I suggest you watch sethpirs video on gypsum and expertise on the ptr.
You can get 6-7 gypsum orbs easy each day pretty quick and sit in town making 7 casts a day of your 7 most important slots with a raised watermark bump. Ptr hasn’t been out long and his wm looks pretty decent. That means you can easily up your fav weapon or two and all armor slots EVERY day with minimal time guaranteed and varied activties.
I can tell you right now the Myrk chest zergs that sucked butt everyone cries about missing and gave crap loot didn’t go that fast. siren 5 man was better but not that good. Dungeons were ok but I could run 5 laz orbs a day and see only a couple wm upgrades and they CERTAINLY weren’t targeted at the pieces I wanted.
Let’s not forget regular drops still happen with upgrades.
Gee now I can pvp and craft for expertise upgrades, nice.
I demand compensation for all the people who ground out watermark the hard way via bosses. They are trivializing all our work and making watermark grind too easy for crafters. They should make a free easy system to get crafting to 200 instantly or we all quit. I wouldn’t do that I’d just start playing the most efficient way because I enjoy the game and I didn’t waste my time I had fun playing. But especially now since crafting will be so OP with the free trait and stat pick, need to grind it out now.
I haven’t even TOUCHED VERY IMPORTANT ON how each boss in a dungeon will give a guaranteed WM upgrade. That is tremendous and will make it go so fast. Don’t even START with telling me you’ll have 500 gs and can’t run gen and laz. I literally buy orbs all day and carry people while paying them for the orbs and do it speed run style and the 5th person can literally just sit there afk and it’s still easy. This will be even more in demand, so crafters can just make orbs and profit and get WM super easy while being carried.
Let’s not forget devs said that they were making the expertise bump higher than current, now, also
Damn I wish I wouldn’t have wasted all that meaningless time grinding watermark now that its so dang easy and free and fun to do with varied activity and little investment. I wish I would’ve spent all my time crafting and playing the market and then done the free watermark grind so I’d have all the gold and materials to be a god.
Guess all you people who flamed about how long it would take and bad it will be oughta make your formal apologies and start telling everyone good things now. The posts reminded me of South Park episodes. “I don’t know Randy, damn it, but it’s gonna be bad.”
“DEY TOOK ER JERBS.”
thank you for the smile on my face, haha if i had tea id have spat it out. Its true tho! the ammount of sleep i missed farming elites and then AGS nerfing respawns so ur half yawning ready to log out before the next elite even spawns, ive endured! where i my compensation!? XD XD lmao!
Assuming an average time of 45 minutes per cast, you’ll be spending 247,5 hours grinding your WM this way.
Now, what we’re forgetting is that there’s additional time gates for us. Topaz cast for instance can’t be done everyday but only every 7 days. You probably won’t be running Genesis/Lazarus every day either. Let’s just say we’re doing 5 casts everyday. In total, we’ll spend at least 66 days grinding our GS from 500 to 600 this way.
this is litterly the first game ive played where this is even a number worth mentioning xD i have thousands of hours in other games, this one is young. also some grinds in wow can take you like a year, i hate to be the comparison guy but oh well here i am. oh and dont get me started on the days of ark survival on officials.
Oh great, so for someone who plays a couple of hours on weekdays and then dedicates an entire day to grinding on weekends, it will only take 20-22 weeks to get to where they could previously get to by saving up and going on the AH.
Yeah, that is totally not adding almost half a year of grind on top for players to “enjoy” the same content they could before. And that is just to get back to the GS level they had (!).
The people crying are honestly clueless to the WM grind and have no idea how big of a buff they are getting, and how this trivializes the WM grind lol, especially with jewelry. You should have been spam running gen not laz, laz is terrible for WM.
So what is all that fuss about then? I start being confused by all of this. I watched this Stethpir guy’s videos like one thread suggested and the demonstration of the gypsum and orb, cast production looked like a nice goal and way to work towards. Even for a crafter/gatherer.
Each cast had a different orb count. Like OPR required 2, the elite zone named boss required 3, tradeskill was 1, 55+ mob was 10 the cast is on same CD, however this is on a weekly timer for the potion you need. Final boss of Laz or Gen only needed 1. Pools and sirens arena cast was 1. Portals was 7 but it can drop from minor and major and any level.
The weekly potion can crit on crat giving you 1 additional potion per week which is based on your Arcana level.
The drop rate was around ~25% from things like rhe portals. Haven’t tested the weekly potion yet. Basically the potion is BOP and upon using it you get a 1 hour buff that enables 55+ mobs from giving you the orbs.
You can focus on one or more item types but each will be time locked by a cooldown of 22 hours. So 1 can be done each day and you’ll have to wait till next day to get another upgrade for it
Personally, I don’t mind.
The obvious negative for me is that the whole mechanic is time gated. Even if it takes the same amount of time in total, the process takes longer because you can’t do it all at once.
You could reach max GS within 1-2 weeks. This won’t be possible anymore.
This was a very informative OP. I appreciate that. It set me at ease and now I’m thinking maybe the change is not that bad afterall. Can you share a link to sethpirs video on gypsum? I’m sure I can find it within a few seconds but would be nice for anyone coming across this post to just click it.
Don’t forget, there are more then 2 weapons. Also every time a new weapon releases, you’ll grind it from 500 to 600 again. Add in addition any upcoming max expertise increases. You folks sitting at 600 right now will see how enjoyable this will be to you. Especially as they nerfed all other sources.
