New World implements important requests from players who really love their items

New World is getting a new upgrade system for equipment with the January patch. This will allow you to increase the setup value from 600 to 625 in the future. But many players were disappointed because they created the perfect equipment for themselves with a lower armament value. But you will also be able to improve them in the future.

What kind of a new upgrade system is that? The new shadow splinters will be introduced with patch 1.3 in January. You can earn this through crafting, the new dungeon mutators and the Gypsum system.

The Shadow Shards are used to raise equipment with armor value 600 to 625. For this you always need twice as much splinters as for the previous level – setup value 601 needs one splinter, 602 then two, 603 then four and so on.

However, some players have been disappointed with the system because they have made or found their appropriate equipment, but it does not have the armor value 600. Because the weapons and armor get random stats during drops and crafting, which do not always go together. The only exceptions are items with fixed names, such as the strong Voidbent armor.

But just for those players who have strong epic items, Amazon now has good news.

Equipment at level 590+ can also be upgraded with Shadow Shards

What was announced? Like the developer Zin_Ramu in the forum has communicated, items with the armament value 590 will also be able to be upgraded with the shadow splinters in the future:

We really wanted to keep the value of the legendary 600s high. But I can well understand that this is limiting and can be daunting when you have a lot of bad RNG and don’t get your legendary role.

We are therefore considering reducing the minimum set-up value required for an upgrade to 590. You still need to reach 600 proficiency to unlock the Shadow Shard upgrade. But once it’s unlocked, you can now upgrade from 590 to 600 at a moderate Shadow Shard cost. This allows those really good 590-599 Rolls to turn into great weapons with a little extra shadow splinters.

This change should be implemented “as soon as possible”. Whether it will be there for the January release has not yet been confirmed.

There is a small catch, however. Epic equipment that is at levels 590 to 599 will remain epic even after upgrading beyond the armor value of 599 (via NewWorld):

• However, Epic Equipment only has two bonus effects
• Legendary equipment, however, three

Despite the upgrade, nothing will change in this regard. This is justified by the fact that legendary equipment should not be devalued in the future and that the shadow fragments should only contribute to upgrading, but not to the generation of new legendary equipment.

What do you think of the adjustment to the equipment? Are you happy to keep your epic items or are you trying to get long-term legendary gear anyway?

We have completely translated the currently preliminary patch notes for the upcoming 1.3 update into German:

New World: Preliminary Patch Notes for the big 1.3 update in January