Könige und Königinnen

Castle keep throne room in Alpha-1 castle sieges.

Leaders of guilds that occupy guild castles are referred to as Könige und Königinnen (also referred to as Lords).

• A King or Queen may also be elected mayor of one node.
• Lords of castles and Bürgermeister unlock special high-effect abilities with long cooldowns that can be used during sieges or events.

Mayors and lords of castles have spells they can use on the battlefield with high effect and long cooldowns for their teams.

Gildenschlösser

Guild castle Alpha-1 early preview.

With five Castles in the world, and each having been owned by different civilizations from the far-flung past of Verra, you can expect that each Castle has its own character. Different terrains and different layouts will result in each Castle having its own advantages and disadvantages. Just because you have managed to take one Castle will not mean that your strategies will pan out in the next. Commanders will have to take into consideration the lay of the land, time of day, weather, and even seasons into account when forming their battle plans.

Five guild castles exist in Ashes of Creation.

• Each of the five castles has its own static layout. Castle siege defenses include deploying traps and blockades within the castle, as well as hiring mercenary NPCs to defend specific locations.

While the hard structural environment is static and not able to be- you're not building a castle if you own a castle, you're inheriting a historic ruined castle that is representative of the past because it has some tie-in to specific types of powers that we haven't gotten into from a lore perspective yet but we haven't expressed to the community. That's something that we're going to leave for the community to find out when they play. But when you place mercenaries and you place those blockades and you place those traps, that affects the level design of the castle according to the strategy you might use to defend it. – Steven Sharif

• Burgbelagerungen occur in the open world but may become instanced based on testing.
  • Alpha-1 castle sieges occurred in a zone that is accessible via a NPC teleporter.
• There is one castle located on an island that is able to be affected by naval combat.

• Castles will initially be occupied by an NPC adversary. These are the primary antagonists in the storyline. Gilden have a period of time to level up in order to siege these castles.
  • There will not be a relic to capture, instead whichever guild had highest contributing DPS against the raid boss will capture the castle.
  • Burgen-Nodes around NPC run castles will not be present.

These Castles are occupied when players arrive on Verra, and their current inhabitants will have to be removed before any player can claim them. Castles will be dangerous and high-level raid zones until they can be cleared, and the first group of players to do so will gain the Castle as their reward.

Benefits of guild castles

Guild castle concept art.

It's a reciprocal relationship between the castle and its nodes essentially. There are benefits granted to citizens of the castle; and the longer that the castle remains in the hands of its incumbent guild, the stronger the benefits become overall. But at the same time that represents a greater incentive to attack the castle because the rewards will get greater over time also. – Steven Sharif

Gildenschlösser provide benefits and trophies for guilds that capture and control them.

• These benefits increase the longer a guild holds its castle.

There are levers and dials that are present to both the owners of Castles as well as the elected officials of Nodes that during their administration they have the ability to impact and influence the region around them. – Steven Sharif

Guild castles exert a King or Queen's presence over nodes within their region.

• Levy taxes for the purposes of defense (additional to taxes already imposed by node governments).
• Activate events and abilities that benefit node citizens under their rule.
• Establish special relationships with Bürgermeister to help build up the three dedicated castle nodes.
• Unlock additional types of buildings in nodes.
• Exert control and pressure over one of the five economic regions.

Drachen

Dragon depicted on Ashes of Creation MMORPG official Gamescom 2019 teaser trailer.

Dragon 3D render. 3D model by Jessica Jennings.

Drachen (manchmal auch als Wyrms oder Wyrmlings) bezeichnet können als Reittiere, verwendet werden. Andere dienen als NPCs: Einige werden alsBosse oder Monster gegen Spieler kämpfen können.

• Drachenreittiere werden als Königliche Reittiere (tier 3) eingestuft, die zu wahrem Flug fähig sind, wenn sie von Bürgermeistern von Metropolen Nodes oder König und Königin von Gildenburgen verwendet werden.
  • Königliche Reittiere sind 3- oder 4-mal größer als gleitende Reittiere (tier 2 mounts).
  • Bestimmte Stufe-2-Reittierskins können auf Stufe-3-Skins aufgerüstet werden, um den Größenunterschied auszugleichen.

• Dracheneier können auch von Legendärem World Bossen gedroppt werden. Dies werden temporäre Reittiere sein, die für eine begrenzte Zeit existieren.

Wir haben es für sehr, sehr wenige Leute pro Server reserviert, was es auch viel sinnvoller machen wird, wenn diese fliegenden Drachen für bestimmte Events ins Spiel kommen. – Steven Sharif

Undermounts

Wyrmling 3D render. Concepted by Ryan Richmond. 3D model by Jessica Jennings.

DerGildenleiter einer Burg kann Gildenoffizieren wärend einer Burgbelagerung den Einsatz fliegender undermounts (z.B wyrmlings) gewähren.

• Diese können nur gewährt werden, wenn die Burg Node vor der Belagerung erreicht wurde.
  • Node A gewährt 1 Undermount, Node B gewährt 2 Undermounts und Node C gewährt 2 Undermounts.
• Dieses System kann während der Tests geändert werden.

Wenn man Burgbesitzer ist, kann mein seinen Offizieren Kleine Wyrmlinge schenken, diese können auch herumfliegen. – Steven Sharif

Siehe auch

• Burgen
• Gilden
• Gildenhallen