Did you know you can earn expertise and gypsum (for garunteed expertise) by running normal group sized dungeons, crafting and OPR? No need for Large groups or whining like small baby.
Exaclty, I’m at the same situation as you. I’ve bought better weapons, but also focused on crafting and GS. Now I’ll be dropped with my weapons to like 520. I’ve advice for you, just dont ask for recompensation or servers will be down for 2 weeks.
Honestly from everything I’ve seen the only reason these changes are good is the key crafting system is gone so we could farm the GS in Dungeons more solidly.
Nah, your gear score is 540, you were benefiting from a halfbaked implementation of their end game progression. Now they are making those systems more robust, you’ll have to finish progressing your character. Nothing is lost and all that tight gs600 gear will be waiting for you with full stat bonuses when you get there.
Constructively, this is a real kick in the balls to us who farmed voidbent sets, and lvld to 200 in crafts on dead server instead of farming that mind numbingly boring watermark grind.
Constructively, you have made the entire next month’s worth of grind worthless with one post.
And before some of you jump down my throat and say your water mark isn’t being reset, it is, it’s confirmed.
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i have been no lifeing this game for 3 months, no reason to feel sorry for me because in my current situation i have the time for it. 50-100 hours of that timer is for sure afk but ye
I hear you, I am right there with you.
I have not felt like playing as much this entire week. I jumped on recently and got my last 25% of a level to reach level 60. I as well spent a lot of time grinding all crafts, I am over 100 on all of them, and creeping up to 200 on some. All the knee jerk reaction changes definitely did not do me any favors there. I have yet to experience any of the end game stuff at all. I have not done the OPR, Major World Bosses, Wars, Invasions, etc.
This weekend, I will likely not be playing much either, maybe grind some leather and weapon skills if I do get on.
Of course, there are reasons I do not want to partake in various activities based on my own history as a gamer from UO to current. See, I do not mind solo grinding stuff but I absolutely feel I have PTSD after spending hours in a line to join a group to grind experience to level in DAOC. I know many DAOC players from Hibernia can recall Finn groups and for a lowly Nightshade, it was terrible!!
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the dev just came out and said HWM will transfer to expertise. So its official, grind zerg to 600 required, or slow daily
Glad us players were able to provide AGS the amount of testing to have them finally release the final version of New World. These changes clearly show that they used players for testing on release date and adjusting it accordingly to new year. They took our money made changes that they deemed fit.
It is indeed and should be rewarding.
Not a crafter myself, i’m on pvp but once the items won’t do how they are described aka nerfed/softcapped i’m out.
look from a functional standpoint if this is how the system was from the start, i dont think it would of been that bad besides less reason to be a crafter.
i like the fact that you can run around do STUFF and gain small progression pieces as you go
But god damnit if they require me to do literally everything (AKA need one of each gyps) then ima be pissed. for now unless they do server mergers or merge activity queues because on my dead server its almost impossible to get anything going. and im sure im not the only one in that situation. and yeah i could transfer but that isnt an option for everyone.
Yes, it makes sense to farm 20k just for voidbent chest, which will give you nothing legendary 
500gs stats to be specific
“Expertise will govern the highest drops you can get per slot, much like HWM did. But starting in early 2022, it will also govern the effectiveness of your gear. This means if your War Hammer Expertise is 520, and you equip a 550 Gear Score War Hammer, the weapon’s effective Gear Score will be reduced to 520.”
Please explain to us how in anyway this helps the playerbase? Please explain one actual upside of this change.
Downsides:
For instance for crafters this is a massive change. I decided to grind out 200 armouring and spent well in excess of 50K gold and weeks of farming to get my skills up to be able to craft myself voidbent and I farmed everything myself.
You’re telling me that now all of that hard work is getting shot to pieces + people will be a lot less likely to buy gear that I create at high GS because it won’t count.
Even in some of the best armour in the game it is still impossible to solo certain bosses and areas so why are you constantly trying to gimp player power and progress?
I completely understand that your HWM system sucks nobody likes it and it needs to change but this specifically is not the way.
Where is everyone getting this extra information about gear score being reset, crafting is now pointless, etc etc without testing or actually seeing the changes???
I read the notes and we have new ways to grind our Expertise instead of what is currently in the game. Crafting now gets a bump with Aptitude and the unique patterns will make those 600gs items more coveted.
Where are we getting this extra info??
Oh ok atleast we got zergs going for us. For the next month. That comment from customer service had me thinking that it wasn’t worth touching til next month.
yal wanna also talk about the fact that these patterns which require you to craft even more past 200 while guaranteeing gs600 still has random perks?
Dev blog. not speculation in the least
its ok people, there are 1140 posts on here and most of them are against this update, do not fear AGS will take the 2% for the update and call it listening to the playerbase.
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i think its a misunderstanding of the replies.
- HWM is going to be expertise
- expertise is going to determine how good your gear is (it will lower your gear score of whatever you got on to match)
- people that bought stuff at max gear score will have their stuff nerfed untill they progress their gear score.
- less people will want to buy crafters stuff meaning their efforts have been wasted.
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Where does it say crafting is pointless and hwm being reset tho?