Backs

A big component of the MMORPG that - half of that acronym is RPG role-playing game. And in order to role-play you need to be able to represent what your character is doing in that world and part of what animation is doing is creating these sockets on the let's say the belt or the back that can plug in certain types of props or items that are created by the character team, like Carson, might be a scroll tube, it might be a potion, it might be whatever: Those players will have the ability as we've discussed in the past will have the ability to select what they want to be represented in those sockets and then animation will make sure that jibe well in movement.^[1] – Steven Sharif

Back slots include.^[2]

Ranged slot.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[2]
Cloak/Cape.^[3]^[5]^[2]
Accessory (backpack etc).^[3]^[2]
Shields.^[5]^[2]
- Shields have likely been moved to an offhand slot.^[6]

List of Back armor

Item	Type	Rarity	Level requirement	Set
2nd Sword Division's Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary		2nd Sword Division
Academus Monitor Cloak	Light armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20	Academus Monitor
Aithanahr Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Ambitious Academic's Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary		Ambitious Academic
Arcane Mind's Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary	10	Arcane Mind
Ashen Haunt's Cloak	Light armor	Rare−Legendary	10	Ashen Haunt
Azmaran Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary
Bear Hide Cloak	Medium armor	Common−Legendary	10	Bear Hide
Blazeborn Back	Medium armor	Common−Legendary		Blazeborn
Bluebell Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary	10	Bluebell
Cloak of Aithanahr	Heavy armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cloak of Azmaran	Heavy armor	Uncommon−Legendary
Cloak of Halcyon	Heavy armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cloak of Ill Omens	Light armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20
Cloak of Joeva	Heavy armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cloak of Miraleth	Light armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cloak of New Aela	Heavy armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cloak of Sunhaven	Heavy armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cloak of Winstead	Light armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cloak of the Crew	Medium armor	Common−Legendary	10
Cloak of the Trailbreaker	Medium armor	Uncommon−Legendary	10
Cognoscente Cloak	Light armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20	Cognoscente
Emberlight Back	Light armor	Common−Legendary		Emberlight
Flayed Flesh Cape	Medium armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20
Forgeguard Back	Unknown item	Common−Legendary
Forgeguard's Cloak	Heavy armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20	Forgeguard
Gryphon Cloak	Medium armor	Common−Legendary	20	Gryphon
Gryphon Feather Cape	Medium armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20
Halcyon Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Hood of the Reaper	Light armor	Common−Legendary
Howling Wolf Cloak	Medium armor	Common−Legendary	10	Howling Wolf
Inferno Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary		Inferno
Joeva Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Mantle of the Last Sentinel	Light armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20
Miraleth Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
New Aela Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Purifier Cloak	Heavy armor	Common−Legendary		Purifier
Purifiers Back	Unknown item	Common−Legendary
River Stalker's Cloak	Medium armor	Common−Legendary		River Stalker
Royal Cloak of Aithanahr	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Royal Cloak of Azmaran	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary
Royal Cloak of Halcyon	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Royal Cloak of Joeva	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Royal Cloak of Miraleth	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Royal Cloak of New Aela	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Royal Cloak of Sunhaven	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Royal Cloak of Winstead	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Sanctus Skulker's Cloak	Medium armor	Common−Legendary	10	Sanctus Skulker
Soulseeker's Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary	10	Soulseeker
Spindlehemp Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary	20	Spindlehemp
Sunhaven Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20
Tattered Militia Cloak	Light armor	Common−Legendary
Titanbark Cloak	Back armor	−		Titanbark
Toren Administrator Back	Unknown item	Common−Legendary
Toren Administrator Cloak	Light armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20	Toren Administrator
Toren Scout Back	Unknown item	Common−Legendary
Toren Scout Cloak	Medium armor	Uncommon−Legendary	20	Toren Scout
Winstead Citizens' Cloak	Medium armor	Rare−Legendary	20

Cloaks

Alpha-2 Players wearing cloaks in the Miraleth node.^[7]

