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How are you all doing Ashes of Creation Players? Are you grasping how the game works, and how each user interface leads to it? Various Skills and Combat mechanisms exist in Ashes of Creation, If you already have an idea of what character you will be building to dominate your opponents and monsters, Good for you! If not, Here is another guide that we will be showing you to have a better idea of what build is the most effective depending on your class. Here it is The Complete Guide to Status Effect in Ashes of Creation! This will help you gain knowledge on the effects of your skills, equipment, or the debuffs the enemies will be doing to you. Thus, Helping you reach a new height of power! Isn`t that interesting? Let`s Go!

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Complete Guide to Status Effect in Ashes of Creation (Status Effect Icons)

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Here is a table of Status Effect and Diminishing Return Buffs with their respective icons for you to distinguish them just by looks! It is a great help to further understand how the status effect works!

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Complete Guide to Status Effect in Ashes of Creation (What are Status Effects?)

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In Ashes of Creation, Status Effects are considered as conditions that affect a Player and Monster. These effects can be improved or reduce the stats such as damage output, mobility, and many other stats. This has a major impact on the performance during combat. However, some skills are limited for each class thus the status effect. It means that you can only apply certain status effects depending on your archetype. But, keep in mind that you still can be affected by all status effect. Having a good understanding of the different status effects can help you win battles by applying countermeasures to them. So, Here is all the status effect that are currently in the game!

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Complete Guide to Status Effect in Ashes of Creation (All Status Effect)

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We will now discuss each status effect and what are the impacts of each one whether it is a positive status effect, Called a Buff, or a Negative one, Called a Debuff. Listen Carefully!

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Bleeding

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Bleeding is continuous damage that is 15% percent over 6 seconds. Totaling 90% percent damage over the status effect duration. The damage can vary depending on the skill that applies the debuff. It can evolve into a higher-status effect called Hemoragging.

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Hemoragging

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It is a more severe type of bleeding that does 20% percent bleed damage every 0.5 secs over 5 secs duration. Totaling to a massive 200% damage.

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Burning

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It is also a type of DoT effect or Damage over time like bleeding and Hemoragging. It burns and deals fire damage to the target that lasts up to 8 seconds, It can be reapplied and increase the duration up to 24 seconds. There is an after-damage once the burn effect ends, It is called Conflagrating.

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Conflagrating

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Conflagrating converts all the remaining burning damage on the target into an accelerated DoT, which lasts for 4 seconds. Also, the damage is boosted by 30%.

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Chilled

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It is a movement debuff affecting movement speed to be reduced by 50% which lasts 6 seconds. It can be also extended up to 15 secs by subsequent applications.

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Frozen

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A higher type of chilled. The user cannot move or rotate for 4 seconds. They are immobilized. When combined with a lightning skill during frozen, The target will receive 300% ice damage as a Shatter Effect. It can only be triggered once every 4 seconds per caster on the same target. Thus, Freeze the enemy and then dealing lightning damage to them is the combo for this effect

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Volatile

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Volatile deals -15% Magical Mitigation. it lasts 6 seconds and can be extended up to 15 seconds with subsequent application.

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Snared

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It is chain that reduces movement speed by 25% per stack

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Root

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The user hit by this effect cannot move for 4 Seconds

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Staggered

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Once applied, the target has a reduced evasion by 25% for 6 seconds up to 15 seconds if reapplied consecutively. They are more prone in getting applied by other physical debuff effects.

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Tripped

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Target cannot move or act for 3 seconds. This effect is not broken when the target also receives damage

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Stunned

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Target cannot move or act. The duration depends on the skill that applies stun.

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Disarmed

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The target cannot attack or use a weapon combo in 5 seconds. But they can move.

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Demoralized

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It is a type of debuff that is used commonly by Bard Archetype. It can decrease the damage multiplier by 10% for 8 seconds, It can also be extended up to 20 seconds during subsequent applications.

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Humiliated

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It is an improved demoralization and reduces the damage dealt by 30% which lasts 8 seconds. the debuff effect does not affect the applier so it is best used in a group.

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Glee

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Heals the Power of the target by 60%. It is also applied by a Bard Archetype

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Pep

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A movement speed buff that increase speed by 20% for 5 seconds

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Nimble

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An increase in base evasion for 50% that lasts 5 seconds.

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Incapacitated

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The target is immobilized however if damage has been taken, The effect will be broken. It is a sleep effect but a certain skill that is used by the bard will not awaken the character it is called Dark Lullaby.

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Riled

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Reduces target`s evasion by 30% for 10 seconds

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Shaken

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Reduces the target physical mitigation by 15% for 6 seconds and can be extended up to 15 seconds by subsequent applications

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Infected

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Once affected, it can disable healing. No archetypes can apply this debuff and only monsters can use it.

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Marked

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A ranger skill effect, Once applied the user is marked.

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Dazed

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It reduces the magical casting speed by 25% for 8 seconds and can be extended up to 20 seconds by subsequent applications. It is a powerful debuff.

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Shocked

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When Shocked, It increases incoming direct attacks, produces an additional 25% Lightning Damage, and consumes a stack. It lasts for 6 seconds

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Silenced

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The target cannot cast any abilities whether physical or magical for 5 seconds

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Weakened

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Reduces the physical attack speed of the target by 25% for 8 seconds. It can be extended with subsequent applications for 20 seconds.

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Wounded

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Reduces the healing received by the target by 5% per stack. up to a maximum of 50% with 10 stacks. This debuff lasts for 15 seconds.

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Solace

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It is a type of buff when the bard uses Gambit, a mechanism that switches the bard’s HP to that of a target or vice versa, who has the lower HP. The character that loses HP will receive a Solace Buff in exchange. The Solace gives 5% increased in healing based on how much health was lost through the Bard`s Gambit.

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Complete Guide to Status Effect in Ashes of Creation (Diminishing Returns)

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As you may be wondering, Most of the status effects will surely impact your overall performance during combat. Thus, Is there a counter for that? The developers of Ashes of Creation have something to elevate the game to be more compelling. It is called Diminishing Return, It is like a resistance to that specific debuff. For instance, Once you get stunned, Your resistance or your diminishing return will increase against stuns. Thus, Making it harder to stun you the next time around. It prevents players from abusing crowd control skills and permanently locking you into place. That is boring and not competitive.

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Snare and Chill Immunity

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The player with this buff has the Immunity to snare and chill effects for 10 seconds.

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Trip-Stun Immunity

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Immunity to trip and stun effects for 10 seconds.

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Incapacitate Immunity

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Incapacitate immune for 10 seconds.

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That`s all for our Complete Guide to Status Effect in Ashes of Creation! If you have liked this guide and want to check the status effect descriptions, Check out our Website, It includes databases, interactive maps, and quest locations for you to help in your adventures in Ashes of Creation! Also, Subscribe to Flanker and Join our Discord for more exciting news about the development of the most unique MMORPG, Ashes of Creation! See you there adventurer!

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Greetings glorious adventurer! As the first wave of players are already facing the challenges in Verra, many will begin to realize how easier everything is when you have a tank in your party.

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The Tank, besides the one who takes the damage, also provides debuffs which other archetypes can take advantage of. Quick examples – tank provides Staggered debuff and fighters can use their Crippling Blow to trip their target, which will lead to 20% more damage from Maim. Mages can benefit from the stagger effect as well – Aftershock is an improvement of Chain Lighting, which once hit a staggered target, will cause the attack to trigger twice. They are great support for any type of encounter, be it PVP or PVE.

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In this guide, we will touch on how you can build your Tank, provide some insight based on gaming experience.

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Disclaimer: this guide is designed around working in party/raid.

