Talk:2022-12-02 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Night and Day and Other Heavenly Things

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Hello everyone and welcome to yet another stream in the world of Vera.

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I am joined by two absolutely awesome and stellar developers on Ashes of Creation with

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whom you have actually experienced a live stream with before.

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They are our glorious engineer, Keenan.

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How you doing buddy?

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Good.

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How are you?

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I'm doing good.

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Happy to be here with you again.

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And then we also have one of our senior game designers, Mr. Trap.

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How you doing Trap?

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Hey, good to see everyone again.

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Good to be back.

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So we are in a new biome that actually I don't believe anyone's ever seen before.

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Where are we?

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We are in the...it kind of looks a little bit like the Alpine Forest, but actually this

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is a part of the Riverlands.

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This is up near the Alpine Forest area.

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So you're going to see some western larks and eastern hemlocks.

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We're obviously at a bit of a higher elevation.

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If you look off to the east over there, you can see kind of where the starting area for

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the Aelan humans, excuse me, the Kalar and the Vellun would start in Alpha 2, down in

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the basins of the Riverlands.

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But we are somewhere else.

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And the reason we're up in this higher elevation is because we want to show to you guys the

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night and day cycle, a little bit of some of the cemetery areas with some undead.

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And there's some constellations I think we're going to be taking a look at today as well

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that we'll get a good vantage point from up in this elevation.

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And also you may notice two familiar characters.

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We have the ranger that you guys saw a little bit.

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Keenan, you're playing the ranger, right?

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Yep.

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All right.

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Now don't...there was a lot of commentary about my playing of the ranger and some people

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didn't think I played it very well.

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So we're going to have to make sure that you're on your game today with that ranger.

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I'll show them how it's done.

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Taking your job.

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Exactly.

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And then we also have, Chad, you're playing the fighter, right?

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Yep.

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I'm going to have to substitute as the tank role of the party.

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Oh, that's...

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The actual tank.

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That's right.

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We haven't shown off the tank yet.

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So the fighter is going to be our tank today, which I think is fine.

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Let's start heading down this way a little bit.

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What do you say?

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Let's go.

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Let's do it.

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Let's do this.

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So what do we have today with the cleric, Chad?

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We're going to be looking a little bit at the cleric and some of the new weapons.

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The mace and the staff.

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Is that right?

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That is correct.

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We've got a two-handed staff and a one-handed mace shield.

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You'll also see four new spells that the cleric will be casting.

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And I won't spoil too much on that.

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You'll see them as we start getting into combat here.

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Now Keenan, you play a cleric as a main in your MMOs.

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Is that right?

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Yeah, I typically play support.

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And what is the most fun aspect of cleric gameplay for you?

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Hmm.

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Put you out of the spot.

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For me, it's making sure it's being able to ensure that the party wins.

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Yes, that is definitely the role I think of as support.

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Any good player knows that supports win and lose games, in my opinion.

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Apologies to all non-support players.

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But you know, when you think about the...

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Oh, let's hold on.

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Let's pause here.

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This looks like a little bit of a scary area.

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And as a matter of fact, let me see if...

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But you know, we might need some supplies in here.

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Let me just see if I can chop down some trees.

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You know what?

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I think there was some oaks down here.

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These oaks might come in handy later.

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We'll see.

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But you know, when you think about cleric gameplay, that whack-a-mole that Trad said,

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that's kind of, I think, what a lot of MMO players are accustomed to, right?

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Yeah, probably.

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It's like following your party's hit point bars in...

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Health bars in the party window and just clicking between them and making sure you're like maintaining

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rotations and cooldowns on your heal abilities.

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You know, saving the really high mana usage ones for emergency situations and just ensuring

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that your resource management, as well as like, you know, who your tanks are, who your

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fighters are, if a DPS gets out of position and starts taking a bunch of damage, like

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they're ruining your mana management essentially, right?

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So it's a little bit of dependency on like your party, as well as your own rotation.

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Yeah, it's a very reactive play style that I like.

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A lot of, you know, a lot of the time when you're playing DPS, it's like a lot of things

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are kind of predetermined with your rotation and all that.

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And obviously there's like reactive elements there that you're reacting to external variables

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and the encounters and such.

