Well I’ve got news for you buddy
Saw this on a random post. Dont quote me on this.
Enjoy having your gear score reset to 500
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Nah I wouldn’t trust this random customer support dude.
Expertise will just expand on and replace the WM system. - “Expertise will govern the highest drops you can get per slot, much like the HWM did.”
Read what they actually said “While we understand that to SOME players this may result in a temporary reduction in power…”
AGS have proven to be incompetent on more than one occasion, but I gotta believe they would have just straight up said “we are getting rid of the old HWM system, adding a new one and resetting everyone’s gear progress.”
Time will tell I guess.
This could absolutely be true, but I’d trust magic 8 ball over one of these chat reps.
Try playing on a low population server and then come back and say that…
Question to the devs (I know you won’t read it):
If you nerf my 600gs voidbent to 520, can you reimburse me 200k or so as compensation? Both sets.
because what you are proposing totally negates anything except mindless zerging of chest runs.
Why the F__K should I even bother with crafting then?
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So next you can’t drink infused health potions your arcana isn’t high enough.
That luck trophy is only tier 1 until you get your housing crafting up.
You are not skilled enough for that pickaxe here’s an iron one.
What’s your cooking at oooh sorry tier v food scales down until you lvl that up.
I have only done a few chest runs they weren’t fun to me. I would do dungeons to grind my watermark up if it wasn’t such a pain to get orbs and runs. Instead I did what was fun. Spent at ton of time farming and grinding made gold bought some decent items. I traded for them is their gold scaling down.
Implement the system after 600 don’t screw people over now.
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Yet another time gate brought to you by the stealth nerf squad.
The same guys who thought nerfing elite POIs was cool.
Also doubling time and expense to level crafting in which all the good stuff you can make is BOP. Self licking ice cream cone time sink.
Also the same guys who have initiated massive inflation by artificially doubling companies weekly income via ghost taxes. Seriously econ 101 is a thing.
How many more shots to face are we going to take?
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the elite poi nerf and crafting debuff were likely put in place to reduce progress until this change went live.
if people could gain WM at old speed, less people would be involved in the new system
well. thats if they aren’t going to make expertise start at 500
how is this a bad change? this is literally how it shouldve been from the beginning.
great change AGS
My rings, amulets and earrings are gonna be straight up garbage for the foreseeable future.
I wonder if took the fact that watermark for those three items are straight up unrealistic to farm, into consideration.
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This is Bull****!!! I have HUNDREDS of hours grinding all my armor HWM to 600 gs drops, and I just recently got my first legendary 600 gs gloves to drop, which I’m very proud of. But now you’re telling me I have to start over?!
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
#DoNotResetHWM
so what about those of us who do have high watermark but bad drops?
if we are using low watermark that have goid stats, di these now behave and get boosted to high watermark effectiveness?
Sadly, if this change goes live, it will cost New World nearly the entire casual playerbase, if not more.
It benefits the people who can play 8+ hours a day, but for those who can only play evenings and weekends, why would they choose to play a game that they can’t ever keep up? They can’t be helped by friends or company members who have more time and are willing to help. They will be forced to spend their entire 1-2 hours per evening that they can play the game doing their daily missions to even try to keep up. They won’t be able to play the game content that they enjoy - their only option will be to try to grind out dailys.
Want to join invasions? Sorry, your expertise is too low.
Wars? Same issue.
PvE Expeditions? Same.
OPR? You can do it but you won’t be competitive and you’re wasting time that you should be doing dailys with.
This targets and demoralizes casual players. However, it will impact many of the hardcore players too. I’ve got 800+ hours in, but my husband works full time and plays evenings/weekends only. If this change makes him quit, why would I keep playing?
New World can’t afford to lose its casual playerbase. AGS, please rethink this change.
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Same. I thought it had to be a joke surely? Some kind of self effacing humour from the ‘congratulations’ crew. Then I realized it wasn’t, and the literally hundreds of thousands of gold and hundreds of hours I spent maxing crafting, and then crafting bis weapons armor and jewels is now completely worthless?
Hey AGS -
FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING GAME, GET FUCKED CUNTS
Obviously not, that’s a change that would benefit players, not punish them. I don’t think you understand AGS game philosophy.
Very happy for these changes
personally i think its the right move for the game in long run, but if im a crafter myself, i really dont know if i can manage to not rage quit.
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This is total bullllshit , They say literally New world is a game were you can play however you like . So instead of zerging elite zones i grinded my ass off and lvled armoring to craft my 600 gear . Now they say it was all for nothing ?? . He yo game devs are you trying out on how to ruin a game asap ??
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