Greetings Adventurers,
We are creating a thread in order to track feedback that popped up due to the most recent update, 1.9.0 - Season 1 - Fellowship & Fire.
You can find resources on how to leave good feedback in the How to Give High Quality Feedback post.
You can find our Update 1.9.0 Bug Megathread here.
Your help in keeping feedback unrelated to the 1.9.0 Update out of this Megathread is much appreciated!
Thank you for helping make New World the best game it can be!
See you in Aeternum!
You forgot to include a named Human Bane sword and a semi-randomly generated Human Bane shield in the new expedition.
Examples of named Human Bane weapons, some of which you actually made BIS:
The Human Bane shields were probably supposed to be the āMoltenā shields, but you put Empowering Breaker where Human Bane should be. Also you put Diminishing Shield Bash on all of them, the precedent with other shields is that you put a variety of shield skill perks.
Ideally I think you should re-work all these shields so that their perk pool is:
Examples of bane shields (always have bane, fixed shield skill perk, random 3rd perk):
PS you also neglected to include a Lost Bane shield in Barnacles and Black Powder or Starstone mutations. These were probably supposed to be āPirated Bucklerā which has Refreshing where Lost Bane should be and either āAmrine Temple Round Shieldā or āObelisk Guard Round Shieldā which have completely random perks.
The order of these functions is very inconvenient, just think about how often someone will change their setsā¦ Put gear set options on the bottom of the list or make them not appear unless the gear set window is open, which would be most sensible:
When I put items in my set, and letās say I buy a powder keg like I be doing, if I want to put that keg down I have to equip it, right? Well I canāt re-equip my item set slotted consumable until I open the set again which also doesnāt make sense, especially in battle. TAG the items to be a part of my set, donāt put them in the void somewhere where I have to manually retrieve it from over and over so inconveniently. This needs to happen for consumables at the very least. Swapping earring for duplicating earring while I pop consumes is also inconvenient with this, but at least I can keep re-opening item sets over again before clicking Equip after nom nomās, I suppose.
Range is too strong compared to melee, you need to watch how the game plays live with this patch and adjust ASAP with hotfixes. Friends who came back are already over it and thatās not what we want to see. Balance is the key word here and we need it hotfixed without waiting for weeks.
You messed up my keybinds to where when I push 1 it pops my weapon and ability, not everyone uses default keybinds. If youāre going to reset them then reset them all so I donāt have to guess if what I see is whatās actually happening or if itās some invisible artifact that will get me killed while trying to have fun. Or tell me if you broke it ahead of time so that I can fix it for you before getting nasty surprises.
Pylon still bugs out when we walk away too far and it can be managed manually with the despawn button youāve added, but we need a symbol or checkmark on the ability itself so that we can tell when itās up by just looking at our skill bar.
Details.
Solo Perspective on New Season:
At first, like many, I was not a happy camper. Seems that any change causes angst among regular players.
However, after playing the new update a bit more, it is DEFINITELY an improvement for solo play. Why? Because there are incremental rewards for typical activities that were sorely lacking. The rewards seem to be fairly regularly rewarded, thereās enough of them to keep playing and they provide sufficient āexcitementā when rewarded. New World needed that so very badly for solo play. On top of that, some of the rewards (orbs, shards) help overall progression - also a good thing. Some marks of fortune doesnāt hurt either.
As to the new story, Iāve progressed a bit through it and I like that too.
Iām on the paid track, but I can see even I werenāt, Iād still have more reason to play, even if not as much as the paid track.
Wanted to offer feedback specifically for the Ice Pylon change.
I like the ability to despawn the Pylon a lot. Thereās plenty of times when I need to get rid of it.
What I donāt like is that it always looks like your Pylon is ready to cast. I think graying it out while it has been placed like it used to look would be best.
In short, the current mutation cycle for Tempest M10 is too difficult.
~40 minute gold M10 runs of Tempest with pick up groups have historically been really easy to do as long as you have ward gear and bane weapons, as well as keeping fortify up.
This week Iāve been lucky to finish an M9/M10, wiping with different pick up groups at the boss fights which is something that never happened before. Itās due in part to the mutation rotation (the shriveling ice rebuff that gives 50% less dmg and heals), but Iām really concerned about the changes made to fortify & crit chance bad luck mitigation.
With light armor, fully warded, all ice elemental resist gems in, 100 con - there are still some mobs that will one hit you even if your fortify is maxed with perforate
The nerf or trenching recovery has diminished my gameplay enjoyment while at the same time it has made the warhammer shortcomings more visible, the reasons why i think so are:
I usually enjoy glob of ectoplasm farming in both my main character and my secondary character, while my main character wich has 625 heavy armor and 625 weapons dont suffer terribly from it it is indeed noticeable, wich has significantly reduced my potential to 1v1 (PvE) and my fun playing the game.
My secondary character however (600 heavy armor and 600 weapons in fresh start server) is suffering hard and can barely survive mini boss confrontations, i can see how this could be a reason for a new player who wants to play warhamer to feel frustrated
It has highlighted the awfull way basic attacks work on warhammer: Every time you swing your weapon you move forward a bit, but since cooldowns are so big sometimes you need to basic attack a monster several times, if the mob is a similar size as you eventually you start missing your basic attacks due to high proximity and you are forced to evade backwards before every basic attack to hit your target, this feels terrible and is frustrating,
Unstuck in Forge sent me back to the start of the expeditionā¦
The new life staff ability animations are buggy and make it awkward when casting them.
