Talk:2023-07-28 Livestream

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Intro

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to our glorious July development update.

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We hope that our wonderful community has been doing well.

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We have quite a bit to go over today, so buckle in as per usual.

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If you are new here, you can probably see the run of show below us.

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But just so that I can go over it quickly, we do have our reminders.

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We'll be going over our cleric update, which some of you have seen some of our cleric updates

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in the past.

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There's a whole new slew of abilities.

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Yes, a whole new world, some might say, of cleric abilities.

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I'm just kidding.

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Yes, exactly.

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I think Steven and I sang that at one of the extra.

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I'm ready.

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We can do an encore presentation this year.

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No.

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OK, I need to practice because I was really bad.

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Guys, sorry for the brief delay in the in the in the stream, but we have a jam packed

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fun presentation for you today.

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You guys are going to see, as Margaret said, an update to the cleric kit.

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You're going to get a really rounded look at these abilities and what the cleric and

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Alpha 2 is going to play like.

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It's going to be an awesome opportunity for you to give us feedback.

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Really excited for you guys to see it.

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The world is looking beautiful.

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The effects are coming along and the gameplay, I feel, for this cleric kit is pretty good.

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So I've been having fun with it.

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I've been doing I'm like the basically the combat team has a few experts that they're

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trying to have within the team to be experts for the classes and our internal focus testers.

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Yeah, focus testers.

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So it's been pretty fun.

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Getting to do all the combat stuff.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And actually we had we had at the beginning of this month, we had a lot of internal testing

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for combat team across all of our different internal departments and they were able to

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fill out surveys and feedback.

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And we're all MMO gamers, so it's great for them to give this feedback.

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And cleric was one of those that was showcased during that testing period.

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So we did that to get your guys's thoughts.

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So you got some feedback on the encounters that they had built out and then there was

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feedback per your class that you were playing, which was yes.

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And on top of that, you're also going to see a really cool new area.

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It's at the what we call the Highwaymen Hills.

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You may have seen this location.

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It is in the Riverlands, but it is a bit hilly.

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But it is a beautiful location that the environment team has done a great job in speccing out.

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So a lot of fun.

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There's a little bit of a story arc there, too.

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Yeah.

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So we kind of gave the preface for the cleric update.

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I know a little bit.

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And then we have a small art update, just a couple of things.

Reminders

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So we'll focus really on answering a lot of your guys's questions.

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And then, of course, we have a little studio update and then Q&A from the forums that we've

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gathered as well.

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So a lot of answering all y'all's questions.

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But before we get into that, we're going to do our quick reminders.

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And of course, the first part of this is checking out the YouTube comment from last time.

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And if you would like your comment selected, all you have to do is on our next development

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update when this one is up on our YouTube channel, leave a comment, make sure that you're

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subscribed and that we can see that you're subscribed and then we will maybe select your

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comment.

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It's all random.

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So by the way, I just would like to comment that I saw a few a few comments about the

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little dude in the background there.

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That is like a 7500 piece Lego puzzle that John almost single handedly put together.

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I just want to just to answer some of the questions of what is that?

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That's what that is.

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That thing is crazy, but it was super cool to see it get put together.

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All right.

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So the question that we have is what is the intended gameplay mechanic if you are attacked

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during the middle of a craft or harvest?

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What happens to the materials used in the craft or the items being harvested?

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And this is from Marcus.

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Thank you, Marcus, so much for leaving a comment over on our YouTube channel.

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Yeah, so this is a pretty easy one.

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Essentially, anytime you're in the middle of a process such as crafting an item, if

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it's a fast crafts, fast craft situation or harvesting a particular resource gatherable

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or any type of interaction point, the completion of that interaction is when the items are

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removed either for the crafting process or the item is received or the harvesting or

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gatherable interaction.

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So if you were interrupted during that time, you're not going to experience any type of

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like loss of items or failure in the gathering, the player will have the opportunity in certain

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situations where combat does not automatically remove you from because we don't want people

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to be able to grief in that way.

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Usually the player will have to make that own their own choice to step away from that

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interaction and to engage if there is PvP there or if there is combat even with PvE

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scenarios because some craftables or interactables are going to be out in the wild, right?

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So if you want to continue your progress there and complete that action, then gain the resources

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and then start interacting with the combat, that's acceptable.

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But everything occurs at completion of the interaction.

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All right.

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And Stephen did do a interview with the Ashen Forge.

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If you haven't gotten to check that out, definitely go check it out.

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Yeah.

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There was a lot of goodness that went into that.

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That was a lot of fun.

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I always enjoy any type of like Q&A or interaction or interview that's very conversational, right?

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And I had a great opportunity with both the Ashen Forge as well as Tangents of Creation,

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which was I believe that next weekend.

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And I had a lot of fun in both of those.

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So if you guys didn't have an opportunity to check that out, feel free to take a look

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at that Ashen Forge and Tangents of Creation.

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It was a lot of fun.

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Yeah.

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And Stephen will be doing more things like that in the future.

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So keep your eyes peeled.

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Next up, we of course, we talked about this last month, but we also still have it up and

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available.

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So if you have thoughts on roleplay, definitely go head on over to our forums.

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We will be wrapping that up soon.

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So it is what systems and features make roleplay fun?

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What features help remove hurdles and barriers?

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So if you are somebody who's a big fan of roleplay, highly recommend heading on over

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to our forums.

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And of course, we will have a forum feedback thread today for Cleric as well.

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I'll remind you about that a little later, but just an FYI.

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And with that, we'll head on to the main event.

Cleric Archetype Update

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Yes.

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And I will just give a very brief disclaimer, as usual, since we already kind of discussed

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what's in here.

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As always, everything is work in progress.

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The visual effects, the UI, we have not really entered into a polished phase for Alpha 2.

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So what you are seeing is active development.

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Keep that in mind as you're watching.

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Things will improve.

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Don't look at it as a final product, but look at it as a directional preview, which is what

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we want you guys to give feedback on.

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And that's why we do these presentations on a monthly basis is so that you can take a

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look at the directionality that we are going with the class kit design, the world design,

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the combat design, and you guys can give us feedback on that directionality.

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So with that being said, please enjoy.

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See you on the flip side.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to yet another day in Vera.

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Happy to be with you guys again.

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I can't believe that it is the end of July, but we have a fun presentation to show you

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guys today.

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An update on the cleric kit and also a little bit of a showcase for the Highwomen Hills

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area, which is a very cool point of interest.

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I am joined by two of our glorious designers whom you have spoken with before in the past.

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They are our resident Dr. Bucky.

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Bucky, how you doing, buddy?

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Good, I'm doing great.

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Welcome sir.

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And we also have our glorious combat designer, Mr. Trad.

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How you doing, Trad?

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Doing great.

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Happy to be here again.

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Yeah, happy to have you guys both.

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So obviously clerics are near and dear to a lot of people's hearts.

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We had a little bit of a showcase for the cleric.

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Gosh, when was that?

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That was like, that was last year, yeah?

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Yeah, I think so.

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A few livestreams ago, yeah.

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Yeah, it was quite a few.

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And we were in, I think we were in that cemetery area and we were kind of showcasing some things.

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And the community gave us a lot of great feedback.

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And your guys' team on the combat strike team have now had an opportunity to kind of go

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through, analyze and collect that feedback, incorporate it as part of our development

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process.

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And we have a little bit more extensive of a kit today to show.

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I think we have roughly 18 abilities or how many abilities are we showing off today?

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Yeah, somewhere between 16 and 18 on there.

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Yeah, it's very exciting.

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Big increase gives a much more comprehensive look at the core kit for the archetype, which

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is super exciting.

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So before we begin, why don't we perhaps talk a little bit about the area that we are in.

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And by the way, yes, this is a noble warhorn.

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He is a big fella.

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He's excited to get in there.

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He's heard that there are some minotaurs that have taken up residence in what used to be,

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I think, a bandit camp.

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Look at how we don't have sounds associated with them yet.

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Sorry, guys.

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Sound effects.

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Perfect.

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Thank you.

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Hold on.

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Wait, I've got to time that.

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We've got to time that right.

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Hold on.

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Three, two.

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Thank you, but it was perfect.

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And that is why you are Dr. Bucky.

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No, but tell us a little bit about a little bit about this place, the the Highwayman Hills.

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Yeah, so we're venturing into the Highwayman Hills, a place notorious for, you know, bandit

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activity.

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You know, always dangerous to run a caravan through here.

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Even just looking at these like walls here, you could see we could get, you know, jumped

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at any moment.

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But yeah, so used to be resided by bandits, but now there's a story arc that's been triggered.

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So the Shattercloud tribe of Minotaur, I've recently seized control of the area, so we're

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going to be seeing a lot of Minotaur activity now instead.

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And that's part of the whole, you know, how story arcs are intended to kind of change

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the environment, the world.

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You know, obviously we saw this a little bit with the Tower of Carfan presentation, but

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the spawners are adaptive based on the state of the world.

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And that state is inclusive of the story arc conditions.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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And if we're able to complete our quest here, we might might further change as well.

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This is absolutely beautiful.

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I can't believe environment has done a tremendously glorious job in creating.

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I love the canopy through the approach into the Highwaymen Hill zone.

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It is super cool.

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Yeah, looks great with the god rays coming in.

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Oh yeah, you can't have enough god rays, as Tristan knows.

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So do we have a quest for this area or what are we seeing here?

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Oh, location entered.

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OK, so we actually now are in the Highwaymen Hills.

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Perhaps I should let my my noble warhorn off here.

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Might get dangerous.

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You've been a trusty steed, my friend, but this area is just far too dangerous for your

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kind.

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So just hang out here and we'll be back.

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OK, so I think, you know, what's been relatively successful in the past or the community has

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enjoyed is when we kind of spend a little bit of time up front going through each of

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these abilities, describing what they do, and then we can do some gameplay and kind

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of show off the kid in action.

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We might want to take a volunteer because I know this is all healing centric for the

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most part, which means we'll actually have to have a target.

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Bucky, would you like to be that sure?

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Yes, I do.

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Right here in the shade.

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Is this good?

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Oh my God, this is hopefully not a sign of things to come, but there are no corpse next

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to you.

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I think it might be like any heels.

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What happened to this guy?

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You get any of this, man?

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Oh, what happened?

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Oh my God, that looks like a red for.

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OK, so let's let's start off with this with this kid.

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What is our first ability that we have?

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Which one are you looking at?

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Mende here?

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Looks like I'm looking at men.

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OK, it says that it instantly launches a healing projectile toward target ally.

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Each charge the ability consumed after the first has no mana cost.

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OK, that's nice.

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And it restores an increasing amount of mana to the caster based on the number of missing

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charges.

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Consecutive uses of the ability will gain bonus healing.

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So talk to me a little bit about the intent.

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This is kind of the efficient maintenance seal that you can fall back on if things aren't,

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you know, hitting the fan too hard.

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So if you're you know, if your target's not going to like it, not in immediate danger

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of dying, this is a lighter weight heal that is much more efficient on your mana resource.

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I'll just keep damaging myself so you can heal me.

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Yeah, it's pretty nice and comfortable to use.

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See the little floating projectiles.

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It's not great for like a super reactive situation because they have that travel time.

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But you know, but you still have the opportunity to use them.

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It's more like a predictive feel, right?

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Like when you don't need to immediately respond to a bad situation.

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And just to keep in mind, guys, as of course, as always, this is very necessary for us to

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say, this is still a work in progress.

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We are working towards our Alpha 2.

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You're going to see the state of the UI is not in its final form.

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Same is true for the visual effects and everything else, right?

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Everything is always in the state of polish and kind of refinement or excuse me, when

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we get to that state.

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But that's what you're kind of seeing now.

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So this is a pretty useful ability.

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You're intended to kind of like weave this in between your normal rotation.

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Yeah.

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So like one of the reasons this came to be for the kit is in the last version of the

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kit, we felt like, you know, you were kind of swapping between cooldowns because you

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just used whatever was up, but you didn't really have a comfortable like fall back.

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And so this one serves as more of a filler activity that's a little more, a little more

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freely usable and more spammable.

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A lot of healers we played in past games, you know, they have that heal, like that core

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heal that you can just kind of use back to back.

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And that one is like filling that role to a degree.

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Cool.

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Super cool.

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Sorry, Buck.

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So this one and then the next one, Deliverance, they're both kind of like your core filler

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heals that you're constantly like your bread and butter is really awesome.

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So deliverance, let's talk a little bit about that.

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This is, it says a held ability, which means that it's a variable charge value.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, I really liked this one.

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I, I'm sure it's, there's something out there, but I've never actually played a healer that

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had a like a casted heal that you could release at variable points of time.

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And it just, to me, it seems like it fits a heal really well because of its reactive

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nature.

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So you can like release it.

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You can kind of like hold it in, you know, if your targets, you're almost like playing

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kind of Russian roulette with your target.

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Like you're pushing it to the last second to get the most value.

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Yeah.

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It's a really nice like tool to have to be able to like cook the heal basically.

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If you think the target's going to take some more damage, you get more value out of it.

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The other cool thing about this one is that it scales based on the missing health of the

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target.

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So if you cast it on me now, I'm at full health, it'll heal for a lot less than when I'm, when

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I'm pretty low.

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That's super cool.

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Whoops.

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Okay.

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Let's try you.

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It's super low.

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So holding it full length, you go from about 780 to about 1400.

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And that would have been even more if his health were even lower.

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So like he said, if you were at like, I'll get super low here.

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Yeah.

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So you'll, you'll see an even bigger.

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So it scales on two axes.

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Basically it's scaling on both missing.

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Yeah.

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Scaling on both missing health and the amount of time.

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Wow.

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That's cool.

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I like the Russian roulette aspect of it.

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I can just imagine the amount of friction that's going to cause in parties when the

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cleric player wants to maximize the efficacy of the heel versus the player recipient.

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That's like, Whoa, man.

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A drama between tanks and healers is what MMOs are all about.

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Absolutely.

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That's like standard staple interaction.

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Okay, cool.

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So that's, that's a super cool ability.

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Talk to me a little bit about soothing glow.

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This is a bread and butter region spell.

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Um, you know, it's got, you have three charges of it.

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Um, you can either stack them all on one target and they don't stack in healing, but they

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will stack in duration.

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So if you just want to like a really long duration heal on your tank or region on your

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tank, then you can do that.

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Or you can spread it out for more effective healing per second by having them all tick

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simultaneously on three different targets.

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So there's a couple of different ways to use this.

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Super cool.

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I love, obviously hots are something you try to keep up often.

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So this also has charges.

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Yep.

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Three charges.

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Nice.

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Very cool.

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All right.

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I see we have a flash cure.

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Talk to me about the flash cure.

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Another charge based thing.

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This is actually the last one.

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So it's not like all the abilities.

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Everything is charges, charges, stacks on stacks.

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They just happen to be very front loaded here.

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But this is your last charge based ability.

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This is an instant heal.

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The neat gimmick about this one is you can use it during other abilities.

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It's kind of like our version of what you would refer to as an OGCD or an off global

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cooldown.

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We don't actually have a global cooldown in the game right now, but it serves as that

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kind of thing where, for example, one way I like to use this is if you're charging deliverance,

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you could even push it a little further by hitting that flash cure as you're charging

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up deliverance.

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Now presumably though, you wouldn't want to flash cure while you're using deliverance

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unless you're afraid that they're going to die.

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Exactly.

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Or you could also just let go of deliverance, have it just go off right there and there.

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So you kind of have choices there.

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And whether you want to try to get maximum deliverance value by throwing a flash cure

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or just making sure your target doesn't die.

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Cool.

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I like that kind of oh shit button so to speak, right?

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Where essentially, you know, for me as a person who's main healer often, it's always a very

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tense situation when you're waiting for that massive group heal cast time to go off or

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whatever massive burst heal that you're trying to do and you're puckering up because who

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knows if they're going to live during that cast time.

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But if you need to, you could always pop a little bit of flash cures.

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Yeah.

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You're going to say it, Trent?

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I was just like, it's fun to use.

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It's like a nice little emergency tool because you know, a lot of the time you're as a healer,

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you're like waiting for that heal to go off.

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You're like, come on, come on, come on.

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And sometimes you miss it.

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It feels a little bad and this is a way to, this is an answer to that.

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Yeah.

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Super cool.

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Okay.

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Next one we have here.

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The resplendent beam.

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Talk to me about that one.

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We've seen that and we've seen an iteration of that in the past.

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Yeah.

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This is a returning one.

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But it's, it's seen a little bit of change before it was just you popped it and they

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would do a chain heal.

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Now you can use it like use it on Bucky.

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Just hit it, like tap the button.

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Just to tap, tap, tap, tap, tap a room.

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All right.

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There you go.

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And it's so you can use it as a quick single target heal that way, but you can also charge

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it.

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So this is another held ability and the longer you charge it, the more targets it will bounce

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between.

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So you'll, if you do it again and hold it, you'll see that I should probably set my cooldowns

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to zero for this portion of future.

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Yeah, that'd be good.

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Yeah.

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It kind of has the, you can use it just instant cast to get a quick heal off on someone or

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you can decide to charge it up basically and have it bounced a bunch of people.

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If you charge it all the way, it should bounce between all of us.

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We'll try and go.

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Let me try the quick cast again real quick.

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All right.

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So that's the quick cast and then I'll charge it up.

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Nice.

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Super cool.

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Okay.

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I like how I'm just like with the animation, it's just like, everyone stand back.

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Yeah.

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Animators do some pretty cool work.

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That's cool.

• 21:07

Very nice.

• 21:08

Okay.

• 21:09

I like that.

• 21:10

I like the dual purpose nature of that.

• 21:11

And obviously this is a great point of feedback for those of you in the audience who are kind

• 21:13

of watching and taking a look at this class kit.

• 21:16

You know, do you like the versatility on a bespoke basis per ability where you kind of

• 21:21

have alternate types of functionality that's up to the user to determine based on the situation?

• 21:27

Or do you like more static use cases, right?

• 21:31

Something that is very specific and you have to kind of use it for that situation.

• 21:37

That's a great question to get feedback on.

• 21:38

Personally myself, I think that providing the user a bit more flexibility and versatility

• 21:42

in the use of these abilities makes for interesting gameplay, a lot of agency for the player to

• 21:48

kind of move between.

• 21:49

Okay.

• 21:50

Let's move to the next one.

• 21:51

Bless weapon.

• 21:52

Talk to me about this one.

• 21:53

This is one of my favorites.

• 21:54

This is like basically a utility, a mana utility that you can use on either yourself or an

• 22:01

ally.

• 22:02

So it's kind of like a decision point of do I want to, you know, sacrifice some of my

• 22:06

own mana resource management in exchange for helping out an ally.

• 22:11

One way I like to use this is I'll just kind of look at my own mana or someone else's and

• 22:15

it's like, oh, the tank's like really low.

• 22:16

I'll throw this on them for now and then I'll put it on myself later.

• 22:20

The eventual idea, it's not set up this way currently, but the idea is you can like freely

• 22:24

kind of switch it around between yourself and different party members right now.

• 22:28

It's just on a cool down.

• 22:30

Okay.

• 22:31

So I'm going to use this on myself and what effect are we going to see right now?

• 22:35

It'll bless your weapon as it is appropriately named.

• 22:39

And while that is, oh, you gave it to me.

• 22:43

So that means if Bucky were to attack an enemy, he would return mana per hit.

• 22:49

Okay.

• 22:50

So we'll show that off when we get into the, but it's only weapon combos.

• 22:53

Yeah.

• 22:54

Okay.

• 22:55

Got it.

• 22:56

Cool.

• 22:57

Cool, cool, cool.

• 22:58

All right.

• 22:59

I see also we have here, let's go to judgment.

• 23:00

We have judgment.

• 23:01

We saw a version of this in the past.

• 23:02

Yeah.

• 23:03

So judgments, we since changed judgments.

• 23:04

Now it's a lot longer of a cast.

• 23:08

And effectively it's similar where you can either cast it on an enemy to do a huge portion

• 23:11

of damage or you can cast an ally to do a huge heal.

• 23:14

So it's kind of a big charged nuke.

• 23:16

Yeah.

• 23:17

Nice.

• 23:18

You want to do some damage to yourself here?

• 23:20

Let me show that off.

• 23:22

We've juiced this one up a bit.

• 23:24

It has received the juicing or I'm sorry, apologies.

• 23:28

The juice, the juice box, the juice box.

• 23:30

Thank you.

• 23:31

Oh, whoops.

• 23:32

That's wrong one.

• 23:33

Oh yeah.

• 23:34

Okay.

• 23:35

Super cool.

• 23:36

So not as big as deliverance when they're fully charged deliverance to low health, but

• 23:41

it's still pretty big and it, and it, even if they're high, it'll heal for the same amount.

• 23:44

So it's kind of nice.

• 23:46

Okay, cool.

• 23:48

What's this one?

• 23:49

What's communal restoration?

• 23:52

Another one that's a returning familiar, familiar cleric spell is this one's been changed a

• 23:59

little bit too, but it's mostly the same.

• 24:01

It's still a party based heal.

• 24:03

It's really your only party based heal that doesn't have any proximity unless like they're

• 24:08

really far, but it extends pretty far to all party members.

• 24:10

It does a direct heal, but it also has a hot component.

• 24:14

So it's like, or again, not super responsive, but it's very good value.

• 24:19

Um, especially in like an eight person group.

• 24:21

Yeah.

• 24:22

It's also giving some temporary hit points.

• 24:23

You can see, I think in the UI, a little bit of temp HP.

• 24:27

Oh, let's see where that is.

• 24:29

Where's that at?

• 24:30

It should be a little, a blue bar overlay on the health bars.

• 24:33

You can see that little, little portion of temp health there.

• 24:36

Yeah.

• 24:37

Okay, cool.

• 24:38

So this can overcast.

• 24:39

Yeah.

• 24:40

Once the effect expires to the temp health will go away.

• 24:42

So if it wasn't, um, you know, you weren't damaged in the time, then it's not effective

• 24:46

healing.

• 24:47

It feels like perhaps the, the instant health received from this might be a little low.

• 24:55

Is that the intent or?

• 24:56

It is a little low.

• 24:57

And I mean, this, obviously all of these things are kind of in early iterations.

• 25:03

Everything's super balanced.

• 25:04

Things are kind of balanced, but like for this one, it's like, okay, the value is one,

• 25:09

you don't have to worry about positioning of your team.

• 25:11

It just hits everybody.

• 25:12

And if in an eight person group, that kind of adds up a lot plus the hot effect and all

• 25:17

the other stuff going on.

• 25:19

Cool.

• 25:20

Super cool.

• 25:21

All right.

• 25:22

What's this next one?

• 25:23

We have consecrating wave.

• 25:24

This one's pretty sweet.

• 25:25

So this one's a frontal cone heal.

• 25:27

So you don't have, you don't need a target for this one.

• 25:29

You can just cast it and it'll shoot it forward based on the clear looking and it'll heal

• 25:32

everyone that hits all allies and then it'll also damage enemies that hits too.

• 25:35

So it has a dual purpose as well.

• 25:39

It's AOE damage in.

• 25:40

Wow.

• 25:41

That's cool.

• 25:42

That looks great.

• 25:43

In contrast to communal restoration, this one's a bit more powerful.

• 25:48

Also does damage.

