Ashes of Creation Character Planner

Choosing a character in Ashes of Creation requires the consideration of various factor. You must consider the effect that each of these factors has upon the others. Each of these factors includes your archetype, your race, your weapons, and your civic plan.

Each of these factors interact with each of the other factors. A planning tool can help you to understanding how each of these factors interact with each other. The input for the planning tool includes your primary archetype, your secondary archetypes, your race, your node focus, and your artisan skill.

How to Plan Your Character in Ashes of Creation

Each of these factors is important to understanding how your character will interact with the other factors. Your primary archetype is the foundation of your character. Your primary archetype determines what types of contribution that your character will make to the groups that you fight in.

Your secondary archetypes will influence your primary archetype. Your secondary archetypes will determine if you are taking an archetype that focus upon dealing damage to enemies, utilizing useful abilities for your allies or both. Your race will influence your nodes and artisan skill.

Your node focus and artisan skills will influence the way that you spend your time while you are not fighting enemies. Your services in the game will rely upon your character to perform specific task. The calculator will mathematically calculate the impact of each of your choice.

The calculator will calculate a score regarding how well your character will fit into the role that you want it to have, how ready your character will be for the types of combat that you will encounter, and how well your civic plan will work with the activities that you will perform daily. These scores will not give you a best build for your character. However, they will allow you to understand where friction may occur in your build.

A high role fit score will indicate that your weapon, armor, and stats support your primary contribution to the group. A low combat readiness score indicate that your character may not have any survival capabilities against the types of enemies that you have selected for your character to fight. A low node and craft score will indicate that you will have to travel a long distance to access the services that you require due to your chosen artisan.

Many players may become frustrated by attempting to balance two factor of the game at once. For instance, if you choose to build a tank with heavy armor but also choose a scientific node and a scribe artisan, the type of armor that you are required to wear for defense will require your character to travel long distances between services. The same is true for a cloth caster that chooses the military node and the weaponsmithing artisan.

The planning tool will allow you to see these frustrations in advance so that you can avoid building these types of characters. The reference tables on the planning tool contain information that will help you understand each of the interactions between the factors of your game. The reference tables include information about which archetypes has a tendency to contribute to specific roles in the group.

The reference tables indicate which weapons will work best with which armor weights. The reference tables also indicate which artisan skills will be rewarded for selecting specific nodes. You dont need to remember all of the information in the reference tables.

However, if your selections for your game are different than what is represented in the tables, then you may experience problems within your game. One of the most common mistakes that people make is to treat their secondary archetypes as though they are a second complete kit for your character. The game will not provide you with two complete kits.

You do not get two complete hotbars for your character. You will only get one kit and your secondary archetypes will only provide an enhancement to that kit. The planner will score your second archetype lower than your primary because it is only an enhancement and not a second complete kit.

Thus, if you expect your second archetypes to provide half of your character’s abilities, you will be disappointed. Another of the most common mistakes is to ignore your party size when you are selecting your risk level. If you are building your character to compete in small parties in PvP mode, the requirements for your build will differ from if you want to compete in 40 player raids.

Choosing a build that is created for small parties but wanting to compete in 40 player raids will result in a lower score in the combat readiness portion of the planner. The planner will not prevent you from choosing this, but it will show the trade-off that you are making. Finally, there are some aspects of the game that the planning tool does not account for.

For instance, the sieges of those nodes may change the nodes in the game. Economic nodes can change based upon the routes for trading items. Additionally, some nodes provide healing abilities that may be more beneficial if you have many healers in your group.

These variables outside of the planning tool may change a sound plan into a potential headache. However, the purpose of the planning tool will help you to decide which trade-offs are acceptable to you.