“But starting in early 2022, it will also govern the effectiveness of your gear. This means if your War Hammer Expertise is 520, and you equip a 550 Gear Score War Hammer, the weapon’s effective Gear Score will be reduced to 520. While we understand to some players this may result in a temporary reduction in power, we believe in the long run this will result in more rewarding progression loop that can’t be bypassed by buying gear off the trading post.”
So "effective Gear Score will be reduced " meaning the stats if it’s 23stat at say 540gs it is now a 20stat because you have say 500gs in that slot. Same with % perks I guess. Soooo that “make good” they did with harvesting gear is also no longer going to be what they gave us either then.
Seriously devs you heard us complain about the grind so your answer is to give us more grind? We don’t need a PTR to tell ya we’re not going to like this change.
It honestly feels like the troll jokes of “devs want to kill this game” wasn’t a troll and is honestly what’s going on here.
We already can’t get decent gear from dungeon runs at 60 unless we hit 600 watermark, expertise, or what ever flavor word you want to use for it now. So we can’t even just go craft some gear to make it through a dungeon or elite zone grind to increase our water mark. We have to farm zones in another progression rather then group where ever at 60 that is 60+. So again something else that will require a large population on a server.
This basically puts us at the point of there is no longer a “play the content you want to play.”
Everyone has to grind hours upon hours the same zones over and over, then move onto the next “expertise” zone and repeat. So that what ever crafted gear they made or bought is actually worth its value.
There’s no longer any reason for a PvPer to support crafters who might be PvE only since their crafting is now useless unless their “expertise” is the same or higher.
Also judging from this image they linked us:
Fresh players that get to 60 now have to watermark from the start? Not even at 500? Everything in that inventory is 520 but its random item tiers and registers as 416?
Do you really think the current state is better? You hit 60 with at least 15k if you are not spending money on dumb stuff you easily get a 570+ GS set from the market because us - with high watermark - will sell everything we get for 200-300-400 gold. That’s not how you’re supposed to get stronger in an MMO imo.
Whelp, I’m done with this game. Such trash. STOP CHANGING WORKING SYSTEMS AND FIX BUGS, BOTS AND MERGERS ALL HANDS ON DECK. Logging out of this forum for good right now.
You forgot about the part where they decrease the chances of a ‘bump’ of hwm, or whetever is the name of this new system, with elite chests and named elites… just so we can farm this new gypsum, or whatever, so we can… bump our score.
They understand that the grind was bad… by putting way more grind \o/. Flawless logic.
So funny, you guys have 0 idea how hard or easy it’s going to be, at least wait 1 day and try on PTR before opening 15 threads and crying about a change you barely know anything about.
Lol? Do you even play MMOs? In FFXIV you can buy overmelded crafted armor or regular crafted armor and you’re raid ready - the alternative is dungeon spam. In WoW a lot of crafted stuff will enable you to be raid ready and in older expansions they were BIS for a raid tier. Want to know what these MMO’s don’t have? Forcing you to grind mobs for RNG drops and watermarks.
The devs are under the illusion that the chest farms , repetetive expeditions, corruption farms are fun . Why people bought gear from market ? Because they wanted the skip the tedious dungeons, chest runs. Now they are forcing me to do the runs. I would rather uninstall the game then be forced to do 60 min tedious runs each day.
Hey Devs have you ever played your own game ? Have you been in 50 people group going after same mob and same chests over and over ? You cant even tell what you are hitting at or who is hitting you. You just follow the crowd open chest and be glad when it is over.
Stop acting like this game has good pve . It doesnt . It has way below average , the mobs have the worst ai i have ever seen. Stick to strong side the PvP and stop forcing people to do mindless grinds. Instead balance the weapons skills for a better PvP experience and you will see increase in player numbers.
Every day after work i did myrk and mines run for chests, solo. While i was doing it, i was not playing the game. It was mind numbing and boring. But i have to do it. So it has been a week i tried to do those stupid chest run just to increase my water mark, it feels like more time wasted than anything. Now this expertise bullshit will reduce weapon effectiveness… what a garbage