• 25:50

So that's kind of the trade offs is you have to, you know, it costs you in your positioning,

• 25:54

but then it's an exchange for a bit more power.

• 25:57

Something we talked about doing mountain thing I've done yet was making it a split between

• 26:01

all the targets hit.

• 26:02

If you hit a lot of targets, it'll do less.

• 26:05

Like if you hit half enemies, half allies, it'll split the total throughput, but we haven't,

• 26:10

I don't think we've done that part yet.

• 26:12

Very cool.

• 26:13

Very cool.

• 26:14

All right.

• 26:15

Talk to me a little bit about divine flare.

• 26:16

Yeah.

• 26:17

This one is another, um, kind of what I refer to as like action heals, consecrating wave

• 26:24

and divine flare.

• 26:26

They're heals that you have to aim in world.

• 26:29

So this is this one, if you put it on the ground, it's like a delayed AOE.

• 26:33

Um, if you want to try that on Bucky or something.

• 26:36

And after Bucky, you look like you need some health.

• 26:39

I'm dying.

• 26:40

All right, here, let me help you.

• 26:43

Oh, so good.

• 26:49

What's interesting about that one is, um, it's all, it would also split amongst targets.

• 26:53

So I got a bigger heal there cause Bucky didn't make it in time.

• 26:56

Um, it is kind of a funny little like mind game going there of, Oh, I'm going to jump

• 27:00

in there, but it's at the expense of his health cause I'm stealing it.

• 27:04

Tanks only please in this AOE.

• 27:05

Get these trash mates out.

• 27:07

The more social conflict dynamics going on.

• 27:13

I like the, uh, excuse me.

• 27:18

Um, had to cough for a second.

• 27:20

I like the delayed functionality in that ability.

• 27:24

I think that's super cool, especially for an AOE skill.

• 27:26

Um, and telegraphing the location obviously with the ground based decal for the party

• 27:31

is super fun.

• 27:32

Definitely a very proactive one.

• 27:33

Yeah, exactly.

• 27:34

Yeah, super cool.

• 27:35

Um, all right, awesome.

• 27:38

Uh, let's talk a little bit about barrier.

• 27:42

So barrier is the classic kind of shield spell you'd expect to see from a healer kit.

• 27:46

So, but the, with the added twists that, um, you have to sacrifice a bit of your own health

• 27:50

as the healer to cast it.

• 27:51

So it doesn't actually use mana.

• 27:53

I don't think it just, you sacrifice a portion of your health to directly give to another

• 27:56

player for time.

• 27:59

Okay.

• 28:00

I like that.

• 28:01

That's cool.

• 28:02

Yeah, that looks pretty good.

• 28:04

And it's a clear delineation obviously in the, in the, uh, style of the shield bubble

• 28:09

so that you can distinguish between, you know, other bubble types, right?

• 28:16

Like the mages bubble.

• 28:17

Yeah, we could do a comparison.

• 28:19

Yeah.

• 28:20

Oh, there you go.

• 28:21

Yeah, here you go.

• 28:22

Uh, your bubble brothers, you guys bounce off of each other.

• 28:29

Bubble physics in.

• 28:30

Yeah.

• 28:31

Here, have some help.

• 28:34

Okay.

• 28:35

Um, let's talk a little bit about the chains of restraint.

• 28:39

Yeah.

• 28:40

This one's pretty similar to what it was before.

• 28:42

Um, it does damage over time.

• 28:45

So it's a really good, it's, it's pretty much the primary AOE damage tool of the cleric,

• 28:49

um, which isn't really the primary role of the cleric.

• 28:52

Um, but you know, they get some and it also applies staggers.

• 28:57

So it kind of provides some offensive support.

• 28:59

Um, staggers, for example, synergizes very well with some tank abilities, which, um,

• 29:04

what it effectively does is, um, extends the duration of a trip, which is, which is a knockdown.

• 29:09

Um, so if you've like stacked up a bunch of stagger on an enemy and then trip them, they

• 29:13

spend more time hard CC'd than if they hadn't been staggered at all.

• 29:18

Very cool.

• 29:19

And obviously, as we said, guys, um, just so you're aware, when it comes to the development

• 29:24

of the abilities, um, you know, there is a specific pipeline that includes, uh, ideation

• 29:29

into, uh, the bare bones kind of standing up with the functionality with design.

• 29:35

And then it moves to, uh, animation to provide final animation sets.

• 29:39

And then it moves to, uh, visual effects and then it moves to audio effects.

• 29:44

Um, and visual effects and audio effects that tend to be at the end of that pipeline, um,

• 29:47

are usually the things that get, uh, that still need work.

• 29:51

That are still heavily works in progress.

• 29:53

So, um, you're seeing the visual effects now, but obviously that will change in the future.

• 29:58

Okay.

• 29:59

Let's talk a little bit about Defiant Light.

• 30:01

Yeah.

• 30:02

So this one's a, uh, really good tool for saving someone who's in danger of dying.

• 30:06

It's very powerful.

• 30:07

I'm in danger.

• 30:08

Yeah.

• 30:09

Which one?

• 30:10

Okay.

• 30:11

So, uh, it applies, first of all, it applies a huge, uh, heal over time to the target,

• 30:13

if they die while the seal over time is in effect, um, it'll prevent their death and

• 30:18

heal them for a flat amount and dispel itself.

• 30:21

So it's kind of like a, Oh, wow.

• 30:25

I don't think it works with nuke.

• 30:26

Oh no.

• 30:27

That's fine.

• 30:28

Just, um, you said that it would keep you alive.

• 30:33

We'll see if it actually works.

• 30:38

We'll use it in action.

• 30:41

Yeah.

• 30:42

Yeah.

• 30:43

I just wanted to, you said it'll keep you alive.

• 30:46

So the first thing that came to mind is let me kill you.

• 30:49

The end.

• 30:50

Yeah.

• 30:51

So it is, if that had happened and that was real damage, um, it would, he would have prevented

• 30:58

the death.

• 30:59

The effect would be removed and then he would receive a heal up to like 25% of his HP.

• 31:03

Awesome.

• 31:04

Okay.

• 31:05

Cool.

• 31:06

Okay.

• 31:07

So that's a Defiant Light, not as defined as we thought it would be, but hopefully

• 31:13

it will be, uh, when we get into combat.

• 31:16

Okay.

• 31:17

Healing touch.

• 31:18

Talk to me a little bit about this.

• 31:19

Uh, that's a, that's a melee heal.

• 31:21

Basically you have to be up next to your target, but it is an insta cast and it's a pretty

• 31:25

fat heal.

• 31:26

Uh, so it, again, it's kind of like consecrating wave.

• 31:29

Um, it's being costed more on its positioning, um, but rewards, uh, you know, maybe if some

• 31:35

of our more melee built clerics would really want to lean into this, um, because they,

• 31:40

they have that positioning advantage for it.

• 31:43

Oh, there you go.

• 31:44

Okay.

• 31:45

See, look at that.

• 31:46

What I taketh, I giveth.

• 31:47

There you are.

• 31:48

Have health.

• 31:49

This one combos really nicely too with the, uh, the next ability, the, um, Wings of Salvation

• 31:55

because it'll let you get into melee and then you can follow it up with a, uh, healing

• 31:59

touch on a Thurlow.

• 32:00

Yeah.

• 32:01

This is essentially an ally gap closer.

• 32:02

Um, so this is, you must have an ally targeted and, and definition of an ally is going to

• 32:09

be any non combatant player, uh, and non mob NPC.

• 32:15

Correct.

• 32:16

Okay.

• 32:17

Ooh, that's kind of cool.

• 32:19

Oh, it's missing.

• 32:20

I think it's missing audio effects.

• 32:21

Let's see.

• 32:22

Oh, no, there it goes.

• 32:23

Yeah.

• 32:24

Okay.

• 32:25

We got to give it the full Phoenix sound.

• 32:30

Hold on.

• 32:31

Signature Phoenix ability.

• 32:32

Oh, the audio might be a little bit bugged, but that's okay.

• 32:36

As we said, all things are worked in progress.

• 32:39

Nice.

• 32:40

There it is.

• 32:41

Try the one two with a healing touch follow up.

• 32:42

Yeah.

• 32:43

Okay.

• 32:44

So I'm going to T into shift T. Got it.

• 32:46

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

• 32:49

There you go.

• 32:50

Combo.

• 32:51

What if I T while flashing and then shift T?

• 32:54

Hold on.

• 32:55

Oh, I haven't even tried that.

• 32:56

Oh my God.

• 32:57

Wait, hold on.

• 32:58

Oh, that worked.

• 32:59

It all happened so fast.

• 33:00

I can't even.

• 33:01

Super healing.

• 33:02

That sort of worked.

• 33:06

I used like two hands.

• 33:09

Okay, cool.

• 33:10

Top tier game.

• 33:11

So we got wings of salvation and then I'm looking here.

• 33:15

We have smite, condemn and divine infusion.

• 33:20

We can't show smite or condemn.

• 33:21

We'll use those on enemies here in a second, but let's talk about divine infusion and this

• 33:25

one is a bigger topic.

• 33:27

Yeah.

• 33:28

So we'll talk about the class resource and then how this plays into it.

• 33:34

You'll notice if you look at the top left, there are now three resource bars for the

• 33:38

cleric and that third one you might've seen going up and down as he's up and as Steven's

• 33:43

been healing.

• 33:45

But this resource regenerates based on how much healing and damage you've been doing

• 33:50

over the last 10 seconds.

• 33:52

So the more radiant damage and the more you're healing and it's only effective healing, so

• 33:56

you can't over heal for this, but the more you're doing it, the faster this resource

• 34:00

will build up.

• 34:01

And the way you spend this resource is on an ability called divine infusion.

• 34:07

And what this is, is if you have enough resource to complete the cast of a spell, you can use

• 34:14

this during the cast of a spell and it will auto complete that spell.

• 34:17

I've never actually seen a mechanic like this in a game before.

• 34:20

It was a pretty cool idea that came up across the design team.

• 34:23

Yeah, very cool.

• 34:25

Okay, so essentially I am going to build up some of the unique energy.

• 34:31

I'm going to do that by healing Bucky and then I am going to use a long cast ability

• 34:37

and I'm going to attempt to use divine infusion to complete that cast sooner than normally

• 34:42

would be possible.

• 34:44

And just to be clear, if I were not to let's say use that ability, then I would have a

• 34:49

passive benefit for my character while that energy is maintained that amplifies some spell

• 34:57

efficacy as a healer.

• 34:59

Yep.

• 35:00

Cool.

• 35:01

Okay, so let me try to get some of this stuff.

• 35:07

Whoops.

• 35:08

Oh, I got one off of that.

• 35:12

Okay, so it's gradually earning it over time.

• 35:15

Yeah, like when you heal it kind of gives you some generation of this resource then

• 35:19

it kind of rewards you the actual resource over time so you can see it kind of filling

• 35:24

in your bar.

• 35:25

Yeah, we've been referring to this as like a heat mechanic, right?

• 35:28

So it's not like a direct instant translation of you heal this much and you get this resource

• 35:34

immediately.

• 35:35

It's like ramping up your region and build up rate.

• 35:41

Okay.

• 35:43

Alright now I'm going to use judgment and then I'm going to pop my divine infusion.

• 35:52

That's bad.

• 35:53

I don't think it would work.

• 35:56

Oh, look at that and it consumes some of that.

• 36:01

Okay, very cool.

• 36:02

Yeah, I was able to do two.

• 36:05

I like that.

• 36:07

Another oh shit button.

• 36:11

Very cool.

• 36:12

Yeah, cleric, this version of the cleric has a lot of tools in its kit.

• 36:16

Just to set expectations, you know, that not any given cleric build would probably have

• 36:21

all of these things.

• 36:22

You would spec into certain ones.

• 36:25

Most likely we're still working that out.

• 36:29

Awesome.

• 36:30

Okay, so let's take a look then at some of those more offensive abilities.

• 36:35

Let us perhaps find a potential target here.

• 36:40

Group of minotaurs right up here.

• 36:42

Smite and condemn.

• 36:43

You think we can peel just one of them off?

• 36:45

I can grapple one.

• 36:46

Let me actually heal you.

• 36:47

You can heal me.

• 36:48

Yeah, I tried to get sleep the other two actually too.

• 36:51

Oh, let me set my cooldowns so that I'm not cheating too much back to standard.

• 36:58

Want to sleep the back two, Tread?

• 37:00

And I'll grapple the front one.

• 37:02

Sure.

• 37:03

Alright, and then I'm going to use what is smite first before we do that?

• 37:08

What is smite?

• 37:11

Smite's just a...well, you can use it in two different ways, as is the running theme with

• 37:17

a lot of our abilities, but you can use it from a range and it'll have a cast time and

• 37:20

just do damage to the target.

• 37:24

If you use it in melee, it's an instant cast.

• 37:26

So again, one of those things that you get a little more benefit for if you're up front.

• 37:31

Okay, so it's going to apply a stack of burning and deal instant damage to the target.

• 37:39

Okay, and then just real quick, condemn is a straight up just stun?

• 37:43

Correct.

• 37:44

Yep.

• 37:45

Casted stun.

• 37:46

Alright, very cool.

• 37:47

Okay, so in that case, let me start by casting judgment on it perhaps.

• 37:53

Okay.

• 37:54

While you prepare to sleep those two rain collars.

• 37:58

Okay.

• 37:59

Okay, ready?

• 38:00

Casting judgment.

• 38:03

Alright.

• 38:05

Okay, now you're good tank if you want to grab it.

• 38:12

Good luck.

• 38:15

Alright.

• 38:16

Oh, smite, that's kind of cool.

• 38:24

Oh, that's very cool.

• 38:27

How you doing over there?

• 38:32

Oh, GM Dread's taking some health.

• 38:38

Very cool.

• 38:41

Okay.

• 38:43

Getting the hang of this?

• 38:52

I noticed that on this wand, I'm getting some health back a little bit.

• 38:58

This has some minimal life steal or something?

• 39:02

Yeah, I think it's the one from Carfin.

• 39:04

It's like a Carfin wand, yeah.

• 39:06

Nice, very cool.

• 39:07

Little passive life leech.

• 39:09

Very cool.

• 39:11

Alright, so I noticed that we have a quest in this area.

• 39:15

Or what is this?

• 39:16

This is not a quest, this is a story arc.

• 39:18

Yep.

• 39:19

Yeah, so we're going to try and go through this area and we're looking for, I think the

• 39:23

first part of the quest is a bag.

• 39:25

You're on the quest, right Steven?

• 39:26

Looking for a back tax?

• 39:27

Yes, I am on the quest.

• 39:28

So let me just, here, why don't we just stand here real quick.

• 39:32

Up near the bridge.

• 39:35

I just want to get a look at this.

• 39:36

That looks great.

• 39:38

Yeah, that does look really cool.

• 39:40

It's an old abandoned ruin.

• 39:43

Yeah, this is just a beautiful area.

• 39:46

I mean, it's, you know, I love what the environment team has done.

• 39:50

The ruins, the god rays, everything.

• 39:54

Great job here.

• 39:55

So what are we doing next?

• 39:57

What is this quest?

• 39:59

Obviously some bandits have been expelled from the area.

• 40:03

There's some minotaurs and whatnot.

• 40:04

What are we doing here?

• 40:05

Yeah, so we're kind of coordinating with one of the bandit leaders, so I think we're going

• 40:09

to have to find his bag to go meet up with him.

• 40:12

We've got to fight through some minotaurs first.

• 40:14

Okay, all right, cool.

• 40:16

I got your back.

• 40:18

You just, you do your thing, chicken wing.

• 40:20

I got you.

• 40:21

I got a wargriz too.

• 40:24

All right.

• 40:27

I brought some friends.

• 40:33

No, you're good, you're good, you're good.

• 40:38

I got you.

• 40:39

The bear's looking at me.

• 40:40

Oh, he's charging.

• 40:41

Oh, he mauled you.

• 40:44

Did he knock you down?

• 40:46

Yeah, I got knocked over a little bit.

• 40:47

I can knock him down too.

• 40:50

Get him.

• 40:53

Nice, very nice ball lightning.

• 40:57

Okay, trad, doing some deeps.

• 41:00

Here, I can help you out with the deeps.

• 41:04

The spring collars is on you.

• 41:07

Wow, it knows who the real threat in the party is.

• 41:12

He's like, I'm the only healer.

• 41:17

This gris has so much health.

• 41:18

Oh, I'm going.

• 41:19

Oh, nice.

• 41:20

Flash cure.

• 41:21

I got you.

• 41:22

Flash cure.

• 41:23

Flash cure.

• 41:24

Look at that maximum efficacy on the deliverance.

• 41:29

Oh my god, there's a bear.

• 41:33

Oh no.

• 41:35

He's sleeping it.

• 41:40

Don't hit that bear.

• 41:41

We're good.

• 41:42

This bear has so much health.

• 41:49

Okay, mana consumption's not too bad so far with the kid.

• 41:55

Of course, as you guys all know, oh god, it's standing.

• 41:58

It's sensing you.

• 41:59

It can smell the chocolate in your pockets like, what's that?

• 42:04

Mana consumption's not too bad.

• 42:08

Now, obviously, I know we haven't gone through really a balance pass between mana consumption

• 42:13

and cool downs and health returns.

• 42:16

So as you guys are watching, just keep that in mind.

• 42:18

This is work in progress.

• 42:20

We're really trying to stand up the core functionality of the kit and getting its play style to represent

• 42:26

the role, especially within Synergy of the Holy Trinity.

• 42:32

Hey, that wasn't too bad.

• 42:37

You handled that grouping pretty well.

• 42:40

Thank you.

• 42:41

That's some good coordination there.

• 42:42

We almost got him.

• 42:43

All right, there we go.

• 42:44

Oh, yeah, there's two more in here.

• 42:50

Just bringing them over to you.

• 42:51

You know, I don't want my tank to have to run so much, right?

• 42:54

Thank you, yes, I appreciate it.

• 42:55

Yeah, no worries.

• 42:56

Or should I be like one of those other tanks like, you touch the mobs, you tank it.

• 43:01

How dare you?

• 43:02

Don't you ever be in my party.

• 43:07

You know, those types of tanks, and I know they're out there, but if you are forcing

• 43:20

someone else in the party to heal, it's because you're not keeping a face.

• 43:26

True, facts.

• 43:28

Very true.

• 43:30

This is a nice little area.

• 43:31

Okay, we're just taking a seat here.

• 43:32

I know, just resting up, getting my mana back.

• 43:35

Taking in the views, very nice.

• 43:37

The views of the-

• 43:38

So, okay, talk- The views of the shed, I was looking behind me.

• 43:42

I'm looking behind me.

• 43:44

I don't just look at a shed and say views, but-

• 43:46

You guys are out of control.

• 43:47

Okay, so talk to me a little bit about UI versus action healing, right?

• 43:53

Obviously, I have mained healers in the past.

• 43:56

One of the things I enjoy between the predictive nature of healing and the reactive nature

• 44:01

of it is that it's very two different tempos, and I like both of them, right?

• 44:05

If I have to kind of- Wait, hold on before I get into this.

• 44:09

What is this?

• 44:10

Is this a backpack?

• 44:11

Is that a splints bag?

• 44:12

I don't touch bags that I don't own.

• 44:15

One of you guys want to- Okay, should I do it?

• 44:19

It'll update the story arc for everyone in the area, right?

• 44:21

I think so.

• 44:22

If somebody can find it.

• 44:23

Okay, go ahead.

• 44:24

Yeah.

• 44:25

Splints bags must be nearby.

• 44:28

Does it update for me?

• 44:31

I don't know.

• 44:32

You try clicking it.

• 44:33

Okay, I will say- Oh, it did.

• 44:36

It just updated for me.

• 44:37

Okay, got you.

• 44:38

Cool.

• 44:39

All right, there we go.

• 44:40

As you guys know, obviously, UI is very work in progress.

• 44:42

We're still working on this.

• 44:43

Okay, so predictive versus kind of reactive healing.

• 44:48

I like both, right?

• 44:49

I love the- Excuse me.

• 44:52

I like the ability for me to kind of have control over the engagement and predict where

• 44:57

I'm going to need to- This is a beautiful view.

• 45:00

Where I'm going to need to heal, but I also like the kind of whack-a-mole gameplay where

• 45:04

I'm interfacing with my- Oh, and let me see if I can move this, actually.

• 45:09

As a healer, I tend to have my bar a little bit closer.

• 45:16

Do I move anything else?

• 45:18

Hold on.

• 45:19

I'll move my health plate.

• 45:21

I feel like when I start a new fight, I tend to be a lot more reactive because I'm not

• 45:26

used to the damage patterns as much as a healer, but then as you kind of get more familiar

• 45:30

and you kind of know what to expect, you can start being a lot more predictive, which can

• 45:34

certainly improve your performance, and it's good to have tools for both in any kit.

• 45:39

Oh, yeah, for sure.

• 45:41

Totally agree.

• 45:42

I see Splint across the way.

• 45:44

Oh, is he up there, up on that tower?

• 45:46

Yeah.

• 45:47

See his rope he climbed up with, maybe.

• 45:49

Am I supposed to be killing- Are we killing him, or are we talking to him?

• 45:52

No, I think we're- Oh, we're getting a chest key.

• 45:54

Yeah, we're going to coordinate with him.

• 45:56

He wants to get these minotaurs out of the bandit camps.

• 45:59

We have to work with the enemy a little bit here.

• 46:01

Okay, so we're going down on this dry riverbed?

• 46:04

Yeah, I don't want to go through the front entrance.

• 46:06

There's a ton of minotaurs there, so I think we should try and fight through this way, maybe.

• 46:09

We got a wolf.

• 46:11

All right.

• 46:12

Oh, okay.

• 46:13

Little wolf.

• 46:14

Little baby wolf.

• 46:15

Oh, my gosh, he dodged my- What about you, Tread?

• 46:16

What do you like about predictive or reactive?

• 46:19

I definitely like- The more tools you give me, the better, right?

• 46:23

I think we'll have different specs that lean one way or the other for all kinds of different

• 46:30

clerics.

• 46:31

Obviously, as everyone knows, our class system will- You'll be able to pick your class based

• 46:38

on primary and sub-archetype, and different classes will lean into different directions.

• 46:45

Some will be more predictive.

• 46:47

When we say predictive, we're usually talking like hots and stuff are going to be a lot

• 46:53

more predictive healers.

• 46:56

Like pre-shielding.

• 46:57

Yeah, pre-shielding and that kind of thing, whereas reactive is going to be a lot more

• 47:00

like instant heals that might be less efficient, but more adaptable to certain situations.

• 47:10

Heal me up, Steven.

• 47:12

I got you.

• 47:13

You got me.

• 47:14

I got you.

• 47:15

You're getting that full deliverance value there.

• 47:16

I think there's a bug on my targeting.

• 47:18

I think the target switches off of you for some reason.

• 47:23

My bad.

• 47:24

I see you're throwing in some condemns there, weren't you?

• 47:28

You were stunning the- Yeah, I was doing a little bit of, you know.

• 47:32

I was trying to help out.

• 47:33

That's good.

• 47:34

I like when healers can help with the DPS and the healing.

• 47:36

Do we want to grab these guys?

• 47:37

I was not going to go this way, but okay.

• 47:41

Okay, okay.

• 47:42

We can do it.