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Skill Selection and Core Abilities

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[build id=”d6711a36-f359-4c88-90a6-17b2aa732b08″ tabs=”skillplanner”][/build]

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As the leveling process goes on, everyone will encounter different challenges. For the tanks are these:

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Low damage output
Running out of mana
Lack of sufficient self-healing
Holding aggro or getting enough aggro off a party member before they get killed.

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The answer to the first 3 is rather easy – teammates! Having a group of friends will make your gaming experience in Ashes of Creation immensely more fun.

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Tip: A good group structure would be: Tank, Cleric, Bard, Fighter/Mage/Ranger. A 4-5 man group is efficient when it comes down to farming experience.

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How to handle the 4th challenge?

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Selecting the right skills from the skill tree is the answer. Here you can find a suggestion of skills for the early levels. We will touch on basic rotation as well.

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Before we start, here is a quick example of what you can do as a tank. (no fancy weapons or armor; basic starting gear with common copper mace and shield)

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Core abilities and how the skills can change your gaming experience

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As you open your skill book for the first time, you will notice that there are icons with a huge white cross that indicate multiple options. Basically, the game asks you to choose between a single target ability or an AOE ability. The tanks have 3 of those choices to make, which can change the gaming experience greatly.

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Pulverize or Desolate

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Pulverize is the hardest hitting ability of the tanks – it will attack 1 enemy within 4m range. Essentially, that is a short gap closer with high damage output and threat generation.

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Desolate will have the same attack animation. Instead of moving to a target within 4m range, it will do damage to everything within 4m range. Same threat generation.

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In my build, based on my gaming experience in Ashes of Creation, so far, Pulverize proved to be most useful to my party. Especially in the case of someone “ninja” pulling – 300% threat generation on top of the 225% physical damage is a huge helper.

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Tremoring Bellow or Tremoring Strike

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Tremoring Bellow is an AOE ability that will apply Snare to every enemy hit in front of the tank.

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Tremoring Strike is a single target ability, which will Trip your target – the enemy will fall on the ground. (Recommended for PVP)

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I have selected Tremoring Bellow to help with maintaining the AOE aggro and the movements of the targets in front of me. AOE snare is massive assistance to the party when you are doing mass pulls. Also, the Rangers benefit from already snared targets – Bear Trap, Air Strike. The damage difference is not as great as it was with Pulverize and Desolate.

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Tip: If you do not have a Fighter in your group (I have at least 1) and there is no one that can trip your enemy, you might consider swapping to Tremoring Strike for that and have Desolate instead of Pulverize to maintain AOE aggro.

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Tip: Tremoring Bellow and Desolate with Punish work well together.

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Shield Assault or Shield Slam

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Shield Assault is a 7m shield charge which will stagger enemies in front of the tank. The movement is based on where your character is facing.

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Shield Slam is a 10m shield charge towards your target.

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Shield Assault costs more mana, charge distance is 3m less and does 25% less damage. However, the skill helps with the AOE aggro, which applies Staggered to the enemies in front, which the Fighters (Cataclysm) and Mages can benefit from.

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The other core skills

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After deciding on which of those abilities is best suited for your Ashes of Creation experience, it is time to combine them with the rest of the core skills.

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Inciting Strikes – The main threat generation skill for both a single target and AOE. It hits everything in front of the tank.

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Grapple – Single target pull. Amazing for pulling targets as an opening skill. Visually, it looks cool and everyone from your party can see which enemy you are planning to attack. In case of honest mistake or someone from your party, ninja pulls or over aggro a target – you can pull them back to you and keep your friend safe.

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Fortify – Is your best damage mitigation ability. If used when your courage is at max (100/100), it will provide you with a 40% damage reduction for 20 seconds. Furthermore, it will help you with getting that courage back to max. You must have this.

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Charge – This is a skill which can help you if you have to traverse distance in a very quick manner. Helps with kitting slow enemies and or to buy time for the healers to heal you up. Every enemy hit on the way will be staggered. Tip: can be used while swimming ;)

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Taunt – This skill doesn’t immediately make the target attack you. It helps you build aggro and reduces damage done to anyone, but you with the debuff Humiliated.

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Reflect – Increases your block mitigation for the duration of this ability. If an attack occurs within 3 seconds, you will reflect it back to the attacker. This ability generates threat as well.

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Supernatural Grit – provides the same level of mitigation towards magic attacks as Grit does for physical attacks.

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Rotation

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To keep single target aggro – Inciting Strikes + Pulverize + Reflect + Auto Attacks.

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To keep AOE aggro – Inciting Strikes + Tremoring Bellow + Shield Assault + Auto Attacks.

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In case of ninja pull, wrong targeting or loosing aggro – Taunt and/or Grapple + Inciting Strike + Pulverize.

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Maxing out single target damage output – Shield Slam/Shield Assault -> Tremoring Strike with the upgrade Forceful Tremors -> Ground Pound -> Pulverize with the upgrade Punish.

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Cooldowns and situational abilities

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Some insights/pointers to have in consideration when making your selection of skills if you want to deviate from the planned build:

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Currently, the skill Wall is working. It is a cool looking ability, but doesn’t block any movements or projectiles from mobs.

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Shake it Off is the only self-healing ability. 10% of your maximum health points, every 30 seconds. Compared to the damage taken per hit and the healing received, this skill is lacking.. Works well with Indomitable Spirit.

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Indomitable Spirit is your second-best defensive skill. It is an ability with a 60 seconds cooldown and for 15 seconds you will have 30% more health points and you will receive 30% more healing from skills. Once you have unlocked it and you are more confident in your survival, you can combine it with Aegis.

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Absorption Field is one of the ways you can protect your party in cases of not expected enemies or targets, which are having hard hitting aoe spells. 20% of your maximum health will be added to your party members who enter this field.

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Rush of Courage will provide you with 100 courage. Usually, it is easy to build up courage. However there are and will be encounters in which you must engage with maxed out courage for mitigation purposes. This skill will help you in those scenarios.

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After you have selected the defensive abilities, it is time to check on your offensive skills, again.

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Intimidating Aura can help you with maintaining the AOE aggro and with staggering enemies. Thanks to this ability, you can get back to the Tremoring Bellow and Tremoring Strike options. If the AOE snare is no longer needed, you can change it for the trip effect. The same thing is valid for the choice between Shield Assault and Shield Slam.

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When Intimidating Aura and Ground Pound are both selected, Tremoring Strike becomes even more valuable.

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Aegis and Protect are skills which can help you save party member(s) or get you killed. In PVE there are better solutions – DPS should attack the tank’s target, should not pull if not asked/needed. Best is to leave the pulling to the tanks. The initial threat is important since it may take time to catch up with the aggro. In PVP, these 2 skills can help your healers survive longer.

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Tomahawk on it is own is not exactly desired skill. With the upgrade (Tomahawk Trip), it becomes valid option in PVP.

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Stamina Skill Tree

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[build id=”d6711a36-f359-4c88-90a6-17b2aa732b08″ tabs=”universalSkills”][/build]

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These choices are straight forward as Tank. First, Improve your blocking:

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Less stamina consumption when blocking
30% less time in which you will be CC’ed.
25% increased effectiveness of your blocks

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For the second tree to level up, I have chosen to improve the sprinting. Currently, the stamina cost of rolling can’t be justified, compared to the benefits and stamina cost when blocking.

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Melee Weapon

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[build id=”d6711a36-f359-4c88-90a6-17b2aa732b08″ tabs=”primaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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We can choose between 2 types of melee weapons for tanking – 1hand Mace and 1hand Sword.

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Both of them are valid options. Base your decision on the needs of your party and the enemy you are facing. Main difference – Swords swing faster, Maces have higher damage per swing.

