Armadura

Armor 3D renders by Brad Constantine.^[2]

Primeros 3D renders de la Armadura Vaelune en Alpha-1.^[3]

Empyrean tier 1 (level 10) early Alpha-1 leather armor non-cosmetic set 3D renders.^[11]

We're going relatively traditional in the gear access points by being driven by level tier that players will have access to. So as you advance in your adventuring class you will begin to unlock the ability to equip gear of a higher level.^[12] – Steven Sharif

Empyrean tier 2 (level 20) early Alpha-1 leather armor non-cosmetic set 3D renders.^[13]

Gear has approximately a 40-50% influence on a player's overall power in the game.^[14]

There are tiers of gear that players can access based on their level.^[12]^[15]

Stats on gear

Crafters will be able to assign different skills/abilities and stats on gear.^[16]^[17]

Master crafters will be able to influence several (but not all) stats on their crafted items.^[16]^[18]
- Stats on crafted items will vary based on the item's rarity.^[19]
There will also be methods of moving stat blocks around but this won't necessarily be an easy task.^[16]
All gear will be able to be assigned any stat.^[16]

Crafters will be able to 'rejigger' stat blocks; and there will be a couple of other ways to move things around to create both the look and the stat block that you're looking for. It's not always going to be easy. There will be a lot of challenges involved with that. But the goal is to give you guys the option to customize your gear the way you want them to be.^[16] – Jeffrey Bard

Not all armor sets will be the cookie cutter kind of set. They will have the influences from the crafter available in it, if it's a crafted set.^[17] – Steven Sharif

Gear is broken down into Core Stats and Additional Stats.^[20]

Gear slots

Alpha-1 character sheet early concept UI by Ryan Pearson.^[21]

There are 16 gear slots in Ashes of Creation:^[22]

8 Armor slots
5 Jewelry slots
2 Armas slots
1 Ranged slot

Armor characteristics

Kaelar Level 20 robe set 3D render.^[23]

This set is a level 20 set and this is not cosmetic. This is an in-game achievable armor set I believe.^[23] – Steven Sharif

Level 10-20 crafted leather armor set 3D render.^[24]

Light armor

Robes (cloth armor).^[25]^[26]
Lighter armor is more mobile than heavier armor.^[27]
Light armor is geared towards magical damage mitigation.^[28]^[29]

Medium armor

Leather armor.^[25]
Can incorporate robe, chainmail, and plate, influences.^[26]^[30]

Heavy armor

Predominantly plate metal, but may incorporate other influences, such as leather.^[30]
Heavy armor typically has more HP than lighter armor.^[27]
Heavy armor is geared towards physical damage mitigation.^[28]

Armor passives	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Light armor (passive)	Increases armor given by light armor.^[31]	Further increases armor given by light armor.^[31]	Each piece of light armor increases damage.^[31]

An overarching set effect is granted to wearers of exclusively one type of armor, for example: all cloth, or all plate.^[32]

Class weapons and armor

Las armas y armadura no están bloqueadas por arquetipo, pero ciertas clases son más eficientes con ciertos tipos de armas y armaduras.^[33]^[34] Algunas habilidades requieren que determinados items estén equipados.^[35]

Las armas están diseñadas para ser "agnósticas" de cierta manera, en el sentido que el jugador puede hallar la forma en la que un arma sea utilizada por diferentes clases. No sólo el pícaro será capaz de usar dagas. Porque cuando aplicas ese tipo de restricciones, se hace más difícil que la economía tenga una buena sustentabilidad a través del mercado de ítems.^[36] – Steven Sharif

Armas y armaduras raciales

Arte conceptual de armaduras con estilos raciales Dünir y Empyrean por Keith Kovach.^[37]

Arte conceptual de armas con estilos raciales Kaelar y Empyrean.

