Originally posted by Archdeacon Monseigneur:

the mist and terrain are major anti-fun elements of mistlands.
once you kill the queen the game comes to an abrupt end progression-wise, which was the case for previous patches as well, and that's a shame because i didn't even get to test out the majority of the new stuff.
i made a krom sword and some carapace armor + the feather cloak, which was enough to 'complete' the game... oh and the crossbow.. i tried the crossbow too so there's that.

i didn't get to try out any of the magic stuff.
i didn't get to try the new sledgehammer.
i didn't get to try pretty much anything else, because there was simply no need to.
the game didn't put me in a situation that motivated me to make any of the new stuff except the most basic things.

Let's be real here, the reason for that is the insane and completely unnecessary mistlands nerf people here where begging for and got 2 weeks after the ML came out.

You don't need these weapons simply because the ML is too easy, and you can perfectly defeat the mobs with plains and even lesser gear and weapons.

the game didn't put me in a situation that motivated me to make any of the new stuff except the most basic things.

The game didn't put you into a situation that motivated you to make the new stuff because if they did too many people would whine about it and ragequit before even attempting to make the new stuff. That's what's going on here.

If, for example, magic was necessary to defeat the queen with anything short of streamable skill levels people that wouldn't like magic would be all over this forum complaining about how they don't get to play the game 'in their style'.

p.s those of you who are angry about not being able to upgrade your new gear to level 4 (stuck at level 2) you can turn on creative mode and disable bench/materials requirements which allows you to upgrade your new gear to max quality... is that cheating? well, i dunno... seems like just bringing the gear up to where its intended to be to me, but one of my buddies was outraged that i had the gall to do that lol. 16 more armor overall, and 10 more damage per swing on my krom sword, and some increased durability doesn't seem like a harsh "cheat" to me.

I would be pissed too. In the group I'm playing with there's 0 tolerance to any form of cheats. Using devcommands or whatever, if detected, would be insta kick. And I agree with that, it's a slippery slope to use at all.

What I would suggest to your friends in your situations is to appoint an 'accountant' among them. Look at the valheim wiki at the cost of level 3 or 4 upgrades(you can find it there, with the status 'currently unobtainable'). Give the accountant the materials listed there, let him throw the mats into the ocean for all to see and let him then spawn the level 3 weapon and give it to you. That is a transparent solution for your problem and something your friend will probably agree on too.

imo it was ridiculous that they didn't implement the tools to upgrade your gear to max in the first place. dunno if they didn't have the time or whats going on with that, but they really ought to implement upgradeable gear in its entirety when they release a patch that includes new gear, especially if they plan to properly balance enemies vs. the player, because now they're gonna be tuning enemy mobs bearing in mind that people only have access to level 2 gear/weapons.

Agreed, but I assume this will be fixed in an update prior to the ashlands release. So this only is a temporary problem.