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| A farmin' we will go! |
I am solo farming Infernus, a tanking sword, in New World. I will post more info and a guide with my build and the consumables in the near future, but for now here is a screenshot of try number 20 or so (not sure how many times I'll have to do this until RNGesus answers the prayer)!
Rabbit's Revenge is back in New World starting 4/12 and with it comes this creepy poster image! Also it comes with some quality of play improvements; rewards are now guaranteed after 200/400 slain rabbits (last year there was no guarantee; I gave up after 600+ kills without the chest reward).
First; I ran into a bug where refining Tier 5 materials doesn't seem to count towards the activity card task. The first 5 counted, but the rest did not so the task sits at 5/50 and cannot be completed as far as I can tell.
The next bug I ran into was that you sometimes cannot change the skin on your gear. This is irritating considering you are awarded several skins in the season pass (and there are skins on the Twitch drop currently). It is also random which piece of gear will not let you change skin and then on your next login it changes which gear is bugged. For example; I could not change my chest piece skin this morning but all other slots were fine. Yesterday it was all gear slots I couldn't change.
While frustrating; these are not game breakers. I am still over all enjoying the season and finding myself doing more and more of the card activities. I tackled the first couple of quests in the storyline and hit level 39 now on the season!
New World Season 1 hit the servers this week and yesterday I posted about Day 1. Day 2 is now in the books.
I like the season journey as it gives a good cross section of activities to try out in the game. Two of the activities, duels and playing music, brought me to parts of the game I've not touched in months. While they were brief visits back to these systems it was good to be reminded they are there and to get rewarded for participating in them. This, to me, is the best way for battle passes to work in games.
The activity cards are mediocre. They do hit that theme of encouraging players to explore different parts of the game, but I question why there was a need to add the complexity of the bingo card system. There is too much time spent looking at menu screen for the card and tasks; time better spent actually playing the game. I would much have preferred just a simple daily/weekly task list where a quick glance tells me what to go knock out.
At least the task list on the cards can be refreshed because there can be a big discrepancy in level of effort between tasks. One task will be "complete an expedition" that will take 30 minutes while another will be kill 10 enemies that will take a couple minutes while yet another will be "eat 10 food" which takes 30 seconds. Refreshing, which costs azoth the more you refresh, can result in a simple bingo completion. And again this micromanagement is happening in the menu taking away from engaging in the game.
Another gripe of the activity cards (and season journey) is that it's all housed in the menu. I would have loved if I could add tracking to the overlay UI so I could see progress the same way that I can pin a quest or recipe. I spent way too much time in the menu and it took away from my engagement with the game world.
These complaints may seem like I am not enjoying the season, but that is not the case. I am enjoying it a bunch. I really dig battle passes in games as it gives me defined purpose to my playtime that is not just a repeat of what I've been doing for the last year (gypsum + OPR/arenas + the same faction quests in Ebonscale). It will wear off as the season winds down but then I look forward to season 2. I also don't mind the cost of premium as the rewards are outstanding in my book as a more casual player.
If AGS cleans up the card system to be less annoying they are on the right path with Season 1!
So what else is on the agenda with Season 1?
New World Season 1 hit the servers yesterday and with it a ton of changes. So what did I do with my time on Day 1?
The first thing I did was log in and drop $100 on marks of fortune. Then I bought my six additional gear sets. Following that I grabbed the Premium season pass with the +20 level boost (because time is my limiting factor these days; I'll just have to forgo avocado toast this month to make up the dollars).
Then I just... did... nothing. The original plan a lot of players had, which involved saving up a ton of stuff too turn in, was nipped when the production version of the Season XP Booster was found to only apply to passive experience and not all experience gained so those saved up activities were not going to be a "complete the pass in two hours". Honestly this was a good change for the health of the season pass and the content surrounding it, but it did shoot my day 1 plans in the foot.
I also watched BDLG's stream.
I also started theory crafting my next build. I wanted to go back towards heavy armor PvP tank or maybe a sword and shield/lifestaff build (aka the New World Paladin build). With the changes to heavy armor it may be more feasible this time around. Until then I am just rocking the sword and shield/greatsword build I've had for months.
More to come as I move forward into more content later today.
