Here’s the argument: by doing this you are retroactively removing the work players put hundreds of hours into doing.
It will not be useless. Stop with the hyperbole. If you have the gear now it is not going anywhere. If you are doing hard content where you actually need the high gear score then your expertise will raise in no time. If you are not doing the hard content then 500 gear is plenty and you will just raise it passively over time.
Remember we will have a couple of months to get the expertise up before the changes are made and we have no idea how hard its going to be to raise it now.
Just wait until it hits the PTR and testing is done.
I will be losing my water marks under my proposal too.
I’m just willing to admit the whole HWM grind up until and including now is a joke.
Pre patch it was zerg fest steam rolling or solo players exploiting bad mob AI. Post patch its just 2 and 3 man teams again taking turns to exploit bad mob AI.
You call this work. The only real work you put in is the hours. Guess what those who chose to grind crafting or gold for their gear also put in the time.
What makes the time you put in more valuable then anothers? Why should half the player base be punished for chosing one method to get their high GS items and the other be rewarded for what is essentially exploiting.
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Of course it will be useless because it will be downgraded by a massive amount for many of us crafters. The gear isn’t going anywhere but with the new Gypsum design it means you can don’t even need to be able to craft anything, because you can create 1 cast per day and once your expertise is 600 you’re got a guaranteed 600GS from that.
Not to mention that people want to PvP, a lot of the end game content is PvP oriented. Without good GS you get kicked from wars, you become useless in OPR, you can’t effectively fight in open world because you’ll get clapped.
It’s not hyperbole, you’ve just proven your utter ignorance of the topic with your post. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Did you even read the patch notes?
You know, if AGS implemented every dumb suggestion, but limited it to the people who suggested it, the number of trolls on this forum would decrease drastically. With that in mind, I have no objections to OP’s HWM getting reset to 500. 
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no.
What common sense your entire argument has been you put time in and that you think taking turns kiting mobs and forcing them into reset while you partner ninja loots the chest makes you a good player.
The problem is too many of the most vocal and loudest and aggressive posters are selfish little brats, who care nothing for the game and only for themselves.
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I never said it makes me a good player, i just said you suck because you can’t do it.
Stop taking things out of context. My thoughts aren’t for myself either. You’re just too dense to see that many others think the same I do.
All good though, keep wasting your time. I’ll still be here.
Sure, signed. It’ll push me back quite a bit because I’ve naturally raised by HWM without being a tryhard about it but it’ll be worth it.
500 GS for all!
Dumbest post I have ever seen! Please reset HWM because I didn’t get mine high enough like other players who grinded for weeks. Do us all a favor and just quit
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I don’t know, it’s competing right up there next to a dev post that suggests everyone but you gets their progress reset unless they tag along with the grind anyway.
If this is a dumb post, that one is a close second.
I think the better solution would be to make getting to 600 Expertise easier for everyone and raise the GS to 620. If you reset, players rage because you removed something from them in a game that always seems to be taking from you more and more each patch.
Normalize HWM at 600, help the playerbase get to 600 easily and then provide content that pushes HWM to 620/650 and make that grind more of a challenge.
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Yet i did and do it. Doesn’t change the fact that its pretty much a borderline exploit.
Like i said if they ever tie the chests so they unlock only when you kill the mobs in the area you will never see another piece of loot or material again
Fun fact: I will still see loot and materials
bahahaha people like you make me giggle
“You call this work.” Work, time spent, whatever you want to call it, it’s not acceptable.
You are basically saying that because WM grinding wasn’t hard (just time-consuming), it is acceptable for it to be reset.
That doesn’t make sense. Plenty of stuff in this game isn’t hard. Harvesting hemp until 200 wasn’t hard, but it sure as hell took a lot of time. If AGS decided to reset my harvesting to 0 I’d quit over that too.
It’s not about difficulty, it’s about the time investment. If the game is going to undo the time I spent, I quit the game.
Many others will do the same. That’s why AGS isn’t listening to your suggestion when they’re already bleeding players. And god help this game’s population if they end up pivoting and listening to players like you.
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O.k. so you just admitted levelling HWM is easy in current state. But you don’t think that justifies it being reset because you invested so much time in it.
Other players invested as much time grinding crafting or for gold for their high GS items. Why should they suffer a retroactive nerf? While those that exploited the broken HWM system go untouched.
Unlike you I think about the entire player base. I’ll lose my HWM’s too, that’s ok.
So many players here care only about themselves, it’s pathetic and selfish. Visitimg these forums is like going to the u.s.a. just filled with selfish ignorance and an inability to see the big picture.
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Best country in the world. It’s a shame you don’t have the opportunity/privilege to be apart of it.
Sucks for you!
Best country in the world? I think pretty much every other nation on the planet would disagree lol.
Let me guess… you’re from EU.