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Crafting an apprentice herbalism gathering tool in Alpha-2.[1]

Different professions will have a number of quests available to introduce players to their first toolsets; and then, their toolset sustainability will be incumbent on the player to continue to gather the resources necessary to repeatedly create these tools, because they have a durability that gets expended when interacting with the resources in the open-world.[2]Steven Sharif

Gathering Halcyonite using a mining pick gathering tool.[3]

Each gathering profession will have three tools. The tools come online as you progress through the profession; and the different resource types for each one of the professions may require different tools. So, you basically want to carry around the right tool for the job. And tools along with artisanship gear will have stats on it, so you can itemize towards how you want to gather, how fast you want to gather.[3]Kory Rice

Gathering tools (also referred to as harvesting tools, artisan tools, and toolsets) enable the gathering of resources in Ashes of Creation.[3][4][5][6]

Tools do advance within the artisan tree, so your ability to either gather, process or craft will require the equivalent tools necessary at that stage of crafting in order to accomplish the task at hand. So, you could not mine copper and mithril with the same tool.[6]Steven Sharif
  • Tools will have durability and lifespans.[2][14][15]
    • The amount of usages of a gathering tool increases as the gatherer becomes more proficient in the gathering artisan tree.[14]
    • Tools may become non-repairable, requiring re crafting.[2][15]
  • Artisans will not need to rely on other trees in order to make their tools.[5]
  • The developers are considering the introduction of gathering tools that require two players, such as two-person saws that can fell larger trees.[12]
Your progression within the profession will take account what tools you can use. There might even be some opportunity to do some gathering with other players that . Typically in other games that I play you usually do the gathering alone. You're venturing around alone; and we wanted to take a look at maybe having a friend to help you with a two person saw on a larger tree. Maybe there's some panning that you could do as opposed to just hitting with the pickaxe. So, we'll have other tools that are part of that progression path and other activities that players can do if they would like to gather together.[6]Kory Rice

List of tools

Item Icon Type Resource tiers Rarity Level requirement Source Cost
Apprentice Herbalism Sickle Novice Herbalism Sickel Icon.png Tool Common Apprentice Crafted items
Apprentice Lumberjacking Axe Novice Lumberjacking Axe Icon.png Tool Common Apprentice Crafted items
Axe AxeIcon.png Tool 1 Common 1 Vendor 10
Beginners Pole BeginnersPoleIcon.png Fishing pole 1 Common 1 Vendor 10
Copper Pickaxe CopperPickaxeIcon.png Pickaxe 1 Common 1 Vendor 10
Crude Herbalism Sickle CrudeHerbalismSickleIcon.png Tool Common Crafted items
Cultivator CultivatorIcon.png Tool 1 - 3 Rare 1 Vendor 500
Diamond Tipped Pickaxe DiamondTippedPickaxeIcon.png Pickaxe 1 - 4 Epic 1 Vendor 2,000
Intermediate Pole IntermediatePoleIcon.png Fishing pole 1 - 2 Uncommon 1 Vendor 100
Iron Chopper IronChopperIcon.png Tool 1 - 2 Uncommon 1 Vendor 100
Iron Pickaxe IronPickaxeIcon.png Pickaxe 1 - 2 Uncommon 1 Vendor 100
Journeyman Lumberjacking Axe Novice Lumberjacking Axe Icon.png Tool Common Journeyman Crafted items
Master Lumberjacking Axe Novice Lumberjacking Axe Icon.png Tool Common Master Crafted items
Novice Herbalism Sickle Novice Herbalism Sickel Icon.png Tool Common Novice Crafted items
Novice Lumberjacking Axe Novice Lumberjacking Axe Icon.png Tool Common Novice Crafted items
Novice Mining Axe Novice Mining Axe Icon.png Tool Common Novice Crafted items
Shears ShearsIcon.png Tool
Soil Knife SoilKnifeIcon.png Tool 1 Common 1 Vendor 10
Steel Pickaxe SteelPickaxeIcon.png Pickaxe 1 - 3 Rare 1 Vendor 500
Tiller 7a088b0d-ff65-40ad-9ce3-2d0e6eaa77ff-0.png Tool 1 - 2 Uncommon 1 Vendor, Quest rewards 100

Resource tiers (rarities)

Flanggler (Flower angler or Mimic flower).[16][17]

Resources will have differing tiers of quality for the same resource type.[18] This is somewhat similar to Star Wars Galaxies.[19]

You will have an opportunity to proc certain qualities based on your progression in the Artisan tree. So if you are a gatherer; and as you advance in your gathering, you'll have a higher opportunity to collect better resources.[20]Steven Sharif

Artisan classes

Artisan classes and their professions.
Gathering professions Processing professions Crafting professions

Artisan classes (also referred to as Artisan branches) allow a player to specialize in one or more of the three artisan skill trees: Gathering, Processing, and Crafting.[21]

