I don’t really like the expertise system. Its not the system I don’t like actually, its the fact that solo players will have the hardest time getting it up.
Look I get slowing down the progress as a ton of people zipped to 600 super quick at the beginning of the game. Easy fix would have been introduce higher tier score and make those items harder to obtain. Adding another level to gear score just makes this painful.
I am fortunate to have collected a 600 gear score before the patch but my expertise is still only like 555. This is gonna be a struggle for new players just hitting end game.
Crafters also got screwed. GS was grandfathered last patch, only to be hit with the expertise hammer and being unable to craft 625. Net result? Finger to everyone who spent hundreds of hours going this path and forcing them to start anew.
Yeah in their plan to try and slow progress down they kind of just catered to the 1% and totally forgot about the 99% that still wanna play. We aren’t all streamers with 20 people following us around all day
I don’t like grinds in general, hence the reason I will be playing a few games that will be releasing soon that do a far better job at respecting my time, and desire to engage in content I choose. That being said running lazarus/mutators gets expertise up super fast.