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1hand mace can provide Stagger (might become overkill) or Daze (increase enemy’s casting time)

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1hand sword can provide Bleed (overal more damage done), Snare (slow) or Wound (reduce healing).

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Range Weapon

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[build id=”d6711a36-f359-4c88-90a6-17b2aa732b08″ tabs=”secondaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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Tanks can use range weapons next to melee to help with pulling from distance or provide different debuff, which our main weapon can’t. If you have picked 1hand mace, the bow can provide wound. If you have picked 1hand sword, the bow can provide stagger

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Tip: Even if you have Bow out to use for auto attacking, you can still benefit from the shield’s blocking potential when you press your block keybind.

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Gearing in Ashes of Creation

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[build id=”d6711a36-f359-4c88-90a6-17b2aa732b08″ tabs=”equipment”][/build]

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Disclaimer: The process is slow! All items which are displayed below are obtainable. Armor and weapons mainly drop in various POIs. Recipes are dropping as well, therefor you can obtain higher rarity if you get high enough crafting skill and have the necessary materials. You can start working on those items as soon as you hit level 10

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Side note: I have chosen the rarity level to be “Rare” since I have, and I have seen drops of that rarity, as well as being a realistically crafted rarity. Personally, I am focusing on Jewelcrafting and have the recipes for the selected items. Those items are on the “low end” of what is available.

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Once you reach level 16-17, It is recommended to start visiting Citadel of the Steel Bloom in order to acquire the next tier of armor – Rosarium Guard.

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Stats

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What kind of stats should you be looking for if you are a tank and you want to perform well?

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Constitution – increases the maximum health points, armor, physical critical avoidance rating
Strength – increases physical power rating, physical accuracy rating, physical penetration rating
Mentality – increases magical resis, magical critical avoidance rating, max mana

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Stick to those 3 if you have hard time acquiring the items mentioned above. Here is why:

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Constitution will help you against physical damage and will increase your health pool.
Strength will help you with holding the aggro and will increase the damage against other players as well as the chance to hit them.
Mentality will help you with the mana pool and will reduce the incoming magical damage from PVE and PVP.

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Final Thoughts

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Planning and reality

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After the initial planned abilities, I had to deviate a little. I didn’t change the skills, but rather the order in which I picked them on the journey to level 10. That is based on the encounters and the number of people in my party and their archetypes. Meaning: to stay on top of your game, you should try to be as flexible as possible with the current needs of your party.

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I had to pick up the Charge ability before others, since I have found my mobility lacking.

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Tip: Currently, you can re-spec for free. Also, you can right click (within game) to deselect chosen skill and pick another.

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Can I you have fun with this archetype?

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Yes! This archetype is for those who want to mitigate incoming damage for party/raid members, support allies by debuffing enemies or shielding friends, obstruct enemy attacks and movement.

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Tank archetype is perfect for those who want to be neck deep into the action!

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Greetings glorious adventurer! Welcome to our guide on mastering the Ranger archetype in Ashes of Creation!

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The guilde covers the unique decisions, which the Rangers has to make, as well as suggestions on weapons and equipment and stats priority.

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Skills

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Choosing Imbued Ammo

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[build id=”8c00fca4-f246-40d0-96d6-60b60f164b6f” tabs=”skillplanner”][/build]

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The decision every player has to make based on the situation is which type of ammo they need most.
You can choose between Bleed, Snare or Daze.
Imbue Ammo: Barbed – Bleed is overall more damage and adds Cooldown reduction on Barrage. Snipe can turn the bleed into Hemorraging, which results in more damage. However, the bleed effect is accessable through other sources. For example – your weapons. Both of them can add Bleed with auto attacks. Furthermore, you can count on either Fighter or Tank from your party for stacking Bleed as well. Ranger can use Thorns on the Tank.
Imbue Ammo: Weighted – reducing movement speed. It is useful in combination with Bear Trap and Air Strike. The Snare effect can be found on your Ranged weapon as well as on your Melee weapon. A Tank can provide AOE snare if Tremoring Bellow is used.
Imbue Ammo: Concussive – increasing the magical cast time. Headshot will have more penetration (25%) against Dazed targets. If you add Thundering Shot before the Headshot, the physical penetration will become 50%. So far, there is 1 other source of Daze debuff – auto attacks from One hand mace.

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The value of Imbue Ammo: Concussive seems to be higher based on how rare you can get this debuff on, as well as the 50% physical penetration increase for Headshot.

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Choosing Hunt

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Hunt of the Bear – adds physical mitigation. Might be useful in scenarios in which you are solo pulling many mobs for farming or in PVP scenarios in which you are facing noticeable more Tanks, Fighters or other Rangers.

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Hunt of the Raven – adds physical penetration. Could prove valuable against bosses or other targets with high physical mitigation.

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Hunt of the Tiger – increases the critical damage. Provides best (overall) damage output increase.

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Choosing Mark

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Mark of the Bear – marked target will have their mitigation reduced.

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Mark of the Raven – marked target will recieve additional damage based on health points missing.

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Mark of the Tiger – increases the critical chance against the marked target.

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The combination of Mark of the Tiger and Hunt of the Tiger are the overall winners. Mark of the Bear will be beneficial only against heavy armored targets and Mark of the Raven against targets with high amount of health points, but on the lower side of defenses.

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Vine Field

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Vine Field is one of the best skills, currently available in the game, regardless if you play solo or in group and regardless if you are in PVE or PVP scenario. The area, which you can deny from the enemies is huge and because of the Rooted and Snared you will have time to prepare Concentrated Scatter Shot, Snipe the target, follow up with Thundering Shot and Headshot.

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Stamina Skill Tree

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Rangers are one of the most mobile archetypes in the game. Specializing in dodge roll early on will further boost this mobility. Rolling away will be your way to get out of trouble, both in PVE and PVP scenarios.

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Spending points in to boost up your sprint can help you get to places quicker and recuperate stamina faster.

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Blocking without a shield is not recommended.

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Melee Weapon

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[build id=”8c00fca4-f246-40d0-96d6-60b60f164b6f” tabs=”primaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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Currently there is access only to Two Hand Swords. Use them for more raw damage increase.

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First choice – Deadly Finisher: Bleed. Overall, more damage is done and Ranger’s Barrage benefits from it. With Snipe, 1 stack of Bleeding is transformed to Hemorraging.

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Second choice – Refreshing Followthrough. Helps restore mana while attacking with your weapon.

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Third choice – Deadly Finisher: Wound. Reducing the healing against some mobs in PVE is needed in order to make the fight easier.

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Weapon Training: Critical Damage and Weapon Training: Penetration – both of them are important. Critical damage will provide more output against light armored targets. Penetration will be beneficial against heavy armored targets. One point in each should provide a balanced build.

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Range Weapon

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[build id=”8c00fca4-f246-40d0-96d6-60b60f164b6f” tabs=”secondaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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Use Longbows if you prefer more burst type of damage.

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Use Shortbows for quicker attacks, but lower damage done.

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First choice – Deadly Finisher: Bleed. Overall, more damage is done and Ranger’s Barrage benefits from it. With Snipe, 1 stack of Bleeding is transformed to Hemorraging.

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Second choice – Refreshing Followthrough. Helps restore mana while attacking with your weapon. If the mana is not an issue – Keen Edge(especially for PVP).

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Third choice – Deadly Finisher: Snare. Helps with kiting enemies and the Rangers benefit from already snared targets – Bear Trap, Air Strike.

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Equipment

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[build id=”8c00fca4-f246-40d0-96d6-60b60f164b6f” tabs=”equipment”][/build]

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Medium gear is a good option for both PVE and PVP scenarios. There is other gear pieces besides “Sanctus Skulker, which can be considered as well – Howling Wolf (Howling Wolf Garb).

