New World

I am just not rushing. All kinds of pressure to LEVEL FOR PVP: Bitches, I am not here for the sole purpose of PVPing. I am here to see the story, chop some trees and enjoy myself. I was over being FOR THE GUILD at the end of EQ and will sometimes come help if want cat-like. Level 32 now and I am just not going to race through the game with the few hours I have to play so I have sit in a fort or run PVP missions with people I don't know. Plenty of time to do that later. This is a game for which there will be no point in skipping content. Max Level is end of line, it seems.

Story quests are seemingly designed to be slow. Repeated visits to the same locations to get different items, sometimes off the same mobs, just seems to be a way to stretch out existing content and time to level. I can see why people are using the town boards/faction questions to speed the process up. Also, grinding crafting to level seems like "now is the time" What is the market going to be for steel anything once launch crowd moves through, and you go from Mexico to Japan in the terms of demographics? I forget the precise terms now.

It really feels like they should have done more with normalizing PVP if they didn't want to incentivize/trivialize PVE content. Otherwise, you are going to encourage Max level, one time through characters with no replayability and no other end game progression other than the map coloring game/dress up/dollhouse game after the first few *weeks*.

I just hit level 37 and have most of my gathering trade skills up to around 100, but the gameplay loop is starting to fall apart for me. Up until now I would quest and gather and return to town to turn in quests and craft once my bags were full. This worked really well up until now, but the requirement of reagents, which only drop in small quantities and randomly from the scattered chests and supply caches around the world, to craft anything Tier IV, is completely ruining the experience. These reagent are sold for exorbitant prices on the trading post due to the demand, but you can't craft shit without them, so the Tier IV crafting mats all sell for like 0.01 coins each and are far cheaper than Tier I mats because no one can do anything with them. I can't save them because inventory and storage space is so limited, and even putting them on the trading post is a pain in the ass due to how slow the interface is and the fact that it caps out at 100 sell orders per character.

This insane bottleneck is definitely killing my interest in continuing. I might take a break for a while and at least wait until I can transfer to Vingolf.

A relaxing day spent fishing.

Xevy said:

Crafting at the high end going to be a mix of RNG and target farming and specialized sets and when it hits that good-good, people going to lose their minds.

One of the thing that bothers people is there's no gear set tool. You're literally going to have multiple sets of gear, maybe even 6-12 SETS of gear depending on how you min/max, but there's no way to easily distinguish them. They need to get on that shit stat. I only have 3 sets and it's a pain in the dick if I click the wrong blue boots and I have tank boots instead of my mining boots on for my mining runs.

Also a lot of people are getting frustrated by the lack of 'rare' items from harvesting but there is all sorts of shit going on with it. You need %rare gather gear and some +luck food helps and THEN, the MOST IMPORTANT PART, is you need a certain skill level to hit the target resource. People out there mining boulders with 110 mining ain't going to get shit but rocks and mining exp. You can certainly tell the difference at <180 mining in a set of ~35% luck gear and you hit an iron deposit and suddenly get 7 fae iron, 80 iron ore, and 5 random gems.

Also target farming world drops could be fun. Like EQ without the 22 minute respawns with the 25% chance of getting a 25% chance at the item that you then have a 1/6 chance of winning.

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I didn't sign up for the convoluted shit. Such a shame, because they ease you into gathering and crafting everything and it works so well at first, but fuck all that noise.

Zefah said:

I just hit level 37 and have most of my gathering trade skills up to around 100, but the gameplay loop is starting to fall apart for me. Up until now I would quest and gather and return to town to turn in quests and craft once my bags were full. This worked really well up until now, but the requirement of reagents, which only drop in small quantities and randomly from the scattered chests and supply caches around the world, to craft anything Tier IV, is completely ruining the experience. These reagent are sold for exorbitant prices on the trading post due to the demand, but you can't craft shit without them, so the Tier IV crafting mats all sell for like 0.01 coins each and are far cheaper than Tier I mats because no one can do anything with them. I can't save them because inventory and storage space is so limited, and even putting them on the trading post is a pain in the ass due to how slow the interface is and the fact that it caps out at 100 sell orders per character.

This insane bottleneck is definitely killing my interest in continuing. I might take a break for a while and at least wait until I can transfer to Vingolf.

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That and the lower tier (ie iron) are driving me insane too.

One way to mitigate the reagent issue, is to use a faction item converter. That way if you need sand paper, but have like 200 sand flux instead, you can change it. SO I hear, I haven't tried it yet lol.

Yeah im down on crafting and shit, but to tell you the truth im not going around the world collecting 30,000 fucking iron ore to go from 100-150 in smiting for example, and thats nit even including the other mats needed, leathers, charcoal, etc...

Like everything else in this game, later it becomes masochistic. Go and mine yourself 30K iron ore with 1000 other 25-40 plebs trying to do the same, lol.

As to the targeted farms? Its the best part of the game IMO. Better yet there isnt any online bullshit to tell you who drops what, other than word of mouth right now. So its like a loot pinata surprise everytime you hit up a named.

Form what I gathered based on my grinding a few. They have a couple of BOP uniques usually, sometimes a purple and a blue, or even a legendary and a purple. Then the rest of the loot is named boss loot mixed in with greens and other shit like pots.

Xevy said:

The iron stuff is actually as bad as it seems, if you know the mechanics of the game. You can double your yield from steel ingot crafting so you can turn every 1k iron into 2k iron etc etc.., but you need good skill and town bonus and some gear etc.

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Thats fine, godspeed with your crafting BS. Ill do all that shit when I hit 60 and have nothing to do since most of my server is still in late 30s and early 40s. Also youre not going to double your yield. Maybe get a 1/3 more?

Xevy said:

No, you can literally double it. I've gotten more than 50% increased yield so far with just green flux.

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Sorry, can you explain how that works?