Skill points

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Alpha-1 early preview skills UI.

É aqui que os jogadores alocam pontos de habilidade em suas habilidades ativas, suas habilidades passivas - que podem aprimorar seu uso de armas e armaduras e regeneração da saúde e stats passivos e coisas assim - mas no lado das armas, é onde você se especializará em certos tipos de procs baseados em grupos de armas. Por isso, já falamos um pouco sobre isso no passado: Se você tiver uma adaga, as adagas podem ter a chance de causar um sangramento em seu ataque com armas e isso se sinergizaria com uma habilidade ativa, como digamos Backstab, que faz danos adicionais se o alvo estiver sob um efeito de sangramento. Agora dissemos no passado que os jogadores serão capazes de alocar pontos de habilidade em suas habilidades ativas que são mais voltadas tanto para o combate de ação quanto para o alvo de tabulação. – Steven Sharif

Os jogadores recebem skill points a medida que sobem de level. Esses pontos podem ser usados para upar as habilidade (aumentar o seu rank) dentro das árvores de habilidades ativas, passivas ou de combate/arma.

• Não será possivel upar ao máximo todas as habilidade em uma árvore de habilidade.
• Em relação a progressão de habilidade os jogadores conseguem escolher ter uma variedade maior de habilidade, ou ter um numero menor e mais especifico de habilidades.
• Os jogadores tem a opção de resetar e realocar os seus pontos de habilidade.

Tornar as habilidades ativas capazes de receber alocações de pontos de habilidade adicionais e desbloquear recursos adicionais de modo que, do ponto de vista da escolha dos jogadores, caberá a você decidir se quer ou não ser mais diversificado, mas menos profundo - mais amplo e não mais versátil, em algumas dessas escolhas de habilidades. Ou se você quiser ser muito versátil, isso será algo que caberá ao jogador nesse aspecto. – Steven Sharif

Primary skills

UI de habilidades e seus espaços de habilidadesAlpha-1 .

A proposta do segundo modelo e do sistema de modificações é misturar um pouco o papel de cada classe. Então enquanto seguimos o sistema tradicional para o papel das classes, nós estamos utilizando o sistema de modificações secundárias para mostrar um pouco da direções que o jogador pode tomar – Steven Sharif

Pre-alpha footage of a Mage using offensive and Habilidades de utilidade, such as Mage's escape and Mage's detection.

Habilidades primárias (habilidades de classe) são baseadas no modelo do jogador. Jogadores poderão personalizar suas habilidades primárias com modificações do segundo modelo.

O design por trás das modificações não vem somente de mudar o estilo da habilidade para que reflita a segunda modificação, mas também fundamentalmente alterar os componentes principais das habilidades. – Steven Sharif

• Cada Modelo secundário oferece 4 esferas diferentes de modificações. Cada uma das modificações afeta as habilidades dos modelos primários de formas diferentes.
  • Por exemplo: Um Mage oferece teleporte e esferas elementais de modificações. Essas modificações vão afetar as habilidades primárias de um Fighter de uma forma diferente de como afetariam a de um Cleric, por exemplo.
  • Cada modificação tem seu nível de requerimento e número de pontos de habilidade necessários para serem adquiridos.

  Haverá um certo limite após o qual você não poderá modificar suas habilidades da mesma maneira que modificou suas habilidades anteriores, então você terá que pegar e escolher cada uma que você quer modificar com muita atenção; certas modificações vão ter maior requerimento de pontos de habilidade. – Steven Sharif

• Escolher o mesmo modelos como primário e secundário aumentara o foco nesse modelo.

• Modificações nas habilidades primárias irão fundamentalmente mudar a forma de como aquelas habilidades funcionam: Adaptando o que a habilidade fazia para incorporar a identidade do modelo secundário.
  • O sistema de progressão para as modificações é muito parecido com o sistema de progressão de classe.

• Para alterar as modificações em suas habilidades será necessário que você fale com um PNJ dentro de uma base em estágio de Vilarejo ou acima.
• Algumas cores e efeitos de habilidade mudam baseado em suas modificações.
  • Habilidades ativas poderão ficar totalmente diferentes depois que uma modificação for aplicada.

Jogadores receberão pontos de habilidades à medida que passam de nivel. Esses podem ser usados para aumentar o nível das suas habilidades, nas árvore de habilidades ativas, passivas ou de combate.