Las armas y armaduras no están bloqueadas por raza, pero la armadura tomará una cierta apariencia racial.^[38]^[39]

La apariencia racial del equipo está enfocado en la armadura, no en las armas.^[40]

La personalización del equipo por raza está más concentrado en los sets de armaduras más que en las armas. Las armas, desde el punto de vista de los modelos de juego, serán prácticamente iguales entre las razas.^[40] – Steven Sharif

Digamos que, por ejemplo, posees el set Águila o algo parecido: El set Águila tiene un arte y un tema de diseño que incluirán ciertos complementos en la armadura. Esto incluirá una paleta de colores y un tema. Tendrá ciertos aspectos que lo definen como el set Águila. Sin embargo, cuando un elfo o un orco se pongan este set, obviamente tienes dos culturas muy distintas y no queremos pisotear esa cultura asignándole un aspecto de facto: "Este es el set Águila y así es como se ve para todos". Nosotros queremos que las influencias culturales jueguen un rol en cómo se ve el set.^[40] – Steven Sharif

La apariencia racial de los sets de equipo está atada a la raza del personaje.^[41]

Cuando preguntan "¿qué pasa si soy un orco pero quiero verme como un elfo y que mi set Águila tenga representación élfica?" Bueno, ahí el problema es que los orcos tienen un modelo orgánico diferente. Sus cuerpos son diferentes a los de los elfos. Entonces, desde un punto de vista de alcance, es una cosa añadir las diferentes influencias culturales a una armadura; y otra distinta es adaptar cada influencia para que pueda ser utilizada de forma universal. Desde una perspectiva de trabajo, es una tarea muy difícil de tomar para los artistas de personaje. Así que en vez de eso, nos decidimos por nuestro enfoque actual, con el fin de facilitar cierta variedad de representación cultural entre las razas, a la vez que permitimos que compartan distintos bienes como las armaduras, a las cuales les dimos representaciones distintivas de cada raza.^[41] – Steven Sharif

Appearance

Alpha-1 female plate armor 3D render.^[42]

We want to be realistic with the application of particular types of armor, such as plate armor. In this regard for the different sexes there's a fine line that has to be drawn between accentuating the form of the sex as well as making it somewhat realistic and actually applicable to the environment.^[42] – Steven Sharif

Gear is intended to be realistic in appearance.^[43]^[44]

There will not be "oversized" weapons.^[45]
Armor will not be overly sexual in appearance.^[44]

We're going for kind of a more realistic look; not necessarily realistic setting, but we want our characters to have weight and kind of feel like they're there.^[43] – Jeffrey Bard

I'm more of the mind that it wouldn't really serve a purpose to have bikini plate armor, just in like reality, if you're going to have armor, it should be protective. I think from a fashion statement is enjoyable for some people, but it's a kind of an immersive issue.^[43] – Steven Sharif

Armor will take on a racial appearance.^[40]

Cosméticos can be used by all races but there may be slight variations to make them work with the body builds of each race.^[46]

Players can change gear colors using dyes.^[47]^[48]

Helmet display can be toggled on and off.^[4]

Hair will likely be masked if helmet display is toggled on.^[49]

Particle effects are used to denote the importance and rarity of some weapons.^[50]

Armas are able to be sheathed.^[51]

Crafters are able to influence what their crafted items will look like.^[16]^[52]

Appearance slots/Transmogs

Gear will have appearance slots (Transmutation/Transmog/cosmetic slots) that are used to copy the appearance of an item (in some cases).^[53]^[15]

There are rules when applying cosmetics to specific items, unlike costumes, which don't have level restrictions.^[54]
Cosmetic slots can be toggled on or off by the player.^[55]
A "default player appearance" may be automatically applied during sieges or other large scale battles to improve client-side performance.^[56]^[57]

Attachments

Attachments are able to be unlocked as flair pieces to armor to create a customizable look.^[58]

There will be hundreds of attachments available ranging from a small clasp to the front plate of a breast plate.^[58]

Dyeable items

Dyes only affect tagged portions of dyeable armor or cosmetic items.^[59]

The dyeability of costumes depends on the specific costume.^[59]

Outside of wanting to keep maybe some identity from a lore perspective; for example if you have like a white lion's suit of armor, you may not want that white lion suit of armor to be black or blue. So, it's possible. It depends on the costume itself.^[59] – Steven Sharif

Backer only armor skin

All Kickstarter backers receive a unique armor skin set.^[60]

Modular armor

Kaelar base level Ashes of Creation Apocalypse robe set.

