As an MMO player I have, and will continue to feel the frustration in having to wait for an over world boss (named creature) to spawn. It can be frustrating at times, but it is part of the love for the genre and if they aren’t overly long it really isn’t that bad.
New World however has the reverse issues. So many times I travel the map, questing, gathering, and just exploring. Just genuinely enjoying the game and experiencing it as it was intended to be with the ganking and getting ganked as a PvP flagged player constantly. The issue is stumbling arouns and finding groups of players spawn camping the named creatures forcing constant spawns and experience & loot grinding.
We saw it with the pastor in Brightwood. It’s happening with Tuskgore in Weaver’s Fen. It’s happening elsewhere I’m sure.
This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed and sooner rather than later. It is such a shitty feeling seeing people abusing things like this grinding over 5k experience in under 5 minutes from spawn abuse instead of the intended grind method of quests, community & faction boards, and expeditions.
I work a full time job and have poured over 100 hours into a server that was plagued by the queue issues, and still manage to be level 46 without exploit using. It is such a heart sink moment knowing a lot of the people higher level than me just rushed there with available exploits, and it shows when you fight them PvP half the time because they are hot garbage in an actually fight. My most recent evidence of this was mopping the floor with a level 54 at 42. That’s a two tiers of gear gap, or should have been.
Please treat this issue like the problem it is amazon so the players who are here because we genuinely enjoy the game, even if it has flaws and rough edges that need some TLC, don’t feel broken by the abusers who ultimately will likely quit inside 6 months.
I miss the days of closed beta where sure there were a few cases of abusers but mostly the community was trying to help find and make known the bugs and exploits. Where it took people the majority of the full month to hit those 50s to 60 in level because we were all fooundering around figuring it out together. I understand this is release and us beta players will get there faster because of prioritization, I myself am an example of that sitting here at 46 comfortably in just over two weeks, but this experience and weapon mastery shoving needs to be handled.