Returning player here.
Game’s a little better in terms of PvE, questing. But FPS performance is still quite bad compared to other games.
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I was on nw last night with bf,
We got in, flagged on, queued for 3v3, did 3-4 quests, found zero world pvp, then just fought skeletons getting weapon skill exp waiting for queue…
30 minutes went by and the arena queue still didnt pop and i was like okay lets get back to questing and he was like nahhhhh lets go play something else… i ended up just saying, okay we can casual level in this and maybe when we reach max level the 50v50s will be worth it.
Anyway we were only on for like an hour-hour and a half, after day 1 when we played for 8 hours. Its untapped potential when they wont just try a pvp server for thrill seekers 
This. And maybe a designated RP server? I know that aint everyone’s cup of tea but it’s a welcome sight for players that really like to immerse themselves in a game.
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The good so far.
The leveling experience is much better now. I played at (og)release and went hard solo, I did every single quest in the game, assuming it wasn’t broken. Questing system turned to pure dog shit around level 20-30 and only got worse the higher you got in level. Now so far it’s been really smooth. A lot of the quest were redesigned, the flow is much better. I’m currently level 43 solo in 2 days. It probably took me the better part of a week to be that far last time.
The bad
Weapons are slow to level. I know that will probably change when you hit cap, but for now it’s very slow. I mostly use hatchet and its like level 10 while I’m level 43. Mainly because if you are questing, you level so fast, that you are killing enemies well below your level, so you get crap weapon xp as a result. That should be adjusted.
Secondly the removal of most of the xp camps. I’m an old-school MMO player, I like to just find a camp and grind for hours and meet people while leveling up all my skills. If you were here in the past, you’ll remember all the people crying “it’s unfair” to xp like that, even going so far as to call it “an exploit”, and demanding those accounts be banned… as a result all those spots were nerfed pretty badly by AGS to make them happy. Now you have small groups of people grining out xp while still skipping all the quest and keeping it hush hush. (a few people hit 60 yesterday morning on my server).
They had a rocky release, but so far its been a much better experience. I just wish they had added some sort of “quest trials” to the game, to prevent people from zerging directly to 60.
You should have to be at a certain point in the main story quest to continue to level up. Pretty much the same way you have to quest to increase your pvp ranking.
what server are you on ? I dont normally have that long of a wait unless i que with a 3 stack.
yeah it still needs a nice optimization patch for sure
Myrddin…i dunno i still like the game but our small group already quit bc of the server char creation lock fiasco, and my bf used to love nw during alpha he wouldnt shut up about it but the world pvp is almost non existent compared to back then
i know wow had Normal,PvP and RP servers before they made them all normal lol
idk if a RP server would succeed but i mean they could test it like they can pvp servers
maybe a fix for this would be they could add weapon specific quests that give the player and that specific weapon xp
yeah thats the issue the world pvp is fun and all while you level on a populated server but for example, i watch Xaryu play and he gets into alot of open world pvp while hes lvling but once you hit 60 it dies out, if you do see people toggled its a group of them and its cause they doing a chest run or something. they dont really have anything like Great Cleave when the pvp track came out, if you missed that you missed a fun time!
I tell you what. I have seen the tenacity of some hardcore roleplayers in my time playing various mmos. I’m pretty sure if there was just one designated rp server it would have at least some population until the game goes off line.
I mean that is true but they would also need to add more stuff in the game to give players like that something to keep playing for.
They also need to do a better job with achievements with rewards and collectables (like they had with the corrupted rabbit chest)
No.
Why?
New World is still empty and shallow.
Running the same dungeons over and over again to make gold and shards is not content.
It has no meaningful PvP, open world PvP is dead.
You are forced to run certain perks, both in PvP and PvE.
Currently, I am only sticking to it as my brother plays it and I met some nice people.
I’d stick to it for longer if they’d provide a good vision for PvP and fix the client and server performance issues.
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yes it seems like they arent focusing on pvp that much. I stated in a previous reply that they need to hire a whole team specifically for PvP and PvE so they can work on both not 1 or the other.
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Oh yeah, very much agree. Since launch I’ve felt like this game has some really solid foundations that Amazon could/should build on. And they have, though I do wish their progress was a little faster. Still, they’ve done alot and I really want them to keep moving forward like they seem to… Just faster.
I don’t have much patience.
I would also highly… highly enjoy a separation of PVE and PVP character builds. I hate (and am probably not the only one) being constantly nerfed in one game mode because of balance in another.
Pre-amble: quit shortly after November or so last year, and logged on grab a few event drops basically. I was extremely disgruntled with the customer support despite not having run afoul of them, and back then Frazzle Dazzle was in charge so the game’s direction was… ah, not this bright.
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I think they’ve ironed out a lot of small problems, and appended on to systems that needed appendage. Heartrunes are a good example of an idea I hoped to see implemented! But I do think they need to get some flair to the rest of the player experience, not just the NPE.
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Well obvo get rid of the canned customer support. Like hello, these guys are all but actively sabotaging the game. Secondarily though I’d like to see more main healer options, some more open world events, and I’d like to see quests be a bit more varied. I get they’ll all be ultimately ‘kill/gather for xp,’ but we can spin those formulae even so.
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I probably will to be honest. I’ve tried a lot of other things but the active combat plus the explorability of the world will probably keep me just back to NW anyway. I intend to buy it on sale for my wife, so we can stomp around with beeg wepon in pretty world. Unga.
New world still has server specific OPR right? I’m having fun now but if the OPR queues are too long I’ll just quit again. WOW has had cross server BGs since 2006 btw. The fresh server I’m on now is listed as high so maybe it will be ok.
Also OPR being lvl 60 only is lame.
Yea trying to speed level to do real pvp content is meh.
Finally a voice of wisdom in a sea of fanboy shills! This game should have more pvp focus, not one and done pve locust content that will have players leave again in a month like last time. Pvp has replay value. Pve is constantly needing new content or locust plague moves on
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they said they will be testing cross server opr soon to start thn bring it to other things in the future, hopefully the near future
Like i said a couple times they need 2 full teams 1 for only PvP and 1 for only PvE that way they can work on stuff independently lol
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