Rare

Rare in Ashes of Creation refers to:

• Rare items.
• Rare tier glowing glint.
• Rare (tier 3) resources.^{[ citation needed ]}

List of rare items

This section contains potentially outdated information from Alpha-1 testing.

Item	Icon	Type	Tier	Set	Rarity	Level requirement	Source	Cost
Aged Aelan Whiskey Barrel		Player commodities			Rare		Commodities vendors	6▲3⧫5⬬
Ancient Aelan Wine Barrel		Player commodities			Rare		Commodities vendors	6▲3⧫5⬬
Ancient Aelan Wine Flagons		Player commodities			Rare		Commodities vendors
Arcane Tome		Spellbook			Rare	12	Crafted items
Band of Concentration		Jewelry			Rare	1
Chain Pendant		Jewelry			Rare	1
Crystalized Blood Sword		Sword		Crystalized Blood	Rare		Crafted items
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
Glowing Glint		Glint			Rare
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
Longbow of Briarhome		Longbow		Briarhome	Rare		Drop
Minotaur Pigment		Pigment			Rare		Quest rewards
Repulsor Sphere		Caravan component			Rare		Caravan masters
Sharpened Greatsword		Greatsword		Sharpened	Rare		Crafted items
Shortbow of Briarhome		Shortbow		Briarhome	Rare		Drop
Silver Guardian		Sword			Rare	10
Sons of Fortune Shield		Shield		Sons of Fortune	Rare	10
Sons of Fortune Wand		Wand		Sons of Fortune	Rare	10
Steel Pickaxe		Pickaxe	1 - 3		Rare	1	Vendor	500
Stormcaller's Axe		Axe			Rare		Crafted items
Sword of Briarhome		Sword		Briarhome	Rare		Drop
Titanbark Chestplate		Chest armor		Titanbark	Rare
Titanbark Helmet		Helmet		Titanbark	Rare		Drop
Titanbark Shoulders		Shoulders		Titanbark	Rare
Tower Shield		Shield			Rare		Drop

Loot tables

Alpha-2 Looting UI.

• Mobs drop glint, Items, and crafting materials in preference to gold.
  • Glint is not bound to a specific region and can be also dropped by players on death as stolen glint, based on applicable death penalties.
  • The rarity of glint increases with the mob's level.
  • Loot tables are disabled for player controlled monsters.
  • 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.
  • Experience debt decreases the drop rate percentages from monsters.

• Loot (loot tables) from world bosses or dungeon bosses has a small RNG chance of dropping gear (completed items).
  • There is a much higher chance that materials and unique recipes are dropped that can be used to craft items of equitable value.
  • Legendary equipment is only dropped by Legendary world bosses.

• Stats on dropped items will vary based on the rarity of the item.

• Loot tables will likely not be affected by weather conditions. This was previously listed as a possible effect.

• There won't be specific loot drops for artisans. Previously it was stated that master gatherers may have the ability to "spoil" a boss' loot.

Q: Can only one gathering artisan harvest resources from a single boss, or can multiple different artisans harvest different parts from a boss for different resources? For example, a lumberjack gets a special wood from Tumock's tree weapon, while a herbalist gathers the flowers from that same tree.

A: We don't have the concept of harvesting from bosses. NPCs follow a reward table format, where those reward tables are global. They're not unique to particular players. So, once the NPC is vanquished, you have access to the loot container that is its corpse; and it has a static value of either materials or items that get dropped; and whatever the party loot settings are that you might be a part of, or if you're a solo player you will be able to recover those things.

Relics

Reliquary concept art.

Each city has what's called a reliquary and the reliquary begins to spawn unique items for the citizens to take advantage of based on the performance, progression and achievements that those citizens have within the world. So if your citizens are part of downing a world boss or completing a dungeon in a record time or crafting a legendary item or whatever: all of these different types of progression paths for the cities could result in the production of a relic that exists within the reliquary. – Steven Sharif

Relics are achievements for a node that unlock over time. They allow node citizens to craft certain legendary items and progress in certain legendary quest lines.

Relics are embodiments of certain types of achievements. You may have the scale of a dragon that's been defeated- the all-scale aspect of it- and from that every week a citizen might be able to derive one scale material component that can be used across a plethora of high-end types of crafting. – Steven Sharif

• Relics automatically manifest in the node's reliquary when specific conditions are met by that node. For example, it may require a certain number of citizens to accomplish a particular achievement a number of times before the relic is granted to the node.

Let's say for example there is a dragon nearby and this dragon is a large raid boss; and the number of citizens that the node has that participates in that raid the first time- if you have 30 citizens present you may not achieve the relic. And it's not a matter of capturing it at that location taking back to the city. It'll automatically manifest within the reliquary if a number of citizens accomplish a particular achievement a number of times necessary to create the relic. So if you only have 30 citizens present at that raid boss you may need to do that raid boss four or five six times in order to unlock the achievement which grants the relic in the reliquary. So it's essentially incentivizing the citizens to participate in the world events around the node. – Steven Sharif

• Relics can also be awarded for accomplishments that span many different progression paths, such the number of citizens achieving advanced stages of their artisan classes.

The other component of relics that's important to note is that it's not just adventuring relics, these are accomplishments that span a lot of the different progression paths. So you could have accomplishments get unlocked by how many number of citizens achieve the creation of a particular type of item. You may have now an alchemical genius that is a citizen of your node and as a result there is an alchemical relic that's been granted to your reliquary in a similar fashion to the dragon. – Steven Sharif

• Relics stored in a node's reliquary grant passive and active benefits to node citizens and vassal states.
  • Area-of-effect buffs to damage, attack range or the health of the defenders.

• Limited access to the relics stored in a node's reliquary are granted to players after a node is destroyed by a node siege. Benefits are also conferred to those who capture, steal, or sabotage relics held the reliquary.
  • Looting a relic from a node will create a shard of the relic, which can be used in recipes for certain crafted items and enchantments; or it can be consumed for a single-use buff that reflects the original relic's purpose. These shards can be traded.

• Relics include the four Ancient artifacts of Verra that were originally discovered by King Atrax in his pursuit of the power of The Essence.
  • These artifacts were in close alignment to The Essence on Verra due to their proximity to the ley lines of Essence spread across the world.
  • These artifacts were originally housed in the vault of Fallow's Hold, which is one of the great dungeons of Ashes of Creation, located near the capital city of the ancient Toren empire, Torall.

• Constellations enable the acquisition of certain relics.

• Certain relics can only be discovered through exploration.

Legendary quests

Epic and Legendary quests affect the narrative of the game. These quests will unlock gated content.

See also

• Items
• Resources
• Quests