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But you know, with clerics, there's generally not as much of a rotation.

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You're kind of responding every moment based on what's happening to your party.

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Yeah, there's a lot of predictive opportunities as well, like making sure that you're in the

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right place at the right time.

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Right.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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All right, let's dismount and see what we got up here.

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These look like some skin walkers.

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What are these skin walkers?

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Trad, you want to talk to us a little bit about them?

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These are just one of your basic fodder enemies.

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Like you know, they're not too dangerous individually, but you know, in a pack they could be something

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to concern yourself with so you don't want to pull too many at a time.

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Let's take them out and see what happens.

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Not too bad, not too bad.

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All right, it took some damage there.

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A little bit of damage there.

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That wasn't too bad.

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Let me actually, hold on.

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Let me adjust the master volume real quick.

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Audio, you guys are going to see some outstanding UI work that's necessary.

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I'm just going to pull down this little bit.

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There we go.

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All right, so that's still got some UI work to do on the settings panel, but you get to

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see it in all of its work in progress glory.

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So they did do a little bit of damage to you and talk to us a little bit about... Oh wow,

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those guys actually got a little bit beat up.

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Must be those buffs on chains.

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Oh yeah.

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I didn't actually even get to cast chains.

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You got to cast it, it just didn't do too much.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So one thing we were trying to set up there that we'll of course get to see a little bit

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more showcased in some of these tougher mobs inevitably coming up here is some class synergies.

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This particular one is where we demonstrate setting up a status effect called stagger.

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You'll see a floater text pop up.

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Here, I'll show you.

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Don't kill him, don't kill him.

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Actually, you won't see it on my screen, yeah, but basically it sets up a status effect.

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You can see a little bit of a VFX over his head and then as you see there, Steven followed

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up with chains that triggers a stun on any target under that effect already.

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Now up here I believe is an observation area where I am going to speed up time.

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Now we talked a little bit about showcasing kind of night and day and up here if we make

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it past some of these... This is like a cemetery, right?

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Looks to be that way.

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Oh yeah, these dogs are... These poor dogs, I feel terrible about them.

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Oh, there's some zombies up here.

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Okay, we got it coming.

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They're starting to move towards me.

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Not as fast though.

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You can kite these a little bit.

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Oh my God.

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Never mind.

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What the heck was that?

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So much for kiting.

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All right, get ready.

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I need to drop a stun on them.

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Or is it on cooldown?

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Nope.

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Okay, cool.

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I'm going to go get the stun.

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I'm going to go get the stun.

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I'm going to go get the stun.

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I'm going to go get the stun.

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I'm going to go get the stun.

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I'm going to go get the stun.

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Nope, I got it.

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All right.

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Oh no, I accidentally canceled it.

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Oh God.

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Hold on, group heal.

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There we go.

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Okay, we're doing okay.

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I got you.

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I got you.

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Some of them popped out of the ground.

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I love the charge effect.

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And it looks like they're...

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Oh my God, a dog came.

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I think we're hitting respawns.

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We need to keep moving.

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Oh God.

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Want to pull them up this way?

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Yep.

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Now you'll notice my main heal actually can act as a damage if the enemy

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target is...

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If the target is an enemy.

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And actually that can generate as a mechanic for the cleric some convictions.

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Tell me a little bit about convictions, Tread.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Conviction is a class resource we came up with for the cleric specifically.

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Certain abilities will generate it based on certain criteria.

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And as Steven was saying there, you can either use it to heal an ally or you can use it to

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do damage to an enemy and generate conviction, which will then help you in the future heal

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for more.

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So kind of what Keenan was saying about predictive play being an element, not just reactive,

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that would be one of the predictive aspects of the cleric.

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Just kind of setting yourself up so that when things start looking a little rough, you've

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kind of prepared that in advance by not healing as much early on and paying off later.

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Now at this point, I think players are for the first time seeing one of the moons of

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Vera.

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And there are a few moons actually of Vera.

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But you guys are going to witness me speeding up time because day and night cycles in Ashes

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of Creation are actually over the course of a few hours between those night cycles.

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So you're going to see the trees move all real rapidly and you're going to see the sun

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drop rapidly and then you're going to see the night sky begin to form.

