Clothing

Alpha-2 Kaelar starting gear 3D renders.

Costumes

Vestments of the Runecarvers pre-order pack cosmetic costume.

The costume cosmetics that are included in each month's pre-order set are indeed a full piece, and when you put it on it will cover your entire appearance. You will not be able to mix and match/toggle those pieces individually (other than your helmet) when you're wearing the entire costume. This is partially why there is a separate category for accessories - those are able to be worn/equipped on a more individualized basis, so you can mix and match to your liking! – Sarah Flanagan

Costumes were available for purchase from the cosmetic store.

• They do not include any weapons pictured.
• Costumes are one piece outfits that cover all gear slots regardless of armor type.

Full costumes do not mix and match pieces. – Steven Sharif

• Costumes don't have a level restriction or require an in-game item to be obtained first.
• Costumes are not gender or race locked, but can adapt based on a character's gender and race.
  • Racial skins appear along with any costume appearances.
• All hoods and head slot items, whether part of a complete costume or individual gear, will have the option to be shown or hidden on the character by the player.

Gear slots

Alpha-2 Fighter character sheet UI.

We wanted to create something that would handle a couple of different roles, with obviously your equipment slots for what we call a "paper doll", which is that display of your character. Eventually it won't just be a image of your character, we hope to have the 3D character and be able to rotate around, look at what you're wearing. And then we wanted to support a couple of different features here, with some base stats; the equipment, which will show what equipment you have available to quick swap, so you don't have to have your inventory and the screen open; detailed stats for those people who want to get into all of the details; and then of course gear sets. So this is going to be able to swap to your sets of gear quickly; and being able to save different loadouts. – Colby Marchi

There are multiple gear slots in Ashes of Creation.

• 3 Back slots.
  • 1 Ranged slot.
  • 1 Cloak/cape slot.
  • 1 Backpack slot.

• 3 Belt slots.
  • 1 Mainhand slot equips a player's primary weapon.
  • 1 Offhand slot can equip shields, spell focuses, sigils, and dual weapons.
  • 1 Potion/Pouch/Scroll slot.

• 8 Armor slots.
  • 1 Helmet slot.
  • 1 Shoulder slot.
  • 1 Chest slot.
  • 1 Wrist slot.
  • 1 Glove slot.
  • 1 Waist slot.
  • 1 Leggings slot.
  • 1 Boot slot.
• 5 Jewelry slots.
  • 2 Accessory slots.
  • 1 Necklace slot.
  • 2 Ring slots.
• 3 Artisan gear slots.
• 1 Artisan tool slot is used to equip gathering tools.
• There may be a specific slot for musical instruments, but this has not been finalized yet.

• Previously it was stated there were 16 gear slots.

• Gear is not subject to inventory weight limits.

Armor characteristics

Kaelar armor.

You're not going to get one set of armor that's going to be situationally relevant for every encounter you might face- that's crazy- and as a result of that you're going to have to succeed in acquiring sets that are situationally relevant for the types of encounters you are intending to face. – Steven Sharif

Light, medium, and heavy armor weights have different characteristics.

• Stat values will be predominately the same but may be able to be adjusted by crafters who are capable with that type of armor.
  • Physical Defense Mitigation.
  • Magical Defense Mitigation.

• The stat values on armor can include both damage dealing and damage mitigation stats.

Certain armor types are going to have certain type of predominant stat values. So there's going to be certain waterfall stats and/or certain primary attributes that are available on certain armor types; and then if you want to have the one that's not more prominently available- those will be rare to get- you'll have to elicit the services of a crafter who's very capable within that particular type of armor in order to get the non-traditional stats and/or waterfalls available. So there's still the ability to get whatever on these but they're going to be more predetermined for certain types of stats and waterfalls. – Steven Sharif

• Set bonuses are granted to wearers of exclusively one "type" of armor, for example: all cloth, or all plate.

There'll be certain types of set bonuses granted across specific full sets or partial sets of armor types. There will be a similar function in how damage is mitigated based on the type of armor you're wearing and how that relates to physical or magical incoming damage. So that's something to keep in mind. It's going to be situational what type of adversarial foe am I facing and what armor is the best against that to mitigate damage. – Steven Sharif

• The "type" of armor (cloth, leather, plate) a character is predominantly wearing is visible in their nameplate.
  • There will be strengths and weaknesses for armor sets that opponents can exploit with gear enhancements, for example.

You're going to have certain strengths and weaknesses of armor sets and those can be specced into by your opponents. For example, I might place some type of elemental enhancements on my weapon that horizontally changes my outgoing damage and that's going to reflect based on the opponent on my target opponent and what type of armor they have available to them to counter that. – Steven Sharif

• Itemization choice may potentially play into universal skill sets such as Dodge, Parry, and Active blocking.

