Rare items

This section contains information from Alpha-1 testing. It will be updated when new information is made available.

Item	Icon	Type	Tier	Set	Rarity	Level requirement	Source	Cost
Arcane Tome		Spellbook			Rare	12	Crafted items
Band of Concentration		Jewelry			Rare	1
Chain Pendant		Jewelry			Rare	1
Cultivator		Tool	1 - 3		Rare	1	Vendor	500
Eldritch Lightguard		Shield		Eldritch	Rare		Crafted items
Ethereal Plate Gauntlets		Gloves		Etherial	Rare	1
Ethereal Plate Spaulders		Shoulders		Etherial	Rare	1
Imposing Plate Belt		Belt		Imposing	Rare	9	Crafted items
Lava Forged Defender		Shield		Lava Forged	Rare		Crafted items
Lava Forged One-Handed Sword		Sword		Lava Forged	Rare	12	Quest rewards
Lava Forged Wand		Wand		Lava Forged	Rare	8	Quest rewards
Sharpened Greatsword		Sword		Sharpened	Rare		Crafted items
Silver Guardian		Sword			Rare	10
Steel Pickaxe		Pickaxe	1 - 3		Rare	1	Vendor	500

Loot tables

Alpha-1 dungeon concept by Michael Bacon.

Loot tables (drop tables) of world bosses or dungeon bosses have a small RNG chance of dropping gear (completed items). Monsters drop hunting certificates, Items and crafting materials rather than gold.

• There is a much higher chance that materials and unique recipes are dropped that can be used to craft items of equitable value.
• There is a small RNG chance of looting rare and legendary items or crafting materials from mobs based on the level, status and type of mob. This also applies to harvesting resources with a gathering profession.
• Crafted gear is the best gear in Ashes of Creation.

• Legendary equipment is only dropped by Legendary world bosses.
• Stats on dropped items will vary based on the rarity of the item.
• Loot tables are disabled for player controlled monsters.
• Experience debt decreases the drop rate percentages from monsters.
• Loot tables will likely not be affected by weather conditions. This was previously listed as a possible effect.

Crafted items

Crafting UI. Alpha-1 screenshot. Image credit: Guild:Overlord

Crafted items (Crafted gear) is best-in-slot gear in Ashes of Creation.

Crafted gear in the game is the best gear... One thing that I'm not a fan of is that you develop a crafting system in a game and you've spent a lot of time making this from a material and resource perspective. All the tables that you can receive, all the connectivity in the economy and how crafting is associated with the game; and then you undermine the crafting entirely by presenting a separate route of gear acquisition that is on-par with the crafting efforts. So here you have these people who are acquiring all of the resources getting, all the recipes, leveling up their professions and then everything they make is less or equal to anything you could just have chosen the easier path of and gone down the questing and received the best gear. So what we do focus on is that crafters make the best shit. Excuse me, the best things. – Steven Sharif

• Previously it was stated that crafted items will be on-par with boss dropped items.

Crafters will be able to assign different skills/abilities and stats on gear.

• Master crafters will be able to influence several (but not all) stats on their crafted items.
• The rarity of the items will be commensurate with the effort required to gather, process and craft the items.
  • Stats on crafted items will vary based on the item's rarity.

That plays into our crafting system in and of itself. The idea is for those stats to be variables that can be kind of dictated based on the mastery level of the particular crafter; and the higher they become a master of those professions, whether it be for armor or for weapons or for accessories, they're going to have some agency and put their mark on essentially what items they're introducing into the economy. – Steven Sharif

Crafters are able to influence what their crafted items will look like.

• At the moment, harnessing corruption to warp items into demonic or decayed things is not on the cards.
• A crafter's name is embedded in the items they craft.

We believe that every item that exists in the world should in some way reflect its creator. As such, there will be extreme versatility in our crafting system – giving crafters the ability to create unique items that represent their strengths and weaknesses.

Item rarities

Item rarities in Ashes of Creation.

• Poor.
• Common.
• Uncommon.
• Rare.
• Epic.
• Legendary.

Resource quality

Flanggler (Flower angler or Mimic flower).

Resources will have differing tiers of quality for the same resource type. This is somewhat similar to Star Wars Galaxies.

• Gatherers who are more advanced in their artisan tree will unlock higher level harvesting tools that have a greater chance of collecting higher quality resources or proccing a greater quantity.

You will have an opportunity to proc certain qualities based on your progression in the Artisan tree. So if you are a gatherer; and as you advance in your gathering, you'll have a higher opportunity to collect better resources. – Steven Sharif

This section contains information from Alpha-1 testing. It will be updated when new information is made available.

In Alpha-1 testing there are 4 tiers of gatherable resources across all gathering professions:

• Tier 1 (Common)
• Tier 2 (Uncommon)
• Tier 3 (Rare)
• Tier 4 (Epic)

See also

• Item rarities
• Crafted items
• Items
• Resources