New World: Aeternum

Hey all, I was wondering what do y'all think about the game after the recent relaunch. What is the state of things? Is it worth returning and if so, does it make sense to start anew on new servers, or just continue with the old character?

I don't have the Angry Earth expac so mainly wondering if it is worth the additional buy in price.

I don’t mind if it requires thousands of hours of grinding, or a literal million materials. I just want to be able to craft true BiS gear.

I envision gear that requires what would be considered an absurd amount of the top tier resources, but has max GS and lets you select every perk you want. I’m not an expert on game design, so I won’t even hazard a guess at what quantities it would take to be balanced. With the coin cap, it surely couldn’t be tradable.

Thoughts?

I'll go first: Rapier. Bow and musket often mainly used rapier as an escape tool, and the stun caused by the parry was ridiculously effective at shutting down multiple melee combatants at a time, just when you thought you'd finally caught them. Looking forward to finding new reasons to hate rapiers in this expansion.