We have done testing in public test server about the dps output for both pvp and pve and the results were so bad…
PVE Musket even cannot give good damage against monsters because of these nerfs where the miss rate is increased and damage is nerfed with tons of other nerfs on musket… Already noone wants musket for dungeons and mutators, but these new nerfs, it became the worst weapon for pve too in every possible way…
PVP Musket, the damage and hit rate accuracy dropped a lot from long range and even your are at closed or medium range, but once you are at closed and medium ranges then you are much easier to get killed by other mages, archers, melee and even by tanks; because musket needs to wear light armor and go for full glass cannon build. Otherwise you lose lots of damage for single hit which is not even enough for musket to kill anyone in OPR or 3vs3 at this point unless your opponent light armor and glass cannon build like yours which is rare at this stage of the game where majority is BIS geared with pre-made teams in 3vs3 and OPR.
AGS please consider that not every player has the best in game latency ping ms in the game along with less server lag which are mainly happening because of the servers you provided. As a result, players live near or in Germany gets the lowest latency and rest experience high in game latency where even Exitlag cannot help. However, at other mmorpgs we never experience such high in game latency while doing mass pvp and pve. Therefore, there is a huge difference between so called pro-best BIS geared players and normal musket users who experience high in game latency!!! For example, a player with under 40 ms and +100 ms have not the same musket smooth gameplay, so PLEASE AGS consider these problems too.
You add bloom effect and lower accuracy, lower damage in long range and increase reload time with other tons of nerfs. I have suggestion for a re-make of musket from sketch to change how it really works.
Musket should be like this:
Incrementation of the single hit target damage from long range to turn musket like a sniper weapon with long reload time and your accuracy increase if you are stable. Give better useful skills and passive to defend and attack similar to SWTOR sniper class (some lock target skill from snipe skill), or give some gadgets or tools similar to Guild Wars 2 or hunter class from WoW or gadgets or tools from Rift mmorpg if you truly want to keep the musket in New World…
Current musket usage in public test server is not impressive at all… I know that there will be some musket a few musket users claim themself as pro-OP-best musket users; but how many they are? how many normal musket users? AGS you should consider that how many players use musket in dungeons, mutators, and in OPR, 3vs3 and fortress sieges and even at invasions…
You are just nerfing musket at every patch because players are crying but instead of solving and define the place of musket - you just nerf the musket without any real fix…
Aimbot cheat is exist at this game. If AGS and players deny it then it is denying that the bots, exploiters, gold sellers, gold buyers, macro users, cheaters, gold providers to gold sellers and all of the other illegal things in the games…
AIMBOTTER EXPOSED IN NEW WORLD - Thas by MaleOreo
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That is to say AGS, even you nerf the musket - it will not change anything because the aimbot users will hit their no matter what nerf you apply, thy just update their aimbot cheat codes… Non of these aimbot cheaters are never banned and they still play the game with all of these real proofs and even if some of them are banned, thy just open a new character to do same things… so another problem is that AGS’s anti-cheat software cannot detect these any kind of cheats at all…
Please AGS, re-make the Musket from sketch to think carefully about how do you want to place musket in this game as pvp and pve perspective. With these recent changes only legal normal musket users will be affected the most.