Cloaks (capes/coats/backs) are a type of back armor in Ashes of Creation.^[8]^[9]

There will be one shoulder capes, full body capes and cloaks. These attach to the player's back slot.^[10]
There will be capes (cloaks) with hoods.^[11]
There will be a UI setting to hide cloaks/hoods.^[12]^[10]^[13]
- All hoods, whether part of a complete costume or individual gear, will have the option to be shown or hidden on the character by the player.^[13]
Cloak cosmetic skins can not be applied over costumes.^[14]

Backpacks

Three different backpack types with varying stack sizes and spatial inventory shapes.^[15]

I see now I've actually gotten a unique looking structure for the Aelan Herbalism Basket; and those are the types of structures you would expect them to gather that are the gatherables for herbalism. So, that's not necessarily to say that I can't collect non-herbalism resources: I could and I could put them in that bag, but it just wouldn't utilize the most beneficial aspect of it, which is the higher stack count for those types of herbalism resources.^[15] – Steven Sharif

Featherstone Expedition Pack backpack 3D renders.^[3]

In order to roleplay you need to be able to represent what your character is doing in that world and part of what animation is doing is creating these sockets on the let's say the belt or the backpack that can plug in certain types of props or items that are created by the character team.^[16] – Steven Sharif

Backpacks (also referred to as a Bags) are craftable items that provide personal inventory space.^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]

Backpacks offer varying stack sizes and/or spatial inventory shapes that are optimized for carrying different items.^[15]^[20]
- Gatherer's backpacks are intended to carry gatherable resources in spatial inventory slots relating to specific gathering professions.^[15]^[20]
- Adventurer's backpacks are intended to carry consumables and items in non-spatial inventory slots.^[20]

These bags have specifically curated benefits for stack sizes of the type of resources they relate to and that's the specific profession of gathering and the resources you would gain from those those different unique professions.^[15] – Steven Sharif

Profession NPCs sell lower level backpacks.^[22] Higher level backpacks are crafted by players.^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]

The higher level the backpack, the greater the inventory capacity.^[20]

There's item progression as it relates to quality of bags, types of bags, and the materials they're most used for. Some of them are more PvP oriented that can reduce significantly drop rates for PvP as a result of that progression.^[19] – Steven Sharif

Some backpack types may have additional stats on them.^[23]^[24]
- Stats that affect PvP looting times. This does not apply when looting your own body.^[23]^[25]^[19]
- Stats that affect drop rates on death.^[19]

Some of those bags might have increased times to interact with a player corpse and you can choose to perhaps have less capacity, less stack size, less slot availability for the certain types of gatherables you may want to acquire in exchange for an increased interaction time for other players that might try to loot that bag, giving you time to reach it and take back your belongings. Or, if in the middle of a fight they see a corpse on the ground and they're like wait a minute, I want to grab that. Well, if I got to spend 10 seconds to interact with that corpse and there's combat going on, this is an opportunity strategically for you to recapture the grounds- for you to recapture the battlefield. You want to think about those types of interactions. How do you add layers of strategy to engagements and there's ways to do that through inventory management as well.^[25] – Steven Sharif

A character currently may equip up to 3 artisan backpacks, but is subject to change.^[26]
- Artisans must meet the required artisan certification to equip backpacks of that level (or lower).^[27]
- Characters may equip multiple of the same type of backpack.^[28]^[29]

Backpacks are equippable (visually) in a character's back slot.^[3]^[2]

Backpacks are only able to be equipped by player characters.^[30]

Gear appearance priority

Players can set the appearance priority for the items they wish to show in their Back and Belt slots.^[5]^[31]^[32]

Only one item can show at a time, and that is determined by player choice.^[2]

Some ranged or melee abilities require a specific weapon to be equipped. Weapons that are equipped in the character's ranged or offhand slots will automatically swap in and out as required by the skill.^[33]^[34]^[35]^[36]
- Players may toggle back and forth between using their ranged and melee slot for basic weapon attacks.^[33]