It honestly made a nice change to think about what you're doing and where you're going, rather than just killing stuff and completing quests on autopilot. You can't just blindly run through areas to a quest objective, and even following a pathway can be treacherous if you're not on the lookout.Īs there's no real endgame content to rush to max level for, making the levelling experience a little more involved makes sense. But as I progressed through subsequent quests that sent me travelling far and wide across the zone, I realised that this was the norm. Some of the quests will send you far from the quest giver, and the first of these made me wonder if I'd gone to the wrong place as there were so many red mobs around, denoting that they were too high a level for me to tackle. My squishy mage became much more interesting once I'd unlocked a teleport spell and a drain that replenished both my mana and health. I'm keen to see how-and if-the action-combat is developed further as I've never quite been able to get over my love for TERA's original combat or find anything that's compared to it since.Įach class has basic skill trees too, and you can add points to rank up abilities further. The action-combat worked well enough for my primary skill, but I found I still had to have an enemy targeted to use abilities I'd assigned to number keys. I was able to toggle between the two by hitting a specific key. So thankfully, you're not stuck in a starting area for a predetermined amount of time before you're allowed to move on to greener pastures-quite literally.Īshes of Creation uses the usual WASD movement and tab-targeting combat present in many current MMOs and offers an action-combat alternative. I wasn't bombarded with a load of quests either, and you're free to go wherever you wish, pretty much from the outset. Still, it fits well with the lore as you're returning to what was your homeland after it was abandoned for centuries following an apocalypse. The area where you arrive doesn't look particularly impressive. As I generally prefer ranged classes, I went with a mage. Likewise, I only had three of the eight classes to choose from: cleric, mage, or tank.

I've been known to lose hours of my life on character creation screens, but sadly, the creator is pretty bare-bones right now in Alpha One-though I believe this will be expanded in the future.

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