• Não será possível maximizar todas as habilidades na árvore de habilidades.
• Em termos de progressão de habilidades, jogadores poderão escolher diversidade e pegar muitas habilidades, ou se aprofundar em poucas habilidades específicas.

Independente de qual dos oito modelos você escolha como secundário, você receberá uma escolha de modificações que representam alguns dos ideais daquela classe. Sabe, como um tank se especializa em controlar o campo de batalha, em sobreviver. O mago se especializa em dar dano e elementos e habilidades em área. O ladino se especializa em ficar invisível e dar dano crítico. Então essas modificações vão tentar oferecer um pouco dessas identidades. – Steven Sharif

A ideia por trás do sistema é que você está meio que caminhando entre as linhas através dessas modificações do seu papel, sabe. Nós temos a tradicional trindade que está presente no design de classes para MMOs e, no geral, essas classes ou seguem um padrão à risca ou desviam completamente do padrão. A modificação procura oferecer um equilíbrio entre isso, onde você ainda mantém um semblante daquele sistema de trindade enquanto oferece a oportunidade de puxar seu jogo para um dos outros ângulos do triângulo – Steven Sharif

Active skills

Alpha-2 Tank action bar (hotbar) user interface.

Players can build their characters with the active skills they want on their action bar (hotbar).

• The maximum number of skills a player can have on their action bar will be around 15-20.
  • Each archetype will have roughly 35-40 skills to choose from on average.
• There will be an option to include multiple action bars (hotbars) on a player's UI. For example: One Fighter will be different from another based on what active skills they have chosen.

Some people like to have a very minimalistic number of hot bars. They don't need necessarily to have three, four, five hot bars that are available; but some people do like that: They want to have all their items listed on their hotbar as well as their abilities, as well as as their mounts, as well as anything that they can essentially interact with as an icon. – Steven Sharif

• Players are not given skills as they level up, they must choose what skills they take.
• There is no spellbook requiring memorization.

There will be multiple hot-bars that you obviously have available, because you're going to have consumables, you're going to have active skills and whatnot. But the number of active skills are not going to overwhelm necessarily the character and be irrelevant especially at certain stages. – Steven Sharif

Respeccing skills

Respeccing (resetting and reallocating) adventuring skills may require travelling to a specific location rather than being able to be done on-the-fly.

I am still conflicted on whether or not I want to allow respecs on-the-fly. I believe that respecing should be done at a particular location that requires a bit of transit and some strategic thinking ahead of time about the encounters that you're expecting, but respecing your class should be relatively easier obviously with that constraint of being at a particular location. – Steven Sharif

• Swapping between multiple saved specs may be able to be done after a suitable cooldown period.

• Respeccing artisan skills is going to be more difficult than respeccing adventuring skills.

Class progression

À medida que um jogador progride com seu modelo primário, ele terá a oportunidade de escolher um modelo secundário para modificar suas habilidades primárias com efeitos do modelo secundário. A combinação de modelos primários e secundários constitui uma classe.

• Um jogador poderá escolher seu modelo secundário quando chegar ao nível 25.

Se um Lutador escolhesse Mage como seu modelo secundário, esse lutador se tornaria um Spellsword. Essa combinação abre espaço para modificações que podem ser aplicadas às habilidades da árvore de habilidades primária. Lutadores têm a habilidade Investida que permite que eles avancem contra um alvo; ao chegar nesse alvo, eles causam uma certa quantia de dano com a chance de derrubar o oponente. A modificação Mage's escape poderia ser aplicada à habilidade Investida, que agora teleportaria o jogador para o alvo , eliminando o tempo necessário para avançar até o inimigo.

Cada habilidade na árvore primária terá diversas opções de modificação vindas árvore secundária. Esse é um exemplo de progressão horizontal.

• Modificações em habilidades primárias mudarão fundamentalmente a maneira como as habilidades funcionam - adaptando o que a habilidade fazia para incorporar a identidade do segundo modelo/classe.

• Uma classe secundária não ofereçerá habilidades adicionais.

Os jogadores recebem pontos de habilidade quando sobem de nível. Esses pontos são usados para aumentar o nível das habilidades na árvore de habilidade.

• Não será possível maximizar o nível de todas as habilidades em uma árvore de habilidades.

Universal skills

Universal skills, such as active blocking and dodge rolling, are able to be unlocked by all archetypes.

