Read about all of my Rise of the Angry Earth experiences here.
After taking a day offline due to a Spectrum outage I returned to New World's expansion: Rise of the Angry Earth. We marked a few accomplishments.
Ding! Level 65! I missed the screenshot to capture the moment which is not surprising as it flew past. I don't really understand why they added the levels if they were going to be so easy to achieve. I don't want a big long grind, but this was just pointless number inflation and now I'm right back where I was at level 60 with a map full of quest icons that are mostly meaningless as the XP gained from completing them goes into a blackhole. I'd recommend AGS look at the mastery system from Guild Wars 2 as a way to make general XP worthwhile after max level.
Next I snagged my first artifact: Featherweight! This dropped for me on the first kill of the named open world boss that drops it. I feel sorry for folks farming this for hours on end, but hey sometimes you just get lucky.
For those following along this means I am now in the Elysian Wilds zone playing through the expansion's storyline. It is moving along quickly and I am not hitting some of the slowdowns that other players faced with the crush of players on launch day. Quests that can only be completed one player at a time were open to me with no waiting lines. In general I am enjoying the zone (screenshots below), but the story is click through material (i.e. boring). One part I do like is the Angry Earth chick talking to me; the audio is great and really feels like it is inside my head!
Check out some of my screenshots from Day 2!
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| Into the Elysian Wilds we go! |
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| A cool hideout in old First Light; the story could of done more with this location. |
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| A tower off in the distance I need to check out still. |
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| Still burning stuff with the flamethrower! |
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