New World shows preliminary patch notes for Update 1.2 and a lot sounds really good

In December, the new patch 1.2 appears in New World. This caused quite a stir in the run-up because he was going to revise the watermark system. The developers have now published the patch notes from the PTR. We at MeinMMO summarize everything important for you.

What’s in Patch 1.2? The December update will mainly make three big changes:

• A winter event will be introduced for which you can complete various events and 7 new quests and unlock cool rewards via a branded system. These rewards include weapons, armor and a special “Present Gifting” emote.
• The watermark system will be revised, will be called “Competence” in the future and will be displayed in the inventory. In addition, plaster of paris is being introduced as a new raw material to take impressions of your equipment and thus level up your skills.
• There is an expansion for the crafting system that will bring you rewards beyond level 200 for a profession. Among other things, you can earn plaster of paris from this.

In the meantime, however, the developers have published the PTR patch notes and there are some interesting changes to be found there as well. Especially the adjustments to the open world, the dungeons and the weapons read well.

New World changes opponents in the open world, makes dungeons even more lucrative

What is changing in the open world?

• The enemies in Myrkgard, which were secretly strengthened with Patch 1.1, are now weakened a bit. There is also a new elite chest in the area.
• Some other points of interest have been adjusted. Some have been weakened, others, like the Imperial Palace in Equality, have been raised to level 66.
• The events with the Corrupted have also been increased to level 66 in some places.
• There are new T5 jewelry that can be found on enemies in the open world. The problem here was that there were only named items, which were quite rare.

What are you changing about the dungeons? Dungeon end bosses from Lazarus instruments and Garden of Origin are guaranteed to increase your competence with each completion. This offers a new way to grind the old watermarks.

There are also the new “Timeless Shards”, which you can use to force a specific attribute when crafting your equipment.

However, many players still criticize the orb system here. Because many of them would run the dungeons more often, but can’t because of that.

New perks for your equipment: There are now new perks with various useful effects, including 3-15% faster depletion of resources and new interactions with heavy attacks, about 8 seconds of illness on the enemy from heavy attacks or 3-15% more damage when you have a fully charged heavy attack performs.

What are other interesting changes?

• In crafting, legendary materials that are otherwise rarely found in mining (such as shed cloth for wire fibers) can be made by using 250 wire fibers.
• The quest display has been revised. So you can see on the right in the UI and on the map what the main quests, quests for progress (e.g. better skill in fishing) and what “normal side quests” are.
• Fast travel points are now displayed even if you haven’t discovered them yet.
• There are now new quests in Klagental and the Unsteady Coast.
• The damage formula in PvP has been revised so that the real armor value is now calculated, instead of an average, when a character with a lower level fights a strong enemy. In compensation, the damage is increased by players with a lower level.
• Bonuses on critical damage will in future have an additive instead of a multiplicative effect.
• For some weapons there was a reduction in the “recovery time”, i.e. the period in which one action was carried out and the next was activated. The heavy attack from the sword, for example, now has 5 frames less recovery time.
• In the outpost rush, the enemy faction can no longer enter the base.
• The health of the Source Guardian, a boss in the story, has been halved.
• There have been a number of balance adjustments to the weapons.

The complete patch notes – so far only in English – can be found in the official forum of New World.

What about the adjustments to the item level? Amazon is planning a major adjustment for New World equipment that will allow your equipment to scale with skill level in the future. This means: If you have a competence level of 520 and you craft or buy an item with the armament value 600, it will be scaled down to the value 520.

However, this change is not included in this update and will only come into play in 2022. Nevertheless, there is already a lot of criticism for this:

New World announces changes to its equipment for 2022 and is getting a shit storm