• 47:43

Just sleep the black one.

• 47:44

We got it.

• 47:45

We got it.

• 47:46

Yeah.

• 47:47

Sleep a couple of them.

• 47:48

Sleep them.

• 47:49

Sleep them.

• 47:50

Don't wait.

• 47:51

Nice sleep.

• 47:52

Nice sleep.

• 47:53

I was going to sneak around, but we can just blast through the front door.

• 47:58

Why not?

• 47:59

We need to show off our ability.

• 48:02

Yes.

• 48:03

Maybe sleep again?

• 48:04

Nope, nope.

• 48:05

Sleep has a decent cooldown.

• 48:06

Yeah, ten seconds.

• 48:07

You're doing some good kiting.

• 48:08

I am totally kiting these guys.

• 48:09

I got three of them, I think.

• 48:10

All right, sleep.

• 48:11

Yeah, healers will be generating threat, right?

• 48:12

I see they're noticing your healing, so they're going after you.

• 48:13

It's taking me a bit of effort to get them to come back.

• 48:14

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:15

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:16

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:17

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:18

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:19

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:24

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:33

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:42

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:49

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:55

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 49:04

Look at that easy peasy lemon was even close

• 49:08

Winner winner chicken dinner any other types of sayings you want to add to that not even close baby. Yes, thank you

• 49:18

Great job great job. Yeah, well done

• 49:20

I didn't even get to you do my like wings of salvation jump to and oh

• 49:26

Very good. Look at that such a good combo. It's clean so clean clean kill

• 49:31

Yeah, we can just go. You know we were gonna sneak around. Yeah, I want to

• 49:36

Think no no no stop stop. Wait. There's more

• 49:42

One at a time what's up a time here don't don't do anything after I get all crazy here

• 49:49

Let me just sleep this wolf over here or not sleep put him down

• 49:53

I think I just got another one spot

• 50:06

All right come down this way

• 50:10

Okay, let's go this way yeah the side entrance we didn't have to do any of that

• 50:14

Oh, we did then how else would we not how else will we farm yeah, it's right

• 50:21

Come on, bro. You got some maybe

• 50:24

This is cool. Okay, so like a little back entrance. All right, let's get through on the main gate

• 50:29

Think we can sneak around. We should be careful

• 50:32

Careful in this area though because we like it

• 50:35

Yeah, yeah, you know this I feel like we can

• 50:38

Probably pull a little bit extra and see just how much we can tax this healer

• 50:45

What do you guys think all right? I'll pull these three up here and maybe that fourth one

• 50:51

Potential

• 50:56

The gate all it's gonna be good I'm gonna stun I'm gonna stun the wall nice job. I'm taking some heels

• 51:03

Oh

• 51:07

Right now all right

• 51:10

Next you get these I'll get back on this fire for his fire. Yeah. Yeah, try to a leaf can't

• 51:16

Hey, we'd all down big a we do a trip

• 51:21

I'm doing a delayed heal

• 51:26

Yes maximum a we power

• 51:30

Are you doing the?

• 51:32

The wave attack to you. Yes. I want so good

• 51:38

Delayed heal

• 51:40

Nice getting back all the value out of it try to get out some judgment

• 51:52

Sleepo

• 51:54

Nice we got it easy. That was super easy

• 51:57

Either that or I'm just a literal god of a healer okay, probably

• 52:06

Using the full kit thank you here have a barrier that compliment

• 52:16

All right, I think we just got up to 13 here job

• 52:21

One more we need to have a discussion with world design for this population. I mean it's just it's not challenging

• 52:27

Yeah, yeah, 100 minute tours in here double respawn rate 10 seconds here. I'll do another the group here. Oh

• 52:34

Yeah

• 52:38

I

• 52:44

Just trust I trust now

• 52:48

Yeah, just trust good I

• 52:50

Have full faith in my healer. I

• 52:52

Bought some additional mobs. Okay. Oh god. Oh my god. We're getting a little cocky here

• 53:01

He's no we're good. He flew too close to the Sun two seconds on sleep. Okay

• 53:07

Sleep coming out now. All right. All right

• 53:09

I think okay helping myself. Yeah, they're on you try to get them off you. Oh

• 53:22

My god

• 53:24

I'm dying

• 53:25

Where are you?

• 53:27

I'm running a little bit. I think I think they're off you

• 53:30

Okay, I'm now healing you again. I need some huge heels. Oh, I'm using my tank cooldown. Let's take I'm using the divine infusion

• 53:39

Oh, yes

• 53:45

Still on

• 53:47

I'm healing myself. My man is definitely going down

• 53:52

We got this we're almost gonna kill some come on. Let me put down these chains

• 53:56

I

• 53:58

Killing myself again

• 54:01

Again stay on the rain

• 54:05

Okay, I'll stand a rain collar

• 54:07

I'm gonna I'm gonna have to tell this other rain collar

• 54:10

We got it. We got it now. I am completely boom

• 54:17

All right, we made it we did it we did it I'm ready I'll do the killing blow on this guy

• 54:23

I'm running wait. What are you ready for? Okay. I was at 60 health and they were so okay. We got it. We got it

• 54:36

That was epic that was pretty epic that's good. That's pretty fun. That's actually pretty fun

• 54:42

I enjoyed that as a healer that was a oh shit moment

• 54:45

And there are many oh shit buttons for me to press we're talking about this man and not being balanced

• 54:49

But I think that was pretty good like you ran out of man just right there that fight like pretty good good first pass

• 54:55

Sound too bad now. We're gonna talk to splinter

• 54:58

program

• 54:59

gosh, dude

• 55:00

see and everybody says I am a

• 55:04

Crazy player. There's just not you know oh, okay?

• 55:10

This guy's kind of cool. What is he doing?

• 55:13

Hello, Flint

• 55:14

Splint talk to me nobody mentioned locking horns with minotaurs

• 55:20

Okay, and if we need to unlock a chest

• 55:23

He's not budging here take the key all right. I've gotten the key okay nice

• 55:29

I think the chest is in the main building somewhere. Yeah, let's go down here. Do you want to uh?

• 55:34

should we uh

• 55:35

Just even rest a little bit. You're still uh look pretty low on mana

• 55:39

I would be down to rest

• 55:41

Well, we should probably go this way. I actually I guess I think we'll run through here for a little bit

• 55:45

Yeah, let's get inside the building where we're going inside the building here follow me oh

• 55:49

That's right. We don't really need to let's see if we can just

• 55:53

Since we cleared this whole area. I wonder if we can yeah, I don't think there's anyone yeah in here

• 55:58

I think we gotta go down this little area. We're down here dark in the crypts secret basement

• 56:05

I let me give us some light hold on

• 56:11

Very nice, I got trans got some good

• 56:16

All the lights

• 56:18

follow the light

• 56:20

Here it is

• 56:24

So we're working together with his blint the bandit leader

• 56:29

Wait hold on I wonder what happens if I put this shield on you while you have your shield on

• 56:32

I

• 56:38

Will shield switch you guys that's cool. It let it let loose this massive

• 56:45

Explosion what did that do I think we're working together with splint to?

• 56:50

Activate this ancient chest to

• 56:52

Think we're awakening some old spirits this place to try to drive out the minute or thing. That's the plan here. This is beautiful

• 57:02

Yeah, what's the next part of the quest with the light the light the signal fire like the brazier. I'm running up

• 57:10

Wait, you lost this area. Oh, where'd you go?

• 57:14

Steve-o there you are look to your left

• 57:16

We're over here. Hey, how do I get over there? Oh actually yeah?

• 57:20

Okay, all right there. We go upstairs even more over here. Oh nice

• 57:25

This is beautiful environment did a great job with this

• 57:28

Zachary and

• 57:32

Tristan and that's looks really great looks cool to explore. It's great job

• 57:38

beautiful

• 57:39

Look at how there is nice

• 57:42

Well this was a cool little

• 57:45

Incursion into oh look at this all the zombies

• 57:50

We've lit the beacon and the zombies have overtaken the minotaurs are still minotaur corpses

• 57:56

God, dude. We missed the bloodshed. I think we did all

• 58:00

Yeah, true to be honest these zombies shouldn't get any credit

• 58:03

That's super cool very cool. Well guys. I hope you all enjoyed this brief look at the update

• 58:09

Well not brief

• 58:10

But look at the update of the cleric archetype and what you'll be expecting in alpha 2 obviously your feedback is incredibly important to us

• 58:17

Please keep in mind everything is a work in progress

• 58:20

And we use your feedback as part of our iteration process

• 58:23

So if you can give us your thoughts and what you enjoyed what you thought could be done better

• 58:29

In the YouTube video or in twitch or everywhere else

• 58:34

We will go through that and we will take a look, but we have enjoyed showing this Bucky and trad

• 58:40

Thank you guys for joining me very cool very fun, and I think I said a great job. Yeah, thanks for having us Gigi

• 58:46

All right, we'll see you guys back on stream. I'm going in ah

• 58:51

Wait let me jump to you

• 58:53

I come here. Wait wait here. It is boom

• 59:00

Bye guys out of control

• 59:15

Seems like y'all very much enjoyed that from the chat screen

• 59:20

I am gonna play it in the background while whilst we chat and answer some questions from

• 59:26

That we noticed that we want to make sure that you guys get to

• 59:30

Get answered and the first one here is well a we in action heals also heal raid and alliance members

• 59:40

Aoi a we action heals depending on the type

• 59:44

That's a broad description depending on the type if it's like if it's like a templated

• 59:48

A we yes, it would heal any

• 59:51

non

• 59:53

Non-combatants essentially yes

• 59:55

All right, and then the next question is can you walk through?

• 59:59

All the ways that you clerics can target and heal like F keys and things like that because we noticed that you were clicking on

• 1:00:05

Targets and stuff like that so like people just want to know if what are the ways that I can heal as a cleric

• 1:00:09

A lot of people like hover casting and things like that

• 1:00:13

Yeah, there's gonna be a pretty expansive

• 1:00:15

Functionality when it comes to the different types of targeting methods

• 1:00:19

That's something that's still being kind of worked on and will be included kind of later in the iteration phases from the combat team

• 1:00:26

The idea is that we are expansive as possible in that type of control schema

• 1:00:31

And that we leave it to the player to decide option wise which ones they want to use

• 1:00:37

Perfect perfect, I knew that that was going to be it

• 1:00:41

People have also been asking about smart casting specifically that was a very

• 1:00:45

One that people are interested, but it would yes with the options

• 1:00:49

Yes, I've spell if so and one other thing one other thing by the way real quick

• 1:00:54

On those additional options

• 1:00:56

We're also playing with a secondary targeting type where you can have a friendly target

• 1:01:01

Active as well as an enemy or main target active

• 1:01:04

So if you have duality and skills like some that are offensive and some that are defensive

• 1:01:09

We're gonna be testing that I think as part of alpha 2

• 1:01:13

Most likely as part of alpha 2 where you get to use that defensive targeting mechanism

• 1:01:17

Yeah, people wanted like to be able to target do target of target things. I mean, oh, yeah

• 1:01:23

I did already respond about that in the chat. I was like, we're gonna add more features like that. Don't worry

• 1:01:29

Revive spell obviously that's like a big thing. Everyone keeps bringing up, you know, someone dies for instance you accidentally nuked

• 1:01:36

accidentally

• 1:01:40

Accidentally

• 1:01:42

That he would be prevented from dying and would get 25% of his help

• 1:01:51

Specify that so, you know, it is what it is. No, we there are resurrection abilities. We didn't showcase them here

• 1:01:58

Because we haven't yet stood those up. They're relatively direct. We're not gonna do anything too fancy there

• 1:02:02

We have the ideas of including certain types of like mass resurrections

• 1:02:05

individual resurrections that have recuperation for a dead experience that gets accrued that is going to be a part of the resurrection aspect of

• 1:02:13

Things there is one ability here that prevents death and that was that one that we showed where Bucky died because I nuked him

• 1:02:19

But yes, there are resurrection abilities. Yes

• 1:02:23

And then can you move while casting every ability? Are there some you cannot move while casting?

• 1:02:29

They saw you moving a lot while casting and obviously that's something that's a big proponent for us is we want you to be able to

• 1:02:33

Move while casting. Yeah, absolutely. So so the a lot of abilities you have

• 1:02:41

The capability of moving while casting it's gonna decrease your movement speed significantly or depending on the type of ability

• 1:02:47

we do reserve the

• 1:02:50

Cost and that's really what it is when you type, you know tie ability usage to mobility

• 1:02:55

We do reserve the cost of requiring the character to remain stationary on some ability some big

• 1:03:02

You know effect type abilities. So it's kind of it's just spread out amongst the kit

• 1:03:07

Some are gonna be mobile some are gonna be completely mobile where there's no restriction and no slowdown

• 1:03:12

Some are gonna be completely restrictive where you can't move

• 1:03:14

It's just it's a it's a balancing act between what cost verse benefit

• 1:03:19

We want to have conferred through the effect of the ability. Yeah, if they're rooting you for a spell that spells go and do something good

• 1:03:27

Yeah

• 1:03:29

How are skills acquired during leveling? Can you walk through like how that functionality will work? Yeah, absolutely

• 1:03:36

So a lot of games in the past we've kind of you or season a lot of games in the past that we've played

• 1:03:41

Have this kind of skill point allocation system that you acquire through experience gain and you take those skill points and you spec them into

• 1:03:48

Your skill tree we're gonna follow a relatively similar path when it comes to skill progression

• 1:03:53

however, that's likely not gonna be tied directly to experience gain because we do have this concept of experience debt that does accrue and

• 1:04:00

We don't want to create an imbalance between skill points acquired versus experience

• 1:04:04

So we're gonna predicate your skill acquisition the skill points acquisition based on

• 1:04:10

Benchmarks you reach when leveling through a level, right?

• 1:04:13

So these gonna be at specific points in the level like, you know one quarter progress to half progress to three quarters progress

• 1:04:20

You're going to get an influx of skill points and then you'll be able to allocate them into your skill tree

• 1:04:27

Alright and then can I change the theme of my cleric like if I wanted to be more dark spells or nature-themed

• 1:04:34

Is that an option? So that's really where

• 1:04:39

The

• 1:04:40

Secondary class option which creates your class right the primary archetype not so much. That's that's relatively

• 1:04:47

Going to be more based around the players decisions in which skills they spec into in the skill tree not being able to change the skills

• 1:04:55

Themselves, but when you reach the class phase

• 1:04:57

Which is around level 25 and you introduce that secondary archetype selection to create your one of 64 classes

• 1:05:04

Then you'll have a number of augments that you'll be able to apply on a per ability basis

• 1:05:09

and your core ability kit comes from your primary archetype selection and those

• 1:05:13

Augments will change the look and feel of those abilities and some will have the effect to create more darker thematic

• 1:05:19

Aspects to it or you know, just generally different

• 1:05:24

aesthetics to the abilities that

• 1:05:27

represent the secondary class

• 1:05:29

selection

• 1:05:31

archetype selection

• 1:05:38

And then

• 1:05:40

Does the cleric resource make offensive spells instant cast and yes they do but I don't know if you want to talk a little

• 1:05:45

Bit about that. It's any any any cast effect that you have

• 1:05:49

And that's you know, one of the concerns about that particular energy mechanic that I had that

• 1:05:55

you know I express to the team is like how we balance whether or not that gets applied to pretty much any ability because

• 1:06:01

It is a bit of a subversion in the balancing act

• 1:06:04

You know

• 1:06:04

You want to kind of have minimum thresholds that players must meet must meet in order to confer an effect on a target

• 1:06:12

And so there's some concern there, but that's something we're gonna play test and balance out throughout alpha 2

• 1:06:18

We did some PvP fun earlier in the week and

• 1:06:23

Steven and Bucky and trad we're battling me Adam and Nat and it was

• 1:06:31

Later with Keenan

• 1:06:33

Yeah, it

• 1:06:35

Wasn't fair because you guys were CCing me and we haven't yet introduced CC breaks into the kits and I was just like

• 1:06:43

So what we did so giving strad right like our mage

• 1:06:47

Slept Steven and then I stunned trad and then we just blew trad up and I was I saved up my healing

• 1:06:55

Instant spell for my judgment so I could just do like this massive nuke. It was pretty pretty awesome

• 1:07:01

Please but yeah, you strategy cringe. Yeah, I mean I would call it strats

• 1:07:08

But you know, I needed the CC break abilities. We didn't have those right? That's true

• 1:07:13

Being able to break CCs is awesome to him

• 1:07:16

But I'm just letting folks know there is some strategy

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There's fun and even with the ability kits that we currently have we're having a lot of fun with it

• 1:07:23

Then the next question I think the last one we have here and we can move forward on to the next step

• 1:07:28

It's been a long stream already

• 1:07:30

Is how much of the cleric kit will be damage focus rather than healing because I saw you mostly casting healing spells whilst

• 1:07:38

Yeah

• 1:07:40

They're they're absolutely gonna be and we talked a little bit about this. There's going to be a

• 1:07:46

significant amount of offensive capability for the cleric because we don't want to create that dynamic where

• 1:07:52

cleric as a support class is is

• 1:07:55

Inoperable without a companion or a party to go with right?

• 1:07:59

I want that cleric to still be able to survive on their own to be able to level and progress as a solo player

• 1:08:05

And so because of that there's gonna be healthy combinations of offensive abilities

• 1:08:10

But when we talk about the current, you know class excuse me current archetype development

• 1:08:15

We focus right now on this phase around core role, right?

• 1:08:20

So we're talking about what is the core role for this particular?

• 1:08:22

Archetype within the Trinity system and that really focuses around support oriented gameplay

• 1:08:27

So you saw some offensive abilities some support abilities have dual purpose dual functionality depending on the target recipient

• 1:08:34

That could be offensive or defensive you might see that

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Excuse me, you might see that expressed more as we develop out the archetype further

• 1:08:42

but the idea is to create a

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A healer archetype that is not entirely dependent on companion or party which means they'll have offensive capabilities

• 1:08:52

Yeah, and like I said

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We were able to do some big damage like you can still do decent damage as a cleric

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You just have to know which skills to use and utilize them in coordination with other folks

• 1:09:04

And also there's synergy right like I can put buff like a debuff on the mob that then the mage can also

• 1:09:11

Exploit which is really handy. So there's a lot of like things like that that are really handy

• 1:09:17

And not only that but remember that a big component which is a probably one of the more

• 1:09:22

significant distinguishments between ashes of creations combat systems and what we were

• 1:09:27

Experiencing in other MMOs is that the weapon gameplay is a big component of synergy between your rotational

• 1:09:34

archetype abilities and

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the weapon combo attacks, so

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You'll often find that a lot of your offensive power from perhaps the more

• 1:09:44

Support oriented class roles is going to be found with interactions with their weapon combo as well

• 1:09:51

All right

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Well cool and that's it for the questions that we saw in the chat that like I feel like we community side

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We can answer all the other ones

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but

• 1:10:01

you know, so keep sending us our thoughts Vecna and Roshan are great about responding to folks and

• 1:10:06

Peter over on social we we do our best

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We're small but mighty team but we interact with as many people as possible

• 1:10:13

There is a thread over on the forums head on over give us some feedback on the cleric

• 1:10:17

We would love to know your thoughts. I don't know Steven if you want to add any additional

• 1:10:21

I know you talked about it in the other. Yeah, just fit there like what you're looking for for feedback

• 1:10:26

Absolutely, just just real quick

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You this video will be uploaded on YouTube within the next hour or two tops I would say and it's full 4k glory

• 1:10:34

and it's full 4k glory and when you guys are thinking about the types of

• 1:10:39

Feedback that you can provide us

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tempo of gameplay

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the distribution and types of effects conferred from the abilities

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in addition to

• 1:10:50

The mechanics of the combat and the encounter itself and the synergies with other classes

• 1:10:56

Obviously you don't need to give me feedback on my gameplay

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I know that it really couldn't have been better than it was and that that was probably the best cleric gameplay you've ever seen

• 1:11:04

Do you want to give them some practice to?

• 1:11:09

Like he can't even see them give the man a break

• 1:11:16

When it mattered and we got into the ocean moments I pulled off that just fine. Yeah

• 1:11:22

You know and I and I hover over the abilities because I forget what the icons are

• 1:11:26

So it's it with the with the class. So anyways, you don't need to comment on my glorious gameplay

• 1:11:31

I already know you all love it. That's fine. Keep that out of the commentary

• 1:11:35

That's why I was trying to give them like I was trying to tell them there is strategy to abilities, you know

• 1:11:40

Just gotta use them in a certain way

• 1:11:43

Yeah, he doesn't need feedback on his gameplay

• 1:11:45

Just wanted to know about the combat and the abilities and we have any feedback you want is all good

• 1:11:50

We we have a great community team that always runs through we sit through the comments

• 1:11:54

We make sure it's used the reports that we're putting forward to our team are really useful. They seem to like them

• 1:12:00

They love your guys's feedback and your your suggestions. So please send them our way

• 1:12:05

They're a lot of fun to read through as well

• 1:12:07

And we just want one other real quick point just last point is I want to make a point of that

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You know, we have not gone through our optimization pass and just to be clear when you look at things like frame rate or you see

• 1:12:20

You know dips in that frame rate or you see, you know, anything that has to do with kind of performance or optimization

• 1:12:27

Efforts that pass hasn't come yet

• 1:12:29

So we're doing something a bit unique in the sense that we're showing active

• 1:12:34

development at the time that things are being developed and because of that you're not gonna see the parts that have yet to be worked on which

• 1:12:40

Is polish pass optimization pass, you know

• 1:12:43

all of those things come at the end of the development cycle because things may change more heavily during

• 1:12:50

Development than they might when it's ready for a polish phase, right?

• 1:12:54

And so we try to get everything kind of nailed down and all the iteration stuff done as much as we can possibly

• 1:12:59

During that development phase before we go in and actually polish it now because we're transparent development process

• 1:13:05

Obviously the things that we want to show we do dial up a little bit further than normal

• 1:13:09

Perhaps across the rest of our systems and core pillars and designs in the world and that's acceptable

• 1:13:14

There's a little bit of risk there when it comes to like the loss of work potential if things do need to change

• 1:13:18

Animations might change because you have to think about it from a pipeline perspective if animations change VFX has to adapt audio effects has to adapt

• 1:13:25

Right those things the timing has to kind of get changed especially when it comes to ability production

• 1:13:30

So just keep that in mind as you're giving this feedback

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Yeah

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all the all the teams that have to work after the pipeline of something being like that or like the support like sound effects VFX

• 1:13:40

Like it's a it's a lot but our teams are awesome. They're badasses as you can see

• 1:13:46

We have a very small character art update. So I will just be showing off a couple things here

Art Update

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And so you can see the tarnished

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Sky raiders set here

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beautiful

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Beautiful. I do have a turntable for this as well. I'll play that

• 1:14:14

Oh

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Very nice who worked on this this one was Danny

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Danny's have that prepared now

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Yeah, I love the the chain links there if I can see that quite well

• 1:14:26

Uh and the the golds and the trim around the cloth and that's very cool. Yeah, it looks great

• 1:14:34

and then we've got the um

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Ambitious academic set and we're showing it off on the vec which we know everyone always is asking about the vec

• 1:14:43

So getting a little look at this one

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You know don't look at the vet can think

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That they're devious or that no, they're star. They're up to no good. This is just

• 1:14:58

This is just how they are as a society, right?

