Someone drank the Koolaid… ‘devs goal was to add more to end game content’. lol
For those without blinders, the goal simply appears to be an attempt to fix and cover up poor game mechanics that they were given feedback on for years but refused to change before they launched the game. This is not new content, this is simply dressing up the pig with lipstick by extending current content under the facade of ‘new content’ by simply making players grind for months on the same things they have been doing just to try to get back to the same GS they are at now with their current gear.
I mean they gave the crafters a few months of heads up… They didn’t just throw this into the game. The actual value changes will be in early 2022…
And to add they are giving playerrs 7 different ways to move their watermark up vs the 1 that is in the game now. Of those 7 PvE content and crafting are included. So you’re getting it moved up by doing the things you want to do anyway…
The only glaring thing they made need to adjust is the gold costs for Casts, a bit high from what I hear…
NONE of my Followed Twitch Streamers are streaming New World at 6:30 PM on a Friday night. They are all Streaming, they are just not streaming New World. All of those I follow are from New World. When I go to Browse and find New World, less than 9k people are viewing New World Streams. That used to be half the viewers of just one Streamer 6 weeks ago. Everything you have done to help your game has hurt it. Every time you touch your game you break it. Every time your player base screams out dear God, stop destroying this precious thing, you keep destroying it. Get rid of the HWM/Expertise idea all together. Destroy it. Completely random generated gear is better than FORCING players to play this game the way YOU want them to play as opposed to the way that brings the player base joy. That joy breeds loyalty. Rob them of that and you become the enemy. And enemies need to be destroyed, metaphorically of course. You are actively stealing from your player base and telling them they will like it, to trust you. Nothing you have promised has come true. Clarification: nothing GOOD you have promised has come true. No on trusts you. Because your actions have proven you untrustworthy. And these proposed actions make you an enemy, a thief to the joy that those who have had the endurance to hang in there for this game. This is what they stood up for all your failures for? To be robbed by you? Don’t steal from your player base. Just stop this madness before you destroy all hope.
You realize that right now in the game, no one has to grind that Watermark crap right? they can buy stuff from the Trade Post or Craft/buy crafted gear. You know this right? These changes FORCE players to participate in the Watermark/Expertise System: the absolute DUMBEST system ever created.
gw2 time gate you could beat with money, (which meant you could do any gameplay to get around it) you could beat it with luck, and it only gave you a slight amount of power. They also tied it to a higher variety of activities, most of which were entertaining. And they did not regress half the player’s power levels to achieve it. They also rolled it out slowly, you only ever had a small goal.
The reason this change is bad is multilayered.
its long
it makes you do bad content people specifically wanted to avoid
It makes other forms of progression limited by it.
imagine if ffxiv… regressed everyone 10 levels in the new expansion, and the only way to get your power back was to spend 3 times as much gold as you normally make per day for 5-6months or doing the worst content they have available.
AND you still have do your regular leveling and gearing, but you won’t see the effect until you do the grind.
They made their intentions very clear: Go grind chests with the zerg. That’s what the game is, it’s the only approved way to play, it’s the only content that the Devs feel should be rewarded.
World PvP: Not allowed to be rewarding in New World.
OPR PvP: Not allowed to be rewarding in New World.
Gathering: Not allowed to be rewarding in New World.
Crafting: Not allowed to be rewarding in New World.
Now that I think about it, future chest grind zergs: Not allowed to be rewarding in New World.
they are also drastically resucing other ways to get these to "compensate’ for the new orbs. drops from bosses and chests are nerfed hard. you can only earn enough to make 7 a day and only work on one type a day. you have to craft these, whcih will cost and we do not know where or what level we have to be to craft the orbs.
this is in no way going to speed up the process.
beyond that, they are taking away the time i put into this game becuse i chose not to do chest runs. my gs is going to drop to 500 and stay there. i play solo and have yet to get past the first expedition. it was awesome to be able to level how i wanted anyway, and to buy my gear from those that chose to do the runs and got gear they did not want.
that money for the gear was wasted and my time was dismissed becuae i did not play in what a dev considers the proper way
Heads up to execution. You think that earns them a cookie? They are destroying thousands of players game play, because THEY want players to play a certain way. The freedom to play several different ways and still be gaining was the draw of this game. Lining everyone up to follow a single path, Expertise Grind, will be it’s death.
sure, but it still pigeon holes us into a devs desired playstyle.
i had fun playing the way i like and still making it to 60. i did a lot to get my money and pay those people that like to run those group end game runs for the stuff they did not want and the crafter for taking the time to level their way
it feels like the way and time i played is worthless to the dev/devs that are making this happen
You act like that matters. And I’m sure it does, but only to those who choose to grind the Watermark/Expertise system. Many refuse to or simply cannot. Those players take what they can get through the means available to them. Freedom of play. Buy them from those who do grind it or from those who grind the Crafting. They are stealing that from the player base and forcing a single path onto them. Grind that gear score. They are upset that players want to avoid this despicable system they seem to love and be proud of. It’s the dumbest thing every created.
But that aren’t forcing you…you will still do the same content you already do and earn gypsum to move your WM up in the process. You have from when PTR ends to sometime in early 2022 to actually get yourself to the point of being ready for the change…
I mean frankly if you are already maxed out GS just keep doing whatever you do each day and you’ll earn enough to to get your Cast upgrades
They’re TAKING AWAY my current GS of my own personal crafted items, and FORCING me to do their crappy chest farm/orb grind that will take MONTHS to get back up to where my current GS is, all in the name of “approved new and not so exciting content”.
Read the dev posts… You have 7 different ways to earn the gypsum…and no chest running isn’t the only thing (or frankly the best thing anymore) you can do outpost rush, or craft, or do dungeons and they’ll all earn you it
Yes they’re taking away my current progress, and allowing me 7 different ways to pay additional taxes for the privilege to eventually get my current progress back sometime in the spring/summer of 2022. No thanks.