So i have noticed that we see a lot of post about issues/bugs/complaints about certain aspects of New World in the forums and thought it would be good to make a post where we can have a healthy discussion about some of things or ideas that players would like to see added into New World in the future or some of things that have already been announced by the Developers.
So some of things i would like to cover first is what has already been announced by the developers and what we can hope to see or would like to see with these updates.
- TRANSMOG (Transmogrification)
So most of you should or will know what Transmog is but for those players out there who don’t know what it is it means you can change the appearance of a Weapon or piece of Armor to match the appearance of another Weapon or Armor piece that you might find from certain activities. So lets say you are running the Tempest Heart Expedition and you come across a weapon that you like the look of, lets say a Greataxe for example but it doesn’t have the desired perks you are after but you do really like the look of it then what you can do is take the appearance of that weapon you like and apply the design to use on a Greataxe that does have the Perks you want. So it is technically a Skin. This also applies to Armor as well.
-HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THIS TO WORK?
In many games there are certain ways this can be done. Some games have it where if you DELETE the item then you unlock the appearance. You also have the likes of Destiny 2 where you get a quest Complete PvP, Raid/Dungeon, Open World Activities and once you have completed that quest you get a Material called Synthweave which allows you to unlock one Appearance item you have already collected previously like a helmet or chest piece. (Me Personally i really don’t like this Mechanic) Or you have some games where once you have collected an item the appearance is automatically unlocked for you to use right away.
For me, i would like to see the last option when Transmog is added to New World. So once you have collected a piece of gear that appearance is unlocked automatically and added to a catalogue for you to use when ever you want. For those of you that want a money sink you could also add a charge of say 50-100 Gold to apply the cosmetic but i know this will be open to debate.
- MOUNTS
So a highly requested feature is the use of Mounts within New World. Me personally i don’t think mounts are needed due to the amount of Fast Travel Points available to players throughout the world and yes i know some people would say “Have you Seen Brimstone” and yes while i have been on the PTR and have explored the Area myself i still don’t think Mounts are needed just yet as it would be easier just to add an extra few fast travel points around Brimstone. I know the Developers have said Mounts are coming and i still think it is fair to talk about this for those that do want mounts.
-Types of Mounts.
So what type of mounts would players be looking for? My opinion is that i DO NOT want to see flying mounts in the game as it wouldn’t make sense, for me it would have to be Animals like Horses, Camels, Donkeys those types of mounts which make sense. Now the big question is would you like to see a new Skill Progression/Trade like “Animal Husbandry” where you have to Feed and take care of your Mounts using Stables around the World and a Questline to teach players what to do or would you prefer to purchase different mounts with Gold or Store Currency with the option to maybe have Craftable Saddles, Saddle Bags with stats that boost your mounts performance like Speed, Carry Weight etc? It would be really good to hear what everyone’s views are on this.
- RAIDS
So we all know Raids are coming to New World which is going to be a very exciting time when they do come. I know this might sound a bit like a issue post in a second as there are some things i want to cover which i hope will make some sense when i cover them, but there are some things i would like to see with raids.
So first thing i would like to know is what you think would be the sweet spot for Raid player count? Are you wanting 10-20-30 player raids or even more than that?
Going onto the next question, are you wanting a kind of linear Raid Similar to what we have currently with the Expeditions or would you like to see more of “Player Split Raid” What i mean by this is imagine how the Teams the teams in OPR are, You have Red Team and Blue Team and when you are in the raid you have multiple different routes you can take, Red team go Left and Blue Team go Right for example and along the way each team have to fight Enemies and solve puzzles to help the other team progress to the next part of the Raid and with these puzzles you could also have more secret puzzles that unlock Secret rooms with chests that have Guaranteed, Good Stat loot drops, also along the way you would have multiple boss fights where you all group up and fight which will then lead you on to the Final Boss fight where its an all out war with enemies. I would prefer to have to work as multiple teams to progress in a raid then it just being a linear experience.