• 1:15:02

They're they're inspected

• 1:15:05

They're looking at you and they're just sizing you up, right?

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And they're determining what they should think of you. They're very suspicious suspicious culture the division between

• 1:15:15

Um the ren kai and the vec was not a very happy and peaceful one

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So something to keep in mind

• 1:15:22

Be interesting to see now you're gonna have vec and renkai people battling and rp'ing

• 1:15:28

Steven look what you started another war

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Um, but yeah, the lore is pretty exciting stuff

• 1:15:37

So I know people will love hearing a little tidbit about that and we've we've gotten a lot of feedback in regards to

• 1:15:43

Some people not liking the hunched stance, but honestly, it's kind of yeah, and there's some people who like it

• 1:15:48

So it's like well, you gotta think you gotta think when you when you start playing with poses, right?

• 1:15:52

Um, why do you do that? Um from from a art

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perspective when you want to give players a distance preview threat assessment of the opponents

• 1:16:02

They might be facing especially a pvp game

• 1:16:05

Silhouettes matter and the shape language of that silhouette is a little bit difficult sometimes to distinguish between races that share similar head height

• 1:16:13

And so one of the ways you can break that shape language or silhouette

• 1:16:16

Up is by incorporating different stances and different

• 1:16:20

Different animations that can confer the threat assessment or the idea of what that race is at a distance

• 1:16:26

Amongst races of similar head height. And so I think this this plays well to the vec to their to their creature model

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Um, uh, and it gives them a bit of character, right? Yeah

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I think that all of our races have a lot of characteristics to them and hopefully people enjoy them so far

• 1:16:42

It seems like a lot of people are enjoying them

• 1:16:44

So far it seems like people do there's little bits of feedback here and there from folks and with that we're going to head on over

• 1:16:51

To q a and i'll play the video a little bit more as well. So you guys have something to look at whilst

• 1:16:59

we are

• 1:17:00

Chatting here and answering some wonderful questions from the forums

• 1:17:05

Oh, actually, do you want to do studio update first do you have like a few things that you want to talk about on that front

• 1:17:11

Um, summer's been in full swing. Um studios continuing to grow. We're having a plethora of

Studio Update

• 1:17:17

Wonderful candidates that are that are joining we did finish our um, our milestone

• 1:17:24

our milestone last

• 1:17:26

At the beginning of this month where we had a lot of internal play testing

• 1:17:29

Um, all of that play testing was was phenomenal to see within the studio

• 1:17:33

um, um and

• 1:17:35

You know as you can see combat is making a significant strides forward across these different archetypes

• 1:17:41

Which we'll be getting additional play testing around and you guys will see more

• 1:17:45

Updates too in the future nodes was previously planned as the um

• 1:17:50

As the showcase for this month, but those of you who have been uh following along on

• 1:17:56

Discord and socials and forums you'll know that that got pushed to next month

• 1:18:00

The team required a little bit more time to bake that

• 1:18:02

Uh presentation so that we're able to cover all the topics we want to cover. Um, and uh, yeah, otherwise things are going great

• 1:18:09

That's awesome to hear. That's what we like to hear

• 1:18:12

Now we'll move on to the q a I was just trying to make sure you guys got your bingo card

• 1:18:18

Cheating I know

Outro and Q&A

• 1:18:20

All right moving on to our q a here

• 1:18:23

I will get you something to watch while we do it. So the first one here is from norcore who wants to know about

• 1:18:32

Uh data mining will some kind of technology be utilized to delay data mining example

• 1:18:38

Holding assets data on the servers instead of clients and only streaming it to the clients on demand. Yeah

• 1:18:44

Yeah, um within our architectures. There are some uh plans for us to kind of mitigate as much as as possible

• 1:18:53

Um the data mining, uh to a degree, but ultimately there's just going to be some amount of information

• 1:18:58

That's not possible to be kept from data mining

• 1:19:01

Um, however, we do have uh some plans in place, uh to help mitigate that

• 1:19:06

Also for people who don't know about the bingo card

• 1:19:09

You need to join our discord if you haven't joined it yet

• 1:19:12

They have lots of great conversations over there a little trolly sometimes but you know, that's a

• 1:19:17

Do you win anything for the bingo card? No, it's just fun, you know

• 1:19:20

They try to they try to predict what's going to be in this dream

• 1:19:23

I like they get like a bingo, you know

• 1:19:25

It's they should keep tabs of each month of the winners of the bingo or something. Yeah, like a whole list

• 1:19:31

I told them when i'm 80. I still want them to be doing the bingo card because I think it's nice

• 1:19:36

I want to be like 80 on like the

• 1:19:38

30 hundredth ashes of creation virtual game where we're like locked in no i'm just kidding

• 1:19:43

Um that time by that time we're launched. So don't worry about that

• 1:19:47

Yeah, we're launched and we're also making like a whole nother game

• 1:19:50

And now it's like you are in a suit and in the world. No, uh ace1234 wants to know about mpc interactions

• 1:19:59

Can you influence mpcs or mobs when interacting with them by using your knowledge of their unique personalities?

• 1:20:06

Slash routines lore or general knowledge of the world state

• 1:20:12

hmm, we haven't planned for any type of like

• 1:20:17

branching dialogue

• 1:20:19

Personalities that give insight to those types of things and I don't believe that's planned for our narrative design. No

• 1:20:26

There is however some potential faction-based reputations that can be had

• 1:20:32

And those reputations might send the npcs down different behavior trees

• 1:20:36

um

• 1:20:38

And that is something

• 1:20:41

That is incorporated but if I understand the question correctly it's more along the lines of like

• 1:20:46

Catering specific dialogue responses, um that will send down different dialogue branches and that's not planned

• 1:20:54

Okay

• 1:20:55

and then, uh

• 1:20:57

Roni skiponi, I always love your name. I want to know about weapons

• 1:21:00

Will there be any weapons that heal or buff allies rather than dealing damage? Uh, yeah, actually we were

• 1:21:09

One of the weapons that was as part of the cleric's, uh

• 1:21:13

Development process here for this latest iteration on the archetype

• 1:21:17

Was a weapon that had an alternate heal functionality to it. So i'll leave um

• 1:21:24

I will leave that until that gets further developed and I can give you more definitive answers along those paths

• 1:21:29

Um, but it is something that the design team has been looking at. Yes

• 1:21:34

Cool, and then rocket farmer wants to know about cleric lore

• 1:21:38

What can you share about the organizations and lore that surrounds and supports the cleric archetype?

• 1:21:45

Um one of the probably biggest um delineations from your

• 1:21:50

Standard trope in mmorpgs is that the cleric does not receive their powers from a divine source

• 1:21:57

At least not in the sense that is standard

• 1:22:00

Um, it is still something that is tied intrinsically to the use and manipulation of the essence as a as a source of magic

• 1:22:07

Now the source of that essence is up to question. Uh, there are some claims about it that might apply a divine interaction

• 1:22:16

um, but

• 1:22:18

Uh generally it's not as though you're being imbued by these powers from the gods and that the gods can take them away

• 1:22:24

Should you step out of line in your alignment, you know, like that's the more tropey dnd type, uh, esq

• 1:22:30

Approach like paladin oath by correct. I got you. Yes, exactly

• 1:22:35

Um, so yeah, that's an element. I think of the cleric that's probably been misunderstood or hasn't been

• 1:22:41

Uh expressed and there will be more lore that you will explore throughout the world

• 1:22:44

We don't want to give you at all, you know, yes, very true

• 1:22:48

Um, our next one here is from cast. I who wants to know about armor pieces

• 1:22:51

How often will armor be part of an entire armor set with other cosmetically matching pieces versus?

• 1:22:58

Unique armor pieces that don't match or go along with anything else in the game

• 1:23:02

So for instance, there's a lot of games where you go collect all the pieces and now they match

• 1:23:07

Will there be exactly, you know a balance of both?

• 1:23:10

There is a balance of both set pieces and non-set pieces

• 1:23:14

Um, and usually you're going to see at higher

• 1:23:18

uh grades within a tier

• 1:23:21

Are going to be more predominantly set driven and the lower interstitial

• 1:23:27

power levels of the gear for that tier are are the uh, potentially bespoke pieces

• 1:23:32

Um, and you know, obviously those pieces are catered around a number of different. Um,

• 1:23:37

Interactions such as ones you get from quests ones that you get from drops ones that you can craft ones that you get from

• 1:23:42

legendary bosses ones that you get from

• 1:23:44

um, um guild oriented tasks or or in-game favor and unique currencies

• 1:23:51

So there's like there's there's different types of acquisition models

• 1:23:54

And each of them has a spattering of either bespoke pieces or set oriented pieces and there are even varying

• 1:24:01

Levels of set pieces as well. So

• 1:24:04

You might have a full, you know, eight piece set or a three piece set or five piece set

• 1:24:09

Depending on where it lives within the tier

• 1:24:11

All right, and then bernie7 and devmage. We have two people who are kind of asking this question

• 1:24:17

It's about cleric gameplay

• 1:24:19

How are you trying to balance the cleric in regards to group play versus solo content while still keeping the archetype fun?

• 1:24:27

Yeah, so we touched a little bit with a little bit on this earlier, um, which is that you know, we don't want to create an

• 1:24:33

Archetype that's gimp when it comes to soloing which means that it needs to have a well-rounded. Uh, um,

• 1:24:38

um, uh kit that's capable of sufficing, uh from a solo gameplay perspective, but also

• 1:24:45

Is fun dynamic and fill fulfills its role within a party setting

• 1:24:51

And so what that means is really it's left to the agency of the player to kind of spec into the skill trees

• 1:24:56

Uh that is most relevant to their type of gameplay

• 1:24:59

So if you want to go harder into the more support oriented group focused skills

• 1:25:04

You're going to allocate skill points into that aspect of the tree if you're tending to be more of a solo-esque player

• 1:25:11

Not necessarily fulfilling your role within a party setting you can focus in more on the ability kit that gives you access to those

• 1:25:18

single target

• 1:25:19

single target dpses and solo gameplay oriented, um skills

• 1:25:23

So yeah, especially as you're moving into your secondary art archetypes within those

• 1:25:28

well, and the secondary archetype really just

• 1:25:31

Opens the lid on the types of customization options that the player has access to further allowing them to spec towards

• 1:25:39

Either solo gameplay or group oriented gameplay now incorporating aspects and elements of the other

• 1:25:45

archetypes as part of that design but we haven't gotten into that yet because

• 1:25:49

Alpha 2 really is focused around the base archetypes and how they fulfill their roles or their you know

• 1:25:54

What we expect players want to have from a class fantasy perspective

• 1:25:57

Um, and then once we've kind of mastered that element, uh, we take that into the augment section and we start allocating

• 1:26:04

Effects that resemble the schools of those based archetypes across the class structure

• 1:26:11

Gonna be exciting

• 1:26:13

That's gonna be when the fun really really starts

• 1:26:16

Um and dilliam wants to know about freehold sieges following a successful siege of a node

• 1:26:21

Will there be any players that are not allowed to attack slash defend freeholds of that node such as players who didn't participate?

• 1:26:29

In the siege and kind of to give you context here stephen

• 1:26:32

Uh, there has been discussion in regards to like freeloaders

• 1:26:35

Basically people who aren't part of the siege but now can go in and like steal things from the freeholds

• 1:26:40

People don't feel like that that's necessarily yeah

• 1:26:43

We've we've talked a little bit about in the past and this is something that gets iterated on

• 1:26:50

But I will give you guys insight to the thought process that will help inform the decisions we choose

• 1:26:57

When we go through iteration and testing, um, so essentially, you know

• 1:27:01

I've thought about this in the past as well, and I agree with you that it's not necessarily fair or desirable I guess

• 1:27:08

Um to have certain players who would refuse to participate in an event

• 1:27:12

Uh in in instead wait to see the outcome and then choose the side which they want to participate especially when you think about

• 1:27:20

Especially when you think about node sieges creating an aftermath of um

• 1:27:25

of an open open world battlegrounds essentially in the ruins where there are a number of

• 1:27:32

resources and or loot and spoils that can be acquired or salvaged depending on if you're the attacker or defending side

• 1:27:39

One of the ideas we've thought about is it's potentially possible that for that event either castle siege or node sieges

• 1:27:46

You would have a ladder of participation kpi, right like excuse me participation stats

• 1:27:52

And in those participation stats

• 1:27:55

You would say that the top 100 or the top 200 players have access

• 1:28:02

To the open world battlegrounds in order to recover the spoiled the spoils the loot or recovery

• 1:28:08

That's a potential thing that we can incorporate

• 1:28:11

Um as well if we feel that the objective of the system, which is player participation

• 1:28:18

You know the outcome and reward phases and the gameplay loops that are incorporated with that are not necessarily

• 1:28:24

Being done in a manner

• 1:28:26

Uh that is intended right?

• 1:28:28

In addition to that you could you could be less selective in the ladder and more geared towards just those who were online

• 1:28:35

And or participating within the event on the attacker defender side and made a choice there, too

• 1:28:40

so there's a lot of different dials and levers that we can kind of play with to

• 1:28:45

Adjust the system so that we're getting the outcome we want which is essentially player participation

• 1:28:50

And that includes both incentives, uh as well as detriments

• 1:28:54

And so to kind of recap that like that's something that you guys are gonna play with and test and see what the final decision

• 1:28:59

Will be so if you have thoughts on this as we put these things into place and we request feedback

• 1:29:04

Definitely send us your feedback on that front. The next one here is from thumbs and they want to know about freehold taxes

• 1:29:11

What will happen if a freehold owner doesn't log in for a while but has the money in their account to play?

• 1:29:18

To pay for the debt and taxes associated with their freehold will money be automatically withdrawn to pay debts or will they foreclose their place?

• 1:29:27

Yeah

• 1:29:27

We've talked about this also in the past in the design side of whether or not we want to allow people to kind of either

• 1:29:31

Pre-pay taxes or if we want to allow them to deduct

• 1:29:36

the tax payment from

• 1:29:38

A warehouse facility or storage facility or off the character itself

• 1:29:42

Um, we have a few different thoughts on this. We're going to be playing with this a little bit in

• 1:29:46

an alpha 2 as well

• 1:29:48

I will say that the desire of the system is not that people would lose or default on the taxes owed due to

• 1:29:56

Um due to just kind of missing the payment time if they're gone for a week or something

• 1:30:00

So there will be a mechanism either

• 1:30:03

By which they can prepay or by which the system will deduct from a location designated by the player either inventory or warehouse

• 1:30:11

Okay

• 1:30:13

And then davey wavy wants to know about family systems

• 1:30:16

Are you open to the idea of removing the family system if alpha 2 feedback suggests it?

• 1:30:21

Or is it something that is in the game for good regardless of feedback?

• 1:30:25

Um, there are okay, so let me answer this more broadly

• 1:30:30

Um, there are elements of the game design that are core to the game itself

• 1:30:36

Those core designs will never change

• 1:30:40

Aspects of the core functionality that's intended

• 1:30:44

May be tweaked and changed the family system is not a core pillar of ashes

• 1:30:48

Core pillar of ashes and so like many systems and ashes the purpose of these alphas and testing periods and us even having these

• 1:30:56

monthly demonstrations where we're showcasing current directionality and development is so that when players give feedback we parse through that

• 1:31:05

We identify how it might conflict with our core pillars and philosophies to iterate and make changes based on the player feedback

• 1:31:13

And what systems it might ripple effect through before making iterative changes, right?

• 1:31:18

And so to ask a question such as

• 1:31:21

Will you be open to feedback on a particular system? Should the community give it the answer is always going to be yes

• 1:31:29

So we don't have to ask that question

• 1:31:32

The question that should be asked is if feedback from the community

• 1:31:37

Is ants is contrary to the game's philosophy and core pillars?

• 1:31:42

Will you change the identity of the game to match what a either loud minority or majority of players are looking for?

• 1:31:50

And that is where ashes of creation will never yield

• 1:31:53

Its intent to develop a game that answers the call of what our core philosophies and systems are

• 1:31:59

Attempting to accomplish and there are lots of different games out there for different people and that's acceptable

• 1:32:05

So I don't want us to use the excuse of well, I've provided this feedback about you know

• 1:32:11

Oh a pvx game. I don't think I don't think pve and pvp can live together in a game

• 1:32:16

Therefore they should change that aspect of the game. That'll never be a thing that changes because one of the x game

• 1:32:22

We will have pvx game

• 1:32:24

Correct. There's we are pvx game and I just want to make sure i'm delineating between the two because this often comes up

• 1:32:30

But yeah, it comes up a lot, especially when we showcase pvp of any sort

• 1:32:35

Correct, and and so we need to make sure look we're doing our due diligence and we're doing our due diligence

• 1:32:40

As a company who provides a service to consumers to tell them upfront what we're making and to show them along the way

• 1:32:47

What's being made how it's being made the progress towards that making right? Those are things that we should all as consumers

• 1:32:54

Expect of any company that's out there in the market trying to make a consumer driven product

• 1:32:59

And so because of that we're doing our part there

• 1:33:02

Your part needs to understand as a viewer as a consumer also that some things just might not be for me and that's okay

• 1:33:09

And there are other products out there that offer the things that I want and I will go there

• 1:33:13

Um, you know that is that is an acceptable thing to think about but regardless maybe someday down the line

• 1:33:18

We'll create a product for those people. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we gotta do this one first. Let us give us

• 1:33:23

Let us do one gaming the gaming industry is a huge industry

• 1:33:28

And there's a lot of cool opportunities to tell a story in a very different way

• 1:33:33

Right and ashes of creation is intending to be a very rich ip and a very rich story

• 1:33:37

That has the potential to be told across many different mediums and media

• 1:33:42

And right now our flagship product is this mmorpg

• 1:33:45

And we believe that we've identified a particular space within the consumer market that wants this type of ip

• 1:33:50

And this type of product that we're developing and we're going to stick to our guns when we create it

• 1:33:55

Our guns. All right, and our final question here is from digs and they want to know about purchasing freeholds

• 1:34:01

When it comes to buying a freehold it was said

• 1:34:04

A player would need to be level 50. Is that adventurer level 50 or artisan level 50? That's

• 1:34:13

That is adventurer level 50, um, and I talked a little bit about this in the interview

• 1:34:17

Slash conversation that I had on tangents of creation and you know with it

• 1:34:21

I'll talk a little bit about it here within the design team

• 1:34:24

We obviously had a very lively discussion about whether or not there should be a adventuring level limit on an a um,

• 1:34:30

On a system like the freehold, right? And um again when you compare the minute detail or the iterative detail

• 1:34:37

That is what level gets accessed versus the overarching game philosophy or core tenant that we're trying to provide

• 1:34:43

which is the idea of exclusivity of um,

• 1:34:47

Risk versus reward of unique accomplishments and not everybody gets a trophy

• 1:34:52

We can accomplish that system still and make an iterative change to the level requirement of the freehold

• 1:34:58

Like that's a great example of the last point of discussion. We were just having so ultimately when we talk about that adventuring level design

• 1:35:04

When we get into testing and we take into the into account the feedback and we get to see that system play with the design

• 1:35:09

Intent then we'll make iterative changes based off of those feedbacks and it could include something like changing the adventuring level

• 1:35:16

Requirement down to level 30 or non-existent at all. It just comes down to how it goes from

• 1:35:22

paper and thought into

• 1:35:24

Actual gameplay hands-on live audience and getting real feedback in real time

• 1:35:29

Like those are two different things when it comes to game design

• 1:35:31

You can have the best idea on paper that falls completely on its face in in implementation

• 1:35:37

Versus in play testing, right? So so there's there's a there's a spectrum there and we're doing our part in making sure that

• 1:35:45

From paper to implementation these systems are accomplishing what we want them to

• 1:35:49

Next step is testing. All right, and that is it for our development update in july

• 1:35:58

We will have another one in august. So stay tuned for august development update

• 1:36:03

Stephen any final things that you want to leave people with before I go into the outro

• 1:36:12

Let me think I don't think is there any was there any soapboxes

• 1:36:15

I wanted to get on today. I don't know. So I'm just kidding. Uh, no aliens because I have thoughts

• 1:36:22

Oh my god, did you see the aliens i'm telling you that was crazy

• 1:36:27

If you guys haven't seen the aliens thing go look at the aliens

• 1:36:30

John and I have been having interesting conversations about the alien my friend runs the illuminati podcast

• 1:36:35

Podcast and oh my gosh. I'm like, are you loving this? He's like, yes

• 1:36:39

Here's i'll tell you the biggest concern and threat

• 1:36:41

I have to ashes is that aliens come down and they bring their advanced like virtual reality technology with them

• 1:36:48

And now everything we've been working on for that last number of years is

• 1:36:51

Invalidated because we have the alien tech which is just literally an mmo that you're seamless in and don't know

• 1:36:56

And that could be what we're in now, but regardless like

• 1:36:59

We're all ai that's what's been saying

• 1:37:04

Oh, it's so great. Yeah, the podcast is what i'm talking about

• 1:37:07

I I have no other points. I hope you guys enjoyed the uh, the presentation today. It is going to be up on youtube

• 1:37:12

Go take a look at it over there the the streaming quality that uh twitch provides us doesn't do the world justice

• 1:37:17

But you get to see it on youtube. Um, no, we had a fun time team's doing a great job

• 1:37:22

And I hope you guys are enjoying it. Yeah. Thank you all so much for joining us. And of course it just says reminders

• 1:37:28

Uh, don't forget to check out steven's uh, q a's that he's been doing with the

• 1:37:33

Ashen forge and the tangents of creation and as well as head on over to our forums forums.data

• 1:37:38

Ashes of creation.com send us your feedback. We we would love to hear it our community team vagna

• 1:37:44

And roshan are amazing and put together wonderful reports for our teams

• 1:37:47

We also have our monthly cosmetic swap over charms and good fortune that will be ending on august 9th

• 1:37:53

So if you want to grab those snag them up and of course, thank you so much to our viewers to all of you

• 1:37:58

For joining us live here. And for those of you on youtube who are watching later, we appreciate you so much

• 1:38:03

We hope that you enjoy following our development process and you know, it's not for everybody

• 1:38:08

But it is what we are doing so that we can showcase along the way the journey of creating ashes of creation

• 1:38:13

And of course, thank you to dr. Bucky and trad for joining, uh,

• 1:38:18

Steven as well, and we hope that you all have a safe and happy new year

• 1:38:24

As well, and we hope that you all have a safe and healthy rest of your month and we'll see you next time

• 1:38:32

Bye everyone!

• 00:00

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our glorious July development update.

• 00:22

We hope that our wonderful community has been doing well.

• 00:26

We have quite a bit to go over today, so buckle in as per usual.

• 00:31

If you are new here, you can probably see the run of show below us.

• 00:36

But just so that I can go over it quickly, we do have our reminders.

• 00:39

We'll be going over our cleric update, which some of you have seen some of our cleric updates

• 00:44

in the past.

• 00:45

There's a whole new slew of abilities.

• 00:48

Yes, a whole new world, some might say, of cleric abilities.

• 00:54

I'm just kidding.

• 00:56

Yes, exactly.

• 00:57

I think Steven and I sang that at one of the extra.

• 01:00

I'm ready.

• 01:01

We can do an encore presentation this year.

