In New World I have to pay other players to enter a dungeon

New World was released with several dungeons and will also get the mutators with the next update to make these dungeons more difficult. MeinMMO editor Alexander Leitsch has actually been having fun with the instances over the past few weeks, but one thing is bothering him: the dungeon orbs.

New World currently offers me six different dungeons in which I can prove my skills as a tank, healer or DD and even earn some good money since the update in November.

The main reason I run the dungeons is primarily to increase proficiency. For each completion of the endgame dungeons Garden of Health and Lazarus Instruments, I get a guaranteed boost and also a cast that guarantees me another boost.

But my enjoyment of the dungeons is currently being clouded by the orb system. Because each dungeon requires a specific ball that serves as a key. However, currently this key can only be crafted once per person per week and the materials are difficult to obtain.

As a result, some groups demand horrendous sums just to be allowed to run as a teammate.

Up to 3,000 Thalers as DD, discounts for tanks and healers

It quickly becomes clear how broken the system is at the moment when you take a look at the chat for recruitment. On my server Styx it is common practice that I, as the one who opens the dungeon, simply demand money from my fellow players.

In other MMORPGs it happens that you pay to be pulled completely through a dungeon or raid. In New World, I have to pay for being “allowed” to tank a dungeon.

As a DD, I sometimes have to pay up to 3,000 thalers just to be taken along. Some groups then offer discounts for tanks or healers, as these are known to be harder to find. However, there are also groups here who take full price.

It gets particularly annoying when you are thrown out of such a group during the run or the group even breaks up completely. Then you have paid, but you don’t get any loot for it. A problem that I see especially for the upcoming mutators.

However, the problem is not with the players. Because if you create such an orb to open the door to the dungeon, you have to farm certain materials yourself and spend a few dollars on them. For a key to the garden of healing you need something like:

• 3 Elemental Heart (crafting materials for this cost about 100 gold each)
• 3 Eternal Heart (crafting materials for this cost around 100 gold each)
• 3 Corrupted Runes (350 Thalers each)
• 3 Molten Runes (12 Thalers each)
• 5 Runestones (over 100 gold each)
• 1 Asmodeum Chisel (500 munny and 7,000 faction tokens)
• 2 Correpted Lodestones (Farmbar über Portal-Events)
• In addition, the stonemason is required at 200 and you can only craft an orb once a week

Of course, players who have invested so many credits and so much effort also want to get something back for their dungeon run.

That’s why I see the problem here with Amazon rather than with the players themselves.

Amazon is planning change, but it won’t be enough

The upcoming patch 1.3 will introduce dungeon mutators. A new orb comes into play with the mutators, which can also only be crafted once per week and purchased from the faction vendor once per week. If you want to level up your mutators quickly, you have to run with other players’ orbs accordingly. And that costs a lot of dollars again.

While Amazon is bringing a few changes, including one orb per week for each faction vendor dungeon and making all crafting materials tradable, it won’t be enough.

I am aware that the problem has existed for weeks, even months. But with the upcoming mutators, the developers obviously want to strengthen the dungeon players. And for me, the best buff would be to remove the orb system for normal dungeons and tweak it for mutators at least enough that I can endlessly craft them myself.

That would certainly push prices down.

How do you see the orbs in the dungeons? Have you had problems with that? Feel free to write it in the comments.

The developers of New World recently played their endgame content themselves and that was well received by many:

New World: Players are asking the team to play Endgame themselves – and they’re doing it