My 600 GS gear becoming 520 GS gear very much makes it not BiS and very much devalues my time. But ok Jan.
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And for gods sake just put gear that you donāt qualify for in a locker. This scaling thing is just dumb. Whatās the point of having stats gear if it is different depending on who is wearing it???
Make 600 GS items require 600 Expertise to equip. Reset the watermark.
Stop for godās sake destroying the player base. I have been very hopeful that this will all work out because I enjoy the game. The problem is that I am closer than ever to quitting over this nonsense and so many people have quit for so much less. The game is not playable when the server is empty. My first server died, and then I transferred and now this one is dying.
Part of me wonders if this is Amazonās goal because they are not able to support the current player base on their shoestring budget. It would finally then make sense why their recent strings of decisions are so moronic and damaging to certain players if it was- in fact -their goal to ban and otherwise make some percentage of players who paid for the game quit so they had more budget.
From any other perspective I canāt make sense out of it. They want people to quit.
Why make this irrelevant comment to me when I donāt care?
Why on earth someone has thought that taking away hundreds of yours we already put in and forcing us to grind back to the level we already have is a good idea? Whether you crafted or paid for your set - grinding gold or resources equally takes a lot of time.
And as such not only weāll be screwed because we didnāt farm chests daily, but also those who have not accumulated or exploited the gold dupe or anything other will now have to pay MINIMUM of 600g per slot A DAY!
Thereās been so much talking of people having little gold and yet nobody ever listened!
So letās do the math. 1G-orb takes 1h and 600g. 7x600=4200g PER DAY!
In addition to 7h required to push expertise you also need to put some serious grind towards gold.
I straight up refuse AGS taking my current progress away, walling it behind expertise calling it new content. This comes in, Iām coming out.
AGS already stated that they are not resetting progress.
This seems like an utterly nonsense comment. Where did you get the numbers to do this math at?
Also, no game would ever and I mean ever set up a system to raise your watermark in which it takes nearly 6 years of playing a game. If you think AGS would make a decision like that, well then Iām sorry but you clearly donāt understand anything about the new system.
All the crying from people about this update is utterly hilarious at this point.
Losing hundreds of hours of play time is hilarious to you ?
I think everyone is forgetting the game advertised crafting as a way to get high end gear. Now everyone is forced to grind expertise, this takes away a loved playstyle as many just want to craft and play the market.
The real reason expertise will probably happen regardless how many complaints it gets, is because AGS failed. They failed to stop bots and dupes, they designed an abused territory control system that allows companies to buy whatever they want. They would probably fail to fix all those things so instead just change how GS works. Itās the lazy way out of these problems that doesnāt fix anything, just makes it less useful for those that have played the game honestly.
No it wasnāt. Progress = HWM + profession rank.
Both will stay as they were.
You really miss the point of peoples anger
Bro my progress which took hundreds of hours is going from GS 600 to 530 GS but tell me again Iām wrong. Thats not the same.
One of those two statements is false, not sure which - but I know someone who has played 10hrs a day for > month and is up to 520 at best. Iāve played around 100 hours at level 60 and am up to 505.
Thatās the thing with this game. It makes you feel like thereās no point in playing because whatever you try to do to better yourself could very well be changed or lost due to a bug or decision the very next week. It feels like a colossal waste of time for people who canāt no-life the game to catch up. So, until thereās a track record of knowing what to do so you donāt end up wasting your time because of changes, thereās really no point in playing at all.
Iāve got 656 hours on Steam (including AFK), and have 4 gear slots just above 580, most of it around 560. Thatās average 9.7 hours per day since release, give or take.
I wasnāt powerleveling or grinding. IāM running elite zones on a daily basis only for the last 3 weeks or so.ĀØ
So I can say based on my own experience. that rasising HWM is easy.
Sure, but you need to realize that by maxing your crafting, you got not only to wear 600 gear, but also got the means to make money by crafting, which is pretty big.
In fact, until this change, everything in the game could be achieved via crafting, which is crazy. And too strong.
And we are being punished for the game being designed the way it is. Itās that simple.
maybe we need to use different words so people like you understand. Everybody knows itās not reset. However, everybody also knows that your effective watermark goes down. So, itās still a nerf to player power that people werenāt expecting to have to deal with and may have made different choices if this was known from the very beginning.
I have no reason to lie. Maybe our definitions of casual are different? I do WM runs daily, but usually play a few hours a night, on weekends longer.
My gloves are now at 572, chest is about 550, various other pieces 530 ish. Weapons are all lower as they donāt seem to drop for WM as much.
These are the facts.
If they implement this plan where your gear is reduced to their WM it will be the death of this game. They have already lost so many people. Might as well let them kill the game now before we waste anymore time in it.
This is their way of slowing down progression cause they dont have the content.