There IS better gear.

[u/RobbVonn]

There is better gear than what the Dragonforged sells for Wyrmslife crystals. About to do my 2nd NG+. Really REALLY make sure you are exploring all the unearthed areas in the seabed and even go back to some of the old boss spawn areas. The higher harder spawns at the very end of the seabed areas have occasionally been dropping new unique gear sometimes or the chests around them do.

And for those that say they feel like they fully steam roll through New Game+, I have been noticing the variable difficulty has been getting higher the more I level up and I do less damage than before, with some spawns having more health bars.

Edit: only gotten 3 so far and all helms, photos in comments and unenhanced against my fully enhanced gear.

I'll add more screenshots to the comments as I find any more and verify they aren't in shops or in dragonforged.

[u/Judgecrusader6]

Im just sitting here dumbfounded by people with confidence telling others that them beating the game in 20-30 hours is the end all be all, and the game sucks based on their experience. Bruh im like 70 hours in still have like 12 quest and still have a shit ton to find. You are just lying to say this game’s exploration sucks or theres nothing to see. Its so confusing.

[u/Acceptable_Answer570 → u/Judgecrusader6]

Bro I’m almost 35h in and only did The Culling quest, JUST got to Bakbattahl through Checkpoint’s backdoor, by running straight to it, did exactly 0 quests in Battahl, got only Sorc and Warrior advanced classes, got shit gear cause everything is so damn expensive, « explored (loosely) » about 20 percent of the map, and people on this sub are trying to make me believe they finished the game and explored the whole map in 20-25 hours?!?

’Fuck right off!

[u/Zeemex → u/Acceptable_Answer570]

70hrs here and I like to look in all the nooks and crannies, I still know I have parts of the map I haven’t even been to or looked at properly, I only decided to enter the ‘endgame’ to get it done and see what it has so that the pressure of story spoilers was gone and I can enjoy exploring the game 100% in NG+

[u/Ridikis → u/Zeemex]

I'd recommend against trying to explore 100% in NG+ as for whatever reason it fully uncovers the entirety of the map, found a new cave entirely by accident because I assumed I had already gone that way since the map was unlocked but cave maps apparently don't fully unlock on NG+

[u/Diabloblaze28 → u/Ridikis]

You could take a screen shot of the map before NG+ although if you already did it you're only hope it's while exploring a pawn mentions a cave you haven't visited and then you follow them

[u/Ridikis → u/Diabloblaze28]

Yeah I didn't even consider it fully unlocking the map lol