https://forums.newworld.com/t/poll-will-you-quit-if-expertise-lowers-your-gs/620266/635
Clearly a small portion of the game in your opinion!
To make it very obvious that what you are saying to invalidate one group, applies to the one you’re trying to advocate for?
Thought that was obvious.
Ummm no… If you looked at my history, you’d see I’m extremely against exploiting, all types. I came from a server that had lowish pop, and we booted people from our wars we caught doing even the food stacking.
I’m glad to say I didn’t use a single exploit ever. When it came out a weapon was bugged I wouldn’t use it, though I’ve had LS as my main all game which hasn’t been bugged.
Ahh yes the vocal minority.
I’m glad you didn’t use an exploit as well.
But my point is… people were doing ungamely activities to level crafting, make gold, AND advance HWM.
But only the people who made gold and crafted are losing their progress.
They aren’t lol. Anybody who isn’t 600 HWM will most likely be against this change, and there are a lot of them.
Its this thinking that shows your real IQ.
If a player that crafted to 600, or one that saved & saved to buy BiS 600 gear… Should have to start over at 500…
Everyone that abused/exploited the bad pathing/retreating mechanics… Should have to start over at 500 as well.
Only fair…
I’m not 600HWM on anything, but should be by the time it happens without much effort.
Just because 10-20 people are continually starting threads, and 10-20 people are commenting in them, doesn’t mean it reflects the player base that is 100’s of thousands in size.
The people outraged by the proposed changes are those posting, everyone else isn’t.
I could literally say the same about your comment. We will see once the changes hit if they remain unchanged.
Resetting players progress is completely wrong at first place. I know ur meaning, but to others that played over 800Hours, resetting their watermarks is completely wrong, although I’m just at 540 Watermarks, and its harder to upgrade. They were there earlier than you or played way more than you, not their fault if you couldn’t follow their fast rhythm when the game first got release, I think, instead of resetting, just increase watermarks lvl higher than 600, and once you reach 600 make it harder to level up. Coz at 600 watermark they still continue to go to shattered mountain everyday even when it got buffed
Or… simply implement the expertise system but do not enable the watermark/GS restriction on current gear 600 and under. Give everyone a fair playing field and and enable the watermark/GS restrictions when they rollout the 600+ gear and make it effective on that.
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Mine are pretty much maxed besides jewelry and I’d be fine with this tbh
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As a INT based FS/IG user from the start that went crafting, every recent patch is a direct kick to the you know what. I have outside responsibilities that did not let me do both HWM and crafting, and I went with crafting because that was more interesting to me than mindmess mob farming.
AGS did not honor the time many of us put into crafting. MIndless zerg was the the correct answer. RIP NW
??? The point is that the very thing these people were focused on leveling (watermark) had absolutely zero to do with gear score effectiveness.
It’s not that some people were faster than others or worked harder, it is that players made the decision on WHAT to grind based on the benefits of that grind. Watermarks have always ONLY impacted the gs of items that dropped and had absolutely nothing to do with the effectiveness of gear so why should a segment of the population now have an unfair advantage over others with their gear simply because they happened to level something that Amazon later decides to change the entire meaning/mechanic of?
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Hey bud, I did not play 1000+ hours to see my expertise reset just because some people made a bad choice and “grinded gold”. And seeing you call SM shatterlands just prove how casual you are, and still asking for such gamebreaking changes.
Reset everyone’s GS to 500. The playing field needs to be leveled. And everyone should have to play the game so as not to circumvent the new gear progression system. Makes no sense to grandfather the previous system in.
i did not play 1000+ hours grinding and leveling/farming gold to get 600 gs items to be reseted back to 500.
Bias dumbo
These “exploits” worked for a minimal amount of time, quit making lame excuses. This game is weak and easily doable if you want to do it.
i guess your watermark is really low, if it was near 600 you would not be yelling reset .
world dosnt spin around you boy . i know its a shock , but trust me , you are actually not
the canter of the planet.
Your entitled to your opinion and it is a valid suggestion. However, please don’t call HWM zerging work. Tons of ppl running around training mobs is not work, I’ve done enough to form my opinion.
Get there follow a bunch of groups, kill few names (did I hit mob? not sure so many here). Then, que up the Benny Hill soundtrack and everyone runs around like headless chickens grabbing chest/crates training mobs in and out of buildings.
Not work, just stupid content design. This is coming from an EQ monk 1999 pulling 64 man raids on a horrible 14400k connection (1 of only 5 on server that knew how to do certain areas, so I was constantly “working” for guilds). that was the only time I would consider work in an MMO, rest should be fun. This sadly is not work or really much fun, just hoping something turns around soon.