Hey guys,
I think this game desperatedly needs another source of shards gain.
Dear devs, please give us some shards after arena matches and more after opr matches. I dont ask to make pvp the most time efficient shard route in the game. PVE can still be the most time efficient shard gain method but give us please at least moderate way and sense of progression via pvp. It wont make pve redundant because people (me included) will do them still for drops and gold but it’ll allow people to play in a way they want to play the most. Want to be 625gs asap? Go dungeons. You ok with longer route but dont want to do pve or do it only occasionally? Go for it. Nobody will complain then about gear difference because longer route will be their decision.
Im not asking about something not from this world because pvp progression is included in many MMOs.
And now a little bit of a backstory behind this topic.
I love pvp the most in every MMO and I want to enjoy it in New World too but my enjoyment is limited by… my gear score. When I fight people in arena or opr its clearly visible who have full bis 625 gs and who is around my level (around 610gs). You may say now “Man, if you want your gear score to be higher just grind some mutations”, yes, that’s true but I really don’t like grinding the same mutations over and over and on top of that, there is a ward requirements so I even cant grind it in every week because I just don’t have full m10 ready to go set for every dungeon. I have one set up to m8 ready but if its not “my” week, then what? I can just do gypsum casts (which is very slow progress) or grind low level mutation (up to m4 I think?) where ward is not required yet but sometimes people even want it there. Besides, grinding low level mutations feel is not time efficient at all…
But this is all about the stuff I HAVE TO do, the stuff Im FORCED to do to stay competitive or even be competitive in PVP because I need umbral shards. But the stuff I have to do and stuff I like and want to do is completely different story. I tried to get umbrals via pve for some time but really repetitive content is not my thing and after some time it started to feel like work, not pleasure and while I tried to do pvp also with my 610 gs it started to feel a little bit pointless because it wasn’t contributing at all to closing a gap to 625gs players. I want to be competitive in PVP but now actually doing pvp feel almost pointless because rewards for it are almost non existant.
Lately I feel less and less desire to play the game because of this constant pve farming stuff but I still have hope 