New World: Aeternum

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Greetings friends! I noticed Lemmy didn't have a New World community, so I made one.

Reddit is...what it is, and the official Discord is a flood of bug reports and unproductive complaints. The goal of this community is just the opposite: productive discussion, interesting content, and top-shelf memes. New World has had a tumultuous history full of anger and disappointment; another forum showcasing those unfiltered feelings would be redundant and unenjoyable.

Need to air a grievance about a frustrating game system? Want to vent about how bad your favorite weapon feels now? Do so, but do so productively. Posts or comments like "bow is trash" or "target lock is aimbot" can be found everywhere else. Let's make this place different.

Why does the weapon feel bad? What are your ideas on what devs could do to make a given system less frustrating? Center your comments on your perspective. As an example, on Aeternum launch day I kept seeing objectively-framed, vague statements like "the UI is garbage now," so imagine my surprise when I loved the changes they made.

Another goal is to avoid unhelpful dev-bashing. Blanket statements claiming "the devs don't know what they're doing" aren't productive. What could they be doing?

Lastly, a key goal is civility and maturity. "Can you not read?" might be a sick burn in the middle school lunchroom, but it's lame and juvenile to functioning adults. If you can't resist ad hominem attacks and insults that terminate meaningful discussion, go somewhere else.

With these goals in mind, I don't want the space to be over-policed or humorless. I just want to avoid creating yet another toxic echo chamber. This community is about quality over quantity. Let's work toward that.

Hey all, I was wondering what do y'all think about the game after the recent relaunch. What is the state of things? Is it worth returning and if so, does it make sense to start anew on new servers, or just continue with the old character?

I don't have the Angry Earth expac so mainly wondering if it is worth the additional buy in price.

I don’t mind if it requires thousands of hours of grinding, or a literal million materials. I just want to be able to craft true BiS gear.

I envision gear that requires what would be considered an absurd amount of the top tier resources, but has max GS and lets you select every perk you want. I’m not an expert on game design, so I won’t even hazard a guess at what quantities it would take to be balanced. With the coin cap, it surely couldn’t be tradable.

Thoughts?

I'll go first: Rapier. Bow and musket often mainly used rapier as an escape tool, and the stun caused by the parry was ridiculously effective at shutting down multiple melee combatants at a time, just when you thought you'd finally caught them. Looking forward to finding new reasons to hate rapiers in this expansion.