• 01:03

No.

• 01:04

OK, I need to practice because I was really bad.

• 01:08

Guys, sorry for the brief delay in the in the in the stream, but we have a jam packed

• 01:14

fun presentation for you today.

• 01:16

You guys are going to see, as Margaret said, an update to the cleric kit.

• 01:19

You're going to get a really rounded look at these abilities and what the cleric and

• 01:23

Alpha 2 is going to play like.

• 01:25

It's going to be an awesome opportunity for you to give us feedback.

• 01:28

Really excited for you guys to see it.

• 01:29

The world is looking beautiful.

• 01:31

The effects are coming along and the gameplay, I feel, for this cleric kit is pretty good.

• 01:37

So I've been having fun with it.

• 01:38

I've been doing I'm like the basically the combat team has a few experts that they're

• 01:44

trying to have within the team to be experts for the classes and our internal focus testers.

• 01:50

Yeah, focus testers.

• 01:51

So it's been pretty fun.

• 01:52

Getting to do all the combat stuff.

• 01:55

Yeah, yeah.

• 01:56

And actually we had we had at the beginning of this month, we had a lot of internal testing

• 02:02

for combat team across all of our different internal departments and they were able to

• 02:08

fill out surveys and feedback.

• 02:10

And we're all MMO gamers, so it's great for them to give this feedback.

• 02:13

And cleric was one of those that was showcased during that testing period.

• 02:16

So we did that to get your guys's thoughts.

• 02:19

So you got some feedback on the encounters that they had built out and then there was

• 02:23

feedback per your class that you were playing, which was yes.

• 02:26

And on top of that, you're also going to see a really cool new area.

• 02:29

It's at the what we call the Highwaymen Hills.

• 02:33

You may have seen this location.

• 02:35

It is in the Riverlands, but it is a bit hilly.

• 02:40

But it is a beautiful location that the environment team has done a great job in speccing out.

• 02:45

So a lot of fun.

• 02:46

There's a little bit of a story arc there, too.

• 02:47

Yeah.

• 02:48

So we kind of gave the preface for the cleric update.

• 02:50

I know a little bit.

• 02:52

And then we have a small art update, just a couple of things.

• 02:55

So we'll focus really on answering a lot of your guys's questions.

• 02:59

And then, of course, we have a little studio update and then Q&A from the forums that we've

• 03:05

gathered as well.

• 03:06

So a lot of answering all y'all's questions.

• 03:09

But before we get into that, we're going to do our quick reminders.

• 03:11

And of course, the first part of this is checking out the YouTube comment from last time.

• 03:17

And if you would like your comment selected, all you have to do is on our next development

• 03:22

update when this one is up on our YouTube channel, leave a comment, make sure that you're

• 03:26

subscribed and that we can see that you're subscribed and then we will maybe select your

• 03:31

comment.

• 03:32

It's all random.

• 03:33

So by the way, I just would like to comment that I saw a few a few comments about the

• 03:38

little dude in the background there.

• 03:40

That is like a 7500 piece Lego puzzle that John almost single handedly put together.

• 03:48

I just want to just to answer some of the questions of what is that?

• 03:51

That's what that is.

• 03:52

That thing is crazy, but it was super cool to see it get put together.

• 03:56

All right.

• 03:58

So the question that we have is what is the intended gameplay mechanic if you are attacked

• 04:03

during the middle of a craft or harvest?

• 04:06

What happens to the materials used in the craft or the items being harvested?

• 04:10

And this is from Marcus.

• 04:12

Thank you, Marcus, so much for leaving a comment over on our YouTube channel.

• 04:16

Yeah, so this is a pretty easy one.

• 04:21

Essentially, anytime you're in the middle of a process such as crafting an item, if

• 04:26

it's a fast crafts, fast craft situation or harvesting a particular resource gatherable

• 04:31

or any type of interaction point, the completion of that interaction is when the items are

• 04:42

removed either for the crafting process or the item is received or the harvesting or

• 04:47

gatherable interaction.

• 04:50

So if you were interrupted during that time, you're not going to experience any type of

• 04:55

like loss of items or failure in the gathering, the player will have the opportunity in certain

• 05:03

situations where combat does not automatically remove you from because we don't want people

• 05:07

to be able to grief in that way.

• 05:10

Usually the player will have to make that own their own choice to step away from that

• 05:14

interaction and to engage if there is PvP there or if there is combat even with PvE

• 05:20

scenarios because some craftables or interactables are going to be out in the wild, right?

• 05:24

So if you want to continue your progress there and complete that action, then gain the resources

• 05:29

and then start interacting with the combat, that's acceptable.

• 05:32

But everything occurs at completion of the interaction.

• 05:36

All right.

• 05:38

And Stephen did do a interview with the Ashen Forge.

• 05:42

If you haven't gotten to check that out, definitely go check it out.

• 05:44

Yeah.

• 05:45

There was a lot of goodness that went into that.

• 05:48

That was a lot of fun.

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I always enjoy any type of like Q&A or interaction or interview that's very conversational, right?

• 05:58

And I had a great opportunity with both the Ashen Forge as well as Tangents of Creation,

• 06:06

which was I believe that next weekend.

• 06:09

And I had a lot of fun in both of those.

• 06:10

So if you guys didn't have an opportunity to check that out, feel free to take a look

• 06:13

at that Ashen Forge and Tangents of Creation.

• 06:15

It was a lot of fun.

• 06:16

Yeah.

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And Stephen will be doing more things like that in the future.

• 06:19

So keep your eyes peeled.

• 06:22

Next up, we of course, we talked about this last month, but we also still have it up and

• 06:26

available.

• 06:27

So if you have thoughts on roleplay, definitely go head on over to our forums.

• 06:31

We will be wrapping that up soon.

• 06:33

So it is what systems and features make roleplay fun?

• 06:37

What features help remove hurdles and barriers?

• 06:39

So if you are somebody who's a big fan of roleplay, highly recommend heading on over

• 06:43

to our forums.

• 06:44

And of course, we will have a forum feedback thread today for Cleric as well.

• 06:48

I'll remind you about that a little later, but just an FYI.

• 06:52

And with that, we'll head on to the main event.

• 06:57

Yes.

• 06:58

And I will just give a very brief disclaimer, as usual, since we already kind of discussed

• 07:03

what's in here.

• 07:05

As always, everything is work in progress.

• 07:07

The visual effects, the UI, we have not really entered into a polished phase for Alpha 2.

• 07:14

So what you are seeing is active development.

• 07:17

Keep that in mind as you're watching.

• 07:19

Things will improve.

• 07:20

Don't look at it as a final product, but look at it as a directional preview, which is what

• 07:24

we want you guys to give feedback on.

• 07:26

And that's why we do these presentations on a monthly basis is so that you can take a

• 07:30

look at the directionality that we are going with the class kit design, the world design,

• 07:35

the combat design, and you guys can give us feedback on that directionality.

• 07:40

So with that being said, please enjoy.

• 07:44

See you on the flip side.

• 08:07

Hello everyone, and welcome to yet another day in Vera.

• 08:12

Happy to be with you guys again.

• 08:13

I can't believe that it is the end of July, but we have a fun presentation to show you

• 08:19

guys today.

• 08:20

An update on the cleric kit and also a little bit of a showcase for the Highwomen Hills

• 08:27

area, which is a very cool point of interest.

• 08:29

I am joined by two of our glorious designers whom you have spoken with before in the past.

• 08:35

They are our resident Dr. Bucky.

• 08:38

Bucky, how you doing, buddy?

• 08:39

Good, I'm doing great.

• 08:41

Welcome sir.

• 08:42

And we also have our glorious combat designer, Mr. Trad.

• 08:46

How you doing, Trad?

• 08:47

Doing great.

• 08:48

Happy to be here again.

• 08:49

Yeah, happy to have you guys both.

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So obviously clerics are near and dear to a lot of people's hearts.

• 08:54

We had a little bit of a showcase for the cleric.

• 08:57

Gosh, when was that?

• 08:59

That was like, that was last year, yeah?

• 09:01

Yeah, I think so.

• 09:02

A few livestreams ago, yeah.

• 09:03

Yeah, it was quite a few.

• 09:05

And we were in, I think we were in that cemetery area and we were kind of showcasing some things.

• 09:11

And the community gave us a lot of great feedback.

• 09:13

And your guys' team on the combat strike team have now had an opportunity to kind of go

• 09:18

through, analyze and collect that feedback, incorporate it as part of our development

• 09:23

process.

• 09:24

And we have a little bit more extensive of a kit today to show.

• 09:26

I think we have roughly 18 abilities or how many abilities are we showing off today?

• 09:31

Yeah, somewhere between 16 and 18 on there.

• 09:34

Yeah, it's very exciting.

• 09:38

Big increase gives a much more comprehensive look at the core kit for the archetype, which

• 09:43

is super exciting.

• 09:44

So before we begin, why don't we perhaps talk a little bit about the area that we are in.

• 09:52

And by the way, yes, this is a noble warhorn.

• 09:55

He is a big fella.

• 09:58

He's excited to get in there.

• 10:00

He's heard that there are some minotaurs that have taken up residence in what used to be,

• 10:05

I think, a bandit camp.

• 10:08

Look at how we don't have sounds associated with them yet.

• 10:11

Sorry, guys.

• 10:12

Sound effects.

• 10:13

Perfect.

• 10:14

Thank you.

• 10:15

Hold on.

• 10:16

Wait, I've got to time that.

• 10:17

We've got to time that right.

• 10:18

Hold on.

• 10:19

Three, two.

• 10:20

Thank you, but it was perfect.

• 10:23

And that is why you are Dr. Bucky.

• 10:25

No, but tell us a little bit about a little bit about this place, the the Highwayman Hills.

• 10:30

Yeah, so we're venturing into the Highwayman Hills, a place notorious for, you know, bandit

• 10:34

activity.

• 10:35

You know, always dangerous to run a caravan through here.

• 10:38

Even just looking at these like walls here, you could see we could get, you know, jumped

• 10:41

at any moment.

• 10:42

But yeah, so used to be resided by bandits, but now there's a story arc that's been triggered.

• 10:50

So the Shattercloud tribe of Minotaur, I've recently seized control of the area, so we're

• 10:53

going to be seeing a lot of Minotaur activity now instead.

• 10:57

And that's part of the whole, you know, how story arcs are intended to kind of change

• 11:01

the environment, the world.

• 11:03

You know, obviously we saw this a little bit with the Tower of Carfan presentation, but

• 11:08

the spawners are adaptive based on the state of the world.

• 11:12

And that state is inclusive of the story arc conditions.

• 11:15

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 11:17

And if we're able to complete our quest here, we might might further change as well.

• 11:23

This is absolutely beautiful.

• 11:24

I can't believe environment has done a tremendously glorious job in creating.

• 11:30

I love the canopy through the approach into the Highwaymen Hill zone.

• 11:35

It is super cool.

• 11:36

Yeah, looks great with the god rays coming in.

• 11:39

Oh yeah, you can't have enough god rays, as Tristan knows.

• 11:44

So do we have a quest for this area or what are we seeing here?

• 11:49

Oh, location entered.

• 11:51

OK, so we actually now are in the Highwaymen Hills.

• 11:54

Perhaps I should let my my noble warhorn off here.

• 11:59

Might get dangerous.

• 12:00

You've been a trusty steed, my friend, but this area is just far too dangerous for your

• 12:04

kind.

• 12:05

So just hang out here and we'll be back.

• 12:09

OK, so I think, you know, what's been relatively successful in the past or the community has

• 12:13

enjoyed is when we kind of spend a little bit of time up front going through each of

• 12:17

these abilities, describing what they do, and then we can do some gameplay and kind

• 12:21

of show off the kid in action.

• 12:24

We might want to take a volunteer because I know this is all healing centric for the

• 12:28

most part, which means we'll actually have to have a target.

• 12:32

Bucky, would you like to be that sure?

• 12:34

Yes, I do.

• 12:35

Right here in the shade.

• 12:36

Is this good?

• 12:37

Oh my God, this is hopefully not a sign of things to come, but there are no corpse next

• 12:40

to you.

• 12:41

I think it might be like any heels.

• 12:45

What happened to this guy?

• 12:46

You get any of this, man?

• 12:48

Oh, what happened?

• 12:49

Oh my God, that looks like a red for.

• 12:54

OK, so let's let's start off with this with this kid.

• 12:58

What is our first ability that we have?

• 13:01

Which one are you looking at?

• 13:02

Mende here?

• 13:03

Looks like I'm looking at men.

• 13:04

OK, it says that it instantly launches a healing projectile toward target ally.

• 13:11

Each charge the ability consumed after the first has no mana cost.

• 13:14

OK, that's nice.

• 13:15

And it restores an increasing amount of mana to the caster based on the number of missing

• 13:19

charges.

• 13:21

Consecutive uses of the ability will gain bonus healing.

• 13:23

So talk to me a little bit about the intent.

• 13:25

This is kind of the efficient maintenance seal that you can fall back on if things aren't,

• 13:30

you know, hitting the fan too hard.

• 13:33

So if you're you know, if your target's not going to like it, not in immediate danger

• 13:37

of dying, this is a lighter weight heal that is much more efficient on your mana resource.

• 13:44

I'll just keep damaging myself so you can heal me.

• 13:46

Yeah, it's pretty nice and comfortable to use.

• 13:49

See the little floating projectiles.

• 13:51

It's not great for like a super reactive situation because they have that travel time.

• 13:58

But you know, but you still have the opportunity to use them.

• 14:01

It's more like a predictive feel, right?

• 14:03

Like when you don't need to immediately respond to a bad situation.

• 14:07

And just to keep in mind, guys, as of course, as always, this is very necessary for us to

• 14:12

say, this is still a work in progress.

• 14:14

We are working towards our Alpha 2.

• 14:15

You're going to see the state of the UI is not in its final form.

• 14:20

Same is true for the visual effects and everything else, right?

• 14:24

Everything is always in the state of polish and kind of refinement or excuse me, when

• 14:29

we get to that state.

• 14:31

But that's what you're kind of seeing now.

• 14:32

So this is a pretty useful ability.

• 14:34

You're intended to kind of like weave this in between your normal rotation.

• 14:38

Yeah.

• 14:39

So like one of the reasons this came to be for the kit is in the last version of the

• 14:45

kit, we felt like, you know, you were kind of swapping between cooldowns because you

• 14:50

just used whatever was up, but you didn't really have a comfortable like fall back.

• 14:54

And so this one serves as more of a filler activity that's a little more, a little more

• 14:58

freely usable and more spammable.

• 15:00

A lot of healers we played in past games, you know, they have that heal, like that core

• 15:04

heal that you can just kind of use back to back.

• 15:06

And that one is like filling that role to a degree.

• 15:10

Cool.

• 15:11

Super cool.

• 15:12

Sorry, Buck.

• 15:13

So this one and then the next one, Deliverance, they're both kind of like your core filler

• 15:17

heals that you're constantly like your bread and butter is really awesome.

• 15:20

So deliverance, let's talk a little bit about that.

• 15:22

This is, it says a held ability, which means that it's a variable charge value.

• 15:28

Yeah.

• 15:29

Yeah.

• 15:30

I, I really liked this one.

• 15:31

I, I'm sure it's, there's something out there, but I've never actually played a healer that

• 15:36

had a like a casted heal that you could release at variable points of time.

• 15:40

And it just, to me, it seems like it fits a heal really well because of its reactive

• 15:44

nature.

• 15:45

So you can like release it.

• 15:46

You can kind of like hold it in, you know, if your targets, you're almost like playing

• 15:50

kind of Russian roulette with your target.

• 15:52

Like you're pushing it to the last second to get the most value.

• 15:54

Yeah.

• 15:55

It's a really nice like tool to have to be able to like cook the heal basically.

• 15:58

If you think the target's going to take some more damage, you get more value out of it.

• 16:01

The other cool thing about this one is that it scales based on the missing health of the

• 16:05

target.

• 16:06

So if you cast it on me now, I'm at full health, it'll heal for a lot less than when I'm, when

• 16:09

I'm pretty low.

• 16:11

That's super cool.

• 16:12

Whoops.

• 16:13

Okay.

• 16:14

Let's try you.

• 16:15

It's super low.

• 16:18

So holding it full length, you go from about 780 to about 1400.

• 16:26

And that would have been even more if his health were even lower.

• 16:28

So like he said, if you were at like, I'll get super low here.

• 16:32

Yeah.

• 16:33

So you'll, you'll see an even bigger.

• 16:34

So it scales on two axes.

• 16:36

Basically it's scaling on both missing.

• 16:37

Yeah.

• 16:39

Scaling on both missing health and the amount of time.

• 16:43

Wow.

• 16:44

That's cool.

• 16:45

I like the Russian roulette aspect of it.

• 16:49

I can just imagine the amount of friction that's going to cause in parties when the

• 16:54

cleric player wants to maximize the efficacy of the heel versus the player recipient.

• 17:00

That's like, Whoa, man.

• 17:01

A drama between tanks and healers is what MMOs are all about.

• 17:05

Absolutely.

• 17:06

That's like standard staple interaction.

• 17:08

Okay, cool.

• 17:10

So that's, that's a super cool ability.

• 17:12

Talk to me a little bit about soothing glow.

• 17:15

This is a bread and butter region spell.

• 17:17

Um, you know, it's got, you have three charges of it.

• 17:20

Um, you can either stack them all on one target and they don't stack in healing, but they

• 17:25

will stack in duration.

• 17:26

So if you just want to like a really long duration heal on your tank or region on your

• 17:30

tank, then you can do that.

• 17:31

Or you can spread it out for more effective healing per second by having them all tick

• 17:35

simultaneously on three different targets.

• 17:37

So there's a couple of different ways to use this.

• 17:40

Super cool.

• 17:41

I love, obviously hots are something you try to keep up often.

• 17:45

So this also has charges.

• 17:47

Yep.

• 17:48

Three charges.

• 17:49

Nice.

• 17:50

Very cool.

• 17:51

All right.

• 17:52

I see we have a flash cure.

• 17:54

Talk to me about the flash cure.

• 17:56

Another charge based thing.

• 17:57

This is actually the last one.

• 17:58

So it's not like all the abilities.

• 18:00

Everything is charges, charges, stacks on stacks.

• 18:03

They just happen to be very front loaded here.

• 18:04

But this is your last charge based ability.

• 18:08

This is an instant heal.

• 18:10

The neat gimmick about this one is you can use it during other abilities.

• 18:14

It's kind of like our version of what you would refer to as an OGCD or an off global

• 18:19

cooldown.

• 18:20

We don't actually have a global cooldown in the game right now, but it serves as that

• 18:26

kind of thing where, for example, one way I like to use this is if you're charging deliverance,

• 18:31

you could even push it a little further by hitting that flash cure as you're charging

• 18:37

up deliverance.

• 18:38

Now presumably though, you wouldn't want to flash cure while you're using deliverance

• 18:44

unless you're afraid that they're going to die.

• 18:48

Exactly.

• 18:49

Or you could also just let go of deliverance, have it just go off right there and there.

• 18:52

So you kind of have choices there.

• 18:53

And whether you want to try to get maximum deliverance value by throwing a flash cure

• 18:57

or just making sure your target doesn't die.

• 19:00

Cool.

• 19:01

I like that kind of oh shit button so to speak, right?

• 19:06

Where essentially, you know, for me as a person who's main healer often, it's always a very

• 19:14

tense situation when you're waiting for that massive group heal cast time to go off or

• 19:19

whatever massive burst heal that you're trying to do and you're puckering up because who

• 19:24

knows if they're going to live during that cast time.

• 19:27

But if you need to, you could always pop a little bit of flash cures.

• 19:31

Yeah.

• 19:32

You're going to say it, Trent?

• 19:35

I was just like, it's fun to use.

• 19:37

It's like a nice little emergency tool because you know, a lot of the time you're as a healer,

• 19:41

you're like waiting for that heal to go off.

• 19:43

You're like, come on, come on, come on.

• 19:44

And sometimes you miss it.

• 19:45

It feels a little bad and this is a way to, this is an answer to that.

• 19:49

Yeah.

• 19:50

Super cool.

• 19:51

Okay.

• 19:52

Next one we have here.

• 19:53

The resplendent beam.

• 19:54

Talk to me about that one.

• 19:55

We've seen that and we've seen an iteration of that in the past.

• 19:57

Yeah.

• 19:58

This is a returning one.

• 19:59

But it's, it's seen a little bit of change before it was just you popped it and they

• 20:04

would do a chain heal.

• 20:06

Now you can use it like use it on Bucky.

• 20:08

Just hit it, like tap the button.

• 20:10

Just to tap, tap, tap, tap, tap a room.

• 20:12

All right.

• 20:13

There you go.

• 20:14

And it's so you can use it as a quick single target heal that way, but you can also charge

• 20:18

it.

• 20:19

So this is another held ability and the longer you charge it, the more targets it will bounce

• 20:22

between.

• 20:23

So you'll, if you do it again and hold it, you'll see that I should probably set my cooldowns

• 20:29

to zero for this portion of future.

• 20:32

Yeah, that'd be good.

• 20:34

Yeah.

• 20:35

It kind of has the, you can use it just instant cast to get a quick heal off on someone or

• 20:38

you can decide to charge it up basically and have it bounced a bunch of people.

• 20:41

If you charge it all the way, it should bounce between all of us.

• 20:43

We'll try and go.

• 20:44

Let me try the quick cast again real quick.

• 20:47

All right.

• 20:48

So that's the quick cast and then I'll charge it up.

• 20:51

Nice.

• 20:53

Super cool.

• 20:56

Okay.

• 20:57

I like how I'm just like with the animation, it's just like, everyone stand back.

• 21:02

Yeah.

• 21:03

Animators do some pretty cool work.

• 21:06

That's cool.

• 21:07

Very nice.

• 21:08

Okay.

• 21:09

I like that.

• 21:10

I like the dual purpose nature of that.

• 21:11

And obviously this is a great point of feedback for those of you in the audience who are kind

• 21:13

of watching and taking a look at this class kit.

• 21:16

You know, do you like the versatility on a bespoke basis per ability where you kind of

• 21:21

have alternate types of functionality that's up to the user to determine based on the situation?

• 21:27

Or do you like more static use cases, right?

• 21:31

Something that is very specific and you have to kind of use it for that situation.

• 21:37

That's a great question to get feedback on.

• 21:38

Personally myself, I think that providing the user a bit more flexibility and versatility

• 21:42

in the use of these abilities makes for interesting gameplay, a lot of agency for the player to

• 21:48

kind of move between.

• 21:49

Okay.

• 21:50

Let's move to the next one.

• 21:51

Bless weapon.

• 21:52

Talk to me about this one.

• 21:53

This is one of my favorites.

• 21:54

This is like basically a utility, a mana utility that you can use on either yourself or an

• 22:01

ally.

• 22:02

So it's kind of like a decision point of do I want to, you know, sacrifice some of my

• 22:06

own mana resource management in exchange for helping out an ally.

• 22:11

One way I like to use this is I'll just kind of look at my own mana or someone else's and

• 22:15

it's like, oh, the tank's like really low.

• 22:16

I'll throw this on them for now and then I'll put it on myself later.

• 22:20

The eventual idea, it's not set up this way currently, but the idea is you can like freely

• 22:24

kind of switch it around between yourself and different party members right now.

