How did this happen Max Summer Medleyfaire Rep FAST | New World Season 2? Such a dumb design for an event.
However, I'm not going to complain as I made 7,000+ gold earlier today being one of the two musicians getting tipped on stage for a few hours of mindless music playing (no, I didn't macro it).
New (World) Ideas is a series of posts in which I present small changes that New World could make that would improve the game. In New World players can break down gems into gemstone dust which can be used for brief protection from elemental damage. Tier V gemstone dust is expensive as it comes from Tier V gems and Tier V gems are needed in a lot of areas in the game; mostly to slot into gear for whatever the weekly mutation rotation is. Once a gem is turned into dust or locked into a piece of gear there is no getting the gem back. Thus it is not smart to turn valuable gems into dust and dust is therefore expensive.
New Idea: If a piece of gear has a gem slotted and that piece of gear is salvaged give players gemstone dust as a salvage reward. This would make dust more widely available and ensure it doesn't feel like you are giving up a firstborn child's worth of gold for 20 seconds of elemental protection.
The AMD x3D CPUs have been noted to improve gaming performance for many games and seem particularly well suited to gaming performance over other processing tasks. However, there is a recommendation to upgrade to a 1,000W PSU (power supply) at the same time.
I have a current 650W PSU that has followed me for multiple builds now. It has been ole' reliable but with recent crashing issues requiring me to undervolt my GPU the PSU is showing its underpowered nature. So I will be on the hunt for a 1,000W PSU and open to any suggestions. I am hoping to find a modular PSU so I can swap the PSUs without having to redo cabling.
I am having issues logging New World's performance (external tracking is now showing an average FPS of 0.1....). I do want to figure this out so I can do some good before and after to share with the New World community so open to ideas here as well.
I am cruising on my Ultimate Trophies in New World. I have now completed 3x ultimate combat trophies and 2x ultimate gathering trophies. I plan to finish the third gathering ultimate and call it quits on the ultimate trophies for now. I don't craft enough, nor do I have the major crafting trophies, to justify the crafting ultimates.
On the right is my house's porch in Brightwood with the ultimate gathering and ultimate combat trophy on display.
Just a quick note on some easily overlooked changes to daily gypsum limits in the Season 2 patch for New World.
Players can no obtain the following daily (with previous amounts listed):
Any other changes I didn't list?
Updated 7/18
New World made great changes to the PvP tracks for Season 2, but they may have broken them at the same time. The tracks reward great (seriously great - best in slot great!) gear now. The only catch is the rewards cost a pretty pinch of salt (azoth salt specifically) and salt is hard to come by now so it's effectively broken the tracks.
Here is what my current filled up (not complete!) track looks like.
Notice the amazing rewards? Now look closer at the top right and you will see my current problem: I only have 12,212 azoth salt. I want at least two of the rewards here; one for 12,500 and one for 20,000 for a total of 32,500 total salt needed. I actually completed this track when I only had about 10,000 salt and therein lies the problem.
I am now filling out PvP tracks far faster than I am getting salt to buy rewards. Not completing a track (i.e. click the complete button after claiming rewards) means all future PvP experience earned goes into a blackhole and is lost. The track carries over the excess experience from the activity that finished the track but nothing past that. I will likely do 2-3 tracks or more worth of PvP before I have the 32.5k salt to get the rewards here (chest + boots are what I'd love to have).
Azoth salt is now just a frustrating limiter of my fun in the game. It used to be a mostly worthless currency; something I had more than I could spend. I've burned through a huge stockpile of it now and am effectively salt-broke. I'd prefer it if they just removed salt from the game if I was being honest.
Compare it to PvE expeditions that give rewards simply for doing the content. Kill boss. Loot chest. Get the reward. Imagine instead of it was kill boss, get materia (the closest PvE equivalent to azoth salt), and then repeat dozens of more times to be able to use the materia to claim a single randomly generated gear piece. People would lose their minds. Note: materia is used to craft specific named drops if you are unlucky in your drops in expeditions.
Anyways; that will be me over in the corner screaming about a lack of salt or efficient ways to get salt.
I went to play New World today and I got an error launching the game in Steam: “No product information found, cannot initialize Game.”
I went over some old forum posts talking about disabling IPv6 in my network settings, but that was not relevant to my situation. I also tried to verify the game files in Steam and while it did download some new files it didn't fix the error.
Then I remembered I've had this before and the fix was just a full PC reboot. I rebooted and voila it was fixed. Sometimes the simple step of "turn it off and back on" is the best first step to take.
Palia dropped a surprise announcement that a Closed Beta is coming in August. See the trailer below! Also the game was announced for the Nintendo Switch console and stated it was coming out "this year". It was not clear if that was just a Switch release or if we'd see the PC release.
The game has been on my radar for it's developers pedigree from past projects (mainly Blizzard and World of Warcraft). Palia is also aiming to be a "non-combat" MMORPG focused on life skills (crafting, gathering, building, etc) and social interactions. It may just be right for this aging gamer and hoping to sneak into a beta slot!
New World Season 2 is full of stuff to do. While there is the big stuff like the game's first raid, first 10-man trial, new PvP arena map and cross-server OPR I am finding myself busy with everything else.
First the story quest line of season 2 is OK. It is nothing to write home about but it's at least interesting enough to hold my attention. It is dotted with a couple solo-trials (mini dungeons you go into by yourself) which were actually complex enough to make me pause and figure out the fight mechanics. I will take more of these solo trials if anyone at AGS is listening!
Next I have been working on ultimate combat trophies. Each trophy requires one each of the six major combat trophies along with 45,000 gold and 100,000 faction tokens to purchase the ultimate upgrade component (+ your furnishing skill has to be leveled up). Between major trophies and the 45k gold for the upgrade component; that is about 150k gold per trophy. I have two the ultimate combat trophies done and just grinding the faction tokesn for the third. Then I'll get started on ultimate crafting and refining trophies.
The season journey is also full of tasks that my completionist-self must check off. Currently working on capping 8 forts.
Azoth Salt is now a much needed resource. This PvP currency used to be something I had at cap at almost all times, but now with the PvP track rewards updated I have found myself at close to zero salt multiple times now. The new legendary gear rewards on the track are very enticing and cost a good bit of salt.
We've also been rocking the portals daily in my company. The rewards are much improved (at least the gear that drops; still stingy on the materials for corrupted lodestones).
I may get around to the 10-man trial, The Hatchery, but doubt I'll get to the 20 man sandwurm raid. Seems it will be hard for organized groups let alone random pick up groups. Maybe if the company I am rolling with gets around to it I'll give it a whirl but not sure yet.
Small bug fix patch last night for New World Season 2. It fixed some Hatchery objectives being tracked properly and targeted healing hot keys should be back in working order. I'd link to the patch notes but... reasons... can't. Here is a screenshot.
