Ashes of Creation stellt neuen Inhalt vor, der ab dem Start auf Steam den besten Loot bieten soll

With the early access launch on Steam, Ashes of Creation will receive a new feature that triggers major world events at regular intervals on December 11, 2025. You will have several options to utilize the content.

What is this new content about? On December 11, 2025, not only will the early access of Ashes of Creation on Steam start. All versions of the MMORPG will also see the Harbinger update go live. The patch includes the following content:

• the namesake Harbinger system, which presents a fresh challenge for PvE and PvP fans – more on that shortly
• fishing on the open sea: with ocean exploration and new ship types that can consist of various components (there’s even supposed to be radar)
• the Ren’Kai race
• Summoner class
• world bosses (Scorpion Matriarch and Ancient Raid Boss)
• new economic systems
• mules
• improvements for zones, performance, and the lighting effects in the world

Ashes of Creation stimmt im Trailer auf Early-Access-Start auf Steam ein

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Preview of the Harbinger Events

What is behind the Harbinger system? In Ashes of Creation, the Harbingers (translated: forerunners) are comet-like celestial bodies that served as a bridge between the so-called Void and the material plane (where the world of Verra exists) during an apocalypse.

With these celestial bodies and the influence of the Ancients, a corruption reaches Verra that corrupts and distorts everything it touches. The corruption in a region builds up through the following factors:

• players defeating other player characters
• settlement buildings are constructed
• the level of a settlement increases
• boss enemies are defeated
• wars or sieges take place
• new productions are completed
• corrupted elite enemies reach a portal at the Harbinger

Once the corruption in a region reaches a sufficiently high value, an event starts around one of the massive Harbinger constructs in the world, where the corruption unfolds and wishes to spread to other regions.

Here you can see the possible cycle of a Harbinger event:

How does the event work? The developers describe it as a PvEvP event for high-level characters with 3 phases (plus a bonus round) that involves high risk but also promises great rewards (with “the best drops in the game”). Anyone entering the event area is automatically marked for PvP and can be attacked by other players without penalty.

At the same time, it is also about players working together as much as possible to overcome the challenges of the event and the associated enemies.

• Phase 1: Defeat enough units of the enemies summoned by the corruption to reach Phase 2.
• Phase 2: With the start of this phase, the local Void Gate activates. Three waves of enemies flow from the gate. Once you defeat them, Phase 3 begins.
• Phase 3: The local Lord of the Ancients appears, a powerful world boss. When you defeat this enemy, the three entrances to the associated Harbinger structure open.
• Bonus round: Through the entrances, you can access three dungeon areas full of enemies which you can exploit for additional loot for 3 hours.

According to the developers, around two to three player groups can effectively explore each dungeon area together. However, due to the active PvP rule, a team could betray you at any time in order to take all the loot for themselves. This is exacerbated by the fact that the three dungeon areas are connected by portals.

On YouTube, the developers recently published a detailed preview of the Harbinger event and its phases in video form. You can watch nearly 45 minutes, starting around minute 7:25:

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What rewards are specifically available? All enemies in the event can drop 3 things:

• corrupted materials / resources
• upgrading reagent Excoria, which can be used to improve corrupted resources
• reagent for cleansing corrupted resources to obtain a resource of your choice

Bosses and named enemies can drop special loot. Additionally, you will find blood chests in the dungeons that are guarded by bosses and contain extra loot.

What happens if the players fail? If no one attends to the spreading corruption or it is not possible to successfully complete the phases, the corruption is supposed to spread in the final version of the Harbinger system and eventually settle in the world.

In such a case, players will have to put in much more effort to destroy the roots of the corruption, close the Void Gate, and defeat the Lord of the Ancients. Until then, corrupted settlements will no longer provide their services, and buildings will sustain damage. In the worst case, this could take several weeks.

What else have the developers revealed? In 2026, they plan to expand the system, for example, with large dungeons that will be located beneath the Harbinger structures. These can only be reached through portals.

What else do I need to know about Ashes of Creation? Ashes of Creation is a sandbox MMORPG set in a fantasy environment that takes place in a vast open world. You fight against world bosses and compete against each other in PvP. Additionally, there will be a system where you level areas, build villages and towns, and change parts of the game world – the so-called “nodes.” Development of the MMORPG began in 2015. You can read more about it here: Release, roadmap, Alpha 2, classes, gameplay, payment model – everything important about the MMORPG Ashes of Creation.

This is an AI-powered translation. Some inaccuracies might exist.