• 22:28

It's just on a cool down.

• 22:30

Okay.

• 22:31

So I'm going to use this on myself and what effect are we going to see right now?

• 22:35

It'll bless your weapon as it is appropriately named.

• 22:39

And while that is, oh, you gave it to me.

• 22:43

So that means if Bucky were to attack an enemy, he would return mana per hit.

• 22:49

Okay.

• 22:50

So we'll show that off when we get into the, but it's only weapon combos.

• 22:53

Yeah.

• 22:54

Okay.

• 22:55

Got it.

• 22:56

Cool.

• 22:57

Cool, cool, cool.

• 22:58

All right.

• 22:59

I see also we have here, let's go to judgment.

• 23:00

We have judgment.

• 23:01

We saw a version of this in the past.

• 23:02

Yeah.

• 23:03

So judgments, we since changed judgments.

• 23:04

Now it's a lot longer of a cast.

• 23:08

And effectively it's similar where you can either cast it on an enemy to do a huge portion

• 23:11

of damage or you can cast an ally to do a huge heal.

• 23:14

So it's kind of a big charged nuke.

• 23:16

Yeah.

• 23:17

Nice.

• 23:18

You want to do some damage to yourself here?

• 23:20

Let me show that off.

• 23:22

We've juiced this one up a bit.

• 23:24

It has received the juicing or I'm sorry, apologies.

• 23:28

The juice, the juice box, the juice box.

• 23:30

Thank you.

• 23:31

Oh, whoops.

• 23:32

That's wrong one.

• 23:33

Oh yeah.

• 23:34

Okay.

• 23:35

Super cool.

• 23:36

So not as big as deliverance when they're fully charged deliverance to low health, but

• 23:41

it's still pretty big and it, and it, even if they're high, it'll heal for the same amount.

• 23:44

So it's kind of nice.

• 23:46

Okay, cool.

• 23:48

What's this one?

• 23:49

What's communal restoration?

• 23:52

Another one that's a returning familiar, familiar cleric spell is this one's been changed a

• 23:59

little bit too, but it's mostly the same.

• 24:01

It's still a party based heal.

• 24:03

It's really your only party based heal that doesn't have any proximity unless like they're

• 24:08

really far, but it extends pretty far to all party members.

• 24:10

It does a direct heal, but it also has a hot component.

• 24:14

So it's like, or again, not super responsive, but it's very good value.

• 24:19

Um, especially in like an eight person group.

• 24:21

Yeah.

• 24:22

It's also giving some temporary hit points.

• 24:23

You can see, I think in the UI, a little bit of temp HP.

• 24:27

Oh, let's see where that is.

• 24:29

Where's that at?

• 24:30

It should be a little, a blue bar overlay on the health bars.

• 24:33

You can see that little, little portion of temp health there.

• 24:36

Yeah.

• 24:37

Okay, cool.

• 24:38

So this can overcast.

• 24:39

Yeah.

• 24:40

Once the effect expires to the temp health will go away.

• 24:42

So if it wasn't, um, you know, you weren't damaged in the time, then it's not effective

• 24:46

healing.

• 24:47

It feels like perhaps the, the instant health received from this might be a little low.

• 24:55

Is that the intent or?

• 24:56

It is a little low.

• 24:57

And I mean, this, obviously all of these things are kind of in early iterations.

• 25:03

Everything's super balanced.

• 25:04

Things are kind of balanced, but like for this one, it's like, okay, the value is one,

• 25:09

you don't have to worry about positioning of your team.

• 25:11

It just hits everybody.

• 25:12

And if in an eight person group, that kind of adds up a lot plus the hot effect and all

• 25:17

the other stuff going on.

• 25:19

Cool.

• 25:20

Super cool.

• 25:21

All right.

• 25:22

What's this next one?

• 25:23

We have consecrating wave.

• 25:24

This one's pretty sweet.

• 25:25

So this one's a frontal cone heal.

• 25:27

So you don't have, you don't need a target for this one.

• 25:29

You can just cast it and it'll shoot it forward based on the clear looking and it'll heal

• 25:32

everyone that hits all allies and then it'll also damage enemies that hits too.

• 25:35

So it has a dual purpose as well.

• 25:39

It's AOE damage in.

• 25:40

Wow.

• 25:41

That's cool.

• 25:42

That looks great.

• 25:43

In contrast to communal restoration, this one's a bit more powerful.

• 25:48

Also does damage.

• 25:50

So that's kind of the trade offs is you have to, you know, it costs you in your positioning,

• 25:54

but then it's an exchange for a bit more power.

• 25:57

Something we talked about doing mountain thing I've done yet was making it a split between

• 26:01

all the targets hit.

• 26:02

If you hit a lot of targets, it'll do less.

• 26:05

Like if you hit half enemies, half allies, it'll split the total throughput, but we haven't,

• 26:10

I don't think we've done that part yet.

• 26:12

Very cool.

• 26:13

Very cool.

• 26:14

All right.

• 26:15

Talk to me a little bit about divine flare.

• 26:16

Yeah.

• 26:17

This one is another, um, kind of what I refer to as like action heals, consecrating wave

• 26:24

and divine flare.

• 26:26

They're heals that you have to aim in world.

• 26:29

So this is this one, if you put it on the ground, it's like a delayed AOE.

• 26:33

Um, if you want to try that on Bucky or something.

• 26:36

And after Bucky, you look like you need some health.

• 26:39

I'm dying.

• 26:40

All right, here, let me help you.

• 26:43

Oh, so good.

• 26:49

What's interesting about that one is, um, it's all, it would also split amongst targets.

• 26:53

So I got a bigger heal there cause Bucky didn't make it in time.

• 26:56

Um, it is kind of a funny little like mind game going there of, Oh, I'm going to jump

• 27:00

in there, but it's at the expense of his health cause I'm stealing it.

• 27:04

Tanks only please in this AOE.

• 27:05

Get these trash mates out.

• 27:07

The more social conflict dynamics going on.

• 27:13

I like the, uh, excuse me.

• 27:18

Um, had to cough for a second.

• 27:20

I like the delayed functionality in that ability.

• 27:24

I think that's super cool, especially for an AOE skill.

• 27:26

Um, and telegraphing the location obviously with the ground based decal for the party

• 27:31

is super fun.

• 27:32

Definitely a very proactive one.

• 27:33

Yeah, exactly.

• 27:34

Yeah, super cool.

• 27:35

Um, all right, awesome.

• 27:38

Uh, let's talk a little bit about barrier.

• 27:42

So barrier is the classic kind of shield spell you'd expect to see from a healer kit.

• 27:46

So, but the, with the added twists that, um, you have to sacrifice a bit of your own health

• 27:50

as the healer to cast it.

• 27:51

So it doesn't actually use mana.

• 27:53

I don't think it just, you sacrifice a portion of your health to directly give to another

• 27:56

player for time.

• 27:59

Okay.

• 28:00

I like that.

• 28:01

That's cool.

• 28:02

Yeah, that looks pretty good.

• 28:04

And it's a clear delineation obviously in the, in the, uh, style of the shield bubble

• 28:09

so that you can distinguish between, you know, other bubble types, right?

• 28:16

Like the mages bubble.

• 28:17

Yeah, we could do a comparison.

• 28:19

Yeah.

• 28:20

Oh, there you go.

• 28:21

Yeah, here you go.

• 28:22

Uh, your bubble brothers, you guys bounce off of each other.

• 28:29

Bubble physics in.

• 28:30

Yeah.

• 28:31

Here, have some help.

• 28:34

Okay.

• 28:35

Um, let's talk a little bit about the chains of restraint.

• 28:39

Yeah.

• 28:40

This one's pretty similar to what it was before.

• 28:42

Um, it does damage over time.

• 28:45

So it's a really good, it's, it's pretty much the primary AOE damage tool of the cleric,

• 28:49

um, which isn't really the primary role of the cleric.

• 28:52

Um, but you know, they get some and it also applies staggers.

• 28:57

So it kind of provides some offensive support.

• 28:59

Um, staggers, for example, synergizes very well with some tank abilities, which, um,

• 29:04

what it effectively does is, um, extends the duration of a trip, which is, which is a knockdown.

• 29:09

Um, so if you've like stacked up a bunch of stagger on an enemy and then trip them, they

• 29:13

spend more time hard CC'd than if they hadn't been staggered at all.

• 29:18

Very cool.

• 29:19

And obviously, as we said, guys, um, just so you're aware, when it comes to the development

• 29:24

of the abilities, um, you know, there is a specific pipeline that includes, uh, ideation

• 29:29

into, uh, the bare bones kind of standing up with the functionality with design.

• 29:35

And then it moves to, uh, animation to provide final animation sets.

• 29:39

And then it moves to, uh, visual effects and then it moves to audio effects.

• 29:44

Um, and visual effects and audio effects that tend to be at the end of that pipeline, um,

• 29:47

are usually the things that get, uh, that still need work.

• 29:51

That are still heavily works in progress.

• 29:53

So, um, you're seeing the visual effects now, but obviously that will change in the future.

• 29:58

Okay.

• 29:59

Let's talk a little bit about Defiant Light.

• 30:01

Yeah.

• 30:02

So this one's a, uh, really good tool for saving someone who's in danger of dying.

• 30:06

It's very powerful.

• 30:07

I'm in danger.

• 30:08

Yeah.

• 30:09

Which one?

• 30:10

Okay.

• 30:11

So, uh, it applies, first of all, it applies a huge, uh, heal over time to the target,

• 30:13

if they die while the seal over time is in effect, um, it'll prevent their death and

• 30:18

heal them for a flat amount and dispel itself.

• 30:21

So it's kind of like a, Oh, wow.

• 30:25

I don't think it works with nuke.

• 30:26

Oh no.

• 30:27

That's fine.

• 30:28

Just, um, you said that it would keep you alive.

• 30:33

We'll see if it actually works.

• 30:38

We'll use it in action.

• 30:41

Yeah.

• 30:42

Yeah.

• 30:43

I just wanted to, you said it'll keep you alive.

• 30:46

So the first thing that came to mind is let me kill you.

• 30:49

The end.

• 30:50

Yeah.

• 30:51

So it is, if that had happened and that was real damage, um, it would, he would have prevented

• 30:58

the death.

• 30:59

The effect would be removed and then he would receive a heal up to like 25% of his HP.

• 31:03

Awesome.

• 31:04

Okay.

• 31:05

Cool.

• 31:06

Okay.

• 31:07

So that's a Defiant Light, not as defined as we thought it would be, but hopefully

• 31:13

it will be, uh, when we get into combat.

• 31:16

Okay.

• 31:17

Healing touch.

• 31:18

Talk to me a little bit about this.

• 31:19

Uh, that's a, that's a melee heal.

• 31:21

Basically you have to be up next to your target, but it is an insta cast and it's a pretty

• 31:25

fat heal.

• 31:26

Uh, so it, again, it's kind of like consecrating wave.

• 31:29

Um, it's being costed more on its positioning, um, but rewards, uh, you know, maybe if some

• 31:35

of our more melee built clerics would really want to lean into this, um, because they,

• 31:40

they have that positioning advantage for it.

• 31:43

Oh, there you go.

• 31:44

Okay.

• 31:45

See, look at that.

• 31:46

What I taketh, I giveth.

• 31:47

There you are.

• 31:48

Have health.

• 31:49

This one combos really nicely too with the, uh, the next ability, the, um, Wings of Salvation

• 31:55

because it'll let you get into melee and then you can follow it up with a, uh, healing

• 31:59

touch on a Thurlow.

• 32:00

Yeah.

• 32:01

This is essentially an ally gap closer.

• 32:02

Um, so this is, you must have an ally targeted and, and definition of an ally is going to

• 32:09

be any non combatant player, uh, and non mob NPC.

• 32:15

Correct.

• 32:16

Okay.

• 32:17

Ooh, that's kind of cool.

• 32:19

Oh, it's missing.

• 32:20

I think it's missing audio effects.

• 32:21

Let's see.

• 32:22

Oh, no, there it goes.

• 32:23

Yeah.

• 32:24

Okay.

• 32:25

We got to give it the full Phoenix sound.

• 32:30

Hold on.

• 32:31

Signature Phoenix ability.

• 32:32

Oh, the audio might be a little bit bugged, but that's okay.

• 32:36

As we said, all things are worked in progress.

• 32:39

Nice.

• 32:40

There it is.

• 32:41

Try the one two with a healing touch follow up.

• 32:42

Yeah.

• 32:43

Okay.

• 32:44

So I'm going to T into shift T. Got it.

• 32:46

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

• 32:49

There you go.

• 32:50

Combo.

• 32:51

What if I T while flashing and then shift T?

• 32:54

Hold on.

• 32:55

Oh, I haven't even tried that.

• 32:56

Oh my God.

• 32:57

Wait, hold on.

• 32:58

Oh, that worked.

• 32:59

It all happened so fast.

• 33:00

I can't even.

• 33:01

Super healing.

• 33:02

That sort of worked.

• 33:06

I used like two hands.

• 33:09

Okay, cool.

• 33:10

Top tier game.

• 33:11

So we got wings of salvation and then I'm looking here.

• 33:15

We have smite, condemn and divine infusion.

• 33:20

We can't show smite or condemn.

• 33:21

We'll use those on enemies here in a second, but let's talk about divine infusion and this

• 33:25

one is a bigger topic.

• 33:27

Yeah.

• 33:28

So we'll talk about the class resource and then how this plays into it.

• 33:34

You'll notice if you look at the top left, there are now three resource bars for the

• 33:38

cleric and that third one you might've seen going up and down as he's up and as Steven's

• 33:43

been healing.

• 33:45

But this resource regenerates based on how much healing and damage you've been doing

• 33:50

over the last 10 seconds.

• 33:52

So the more radiant damage and the more you're healing and it's only effective healing, so

• 33:56

you can't over heal for this, but the more you're doing it, the faster this resource

• 34:00

will build up.

• 34:01

And the way you spend this resource is on an ability called divine infusion.

• 34:07

And what this is, is if you have enough resource to complete the cast of a spell, you can use

• 34:14

this during the cast of a spell and it will auto complete that spell.

• 34:17

I've never actually seen a mechanic like this in a game before.

• 34:20

It was a pretty cool idea that came up across the design team.

• 34:23

Yeah, very cool.

• 34:25

Okay, so essentially I am going to build up some of the unique energy.

• 34:31

I'm going to do that by healing Bucky and then I am going to use a long cast ability

• 34:37

and I'm going to attempt to use divine infusion to complete that cast sooner than normally

• 34:42

would be possible.

• 34:44

And just to be clear, if I were not to let's say use that ability, then I would have a

• 34:49

passive benefit for my character while that energy is maintained that amplifies some spell

• 34:57

efficacy as a healer.

• 34:59

Yep.

• 35:00

Cool.

• 35:01

Okay, so let me try to get some of this stuff.

• 35:07

Whoops.

• 35:08

Oh, I got one off of that.

• 35:12

Okay, so it's gradually earning it over time.

• 35:15

Yeah, like when you heal it kind of gives you some generation of this resource then

• 35:19

it kind of rewards you the actual resource over time so you can see it kind of filling

• 35:24

in your bar.

• 35:25

Yeah, we've been referring to this as like a heat mechanic, right?

• 35:28

So it's not like a direct instant translation of you heal this much and you get this resource

• 35:34

immediately.

• 35:35

It's like ramping up your region and build up rate.

• 35:41

Okay.

• 35:43

Alright now I'm going to use judgment and then I'm going to pop my divine infusion.

• 35:52

That's bad.

• 35:53

I don't think it would work.

• 35:56

Oh, look at that and it consumes some of that.

• 36:01

Okay, very cool.

• 36:02

Yeah, I was able to do two.

• 36:05

I like that.

• 36:07

Another oh shit button.

• 36:11

Very cool.

• 36:12

Yeah, cleric, this version of the cleric has a lot of tools in its kit.

• 36:16

Just to set expectations, you know, that not any given cleric build would probably have

• 36:21

all of these things.

• 36:22

You would spec into certain ones.

• 36:25

Most likely we're still working that out.

• 36:29

Awesome.

• 36:30

Okay, so let's take a look then at some of those more offensive abilities.

• 36:35

Let us perhaps find a potential target here.

• 36:40

Group of minotaurs right up here.

• 36:42

Smite and condemn.

• 36:43

You think we can peel just one of them off?

• 36:45

I can grapple one.

• 36:46

Let me actually heal you.

• 36:47

You can heal me.

• 36:48

Yeah, I tried to get sleep the other two actually too.

• 36:51

Oh, let me set my cooldowns so that I'm not cheating too much back to standard.

• 36:58

Want to sleep the back two, Tread?

• 37:00

And I'll grapple the front one.

• 37:02

Sure.

• 37:03

Alright, and then I'm going to use what is smite first before we do that?

• 37:08

What is smite?

• 37:11

Smite's just a...well, you can use it in two different ways, as is the running theme with

• 37:17

a lot of our abilities, but you can use it from a range and it'll have a cast time and

• 37:20

just do damage to the target.

• 37:24

If you use it in melee, it's an instant cast.

• 37:26

So again, one of those things that you get a little more benefit for if you're up front.

• 37:31

Okay, so it's going to apply a stack of burning and deal instant damage to the target.

• 37:39

Okay, and then just real quick, condemn is a straight up just stun?

• 37:43

Correct.

• 37:44

Yep.

• 37:45

Casted stun.

• 37:46

Alright, very cool.

• 37:47

Okay, so in that case, let me start by casting judgment on it perhaps.

• 37:53

Okay.

• 37:54

While you prepare to sleep those two rain collars.

• 37:58

Okay.

• 37:59

Okay, ready?

• 38:00

Casting judgment.

• 38:03

Alright.

• 38:05

Okay, now you're good tank if you want to grab it.

• 38:12

Good luck.

• 38:15

Alright.

• 38:16

Oh, smite, that's kind of cool.

• 38:24

Oh, that's very cool.

• 38:27

How you doing over there?

• 38:32

Oh, GM Dread's taking some health.

• 38:38

Very cool.

• 38:41

Okay.

• 38:43

Getting the hang of this?

• 38:52

I noticed that on this wand, I'm getting some health back a little bit.

• 38:58

This has some minimal life steal or something?

• 39:02

Yeah, I think it's the one from Carfin.

• 39:04

It's like a Carfin wand, yeah.

• 39:06

Nice, very cool.

• 39:07

Little passive life leech.

• 39:09

Very cool.

• 39:11

Alright, so I noticed that we have a quest in this area.

• 39:15

Or what is this?

• 39:16

This is not a quest, this is a story arc.

• 39:18

Yep.

• 39:19

Yeah, so we're going to try and go through this area and we're looking for, I think the

• 39:23

first part of the quest is a bag.

• 39:25

You're on the quest, right Steven?

• 39:26

Looking for a back tax?

• 39:27

Yes, I am on the quest.

• 39:28

So let me just, here, why don't we just stand here real quick.

• 39:32

Up near the bridge.

• 39:35

I just want to get a look at this.

• 39:36

That looks great.

• 39:38

Yeah, that does look really cool.

• 39:40

It's an old abandoned ruin.

• 39:43

Yeah, this is just a beautiful area.

• 39:46

I mean, it's, you know, I love what the environment team has done.

• 39:50

The ruins, the god rays, everything.

• 39:54

Great job here.

• 39:55

So what are we doing next?

• 39:57

What is this quest?

• 39:59

Obviously some bandits have been expelled from the area.

• 40:03

There's some minotaurs and whatnot.

• 40:04

What are we doing here?

• 40:05

Yeah, so we're kind of coordinating with one of the bandit leaders, so I think we're going

• 40:09

to have to find his bag to go meet up with him.

• 40:12

We've got to fight through some minotaurs first.

• 40:14

Okay, all right, cool.

• 40:16

I got your back.

• 40:18

You just, you do your thing, chicken wing.

• 40:20

I got you.

• 40:21

I got a wargriz too.

• 40:24

All right.

• 40:27

I brought some friends.

• 40:33

No, you're good, you're good, you're good.

• 40:38

I got you.

• 40:39

The bear's looking at me.

• 40:40

Oh, he's charging.

• 40:41

Oh, he mauled you.

• 40:44

Did he knock you down?

• 40:46

Yeah, I got knocked over a little bit.

• 40:47

I can knock him down too.

• 40:50

Get him.

• 40:53

Nice, very nice ball lightning.

• 40:57

Okay, trad, doing some deeps.

• 41:00

Here, I can help you out with the deeps.

• 41:04

The spring collars is on you.

• 41:07

Wow, it knows who the real threat in the party is.

• 41:12

He's like, I'm the only healer.

• 41:17

This gris has so much health.

• 41:18

Oh, I'm going.

• 41:19

Oh, nice.

• 41:20

Flash cure.

• 41:21

I got you.

• 41:22

Flash cure.

• 41:23

Flash cure.

• 41:24

Look at that maximum efficacy on the deliverance.

• 41:29

Oh my god, there's a bear.

• 41:33

Oh no.

• 41:35

He's sleeping it.

• 41:40

Don't hit that bear.

• 41:41

We're good.

• 41:42

This bear has so much health.

• 41:49

Okay, mana consumption's not too bad so far with the kid.

• 41:55

Of course, as you guys all know, oh god, it's standing.

• 41:58

It's sensing you.

• 41:59

It can smell the chocolate in your pockets like, what's that?

• 42:04

Mana consumption's not too bad.

• 42:08

Now, obviously, I know we haven't gone through really a balance pass between mana consumption

• 42:13

and cool downs and health returns.

• 42:16

So as you guys are watching, just keep that in mind.

• 42:18

This is work in progress.

• 42:20

We're really trying to stand up the core functionality of the kit and getting its play style to represent

• 42:26

the role, especially within Synergy of the Holy Trinity.

• 42:32

Hey, that wasn't too bad.

• 42:37

You handled that grouping pretty well.

• 42:40

Thank you.

• 42:41

That's some good coordination there.

• 42:42

We almost got him.

• 42:43

All right, there we go.

• 42:44

Oh, yeah, there's two more in here.

• 42:50

Just bringing them over to you.

• 42:51

You know, I don't want my tank to have to run so much, right?

• 42:54

Thank you, yes, I appreciate it.

• 42:55

Yeah, no worries.

• 42:56

Or should I be like one of those other tanks like, you touch the mobs, you tank it.

• 43:01

How dare you?

• 43:02

Don't you ever be in my party.

• 43:07

You know, those types of tanks, and I know they're out there, but if you are forcing

• 43:20

someone else in the party to heal, it's because you're not keeping a face.

• 43:26

True, facts.

• 43:28

Very true.

• 43:30

This is a nice little area.

• 43:31

Okay, we're just taking a seat here.

• 43:32

I know, just resting up, getting my mana back.

• 43:35

Taking in the views, very nice.

• 43:37

The views of the-

• 43:38

So, okay, talk- The views of the shed, I was looking behind me.

• 43:42

I'm looking behind me.

• 43:44

I don't just look at a shed and say views, but-

• 43:46

You guys are out of control.

• 43:47

Okay, so talk to me a little bit about UI versus action healing, right?

• 43:53

Obviously, I have mained healers in the past.

• 43:56

One of the things I enjoy between the predictive nature of healing and the reactive nature

• 44:01

of it is that it's very two different tempos, and I like both of them, right?