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And we're going to try to identify some constellations if we can because constellations in Ashes

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of Creation actually have a very relevant purpose across a whole host of different game

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systems including on the narrative side, on mechanics like acquiring certain types of

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relics for your node, on empowering certain abilities and or items that you have access

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to.

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And it is of course relevant that I am playing as a Vec.

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Vec, as many of you may know, do worship and obviously study the stars.

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So let me see if I can go ahead and speed up that time.

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Standby.

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There it goes.

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The trees.

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Look, I love it.

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It's kind of like Time Machine a little bit.

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Oh, and the moon changed positions.

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It's now dead up in up and we see another one of the moons.

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Now of course, as you guys may know, this is of course a work in progress, right?

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We're working towards our Alpha 2.

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So some of this stuff will likely change, especially on the art side.

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But I love what the new skybox is doing and I mean it's just visually great.

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The ambience of course changes now to include a different nighttime feel to it.

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And the lighting actually in the night is not too bad.

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I mean it gives you that kind of sense of dark darkness, but it's not inhibiting your

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ability to play the game.

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Now we are trying to look, we need each of us to kind of look in the sky in certain directions

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to identify one of these constellations.

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And I think what we are looking for is what was once called a Begorimal, but now is called

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a Dawnbreaker, I believe.

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So try to look all around as you can in the night sky and identify the location of the

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Dawnbreaker.

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Where is the Dawnbreaker?

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I am not yet seeing it.

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Are any of you seeing it?

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I don't see...

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Not on that.

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Can we not find the Dawnbreaker?

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Maybe we'll find another one of them.

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Where is it?

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Hold on.

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It should have told me where it was.

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Oh, there we go!

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We found the Dawnbreaker!

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You guys, oh it's right next to the destroyed moon.

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Oh, that'll help.

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There we go.

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Oh, it looks so good.

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I love it.

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Now this is, that's, oh it went away.

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Sad.

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Sadge.

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Now there is supposedly another constellation that is deeper into the cemetery if we want

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to progress that way.

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What do you guys think?

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Let's check it out.

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Yeah, but wait, before we go, let me give us all just a group blessing.

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The four of us, the three of us, sorry.

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I've got a buff before.

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Let's do this.

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I think that'll wear off long before we get to use it.

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Oh yes.

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Gotta conserve your mana.

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I know.

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Well, I'm trying.

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Are we going the right way?

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Oh, I think and healer are going different ways.

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Uh oh.

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We gotta avoid the pulls.

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I think I might have pulled one.

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There's one coming over this direction.

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Oh god, they're here.

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Where?

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Where are you?

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Oh, you're here.

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Ah, okay.

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You guys take care of it.

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The zombies will never catch us.

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Nice, we got that.

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Where are you at?

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There we go.

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Yeah, it looks like we aggroed one.

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Here, let's just get this guy real quick.

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Oh, aggroed a lot more than one.

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Oh my god.

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Okay, let's tread carefully around these cords apparently.

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We're doing okay I think.

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Maybe I should take my staff out for this.

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Oh, you know, I haven't shown any active blocking yet.

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That's another thing I wanted to show you guys is the active blocking.

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Are there creatures down here?

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Yeah, there should be a pack down here I think.

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All right, let's take a look.

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What is this?

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This is the graveyard.

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Oh, it's a respawn point.

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A resurrection.

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Different kind of graveyard.

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Yeah.

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I love this environment and the fog on the ground is so...

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What behind you is that?

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Oh my god.

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Here.

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Oh god.

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I'll let you tank for a little bit.

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All right.

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I have my active blocks up.

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Oh boy.

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There's a lot.

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Okay, he doesn't seem to be doing much damage to me, but of course it would normally consume

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stamina.

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Is that correct, Tread?

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Oh, that depends.

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We're still kind of discussing our resource systems, but you know, that is one thing that

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we can potentially explore.

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Oh, don't stand in that.

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Oh no, what do those do?

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I know Doug and Chong were working on the zombies.

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Yeah.

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Using some of our new AI systems, right?

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Don't stand in the green fire.

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Don't stand in the vomit.

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It actually hurts a lot.

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Let me see if I can generate some convictions.

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Oh, I have convictions.