We want players to interact with each other. We want the professions to make stuff for the other professions that are useful. I am influenced quite a bit by the Star Wars Galaxies style crafting; and just having people in your network that could supply the metal that you need to make your armor, and the flowers that you need to make your potions, and maybe the potions that you need to make your enchantments. That to me was really interesting; and part of the economic gameplay of being a good crafter, being a good gatherer, is having that system; and it really plays into the economic field of a particular server. You can come in and be like, I want to be the the potion mogul here; and having good sources and having a guild that supports you is just really interesting. And without narrowing down what you have access to yourself, it takes away from the ability to achieve that.[22]Kory Rice

Within each of the three artisan classes lies different professions.[23]

Q: How do you feel about players creating alts that allow them to cover every profession?
A: I think that's fine and I think that when we design the game, we design with that in mind as well; and that's why we have certain restrictions on the number of Grandmaster professions that one particular character can do.[24]Steven Sharif
  • There are profession-specific quests.[26]
  • Professions will be balanced based on testing.[27]
When it comes to balancing a system that's something that we do during testing phases. When it comes to architecting the system itself and identifying the areas in which certain certain professions excel, where they interact with ancillary systems, their interconnectivity across the artisanship system as a whole, the important part there is to identify how that the interconnectivity lives with the other professions in the artisanship system. And what type of reliance you have on particular professions to complete the path of crafting or introduction of new items into the economy.[27]Steven Sharif

Timeline

Artisan classes (Gathering, Processing, Crafting) is expected to come online fully in Alpha-2 and the Betas.[40][41]

Crafting honestly will not come online in any sense of its true form until Alpha-2. Alpha-1 has essentially what are intended to be the core gameplay loop of crafting, meaning the collection of materials, the translation of those materials into processed goods, and the use of those processed goods into item acquisition. That's the core gameplay loop that is currently present in Alpha-1. But those are mostly facilitated piggy backing the merchant systems right now and not actually using the real crafting system; and that's because crafting hasn't been completed in a form that can be implemented in Alpha-1, but will be for Alpha-2. What's present in Alpha-1 doesn't even really scratch the surface for crafting.[41]Steven Sharif

Artisan progression

Artisan progression.[30][43][44]
Artisan level Artisan certification Profession limit per character
1-10.[45][11] Novice.[30][46] 22.[30][43]
10-20.[47][11] Apprentice.[30] 5.[30][43]
20-30.[47] Journeyman.[30][44] 4.[30][43]
30-40.[47] Master.[30][44] 3.[30][43]
40-50.[47][48] Grandmaster.[30][44] 2.[30][49][43]

Artisan progression occurs based on experience (repetition of tasks) as well as achievements of certain benchmarks within each artisan branch (Gathering, Processing and Crafting).[51] Progression in each artisan profession is per-character.[28][27][29][25]

All 22 professions, the players get to be novice of; and then it starts narrowing from there. So, after that you'll only be able to be apprentice of five things. You can be a journeyman in four things. You can be a master in three things; and you can be a grandmaster in two things. So you'll need to narrow, but you can also diversify to support the professions that you want to first push further in.[43]Kory Rice
  • Progression to each "tier" within a profession grants skill points that can be utilized in a character's artisan skill tree.[53]
    • Artisan certification quests must be completed to gain proficiency in that tier of artisan progression.[7] Completing certification unlocks benefits for that profession, such as artisan tools for gathering professions and recipes for crafting professions.[54][35]
    • There are limits to the number of professions at each certification tier across the three artisan branches.[30][49][55][43][56] For example: a character may only ever be a Master in up to 3 professions and Grandmaster in up to 2 professions across all artisan branches.[30][49]
    • Grandmaster artisans can max out their entire profession skill tree, but a character can only be a grandmaster of up to two professions.[57]
    • Achieving an artisan certification in a profession also implies that the character also achieved any lower-tier certifications up to that point.[58]
If you are grand master in that profession you can max out the entire tree. But you can only grand master 2 things.[57]Kory Rice
  • Choosing a specific path in the skill tree allows the player an opportunity to specialize in a certain area. This encourages player inter-dependency, enhancing the artisan experience.[59]
Q: In regards to character level and artisan level. We know that currently there are two separate things. That being said, what prevents a player from staying level one and partying up with a level 50 player to then gather level 50 resources in the high zones? That way, anyone who wants to take those resources will have to kill the gatherer who is level one and get a large amount of corruption for killing a level one as a level 50.
A: Gathering higher level resources requires significant advancement within a particular profession for that gatherable resource. So, if I'm a Miner and I want to access the highest possible mineral, I need to be a master miner; and in order to achieve the master minor status I am going to be gaining adventuring level experience through that process, because many of those quest lines, many of those achievements are facilitated through quest lines. Some of those quest lines interface with adventuring difficulties that are out in the wild at certain levels. So that's going to predicate me- that's going to be a predicate for me to achieve a certain level in order to complete some of these quest lines and achieve that master status. So you will you will likely not see the ability of a level one alt character having the access to high level mineral mining, or any other type of gatherable out there.[31]Steven Sharif

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