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As for level 20 gear – Bloodrunner from Tower of Carphin. Leatherworking can provide gear such as Gryphon Tunic.

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Stats

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What kind of stats should you be looking for if you are a Fighter and you want to perform well?

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Strength – increases physical power rating, physical accuracy rating, physical penetration rating
Dexterity – increases physical critical chance rating, physical attack speed, physical evasion rating
Constitution – increases the maximum health points, armor, physical critical avoidance rating
Mentality – increases magical resis, magical critical avoidance rating, max mana

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Side note: Wisdom provides Magical Evasion Rating. However, the current stats and values are too low and it is hard to tell if Evasion (for both Physical and Magical damage) can be considered as a viable defense option.

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In situations where you an get an upgrade with higher level or rarity item, focus on these stats, preferably in that order:

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Strength and Dexterity will improve your damage output.
Constitution will help you against physical damage and will increase your health pool.
Mentality will help you with the mana pool and will reduce the incoming magical damage from PVE and PVP.

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Final Thoughts

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The Ranger archetype in Ashes of Creation excels at controlling battlefield distance, scouting, and executing high-damage strikes. Ideal for players who enjoy tactical movement, stealth, and lethal long-range combat finesse.

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Greetings glorious adventurer! So you have chosen to be up close and personal with your enemy.

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The Fighter feels fast, strong, relentless. They work well with Tank archetype, because of the Staggered debuff, which boosts some of Fighter’s abilities – Crippling Blow, Cataclysm.

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With this guide, we hope to ease your adventures in Verra as you level up.

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Disclaimer: this guide is designed around working in party.

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Skills

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Forms and their usage

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Form of Ferocity – Increases the attack speed, based on your current Combat Momentum, up to 15%. Using Overpower or Brutal Cleave will add Bleed effect on your target(s). Perfect for PVE encounters.

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Form of Celerity – Increases the movement speed, based on your current Combat Momentum, up to 20%. Using Overpower or Brutal Cleave will add Staggered effect on your target(s). Use it If there is noone else in the party, who can provide the Staggered debuff (or if solo).

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Form of Fluidity – Increases the Disable Resistance, based on your current Combat Momentum, up to 40%. Using Overpower or Brutal Cleave will add Shaken effect on your target(s). Ideal for PVP scenarios.

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Rotations

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Single target – Form of Ferocity -> Blitz -> Overpower -> Rupture -> Berserk -> Lethal Blow -> Form of Celerity -> Crippling Blow -> Maim

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AOE – Form of Celerity -> Blitz -> Brutal Cleave -> Berserk -> Cataclysm -> Maim with Slicing Maim -> Battle Cry -> Whirlwind

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Tip: If in a party with Tank, you can skip switching into Form of Celerity. The tank should provide Stagger debuff on your targets.

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Tip: If in a party with Cleric, it would be wise to synchronize Battle Cry and Chains of Restraint. This combination will result in mass root.

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Stamina Skill Tree

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To remain tactically versatile, the fighters must traverse the battlefield quickly. First tree will provide additional movement speed and resistance to control effect while sprinting. Blocking without shield is not efficient way to reduce incoming damage, therefor the third tree will be left for last.

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If a Fighter overcommits to pursuing the enemy, rolling away from danger would be the best course of action.

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Melee Weapon

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[build id=”c61c326e-7b0f-4025-b512-e245afc00534″ tabs=”primaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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There are only Two-hand swords available for the Fighter archetype.

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First choice – Deadly Finisher: Bleed. Overall, more damage is done and Fighters are benefiting from the debuff – Rupture, Lethal Blow.

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As the Fighers are a melee oriented archetype, it is given that the majority of their time doing damage will be with their melee weapon. In order to boost the damage, you should focus on upgrades such as All weapon Combo attacks deal more damage and gain penetration.

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Second choice – Refreshing Followthrough. Helps restore mana while attacking with your weapon. If the mana is not an issue – Keen Edge(especially for PVP).

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Third choice – Deadly Finisher: Wound. Reducing the healing on target is major factor in PVP and against some mobs in PVE. Also, stacks of Wounded will increase the damage done of Rupture.

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Range Weapon

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[build id=”c61c326e-7b0f-4025-b512-e245afc00534″ tabs=”secondaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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Use a short bow to quickly replenish your mana while attacking with the help of Refreshing Followthrough. The fast attacks allow for quicker stacking on Bleed and Snare debuffs.

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At some point you may consider dropping Refreshing Followthrough from the Melee weapon for the Keen Edge and use your Ranged whenever your mana is low.

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Equipment

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[build id=”c61c326e-7b0f-4025-b512-e245afc00534″ tabs=”equipment”][/build]

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The medium gear set bonus, the value of armor and magic resistance that comes with it are ideal for the Fighter’s play style and needs.

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As for level 20 gear – Bloodrunner from Tower of Carphin. Leatherworking can provide gear such as Gryphon Tunic.

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Stats

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What kind of stats should you be looking for if you are a Fighter and you want to perform well?

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Strength – increases physical power rating, physical accuracy rating, physical penetration rating
Dexterity – increases physical critical chance rating, physical attack speed, physical evasion rating
Constitution – increases the maximum health points, armor, physical critical avoidance rating
Mentality – increases magical resis, magical critical avoidance rating, max mana

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In situations where you an get an upgrade with higher level or rarity item, focus on these stats, preferably in that order:

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Strength and Dexterity will improve your damage output.
Constitution will help you against physical damage and will increase your health pool.
Mentality will help you with the mana pool and will reduce the incoming magical damage from PVE and PVP.

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Final Thoughts

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This archetype is ideal for players who love fast-paced, direct engagements. Fighters bring powerful physical attacks, tactical versatility, making them indispensable in both solo and group PvE and PvP scenarios.

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Greetings glorious adventurer! Welcome to our guide on the Bard archetype in Ashes of Creation!

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This guide dives into their core abilities, synergies, and effective playstyles, helping you create a Bard build for either PvE and PvP.

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Skills

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The build is an example for Bard, who can assist with healing the party and provide additional mitigation to the Tank.

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Melodies

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Cathartic Melody – Provides 25% lifesteal to party members. During this melody you can use either Hymn of the Mind or Hymn of the Mind (AOE). Resonant Weapon will add Bleed as well as Wounded debuff.

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Cheerful Melody – Increases healing done within the party and adds heals every 2 seconds. During this melody, you can add frost damage to your rotation through Chilling Lament or Chilling Lament (AOE). Resonant Weapon will heal injured group members. A good melody to start if you do not have a Cleric in your group.

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Epic Melody – Increases the movement speed of your party. During this melody, you will be able to use Dark Lullaby or Dark Lullaby (AOE). The damage is based on the amount of debuffs are on the target at the given time (up to 5). Resonant Weapon will remove up to 3 CCs and apply Pep.

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Menacing Melody –

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Pensive Melody – Restoring mana to the party. During this melody, you will be able to use Anthem of Alacrity or Anthem of Alacrity (AOE) – increasing attack speed and magical casting speed. Resonant Weapon will restore mana. The most desired Melody, since it is the most efficient way to restore mana during combat.

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Dances

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Maddening Dance – Removes 1 buff from an enemy target. The final damage tick will apply Humiliated.

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Mesmerizing Dance – Can be combined with skills which apply Staggered (Discordance) to stun the target(s).

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Nimble Dance – Provides movement speed and cleanses 1 debuff from party members.

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Shielding Dance – Provides healing and shield to the near by party members. Mighty Step improves the provided shield. Once the shield is absorbed, you will receive a stack for the corresponding Resonant Weapon effect.

