New World was released with several dungeons and with the next update, it will also receive the mutators to make these dungeons harder. MeinMMO editor Alexander Leitsch has actually been enjoying the instances in recent weeks, but is bothered by one thing: the dungeon orbs.
New World currently offers six different dungeons where I can prove my skills as a tank, healer, or DPS, and since the update in November, I can even earn decent money.
The main reason I run the dungeons is primarily for the increase in proficiency. For every completion of the endgame dungeons Garden of Genesis and Lazarus Instrumentality, I receive a guaranteed boost as well as a gypsum that ensures I have another increase.
However, my enjoyment of the dungeons is currently heavily overshadowed by the orb system. For each dungeon, a specific orb is required, which serves as a key. However, currently, this key can only be crafted once per person per week, and the materials are also hard to come by.
This leads to some groups demanding horrendous sums just to allow other players to join.
Up to 3,000 coins as DPS, discounts for tanks and healers
How broken the system currently is becomes quickly evident when taking a look at the recruitment chat. On my server Styx, it is common for me, as the one opening the dungeon, to simply demand money from my fellow players.
In other MMORPGs, it’s common to pay for a complete run through a dungeon or raid. In New World, I have to pay to “be allowed” to tank a dungeon.
As a DPS, I am sometimes required to pay up to 3,000 coins just to be taken along. Some groups then offer discounts for tanks or healers, as these are notoriously harder to find. However, there are also groups that charge the full price.
It becomes particularly annoying when you are kicked out of such a group during the run or the group disbands entirely. Then you may have paid, but don’t receive any loot. A problem I see especially for the upcoming mutators.
The problem, however, does not lie with the players. Because anyone crafting such an orb to open the door to the dungeon must farm certain materials and spend some coins for it. For a key to the Garden of Genesis, you need:
- 3 Elemental Heart (Crafting materials cost about 100 gold each)
- 3 Eternal Heart (Crafting materials cost about 100 gold each)
- 3 Corrupted Runes (350 coins each)
- 3 Molten Runes (12 coins each)
- 5 Runestones (over 100 gold each)
- 1 Asmodeum Chisel (500 coins and 7,000 faction tokens)
- 2 Corrupted Lodestones (farmable through portal events)
- Additionally, the stonecutter is required at level 200, and you can only craft an orb once per week
Of course, players who have invested so many coins and effort want to receive something back for their dungeon run.
Therefore, I see the problem here more with Amazon than with the players themselves.
Amazon plans changes, but it won’t be enough
With the upcoming patch 1.3, dungeon mutators will be introduced. With the mutators, a new orb enters the game, which can only be crafted once a week and purchased once a week from the faction vendor. Anyone wanting to level their mutators quickly will have to run with the orbs of other players. And that costs quite a bit of coins.
Although Amazon is making a few changes, including one orb per week for each dungeon at the faction vendor and all materials for crafting being made tradeable, it won’t be enough.
I am aware that this issue has existed for weeks, even months. But with the upcoming mutators, the developers obviously want to strengthen dungeon players. And for me, the best way to strengthen them would be to remove the orb system for regular dungeons and at least adjust it for mutators so I can craft an endless amount of them.
That would certainly lower the prices.
What do you think of the orbs in the dungeons? Have you had problems with them as well? Feel free to share in the comments.
The developers of New World recently played their endgame content themselves and many received it well:
New World: Players demand the team play endgame content themselves – And they do