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Oh, and now you can see because I have convictions, my cleansing wave actually bounced to an additional

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target.

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That's pretty awesome.

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We hit all three of us that time.

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Yeah, that's nice.

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That is very nice.

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All right.

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Let's keep moving forward.

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Did I hit all three of you guys?

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I noticed I have some conviction buff on my life bar right now.

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You hit one additional target for each stack you have.

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Oh my God.

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You guys are hearing my steam, I think.

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Apologies.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm recording from home.

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All right, here we go.

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Let me see if I can generate some more conviction.

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It worked.

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These zombies aren't too bad.

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The more convictions that I generate, the more amplified the abilities become.

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Is that right?

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That is correct.

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I like that.

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Obviously, as we create more and more abilities, there will be more interactions.

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Right now, you only see four, but the final hit will have way more than that going on.

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I'm going to take my staff out.

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We must show these beings the way of the light.

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Talk to us a little bit about the way of the light, actually.

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How does radiant energy and energy subtypes work with regards to damage and creatures?

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Obviously we're going to have different damage types and certain damage types will be strong

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or weak against certain enemy types.

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You'll have to be somewhat smart about who you're bringing where or what kind of abilities

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or specs.

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Obviously you'll be able to do the content, but you'll have an easier time with certain

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contents if you're using a certain spec over others.

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We're going up against undead and as is natural, they're probably going to be a little weaker

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against your holy magic than Keenan's nature element, for example.

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Wow.

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Keenan, are you going to let them talk to you about your nature like that?

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I do like that.

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We'll see.

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See if it's weak.

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I do like the- When we go up against the air elementals,

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maybe Keenan's time will shine.

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Oh, there you go.

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I like the actual different synergy between energy types and vulnerabilities of certain

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creatures.

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There's actually a lot of mobs here.

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Yeah, we should be careful before going forward.

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We got things behind.

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Okay, let's grab some things behind.

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Whoa, did they aggro me because I'm a cleric?

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That was crazy.

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They kind of ran at me.

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They might.

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I think they were coming at me and you were just in their way.

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Very interesting.

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It's all right.

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We got this.

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We got to move forward with caution.

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All right.

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Let's get these guys up here.

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I should use them to generate some convictions actually.

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Oh, you want me to hold DPS?

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It's not in my..

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It's not in your nature.

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Oh no.

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He's a pacifist.

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Oh, I've got my DPS hat on

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Talk to us talk to us a little bit. Oh wait. Are you gonna pull here?

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So I think they're seeing us from over here trying to trick the Sunuras into this. Oh, yeah

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Oh, they got you they found me somehow

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I set them up for a stun. Perfect. Now talk to me a little bit about why that Sun just happened. I

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Set it up with whirlwind and it flies these staggered effects and

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Chains of restraint will stun any targets under the staggered. So right now that's one particular synergy but in

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As the game continues to come together and you see more abilities

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There will be all kinds of ways to set up that

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That outcome

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So

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Even more. Yeah, a lot of a lot of essentially the different combat mechanics that work

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between the different archetypes and classes

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Rely on synergies in the progression of certain types of status effects, right? That's correct

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This of course

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synthesizes the need for certain party compositions to exist so that players can make sure they utilize the

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strengths of their different types of status conditions and the the example we're showing here obviously is the progression of

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Oops, sorry is the progression of the staggered condition into the stun?

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We might need to find a place to rest here. Yeah

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Let's move forward

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Up this way maybe right like up here. Let's just track in the wolves

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We got one zombie coming in from behind that's alright, let's take a bit you want to grab these wolves

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And you'll see because they're stunned the chains actually go through the body that's kind of cool

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What about right here? Can we rest here?

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Let's um, let's move up the stairs a little bit just so we don't catch a respawn on the wolves, okay

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Can we take a seat maybe up here right right here?