0/10 do not recommend the new animations, really throws off the feel of the life staff as well.
Everything Iāve worked towards for almost 2 years as a brute melee is out the window. Do I want to switch to another Role for PVP?? Do I want to save tens of thousands of Asmo to start over?? No . I have no idea what Devās do with testing but in a live environment melee is pretty useless. This game is played by mages and say a few tanks now.
i started noticing that Discord members are now playing other games like World of Warcraft a couple days after this new update. i think itās safe to say that weāll be seeing more servers mergers in the coming months or maybe weāll get mitigated to the EU server.
oh and removing Grit at 300 str was beyond stupid. if you want to play a pinball machine and do next to no dmg try melee now lol
This patch is catered to Mages and tank.
best of luck. When the game is balanced Iāll try it again
I have an issue with the hitboxes of the balls that drop in the corners of the room at Commander Marius in the Empyrean Forge: When you stand clearly outside of the area the balls are marked to drop on you can still get hit by them. Please increase the radius of the area that gets marked so itās more accurate.
Secondly please change back the skin of Infernus. I prefered the much darker skin compared to the new bright blueishā¦
Also change back the colour of the hair of my character. It got far brighter after the update. I donāt want my character to look different to when I created it. At least not based on AGS decision, I wouldnāt mind if I could decide it on my own.
About the Gear Sets:
About the season:
Just noticed this thread after creating a post a couple minutes ago, will reply here too:
This is my feedback and experience on the PvE tanking experience (mutated expeditions) since season 1:
Will begin with a disclaimer that I am not a seasoned verteran in new world, nor a speed runner or clear time record holder so cannot speak on behalf of those people.
I do however main a tank and have been tanking mutations as my main activity in the game including M10s, some of which were gold.
I feel that the nerfs to Refreshing move as well as the nerfs to Fortify compound on each other and make it way more difficult for me to do my job because previously I would gather a pack of mobs, taunt, CC, then light attack with a refreshing move sword to bring taunt out of cooldown which I could afford to do because the fortifying sacred ground from the healer helped to keep me alive while attacking.
Now with fortify greatly nerfed even for heavy armor users, I need to hold up block way more than before, that along with refreshing move only being able to proc once per hit means it takes me longer than before to get defendeās resolve taunt back, as well as being unable to attack mobs some of the time in order to keep their aggro which causes a general mess in some mob pulls where healers and dps take way more aggro than they should and I donāt seem to have the tools to keep the group safe.
I realize that for an optimized and highly skilled team this may not be an issue because they can dps down a group of mobs before their taunts expire, but for groups that are only ādecentā or even average, it is way harder than it used to be to keep mobs under control from murdering the healer and DPS.
After doing a couple of relatively high level tempest mutations yesterday (8+9) I am for the first time not looking forward to logging on today and running mutations with my company and friends. I used to be hyped for that part of my day for the last several weeks.
To my limited understanding, these changes to refreshing move and fortify were made for PvP reasons. So is it not possible to make them apply only there?
Again, thatās just my own experience, I realize iām no elite speedrunner, but based on feedback from others I am at least a competent tank, and I seem to be lacking the tools to do my job properly now.
You need to unbind PvP craft mods. Prior to Seasons we have approx. 2 years to farm these are get BiS (in 2 years I only got max 30 of a specific Mod). Now with Seasons we will be crafting new gear almost every season, and cannot get access to more PvP craft mods. U have no control on when you can get more, and this is becoming the bottle neck in the game.
This is the state of the musket
You add bloom to the musket that feels like rng and you nerf the accuracy perk in the same patch.
Knowing we had to drop the 3rd dmg perk to use accuracy now.
Do you really think anybody is goind to wait the reload + bloom after every shot? Thatās like 4 seconds of no damage.
Also fix the god damm zoom.
Regarding gear sets:
I personally enjoy playing all content that New World offers. This means PvP, PvE (Expeditions) and Crafting-related activities. As Iāve started to create gear sets for all crafting skills I want to give feedback from this perspective - the amount of gear sets available to purchase / use (total 9) is not enough. You canāt have a set for each skill so especially not for each type of content that NW offers.
I think adding more gear sets its good for the players and also for the moneys you would make with it. I hope you just wait for a feedback like mine to have a reason to adjust it.
Regarding the adjustment of Ifrit (1st Forge boss) type to human:
With having different types of bosses within one expedition you had the chance to stretch the required understanding to min max expedition runs plus you also passively advertised the usage of gear sets. In my opinion it is not smart that you got rid of the diversity.
OPR virtually unplayable as any form of med/heavy melee. Just spend the whole time spammed by FS or Bow and its a potion simulator. Any time engaging in melee combat pretty much just get railed by range dps.
Sometimes play as FS but its pretty easy can just stand back and ability spam with little risk. Seems most ppl arenāt really enjoying the game right now. Need to drop damage on bow and firestaff quite significantly in order to make melee tenable.
I love this update, well done AGS!
Of course there are a few bugs but, as a retired dev, I feel that the overall quality has improved. Iām glad that you are now able to push back a release date when needed.
Some feedback and ideas:
QUEST. The Last Argument isnāt showing up on my map anymore, itās in the journal but when I pin it nothing happens.