It seems all your troubles come from the fact that you're choosing to go solo. The developers said from the start what the skeletons were able to do and not do. We all knew that when it first made it's appearance in season 14. On top of that, it seemed like the BB was every-other world event for a while there, so they decided not to make it spawn so often. Don't think for a minute that just because a sloop is headed your way, means you're safe. We sunk many Burning Blade's on sloops, I even have a video of us sinking one crewed by a galleon. They're incredibly agile, which means they can avoid the ashen roar much easier than other ships can. If you're on the Burning Blade and see a sloop coming, get prepared.

Join a crew that's interested in doing it. You might have a much easier time, but always keep your eye on that horizon.

Impossible to Solosloop the burning blade. Sceletons are useless.

Just did it three times alone. You just need to watch a youtube video or learn its weakness.
Most nights, nobody bothers you. Heck nobody bothered my 13 tier.

BUT...it is still intended to be a group/crew thing. Solo isnt ideal, and as always. Solo = Hard Mode (or nightmare for some)

I also grew tired on the repetitive and lack of progress gameplay, I don't care about cosmetics and rep which is 50% of the game)

More like...90%...

as a solo player the burning blade isnt balanced and useless unless you are on a dead server with only sloops.

About true.

I wish the scellys were buffed

They were, but they were deemed to strong...

4 ladders to defend as solo xD I mean come on.

2 if you place Traps and Kegs :P (BB cant burn)

Players boarding the BB is predictable fight. If your fighting 3 man brig, 1-2 are gonna board. Gives you good shot to deal with there ship, force them to either keep fighting or help repair.

But again. When BB was released, it was a beast. Now after much complaining, it was nerf. Solo = Hard Mode on all fields. If a solo were to command a OP BB, that be broken and deemed to be nerf again.

Not impossible, difficult yes...as solo play is intended. Against a bigger competent crew is it a surprise you will be beaten?

@grymdraper the problem is your issue here is the crew size discrepancy, remember that any changes you make the skellies (i relate to wanting them to adjust sails) also applies to larger crews, thus making the bb being manned by a gally crew even more powerful. It's not an easy thing to balance.

Edit to add you have lost me here. Like so many others you've chosen to insult other players because you were outclassed. People do not have to be unemployed to be better than you at the game.

Just so you know if you're one of these people crying get a job when being sunk, you're more likely to be banned than people attacking you.

@grymdraper

I mean, the Burning Blade made it's debut a year ago, and for someone who only came back to the game because of it, you sound like you've only just discovered this. While it's true they make changes to the game all the time, having skeletons angle sails, bail water, etc. would make a gally-crewed Burning Blade pretty impossible to sink. If you choose to sail solo, don't expect Rare to change the game mechanics because of your choice. Also, you don't have to be unemployed to be better at the game.
Quick question, did you hop in the water and ask the brig crew if you could do another camp? If yes, the brig crew you're describing might have been us. A member of my guild needed to turn in the sword with 3 rituals on it. The moment I heard the ship was solo, we knew this wasn't going to go well for them. If it was you, GG sir.

@grymdraper

You're not going to like to hear this, and that's perfectly fine, but it all boils down to the word 'balanced'. A gally crew that has the ability to order skeletons to bucket, bail, angle sails, raise anchor, etc. is seriously over-powered. You can't give this ability to brigs or sloops without giving it to galleons as well, since that wouldn't be fair, which means all ships having that ability means the gally would again, be seriously over-powered. Keep in mind, this entire argument, is because you chose to solo the Burning Blade that's been in the game for a year now, and I'm pretty sure it was us who sank you (you haven't confirmed my question yet).

To answer your other question presented to Hirad, when you assume things about other players, you end up making a fool of yourself. A friend of mine is married, has 2 kids, and streams for a living while playing. Just because someone has more hours than you or is more experienced, doesn't mean they're unemployed or don't have kids/real life responsibilities just because they bested you. It means you have a skill issue, and putting the blame on others when you sink, is ignorant.

If it was you who we sank (you haven't answered my confirmation question), you need to be a bit more fair and transparent here. We chased you for a short while, then you made the mistake of involving/aggroing the skeleton gally (not sure if you did this on purpose?), which then proceeded to attack you as well. You attempted to fire a few cannonballs at us from the helm's cannon, missed by a mile, and never attempted to shoot a single chainshot to even try to disable us in the water. Had you done that, you could've turned your ship and hit us with the Roar, quite possibly ensuring a win, but again, this is just my experience in the game (I probably don't have a job right?) talking here. You couldn't keep up with the skeleton gally shooting you along with us, plus my crew boarding, got overwhelmed by your mistakes, and logged out.

But yeah, let's blame Rare and ask them to change the mechanics of the skeletons instead (that's been functioning like this for a year now), because you're tired of being sunk as a solo sailing the largest ship in the game by a crew who are clearly unemployed without kids.

Edit: For the record, if it was us who sank you, we said nothing to you as we attacked/sunk you, as we record our sessions, so where we were "toxic" is something I'd love to see. Also know that Rare doesn't tolerate toxicity, and if anyone said anything to you, clip it and report them. I know for a fact we didn't.

You seem to be hung up on the amount/number of skeletons on the Burning Blade in correlation to the crew size. That's not the issue here. The issue is what those skeletons (regardless of the amount on the ship) are capable of, that will make the game seriously unbalanced. As we keep saying, having skeletons with the abilities to do as you suggest, makes certain crews seriously over-powered and creates an imbalance in the game that the developers aren't interested in creating.