• 44:05

If I have to kind of- Wait, hold on before I get into this.

• 44:09

What is this?

• 44:10

Is this a backpack?

• 44:11

Is that a splints bag?

• 44:12

I don't touch bags that I don't own.

• 44:15

One of you guys want to- Okay, should I do it?

• 44:19

It'll update the story arc for everyone in the area, right?

• 44:21

I think so.

• 44:22

If somebody can find it.

• 44:23

Okay, go ahead.

• 44:24

Yeah.

• 44:25

Splints bags must be nearby.

• 44:28

Does it update for me?

• 44:31

I don't know.

• 44:32

You try clicking it.

• 44:33

Okay, I will say- Oh, it did.

• 44:36

It just updated for me.

• 44:37

Okay, got you.

• 44:38

Cool.

• 44:39

All right, there we go.

• 44:40

As you guys know, obviously, UI is very work in progress.

• 44:42

We're still working on this.

• 44:43

Okay, so predictive versus kind of reactive healing.

• 44:48

I like both, right?

• 44:49

I love the- Excuse me.

• 44:52

I like the ability for me to kind of have control over the engagement and predict where

• 44:57

I'm going to need to- This is a beautiful view.

• 45:00

Where I'm going to need to heal, but I also like the kind of whack-a-mole gameplay where

• 45:04

I'm interfacing with my- Oh, and let me see if I can move this, actually.

• 45:09

As a healer, I tend to have my bar a little bit closer.

• 45:16

Do I move anything else?

• 45:18

Hold on.

• 45:19

I'll move my health plate.

• 45:21

I feel like when I start a new fight, I tend to be a lot more reactive because I'm not

• 45:26

used to the damage patterns as much as a healer, but then as you kind of get more familiar

• 45:30

and you kind of know what to expect, you can start being a lot more predictive, which can

• 45:34

certainly improve your performance, and it's good to have tools for both in any kit.

• 45:39

Oh, yeah, for sure.

• 45:41

Totally agree.

• 45:42

I see Splint across the way.

• 45:44

Oh, is he up there, up on that tower?

• 45:46

Yeah.

• 45:47

See his rope he climbed up with, maybe.

• 45:49

Am I supposed to be killing- Are we killing him, or are we talking to him?

• 45:52

No, I think we're- Oh, we're getting a chest key.

• 45:54

Yeah, we're going to coordinate with him.

• 45:56

He wants to get these minotaurs out of the bandit camps.

• 45:59

We have to work with the enemy a little bit here.

• 46:01

Okay, so we're going down on this dry riverbed?

• 46:04

Yeah, I don't want to go through the front entrance.

• 46:06

There's a ton of minotaurs there, so I think we should try and fight through this way, maybe.

• 46:09

We got a wolf.

• 46:11

All right.

• 46:12

Oh, okay.

• 46:13

Little wolf.

• 46:14

Little baby wolf.

• 46:15

Oh, my gosh, he dodged my- What about you, Tread?

• 46:16

What do you like about predictive or reactive?

• 46:19

I definitely like- The more tools you give me, the better, right?

• 46:23

I think we'll have different specs that lean one way or the other for all kinds of different

• 46:30

clerics.

• 46:31

Obviously, as everyone knows, our class system will- You'll be able to pick your class based

• 46:38

on primary and sub-archetype, and different classes will lean into different directions.

• 46:45

Some will be more predictive.

• 46:47

When we say predictive, we're usually talking like hots and stuff are going to be a lot

• 46:53

more predictive healers.

• 46:56

Like pre-shielding.

• 46:57

Yeah, pre-shielding and that kind of thing, whereas reactive is going to be a lot more

• 47:00

like instant heals that might be less efficient, but more adaptable to certain situations.

• 47:10

Heal me up, Steven.

• 47:12

I got you.

• 47:13

You got me.

• 47:14

I got you.

• 47:15

You're getting that full deliverance value there.

• 47:16

I think there's a bug on my targeting.

• 47:18

I think the target switches off of you for some reason.

• 47:23

My bad.

• 47:24

I see you're throwing in some condemns there, weren't you?

• 47:28

You were stunning the- Yeah, I was doing a little bit of, you know.

• 47:32

I was trying to help out.

• 47:33

That's good.

• 47:34

I like when healers can help with the DPS and the healing.

• 47:36

Do we want to grab these guys?

• 47:37

I was not going to go this way, but okay.

• 47:41

Okay, okay.

• 47:42

We can do it.

• 47:43

Just sleep the black one.

• 47:44

We got it.

• 47:45

We got it.

• 47:46

Yeah.

• 47:47

Sleep a couple of them.

• 47:48

Sleep them.

• 47:49

Sleep them.

• 47:50

Don't wait.

• 47:51

Nice sleep.

• 47:52

Nice sleep.

• 47:53

I was going to sneak around, but we can just blast through the front door.

• 47:58

Why not?

• 47:59

We need to show off our ability.

• 48:02

Yes.

• 48:03

Maybe sleep again?

• 48:04

Nope, nope.

• 48:05

Sleep has a decent cooldown.

• 48:06

Yeah, ten seconds.

• 48:07

You're doing some good kiting.

• 48:08

I am totally kiting these guys.

• 48:09

I got three of them, I think.

• 48:10

All right, sleep.

• 48:11

Yeah, healers will be generating threat, right?

• 48:12

I see they're noticing your healing, so they're going after you.

• 48:13

It's taking me a bit of effort to get them to come back.

• 48:14

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:15

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:16

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:17

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:18

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:19

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:24

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:33

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:42

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:49

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 48:55

I'm going to go for the black one.

• 49:04

Look at that easy peasy lemon was even close

• 49:08

Winner winner chicken dinner any other types of sayings you want to add to that not even close baby. Yes, thank you

• 49:18

Great job great job. Yeah, well done

• 49:20

I didn't even get to you do my like wings of salvation jump to and oh

• 49:26

Very good. Look at that such a good combo. It's clean so clean clean kill

• 49:31

Yeah, we can just go. You know we were gonna sneak around. Yeah, I want to

• 49:36

Think no no no stop stop. Wait. There's more

• 49:42

One at a time what's up a time here don't don't do anything after I get all crazy here

• 49:49

Let me just sleep this wolf over here or not sleep put him down

• 49:53

I think I just got another one spot

• 50:06

All right come down this way

• 50:10

Okay, let's go this way yeah the side entrance we didn't have to do any of that

• 50:14

Oh, we did then how else would we not how else will we farm yeah, it's right

• 50:21

Come on, bro. You got some maybe

• 50:24

This is cool. Okay, so like a little back entrance. All right, let's get through on the main gate

• 50:29

Think we can sneak around. We should be careful

• 50:32

Careful in this area though because we like it

• 50:35

Yeah, yeah, you know this I feel like we can

• 50:38

Probably pull a little bit extra and see just how much we can tax this healer

• 50:45

What do you guys think all right? I'll pull these three up here and maybe that fourth one

• 50:51

Potential

• 50:56

The gate all it's gonna be good I'm gonna stun I'm gonna stun the wall nice job. I'm taking some heels

• 51:03

Oh

• 51:07

Right now all right

• 51:10

Next you get these I'll get back on this fire for his fire. Yeah. Yeah, try to a leaf can't

• 51:16

Hey, we'd all down big a we do a trip

• 51:21

I'm doing a delayed heal

• 51:26

Yes maximum a we power

• 51:30

Are you doing the?

• 51:32

The wave attack to you. Yes. I want so good

• 51:38

Delayed heal

• 51:40

Nice getting back all the value out of it try to get out some judgment

• 51:52

Sleepo

• 51:54

Nice we got it easy. That was super easy

• 51:57

Either that or I'm just a literal god of a healer okay, probably

• 52:06

Using the full kit thank you here have a barrier that compliment

• 52:16

All right, I think we just got up to 13 here job

• 52:21

One more we need to have a discussion with world design for this population. I mean it's just it's not challenging

• 52:27

Yeah, yeah, 100 minute tours in here double respawn rate 10 seconds here. I'll do another the group here. Oh

• 52:34

Yeah

• 52:38

I

• 52:44

Just trust I trust now

• 52:48

Yeah, just trust good I

• 52:50

Have full faith in my healer. I

• 52:52

Bought some additional mobs. Okay. Oh god. Oh my god. We're getting a little cocky here

• 53:01

He's no we're good. He flew too close to the Sun two seconds on sleep. Okay

• 53:07

Sleep coming out now. All right. All right

• 53:09

I think okay helping myself. Yeah, they're on you try to get them off you. Oh

• 53:22

My god

• 53:24

I'm dying

• 53:25

Where are you?

• 53:27

I'm running a little bit. I think I think they're off you

• 53:30

Okay, I'm now healing you again. I need some huge heels. Oh, I'm using my tank cooldown. Let's take I'm using the divine infusion

• 53:39

Oh, yes

• 53:45

Still on

• 53:47

I'm healing myself. My man is definitely going down

• 53:52

We got this we're almost gonna kill some come on. Let me put down these chains

• 53:56

I

• 53:58

Killing myself again

• 54:01

Again stay on the rain

• 54:05

Okay, I'll stand a rain collar

• 54:07

I'm gonna I'm gonna have to tell this other rain collar

• 54:10

We got it. We got it now. I am completely boom

• 54:17

All right, we made it we did it we did it I'm ready I'll do the killing blow on this guy

• 54:23

I'm running wait. What are you ready for? Okay. I was at 60 health and they were so okay. We got it. We got it

• 54:36

That was epic that was pretty epic that's good. That's pretty fun. That's actually pretty fun

• 54:42

I enjoyed that as a healer that was a oh shit moment

• 54:45

And there are many oh shit buttons for me to press we're talking about this man and not being balanced

• 54:49

But I think that was pretty good like you ran out of man just right there that fight like pretty good good first pass

• 54:55

Sound too bad now. We're gonna talk to splinter

• 54:58

program

• 54:59

gosh, dude

• 55:00

see and everybody says I am a

• 55:04

Crazy player. There's just not you know oh, okay?

• 55:10

This guy's kind of cool. What is he doing?

• 55:13

Hello, Flint

• 55:14

Splint talk to me nobody mentioned locking horns with minotaurs

• 55:20

Okay, and if we need to unlock a chest

• 55:23

He's not budging here take the key all right. I've gotten the key okay nice

• 55:29

I think the chest is in the main building somewhere. Yeah, let's go down here. Do you want to uh?

• 55:34

should we uh

• 55:35

Just even rest a little bit. You're still uh look pretty low on mana

• 55:39

I would be down to rest

• 55:41

Well, we should probably go this way. I actually I guess I think we'll run through here for a little bit

• 55:45

Yeah, let's get inside the building where we're going inside the building here follow me oh

• 55:49

That's right. We don't really need to let's see if we can just

• 55:53

Since we cleared this whole area. I wonder if we can yeah, I don't think there's anyone yeah in here

• 55:58

I think we gotta go down this little area. We're down here dark in the crypts secret basement

• 56:05

I let me give us some light hold on

• 56:11

Very nice, I got trans got some good

• 56:16

All the lights

• 56:18

follow the light

• 56:20

Here it is

• 56:24

So we're working together with his blint the bandit leader

• 56:29

Wait hold on I wonder what happens if I put this shield on you while you have your shield on

• 56:32

I

• 56:38

Will shield switch you guys that's cool. It let it let loose this massive

• 56:45

Explosion what did that do I think we're working together with splint to?

• 56:50

Activate this ancient chest to

• 56:52

Think we're awakening some old spirits this place to try to drive out the minute or thing. That's the plan here. This is beautiful

• 57:02

Yeah, what's the next part of the quest with the light the light the signal fire like the brazier. I'm running up

• 57:10

Wait, you lost this area. Oh, where'd you go?

• 57:14

Steve-o there you are look to your left

• 57:16

We're over here. Hey, how do I get over there? Oh actually yeah?

• 57:20

Okay, all right there. We go upstairs even more over here. Oh nice

• 57:25

This is beautiful environment did a great job with this

• 57:28

Zachary and

• 57:32

Tristan and that's looks really great looks cool to explore. It's great job

• 57:38

beautiful

• 57:39

Look at how there is nice

• 57:42

Well this was a cool little

• 57:45

Incursion into oh look at this all the zombies

• 57:50

We've lit the beacon and the zombies have overtaken the minotaurs are still minotaur corpses

• 57:56

God, dude. We missed the bloodshed. I think we did all

• 58:00

Yeah, true to be honest these zombies shouldn't get any credit

• 58:03

That's super cool very cool. Well guys. I hope you all enjoyed this brief look at the update

• 58:09

Well not brief

• 58:10

But look at the update of the cleric archetype and what you'll be expecting in alpha 2 obviously your feedback is incredibly important to us

• 58:17

Please keep in mind everything is a work in progress

• 58:20

And we use your feedback as part of our iteration process

• 58:23

So if you can give us your thoughts and what you enjoyed what you thought could be done better

• 58:29

In the YouTube video or in twitch or everywhere else

• 58:34

We will go through that and we will take a look, but we have enjoyed showing this Bucky and trad

• 58:40

Thank you guys for joining me very cool very fun, and I think I said a great job. Yeah, thanks for having us Gigi

• 58:46

All right, we'll see you guys back on stream. I'm going in ah

• 58:51

Wait let me jump to you

• 58:53

I come here. Wait wait here. It is boom

• 59:00

Bye guys out of control

• 59:15

Seems like y'all very much enjoyed that from the chat screen

• 59:20

I am gonna play it in the background while whilst we chat and answer some questions from

• 59:26

That we noticed that we want to make sure that you guys get to

• 59:30

Get answered and the first one here is well a we in action heals also heal raid and alliance members

• 59:40

Aoi a we action heals depending on the type

• 59:44

That's a broad description depending on the type if it's like if it's like a templated

• 59:48

A we yes, it would heal any

• 59:51

non

• 59:53

Non-combatants essentially yes

• 59:55

All right, and then the next question is can you walk through?

• 59:59

All the ways that you clerics can target and heal like F keys and things like that because we noticed that you were clicking on

• 1:00:05

Targets and stuff like that so like people just want to know if what are the ways that I can heal as a cleric

• 1:00:09

A lot of people like hover casting and things like that

• 1:00:13

Yeah, there's gonna be a pretty expansive

• 1:00:15

Functionality when it comes to the different types of targeting methods

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That's something that's still being kind of worked on and will be included kind of later in the iteration phases from the combat team

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The idea is that we are expansive as possible in that type of control schema

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And that we leave it to the player to decide option wise which ones they want to use

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Perfect perfect, I knew that that was going to be it

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People have also been asking about smart casting specifically that was a very

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One that people are interested, but it would yes with the options

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Yes, I've spell if so and one other thing one other thing by the way real quick

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On those additional options

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We're also playing with a secondary targeting type where you can have a friendly target

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Active as well as an enemy or main target active

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So if you have duality and skills like some that are offensive and some that are defensive

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We're gonna be testing that I think as part of alpha 2

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Most likely as part of alpha 2 where you get to use that defensive targeting mechanism

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Yeah, people wanted like to be able to target do target of target things. I mean, oh, yeah

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I did already respond about that in the chat. I was like, we're gonna add more features like that. Don't worry

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Revive spell obviously that's like a big thing. Everyone keeps bringing up, you know, someone dies for instance you accidentally nuked

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accidentally

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Accidentally

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That he would be prevented from dying and would get 25% of his help

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Specify that so, you know, it is what it is. No, we there are resurrection abilities. We didn't showcase them here

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Because we haven't yet stood those up. They're relatively direct. We're not gonna do anything too fancy there

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We have the ideas of including certain types of like mass resurrections

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individual resurrections that have recuperation for a dead experience that gets accrued that is going to be a part of the resurrection aspect of

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Things there is one ability here that prevents death and that was that one that we showed where Bucky died because I nuked him

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But yes, there are resurrection abilities. Yes

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And then can you move while casting every ability? Are there some you cannot move while casting?

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They saw you moving a lot while casting and obviously that's something that's a big proponent for us is we want you to be able to

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Move while casting. Yeah, absolutely. So so the a lot of abilities you have

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The capability of moving while casting it's gonna decrease your movement speed significantly or depending on the type of ability

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we do reserve the

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Cost and that's really what it is when you type, you know tie ability usage to mobility

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We do reserve the cost of requiring the character to remain stationary on some ability some big

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You know effect type abilities. So it's kind of it's just spread out amongst the kit

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Some are gonna be mobile some are gonna be completely mobile where there's no restriction and no slowdown

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Some are gonna be completely restrictive where you can't move

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It's just it's a it's a balancing act between what cost verse benefit

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We want to have conferred through the effect of the ability. Yeah, if they're rooting you for a spell that spells go and do something good

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Yeah

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How are skills acquired during leveling? Can you walk through like how that functionality will work? Yeah, absolutely

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So a lot of games in the past we've kind of you or season a lot of games in the past that we've played

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Have this kind of skill point allocation system that you acquire through experience gain and you take those skill points and you spec them into

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Your skill tree we're gonna follow a relatively similar path when it comes to skill progression

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however, that's likely not gonna be tied directly to experience gain because we do have this concept of experience debt that does accrue and

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We don't want to create an imbalance between skill points acquired versus experience

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So we're gonna predicate your skill acquisition the skill points acquisition based on

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Benchmarks you reach when leveling through a level, right?

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So these gonna be at specific points in the level like, you know one quarter progress to half progress to three quarters progress

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You're going to get an influx of skill points and then you'll be able to allocate them into your skill tree

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Alright and then can I change the theme of my cleric like if I wanted to be more dark spells or nature-themed

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Is that an option? So that's really where

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The

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Secondary class option which creates your class right the primary archetype not so much. That's that's relatively

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Going to be more based around the players decisions in which skills they spec into in the skill tree not being able to change the skills

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Themselves, but when you reach the class phase

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Which is around level 25 and you introduce that secondary archetype selection to create your one of 64 classes

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Then you'll have a number of augments that you'll be able to apply on a per ability basis

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and your core ability kit comes from your primary archetype selection and those

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Augments will change the look and feel of those abilities and some will have the effect to create more darker thematic

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Aspects to it or you know, just generally different

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aesthetics to the abilities that

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represent the secondary class

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selection

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archetype selection

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And then

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Does the cleric resource make offensive spells instant cast and yes they do but I don't know if you want to talk a little

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Bit about that. It's any any any cast effect that you have

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And that's you know, one of the concerns about that particular energy mechanic that I had that

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you know I express to the team is like how we balance whether or not that gets applied to pretty much any ability because

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It is a bit of a subversion in the balancing act

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You know

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You want to kind of have minimum thresholds that players must meet must meet in order to confer an effect on a target

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And so there's some concern there, but that's something we're gonna play test and balance out throughout alpha 2

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We did some PvP fun earlier in the week and

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Steven and Bucky and trad we're battling me Adam and Nat and it was

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Later with Keenan

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Yeah, it

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Wasn't fair because you guys were CCing me and we haven't yet introduced CC breaks into the kits and I was just like

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So what we did so giving strad right like our mage

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Slept Steven and then I stunned trad and then we just blew trad up and I was I saved up my healing

• 1:06:55

Instant spell for my judgment so I could just do like this massive nuke. It was pretty pretty awesome

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Please but yeah, you strategy cringe. Yeah, I mean I would call it strats

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But you know, I needed the CC break abilities. We didn't have those right? That's true

• 1:07:13

Being able to break CCs is awesome to him

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But I'm just letting folks know there is some strategy

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There's fun and even with the ability kits that we currently have we're having a lot of fun with it

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Then the next question I think the last one we have here and we can move forward on to the next step

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It's been a long stream already

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Is how much of the cleric kit will be damage focus rather than healing because I saw you mostly casting healing spells whilst

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Yeah

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They're they're absolutely gonna be and we talked a little bit about this. There's going to be a

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significant amount of offensive capability for the cleric because we don't want to create that dynamic where

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cleric as a support class is is

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Inoperable without a companion or a party to go with right?

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I want that cleric to still be able to survive on their own to be able to level and progress as a solo player

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And so because of that there's gonna be healthy combinations of offensive abilities

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But when we talk about the current, you know class excuse me current archetype development

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We focus right now on this phase around core role, right?

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So we're talking about what is the core role for this particular?

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Archetype within the Trinity system and that really focuses around support oriented gameplay

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So you saw some offensive abilities some support abilities have dual purpose dual functionality depending on the target recipient

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That could be offensive or defensive you might see that

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Excuse me, you might see that expressed more as we develop out the archetype further

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but the idea is to create a

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A healer archetype that is not entirely dependent on companion or party which means they'll have offensive capabilities

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Yeah, and like I said

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We were able to do some big damage like you can still do decent damage as a cleric

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You just have to know which skills to use and utilize them in coordination with other folks

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And also there's synergy right like I can put buff like a debuff on the mob that then the mage can also

• 1:09:11

Exploit which is really handy. So there's a lot of like things like that that are really handy

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And not only that but remember that a big component which is a probably one of the more

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significant distinguishments between ashes of creations combat systems and what we were

• 1:09:27

Experiencing in other MMOs is that the weapon gameplay is a big component of synergy between your rotational

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archetype abilities and

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the weapon combo attacks, so

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You'll often find that a lot of your offensive power from perhaps the more

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Support oriented class roles is going to be found with interactions with their weapon combo as well

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All right

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Well cool and that's it for the questions that we saw in the chat that like I feel like we community side

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We can answer all the other ones

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but

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you know, so keep sending us our thoughts Vecna and Roshan are great about responding to folks and

• 1:10:06

Peter over on social we we do our best

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We're small but mighty team but we interact with as many people as possible

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There is a thread over on the forums head on over give us some feedback on the cleric

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We would love to know your thoughts. I don't know Steven if you want to add any additional

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I know you talked about it in the other. Yeah, just fit there like what you're looking for for feedback

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Absolutely, just just real quick

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You this video will be uploaded on YouTube within the next hour or two tops I would say and it's full 4k glory

• 1:10:34

and it's full 4k glory and when you guys are thinking about the types of

• 1:10:39

Feedback that you can provide us

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tempo of gameplay

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the distribution and types of effects conferred from the abilities

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in addition to

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The mechanics of the combat and the encounter itself and the synergies with other classes

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Obviously you don't need to give me feedback on my gameplay

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I know that it really couldn't have been better than it was and that that was probably the best cleric gameplay you've ever seen

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Do you want to give them some practice to?

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Like he can't even see them give the man a break

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When it mattered and we got into the ocean moments I pulled off that just fine. Yeah

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You know and I and I hover over the abilities because I forget what the icons are

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So it's it with the with the class. So anyways, you don't need to comment on my glorious gameplay

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I already know you all love it. That's fine. Keep that out of the commentary

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That's why I was trying to give them like I was trying to tell them there is strategy to abilities, you know

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Just gotta use them in a certain way

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Yeah, he doesn't need feedback on his gameplay

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Just wanted to know about the combat and the abilities and we have any feedback you want is all good

• 1:11:50

We we have a great community team that always runs through we sit through the comments

• 1:11:54

We make sure it's used the reports that we're putting forward to our team are really useful. They seem to like them

• 1:12:00

They love your guys's feedback and your your suggestions. So please send them our way

• 1:12:05

They're a lot of fun to read through as well

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And we just want one other real quick point just last point is I want to make a point of that

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You know, we have not gone through our optimization pass and just to be clear when you look at things like frame rate or you see

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You know dips in that frame rate or you see, you know, anything that has to do with kind of performance or optimization

• 1:12:27

Efforts that pass hasn't come yet

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So we're doing something a bit unique in the sense that we're showing active

• 1:12:34

development at the time that things are being developed and because of that you're not gonna see the parts that have yet to be worked on which

• 1:12:40

Is polish pass optimization pass, you know

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all of those things come at the end of the development cycle because things may change more heavily during

• 1:12:50

Development than they might when it's ready for a polish phase, right?