-Raid Rewards
So something i have thought about which i think would be amazing to have is a Raid NPC/Store and New Raid Currency and with this currency you could buy a unique sets of Gear (Not all at once of course but over time) and how this shop would work is this.
-Unique Raid Gear paid for with Raid Currency
So the Store would have multiple sets of gear covering Light, Medium and Heavy Weight Classes and would also cover the likes of Strength, Intelligence, Focus, Constitution and Dexterity. So lets say for example you pick the Light Dexterity Gloves you pay for these Gloves with the Raid Currency and it allows you to pick one Guaranteed Perk. For people that will be thinking “well that would just make Crafting Gear obsolete” no it wouldn’t because for a guaranteed drop you would be doing the hardest content in the game even if there are 10-20 people its not going to be a cake walk. Anyway this is just an example of what they COULD do and something that i would like to see.
Now we have covered some of the stuff that has been announced i would like to throw in a few Ideas of things i would like to see added in the future, mostly just QoL stuff.
QoL Changes
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Adding More Dye Colours to the game like Pure White, Black, Red etc and not the off colour looking dyes we have now.
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Dye Textures: Worn Textures, Clean Texture, Battle Damaged Texture etc just to give more variation of appearance to Armor.
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Storage Shed Search Filter: I know we are going to be getting a loadout feature at some point in the future but we really need the ability to search for certain items in our storage shed so for example searching for item type like “Head” “Chest” Searching for specific Perks like “Resilient, Freedom or any perk you need” Searching for type of Armor like “Strength” or “Constitution” etc
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Allowing us to craft “Ward Gems” like CORRUPTION WARD or ANGRY EARTH WARD. As a Healer main in Expeditions it has been really hard to find Focus Gear that has certain Ward Perks on the Gear. What i think would be a really good idea and this can go back to the “Unique Raid Gear Topic” we talked about earlier, What you could do is with Raid Gear you could make it to where it never rolls with any Ward Perks on the gear itself but it rolls with a 2nd Gem Slot that allows you to create a Ward Gem and slot into the Armor which means you will get 3 perks and an extra Gem Slot. Now people might say “this is over powered” but what you have to think about is that the Armor is obtained from the hardest content in the game and also the only way you can slot in the gem is that it HAS to be encased like the Heartrunes that are coming with Brimstone Stands so that means you also have the crafting element side of things also.
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Corruption Portal Revamp: So with the corruption portals that are currently in the game i have noticed that not many people close the portals anymore compared to how many where closed during the release of the game (Apart from the portal in Myrkguard) and one thing i would like to see changed is to have an in-game event that happens every hour on the hour or maybe every 3-6 hours where a Giant Portal opens up randomly in different areas of the map instead of the multiple small portals and with the Large Portal it could trigger an open world boss fight where a large boss comes through the Portal and it takes multiple groups of people to take it down and for the rewards each boss could have its own Gear Set and Weapon and random High Tier Crafting Materials.
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Farming: Allow players to own plots of land to grow and harvest crops, could also be used to add a new trade skill to the Game and earn a passive income.
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Store Bought Skins: Allow us to dye the Armor skins from the store.
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Loot: A rework of loot would be nice, so if you complete higher tier endgame activities like Mutation 10 Expeditions you see less lower tier/quality items (No more Green/Blue Items in end game activities)
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Cross Server Activities: It would really be nice if we had the ability to group up with people from other servers of the same region (EU to EU for Ping reasons) to do Expeditions/OPR with, while the Group Finder is a great addition to expeditions it is sometimes hard to find players to run with and you can end up waiting for up to an hour to get people to join so having the ability to do cross server content means there would be less of a wait time to get into OPR or Expeditions.
I just want to say thank you to anyone who takes the time to read this post and i would like for everyone to keep this post POSITIVE. I would like you to share your thoughts or ideas of cool or exciting things you could think of or things you would like to see added in the future. Until next time have fun in Aeternum and stay safe.