u/Slappy202

Last night I booted up New World and loaded into Valhalla. I immediately noticed how quiet the capital city of Everfall was, everyone just standing around and it was probably 10-12 people total. I had never gotten into playing music because I never understood how beneficial it was for buffs, and I couldn’t be bothered to spend time just playing music over dungeons, questing, gathering, etc. I climbed up on the fountain and played 8-10 songs to bring a little life to Oxboro capital- and even got a few tips. Thanks to the people who started dancing or tipped as they passed. It was a bittersweet moment to load in and feel so alone, but be able to actually enjoy part of the game that I always had overlooked. I was feeling the nostalgia hard af when I used to tele to Oxboro and there was so much music and craziness going on by the fountain that I’d roll my eyes and run by. Now I miss that liveliness like crazy and would love to see the game thriving again. Someday, something will fill that void.. but for now I’ll just play some mandolin on the fountain. 🎸🕺

Title. Looking for a MMO to try and fill the void of New World. Love action combat and the gear treadmill and dungeon system of New World. I tried Guild Wars 2 for a while and enjoyed it, but looking for something deeper.

For context, I'm fairly green to YouTube. I have a twitch channel with a couple thousand followers, and used to (3-4 years ago) post shorts and some amount of long form highlight videos on my YouTube channel (300ish subs?). The shorts popped off regularly, the long form highlights didn't do too well, but I only posted maybe 15-20 total. Pivot to wanting to start a fresh channel now, not related to gaming- but I'm struggling to find a niche and direction for where I want to go with it. I have a full time job so time is not unlimited. I am really intrigued by vlogging and doing a "yapping" style content, where I just talk about things in everyday life (I LOVE storytelling and just chatting). However, I realize in order to really build a personal brand or make this into a successful business, I need to 1) answer specific questions, or 2) Review specific products, or 3) solve specific problems. I haven't figured out how to make that work for what I'm trying to do. Should I just start recording and posting and figure that out along the way? For context, I'm a 34 year old dad with a full time job in the Software industry. Gaming is by far my favorite hobby, I also enjoy being outdoors, camping, fishing, and watching sports. Am I overthinking this, or should I be narrowing down my direction before I dive in? Any insight is appreciated, if you made it this far- thanks for reading.

I've just hit 200 hours in the game, and loving how much there is to do. One thing I realized from the start is that playing to explore and just vibe is amazing, but doesn't earn much gold. I'm very much so a checklist type person, and love having a routine. Here's what I do so far each day, let me know if you have any suggestions on additions or tweaks. I like all types of content, haven't done any raids outside of quickplay yet - but anything else I'm down for. I usually have about 2 hours per night to play, give or take.

Current Daily Checklist:

1. Wizards Vault Dailies/Weekly (PVP)

2. Pact Supply Vendor Network run

3. Guild Hall Nodes

4. Parked Alts chest looting

5. T2 Daily Fractals and Recommended Fractal

6. Daily Raid

Though many people hate having games feel like a job, I actually really enjoy having a "daily checklist", though as still a very green player I'm not sure what all is the best thing to include. As of now I basically do my Wizards Vault dailies in a PVP game or two, then will run the 4 daily fractals, then a quickplay raid, and then run through my guild halls to collect nodes. I'm trying to maximize profit and still have some time left over to chip away at story, masteries, etc - as I've just completed PoF and barely got into HoT (enough for the glider is all).

What are your daily tasks that you do to stack mats/bring in passive-ish gold? I want to set up some alts for parking but haven't dove into that yet. I still need to grind my skyscale but already got my griffon so that gold sink is done. Appreciate any suggestions!

Basically title. I am a New World refugee (RIP sweet prince) and have been loving GW2 as my new MMO of choice. But one thing I am missing a bit, is the chase for higher tier rare gear. I know the horizontal progression thing pretty much nullifies this, but is there anything you can grind for drops wise for raids, fractals, dungeons etc- that aren't the long grinds of crafting legendaries? Sorry if dumb question. Still under 100 hours so I'm still learning every day!