You can kind of start to see like some of the components that we put together that we can mix and match and kind of make new armors from. This is kind of like the base chassis for all of that.^[61] – Jeffrey Bard

This is what we call our t-shirt and pants. So this gives you a perfect example of just how the most basic you'll ever look in alpha. So even our most basic look, we're really trying to bring it and put a lot of detail in it.^[62] – Mat Broome

Empyrean level 20 (tier 3) plate armor.^[63]

Your base look for the character can be pretty boring, but what Steven gave us a challenge with from day one was to make sure even the base look, the t-shirt and pants, looked amazing... This is your zero character, if you will... Then you can go in and customize everything from the shoulder pads to the elbow pads, the belt that goes around them; do you want duel belts, you want to harness the clothes in the front. So every piece you see on here you can actually customize that at the front end. So what we do is we scale that up from zero, ten and twenty... We scale it up and we customize it; and then I want to really stress that each one of those looks as you progress is different. We're not just repurposing the same armor pieces. We're making unique sets that complement each other as you progress.^[61] – Mat Broome

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse will have three different armor themes: Plate, leather and robe.^[62]

You can actually have three different types of themes: You have plate, you'll have leather and you'll have robe. So for every armor set that we're showing at each one of those tiers, you're actually gonna have nine unique looks to pick from.^[62] – Mat Broome

Tienda cosmética

Ashes of Creation cosmetic store.^[64]

There is going to be legendary cosmetics that can be earned and achieved in the game through the game systems, but that's going to take a significant amount of effort and work; and those cosmetics are going to be on-par with the cosmetics offered in the marketplace... What that does is it provides additional revenue to the company so that we can continue to fund the development of content as well and bridge the divide that not having a box cost would have and not having any pay-to-win mechanics whatsoever.^[65] – Steven Sharif

The Tienda cosmética enables players to purchase Cosméticos for use in Ashes of Creation.^[66] The cosmetic store offers limited time, limited quantity items to help sustain game development.^[67]

Equitable cosmetics, both from a quantity and quality standpoint, are achievable through in-game means.^[67]
Nothing in the cosmetic store will be pay to win.^[68]

Nothing in our shop will ever be pay to win as we believe this practice greatly hurts the MMORPG genre.^[68]

Cash shop cosmetics will offer a diverse selection of unique looks.^[69]

I want to incentivize purchase in the cosmetic shop for sustainability of what expansions we have intended, since we are not a box cost. I want to incentivize purchase by offering limited items: limited time, limited quantity, so you have confidence that when you purchase them, they won't be offered later on in some other way.^[67] – Steven Sharif

All cosmetic store items will be non-tradeable.^[70] There will be no gifting mechanism for cosmetic items.^[71]

I don't want cosmetic items that can be purchased from the market to be transferable... because it is in a way a transfer of money for potentially something in-game.^[71] – Steven Sharif

Gear sets

Kaelar tier 1 (level 10) early Alpha-1 cloth armor non-cosmetic set 3D renders.^[72]

Gear sets (also known as tier sets) are a part of Ashes of Creation.^[12]^[15]

Different tiers of gear are accessible based on a character's level.^[12]^[15]
Players gain bonuses depending on the number of pieces of the set they have equipped.^[12]^[15]
- An overarching set effect is granted to wearers of exclusively one type of armor, for example: all cloth, or all plate.^[32]
- Certain set bonuses may trade off core gear stats.^[73]
- There may be set bonuses that members of certain communities will obtain based on gear set type.^[15]
There are passive abilities that can be chosen to become more adept with certain set types.^[15]
There will be viable non-set builds.^[73]
Apariencia racial of gear sets is tied to the character model of that race.^[41]

Approximately 49 unique gear sets are obtainable in Alpha-1 from crafting, quests, drops and exploration.^[74]

These are unique sets with different stats, but some may be similar in appearance.^[74]

Best-in-slot armor

El equipo óptimo (best in slot), ya sean armas o armaduras, dependerá del rol del personaje y del tipo de monstruos a los que se estén enfrentando.^[75]

