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Greetings Adventurers,
With this PTR release, we’re rolling out a series of additional quality-of-life improvements that should make your time in the new Barnacles & Black Powder expedition (and more) that more worthwhile!
Expedition Group Finder (Same World)
Finding a group to run expeditions with while solo isn’t always easy when you need to ask through Chat. So we are excited to release our first version of the Group Finder tool for expeditions! With this feature, you’ll be able to access a specific Group Finder for each expedition (accessed through expedition entrance UI or related expedition map icons), browse listings created by other players, or post your own request. The tool allows players to declare their preferred team role — such as DPS, Tank, or Healer — and recruit based on those roles. You can also set minimum Gear Score and Level, then inspect members to learn their average GS, weapons, and mastery levels.
Expedition Tuning Orb Removal
In this update, we’ve removed Expedition Turning Orbs and replaced them with daily limits for Normal and Weekly mutated expedition runs to make all expeditions easier to access. This new system features:
- 15 Normal Expedition Runs per player per day or 105 per week, per player.
- 20 Mutated Expedition Runs per week.
For concerned players, this is how we plan on introducing it after the PTR:
In order to honor the value you’ve put into acquiring existing Tuning Orbs, any orbs in your inventory upon the update will be replaced with caches that give loot appropriate for their expedition. While you won’t get a full run’s worth of coin and drops, the rolls will include boss drops for weapons and armor in addition to opportunities for Expertise bumps.
- For Normal expeditions, caches will reward a roll from the sub-boss and main boss found in that specific expedition, and grant coin equal to 50% the cost previously associated with buying that specific type of orb from the Faction Shop.
- For Mutated expeditions, caches will reward 4 boss rolls off the final boss of 4 eligible mutators, and coin equal to 50% the cost previously associated with buying that specific type of orb from the Faction Shop.
More details can be found within the release notes.
Loot Rebalance
With the accessibility changes to expeditions, we’ve moved roughly 80% of coin generated from expedition bosses and have instead spread it out to coin drops from elite chests and darkness breaches completion bonuses to help compensate for the reduction. Twice a day, players can loot elite chests in the open world or complete minor and major darkness breaches to earn a bag of coins. Each bag contains 500 coins.
Along with that, we have introduced a new method to help the player overcome the randomness of Expedition Loot. Materia is a new type of resource , Materia, that can be used to craft your desired drop. There are two ways to obtain this resource. Any named item obtained from an expedition can now be salvaged into Materia of its corresponding expedition type (Amrine Materia, Depths Materia etc.). The player will also receive Materia when defeating the main boss of an expedition.
Mutator Loot Shift
We’ve shifted the difficulty levels at which loot unlocks. The system was originally intended to give players a sense of rewarding progression as they play through the different difficulty levels — which it did accomplish — but the lower levels didn’t feel particularly good due to sparse rewards. We’ve therefore changed what items unlock at which difficulty level, which should result in a wider variety of lower level rewards. No loot has been removed, as specific items have shifted to unlock at different brackets and in certain groups.
We’ve also added another accessory to each mutator. Previously, each mutator dropped 2 of the 3 types of accessory. Now every mutator can drop all available types.
Please let us know how you enjoyed these changes on the PTR! In particular, due to the complex nature of these adjustments and new systems, we’re especially keen on feedback relating to overall sense of balance and fairness, level of work/reward, and any potential technical issues such as gameplay bugs, exploits, or client stability/performance problems.
Thank you for your insight and valuable input during our early build preview phase!
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Thank you for helping make New World the best game it can be!
See you in Aeternum!