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Sagas

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Use the skills mentioned bellow to unleash one of the ultimate arts of the Bard – Saga and Sagas: Volume II.

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Red Masks

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Chaos – Boosts the physical power of your party members with 110%.

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Conflict – Boosts the magical critical chance of your party memers with 15%.

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Blue Masks

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Destiny – Boosts the physical critical chance of your party memers with 15%.

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Wonder – Boosts the magical power of your party members with 110%.

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Yellow Masks

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Joy – Provides, temporarily, 10% of your maximum hp.

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Triumph – Provides 10% Maximum health points and 100% stamina regeneration for 30 seconds.

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Tailor the combination between the theatrical masks based on your current party:

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To boost up your Mages/Cleric – Wonder and Conflict.
To boost up your Rangers and Fighters – Chaos and Destiny.
The Tank your group will benefit from Triumph and Chaos.

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Before using the Saga “The return to Verra” (tripple yellow masks), make sure you have used Nimble Dance. This will apply Glee on the friendly target – additional mitigation and healing.

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Stamina Skill Tree

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[build id=”abdaade0-b176-4189-934c-41b455141f11″ tabs=”universalSkills”][/build]

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The Bard can boost up own and party members movement speed. Flourish is an amazing ability in terms of mobility. You can further increase the traveled distance with adding boosted roll.

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Sprinting can assist with covering more ground when Flourish is on cooldown.

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Blocking without a shield is not recommended.

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Melee Weapon

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[build id=”abdaade0-b176-4189-934c-41b455141f11″ tabs=”primaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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First choice – Deadly Finisher: Wound. Reducing the healing against some mobs in PVE is needed in order to make the fight easier.

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Second choice – Refreshing Followthrough. Helps restore mana while attacking with your weapon.

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Third choice – Deadly Finisher: Snare. Slowing down an enemy while boosting party member’s movement speed. Nimble Dance has to be down within 5m of a friendly target.

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Compared to damage dealing archetypes, on Bard we should focus on proc rates and proc duration.

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Since a Bard can have many forms of crowd control effects, it is worth considering Weapon Training: Disable Duration.

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Use whichever weapon will provide the most magical power increase.

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Range Weapon

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[build id=”abdaade0-b176-4189-934c-41b455141f11″ tabs=”secondaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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Shortbows are good for the Bard because of their attack speed. You are interested in Finisher effects more than the damage output. More frequent attacks, more chances for Finishers.

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Compared to damage dealing archetypes, on Bard we should focus on proc rates and proc duration.

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Since a Bard can have many forms of crowd control effects, it is worth considering Weapon Training: Disable Duration.

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Use whichever weapon will provide the most magical power increase until you get your hands on the highest magical power weapon, for level 20 and above – Blood Cursed Spellbook in Tower of Carphin.

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Equipment

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[build id=”1bbe6942-fe02-47df-9e28-891275c341c6″ tabs=”equipment”][/build]

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1 Magic power increase provides the same amount of healing as it would 1 Healing power. However, Healing power is not boosting the Magic damage.

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Stats

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What kind of stats should you be looking for if you are a Bard and you want to perform well?

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Mentality – increases magical resis, magical critical avoidance rating, max mana
Intelligence – increases magical power rating(equally adds to the healing as well), magical accuracy rating, magical penetration rating
Wisdom – increases magical critical chance rating, magical casting speed, magical evasion rating
Constitution – increases the maximum health points, armor, physical critical avoidance rating

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Side note: Dexterity provides Physical Evasion Rating. However, the current stats and values are too low and it is hard to tell if Evasion (for both Physical and Magical damage) can be considered as a viable defense option.

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In situations where you an get an upgrade with higher level or rarity item, focus on these stats, preferably in that order:

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Mentality will help you with the mana pool and will reduce the incoming magical damage from PVE and PVP.
Intelligence and Wisdom will improve your damage and healing output.
Constitution will help you against physical damage and will increase your health pool.

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Final Thoughts

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The Bard archetype in Ashes of Creation is more than just a support role—it’s the soul of strategy and synergy. Bards excel in buffing team performance, debuffing enemies, and controlling the flow of battle with their unique support abilities. Whether you’re boosting damage, improving defenses, or managing crowd control, the Bard’s versatile toolkit makes them a strategic powerhouse.

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Greetings glorious adventurer! Welcome to our guide on the Mage archetype in Ashes of Creation!

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Mages are highly effective at controlling groups of enemies and dealing high burst damage. This guide covers essential Mage abilities and skill rotations.

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Skills

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Fire skills

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Start with Fireball – for single target damage. Early on, the mobs will not have as many health points and a single Fireball will be more than enough to bring them down. Use auto attacks to save mana. Swap to Firebolt once you unlock Combust. Firebolt is better for stacking Burning from which Combust can benefit.

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Pick Bombardment as soon as you make your choice of Fireball or Firebolt.

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Magma Field is the other fire skill. On its own, it is not really that amazing. The upgrade Pyromania provides 2 additional ticks of 50% burning damage. At the early stages of the game, there are better options, which leads to this ability to be picked this close to level 20.

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Lightning skills

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Lightning Strike – is a single target skill until upgraded – Amplified Lightning Strike. Fully charged Lightning Strike can provide more damage output than Chain Lightning before the upgrad with Aftershock.

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Chain Lightning is the next in line skill from the Lighting school. It starts to shine with the Aftershock upgrade, when you hit targets with Staggered. This debuff can by applied by your Fire skills (Bombardment), by a Tank (Charge, Shield Assault) or a Fighter (Form Of Celerity).

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Ball Lightning is a rather unique skill – it creates a ball of lighting which travels from your location towards the location you are currently aiming. One target can be hit multiple times, especially if they are slowed or rooted. Furthermore, the skill applies Volatile, which buffs up the damage output. The other method of having Volatile debuff on the target is by using auto attacks with a wand.

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Frost skills

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Frostbolt – single target skill, best suited for PVP scenarios. Potential good combination: Accelerative Blink + Frostbolt.
From the frost school, the two most used abilities are Hoarfrost and Cone of Cold – the first spell Chills the targets, the second spell can make the chilled targets Frozen. The upgrade Tempestuous Cone Of Cold becomes meaningless in this combination – you can’t push back rooted targets.
The combination above continues with the Shatter passive. After the targets are Frozen, use fully charged Lightning Strike.
Blizzard – is a skill on a 90 seconds cooldown, which essentially applies chill and freeze on targets in close proximity to you. The skill type is “channeling”, which means you can move around, but any other activity will stop the skill. Currently, the damage output is lacking, the cooldown is huge and not being able to use other abilities are the reasons placing this skill on the “not desired” list.

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Arcane skills

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Arcane Volley – The starting skill of any Mage.

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Blink – The skill can help you with keeping your distance from your enemies or chasing after them. The upgrade Unyielding Blink is useful if you get caught and Accelerative Blink can help you with chasing.

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Shell – will help you live through a lot of punishment.

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Slumber – great skill if you are soloing content or in PVP scenarios to shake off reletless Fighters.

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Arcane Circle – 130% bonus magical power boost if you stand in the circle for 15 seconds. This is major cooldown, which you should use wisely – use it if you are certain that in the next 15 seconds you can stay within the circle to fully benefit from the skill. Tip: Use Prismatic Beam at the last second(s) before the skill expires.

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Other important upgrades

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Shatter, Thermal Equilibrium and Fuse – These upgrades expand the rotation of the mage abilities outside of their respectful magical schools.

