A suggestion I had for gem upgrades, this is something similar that happens in other games, and would be an awesome feature with New World.
Essentially, it would be a lot more interesting to see gems have some kind of further enhancement system beyond tier V, similar to how Aptitude works with trading skills.
But the further upgrades are purely cosmetic, so for example, with a bow, you could have 3 extra tiers above V for say a ruby gem, and each tier makes the bow more and more aggressively on fire, so at the final tier, you’re essentially holding a bow of fiery chaos, and each tier enhances the effect to be more flashy and pretty, and of course you can opt to not bother with this if you don’t like too much going on with your cosmetics by simply not upgrading the 3 special tiers!
Or with a Nature gem, extra particle effects could appear, like flower petals forming and falling off the bow, or even poison thorns dripping.
Or again, take an arcane bow, and have holographic runes appearing around the weapon, you could do a lot with this idea, and I think cosmetic freedom and variety goes a long way for a lot of people, fashion is in demand in games!
