Offhand items

Alpha-2 Spell focus offhand item.

Offhand items are items that can be equipped in a player's offhand slot, such as shields, spell focuses, and sigils.

• Only one-handed weapons may be equipped when the offhand slot is in use.
• Previously, shields were equipped in a back slot.
• Dual wielded weapons occupy both main and offhand gear slots.

List of offhand items

This section contains potentially outdated information from Alpha-1 testing.

Item	Icon	Source	Rarity	Level requirement	Set
Carphin Shield		Drop			Carphin
Demonic Offering Aegis		Crafted items	Epic	15
Dented Shield		Vendor	Poor	2	Dented
Eldritch Lightguard		Crafted items	Rare		Eldritch
Kite Shield			Common
Lava Forged Defender		Crafted items	Rare		Lava Forged
Lorica Vindicta Shield		Drop	Common		Lorica Vindicta
Shield of Briarhome		Crafted items			Briarhome
Sons of Fortune Shield			Rare	10	Sons of Fortune
Tower Shield		Drop	Rare

Offhand cosmetics

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  Aegis of Vigilance

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  Halcyon Spire

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  Shield of Reverence

Shields

Alpha-2 Wreckage of Carphin Shield 3D renders. 3D model by Danny Shinwoong Kang.

Shields are a type of weapon in Ashes of Creation.

• Shields in the MMORPG grant a static defense/damage mitigation value.
• Shields may also offer additional value/block chances on a directional basis.
• Shields cannot be dual wielded.

Gear slots

Alpha-2 Fighter character sheet UI.

We wanted to create something that would handle a couple of different roles, with obviously your equipment slots for what we call a "paper doll", which is that display of your character. Eventually it won't just be a image of your character, we hope to have the 3D character and be able to rotate around, look at what you're wearing. And then we wanted to support a couple of different features here, with some base stats; the equipment, which will show what equipment you have available to quick swap, so you don't have to have your inventory and the screen open; detailed stats for those people who want to get into all of the details; and then of course gear sets. So this is going to be able to swap to your sets of gear quickly; and being able to save different loadouts. – Colby Marchi

There are multiple gear slots in Ashes of Creation.

• 3 Back slots.
  • 1 Ranged slot.
  • 1 Cloak/cape slot.
  • 1 Backpack slot.

• 3 Belt slots.
  • 1 Mainhand slot equips a player's primary weapon.
  • 1 Offhand slot can equip shields, spell focuses, sigils, and dual weapons.
  • 1 Potion/Pouch/Scroll slot.

• 8 Armor slots.
  • 1 Helmet slot.
  • 1 Shoulder slot.
  • 1 Chest slot.
  • 1 Wrist slot.
  • 1 Glove slot.
  • 1 Waist slot.
  • 1 Leggings slot.
  • 1 Boot slot.
• 5 Jewelry slots.
  • 2 Accessory slots.
  • 1 Necklace slot.
  • 2 Ring slots.
• 3 Artisan gear slots.
• 1 Artisan tool slot is used to equip gathering tools.
• There may be a specific slot for musical instruments, but this has not been finalized yet.

• Previously it was stated there were 16 gear slots.

• Gear is not subject to inventory weight limits.

Visuals

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  2023-06-03
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  2023-06-03
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  2021-06-08
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  2019-01-24
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  2018-04-02

See also

• Stats
• Spell focuses
• Gear slots