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Using Shock on Frozen target
Using Burning on Shocked target
Using Freeze on Conflagrating target

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Skill Rotation to benefit from those 3 upgrades:

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Hoarfrost -> Cone of Cold -> Lightning Strike = Shatter
Ball Lightning -> Fireball / Firebolt -> Chain Lightning -> Combust + Magma Field = Fuse
Combust -> Hoarfrost -> Cone of Cold = Thermal Equilibrium

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Enchant Weapon – Provides one of your party members with your current elemental empowerments. Might be a good idea to give it a Tank to assist with holding down the aggro.

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Stamina Skill Tree

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[build id=”dfc6343e-bdab-4119-867d-bae33faa2c9d” tabs=”universalSkills”][/build]

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As you level up, you will find yourself using sprint very often. Getting points, early on, can help you get to places quicker and recuperate stamina faster.

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Rolling away will be your way to get out of trouble, both in PVE and PVP scenarios.

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Blocking without a shield is not recommended.

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Melee Weapon

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First choice – Deadly Finisher: Wound. Reducing the healing against some mobs in PVE is needed in order to make the fight easier.

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Second choice – Refreshing Followthrough. Helps restore mana while attacking with your weapon.

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Third choice – Deadly Finisher: Bleed. Overall, more damage.

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The only reason for a Mage to be up close is to apply a needed debuff with a weapon. The most common debuff, which might be missing and is needed, is Wounded.

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Use the weapon with the highest available magic power.

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Range Weapon

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First choice – Deadly Finisher: Volatile. Access to Volatile early in the game is amazing to have, in order to boost the damage output.

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Second choice – Refreshing Followthrough. Helps restore mana while attacking with your weapon. If the mana is not an issue – Keen Edge(especially for PVP).

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Third choice – Special Extended Finisher: Echo. This one will provide 25% chance to use 2 Finishers at the same time.

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Increasing the proc rate of the Finishers is extremely important for the Mage.

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Equipment

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[build id=”dfc6343e-bdab-4119-867d-bae33faa2c9d” tabs=”equipment”][/build]

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For level 20 equipment, look for Bloom Warden in Citadel of the Steel Bloom.

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Stats

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What kind of stats should you be looking for if you are a Fighter and you want to perform well?

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Intelligence – increases magical power rating, magical accuracy rating, magical penetration rating
Wisdom – increases magical critical chance rating, magical casting speed, magical evasion rating
Constitution – increases the maximum health points, armor, physical critical avoidance rating
Mentality – increases magical resis, magical critical avoidance rating, max mana

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In situations where you an get an upgrade with higher level or rarity item, focus on these stats, preferably in that order:

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Intelligence and Wisdom will improve your damage output.
Constitution will help you against physical damage and will increase your health pool.
Mentality will help you with the mana pool and will reduce the incoming magical damage from PVE and PVP.

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Final Thoughts

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Mastering the Mage archetype in Ashes of Creation requires a balance of timing, strategy, and understanding the different elemental magics. The dynamics of this archetype makes the game play fun and compelling!

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Greetings glorious adventurer! Welcome to our guide on the Cleric archetype in Ashes of Creation!

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This guide explores their abilities, synergies with other archetypes, and strategies to maximize your role in PvE and PvP.

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Skills

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Single target healing

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[build id=”1bbe6942-fe02-47df-9e28-891275c341c6″ tabs=”skillplanner”][/build]

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Deliverance – charging skill. Once the upgrade Redemptive Deliverance is taken, a full charge may become massive overheal. As there is no way(at the moment) to turn the overheal into anything else but wasted mana and charging time, it’s best to deliver the heal right away.

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Flash Cure – extremely useful skill as it can be used while charging Deliverance.

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Defiant Light – a life saver skill. However, the mana cost is not to be underestimated – 2-3 times higer than other skills.

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Judgment – Long cooldown. Use for healing, if the other 3 skills are not available.

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Purify – can remove debuffs which are reducing the healing on target. Extremely useful against zombies.

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AOE healing

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Resplendent Beam – a chain heal ability if charged. Consider taking it early if you are in a group which consist mainly of melee players.

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Divine Flare – placing large circle on the ground, which will heal after delay. It can be upgraded to provide additional magic mitigation – Divine Protection or AOE damage – Divine Retribution.

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Consecrating Wave – this skill can become an AOE heal with the upgrade Restorative Consecrating Wave. When the skill damages enemies it will apply Volatile debuff. Consider this ability if you are in a group with mages, regularly.

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Communal Restoration – It will heal everyone in your party as long as they are in range. Convenient but expensive AOE heal. This skill has the shorted cooldown from all AOE heals.

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Offensive capabilities

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Judgment + Smite + Condemn will stun your target.

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Divine Retribution + Consecrating Wave will remove a buff from the targets hit.

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If you are not aiming to dispel buffs, use Consecrating Wave as opener to do more damage with your skills.

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Use Bountiful Blessed Weapon to solve some of the mana challenges in your party.

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If you have a Fighter in your group and have acquired the Chains of Restraint skill, communicate to combine their Battle Cry with your ability for 4 seconds root.

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Stamina Skill Tree

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[build id=”1bbe6942-fe02-47df-9e28-891275c341c6″ tabs=”universalSkills”][/build]

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As you level up, you will find yourself using spring very often. Getting points, early on, can help you get to places quicker and recuperate stamina faster.

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Rolling away will be your way to get out of trouble, both in PVE and PVP scenarios.

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Blocking without a shield is not recommended.

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Melee Weapon

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[build id=”1bbe6942-fe02-47df-9e28-891275c341c6″ tabs=”primaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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First choice – Deadly Finisher: Bleed. Overall, more damage.

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Second choice – Refreshing Followthrough. Helps restore mana while attacking with your weapon.

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Third choice – Deadly Finisher: Wound. Reducing the healing against some mobs in PVE is needed in order to make the fight easier.

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Compared to damage dealing archetypes, on Cleric we should focus on proc rates and proc duration.

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Use whichever weapon will provide the most magical power increase.

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Range Weapon

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[build id=”1bbe6942-fe02-47df-9e28-891275c341c6″ tabs=”secondaryWeaponTree”][/build]

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Shortbows are good for Clerics because of their attack speed. You are interested in Finisher and Deadly Finisher effects rather than the damage output. More frequent attacks, more chances for Finishers.

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Compared to damage dealing archetypes, on Cleric we should focus on proc rates and proc duration.

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Use whichever weapon will provide the most magical power increase until you get your hands on the highest magical power weapon, for level 20 and above – Blood Cursed Spellbook in Tower of Carphin.

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Equipment

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[build id=”1bbe6942-fe02-47df-9e28-891275c341c6″ tabs=”equipment”][/build]

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The chosen equipment is full heavy. The main reason behind is that Tanks, Fighters and Rangers are doing physical damage and they are most likely to focus down on healers. The other options for healers is to wear medium gear – Rosethorn Tunic. You will have to share this set with the bards.

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1 Magic power increase provides the same amount of healing as it would 1 Healing power. However, Healing power is not boosting the Magic damage.

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Stats

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What kind of stats should you be looking for if you are a Fighter and you want to perform well?

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Mentality – increases magical resis, magical critical avoidance rating, max mana
Intelligence – increases magical power rating(equally adds to the healing as well), magical accuracy rating, magical penetration rating
Wisdom – increases magical critical chance rating, magical casting speed, magical evasion rating
Constitution – increases the maximum health points, armor, physical critical avoidance rating

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In situations where you an get an upgrade with higher level or rarity item, focus on these stats, preferably in that order:

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Intelligence and Wisdom will improve your damage and healing output.
Constitution will help you against physical damage and will increase your health pool.
Mentality will help you with the mana pool and will reduce the incoming magical damage from PVE and PVP.

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Final Thoughts

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It would not be an overstatement if it is said that the Cleric archetype in Ashes of Creation is the cornerstone of survival and support. As you experiment with builds and synergies, remember that adaptability is key—tailor your skills to complement your team’s strengths and counter the challenges ahead. And to the players with other archetypes – be nice to the Clerics! You may get to live longer!