Mana-forged armor

Mana-forged armor sets may be achievable in the Ashes of Creation MMO.^[76]

They also appear to be base variants of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor sets.^[77]

Verra will be filled with many sets of armor, each set uniquely carved into the history of the world. Mana-forged sets are distinctly vibrant with luminescent magic, pulsating across the body of its hero. We hope you enjoy them, and look forward to many more glimpses into the armors of Verra, waiting for their champions!^[78] – Margaret Krohn

Regalia of the Iron Lion

The Iron Lion is a fairly new order, one formed out of a desire to control the unknowable. With the rediscovery of the old world, many Kaelar wondered what lay beyond, considering the incredible power the divine gateways represented. To this end, the Iron Lion focuses not only on martial combat, but also on the art of dampening magic. Without such knowledge, establishing a foothold may be all but impossible - rampant magic is an unpredictable, and many times lethal, complication in any sortie. Due to this, the Iron Lion puts forth significant effort in studying and learning about the magics they come across, hoping to minimize the dangers they pose.^[79]

Gear enhancement

Gear enhancements (power stones/runes) can be applied to weapons to add elemental or energy types of damage.^[80]^[81]

Gear enhancements do not increase an item's level requirement.^[82]

We are very likely going to have a rune system and then we'll have the ability to sort of enchant weapons outside of that too... That's not always going to be like a vertical progression... Some of it's going to be giving up something to get something else; so maybe I do less physical damage but more magical damage, that kind of thing.^[81] – Jeffrey Bard

Progresión in various Pvp systems will unlock enchantment stones that grant temporary PvP-focused benefits to gear (via a socketing system).^[83] Performance is measured over six month PvP seasons.^[84]
- Guild Wars.^[83]
- Arenas.^[83]
- Caravan PvP.^[83]

It's not as though you're going to necessarily acquire these once and then you're set for your PvP enchantments, but instead you'll have to continually perform month after month in order to keep having those slotted enchantments.^[83] – Steven Sharif

Enchanting

There are two types of enchantments for items: Vertical and horizontal.^[85]

Vertical enchantments are a power progression for a crafted item. More damage or mitigations, added effects or bonuses. Vertical enchantments include risks. ^[85]
- There isn't RNG in crafting but there may be a small amount of RNG in enchanting.^[86]
- Over-enchanting items comes with a potential risk that the item decays or is destroyed if a safety margin is exceeded. This system is subject to testing.^[87]^[88]

When it comes to over-enchanting things, what we're going to do likely is have a safety- and this is something obviously it needs to be tested- but we're going to have a safety period of enchantment you know like in Lineage 2 I think you could enchant plus four or something. And so we're gonna have a similar system where you can enchant safely and then when you start to take risks, that percentage of potentially damaging your item either through the decay system or completely disabling it through the destruction system will be a risk that's present.^[87] – Steven Sharif

Horizontal enchantments are more situational. For example: I'd like my sword to do force damage instead of holy damage because the monsters I tend to fight are incorporeal.^[85]
- This doesn't make the item more powerful, but instead more applicable to different situations, and less so to others.^[85]
- This type of enchanting assumes no risk, just time and effort.^[85]

Enchanting services are sold at player stalls.^[89]

Enchanting does not increase an item's level requirement.^[82]

You don't really push a particular item's level requirement or the identity of that item. You can enhance it, you can add enchantments to it, but it's still the item it is.^[82] – Steven Sharif

Switching gear

Weapon swapping in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.^[90]

Weapon swapping in the Ashes of Creation MMORPG will be subject to a cooldown period following any damage taken or done by the player.^[91]^[92]

The cooldown will be in the range of a few seconds.^[92]

For the MMORPG we want there to be some time between damage received or damage done before you can swap your weapon. It's not going to be substantial. It will maybe be a few seconds.^[92] – Steven Sharif

Players cannot switch armor while in combat.^[91]^[93]

Trading gear

Ashes of Creation concept art.^[94]

There will be player to player trading in Ashes of Creation.^[95]^[96]

Q: Will Ashes of Creation have player-to-player trading? Will there be anything stopping me from gifting a friend that's fresh to the game a bunch of in-game money to help them get on their feet quickly?

