<ul><li>New World lacks “chase” items, rare and highly desirable drops that keep people running content even if they need nothing else from it.</li><li>To avoid power creep and imbalance, chase items should primarily be cosmetic.</li><li>Cosmetic rewards like transmog tokens can be added back to drop tables for elite chests and old season pass and Twitch rewards can be reused.</li><li>Rare mounts are a great way to keep people engaged in the long term.</li><li>Player retention can be improved by keeping in mind the solo players who need a way to progress.</li><li>Solo players need a way to progress even if it's slower than group players.</li><li>Open world mobs have been nerfed, making factions missions and grinding mobs unrewarding and boring.</li><li>Incremental rewards are a great way to keep group content more rewarding without making solo content irrelevant.</li><li>New World needs to go back to its roots as a title that embraces a challenging and rewarding open world.</li><li>The surety of progress is what New World is missing and it’s especially bad for solo players but it does affect everyone.</li></ul>

Vitae Aeternum: How to fix New World Aeternum’s endgame with chase items and solo play

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