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Yeah, let's sit down. Hopefully the zombies don't follow us too far. I'm gonna take a seat. I think we have aggro still

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Yeah, they're coming for us. I think

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Oh no, okay, all right

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Keenan you need some

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Take a break after we get these guys down

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Oh, yeah last wave I promise

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Can't use my abilities

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If I was a bit higher level I could help you regenerate your mana

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Yeah, one thing we should be doing is focus firing these guys one aspect of the zombies as they have

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more health region than your standard mob and

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one

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Strategy against them is to burst them down. Let's rest right up here

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Yeah, there's some mobs right up there right here right here

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Right here oh there we go this has been a frightful journey actually

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Yeah, and one beautiful

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Yeah, you can see Keenan's mana

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Was a little low there and so as you know a classic

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MMO thing to do is to sit and rest as you get your your resources back now

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What if you have certain types of items that you could use like a campfire or some type of you know?

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bedding or something that would be kind of cool. That'd be pretty cool. It would be cool. I

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Like the just the the subtle fog that's just flowing through

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It's the rain is nice you yeah, the rain is nice I like the sound

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Look at those old lampposts. I think that's been in the game since 2017

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Although it looks like the materials might have gotten updated

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It

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All right, I'm feeling refreshed should we

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All right, so we've got a group right ahead of us here

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Oh

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No, no, no not like this. Oh, no. No you're dead gotta come in you are going to die

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There is nothing I can do for you. Oh

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My god

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Focus the scholars

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scholars first

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Why is there so many?

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That's all right three down

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Walker

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I can't it's on cooldown. Okay here comes oh my god. There's dogs

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Ambush Houston Houston together oh

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I almost got stuck in between all of them, too

• 27:17

I was terrible

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Hey, we actually handled that not too bad. You got it

• 27:26

If we want to go this way right yeah, I'm super slow though

• 27:30

They put some type of plague debuff on me last time we got lost in here

• 27:34

It was it was a rough time now remember. We're looking for a particular type of constellation I

• 27:41

believe the ancient scholars of

• 27:44

The Vek refer to it as the great sundal

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Whoops I totally misfire that rib how many look

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Zombies

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I

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Have to say you are doing a great job with the Ranger well done here. Thank you. Yeah, you are

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Where are we headed

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I'm just I'm just running man. This is like a giant

• 28:29

Complex undead speaking of undead this is the first time I think we've ever shown undead in ashes

• 28:44

In fact these particular undead are a result I believe

• 28:49

for those of you who were watching the

• 28:52

livestream of

• 28:53

The wreckage of carfin the event that occurred there just before the exodus from from Vera all those years ago

• 29:06

Now where are we another scene walker?

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I

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This is an ominous

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Passageway, I don't trust it. I like it. I also love the light effect that it has on my what

• 29:25

What is the name of this set? This is like the vindictus is it?

• 29:31

And oh that armor set yeah, you know we probably have already shown it on the street

• 29:36

So all of you. Oh, we will show

• 29:39

But I believe it's the imperious and the dictus or something along those lines. That sounds right

• 29:44

It's a very Latin sounding name

• 29:48

What is that? This is Vera? Oh

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My god Keenan, I think you just summoned those with your sniper

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They felt the nature

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I

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Murdered it

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A little bit of help for me

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Definitely me

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Got to keep the healer safe yes

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That is true. That is the primary role and responsibility of your archetype

• 30:54

Keep me safe

• 30:56

I like how they kind of pounce at you. That's their opening attack. Yeah, so

• 31:06

You see now the effect has staggered applied instead of stun

• 31:11

Because I did not use it at the right time with my fighter

• 31:16

All right, we're coming up across a bridge it looks like

• 31:22

Should we rest?

• 31:24

Maybe we should rest with the red logs. Yeah, that's a good idea

• 31:26

If we rest we should probably move off to the side over here. Where?

• 31:29

Wanna take a seat by the little river over here? Keenan's like, nope, I'm gonna rest right in the middle of the road

• 31:34

Gotta get those ticks. Sit by the river

• 31:37

It's a nice little spot

• 31:40

Yeah, it is a nice spot

• 31:42

I don't trust the water

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Why?

• 31:46

Nothing bad happens in the water

• 31:48

It's just the depths

• 31:50

Think of all the secrets that the depths contain

• 31:52

Perfectly safe dark rivers in fantasy games

• 31:55

A zombie is totally not going to jump out of there and eat me alive

• 31:59

Out of the water?

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No, that would never happen

• 32:03

Now remember for those of you who are watching during the extra life event

• 32:07

The Tower of Carthen actually rests upon a river

• 32:10

And some of the energies that were created when

• 32:16

Lamont actually did the...

