I play musket, with a passion, mostly open world PvP, Wars and OPR. But i’ve done a good deal of chest runs to increase my HWM to a decent level (With some exceptions) and min maxed my gear to have fun in dungeons.
So I spend a great amount of work and time in theory crafting, and bought gear according to that if it’s downgraded my game expirience will be absolut horrible for at least 2 to 6 weeks. And i will be constantly reminded of that by doing any combat in the game, which is making me absolutely depressed.
So right now the change means:
( i’m talking about effective gearscore not that the items have less GS, eg once i increase my Expertiese my 600 musket is 600 again)
All my 580 Juwlery is downgraded to 505 or something
My 600 Musket is downgraded to 544 (because it’s my lowest weapon HWM)
My min-maxed Dungeon Builds are all downgraded to 560/570 (Axe / Hammer / Spear)
If that really is the case I will just switch over to albion online, they actually don’t do this level of bizar decisions to gate keep. You’re loosing more people trough hidden patches, major bugs, miscommunication and major douchbagery by now acknowledging you over-tuned something and instead saying it was a “mistake” in this patch notes but in the last talked about “Challenging us”. Don’t make your users feel like you think they are stupid.
Generally, I think the idea of the change with the orbs are great, since you can choose what is pushed. But 24h cooldown and other restrictions on top make it worse than having chest runs, like serious, I would much more enjoy to optionally grinding jewellery to 600 via random drops and buying crafted decoupled higher ones.
TL;DR;
If that patch would be applied today, i could not participate in any activity that I could do, therefore I would just quit, no reason to play without my gear with downgraded gear.
Same I am just not interested in Watermark Farmin, it is okey to do maybe in a group for a while but 90% of my time in this game was spent playing Solo… why?
lvl -1-60 is solo content (quests cannot be done together as they do not allign)
from the 30 People/friends I made during Beta or RL (out of two factions out of two companies) all exept me have stopped playing already.
I love crafting and exploring… Watermark farming is neither of both so yeah I most likely quit
I just saw some post saying “People don’t understand this patch” or “People should not be able to buy gearscore”. Just to underline my statement, generally the core idea of the patch on changing how the HWM works is good, but they completely destroy the gear people have right now. You don’t take away stuff people archived with their own means, that’s BS.
Let’s not forget all elite areas are also upgraded to Level 66, so anything but heavy armor will struggle. And i really do not want to farm for multiple weeks to get back to what i have right now. This is not acceptable.
I do care for the game, i spend a lot of time in it, but this is seriously fucking over people who stuck with the game despite all the BS, big times!
I’ll mark that as the solution, but just for the fun of it .
I’ll play the game as long as the patch isn’t on it since i enjoy dungeons right now. If this HWM massacre isn’t properly addressed until my vacation starts i’ll just switch over to albion and enjoy that game instead.
How do you know that if they reset my progress I will quit for sure, but I doubt that they will do it maybe first wait for more information and stop spreading conspiracy theory and misinformation ?
Fake news. Dude those reps don’t know anything, it literally says in the update that everything is getting carried over. AGAIN READ THE UPDATE AND STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION. Jesus it’s like herding cattle.
Zerging is boring, annoying and pointless, I will not do it, even if devs pay me for it. My items will be downgraded to 500, I will lose gathering perks because of reduced stats and will see if I can play the game as low level 60…
At this point I will not regret leaving though.
Sry i think tink the mayority of people dont like the way you want to cahnge the game; im also not interested in gs-farming as i thinks its allways the same and boring! and now you come and want to make it nessesary for everyone? me as crafter will deinstall instantly… why wou will kill the game like this? i really dont get it!
Says the guy that can’t read. They literally just said they are updating the name, changing the drop rate to reflect the added systems, while also adding quality of life features like tracking progress.
Isnt it pass everyone’s bedtime that is constantly referencing this rep that has no clue WTF they are talking about instead of the official statement?
you are such an incredible clown. here, i’ll do the work for you.
" Expertise & Gypsum System
Since New World’s launch, we’ve heard the feedback from our community that the HWM system was not communicated effectively, promotes a single monotonous activity, had too much randomness, and was a bit too grindy. So, we are completely revamping the system to address these concerns. This new and improved HWM system is called Expertise.
In the December update, 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. While we understand to some players this may result in a temporary reduction in power, we believe in the long run this will result in more rewarding progression loop that can’t be bypassed by buying gear off the trading post.
A major improvement provided by Expertise is that a player’s Expertise per slot is displayed on the inventory screen, as well as the average Expertise of all equipped gear. Additionally, each time a player gets an Expertise bump, a level up banner will appear showing their new Expertise Level. Note that the Expertise system unlocks at level 60, so this information will not be shown until then."
Imagine all the exploiters who duped voidbent full sets are now crying in unison because their expertise is 500. Such a satisfying feeling. Power should be earned, not bought from the trading post.
i’m talking about effective gearscore not that the items have less GS, eg once i increase my Expertiese my 600 musket is 600 again)
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