Outside of your class-specific skill tree, there's going to be a subsection of a few skills that are universal, like active block, like dodge; and I think what we're going to do- or at least what we're going to be discussing here- is those universal skills will have progressions that might align with your passive tree; and you can spec skill points into progressing additional features of those universal abilities that you will have access to. So I think that's probably going to be the direction that we're going to take. – Steven Sharif

• Skill points can be used to unlock universal skills at the expense of unlocking class-specific skills.

Q: Will each archetype be equally efficient with universal skills, like dodging and active blocking, or will each of them have their own versions and flavors, or will some people be more powerful than others?

A: We want to provide a progression path that's shared for those universal skills across all the archetypes. So when you spend skill points, you can choose to spend them within the universal skill set and unlock particular ability types for the universal skills as well, but you will be spending them from the skill points that you would normally spend within your class-specific skill tree; and this offers again a different wheel of customization that I think is interesting. – Steven Sharif

• The developers will be testing the use of separate energy mechanics for universal skills in Alpha-2.
• Universal skill progression may align with a player's passive skill tree.

Weapon skills

Alpha-2 work-in-progress Greatsword weapon skill tree.

The intent here is to give you choices. Either I want to extend and improve my combo, or I want just passive benefits that increase my attack speed or crit chance. – Brian Ferguson

Weapon skills grant passive skills and proc effects and other status conditions rather than usable skills on a player's action bar. The more skill points that are allocated to the weapon tree, the greater a player's weapon familiarity. This influences things like the number of attacks, attack speed, and increased chances of proc effects from carrying out basic attacks with that weapon. These procs may offer synergy with the player's active skills. This synergy also applies to active skills from other characters.

Weapon skill trees are skill trees that you can unlock and invest points into as you continue to develop your experience with certain weapon types, certain weapon groups, like a dagger; and when you're doing your basic combo attack with those weapons, which is universal for all classes- anybody can use any type of weapon because stats can be changed on these weapon types through crafting and through drops- there will be certain proc effects that live on the weapon skill tree as you advance in them; and those proc effect effects will be able to interact with your archetype skills because they will have promotion type effects that occur when they synergize with one another. – Steven Sharif

• The weapon combo system determines special effects that proc based on weapon progression.
  • These procs may reduce or reset cooldowns on other skills on the player's hotbar.
  • Certain rotations can ensure the best chance of triggering a weapon proc, but there is no reliable way to ensure that proc activates.
  • Weapon progression such as set bonuses may change at what level any proc effects occur.

Our approach is not going to be providing skills through weapons. It's going to be providing skills through classes. – Steven Sharif

• Players can spec into weapon skills on their weapon skill tree (also referred to as Combat skills, and Combat tree) based on their preferred weapon types and the grade of the weapon.
  • Dual wielded weapons count as a single weapon type on the weapon skill tree.

Let's say a dagger has some slashing effects that bleed the target or that cripple the target... Every time you attack you have a chance to proc that effect. That effect then can synergize with what your active skills tree has available to it. So let's say your backstab deals 30 additional damage to a bleeding target. If you attack with your main weapon first and the target gets the bleed proc off and you do your backstab skill then you're synergizing your effects. – Steven Sharif

Let's say backstab that you can apply to deals damage to the target and it'll have a conditional modifier on that damage if you're behind the target, and it'll have a conditional modifier deal additional 50 damage if the target is under a bleed effect. So you want to synergize essentially your weapon proc conditions with your active skills so that you're timing your certain active skills appropriately with the status conditions that the target has taken. – Steven Sharif

• Certain higher-end weapons (and Armadura) have active abilities, but the intention is that these abilities will not radically redefine the way an archetype is played.

Weapon progression

In-game achievable sword and polearm 3D renders.

Power creep is a balance issue... When it comes to gear progression specifically, the idea is to create an open market that is not heavily dependent on soulbound items; and having many item sinks and gold sinks within that economy that allows for the potential degradation and loss of assets within that closed economy; and not introduce items from the market that companies put in from a pay-to-win perspective or from a pay-to-convenience perspective that undermines the economy that players have built. That is a huge mistake that companies have made in the past and that lends to the imbalancing of what designers maybe have actually balanced well. – Steven Sharif

Armas have their own progression paths.