• 32:18

Oh, oh, oh

• 32:20

Oh, they're shooting like necrotic bolts at you

• 32:24

Told you I didn't trust the river

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Oh god, there's so many

• 32:30

There's a lot

• 32:32

I'm on the lamppost

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Make sure you stay over here

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Where are you, Dredd?

• 32:38

I'm still down here on the beach

• 32:40

Here I am

• 32:42

I got you, I got you

• 32:44

Here we go

• 32:46

We should probably get up onto this bridge

• 32:50

Yeah

• 32:52

I'm just trying to finish off this zombie first

• 32:54

I'm on the bridge

• 32:56

He's going to regen

• 32:58

Alright, he's down

• 33:00

Alright, let's get these two guys

• 33:08

But as I was saying, the Tower of Carthen event

• 33:12

That actually trickled out through the riverlands because of the rivers

• 33:16

And the undead began to form around these rivers

• 33:20

But you'll learn more about that during the story

• 33:26

Nice little

• 33:28

Stun these scholars real quick

• 33:32

Oh, they're dead

• 33:34

Nevermind

• 33:36

We're taking them off

• 33:38

Ranger's doing work

• 33:40

Let's go off to the side

• 33:46

What is up there?

• 33:50

That looks like something different

• 33:52

It's some type of little golem

• 33:54

Oh god

• 33:56

No, no, no

• 33:58

No, no, no

• 34:00

Oh, this guy's not that bad

• 34:06

Oh, he stunned me

• 34:08

Oh no

• 34:10

What was this?

• 34:12

Let's go too soon

• 34:14

Get out of here

• 34:16

Alright, we got more company

• 34:18

They're lagging behind a little bit

• 34:20

Cannot challenge me

• 34:22

Challenge me

• 34:24

Walk in the light

• 34:32

Okay, they're challenging me slightly

• 34:34

There we go

• 34:38

We did it

• 34:40

We've done it

• 34:42

So the active block actually works with any weapon equipped

• 34:46

Is that correct?

• 34:48

Is that what you arranged?

• 34:54

Oops

• 34:56

Tried to do that

• 34:58

Oh yeah

• 35:00

You get active block

• 35:02

One thing that we're kind of toying around with the idea of

• 35:04

Is giving everybody a universal active block mechanic

• 35:08

In which case

• 35:10

The shield version would probably be better

• 35:12

But you'd still be able to parry

• 35:14

Or whatnot

• 35:16

With a two-handed weapon or even maybe dual wield

• 35:20

Oh, that's pretty cool

• 35:22

We need to find this Sendahl

• 35:26

It's supposed to be kind of up near

• 35:34

Wait, maybe we need to go back a little bit

• 35:36

We gotta respawn

• 35:38

No, respawn?

• 35:40

Hold on, let's go over this way

• 35:42

I remember

• 35:44

I was told

• 35:48

That it was before this bridge

• 35:50

Oh no

• 35:52

Okay, let's just run through if we can

• 35:54

I want to try to find the Sendahl

• 35:56

Just keep on moving

• 36:00

Oh, don't die

• 36:02

Okay

• 36:04

Hold on

• 36:08

We're good

• 36:10

Are you surviving?

• 36:12

I think so

• 36:14

I mean, we'll be fine except for the wolves

• 36:16

I set my speed a little bit higher

• 36:20

Cheater

• 36:22

Oh no

• 36:24

What's happening?

• 36:26

It's definitely a cleric buff, right?

• 36:28

Yes, exactly

• 36:30

Provided by the range

• 36:32

See that?

• 36:34

Alright, I like my sleep

• 36:36

We can take these guys

• 36:38

Zombies are way behind

• 36:40

Alright, I'm ready

• 36:44

Easy peasy

• 36:50

Oh my god

• 36:52

They're never ending

• 36:54

Keep running

• 36:56

I think

• 36:58

Hold on, we gotta go up here

• 37:00

Up these stairs?

