Checked off a personal goal today. I hit 200+ in every gathering, refining, casual, and crafting skill in New World. The last one to finish out was music.
Note: the one's that show a number other than 200 indicate the 200+ aptitude level. For example Weaving on the bottom left is level 27 aptitude (meaning I've leveled it up 27 more times since hitting 200).
The main piece that tester's stumbled across is the addition of Artisans crafting recipes (example: Artisans Round Shield). These are guaranteed 600 GS weapons and gathering tools that anyone can craft and look to be positioned to allow anyone to jump directly into 600 GS items.
There are also multiple changes to gypsum casts. The cooldown now appears to be weekly (7 days) instead of daily. So players can craft up to 7x of each cast once per week. Also each cast is awarding more expertise bumps which will reduce the total needed to level expertise to 600.
Combined these two items may be an indicator that AGS is looking to help players accelerate the 500-600 expertise which supports the gear score increase announced on the road map; thus players can get into the new end gear progression faster. This will be needed if, like other major updates, a large number of players come back to check the game out and the last thing AGS needs is them being stuck behind a significant grind.
Another piece of the puzzle are a new type of gypsum cast that reward guaranteed legendary gear. These cost gypsum orbs and umbral shards (as opposed to rewarding shards) and result in a roll at a legendary item. This along with other changes such as awarding gear creates for PvP arenas and more legendary items on the PvP reward track are bringing more and more legendary gear to the fingertips of players. And the more they give out legendary gear the more you have to wonder if that's because they are about to hit the big ole' reset button (i.e. they are buttering us up with freebies so we'll be less mad).
A gear reset in New World seems very likely at this point and to soften the blow it looks we are getting some possible hand outs as well as faster paths for players looking to catch up. We still don't know what an increase to max gear score looks like or what it means for our 625 gear but the pieces are starting to come together.
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New (World) Ideas is a series of posts in which I present small changes that New World could make that would improve the game.
Heartrunes of Grasping Vines in New World require 1,000 thorny vines to upgrade meaning 3,000 thorny vines are needed in order to craft the three legendary heartrunes. Thorny vines are gathered from briars which don't fall into any of the gathering skills so gathering rate is not influenced by gathering luck or yield increases (buffs, potions, etc). So players gather one vine at a time.
New idea: move briar (and any other "general" node) into a gathering profession. This way gathering effects can make the activity of gathering briar for thorny vines more efficient and expedite the rate at which they can be gathered. This is especially important if 1,000 of something are going to be needed to upgrade a heartrune!
Had my best Outpost Rush (OPR) match ever in New World. Crushed it with my heavy armor Flamethrower build (Fire Staff/Sword and Shield).
And another bonus OPR scoreboard; our team steam rolled them but very rare I go 10-0 on kill/death!
The best part is that it accepts text searches so will not require a lot of clicking like the current TP. In the stream you see it accepting searches for certain perks. For example; [abyss] found items with perks that have the word abyss in them. And [abyss] + [keen] found items with perks that match both (screenshot at right). Also from other chatting it sounds like it can accept gear score searches such as [keen] > 600 to find gear over 600GS. Sexy.
And actually the best best part is that it supports searching storage and inventory. Let's freaking go!