We're playing a little bit with the idea of these universal skill sets, such as dodge, parry, block, active blocking, stuff like that; and progression within those areas. There is something to be said I think for incorporating itemization choice as part of that system as well; and how it might affect that system. That's something that I think is going to be coming up in the pitch phase here shortly from design as we implement those universal skills. So you can look out in the future for more information on that. – Steven Sharif

Appearance

Alpha-1 female plate armor 3D render.

We want to be realistic with the application of particular types of armor, such as plate armor. In this regard for the different sexes there's a fine line that has to be drawn between accentuating the form of the sex as well as making it somewhat realistic and actually applicable to the environment. – Steven Sharif

• Gear is intended to be realistic in appearance.

• There will not be "oversized" weapons.

• Armor will not be overly sexual in appearance.

  I'm more of the mind that it wouldn't really serve a purpose to have bikini plate armor, just in like reality, if you're going to have armor, it should be protective. I think from a fashion statement is enjoyable for some people, but it's a an immersive issue. – Steven Sharif

  • Some armor and costumes will be more revealing than others, but there will not be nudity in the game.

  There might be sliders, but there are not gonna be naked sliders. – Steven Sharif

• Armor will take on a racial appearance. Weapons will scale in size based on race.

Each race is getting its custom geo pieces, which then will share thematic components such as color palette, attachments, design filigree. Those types of things will get shared across the geo but generally you're going to see unique races with unique geo. – Steven Sharif

• The appearance of crafted gear is influenced by its rarity.
  • Particle effects are used to denote the importance and rarity of some weapons.

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

• Cosmetics can be used by all races but there may be slight variations to make them work with the body builds of each race.

• Dye cosmetics can be used to change gear colors.

• Helmet display can be toggled on and off.

• Hair will likely be masked if helmet display is toggled on.

• Weapons are able to be sheathed.

Attachments

Attachments are able to be unlocked as flair pieces to armor to create a customizable look.

• There will be hundreds of attachments available ranging from a small clasp to the front plate of a breast plate.

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  Aegis of Vigilance

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  Badland Scavenger Handwraps

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  Baitbeckon Torch

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  Barding of the Brightbreaker sketch

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  Barding of the Brightbreaker

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  Berylscale Band

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  Bloomcrown

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  Bracers of Brotherhood

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  Bright Bounty Pack

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  Bulb Bag

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  Cloak of Eminence

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  Cloak of the Broken Pact

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  Cloak of the Seaside Maw

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  Coil of Crackling Skies

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  Collector's Touch

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  Concordat Case

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  Conveyer's Go-Pack

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  Deepwood Syrinx

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  Diadem of Plenty

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  Diadem of the Majestic

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  Fathomveil

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  Featherstone Expedition Pack

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  Featherwatcher

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  Feykin's Affection

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  Field Marshal's Command

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  Flash-hound Whistle

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  Frostguard Cloak

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  Fuming Tincture

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  Gloomroot Cap

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  Greaves of the Pride

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  Halcyon Spire

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  Iceheart Corsage

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  Iron Quillmaster's Barding sketch

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  Iron Quillmaster's Barding

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  Khyber's Jewel

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  Lavaliere of Devotion

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  Lumilichen Stovepipe

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  Mantle of the Silver Temple

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  Marinien's Herb Pouch

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  Masque of Affection

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  Merrymaker's Sparkpack

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  Perdition's Path

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  Phylactery of the Scarlet Lich

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  Scarlet Remembrance

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  Shawl of Astral Balance

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  Shield of Reverence

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  Shroud of the Fallen

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  Shroud of the Vigilant

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  Sleepseer's Focus

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  Snowfall Sabatons

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  Sootheroot Satchel

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  Spectral eye

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  Spellbreaker's Gauntlets

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  Steelreef Pauldron

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  Summer mount barding

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  Talons of Frigid Fate

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  The Frayed Visage

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  The Grapoon

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  The Heartstone

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  The Jade Sigil

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  The Midnight Mask

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  Thicket's Endowment

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  Tormentor's Visage

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  Vanguard's Hammer

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  Veil of Graceful Elegance

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  Weathered Waistwrap

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  Wicker Mask

Dyeable items

Dyes only affect tagged portions of dyeable armor or cosmetic items.

• The dyeability of costumes depends on the specific costume.

Outside of wanting to keep maybe some identity from a lore perspective; for example if you have like a white lion's suit of armor, you may not want that white lion suit of armor to be black or blue. So, it's possible. It depends on the costume itself. – Steven Sharif

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See also

• Costumes
• Gear
• Cosmetics