• 37:02

Yeah, up these stairs

• 37:04

Okay

• 37:06

Oh, good, we're up here

• 37:10

Hold on

• 37:12

I might need some help up here though

• 37:16

Let me see

• 37:18

Sorry guys

• 37:20

I just want to make sure we can find

• 37:22

the

• 37:24

the Sendahl

• 37:26

Maybe he meant

• 37:28

before the bridge

• 37:30

Like, before the bridge into the cemetery

• 37:32

Maybe

• 37:34

Oh, I made it on top of the

• 37:36

the light post actually

• 37:40

Oh yeah, there we go

• 37:42

Now this is tranquil

• 37:44

Like a true cleric

• 37:46

Don't die, I'm not with you guys by the way

• 37:48

Wait, nope

• 37:50

I don't even know where you went

• 37:52

We lost our healer, we're screwed

• 37:54

No, no, we're good

• 37:56

You guys just come out the front

• 37:58

Oh, I see you down there

• 38:00

Unless I find the Sendahl

• 38:02

Jump down, demon

• 38:04

Oh god, he's getting swarmed

• 38:06

Yeah, I'm definitely getting swarmed

• 38:08

Oh jeez

• 38:10

I'll save you

• 38:14

Here

• 38:16

It's the least I can do

• 38:18

Aw, shoot, I'm doomed

• 38:20

And the zombies are coming

• 38:22

Oh no, no, keep going

• 38:24

Wait

• 38:26

It was definitely at the entrance

• 38:28

I'm so sorry for this, I'm so sorry stream

• 38:30

I'm so sorry

• 38:32

I can't not show the

• 38:34

Sendahl

• 38:38

Totally messed up, now you know

• 38:40

we don't cut these or edit them

• 38:42

they're just

• 38:44

They are what they are

• 38:46

This is such a typical

• 38:48

MMO adventure

• 38:50

Just like, getting lost in a dungeon

• 38:52

area, healer body pools

• 38:54

Alright

• 38:56

There we go, we're good, I think so

• 38:58

Oh, okay, we made it out here

• 39:00

I can see the stars again

• 39:02

So you actually, you guys can see that

• 39:04

there are certain environments that

• 39:06

will just prevent you from being able

• 39:08

to look up

• 39:10

into the sky for some of these constellations

• 39:12

Alright, now we're looking

• 39:14

towards, oh wait

• 39:16

we're supposed to look towards that moon

• 39:18

Oh, I found it

• 39:20

We found the Sendahl

• 39:22

There it is

• 39:24

Yes

• 39:26

Are you dying? Don't die

• 39:28

And there is

• 39:30

the Sendahl, ladies and gentlemen

• 39:32

Well, I hope that you all

• 39:34

have enjoyed this sneak peak

• 39:36

at one of the areas

• 39:38

in the Riverlands

• 39:40

and also some of the updates to the

• 39:42

Yeah, let's take a seat, let's take a seat

• 39:44

and also some of the updates

• 39:46

to the cleric

• 39:48

as well as, you can see there's some UI here

• 39:50

between the icons and the mini map

• 39:52

as well as the targeting and

• 39:54

party UI

• 39:56

that we'd love your guys' feedback on

• 39:58

You also got

• 40:00

to hear a little bit about

• 40:02

the night and day cycle

• 40:04

see some of the updates to the mace and

• 40:06

shield as well as the staff

• 40:08

and also learn a little bit more about

• 40:10

undead and the energy types that occur

• 40:12

and synergies especially

• 40:14

between certain types of status conditions and effects

• 40:16

that might

• 40:18

exist in Ashes of Creations

• 40:20

With all that being said

• 40:22

I'd love to hear your guys'

• 40:24

feedback on

• 40:26

what you saw today. Make sure you guys go

• 40:28

and visit the forums, our Twitter

• 40:30

our Reddit, comment in the

• 40:32

YouTube videos, give us what your thoughts are

• 40:34

about what you saw today. As always

• 40:36

remember, this is a work

• 40:38

in progress. We are working towards

• 40:40

Alpha 2, but you get to see

• 40:42

a little bit every step of the way

• 40:44

each month. So I hope you guys

• 40:46

enjoyed. Trad, Keenan

• 40:48

thank you for joining us. That was

• 40:50

super fun and I'm surprised we

• 40:52

actually didn't die.

• 40:54

Same. It was fun. Thanks

• 40:56

for having us. Yes!

• 40:58

See you guys back on stream!