A: There won't be anything to stop you from doing that.^[95] – Steven Sharif

Sharing gear with alts

There will be a "comfortable" number of character slots available for alts.^[97]^[98]

Progresión pathways in Ashes of Creation are per-character.^[99]
Gear will be able to be transferred between characters.^[100]
Cosméticos can be reassigned to characters within an account, with a potential cooldown period.^[101]^[102]^[103]
Alts within a single account may have different professions.^[104]

There will be a comfortable level of character slots available to players because we are a subscription model game.^[98] – Steven Sharif

Legendary items

There is a small RNG chance of looting rare and legendary items or crafting materials from mobs based on the level, status and type of mob. This also applies to harvesting resources with a gathering profession.^[105]

There is a much higher chance that materials and unique recipes are dropped that can be used to craft items of equitable value.^[106]^[107]^[108]
Legendary equipment is only dropped by Legendary world bosses.^[109]
- Legendary equipment will have a roughly 6-12% improvement in base stats, subject to testing and balancing.^[110]

At each stage from Gatherer to Processor to Crafter you are required to have certain prerequisites before those elite types of materials can be essentially gathered, processed, or crafted.^[107] – Steven Sharif

Gatherers must have high quality tools to gather rare resources.^[107]
Processors must have high tier processing buildings on their freehold to produce rare materials.^[107]
Crafters must also satisfy certain prerequisites to craft legendary equipment.^[107]

The amount of effort needed and interdependencies across the different types of players – between raiders and PvPers and crafters and even role players and the taverns and businesses: the processors and gatherers – all of those systems will likely have a component that lends toward creating or crafting that legendary item... We want to stay away from the highly RNGd system, and instead take our multiple progression paths that we are offering the players and put the construction components for achieving these legendary items within them so it encourages communities to work together because it's going to be difficult for just one person by themselves to gather everything. Not to say that they couldn't in an economic sense, by buying those components, that's possible. But achieving them from a time investment standpoint we want it to be considerably less RNG focussed.^[108] – Steven Sharif

Discovery of legendary items will unlock further chapters of the Lore.^[111]

There are absolutely legendary items and they're not items that are attained easily nor are they granted out in a volume. There might even be items that are single items that will exist on the server at any given time.^[112]

A legendary weapon is easily distinguished by its visual appearance.^[108]

It will be a very ornate and detailed weapon, more so than any other weapon or piece of equipment in the game. It will also include some awesome looking effects that won't too gaudy, you know they won't be too bright and shiny so that it doesn't look good, but they will be subtle and people will notice it and know wow that guy has this weapon.^[108] – Steven Sharif

Legendary items are not intended to be temporary.^[113]

A notable exception to this is Royal mounts.^[114]

The fact there is only one of them... or very very few of them depending on what it is. I think that in and of itself is a balance component right and you need to make sure that the players who are striving for those legendary things and who are devoting the time energy, resources in order to achieve them are accurately rewarded... We do not intend on having legendary items that are temporary.^[113] – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse base leather armor set concept art.^[115]

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor comes with associated skills/abilities.^[116] There are two types of armor: Upper and lower body.^[117]

Armor grants damage mitigation.^[116]

In Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale armor that has lost its damage mitigation can be recharged/repaired to restore damage mitigation points.^[116]
In Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges armor can be replenished by an Engineer. There may also be items in the world or objectives that replenish armor for the entire team, such as one of the buffs for taking a control point.^[118]
In Ashes of Creation (the MMORPG) armor does not function as a pool. There will be no armor bar as seen in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.^[118]

What you're seeing currently in the Battle Royale feature of Apocalypse is you find armor and that gives you an armor pool and then you can regenerate your armor. What we're going to be experiencing in the castle siege form is each class will have a set amount of armor that they join the match with that's already full and a set amount of health that's already full. Upon losing armor you can either have your armor replenished by an Engineer or there there may be ability for you to find items that are in the world or there could be objectives that replenish armor for the entire team, such as one of the buffs for taking a control point.^[118] – Steven Sharif

Armas and Armor are tied to skills in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.^[119]

