I’m looking forward to their first Real event (Winter event)
Also that Crafting/gathering can also increase HWM (or Expertise now). Rewarding players who invest more and enjoy those activities. Inbetween Chest runs or OPRs.
You can much quickly increase expertise accessories and specific armors/weapons (or shields).
Greataxe getting knocked down a hard notch, potentially changing the meta.
More taxes for endgame regions with the new Gypsum orbs. From PTR If i recall, only Reekwater and Ebonscale are company-ownable regions with the Kilns to craft them so it increases their value if at least a little while not letting the rich regions get richer.
Plenty is changing giving reason to players to stick around longer or giving people the excuse to leave, whatever floats their boat.
Just stop. Them responding to feedback is not flipflopping. I’m tired of people like you. AGS can never win. If they do something wrong they should change it! That’s a good sign.
They posted something asking for feedback, received feedback, and responded accordingly.
of course they are flip flopping, wtf did expertise come from in the first place?
and these changes show they don’t have a decent vision ahead, if they did they wouldn’t have to flip flop…
A massive win for crafters maybe, but not everyone is a crafter and for me personally, the devs don’t listen at all and I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling this way. But having said that, I don’t expect them to be listening and adjusting their plans to suit me. My choice is simple, play or don’t play. Endgames are a long-used device by developers to keep people playing and by design, they are meant to be time-consuming and repetitive. And it’s a lot cheaper to do than constantly putting out new high-level areas and dungeons for people to rush through, find all the shortcuts and exploits to do them quickly, and move on. So they have us rolling a thousand-sided die hoping for a 1000 and salvation.
One of the fundamentals of this game is crafting lol what, I am 200 engineering, 200 arcana but also have a wm of 600 armor and 580-590 weapons alongside 12+ OPR rounds a day. This adds up to my total playtime of 800 hours which is pretty good.