I want to direct this question to game developers.
Do you like it, when at least 95% of players in your game do NOT wear a single item that they got as loot?
And the only thing you would actually wear, are named legendary weapons and amulet / ring / earring - if you are very lucky or spent 2000 hours in-game.
In the actual state the absolutely best way to gear is to farm gold and spend it on BiS items in trade / Trading Post.
99,99% of loot we all get is complete garbage from every source you have.
Win Invasion? Get 587 blue STR-FOC chest.
Won War? Get 572 green pants.
Win OPR 100 times? get 300x Green / Blue / rarely purple useless items. Funniest thing when I got a theoretically good named Life Staff from OPR while having 590 expertise. You know what GS this Life Staff was? 525. And that is no joke.
This game feels like a 2nd job with bad salary (=reward). You need to FARM FARM FARM FARM FARM with no guarantee at all to get something good. You can do Lazarus 200 times with 590 expertise in Bow and NEVER get 600 Lazarus Bow.
Welcome in mmorpg world my friend.
Nowadays, you meet RNG everywhere. Probably its the worst in NW, since there is only one guaranteed item, which you are able to obtain from any type of quest. Which is an RNG chest.
No clue whos idea was it, but should be fired.
It’s not welcome to MMORPG. It’s “welcome” to New World.
The game I played most in my life is WoW. Yes, it got old, that’s why I am here.
But there I can get my gear in Arenas, in RBGs, in M+, in Raids. And there is no chance that I get something like Dexterity + Focus item anywhere.
The more skill a person has in WoW, the faster is his gearing. If a person is great in PvP, he gears fast in arenas. If a person is a great PvE player, he gears fine in Mythic+ Dungeons or Raids (or both). A skilled player farms M+25, a so-so average player farms M+10. Gold gives you an advantage, but it’s little. Usually there is like a max of 2 BoE items out of 14 items you need.
I can gear a new character to BiS gear in 3 weeks max if I go and create a character to play arena right now.
But New World is like a bad fantasy real life simulator. You spend a huge amount of time and you are not rewarded for it.
I mean real-life is even more rewarding than New World. If you spend 1000 hours writing a book, educating, picking up something new in your life, you will get rewarded one way or another. From getting more knowledge or money, to feeling yourself a better human being.
But lately I feel sh*t and dumb for playing New World.
Its not WoW… I actually hate games where your aim is the tab key… Requires literally no skill, and you are a human macro to kill things or pvp…
At least in new world you are supposed to aim and lead your shots, and you can even miss with melee.
However, i agree with the fact, the rewards are between a piece of garbage and completely shit.
At the first couple days of my gametime i was horrified, i get 2.5k EXP and 100 gold for a level 25 quest… And i get the same amount for a level 59 quest. How is that?
If i notice this earlier, at my first 3 hours of gameplay time i get a refund asap… Sadly i noticed it around level 45. The only thing which is raising is the XP for dungeon quests.
Frankly, I did not care a lot to wear only Epic 590+ gear. It is fine with me.
Actually difference to GS600 is, in my view, very minor.
Things change now, with the introduction of the umbral shard system.
Only 600GS gear can be upgraded.
Which means the prior small gap if you are content with 590+ gear widens.
And I agree with all the problems you describe to gain 600GS gear.
And to your questions to the devs. If I got it right from past dev posts, then they play the game now and then, but not with the intensity a lot of other players are playing it. Which means, they have almost no clue what they are designing. Point is that you can only understand things you actually really do yourself.
Targeting is only a little bit of skill. And it’s fun, I cannot disagree here.
But Mythic Raiding or high rating Arenas in WoW require 10 times more skill than anything in New World with 3 buttons. Mythic Sylvanas (that is the current final raid boss) encounter alone has more mechanics than all dungeons in New World altogether.
Well, if you already mentioned… i cant really understand how a “pvp based game” can live with 3 weapon skills, and 1 weapon basic combo. Its like a low budget movie on netflix…
Would be so much better if NW team did not increase GS to 625, and instead made that new currency from mutated dungeons to purchase very good or even bis 600 gear.
Well I would say with 2 weapons, 3 skills, dodge, block, potions - it can absolutely be fun and competitive.
But the game needs…
– to never lag
– to switch weapons easily (Check - CC? Then no change. No CC? Immediate change even if 20 people damage you at this very moment).
– to drink potions easily (same logic as with weapon switch)
– to fix all the game breaking bugs (e.g. can’t run bug, fast run bug)
– to fix non-game breaking bugs that irritate you every day (wanna see all wars and invasions on OPR join? can’t trade / chat after OPR / dungeons?)
– new content (NEW dungeons / raids, PvP arenas)
Making us farm 2 months in a row is NOT NEW CONTENT.
I disagree with the author. While I was rocking up to 60, I always used only those things that I knocked out, with the exception of bags, rings and earrings. At level 60, yes, I had to buy equipment, because it’s hard to knock something out for my build.
I think that the developer should have introduced some reagents for the characterization modifiers, but apparently this contradicts the mechanics. Fractions have similar reagents, but they are narrowly focused, only for fraction items. And faction items are now much worse than those that can be bought relatively inexpensively.
Yeah, the problems with new 625 cap are:
– epic 599 and lower gear becomes garbage
– GS increase from 600 to 625 does not add much power (the 3rd perk does, but it is given on GS 600), so they scale mutated dungeons to GS and change damage formula to GS.
– I just don’t wanna farm anything again. I was in Lazarus 200+ times and I feel like I don’t wanna be there ever again. I want the new PvP / PvE content. How hard can it be to do a square arena for 3v3 fights?
AGS should have in mind bringing new or old players at this point back to the game, GS increase will just create bigger gap between the new comers as well. Its like a lose lose for everyone except potentially few players that have some bis gear
I mean who really cares about gearing while leveling? It’s a small part of the game, and it does not matter how you level to 60. You can chop trees to 60 if you’d like.