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Ashes of Creation: Quick Start Guide for Steam Early Access
This guide provides 15 essential tips for new Ashes of Creation players in Steam Early Access, covering everything from choosing a starting zone to node citizenship, resource management, and understanding the game's systems.
1. 🗺️ Choosing the best starting zone: Riverlands
- ✅ Riverlands is recommended for new players due to its more complete and polished starting experience.
- ⚠️ If the Riverlands queue is long, consider the other starting zone, although it is less developed.
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1. 🗺️ Choosing the best starting zone: Riverlands
- ✅ Riverlands is recommended for new players due to its more complete and polished starting experience.
- ⚠️ If the Riverlands queue is long, consider the other starting zone, although it is less developed.
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2. 🏹 Initial quests and tips to get started
- ✅ Don't ignore the NPCs that give quests at the beginning.
- ✅ Complete the initial quest chain to gain experience, basic equipment, access to mounts, and gathering tools.
- ✅ These quests introduce the basic systems of the game.
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3. ⚔️ Experiment with all available weapons
- ✅ Pick up all the weapons you find in the starting area.
- ✅ All classes can use any weapon, so experiment to find your style.
- ✅ Don't worry about optimizing at first, focus on learning the combat system.
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4. 👹 Early mob grinding and ration management
- ✅ Kill low-level mobs near the starting areas to gain additional experience and make starting easier.
- ✅ These mobs also drop rations, which restore health and mana.
- ✅ Store rations to avoid spending money on buying them.
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5. 🐴 Importance of mounts and how to obtain multiple
- ✅ Complete the initial quests to unlock a basic mount.
- ✅ Mounts are essential due to the large size of the world and the lack of fast travel.
- ✅ Completing both initial quest chains will give you two mounts, useful if one dies (10-minute cooldown).
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6. ⛏️ Gathering tools and their importance
- ✅ Don't ignore the gathering tools you get in the initial quests.
- ✅ Gathering, processing, and crafting are viable ways to level up.
- ✅ Collect resources while exploring to gain experience and materials.
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7. 🎒 Inventory management: Bags and specializations
- ✅ Inventory management is crucial due to the Tetris-like bag system and limited stacks.
- ✅ Buy two additional bags as soon as possible.
- ✅ Bags have specializations (e.g., wooden bags allow you to carry more wood).
- ✅ Prioritize wood and ore bags to make money easily.
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8. 📜 Commissions: Mini-missions and important warnings
- ✅ Commissions are mini-missions that pay experience and Glint (currency).
- ✅ Take several commissions at once, as they often overlap.
- ⚠️ Warning: When delivering commissions that require collected resources, the game will automatically use the rarest ones. Save your rare resources before delivering commissions.
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9. ⭐ Destiny System: Achievements and rewards
- ✅ The Destiny system is an achievement system that guides you through the different systems of the game.
- ✅ Complete Destiny milestones to earn experience, Glint, and useful items.
- ✅ It's a good way to learn how the game works and get rewards.
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10. 🛠️ Skills: Free respec and experimentation
- ✅ Currently, skill respec is free.
- ✅ Experiment with different builds and rotations to find your playstyle.
- ✅ Help Intrepid balance the game by trying different combinations.
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11. ⚙️ Combat and control tips
- ✅ Configure auto-attack to your liking to make combat smoother.
- ✅ Be careful with "tab targeting", as it sometimes selects unexpected targets.
- ✅ Experiment with the action camera if you prefer a reticle-based style.
- ✅ Keep in mind that the "targeting" system is under development and can be unpredictable.
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12. 💀 Death penalties and resource management
- ✅ Dying in Ashes of Creation has consequences: you lose a portion of your inventory of materials.
- ✅ If you return to your body in time, you can recover some materials, but not all.
- ✅ Other players can steal materials from your body, marking them for combat.
- ✅ Regularly deposit your valuable materials and Glint in the bank.
- ✅ Before going to a dangerous area, save your rare resources.
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13. 📈 Progression: Levels 1-10 vs 10-25 and the importance of guilds
- ✅ Leveling from 1 to 10 is faster than before.
- ✅ From level 10 onwards, grouping becomes more attractive.
- ✅ Ashes of Creation is a group-focused MMO.
- ✅ A coordinated guild can advance faster, kill enemies more safely, and access more difficult content.
- ✅ Join a guild to share resources, coordinate commissions, and access crafting banks.
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14. 🏘️ Nodes and Citizenship: Key systems unlock at level 10
- ✅ At level 10, citizenship and markets are unlocked.
- ✅ Citizenship links you to a node (settlement).
- ✅ All your characters share the same citizenship.
- ✅ Citizenship gives you access to an additional storage tab in that node.
- ✅ Markets are regional, and being level 10 allows you to sell in them.
- ✅ Citizenship allows you to vote for the node's mayor.
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15. ⚔️ Node Wars and PvP
- ✅ If your node is attacked in a node war, you are automatically part of the conflict.
- ✅ Citizens of the attacking node can kill you during the war, even if you are not participating.
- ✅ By choosing a node, you are choosing who you are going to war with.
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16. 🛡️ Open World PvP and Corruption
- ✅ Corruption is a system to discourage "griefing" (killing players without provocation).
- ✅ If you are killed without defending yourself, the attacker receives corruption penalties.
- ✅ If you are attacked and defend yourself, your death penalties are reduced.
- ✅ The system encourages you to defend yourself instead of accepting death.
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17. ✅ Summary of tips for a successful start
- ✅ Choose the best starting zone.
- ✅ Pick up all the free weapons.
- ✅ Grind low-level mobs to get rations.
- ✅ Buy additional bags early.
- ✅ Abuse the free skill respec.
- ✅ Stack commissions.
- ✅ Save your valuable items.
- ✅ Join a guild.
- ✅ Reach level 10 with a plan for citizenship.