This is an age old arguement and complaint and AGS has completely ignored. I’ve noticed that since players have stopped complaining as much about this on the forums concurrent players had dropped.
OPR and 3v3 is fun, but I can not make any meaningful gold or any expertise progress. Also the expertise bump is still not good enough to consider it a viable option to level expertise.
In short without realizing it you stopped forced PvP and started forced pve… HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?!
I’m not saying make it pvp only what I am saying is that PvP players can not progress by doing pvp. New World treats pvp as this side thing you can either do at special times or do for little to nothing for fun.
There are three types of MMO players pvers, pvpers, and pvx players. New World wants to bring the worlds together but are failing at that.
If we want to progress we HAVE to PVE or take months longer.
I stopped doing dungeons and instead did hours of OPR, wars, and open world PvP a day. My blunderbus GS has gotten to 530gs. Did several dungeons and it shot up to 545 in a single day. PVE progresses your character and has DOZENS more rewards.
The point OP is trying to make is that you can easily earn 2k gold, legendary items worth lots of gold, timeless shards, thousands of umbral, health pots and more from one 15min dungeon.
Whereas hours upon hours of OPR will net you a measly 1k umbral, 2k gold, terrible gear (and not much of it), PLUS you’ll be down bad on potions/consumes and you actually spend more running opr than you earn.
A PVE player absolutely can play the game without touching PVP and progress insanely fast and earn thousands of gold per day. A PVP player who prefers opr over dungeons will lose money, never progress their gear, and lag behind PVE players for months and thus they have to grind dungeons.
MMOs do not require you to do PVE AND PVP. It’s always an option. But right now, to be competitive, you must grind weeks of dungeons to PVP instead of grinding PVP. Seems silly to me, especially because we don’t force PVE players to grind PVP for their PVE gear