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Hunting in Ashes of Creation

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Hunting is a skill in Ashes of Creation that allows you to hunt and capture all different types of animals out in the wilderness. This can vary from Ravens all the way to Gryphons. Depending on the animal you capture, you will either get its carcass, which can be used, typically at a tanning or cooking station, or you can obtain the whole animal itself and use it for animal husbandry.

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As the game is still in Alpha, it is to be expected many changes will come to how hunting works, especially with how you “hunt”.

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Firstly, before you go off out hunting. You will need to make sure you have a Crude Hunting Bow, which can easily be checked by going to your character screen with the “H” key on your keyboard and clicking the artisan tab. If you do not have the hunting bow, then you will need to complete the starting zone quests such as “The Sweat of Your Brow”, which will give you all the basic tools to get started.

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Once you have got your hunting bow, it’s now time to go off into the world and go exploring. You are looking for any animals that are in white writing with a crosshair icon next to them. As you can see below.

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Here is a list of some of the animals that you can hunt straight away at level 1:

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Grem
Horse
Bear
Raven
Wolf
Pallas cat
Spider
Horse

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At this current time, during the development of the game, the animals that you can hunt do not move at all. So you can simply walk up to it and press the “F” key. Which will begin to do a petting animation.

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Once this is complete, it will obtain its carcass, ready to be processed into something further.

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However, depending on what you hunt, the outcome can be different. For example, if you attempt to hunt a Bear or a Pallas Cat. You won’t always get the carcass, but you will get the animal itself. Which is used for animal husbandry.

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What To Do With Your Hunted Animals

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Now that you have hunted some animals, you are probably asking yourself, what do i do with all of this inventory. Well, there are a few key purposes that we know of which they can be used for, such as animal husbandry, cooking or the tanning station. You may also notice they can be used for townboard jobs too.

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The Animal

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If you have obtained the animal itself, such as a bear, you can actually take it to the animal husbandry station in the town.

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For the price of some fuel, the animal and some silver, you can have the chance to turn your animal into a tame for yourself to ride or a tame that can pull caravans, which can help benefit you when you move cargo from one town to another. But this will all vary depending on the percentage of the possible outcome.

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The Animal Carcass

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If you have managed to hunt something like a Grem and got the carcass of the animal, it can be taken to the tanning station. Where you can skin the carcass with the possible outcome of Grem Skin, Animal Fat and Bones.

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These can then be used for a variety of things, such as the skin can be used at the leatherworking or the tailoring station. Where you can craft either light or medium armor. Bones can be taken to the Arcane Engineering station to create pylons and spellbooks and then the animal fat can be turned into oil.

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Another alternative you can do with the carcass of the animal that you have hunted, is that you can take it to the cooking station, where you can turn it into butchered meat, ready for all different kinds of recipes.

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What To Do Next And How To Progress

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Now that you know what to do when you have hunted an animal, it’s time to keep going until you reach level 10 in this skill. We understand it is a tedious and slow process, but you can actually craft the Novice Hunting Bow with no requirements from the Hunting Tools station.

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This upgrade gives you a Hunting Speed Increase, which can help you get to level 10 faster.

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Once you have reached level 10, you will now be able to get the Apprentice Certificate for hunting. This is a huge deal, because as long as a town has the hunting station upgraded, you can unlock and craft the Apprentice Hunting Bow, which will allow you to hunt way bigger and better animals.

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One of the locations that we found to promote your hunting certificate that is guaranteed, is south of Winstead. Where you can locate and talk to the Cookhouse Executive Chef as shown in the images below.

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This should cover all the basics of hunting skill, although we do expect much more to come in later stages of development, such as a better way to capture the animal and artisan skill trees that can have benefits to being a much higher skill.

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If you liked our “Hunting in Ashes of Creation” guide and you wish to get more involved with our community then why not join our Discord.

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Fishing in Ashes of Creation

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Fishing in Ashes of Creation in this current alpha state isn’t the best, but the foreseeable future for this skill is going to be amazing from what the developers have promised. It doesn’t just offer the traditional, lake and river fishing, but they have promised to give us deep sea fishing, which will be perfect when you are out of combat and sailing around on your ship.

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In order to start fishing, you first must get a fishing rod. This can be easily obtained when completing the “the sweat of your brow” side quest at any of the starting towns.

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You can check if you have a crude fishing rod by simply pressing the H key on your keyboard. This will open up your character screen, then by selecting the artisan tab, you will see the fishing rod on your character.

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How to Fish

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As we are in such early stages of the game, you do not actually need any bait at the moment, so this means you are ready to go and fish! So empty your inventory and let’s get going.

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Find a lake or river that you like the look of and head to that location. It’s now time to pull your rod out. Myself and many others were very confused about how to do this as the game gives you no explanation, but it’s a simple case of opening your skill tree with the “K” and clicking the skill book.

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Here you will see the fishing section. It has the fishing skill and the fishing pylon skill too.

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If you wish to use a fishing pylon which can boost your fishing skill by enhancing your fishing efficiency, then you will need to craft one from the Arcane Engineering table.

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But, drag the Fishing skill into your hot bar and head to the lake.

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Click the spell, and it will pull your rod out and cast it into the water. Now it is a waiting game.

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As we previously mentioned, fishing is at a very early stage, so this means you do not actually need to do anything but wait. Your character will automatically fish and you won’t need to press any buttons.

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The bar at the bottom of your screen does not mean too much except once it’s at the end, you will have the chance to either capture a fish or not.

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If you have successfully captured a fish, open your bag and click on the materials tab. You will see the fish located here. It will continue to keep fishing without stopping, so you can easily walk away to cancel this or just keep fishing and be semi-afk.

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What To Do With Your Fish

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If you are done with fishing, then you will be wondering what to do with the fish that you have just got.

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Fish can be used primarily for cooking, but alternatively, then they can be used at the Arcane Engineering station to create survey pylons, but also be used for the town jobs too. Exchanging your fish and completing the jobs will earn you tokens. These tokens can be used to purchase all sorts of items from the town vendor, such as an excellent cloak.

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If you wish to cook the fish that you have caught, then head to any major town, where you can locate a cooking station. Using this station allows you to turn your fish into fillets. Which can then be turned into a recipe of your choice.

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That pretty much covers the basics of fishing on Ashes of Creation in this current state.

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Fishing Progression

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As you are fishing, you maybe wondering if there are any benefits or upgrades to fishing? Well, yes, you can catch a whole new variety of different fish, but this will require level 10 in this skill to craft the next tier fishing pole. However, if you just want a new shiny fishing pole that has better durability and a better speed increase rate, then you can head to a fishing station within a town and craft the Novice Fishing Pole.

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As the nodes progress and the crafting stations upgrade, the next tier of tools will become available to craft for players, such as the Apprentice Fishing Pole. This will give you a chance for better fish such as salmon. Which of course will be needed for even better cooking recipes.

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In order to craft and use the next tier of fishing pole called the “Apprentice Fishing Pole”, you first need to reach level 10 in the skill, you will then be eligible to promote your artisan skill certificate for that skill at the Fishing NPC. Acquiring your new certificate will allow you to use the new fishing pole recipe. This will replace your current fishing pole instantly, so you are ready to go and catch a whole new range of fish.

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If you wish to promote your current Fishing certificate, then head south of Winstead and talk to the Cookhouse Executive Chef as shown in the images below. Talking to this NPC will allow you to upgrade this, and you should be able to catch better quality or different fish when this system is in place.