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And so we try to get everything kind of nailed down and all the iteration stuff done as much as we can possibly

• 1:12:59

During that development phase before we go in and actually polish it now because we're transparent development process

• 1:13:05

Obviously the things that we want to show we do dial up a little bit further than normal

• 1:13:09

Perhaps across the rest of our systems and core pillars and designs in the world and that's acceptable

• 1:13:14

There's a little bit of risk there when it comes to like the loss of work potential if things do need to change

• 1:13:18

Animations might change because you have to think about it from a pipeline perspective if animations change VFX has to adapt audio effects has to adapt

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Right those things the timing has to kind of get changed especially when it comes to ability production

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So just keep that in mind as you're giving this feedback

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Yeah

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all the all the teams that have to work after the pipeline of something being like that or like the support like sound effects VFX

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Like it's a it's a lot but our teams are awesome. They're badasses as you can see

• 1:13:46

We have a very small character art update. So I will just be showing off a couple things here

• 1:13:52

And so you can see the tarnished

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Sky raiders set here

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beautiful

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Beautiful. I do have a turntable for this as well. I'll play that

• 1:14:14

Oh

• 1:14:15

Very nice who worked on this this one was Danny

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Danny's have that prepared now

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Yeah, I love the the chain links there if I can see that quite well

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Uh and the the golds and the trim around the cloth and that's very cool. Yeah, it looks great

• 1:14:34

and then we've got the um

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Ambitious academic set and we're showing it off on the vec which we know everyone always is asking about the vec

• 1:14:43

So getting a little look at this one

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You know don't look at the vet can think

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That they're devious or that no, they're star. They're up to no good. This is just

• 1:14:58

This is just how they are as a society, right?

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They're they're inspected

• 1:15:05

They're looking at you and they're just sizing you up, right?

• 1:15:09

And they're determining what they should think of you. They're very suspicious suspicious culture the division between

• 1:15:15

Um the ren kai and the vec was not a very happy and peaceful one

• 1:15:20

So something to keep in mind

• 1:15:22

Be interesting to see now you're gonna have vec and renkai people battling and rp'ing

• 1:15:28

Steven look what you started another war

• 1:15:34

Um, but yeah, the lore is pretty exciting stuff

• 1:15:37

So I know people will love hearing a little tidbit about that and we've we've gotten a lot of feedback in regards to

• 1:15:43

Some people not liking the hunched stance, but honestly, it's kind of yeah, and there's some people who like it

• 1:15:48

So it's like well, you gotta think you gotta think when you when you start playing with poses, right?

• 1:15:52

Um, why do you do that? Um from from a art

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perspective when you want to give players a distance preview threat assessment of the opponents

• 1:16:02

They might be facing especially a pvp game

• 1:16:05

Silhouettes matter and the shape language of that silhouette is a little bit difficult sometimes to distinguish between races that share similar head height

• 1:16:13

And so one of the ways you can break that shape language or silhouette

• 1:16:16

Up is by incorporating different stances and different

• 1:16:20

Different animations that can confer the threat assessment or the idea of what that race is at a distance

• 1:16:26

Amongst races of similar head height. And so I think this this plays well to the vec to their to their creature model

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Um, uh, and it gives them a bit of character, right? Yeah

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I think that all of our races have a lot of characteristics to them and hopefully people enjoy them so far

• 1:16:42

It seems like a lot of people are enjoying them

• 1:16:44

So far it seems like people do there's little bits of feedback here and there from folks and with that we're going to head on over

• 1:16:51

To q a and i'll play the video a little bit more as well. So you guys have something to look at whilst

• 1:16:59

we are

• 1:17:00

Chatting here and answering some wonderful questions from the forums

• 1:17:05

Oh, actually, do you want to do studio update first do you have like a few things that you want to talk about on that front

• 1:17:11

Um, summer's been in full swing. Um studios continuing to grow. We're having a plethora of

• 1:17:17

Wonderful candidates that are that are joining we did finish our um, our milestone

• 1:17:24

our milestone last

• 1:17:26

At the beginning of this month where we had a lot of internal play testing

• 1:17:29

Um, all of that play testing was was phenomenal to see within the studio

• 1:17:33

um, um and

• 1:17:35

You know as you can see combat is making a significant strides forward across these different archetypes

• 1:17:41

Which we'll be getting additional play testing around and you guys will see more

• 1:17:45

Updates too in the future nodes was previously planned as the um

• 1:17:50

As the showcase for this month, but those of you who have been uh following along on

• 1:17:56

Discord and socials and forums you'll know that that got pushed to next month

• 1:18:00

The team required a little bit more time to bake that

• 1:18:02

Uh presentation so that we're able to cover all the topics we want to cover. Um, and uh, yeah, otherwise things are going great

• 1:18:09

That's awesome to hear. That's what we like to hear

• 1:18:12

Now we'll move on to the q a I was just trying to make sure you guys got your bingo card

• 1:18:18

Cheating I know

• 1:18:20

All right moving on to our q a here

• 1:18:23

I will get you something to watch while we do it. So the first one here is from norcore who wants to know about

• 1:18:32

Uh data mining will some kind of technology be utilized to delay data mining example

• 1:18:38

Holding assets data on the servers instead of clients and only streaming it to the clients on demand. Yeah

• 1:18:44

Yeah, um within our architectures. There are some uh plans for us to kind of mitigate as much as as possible

• 1:18:53

Um the data mining, uh to a degree, but ultimately there's just going to be some amount of information

• 1:18:58

That's not possible to be kept from data mining

• 1:19:01

Um, however, we do have uh some plans in place, uh to help mitigate that

• 1:19:06

Also for people who don't know about the bingo card

• 1:19:09

You need to join our discord if you haven't joined it yet

• 1:19:12

They have lots of great conversations over there a little trolly sometimes but you know, that's a

• 1:19:17

Do you win anything for the bingo card? No, it's just fun, you know

• 1:19:20

They try to they try to predict what's going to be in this dream

• 1:19:23

I like they get like a bingo, you know

• 1:19:25

It's they should keep tabs of each month of the winners of the bingo or something. Yeah, like a whole list

• 1:19:31

I told them when i'm 80. I still want them to be doing the bingo card because I think it's nice

• 1:19:36

I want to be like 80 on like the

• 1:19:38

30 hundredth ashes of creation virtual game where we're like locked in no i'm just kidding

• 1:19:43

Um that time by that time we're launched. So don't worry about that

• 1:19:47

Yeah, we're launched and we're also making like a whole nother game

• 1:19:50

And now it's like you are in a suit and in the world. No, uh ace1234 wants to know about mpc interactions

• 1:19:59

Can you influence mpcs or mobs when interacting with them by using your knowledge of their unique personalities?

• 1:20:06

Slash routines lore or general knowledge of the world state

• 1:20:12

hmm, we haven't planned for any type of like

• 1:20:17

branching dialogue

• 1:20:19

Personalities that give insight to those types of things and I don't believe that's planned for our narrative design. No

• 1:20:26

There is however some potential faction-based reputations that can be had

• 1:20:32

And those reputations might send the npcs down different behavior trees

• 1:20:36

um

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And that is something

• 1:20:41

That is incorporated but if I understand the question correctly it's more along the lines of like

• 1:20:46

Catering specific dialogue responses, um that will send down different dialogue branches and that's not planned

• 1:20:54

Okay

• 1:20:55

and then, uh

• 1:20:57

Roni skiponi, I always love your name. I want to know about weapons

• 1:21:00

Will there be any weapons that heal or buff allies rather than dealing damage? Uh, yeah, actually we were

• 1:21:09

One of the weapons that was as part of the cleric's, uh

• 1:21:13

Development process here for this latest iteration on the archetype

• 1:21:17

Was a weapon that had an alternate heal functionality to it. So i'll leave um

• 1:21:24

I will leave that until that gets further developed and I can give you more definitive answers along those paths

• 1:21:29

Um, but it is something that the design team has been looking at. Yes

• 1:21:34

Cool, and then rocket farmer wants to know about cleric lore

• 1:21:38

What can you share about the organizations and lore that surrounds and supports the cleric archetype?

• 1:21:45

Um one of the probably biggest um delineations from your

• 1:21:50

Standard trope in mmorpgs is that the cleric does not receive their powers from a divine source

• 1:21:57

At least not in the sense that is standard

• 1:22:00

Um, it is still something that is tied intrinsically to the use and manipulation of the essence as a as a source of magic

• 1:22:07

Now the source of that essence is up to question. Uh, there are some claims about it that might apply a divine interaction

• 1:22:16

um, but

• 1:22:18

Uh generally it's not as though you're being imbued by these powers from the gods and that the gods can take them away

• 1:22:24

Should you step out of line in your alignment, you know, like that's the more tropey dnd type, uh, esq

• 1:22:30

Approach like paladin oath by correct. I got you. Yes, exactly

• 1:22:35

Um, so yeah, that's an element. I think of the cleric that's probably been misunderstood or hasn't been

• 1:22:41

Uh expressed and there will be more lore that you will explore throughout the world

• 1:22:44

We don't want to give you at all, you know, yes, very true

• 1:22:48

Um, our next one here is from cast. I who wants to know about armor pieces

• 1:22:51

How often will armor be part of an entire armor set with other cosmetically matching pieces versus?

• 1:22:58

Unique armor pieces that don't match or go along with anything else in the game

• 1:23:02

So for instance, there's a lot of games where you go collect all the pieces and now they match

• 1:23:07

Will there be exactly, you know a balance of both?

• 1:23:10

There is a balance of both set pieces and non-set pieces

• 1:23:14

Um, and usually you're going to see at higher

• 1:23:18

uh grades within a tier

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Are going to be more predominantly set driven and the lower interstitial

• 1:23:27

power levels of the gear for that tier are are the uh, potentially bespoke pieces

• 1:23:32

Um, and you know, obviously those pieces are catered around a number of different. Um,

• 1:23:37

Interactions such as ones you get from quests ones that you get from drops ones that you can craft ones that you get from

• 1:23:42

legendary bosses ones that you get from

• 1:23:44

um, um guild oriented tasks or or in-game favor and unique currencies

• 1:23:51

So there's like there's there's different types of acquisition models

• 1:23:54

And each of them has a spattering of either bespoke pieces or set oriented pieces and there are even varying

• 1:24:01

Levels of set pieces as well. So

• 1:24:04

You might have a full, you know, eight piece set or a three piece set or five piece set

• 1:24:09

Depending on where it lives within the tier

• 1:24:11

All right, and then bernie7 and devmage. We have two people who are kind of asking this question

• 1:24:17

It's about cleric gameplay

• 1:24:19

How are you trying to balance the cleric in regards to group play versus solo content while still keeping the archetype fun?

• 1:24:27

Yeah, so we touched a little bit with a little bit on this earlier, um, which is that you know, we don't want to create an

• 1:24:33

Archetype that's gimp when it comes to soloing which means that it needs to have a well-rounded. Uh, um,

• 1:24:38

um, uh kit that's capable of sufficing, uh from a solo gameplay perspective, but also

• 1:24:45

Is fun dynamic and fill fulfills its role within a party setting

• 1:24:51

And so what that means is really it's left to the agency of the player to kind of spec into the skill trees

• 1:24:56

Uh that is most relevant to their type of gameplay

• 1:24:59

So if you want to go harder into the more support oriented group focused skills

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You're going to allocate skill points into that aspect of the tree if you're tending to be more of a solo-esque player

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Not necessarily fulfilling your role within a party setting you can focus in more on the ability kit that gives you access to those

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single target

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single target dpses and solo gameplay oriented, um skills

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So yeah, especially as you're moving into your secondary art archetypes within those

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well, and the secondary archetype really just

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Opens the lid on the types of customization options that the player has access to further allowing them to spec towards

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Either solo gameplay or group oriented gameplay now incorporating aspects and elements of the other

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archetypes as part of that design but we haven't gotten into that yet because

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Alpha 2 really is focused around the base archetypes and how they fulfill their roles or their you know

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What we expect players want to have from a class fantasy perspective

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Um, and then once we've kind of mastered that element, uh, we take that into the augment section and we start allocating

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Effects that resemble the schools of those based archetypes across the class structure

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Gonna be exciting

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That's gonna be when the fun really really starts

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Um and dilliam wants to know about freehold sieges following a successful siege of a node

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Will there be any players that are not allowed to attack slash defend freeholds of that node such as players who didn't participate?

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In the siege and kind of to give you context here stephen

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Uh, there has been discussion in regards to like freeloaders

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Basically people who aren't part of the siege but now can go in and like steal things from the freeholds

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People don't feel like that that's necessarily yeah

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We've we've talked a little bit about in the past and this is something that gets iterated on

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But I will give you guys insight to the thought process that will help inform the decisions we choose

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When we go through iteration and testing, um, so essentially, you know

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I've thought about this in the past as well, and I agree with you that it's not necessarily fair or desirable I guess

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Um to have certain players who would refuse to participate in an event

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Uh in in instead wait to see the outcome and then choose the side which they want to participate especially when you think about

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Especially when you think about node sieges creating an aftermath of um

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of an open open world battlegrounds essentially in the ruins where there are a number of

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resources and or loot and spoils that can be acquired or salvaged depending on if you're the attacker or defending side

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One of the ideas we've thought about is it's potentially possible that for that event either castle siege or node sieges

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You would have a ladder of participation kpi, right like excuse me participation stats

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And in those participation stats

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You would say that the top 100 or the top 200 players have access

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To the open world battlegrounds in order to recover the spoiled the spoils the loot or recovery

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That's a potential thing that we can incorporate

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Um as well if we feel that the objective of the system, which is player participation

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You know the outcome and reward phases and the gameplay loops that are incorporated with that are not necessarily

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Being done in a manner

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Uh that is intended right?

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In addition to that you could you could be less selective in the ladder and more geared towards just those who were online

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And or participating within the event on the attacker defender side and made a choice there, too

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so there's a lot of different dials and levers that we can kind of play with to

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Adjust the system so that we're getting the outcome we want which is essentially player participation

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And that includes both incentives, uh as well as detriments

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And so to kind of recap that like that's something that you guys are gonna play with and test and see what the final decision

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Will be so if you have thoughts on this as we put these things into place and we request feedback

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Definitely send us your feedback on that front. The next one here is from thumbs and they want to know about freehold taxes

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What will happen if a freehold owner doesn't log in for a while but has the money in their account to play?

• 1:29:18

To pay for the debt and taxes associated with their freehold will money be automatically withdrawn to pay debts or will they foreclose their place?

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Yeah

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We've talked about this also in the past in the design side of whether or not we want to allow people to kind of either

• 1:29:31

Pre-pay taxes or if we want to allow them to deduct

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the tax payment from

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A warehouse facility or storage facility or off the character itself

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Um, we have a few different thoughts on this. We're going to be playing with this a little bit in

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an alpha 2 as well

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I will say that the desire of the system is not that people would lose or default on the taxes owed due to

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Um due to just kind of missing the payment time if they're gone for a week or something

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So there will be a mechanism either

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By which they can prepay or by which the system will deduct from a location designated by the player either inventory or warehouse

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Okay

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And then davey wavy wants to know about family systems

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Are you open to the idea of removing the family system if alpha 2 feedback suggests it?

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Or is it something that is in the game for good regardless of feedback?

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Um, there are okay, so let me answer this more broadly

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Um, there are elements of the game design that are core to the game itself

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Those core designs will never change

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Aspects of the core functionality that's intended

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May be tweaked and changed the family system is not a core pillar of ashes

• 1:30:48

Core pillar of ashes and so like many systems and ashes the purpose of these alphas and testing periods and us even having these

• 1:30:56

monthly demonstrations where we're showcasing current directionality and development is so that when players give feedback we parse through that

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We identify how it might conflict with our core pillars and philosophies to iterate and make changes based on the player feedback

• 1:31:13

And what systems it might ripple effect through before making iterative changes, right?

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And so to ask a question such as

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Will you be open to feedback on a particular system? Should the community give it the answer is always going to be yes

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So we don't have to ask that question

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The question that should be asked is if feedback from the community

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Is ants is contrary to the game's philosophy and core pillars?

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Will you change the identity of the game to match what a either loud minority or majority of players are looking for?

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And that is where ashes of creation will never yield

• 1:31:53

Its intent to develop a game that answers the call of what our core philosophies and systems are

• 1:31:59

Attempting to accomplish and there are lots of different games out there for different people and that's acceptable

• 1:32:05

So I don't want us to use the excuse of well, I've provided this feedback about you know

• 1:32:11

Oh a pvx game. I don't think I don't think pve and pvp can live together in a game

• 1:32:16

Therefore they should change that aspect of the game. That'll never be a thing that changes because one of the x game

• 1:32:22

We will have pvx game

• 1:32:24

Correct. There's we are pvx game and I just want to make sure i'm delineating between the two because this often comes up

• 1:32:30

But yeah, it comes up a lot, especially when we showcase pvp of any sort

• 1:32:35

Correct, and and so we need to make sure look we're doing our due diligence and we're doing our due diligence

• 1:32:40

As a company who provides a service to consumers to tell them upfront what we're making and to show them along the way

• 1:32:47

What's being made how it's being made the progress towards that making right? Those are things that we should all as consumers

• 1:32:54

Expect of any company that's out there in the market trying to make a consumer driven product

• 1:32:59

And so because of that we're doing our part there

• 1:33:02

Your part needs to understand as a viewer as a consumer also that some things just might not be for me and that's okay

• 1:33:09

And there are other products out there that offer the things that I want and I will go there

• 1:33:13

Um, you know that is that is an acceptable thing to think about but regardless maybe someday down the line

• 1:33:18

We'll create a product for those people. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we gotta do this one first. Let us give us

• 1:33:23

Let us do one gaming the gaming industry is a huge industry

• 1:33:28

And there's a lot of cool opportunities to tell a story in a very different way

• 1:33:33

Right and ashes of creation is intending to be a very rich ip and a very rich story

• 1:33:37

That has the potential to be told across many different mediums and media

• 1:33:42

And right now our flagship product is this mmorpg

• 1:33:45

And we believe that we've identified a particular space within the consumer market that wants this type of ip

• 1:33:50

And this type of product that we're developing and we're going to stick to our guns when we create it

• 1:33:55

Our guns. All right, and our final question here is from digs and they want to know about purchasing freeholds

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When it comes to buying a freehold it was said

• 1:34:04

A player would need to be level 50. Is that adventurer level 50 or artisan level 50? That's

• 1:34:13

That is adventurer level 50, um, and I talked a little bit about this in the interview

• 1:34:17

Slash conversation that I had on tangents of creation and you know with it

• 1:34:21

I'll talk a little bit about it here within the design team

• 1:34:24

We obviously had a very lively discussion about whether or not there should be a adventuring level limit on an a um,

• 1:34:30

On a system like the freehold, right? And um again when you compare the minute detail or the iterative detail

• 1:34:37

That is what level gets accessed versus the overarching game philosophy or core tenant that we're trying to provide

• 1:34:43

which is the idea of exclusivity of um,

• 1:34:47

Risk versus reward of unique accomplishments and not everybody gets a trophy

• 1:34:52

We can accomplish that system still and make an iterative change to the level requirement of the freehold

• 1:34:58

Like that's a great example of the last point of discussion. We were just having so ultimately when we talk about that adventuring level design

• 1:35:04

When we get into testing and we take into the into account the feedback and we get to see that system play with the design

• 1:35:09

Intent then we'll make iterative changes based off of those feedbacks and it could include something like changing the adventuring level

• 1:35:16

Requirement down to level 30 or non-existent at all. It just comes down to how it goes from

• 1:35:22

paper and thought into

• 1:35:24

Actual gameplay hands-on live audience and getting real feedback in real time

• 1:35:29

Like those are two different things when it comes to game design

• 1:35:31

You can have the best idea on paper that falls completely on its face in in implementation

• 1:35:37

Versus in play testing, right? So so there's there's a there's a spectrum there and we're doing our part in making sure that

• 1:35:45

From paper to implementation these systems are accomplishing what we want them to

• 1:35:49

Next step is testing. All right, and that is it for our development update in july

• 1:35:58

We will have another one in august. So stay tuned for august development update

• 1:36:03

Stephen any final things that you want to leave people with before I go into the outro

• 1:36:12

Let me think I don't think is there any was there any soapboxes

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I wanted to get on today. I don't know. So I'm just kidding. Uh, no aliens because I have thoughts

• 1:36:22

Oh my god, did you see the aliens i'm telling you that was crazy

• 1:36:27

If you guys haven't seen the aliens thing go look at the aliens

• 1:36:30

John and I have been having interesting conversations about the alien my friend runs the illuminati podcast

• 1:36:35

Podcast and oh my gosh. I'm like, are you loving this? He's like, yes

• 1:36:39

Here's i'll tell you the biggest concern and threat

• 1:36:41

I have to ashes is that aliens come down and they bring their advanced like virtual reality technology with them

• 1:36:48

And now everything we've been working on for that last number of years is

• 1:36:51

Invalidated because we have the alien tech which is just literally an mmo that you're seamless in and don't know

• 1:36:56

And that could be what we're in now, but regardless like

• 1:36:59

We're all ai that's what's been saying

• 1:37:04

Oh, it's so great. Yeah, the podcast is what i'm talking about

• 1:37:07

I I have no other points. I hope you guys enjoyed the uh, the presentation today. It is going to be up on youtube

• 1:37:12

Go take a look at it over there the the streaming quality that uh twitch provides us doesn't do the world justice

• 1:37:17

But you get to see it on youtube. Um, no, we had a fun time team's doing a great job

• 1:37:22

And I hope you guys are enjoying it. Yeah. Thank you all so much for joining us. And of course it just says reminders

• 1:37:28

Uh, don't forget to check out steven's uh, q a's that he's been doing with the

• 1:37:33

Ashen forge and the tangents of creation and as well as head on over to our forums forums.data

• 1:37:38

Ashes of creation.com send us your feedback. We we would love to hear it our community team vagna

• 1:37:44

And roshan are amazing and put together wonderful reports for our teams

• 1:37:47

We also have our monthly cosmetic swap over charms and good fortune that will be ending on august 9th

• 1:37:53

So if you want to grab those snag them up and of course, thank you so much to our viewers to all of you

• 1:37:58

For joining us live here. And for those of you on youtube who are watching later, we appreciate you so much

• 1:38:03

We hope that you enjoy following our development process and you know, it's not for everybody

• 1:38:08

But it is what we are doing so that we can showcase along the way the journey of creating ashes of creation

• 1:38:13

And of course, thank you to dr. Bucky and trad for joining, uh,

• 1:38:18

Steven as well, and we hope that you all have a safe and happy new year

• 1:38:24

As well, and we hope that you all have a safe and healthy rest of your month and we'll see you next time

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Bye everyone!