No idea why you thought or assumed a crew who bested you had to be/were probably unemployed, but you're the one who brought it up. You don't have to be unemployed or a crypto-millionaire to develop skills and experience in this game. It's your attempt to prove to Rare you need them to change the basic mechanics (which have been this way for a year now, and according to you was the sole reason you came back to the game), since you don't have millions of hours of free time to develop better skills at defense. Instead of you gaining experience and learning from this lesson, ("Hmm, maybe I need a bigger crew here, or I need to be proactive instead of reactive around other ships,"), you instead tell Rare the skeletons are USELESS and soloing the BB is impossible, so therefore they need to be able to do other abilities, which ends up making that ship imbalanced and overpowered?

@grymdraper repeating that other people must be easily offended is likely an example of not respecting others in the forum.

Making assumptions about whether someone has a job or not because they beat you in a video game is insulting. You're essentially saying someone has no life, you're aware of this, but choosing to claim ignorance.

It's easy when frustrated to be somewhat blinded by that frustration and allow it to leak through. It is fine to debate points and no one needs to agree, hence the forum. Always worth a 2nd read of anything you post to double check.

Is this relevant, does it add value. Reflecting on other people's intentions or lifestyles with zero information is pure speculation and just demonstrates you struggle to separate these parts.

@grymdraper said in Impossible to Solosloop the burning blade. Sceletons are useless.:

@europa4033
If you want to have a discussion on why people have alot of free time you will have to start your own thread on that topic or moderator will likely complain about off topic comments.

Now as I've said multiple times the amount of sceletons vary depending on the crew size. So no matter what the sceletons are capable of the effect can be balanced as the devs work with everything in the game. They tweak and change small things.

You could for example order sceletons to adjust all sails from rudder and one man crew the sceletons adjust all sails but on a 4 man crew it could be that sceletons only adjust one sail At a time. Things like this has to be tested and likely adjusted over time.

What makes you think it would be overpowered of sceletons have more Functions but vary in power depending on crew size?

Firstly, I don't want to have any discussion about people's free time, as 1- it's none of my business and 2- I don't turn my nose up at people who've bested me and accuse them of not having a job, which you clearly seem to think, so that's on you. I'm sorry you assume that on people who sink you. Hopefully one day you'll realize it's a skill issue.

-Once again, the amount of skeletons isn't the case here. If they perform certain actions for a crew, it will become unbalanced. They tweak and change small things....to keep everything balanced and fair for everyone. To get a sense of how serious they are about this and how they take no shortcuts, it's why they removed the V-cut on the DA sails.

-If all skeletons did on a 4-man crew was angle sails, it would free those players from having to do that. In a ship battle, that's huge for a gally crew, because if I'm on helm, I'll never have to give that order, and my crew is free to just stay on cannons or go board that other ship. If another galleon is coming to contest us, we have the advantage of additional crew members.

-On the same token, it also wouldn't be fair to the gally crew if all their skeletons did was adjust sails, while a brig-crewed Burning Blade would have their skeletons do so much more. Why bother doing the Burning Blade as a gally then if that's the case? I shudder to think what you'd have a brig or sloop-crewed Burning Blade do (probably sail the whole ship for you lol).

You choose to solo a gally or the Burning Blade, you deal with the consequences and extra responsiblities it requires. Rare doesn't owe anyone development time to make bots as extra crewmembers on ships just because you refuse to play with a crew.

@grymdraper said in Impossible to Solosloop the burning blade. Sceletons are useless.:

@europa4033
I don't think you can say it won't work without trying it on test servers, it's all speculations on your part.

With your logic there shouldn't be different kind of boats because having a smaller boat for solo players will give them an unfair advantage because they should just play gally alone and suck it up and 'get good" xD

All skeleton boats are completely controlled by skeleton crews and they aren't that hard to beat xD they could be given tweaks and be completely unsinkable but devs try to find a good balance by testing and tweaking. My opinion is that it could be done with the BB to make solosailing it a bit less underpowered against larger crews.

I have enough experience to know it won't work. I'd LOVE to have skeletons on the Burning Blade with my gally crew doing what you describe, and know without a doubt we'd probably be unsinkable if that's the case. With masts that take 2 chainshots, a capstan that takes 10 seconds to raise, an epic weapon at the helm, skeletons already repairing, firing cannons, angling sails, my crew is free to do what they do best, and good luck. It wouldn't be fair to any attacking ship. You don't have to test this out lol.

-Thankfully, because of how the game is 'balanced' (there's that word you don't like again), each size ship has it's pros and cons, to where one is not overpowered compared to the other. No idea what you mean by your second statement. I've sunk gallys (to include a gally-crewed Burning Blade) with a sloop. It's about taking your particular ship's strengths, and using them against your opponent.

-Indeed. All skeleton crews do the same mechanic: shoot cannons, and repair. Giving them 'tweaks' would make certain ships unsinkeable, and I'm glad the developers found a good balance with this, to include the Burning Blade. If you want to solo the Burning Blade, that's your choice. The mechanic for skeletons is what you're given, regardless of the amount, or the size of the crew captaining her. It's fair for all types of ships. If you feel you're underpowered, perhaps you need more crewmembers, instead of asking Rare to change a balanced and fair mechanic.