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Lots of changes will come to fishing, but it’s just a waiting game. We were told there would be no auto fishing and deep sea fishing, but we currently have a very bland system due to being in an alpha state of the game. So we will wait and see what happens.

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Here below is a video on how to fish in Ashes of Creation

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If you liked our “Fishing in Ashes of Creation” guide and you wish to get more involved with our community then why not join our Discord.

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Beginners Guide to Processing in Ashes of Creation

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Processing is one of the three essential artisan skills in Ashes of Creation, serving as the crucial middle step in crafting final products like weapons and armor. First, you will need to gather resources using the gathering skill. Then, you can use a processing station to refine these materials, making them ready for the crafting stations where you can create the final product.

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All the processing stations that are available are Weaving, Stonemasonry, Animal Husbandry, Farming, Metalworking, Cooking, Lumbermilling, Alchemy and Tanning. All stations are marked with a purple icon on your map.

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Weaving

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The weaving skill in Ashes of Creation allows you to create essential materials like thread, warp, and fiber. To get started with this process, you’ll need to gather resources such as flax and cotton, which can be found all around the map.

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Once collected, these raw materials can be taken to the weaving station in a main town where you can transform them into the correct thread, which is a crucial component to used with the Tailoring skill.

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Stonemasonry

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Stonemasonry is a very interesting processing skill in Ashes of Creation, as it ties perfectly with the mining gathering skill. This is because it allows you to turn all the mined ores that you have gathered, like basalt and zinc, into a variety of different things, such as stone blocks or molds. Crafting molds will always be needed if you wish to create weapons or armor.

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Additionally, stonemasonry allows you to cut all the gems you have found too, which is perfect if you wish to take up the crafting skill of jewelcrafting.

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Animal Husbandry

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Animal Husbandry is a skill that can give you the chance to craft a rideable mount or a tame that can be used for your caravan, this will be needed when you decide to move some cargo from one town to another.

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In order to obtain one of these, you will first need the hunting skill. Then you will need to look for specific types of animals to hunt throughout the world. If successful, you can then take it to the animal husbandry station with around 55 silver too, where you will have the chance to craft one for a possible outcome of a mount to ride and show off to other players or a tame which can be ready to pull your caravan.

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Below is a list of the animals you can attempt to capture for a tame so far:

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Horse
Wolf
Pallas Cat
Bear
Deer

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Farming

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Farming is a skill that will often be used when you manage to get your own plot within a town. There are a variety of things you can do within the farming station. One of the main things to use it for is to create mulch from animal droppings that you have found when killing beasts with a combination of plants such as daffodils that you have gathered with herbalism.

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Crafting mulch will be a must when farming in Ashes of Creation because it enables you to grow various fruits and vegetables. To do this, you’ll need the seeds of the desired fruit or vegetable, some water, and mulch. With these ingredients, you can create a wide range of different produce.

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Metalworking

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The metalworking station is going to be one of the key stations that you will use the most when you play Ashes of Creation. This is because it acts as the “middle man” when you want to turn your raw gathered ore into something else such as jewelry, weapons or armor.

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A metalworking station is essentially just another name for a smelting station which allows you to place ore such as copper and zinc into it, where it produces fragments of that ore, you will now have one of the key resources which is now ready to be used in a craftng station of your choice.

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Cooking

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Cooking is a vital skill within Ashes of Creation, as there is no real way of healing yourself without playing with a healer class in your party. This means you will be relying on rations and salve for the most part. Unless you have some good recipes for cooking, this will allow you to be able to create better food that can either regenerate your health and mana faster or just give you better stats.

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The cooking station is important as it allows you to take all the fish you have found or from all the animals you have hunted and turn them into meat. Upon changing it to meat, you can then turn this into one of your favorite recipes.

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Lumber Milling

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Lumber Milling acts exactly like metalworking, but instead of ore, it is for wood. This station allows you to take any wood that you have chopped down with the lumberjacking skill and refine it into either timber or woodchips.

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Although there are many reasons to use timber or woodchips, we have noticed timber is mainly used with the Arcane Engineering skill, which allows you to create survey pylons, and woodchips can be combined with animal droppings in the farming station to create mulch for farming.

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Alchemy

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The Alchemy skill allows you to break down resources such as flowers and gems into a powder. This powder can then be turned into ink or salve,

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Crafting salve is highly recommended when you are first starting out as it allows you to gain a set amount of health or mana every 2 seconds for 20 seconds, which helps massively when you are leveling or questing.

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Although if you decide to craft ink instead, you can then use this ink as a base resource at the scribing station to create scrolls. Scrolls can give you additional stat buffs for a set amount of time. An example of a scroll that can be used is one that gives you more experience for a period of time.

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Tanning

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Tanning is another vital skill for players as it works very well with hunting and leatherworking. When you hunt animals out in the wilderness, you can have the chance to get a carcass of it, which you can then bring the carcass to a tanning station. Here it gives you the animal skin, bones and animal fat from the carcass.

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The animal skin, you can take this to either the leatherworking or the tailoring station. Where you can craft either light or medium armor. Bones can be taken to the Arcane Engineering station to create pylons and spellbooks and then the animal fat can be turned into oil.

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Icon	Status Effect	Description
$\"\"$	Bleeding	(15%) bleed damage every second over 6 seconds
$\"\"$	Burning	Deals fire damage every second. Lasts 8 seconds or up to 24 seconds based on total applied burn.
$\"\"$	Chilled	Movement speed reduced by 50% per stack. Lasts 6 seconds. Duration can be extended up to 15 seconds by subsequent applications.
$\"\"$	Conflagrating	Convert all remaining Burning damage on the target into an accelerated DoT, lasting 4 seconds. Converted damage is additionally boosted by 30%.
$\"\"$	Dazed	-25% Magical Casting Speed for 8 seconds. Duration can be extended up to 20 seconds by subsequent applications.
$\"\"$	Demoralized	-10% Damage Multiplier for 8 seconds. Duration can be extended up to 20 seconds by subsequent applications.
$\"\"$	Disarmed	Cannot use weapon combo attacks. Lasts 5 seconds.
$\"\"$	Fear	Can not move or take action, character runs around uncontrollably. Chance to break effect or trip target on damage. Lasts 5 seconds.
$\"\"$	Frozen	Cannot move or rotate for 4.0 seconds.
$\"\"$	Frozen Immune	Cannot be Frozen
$\"\"$	Hemorraging	(20%) bleed damage every 0.5 seconds over 5 seconds.
$\"\"$	Humiliated	Damage dealt reduced by 30% towards targets other than the applier of this effect. Lasts 8 seconds.
$\"\"$	Infected	No healing received. Lasts 5 seconds.
$\"\"$	Rooted	Can not move for 4.0 seconds.
$\"\"$	Shaken	-15% Physical Mitigation for 6 seconds. Duration can be extended up to 15 seconds by subsequent applications.
$\"\"$	Shocked	Incoming direct attacks proc an additional (25%) lightning damage and consume a stack. Lasts var seconds.
$\"\"$	Silenced	Can not use abilities. Lasts 5 seconds.
$\"\"$	Snared	Movement speed reduced by 25% per stack.
$\"\"$	Staggered	Reduces disable evasion by 25% for 6 seconds. Duration can be extended up to 15 seconds by subsequent applications.
$\"\"$	Stunned	Cannot move or act.
$\"\"$	Tripped	Can not move or act for 3 seconds.
$\"\"$	Volatile	-15% Magical Mitigation. Lasts 6 seconds. Duration can be extended up to 15 seconds by subsequent applications.
$\"\"$	Wounded	Reduces healing received by 5% per stack, up to a maximum of 50% at 10 stacks. Lasts 15 seconds.

Iron Ingot

Crafting Recipe: Metalworking