New World

I got a soulsprout flower if u want it im on vingolf.

I found it in a random swamp grove.

Finally able to roll up on Vingolf. FOH still syndicate?

Jozu said:

I got a soulsprout flower if u want it im on vingolf.

I found it in a random swamp grove.

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I'm on a different server. But this is my point, you have one. That makes a single potion. That's kind of fucked.

Gravel said:

I'm on a different server. But this is my point, you have one. That makes a single potion. That's kind of fucked.

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I do agree that for many recipes, the materials costs make them 100% economically unviable. The replica armors and special named crafts are another example. If they acted as transmogs it would be one thing, but instead you get an item that is woefully underpowered compared to peer items that cost far less. They really do need to re-examine a lot of the crafts

Well, went Syndicate. Hopefully that's the right one. Any ossifers on who can invite? Or is guild full?

I’ve started getting T5 legendary skins. Just emptied my bags yesterday and noticed I had 7 of them. Didn’t even realize I picked them up. So I guess they aren’t “that” rare cause I don’t have any luck modifiers currently equipped. No where near 200 mining though. Just got to 100 last night, but maybe the level has something to do with luck too? Cause I haven’t gotten any above green components from mining.

My armor smithing is up to 146 just from doing the town board stuff repeatedly. I’m 57 now and when I get back into town on Monday, I’ll knock out the last three levels and craft a tank set. May need to grind armor smithing up to 200. Will have to see what I can crank out. Just up in the air about what I want to compliment the sword and shield with. Hammer? Great axe? Hatchet for Berzerk?

I’m on the plane now and already can’t wait to get back and play some more. Haven’t felt that way about a game in years.

Ok, so the game is alright. I enjoy logging in to mindlessly run around harvesting shit tons of mats, crafting, and generally watching the various progress bars go up.

The mobs are no push over, and I get my ass handed to me regularly. That being said, my reflexes are getting a LOT better as I either have to learn to blade dance with these mobs, or die. I can dodge pretty damned good now. As a Rapier/Rifle player, I was really surprised last night when I got jumped by five mobs at the same time, and managed to dance in, around, and out of their strike zones long enough to take them all down. That was exhilarating.

I went on my first dungeon run last night as well. It looked cool, and the boss mob at the end was pretty interesting. The thing that I didn't like about it was the hectic kill, run, kill, run, try to keep up with the group or get lost (because they had done it before, and I had not) pace of it. That's one of the BIG reasons I ended up hating World of Warcraft. In WoW, most of the time, I felt like I never really got to experience the dungeons because it was a constant race to the end. I'm sure a lot of people like that fast action style of gaming. I get it. I'm an old fucker that likes slow games like EverQuest.

That all being said, I think the game was worth the money, and I will definitely keep playing it as my "other" game because why the fuck not. It's not like it cost me anything to keep playing it, and there are a lot of aspects about the game that are really fucking good like the visuals. Holy fuck that Asian-themed area to the left of Brightwood is absolutely beautiful. I can't wait until I am high enough level to explore it fully.

So, then... here's food for thought. Every MMORPG since the beginning of the genre has ended up being changed from something that the people playing it liked to something that they fucking hated eventually due to the design changes with expansions. I imagine that New World will not be immune to the trend of game designers fucking up a good thing.

So, just for fun. What do you all think they will do to ruin the game in the future?

My guesses are:

• Make dropped gear better than crafted and drop so often that crafting becomes useless
• Normalize all of the various builds to the point where no build feels unique because you know people will whine about xyz build beating their shitty build
• Remove any need to go to any dungeons by making it all work from a Dungeon Finder that matches you up and teleports everyone to the dungeon (ala WoW)

Dungeons have a double problem: you have to farm a key to even run it, then you have to get a group. They can’t keep both things and expect dungeons to see any use outside the first one.

Imagine if to raid Vex Thal, you had to refarm the key between raids. That’s what dungeons feel like right now

Pharone said:

So, just for fun. What do you all think the majority of players (filthy lazy casuals) will whine about til the devs cave and ruin the game in the future?

My guesses are:

• Make dropped gear better than crafted and drop so often that crafting becomes useless
• Normalize all of the various builds to the point where no build feels unique because you know people will whine about xyz build beating their shitty build
• Remove any need to go to any dungeons by making it all work from a Dungeon Finder that matches you up and teleports everyone to the dungeon (ala WoW)

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FTFY

Pharone said:

Ok, so the game is alright. I enjoy logging in to mindlessly run around harvesting shit tons of mats, crafting, and generally watching the various progress bars go up.

The mobs are no push over, and I get my ass handed to me regularly. That being said, my reflexes are getting a LOT better as I either have to learn to blade dance with these mobs, or die. I can dodge pretty damned good now. As a Rapier/Rifle player, I was really surprised last night when I got jumped by five mobs at the same time, and managed to dance in, around, and out of their strike zones long enough to take them all down. That was exhilarating.

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This is definitely nice, but around level 45 or so they start respawning so fast that by the time you clear the first few that swarmed you, well, you get to start over. It's a bit ridiculous.

Cybsled said:

Dungeons have a double problem: you have to farm a key to even run it, then you have to get a group. They can’t keep both things and expect dungeons to see any use outside the first one.

Imagine if to raid Vex Thal, you had to refarm the key between raids. That’s what dungeons feel like right now

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I don't think I would consider what I had to do in this game to get the key to run the first dungeon to be anywhere even in the same universe as compared to what it required to get a Vex Thal key. Not even slightly.

To me, needing to get the key to run the dungeon each time kind of makes running the dungeon feel more special. I think that with out that, the dungeons would feel insanely forgettable just like every dungeon in every WoW clone made to date.

Cybsled said:

Imagine if to raid Vex Thal, you had to refarm the key between raids. That’s what dungeons feel like right now

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At least New World's dungeons don't have level 1 placeholder NPCs in them when you finally get the key. That's an improvement!

I must be missing something on the spear with you nerds speaking so highly of it. I've leveled it up to like 10 now, same as my warhammer, and it just feels like ass. The 2-hit light attack combo is slow as fuck and the extra length on the spear doesn't near make up for how narrow the hit cone is. The specials I've got are the forward leap attack/triple stab/kick stun thing, and while the stun is nice the damage on the rest of the package is pathetic compared to warhammer. The spear I've got is purple and ~30 item level higher than my blue warhammer and it takes me twice as long to kill anything?

Warhammer just flows so insanely well with heavy > special > heavy, repeat until thing is dead. It's got mondo CC built in and the crit damage on heavies is completely bonkers.

I can see me wanting to build keys for the final dungeon. Not going to bother for the ones up too the last dungeon.

Pharone said:

don't think I would consider what I had to do in this game to get the key to run the first dungeon to be anywhere even in the same universe as compared to what it required to get a Vex Thal key. Not even slightly.

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That is why I excluded the first dungeon in my post. The game gives you orbs for the first dungeon through various means (unlock quest gives you one, I think anothe orb can drop inside as loot rarely, and crafting). Later dungeons are less generous and the only way to get keys is to run greater rifts for hours for the -chance- of getting enough corrupted shard types needed to craft. Oh ya, the orbs are also BOP, so you also have to be a high enough crafter to even make the orb

It’s a dumb fucking system. It’s like they took the mythic+ keys, made them even more annoying to run, and also require you be a high level crafter to make them

Why the fuck would I want to pug higher level dungeons and meet new people when the key takes hours of my time to make? Dungeons are going to be underutilized content in a game already lacking content

Fucking nerds, who uses their own key?