The Ultimate Leveling and Tips Guide for Ashes of Creation Alpha 2

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LEVELING GUIDE

  1. Pickup quest from Gatwatcher Bronson or Gatewatcher Pritcher called Welcome to Verra, you get the Gateway Medallion(Uncommon) in your inventory
  2. Pickup weapons surrounding him near the walls, and outside the door there are some different ones
    1. Rusty Greatsword 9 Physical Power Rating 3 Attack Speed Rating,
    2. Rusty Shield 2 Physical Block Mitigation Rating, 1 Physical Block Chance Rating, 1 Physical Mitigation Rating
    3. Rusty Scepter 6 Mag Pwr, 2 Casting Speed
    4. Musty Spellbook 9 Mag Pwer, 3 Casting Speed
    5. Rusty Longsword 5 Physical Power 3 Attack Speed Rating
    6. Splintered Longbow 10 Phys Pwer, 2 Atk Spd
    7. Warped Wand 6 Mag Pwr, 3 Cst Spd Rtg
  3. Kill the Goblins, can grind them to level 3 if the area isn’t very busy before moving on.  This part of the quest is optional if it is crazy in the area skip it.
  4. Talk to Scout Hadrick(about half way down the path, waves at you) who shines your medallion to make it Rare to complete one step of Welcome to Verra.
  5. Run to Lionhold, following the path, that part of Welcome to Verra auto completes when you get close to Lionhold
  6. Talk to Official Tallahad to finish the next part of the Welcome to Verra starting quest, he is right at the beginning of the town if you follow the path down
  7. Bind to the Resurection Point at the Gemspring(Just slightly north in the water area, the white glowing ball)
  8. Return to Official Talahad to finish the Welcome to Verra starter quest
  9. Talk to Jaren Umber, get the Establishing a Settlement Quest.  You will get a Cargo Box in your inventory that you can turn in at a Level 1 or higher Node later on.
  10. Talk to Herald Harold near the Commission board, Grab the Quest to complete one Commission called Doing your Part
  11. Grab all 8 Commissions from the Board (Be sure to press J and pin the ones you want to do, you can only have 10 pinned.  Also, this is where you turn in commissions with the turn in button)
  12. Grab all 8 Artisan Commissions from the Artisan Commissions board (to the left of the Tradesmen Quest Givers in the next step)
  13. Talk to Tradesmanager Hernet or Falson to get the Quest, The Sweat of your Brow.
    1. Make sure you have the quest tracked to see locations.  Press J, unpin a commission, and pin the Sweat of your Brow Quest
    2. Just follow the instructions it is a chain that has you harvest weathered oak, the process that into timber, then make a mining pick, then mine some eroded granite, then wilted snowdrops, then process that at the alchemy station, then you get the mount from the stablemaster and an item to take to another place further away to finish the quest.
  14. Go to a grind spot.  Start with goblins around Lionhold until level 3, because they have loot tables.
    1. Solo grinding depends on your archetype.  
    2. In general, POIs with good drop tables are your friend.  Some mobs are easier to kill than others.
    3. Miraleth
      1. Miraleth Node Footprint, tons of packs of mobs varying levels 5-10
      2. Baneswood level 7 1 star elite bears, big stacks you can aoe, Southwest Miraleth, has a nice goblin event that repeats
      3. Gemspring 7-8 1 star elites, spiders, group,Named Boss Yshokk 3 star West Miraleth
      4. Titan’s Ring, Miraleth, level 1 star 8-9 elite Minotaurs, West Miraleth
      5. Oakenbane Keep Level 14-15 3 stars, goblins, a lot of elites, Southwest Miraleth
      6. Colossus Crater Level 14-15 skeletons, 1 star elites
      7. Carphin 15-25, Northwest Miraleth 3 stars.   Biggest POI, Only Grand Dungeon in A2.  Carphin has multiple floors.  Wreckage of Carphin surrounding it has an event with a good reward.  Need a large group/raid.
    4. Winstead
      1. Korrah Loch Level 4&5 Goblins 1 stars, South Winstead
      2. Nika Brae 6&7 Bandits, 1 star elites, South Winstead
      3. Highwayman Hills, Bandits, 10, 3 star elites, need a group, Southeast Winstead
      4. Citadel of the Steelbloom SW Winstead 15-18, bandits,  large packs, 3 star elties, need a large group/raid
    5. Halcyon
      1. Ursine Caves, Minotaurs 15-19 3 star elites, South Halcyon
      2. Gravepeak level 20-23 3 star elites, Northeast Halcyon
    6. Joeva
      1. Church of the Seven Stars, 10-12 Ghosts, 3 star elites, Zombies, Skeletons, Southeast Joeva
      2. Darugal Estates, 11-15, 3 star elites, Risen Bouneguard, Undying Servant Western Joeva
      3. Hall of Judication, Level 11-13 Goblins. 1 star elites, Central Joeva
    7. New Aela
      1. Remnants of Sephillion, New Aela Node, 15-17 3 star elites, animated Armors
    8. Random packs all over outside of POIs.  Wolves are crazy strong
      1. Gryphons are a good farm for solo or small groups:
        1. Best gryphon camps, level 14ish West of the Citadel on the Mountain
        2. SW of Miraleth in the footprint of the node, level 10ish
        3. High level ones NW of Winstead, level 17-18

