There should be small incremental changes every 2 weeks because many of the proposed changes are as simple as changing a damage slider.
For example this week we are buffing pillar of fire damage by 5% and nerfing gravity well damage by 5%.
Or nerfing power through pain hammer passive by 5% and buffing rapier flurry by 5%. That way there are small incremental changes.
I see the issue of that x is good and PvE therefore is left untouched, but we are still in a 20-25 bruiser PvP war meta. Talk about a snooze fest.
Tanks still are not viable for PvP and the reality is that many other games do PvE far better than New World. Guilds and social aspect are one of the few things keeping this game going.
There is far more money to be made catering to PvPers at this point than PvErs because all the playerbase are jumping ship when Ashes of Creation and the Leauge of Legends MMORPG comes out in 2-3 years.
New World is just a waiting room at this point until some better changes are made to impact the PvP meta. Many players want to come back but refuse to come back because war meta is still 20-30 bruisers.
So the small 10k players you are pan handling too are causing you to miss out on literally 100,000 people more just to put it into perspective.
Rapier already got nerfed with mobility, you can’t change it more in any way, nerfing mobility also affects damage dealers, buffong damage… not the best idea… You can chunk half of health of medium armor bruisers just with riloste, heavy amd Evade light, light armor dies from this combo, Blood tree has also insane burst damage
The reason why in war meta rapier will never be that good is because it has no grit or big AoE abilities.
Give fleche grit and it will be more viable at least as a DPS option. Maybe when daggers come out as an assassin rapier/daggers will be good but even then there are only 5 assassin slots anyways.
By the way, guys. I didn’t write the post to talk about which weapon should be fixed, buffed or nerfed. I wanted to point out that I would like to see a more dynamic endgame. Don’t have to be like 2-3 weeks, but for example, every 2-3 months, a new meta comes. (what rhymes is right!)
No you’re not wrong, AGS has been doing see saw balancing for the entirety of their development cycle.
When in reality it should be constant adjustments to the damage sliders every 2 weeks.
Because the issue is we are in a meta for 3 months to 6 months and people quit the game because of it because either something is too strong for too long or gets nerfed for too long.
Not to mention that some build would get canceled/unreliable/unbalanced, every correctly made build should be reliable the same, there shouldn’t be power shifts towards specific gameplay
I personally like the dota 2 style of balancing. If everything is strong therefore everything is good.
League of legends balancing and new world balancing, and wow balancing = flavor of the month, there is a clear meta of what is good and what is bad;. Certain things are clearly more busted ( like in League of Legends new champions are almost always busted beyond belief) to encourage sales of the champion and associated skins) This system is corrupt to the core and drives players away from the game, when in reality you have more to gain by trying to achieve balance than catering to your small subset.
First of: LoL is a MOBA game with much different combat mechanics
Second: LoL has shitloads of items combination, runes combination and over 160 unique champions with their own stats, balancing this game is much harder than New World where you only have bunch of perks and 2 skill trees
Sure a perfectly balanced game would be insanely nice. But there is no such game. And even with such a game in a 50 vs 50 war, there will always be a meta and in my opinion, like I said it would benefit the game when this meta changes from time to time.
I mean just look at the warhorns. what the hell!
In the best case, this meta changes from alone in a balanced game because you have combs that are better again other combs and so on and on. But at the moment, it has been completely the same for a year or so.
Well I agree it sounds easy… you have to have someone on the team that knows how to balance an MMO like this across: PvP and pve, hitscan + ranged + melee, magic plus war equipment. Gear. Etc.
The community has been a broken record about this for a long time, literally for years in testing and development but to no avail so I might come off as an asshole but this has been said so many times
True True. It is like u said, as soon as LOL or my favourite (when they deliver what they said) ashes of creation come out, most people will leave, I guess. But these games still need 2-3 years, so why not try to make New world better? I mean, graphics and so are amazing.
I just make suggestions for changes. To be honest, I actually don’t think any of these will come, but I like to write and talk about so stuff so.
Maybe when most players don’t like constantly buffers and nerf for their equipment and perks, try to change the mate in another way. Indirectly xD
Like every month there is an event buffing one of the Siege weapons, forcing the attacking party to come up with different combos and strategies to win.
Repeaters slap inside opr, do we really want to be bombarded by repeaters and cannons during war? Imma say no. I do think oil should have more of an impact. That’s the only one I wouldn’t mind seeing get a massive buff, like it should chunk peoples hp bar, like the acid in brimstone, if your standing in it.