We know there are many bugs to be fixed and the PTR notes have shown that there is definitely progress being made. My concern is that for many people there is nothing to really to do apart from farm umbral shards (factions & warfare are screwed). For the ones with BiS items that they want to upgrade, there is nothing left in the game apart from PvP which is pretty flawed atm. Those without BiS items (i.e. not a member of the cash cow companies), while having the ability to upgrade items, still have to rely in flawed crafting to get those BiS items. So you have the problem where many people will leave because they have either reached end game and the horizontal game is awful or they have the resources to reach there apart from a crappy reliance on the crafting system.
I’m honestly not sure how all parties can be pleased here. The bugs obviously take #1 priority but it does need to be coupled with QoL fixes or those not farming umbrals will just leave because it’s not an enjoyable experience.
For me, I screwed up with orbs for the 1st week of mutations and am only at GS610 although I have saved the week 2 orbs for week 3. Other than the upgrade path there isn’t much else to do. I have Armoring 200 (595-600) and have pretty much given up on crafting BiS because of the RNG & cost so I have basically I have to upgrade voidbent to progress in mutations. Yes I know that it’s a long term waste of umbral shards but I’m stuck with it. The decent 2 perk epic gear is stupidly expensive to upgrade to 600 and even then, knowing that you’ll be investing umbral in gear that will never be great, it’s not exactly something to strive for.
So I’m pretty much left with…What’s the point? Unfortunately ‘What’s the point’ is a damning indictment of the end game of New World. AGS, please give myself and many other in the same boat some reason to carry on.
They are actively watching their game die off in real time as they withhold transfers from their users and prevent them from partaking in an active server or playing with their friends. What hope is there if they are just sitting there letting things die? They clearly don’t care about their users and thus their game.
The sooner they let it die the sooner they can stop spending money on supporting it. Nobody new is buying a copy of the game. And since there is no monthly fee. They don’t make money off it anymore.
Yep, my friend got hacked and his char transferred to another server, valuables taken. He asked AGS after getting the account back: can you please rollback my char or even transfer it back to our old server without items/gold (we could gear him again) or give a transfer token.
They just said: sorry, cant help you, your problem. He and his closest guys are now off NW, which I understand 100%
What charts? Server pop info was blackboxed. You can taste the emptiness on most servers. We can’t all just move to USWest or USEast because the PVP is already desynced on local nodes, needles to say, adding 100 extra ms will either turn us all into area healers or fire-ice area spammers. And we already know that 40 ice mages can make an entire area stutter due server side emulation, so, we kill it, or we kill it anyway.
I haven’t seen new chars in weeks honestly. And WW-EF-MB are a mandatory stop. Low lvl dungeons also for quest progression/rewards and haven’t seen an Amrine call in months.
It’s really not that hard to roll 2 perk gear. As for the shards you are making it a bigger deal than it really is. I make 1500 shards from one gold m7clear and my group can run 15. 1500 shards would upgrade multiple epics to legendary. There are plenty of issues with the game but lets not make mountians out of molehills.
I think the issue is not the ability to upgrade epics when you have the GS to complete M7’s at gold, rather the ability to upgrade epics when you don’t have the GS to complete the higher rewarding mutations. Many PvPers have epic gear as their main gear but it’s purple and therefore cannot be used in mutations.