Swapping between weapons will allow players to access the different skills on their hotbar.^[119]
Certain armor pieces have utility and defensive skills, such as like Camouflage, Polymorph and Battlefield wall.^[119]
Weapons are tied to one specific skill in early testing, but this may change.^[120]

Weapons will have skills associated with them and they'll will rest on a hot bar and you can swap between the weapons on the hot bar and that'll allow you to access the different skills. Additionally the breastplate, the leggings: Those also have skills associated with them those are more utility and defensive abilities, such as like camouflage, polymorph, battlefield wall; that kind of stuff. Those are on the armor pieces and then they are associated with right now the VC hotkeys for their abilities.^[119] – Steven Sharif

Right now weapons are tied to one specific skill; and you know that's just again because we're so early in alpha 1; but well probably be changing that as we continue to iterate and test.^[119] – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor skills

Skill	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Arcanic Power	Channel raw arcane energies to instantly knock nearby foes back, deal damage, and give yourself some breathing room.^[121] Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 10 sec	Channel raw arcane energies to instantly knock nearby foes back, deal damage, and give yourself some breathing room.^[122] Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 9 sec	Channel raw arcane energies to instantly knock nearby foes back, deal damage, and give yourself some breathing room.^[123] Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 8 sec
Blink	Activate to instantly teleport yourself a short distance forward.^[124] Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 30 sec	Activate to instantly teleport yourself a short distance forward.^[125] Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 25 sec	Activate to instantly teleport yourself a short distance forward.^[126] Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 20 sec
Bulwark	This spell will instantly summon a wall a short distance in front of the caster. Perfect for deploying as a cover!^[127] Duration: 15 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.	This spell will instantly summon a wall a short distance in front of the caster. Perfect for deploying as a cover!^[128] Duration: 17 Sec. Cooldown: 15 Sec.	This spell will instantly summon a wall a short distance in front of the caster. Perfect for deploying as a cover!^[129] Duration: 20 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.
Catfall	Activate to grant yourself exceptional jumping abilities, silent moving, and protection from falling damage for the duration.^[130] Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 30 sec	Activate to grant yourself exceptional jumping abilities, silent moving, and protection from falling damage for the duration.^[131] Duration: 13 sec Cooldown: 25 sec	Activate to grant yourself exceptional jumping abilities, silent moving, and protection from falling damage for the duration.^[132] Duration: 16 sec Cooldown: 20 sec
Dark Pact	For the duration of this spell, you will be immune to the effects of the corruption storm.^[133] Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 45 sec	For the duration of this spell, you will be immune to the effects of the corruption storm.^[134] Duration: 11 sec Cooldown: 45 sec	For the duration of this spell, you will be immune to the effects of the corruption storm.^[135] Duration: 12 sec Cooldown: 45 sec
Icy Steps	With this spell you will leave icy trails behind you, which will snare and slow your enemies.^[136] Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 15 sec	With this spell you will leave icy trails behind you, which will snare and slow your enemies.^[137] Duration: 13 sec Cooldown: 12 sec	With this spell you will leave icy trails behind you, which will snare and slow your enemies.^[138] Duration: 16 sec Cooldown: 10 sec
Invisibility	This spell turns you invisible for the duration, though it will cancel upon attacking, or through the use of any other spells.^[139] Duration: 20 sec Cooldown: 60 sec	This spell turns you invisible for the duration, though it will cancel upon attacking, or through the use of any other spells.^[140] Duration: 25 sec Cooldown: 50 sec	This spell turns you invisible for the duration, though it will cancel upon attacking, or through the use of any other spells.^[141] Duration: 30 sec Cooldown: 40 sec
Polymorph	Transform yourself into a harmless inanimate object, and disappear into the local terrain. Will cancel on movement or attack.^[142] Duration: 30 sec Cooldown: 45 sec	Transform yourself into a harmless inanimate object, and disappear into the local terrain. Will cancel on movement or attack.^[143] Duration: 40 sec Cooldown: 20 sec	Transform yourself into a harmless inanimate object, and disappear into the local terrain. Will cancel on movement or attack.^[144] Duration: 50 sec Cooldown: 15 sec