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Kings and Queens
Leaders of guilds that occupy guild castles are referred to as Kings and Queens (also referred to as Lords).[2][3]
- A King or Queen may also be elected mayor of one node.[4]
- Lords of castles and Mayors unlock special high-effect abilities with long cooldowns that can be used during sieges or events.[2][5]
- Mayors and lords of castles have spells they can use on the battlefield with high effect and long cooldowns for their teams.[2]
Guild castles
Five guild castles exist in Ashes of Creation.[8][7][9]
- Each of the five castles has its own static layout. Castle siege defenses include deploying traps and blockades within the castle, as well as hiring mercenary NPCs to defend specific locations.[8][10][11][12]
- While the hard structural environment is static and not able to be- you're not building a castle if you own a castle, you're inheriting a historic ruined castle that is representative of the past because it has some tie-in to specific types of powers that we haven't gotten into from a lore perspective yet but we haven't expressed to the community. That's something that we're going to leave for the community to find out when they play. But when you place mercenaries and you place those blockades and you place those traps, that affects the level design of the castle according to the strategy you might use to defend it.[8] – Steven Sharif
- Castle sieges occur in the open world but may become instanced based on testing.[13]
- There is one castle located on an island that is able to be affected by naval combat.[17][18]
- Castles will initially be occupied by an NPC adversary. These are the primary antagonists in the storyline. Guilds have a period of time to level up in order to siege these castles.[19][20]
- These Castles are occupied when players arrive on Verra, and their current inhabitants will have to be removed before any player can claim them. Castles will be dangerous and high-level raid zones until they can be cleared, and the first group of players to do so will gain the Castle as their reward.[7]
Benefits of guild castles
Guild castles provide benefits and trophies for guilds that capture and control them.[6][23]
- These benefits increase the longer a guild holds its castle.[6]
There are levers and dials that are present to both the owners of Castles as well as the elected officials of Nodes that during their administration they have the ability to impact and influence the region around them.[24] – Steven Sharif
Guild castles exert a King or Queen's presence over nodes within their region.[6][24][25]
- Levy taxes for the purposes of defense (additional to taxes already imposed by node governments).[6][25]
- Activate events and abilities that benefit node citizens under their rule.[6][25]
- Establish special relationships with Mayors to help build up the three dedicated castle nodes.[6]
- Unlock additional types of buildings in nodes.[25]
- Exert control and pressure over one of the five economic regions.[6]
Dragons
Dragons (sometimes referred to as Wyrms or Wyrmlings) are able to be used as mounts, others will serve as NPCs: Some will be bosses or monsters that players can fight.[30]
- Dragon mounts are classed as royal mounts (tier 3) that are capable of true flight when utilized by Mayors of metropolis nodes or Kings and Queens of Guild castles.[31][3]
- Royal mounts are 3 or 4 times larger than gliding mounts (tier 2 mounts).[32]
- Certain tier 2 mount skins can be upgraded to tier 3 skins to accommodate the size difference.[32]
- Dragon eggs can also drop from legendary world bosses.[33][31] These will be temporary mounts that exist for a limited duration.[34][35][36]
We reserved it to very very few people per server, which is also going to make it a lot more meaningful when those flying dragons come into play for certain events.[3] – Steven Sharif
Undermounts
The guild leader of a castle can grant the use of flying undermounts (such as wyrmlings) to guild officers during a castle siege.[38][39][40][41]
- These may only be granted if the castle nodes are successfully established prior to the siege.[41]
- Node A grants 1 undermount, Node B grants 2 undermounts, and Node C grants 2 undermounts.[42]
- This system is subject to change during testing.[42]
Little wyrmlings that you can grant to officers if you're a castle owner, and they can fly around too.[39] – Steven Sharif
Artwork
See also
References
- ↑ Video, May 28, 2021 (3:41).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Livestream, May 26, 2017 (37:17).
- ↑
- ↑ Livestream, July 25, 2020 (1:52:45).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Livestream, August 28, 2020 (1:39:02).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Blog: 10 facts about castle sieges in the MMORPG.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Interview, September 10, 2023 (22:29).
- ↑
- ↑ Livestream, April 29, 2022 (27:42).
- ↑ Livestream, July 25, 2020 (1:22:40).
- ↑ Livestream, June 26, 2020 (1:33:10).
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Podcast, April 11, 2021 (49:40).
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- ↑ Livestream, April 30, 2021 (41:18).
- ↑ Blog: Creative Director's Letter, April 14 2021
- ↑ Livestream, October 14, 2022 (58:46).
- ↑
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Interview, September 10, 2023 (24:15).
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Podcast, April 23, 2018 (21:55).
- ↑ Livestream, January 18, 2018 (37:05).
- ↑ Livestream, August 28, 2020 (1:31:11).
- ↑ Livestream, November 17, 2017 (49:30).
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Interview, May 11, 2018 (47:27).
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Podcast, May 5, 2017 (52:32).
- ↑ Twitter - Your node is under attack by an angry dragon!
- ↑ Video, August 20, 2019 (0:0).
- ↑ Livestream, September 27, 2019 (40:01).
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Livestream, 2018-04-8 (PM) (51:49).
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Livestream, September 30, 2019 (1:39:01).
- ↑ Interview, July 18, 2020 (49:46).
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- ↑
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- ↑ Livestream, September 27, 2019 (39:09).
- ↑ Interview, July 19, 2020 (1:05:41).
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 Livestream, July 26, 2019 (56:06).
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- ↑ 41.0 41.1
- ↑ 42.0 42.1