New World

I took my time. Just got 65th a few days ago. I did a CK run yesterday and now understand why that run is pretty much a must every day.

Looks like a free trial dropped on consoles if anyone cares. Also New road map is out.
New dev update video

There’s like 2 months left on the current season pass, so not much in the very near future

The roadmap does suggest a big change to territories - if I had to guess, they will dilute company ownership benefits for holding territories. Right now, a company holding
multiple high profit share % towns can clear millions of gold every week on healthy servers, which gives a massive advantage to that company. It also ends up killing servers when greedy uber companies grab 4+ lands and just milk money

So I was just zooming thru story quests ignoring all the other quests but ended up at 64 after the msq was done. What’s the best way to get xp then, still quests?
Also what should I do first at lvl 65, just start hitting up 5 mans? Pretty sure my gear sucks and also I don’t know any of the new dungeons

Couple questions

1) Did you unlock Elysian Wilds? You get quest “invasion of Artemis” after you kill Apothis in Brimstone, which eventually unlocks access to that zone

2) did you do the Heartrune slot quest? It is in north east Brimstone. Heartrunes give you ultimate abilities

I would recommend joining “world tours” as a fresh 65. In chat you probably see stuff like “x CK”. Huge Zerg of players will run elite chests in various zones. It’s a great way to get some level 65 gear and even stuff to sell. Cutlass Keys also drops doubloons from chests, which you can use in town to buy higher gear score stuff

Unlocking dungeons is a good idea too. You just need to find the entrance of a dungeon to unlock it for queuing

I finished Artemis quest, is how I got to 64. The only heart rune quest I saw is the Great Wall one in brimstone, that was only 1 quest, are there more of those?

Once you unlock the slot, you’re good. New heartrunes drop in dungeons and you can upgrade them

what’s best use for faction tokens? Looks like I have to spend them cuz of the cap, you get way more tokens than you do the points to increase rank. I want to get the craft boost stuff but it’s on a long ass timer.
Is it worth buying the 675 faction gear or better off just getting from world drops? Is the faction gear good for starting dungeons or is it for pvp?

Skip the faction gear to be honest - if it was tokens only that would be one thing, but the amount of gold you also have to spend is better saved unless you're rich as fuck.

If you need a token dump, you can buy the token cost only gypsum orbs daily. You'll also eventually need chromatic seals - artifacts will take 1 seal to customize the 3rd perk/level them up in the gypsum furnace and upgradable named drops from dungeons will cost 3 seals to customize the 3rd perk. Seals cost like 20k tokens 5k gold each and it is a once per day thing. Armor and Weapon Matrix usually go for around 10k or so on auction house. So for example if you wanted to upgrade some named dungeon drop in the gypsum furnace, that means over 25k gold per item when you count the seal and matrix costs. You don't HAVE to do that, but then you're dependent on RNG for good drops. All the gold you got from leveling up gets drained fast if you aren't careful.

Chest runs and dungeon runs will net you some decent gear that is better than 675. I'd do chest runs until you have enough high GS pieces (you could literally fully gear in random shit after a world tour), then you can try to target stuff in dungeons for specific builds. Also remember that chests have loot bias - so if you're wearing light armor and using a fire staff, you're gonna get mostly light armor and firestaffs. Wear the type of gear you want to get to get better types of that gear