Why does it matter if it’s not BIS ?
Wow you don’t have this perk that reduce your CD by 2% ?
You miss 10 const and got intel on one of your piece of armor ?
Well, does it change anything at all for 99% of the content you’re playing ?
You’ll spend way more time farming for your BIS than actually use it to its full potential, so why should you do it in the first place ?
And when you say : “You chase optimization because that’s the goal”
I think you’re missing the point, or the game is, or both, but the goal in a game isn’t “I wanna be the very best” with the best gear.
New World is about territory control and everything revolve around it, PvP, Economy, Farming etc …
I’m sorry but some perks are really important. And they do affect things.
This is a painfully bad generalization made out of toxicity and spite rather than logic.
Getting gear is one of the progression methods in an MMO.
If the gear progression is instant and easy, then there needs to be a system where stuff breaks.
If the gear progression is slow and difficult, then it needs to be permanent. Or at least permanent until the next update which adds new gear/levels/gear score etc.
No. This is one of many progression goals in a game that has many progression goals.
Rendering one of the progression goals completely meaningless by breaking gear would also remove the depth and make the gear soulless and would just add to the problems that NW has…not remove them.
Crafted gear are some of the best in the game. You haven’t crafted a single thing so why are you commenting on this?
I’m not sure why you think it’s simple to just trade when I’ve already said gold is hard to come by at max level. There are data graphs to support this from the devs. It gets even worse when you own multiple houses and have to pay a ridiculous amount of tax every week.
Maybe crafted gear is some of the best I dunno. Im at 524gs right now. I feel Im in pretty good gear for what I do. If I need to buy better I can.
No one is trading because they dont have to. If they NEEDED to trade, it would reduce prices. Because there would be a constant demand for it.
When everyone fills up on top bags/tools, those prices will go up even more than they are now, because everyone will already have them.
This goes for everything in the game.
And you dont even need to trade to get these things. Its just a matter of time.
Why do you even bother responding? 10 was an example. Do you know what an example is?
And it has nothing to do about making the game harder. It would make it more enjoyable, by giving things more a demand and incentive to do.
How would it help crafters? Have you ever played a game with decay? People just don’t wear anything above middle tier because…You guessed it, it decays.
Awful idea that was probably nothing more than an “oh that might be cool”, it’s not cool and it’s been proven many times to not be worth it. The ONLY reason crafting is here to begin with and why EVERYONE can max a craft is because it was full loot. The market and the economy being based around crafting was an after thought, the market was to sell your spoils of war. Idk where people got the idea this was a crafting and gathering economy driven game from.
As an example I’ll take Minecraft.
You take with you a load of pickaxes and tools with you cause it’s a consumable you just use to get better resources.
Yeah it decays over time, yeah it sucks when your diamond pickaxe break, but it’s not the end of the world, by this time you either mined enough diamond to craft another one, or you grab your iron one to continue what’s you’re doing. And the game is pretty healthy like that.
The crafting and gathering part was advertised all over the game even before it’s launched, and with everything implemented in the game it was not a small part of the project, everything revolves around it.
You do PvP for the control of territories which gives you bonuses on crafting taxes, trade taxes, gathering speed, travel cost etc …
You get a territory you have to upgrade the crafting stations, and the defenses to keep the territory to keep those bonuses.
You have to craft to get the best gear, which mean also gather for the resources.
I’m not saying it’s the best idea for that, it’s an idea that could work.
When they removed the full loot part they let everything else as it is, and it’s unbalanced as hell.
You can have tons of resources easily → Prices dropped a lot since week 2
You can farm elites and chest → Decent gear is pretty easy to get
Quests are awfully identical and make you walk more than doing the actual quest → It was designed to send people all over the map and the unique experience was the people you met on your way to it
All that is frustrating cause the quests are boring, and once you’re level 60, you farm your GS to get your BIS and legendary are time consuming to get.
But it feels it was just not meant to be like that at all in the first place, it wasn’t the purpose of the game to make everybody farm their leg cause it’s what you have to do after 2-3 weeks in the game.
It was supposed to be different from other MMO which make you farm the best gear in the game, then you’re bored and quit until the next expansion come out and then you do it again.
This is not the game advertised, this is not the game people came here for, there are way better games out to do that.
Lmao no. These systems would work fine. You’d just rather the game move towards a lootbox simulator like WoW or FF. It’s alright, we’re free to our opinions, you just gotta own up to it.
Minecraft is a terrible example to use. Comparing the acquisition of a BiS set of gear in NW with a full set of diamond gear is laughable. Once you’re in diamond gear, acquiring further sets is nigh on trivial. The same can’t be said for NW BiS. Heck, the prime reason to upgrade gear in minecraft is to be able to mine better quality materials.
You’re comparing a game designed around procedural exploration and gathering materials to build crazy structures, and a combat/gathering focused MMO. Yeah, there’s combat in Minecraft, but it’s not particularly significant to the bulk of player activity. For most players, endgame in Minecraft is just building more elaborate structures. Heck, it barely constitutes an MMO at all, and can be played solo.
Absolutely agree that items need to break and be replaced, more so in NW than in most MMOs (and yes, other MMOs do in fact have this mechanic, and for good reason). Why more so in NW? Because we don’t have alts all over the place, so the only new customers any crafter will hope to have in the long term are people who are just starting the game and people who are switching servers (assuming server transfers are just a launch feature).
All of you who are like, “There’s so few ways to make money! We can’t have our items break! How would I ever get the money to replace them?!” You know how you can make money? Selling crafted items to players who need them because their items broke. Without items breaking, none of those people will ever buy anything, and you’ll be stuck with only as much money as you can directly farm.
If items are easily lost, then items need to easily be replaced. Right now, as I understand it, high end gear is not easy acquired. Therefore, it should not be easily lost. Change it so you can acquire/replace it easier, then you can break it.
Seriously? You think increasing market demand multiple times, but not increasing the supply will DROP the prices?
Please do us all a favor and don’t post stuff like this anymore.
If you lack the skills to make ingame gold that’s your problem.
