New World

Yeah there are a lot of bonkers things right now.

I’ve started seeing void gauntlet/rapier players literally wiping 10 people in OPR. It’s insane. Let alone the fact that GA still hasn’t been addressed.

I'm on one of the top 2 populated EU servers and war rosters aren't even filling up for side territoies. It used to be you at least had a full guild or a full list of people, and on top of that another several pages of randoms you don't know and even other faction people. But a weavers war just went thru with only 30 defenders and today an ebonscale war that they could only get like 40 for.

Bad times, particularly on EU with no marketplace. It's not fun to play with no marketplace with the weight restrictions, and by the time they fix it, a bunch of EU players will have already moved on.

I kill plenty of GA users so I don’t think OP is the right way to describe it.

But it needs to be adjusted. Having no skill ceiling(weapon is ez mode) coupled with the damage output is not balanced.

GA is supported by so many synergetic passives it makes your head turn

Me? I have everything BUT mage weapons capped. I went GA/hatchet for a long time and got bored af. So easy it wasn’t even fun.

Like the weapon all you’d like, it doesn’t change the fact that it is too faceroll easy for the impact it has.

Only reason they are doing that is there is some very specific spec you can run with muskets that have a void gem slotted that lets you do bonkers damage in PVP. Outside of that very specific build, they aren't doing great damage

Cybsled said:

Only reason they are doing that is there is some very specific spec you can run with muskets that have a void gem slotted that lets you do bonkers damage in PVP. Outside of that very specific build, they aren't doing great damage

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Why void gem and not arcane gem? Or does it not matter?

Supposedly the void damage has some wonky scaling in PVP

GA would be fine if most of the other weapon trees weren’t such dumpster fires.

The biggest thing they need to do is shut down the chorus that screams for the game to be anti-WoW, but in doing so, screams down ANY change that even sniffs of WoW.

Yes, it's fine to not be WoW. But people forget that many core MMO improvements were popularized in WoW and are good things. Some things this game needs to do in general

1) Accessibility of content: If people can't access your content on a larger scale, then it may as well not exist. Dungeon and Arena Fight orbs are big standouts here, at least as currently designed. No one wants to grind for hours to craft an orb that is only good for a single dungeon run and their watermark system discourages people from using this valuable resource. Make them buyable for a reasonable amount of faction tokens (and just tokens, no gold) would be my suggestion.

2) Cross Realm / Server Grouping instanced PVP (Outpost Rush): Outpost Rush needs an inter-server matching component. Smaller servers sometimes only see a single OPR a day. Make some coding so that if the # of people queuing on your server is under some number, then it automatically pools you with other lower queue servers to get people into matches

3) Add some type of FF14 style Custom Deliveries/Leve Quest system for crafting - limited usage during a given week/day system where a player can gain a decent amount of crafting or gathering XP for less materials cost than just straight up grinding - acts as a natural catchup mechanic and improves daily login metrics if they care about that

4) Scaling non-instanced content that rewards the boost in difficulty: If they want to boost elite difficulty based on the # of people running the content, then they need to boost the rewards to match. The problem is they have the "less loot drops the more people there are" mechanic running, while at the same time boosting mob difficulty a lot. Reward people for running shit together and reward the takedown of harder enemies by improving loot quantity and quality.

5) Diminishing returns on CC in PVP - why this doesn't exist, I have no clue. It turns every group PVP fight into the "who can stun the most people for the longest". This is especially compounded in wars.

Amycus said:

I kill plenty of GA users so I don’t think OP is the right way to describe it.

But it needs to be adjusted. Having no skill ceiling(weapon is ez mode) coupled with the damage output is not balanced.

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That's the real problem. GA doesn't require a lot of skill to excel with, so people run into a lot of dangerous GA's. Even so, it still is the most powerful PvP weapon right now and a skillfull GA is definitely way more dangerous than an average GA, but an average GA is way stronger than most other average other weapons. But it's not as powerful as many people make it out to be. Fire was nerfed too hard, but it was too strong. We used to have a Fire mage that got 40k score every single war, while the closest 2nd was always like 30k, and he'd always have an extra 1mil damage more than anyone else and dozen more kills. He got innocently banned tho and quit lmao. So never got to see what he could do even with nerfs.

Morrow said:

He got innocently banned tho and quit lmao.

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In eq like 99 out of 100 supposed innocents were actually guilty. I never bought it when people claimed they dindu nuffin. New world I totally believe people. Cs is dumb.