
Stealth		This does not render a player completely invisible. Instead, there will be indicators that can help players "feel out" where stealthed individuals may be.	-	-
Track		Use this skill to show nearby tracks, leading to unknown adventures.	-	-

Elemental skills

The idea behind magic is you're manipulating the elements. They don't just have to be fire, ice, water and air. They can be darkness, they can be light, they can be planar; a lot of different types of "elemental influences". – Steven Sharif

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Fireball		Hurl a ball of fire toward your target, dealing direct damage upon impact.	Increased damage.	Burns the target for additional damage over time.
Flame line		Shoot an arrow that leaves behind a trail of flames.	Arrow explodes upon reaching the end of its distance.	Enemies take burning damage for entering the flames.
Lava Storm		Creates a field of lava at the selected location. Deals area damage over time.	Increased damage. Increased duration.	Increased damage. Increased duration.
Thundershock		Shoots forward a beam of lightning that damages enemies in a line in front of you.	Increased damage.	Now knocks down hit targets.

Guns and gunpowder

Les armes utilisant la poudre à canon (poudre noire) ne seront pas présentes dans Ashes of Creation.

L'armement tel que les Lanceurs de Potions, les Engins de siège et les armes utilisées dans le Combat naval, sera basé sur l'art des arcanes.

• Les Éléments.
• L'usage de la lumière et de l'obscurité.

As we said in the past, were not really about that black powder life. Instead it's really going to be focused on the arcane arts: The elements; the use of radiance and darkness; and then those being employed in larger weaponry, such as the type of siege weaponry between ship battles as well as those and sieges. A potion launcher is an example of the arcane energies that can be mastered in order to facilitate these highly destructive alchemical blends that can be created. – Steven Sharif

Skill transfer

Players will not be able to transfer their skills to other players.

Theft

Il n'y aura pas de mécanique de vol (pickpocket) dans Ashes of Creation pour ce qui est des joueurs vivants.

Il n'y a pas de mécanique de vol pour que vous puissiez vous approcher d'un joueur vivant et dérober quelque chose. – Steven Sharif

Level scaling

Levels, stats, or skills will not be scaled to allow low level players to participate in encounters with higher level players.

Kickstarter skill FX

All Kickstarter backers will receive a skill effects (FX) set.

• Includes unique colors and additional effects for certain skills. For example: A mage with her fireball skill may fire off a ball of searing white flames as opposed to the traditional colors of that skill.

Voir également

• Skill augments
• Archétypes
• Classes
• Interface utilisateur
• Combat