GENERAL TIPS

  1. Starting Area Node XP is split to all the Nodes
    1. Turn in commissions in the ZOI you want the XP to go to. Open Journal with J and press the button at the bottom to turn in
  2. Eastern Riverlands much more developed
    1. Carphin is part of Miraleth
  3. Weapon Experience accrues at the same rate as player experience
  4. Glint
    1. Combine your glint
    2. Glint can only be sold at vendors until the caravansery.  Buying commodities at the hunting lodge and caravaning is better return than vendoring glint, but comes with more risk.
    3. GLINT SELL PRICES AT VENDORS
      1. STOLEN GLINT CURRENTLY SELLS FOR THE SAME PRICE BUT CANT BE USED TO BUY PLAYER COMMODITIES AT THE HUNTING LODGE
      2. Dull Common – 10 Copper 
      3. Dim Uncommon – 1 Silver (x10 Dull) 
      4. Glowing Rare – 10 Silver (x100 Dull / x10 Dim) 
      5. Bright Heroic – 1 gold (x1000 Dull / x100 Dim / x10 Glowing) 
      6. Illustrious Epic – 10 gold (x10000 Dull / x1000 Dim / x100 Glowing / x10 Bright)
      7. Radiant Legendary – 100 gold (x100000 Dull / x10000 Dim / x1000 Glowing / x100 Bright / x10 Illustrious)
  5. Buy gathering bags!  Mining bag first, then lumberjacking ideally
  6. Buy armor.  Grind goblins early for early gear.
    1. Weapons are the best source of damage stats.  Gear is more for mitigation and primary stats.
    2. Level 0-9 you can only wear novice or tier 1 gear.  10-19 apprentice  20-25 journeyman.  The power spike every 10 levels from gear is significant.  
  7. buy artisan gear, HOWEVER IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING YET
  8. Repair items, repair tools at any vendor
  9. You do not get the starting gathering tools until you finish the sweat of your brow quest now.  You used to get them automatically at the start.
  10. Fishing is in Skill Tree, Skill Book Tab, Artisan Tab on the left side can do AFK, free XP.  Around a 30 minute AFK timer right now.
  11. Cotton is part of the Farming Profession, buy the seeds from the vendor
  12. Don’t run from Wolves, fight them.  Don’t run through a wolf pack.  You will die.
  13. Don’t underestimate the early power boost of fruit salad and the scribing buffs
  14. Be sure to allocate new points in your class tree as well as both weapon trees, and the universal tree
  15. Both weapon finishers can proc their finisher effect, so be sure to equip melee and ranged weapons and put in talent points.  You also gain XP on both weapons simultaneously. Make sure to equip your secondary weapon immediately at the start of the game.
  16. The artisan POI vendors have more items for sale than gerald belfort in lionhold and those items are sold without tax like they are in lionhold
  17. Corruption is absolutely brutal and probably overtuned
  18. Always set your new respawn point when moving around (Called Embersprings now)
  19. Don’t forget to dodge and active block
  20. Guild Creation is done via the Guild Scroll with an item from the Guild Manager in the materials tab, and stuff from alchemy and scribing

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