• Each type of weapon has its own skill tree that grants passive skills and proc effects and other status conditions.
• The weapon combo system determines special effects that proc based on weapon progression.
• Ancillary effects proc based on enchantment types.
• Gear enhancements (power stones) can be applied to add elemental or energy types of damage.
• Dual wielded weapons will have its own progression based on weapon type.
• Weapon proficiency (based on length of use of a weapon) is not a planned feature.

Ashes of Creation is all about providing many progression paths... The reason why we don't like the term endgame is because with the amount of progression that's available with the amount of diversity and player agency that impacts the world... We want the weapon system [to] add an element of that as well... You can determine special effects that proc from currently the combo system; you can determine ancillary effects that proc based on enchantment types; you can power stone weapons to add different either elemental types of damage and/or energy that play rock-paper-scissor with player defenses ... and then you can skill tree out how those effects that are granted ... you can make them better you can branch them off into a different direction. – Steven Sharif

Passive skills

Passive skills are used to augment weapon usage, armor usage, health regeneration, and passive stats.

• Passive skills can be levelled up by allocating skill points on the skills UI.
• Passive skills enable players to work toward mastery of a weapon.
• Passive skills are based on the player's choice of primary archetype.
  • Some passives may be introduced with the choice of secondary archetype, but this hasn't been finalized yet.

All these passive abilities: mana regen, attack damage, critical hit damage, health regeneration, defense mitigation, maximum health: A lot of different changes from the passive side of things and these are based on what archetype you've chosen. – Steven Sharif

