It is not clear how crafted gear will be affected after december update.
If I have crafted a 590GS armor but my watermark is 530 or less, its effectiveness will be downgraded to my actual watermark ?
So crafters will have to be involved in this watermark system now ?
My named lifestaff windsinger (565GS) will have the effectiveness of a 515 Life staff after all the effort I put into crafting it ? (All farmed ressources, 200Arcana)
If it’s true, can you make that crafted gear unlock expertise level at least ? Even by a little ?
Crafter will have to work double hard if it’s true : Upgrading our trades to 200 and farm legendary ressources which is very long AND farm watermark/expertise now.
No confirmation, but most likely.
They so far have proven that they want the most amount of grind possible.
Resetting your grind and making you do it again is in line with that vision.
I’m uncertain about this as well. Where does crafting fit in with this. I understand that some form of progression system is wanted. But I do also feel that the proposed changes are at surface, not well thought through.
The prime question of course being, what does this mean for crafting.
And with that, own crafted gear is obviously just one side of the medal. But what about the purpose to buy crafted gear? If players can’t use the highend crafted pieces anyway, because it’s “bypassed”, what reason is going to be left to purchase crafted pieces. On your route to unlocking higher expertise, you will come across increasing drops anyway. Unless if the excessive gear drop rate is finally being reduced?
I have not read anywhere that they want to reset watermark tho.
But crafting gear will be no different from dropped gear regarding the scaling (down) from expertise system as I read their message. Watermark/expertise farm will be mandatory for crafters too, I fear. Double work for crafters \o/
If this go live, I quit.
I’ve invested a lot of gold and time in getting my gear, if it gets nerfed to oblivion, I won’t tolerate it, and it will be my last minutes in the game.
it won’t scale with Expertise(wm) until early 2022, start grinding now or hope they add a way where crafters can improve expertise through making items.
CS is always wrong, i have contacted them many times with issues and concerns and they tend to be wrong. Trust what the CMs say over CS, as far as I am aware there is no proper evidence to confirm a reset other than this one CS
It is safe to guess that absolutely any gear including the gathering gear will drop in gear score based on the current gear score that we might have per slot when equipping them making us to even have to farm gypsum points to get our gathering gear leveled up.
