Tbh, just get 200 armoring which isn’t bad at all, and craft the now cheaper voidbent. Then use umbrals to upgrade voidbent up passed 600 and run expeditions for drops. M1’s are easy, I did then from 580 GS and up. After patch, run OPR to get umbrals here and there and use BoP items from expeditions while levelling expertise.
It may take you around 20k to get 200 armoring but if you sell orb slots, you can have 20k in no time. Btw, out buy orders up for the dynasty replica equipment. Tier 4 that gives as much exp as crafting tier 5 and pretty cheap.
Anything crafted or bought before the January patch was not reduced. Anything after is reduced 50% in between gear score and expertise. So 600 - 580 would act as a 590. Unless you craft it yourself. I believe if you craft it yourself you will see no decrease.
You can run normal Gen and Laz with your normal gear. The cost for normal runs is less than you make from the bosses now. Expertise goes up pretty quick in these dungeons.
Unless it has changed, the few items I have crafted so far in the 550-560 range were nerfed once in my inventory to the halfway point between my expertise and their crafted gear score
If this is the case, it is extremely new, as I crafted 3 gauntlets in the 550-560 range on Sunday or Monday and all three nerfed to the midpoint just like items bought off the TP.
If now all of a sudden that has changed, then it’s welcome news, but it was absolutely not the case as recently as this past weekend. These were also the holiday event blueprints however - as far as I am aware they shouldn’t be treated any differently in this case, but maybe it is another new and exciting bug?
Yeah, I’m testing now and I’m thinking this may have been a bug related to the holiday blueprints - I just did some normal armor and it all came out fine.
Also, the “not your buddy” thing you add to each of your replies just makes you come off as a presumptuous douche. Immediately assuming someone would lie about their… trade skill level? Is definitely a you issue you need to work on, my dude.
oh my god if i ever have all those AP levels i have to assume something horrible has happened and i have devoted my life entirely to new world.
and i am in the same boat with weaponsmithing and arcana. i start collecting or buying mats, and get flashbacks of grinding my way to 200 armoring and how i never made a single item i actually used
