I understand that the changes you are making reflect what you think is best for the game, but please don’t rush out this patch.
I’m not entirely on board with the changes to the HWM system. I’ve been mostly crafting my gear instead of participating in chest runs. I find those runs dull and frankly unfun. Therefore my HWM is what many might consider to be “in the shitter” (pardon my french).
Crafting seemed like a good alternative to the grind, so I was under the impression that my progress in that department would have lasting meaning.
The proposed changes would invalidate a good proportion of that progress.
However…
If the system started out like this, I’d be in support of it. That’s why I’m happy to test it out on the PTR. Please just make sure that you don’t rush this one out. Changes like that need to be tested thoroughly. In other games I played, new content went through several iterations on the PTR over th course of several weeks before changes were pushed to the live server. Was it perfect? No. But it certainly helped. Please be open in the future to having PTR not only as a measure to find and eliminate bugs, but to also possibly rethink design choices.
That’s all, thanks. 