Good Morning All,
Just wanted to voice some of my experiences and opinions from doing the new content update.
Well First, I am always excited for new free DLC Updates and grateful that Rare even provides FREE updates, since most other games charge you for DLC Content.
Well, I guess I will start with this...
"World Event Encounters -
The frequency of Ashen Lord encounters is increased for the duration of the Ashen Winds update." Well actually I wish this was true. I played for 6 Hours Last night during my Stream trying to introduce the new content to my community and I only found 3 of These Events Up. I literally server hopped 15 Times after I installed the update and did not find one Ashen Wind Tornado in the sky. One of my Moderators luckily found me a server. ANYWAYS...
Upon arriving at our destination, I intended on completing one of these Events to get a feel for it PvE Style before I was hoping to find these new events contested and get ready for some PvP.
When stepping onto the island, I loved how the event started right away. The red fiery tornado looks amazing, and they did a really nice job with the Ashen Lords from the sounds, the visuals, the movements of them. I first completed this in a Sloop which took a decent amount of time before my crew switched to a Gally. The entire time doing it, we went uncontested which I was kinda upset about. I was hoping boats would roll in on us to contest to fight or even just come over and look at what it was all about.
After beating it and the amount of time it took , I am actually disappointed in the Loot that you obtain from an event like this. I think MAYBE, MAYBE.... I saw a Bone Dust Crate?? I can't even remember, however... A couple of Skulls and some Fine Sugar, and a couple of your average chests I can find in a Shipwreck. Where are the Strong Hold Items??? I can complete a FOTD in less time or Steal One and get all the good stuff plus an Athena. Let alone a skull of an Ashen Lord that sells for what 5k Gold Unused? Why does a Gold Reaper Chest sell for more than this item??? Also, Let's get some F's in the Chat for the Accommodations not working for setting Skelly's & Ships on fire with the Skull....lawls.
Also, I tested out Selling 1 of the Ashen Lord Skulls out of the 3 I obtained and tried selling it to Reaper's to see if it counted towards the 25 for the Ashen Sails, and it does NOT count. Interesting that the Ghost Captain Skulls indeed DO Count towards your 50 for the Sails, ANYWAYS.
As far as the Skull goes for using it as a weapon in a PvP Fight? I mean, personally I will never use it. I rather just carry Firebombs If I even wanted to go that route. It just seems so easy to be killed carrying this thing trying to use it on someone and have them shoot you twice for you to lose it.
The other 2 Events I found once again, nobody doing them..... So we had to be PvE Lords. In conclusion... I'd like to see some better loot thrown in the mix when completing this event...Rage Chest (Fire Ashen Themed), a Gold Reaper, some Strong Hold Items, SOMETHING to make it worth doing or stealing. I think once people get their tattoos (which I have not seen yet) or sell their 25 Skulls to get the New Sails, this event will be forgotten about within 2 Weeks...there is just no WOW Factor for me IMO. This is all just personal experience and my own opinion so this may all be different for each of you..
FOTD will always be the best Addition to this game for spicy content, and it's just sad that you hardly ever see them anymore...
Sorry for the long post! Hope you all enjoy the new update, and happy sailing!
