All guildmasters(streamers) heavy core players are all almost to theirs crating professions done. All guild that control cities, all players that took advantage of all exploits with a good chunk of money already have maxed crafting skills.
What the devs are thinking, why they are listening to a minority of player base, when they need to think on the hundred of casual players that want to skill up their crafting skills without living in game for hours and hours.
I just sold my rare ingots today, I’m not crafting anymore for now. I was crafting a bit each day, but now, a single profession will take six months for a casual player, if he devote many and many hours.
The best thing you can do is farm resources to sell so you can buy equipment from people who got their HWM to max when it was easy. You can still add value to the game by mining, harvesting, skinning, logging, etc.
I hope AGS evaluates the responses to this post that Arkon made before even considering it as potential feedback. It’s pretty obvious he has an agenda to prevent others from levelling the playing field, and pretty much nobody with anything of value to say agrees with him at all in various threads.
Solving end-game progress by extending the HWM grind and gutting the solo or small group routine at this stage creates an unfair advantage that only early players have. (I’m saying this as one of those early players that have already stayed ahead)
I believe most people just want to get their character to a point where they can participate fairly in NW’s supposed PVP content or end-game content, and put their skills to use, with equipment being kind of a complementary thing. That’s just typical human behavior. Making that process much harder suddenly is going to turn them off.
It’s blatantly obvious, simply go to all the channels where NW is being discussed since 1.1, and you can see the extreme unhappiness with the stealth change and disrupting the current end game MO negatively. Just lurking since the games launch, this issue is having the same level of reaction from the player-base as say, dupes. Only this time it’s coming from the more casual, time-starved group of players who are really trying to like the game. And guess what? Statistically that’s exactly that large group of players that prop the game up.
Balance is extremely hard, but an MMO is just an empty shell without its players. Casuals need to feel like there isn’t too big of a disparity, and the Hardcores need the Casuals around in order to thrive. Executing a stealth nerf to the casuals while the Hardcores have got it the “easy” way and locked in that advantage? That’s terrible.
Arkon’s perspective is meaningless and addresses nothing except to push an agenda where he’d like to sit back and win from having the luck to be ahead. I’ve been an MMO vet for a long time, and I continuously have to put in extra effort to stay ahead of the pack. If the disparity is too big, suddenly it’s me and a few mates in an empty game wondering where everyone is.
The introduction of a disparity gap is cray and definitely feels like its harming the population. Improve upcoming systems and make them harder, more challenging and more rewarding, there’s no real need to nerf existing ones, especially when it’s clear the player-base has established a routine on consuming this content even if it’s sub-par.
I love this game… but they are nerfing the wrong things. Nerf the xp it takes to lvl and leave everything else as is. I also hate that they are catering to the PVP crowd by adding “extra incentives” for that. I have played plenty of games that do this and turns me off by pretty much hiding all the good loot behind PVP walls. I also think that some of these quests are B.S., example… I can kill my way to the boss with ease… only to be obliterated by the boss and his minions. I am not saying it should be easy but it should be a progression where you start to realize you need more help without going in confident, just to get you’re butt handed to you.
Sure is fun for dupers …they kept their gold ,kept their mats …now they can level their professions and laugh at peasants trying to make 500 gold per day.
Thanks Arkon, I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or are serious, but either way i was triggered enough to want to air my thoughts for the first time =)
I believe that is the OP’s point. A satirical presentation of someone who thinks like that in order to show the absurdity of it.
In reality I don’t think the problem is that simple. IMO, it’s more likely they have organizational dysfunction and lack of talent/experience in the correct areas. Leading to confused design choices and bad decisions.
I took a look at their prior posts. Including several which were replies to CM’s that are responding to criticism. At first I thought maybe they were being sarcastic in those replies too. But now I think you might be correct. In fact, I’m starting to suspect this individual might actually be someone on the inside. Yikes!
There is something so stunningly absurd and condescending about saying “You are having fun, even if you don’t know it.” Fun is one of the things in life that people know when they feel it.
I get the point that OP is really making - delayed gratification will be better - but in this game that is a bit like saying that a cardboard hamburger will taste so much better if we starve you for two weeks and tell you that you are not hungry.
I agree with your post completely! But I have to point out that getting a piece of gear that is not only purple but has both rational stats and enchants … and they are the ones you need … approaches Powerball Lotto levels of improbability.
But I guess that’s fine because it will be like winning the lotto, and that’s fun!