Skill	Icon	Origin	Description
Act of War		Fighter	Switching forms no longer triggers cooldowns or costs Combat Momentum.
Blade Twist		Greatsword	Adds Wound to Greatsword Combo finishers and Extended Finishers.
Brutality		Fighter	Weapon combo finishers and extended finishers apply 5 Wound stacks, plus an additional Wound for every 10 stacks already on the target. Each wound stack reduces target healing received by 0.5% and target damage mitigation by 0.15%, up to a maximum of 100 stacks.
Burning Blade		Greatsword	Add Burning to Greatsword Combo finishers and Extended Finishers.
Caravan Trail Speed Bonus		Caravan	Minor speed boost for travelling on a simple trail.
Climactic Whirlwind		Fighter	Perform a final swing in an area in front of you after ending Whirlwind's channel, dealing heavy damage and generating 5-10 Combat Momentum based on number of targets hit.
Consuming Lethal Blow		Fighter	Lethal Blow returns 50% of overkill damage dealt as health and mana.
Extended Duration I		Greatsword	Extends the duration of the Second Strike and Perfect Timing proc effects by 2.5 seconds.
Extended Duration II		Greatsword	Extends the duration of the Second Strike and Perfect Timing proc effects by 2.5 seconds.
Extended Duration III		Greatsword	Extends the duration of the Second Strike and Perfect Timing proc effects by 2.5 seconds.
Extra Stacks I		Greatsword	Second Strike and Perfect Timing now stack up to 2 times.
Greater Brutality		Fighter	Overpower and Brutal Cleave apply 10 Wound stacks to enemies hit.
Greatsword Hit 3+		Greatsword	Weapon Combo Finisher. Greatsword Hit 3+ Unlocked. Has 25% chance to proc. Increased damage.
Greatsword Hit 3+: Extra Damage I		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 3+ by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 3+: Extra Damage II		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 3+ by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 3+: Extra Damage III		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 3+ by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 4		Greatsword	Weapon Combo Extended Finisher. Greatsword Hit 4 Unlocked. Increased damage.
Greatsword Hit 4+		Greatsword	Weapon Combo Extended Finisher. Greatsword Hit 4+ Unlocked. 25% chance to proc. Increased damage.
Greatsword Hit 4+: Extra Damage I		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 4 by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 4+: Extra Damage II		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 4 by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 4+: Extra Damage III		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 4 by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 4: Extra Damage I		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 4 by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 4: Extra Damage II		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 4 by 10%.
Greatsword Hit 4: Extra Damage III		Greatsword	Increases the damage of Greatsword Hit 4 by 10%.
Guard		Greatsword	Your abilities have a 30% chance to proc Guard. Guard: Your next weapon combo finisher grants 6 seconds of temporary health equal to 1-3% of your maximum health.
Keen Edge		Greatsword	Your abilities have a 30% chance to proc Keen Edge. Keen Edge: Your next weapon combo finisher has +100% chance to critically hit.
Meditative Form of the River		Fighter	Form of the River increases your mana regeneration by 0.01% of your maximum mana per point of Combat Momentum you have.
Overdrive		Fighter	After completing the final spin, you may continue spinning at maximum speed while rapidly depleting your Momentum. Ends after Momentum is fully depleted or after stopping the channel.
Perfect Timing		Greatsword	Adds the Perfect Timing proc to Greatsword Combo Finisher Procs & Extended Finisher Procs: Perfect Timing Reduces the Cooldown of the next ability you cast by 5 seconds.
Potency I		Greatsword	Second Strike - Increases the damage of the Second Strike Proc by 25%. Perfect Timing - Increases the cooldown reset by 1 second.
Potency III		Greatsword	Second Strike - Increases the damage of the Second Strike Proc by 25%. Perfect Timing - Increases the cooldown reset by 1 second.
Raging Blitz		Fighter	Blitz generates 20 Combat Momentum.
Recharging Lunging Assault		Fighter	Lunging Assault gains an additional charge and generates 5 additional Combat Momentum when dealing damage to one or more enemies.
Refreshing Followthrough		Greatsword	Your abilities have a 30% chance to proc Refreshing Followthrough. Refreshing Followthrough: Your next weapon combo finisher restores 3-5% of your maximum mana.
Reinvigorating Exert		Fighter	Exert additionally refreshes all ability cooldowns by 1% per point of Combat Momentum the caster has upon activation.
Reinvigorating Lethal Blow		Fighter	Killing an enemy with Lethal Blow resets the cooldown of Blitz.
Relentless Form of the Avalanche		Fighter	Form of the Avalanche causes your weapon combo attacks to apply 3 stacks of Staggered to enemies hit, plus 1 additional stack per 30 Combat Momentum you have. Staggered reduces physical accuracy by 0.1% per stack and physical disable reduction by 1% per stack.
Second Strike		Greatsword	Adds Second Strike proc to Greatsword Combo Finisher Procs & Extended Finisher Procs: Second Strike When you strike a target for physical damage with an ability, it gets struck again.
Slicing Maim		Fighter	Maim launches a piercing projectile that deals damage to enemies in its path.
Swordmaster: Consistent I		Greatsword	Adds Swordmaster: Swiftness - Increases effect duration by 0.5s. Swordmaster: Endurance - Increases minimum possible health restored by 0.5% Max HP.
Swordmaster: Consistent II		Greatsword	Adds Swordmaster: Swiftness - Increases effect duration by 0.5s. Swordmaster: Endurance - Increases minimum health restored by 0.5% Max HP.
Swordmaster: Endurance		Greatsword	Adds Swordmaster: Endurance proc to Greatsword Combo Finisher Procs & Extended Finisher Procs: 25% chance to recover 2-4% of your maximum health.
Swordmaster: Potential I		Greatsword	Adds Swordmaster: Swiftness - +5% Attack speed from effect. Swordmaster: Endurance - Increases maximum possible health restored by 1% Max HP.
Swordmaster: Proc Rate I		Greatsword	Increases all Swordmaster effect proc rates by 25%.
Swordmaster: Proc Rate II		Greatsword	Increases all Swordmaster effect proc rates by 25%.
Swordmaster: Proc Rate III		Greatsword	Increases all Swordmaster effect proc rates by 25%.
Swordmaster: Swiftness		Greatsword	Adds Swordmaster: Swiftness proc to Greatsword Combo Finisher Procs & Extended Finisher Procs: 25% chance to gain 25% attack speed for 1.5 seconds. Stack up to 2 times.
Unstoppable Exert		Fighter	Exert additionally breaks all hard control effects on the caster, and may be used any time while under a hard controlling effect.
Weapon Mastery: Bows		Bow	Lowers the Cooldown of Barrage and Scatter Shot by 3s upon: Completion of a bow weapon combo; Firing a fully charged Longbow.
Weapon Proficiency IX		Greatsword	Increased Attack Speed by 1%.
Weapon Training: Deflection		Greatsword	Increases your Evasion by 0.5%.
Weapon Training: Followthrough		Greatsword	Increases your Mitigation Penetration by 0.5%.
Weapon Training: Power		Greatsword	Increases your Critical Damage by 0.5%.
Weapon Training: Precision		Greatsword	Increases your Accuracy by 0.5%.

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• Habilidades
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