Finding Reaper Fortresses is a Nightmare

No one was progressing other events on our servers, everyone's just diving to find them, so dive times were excessive whether it was for the Fortresses, digs, or the Ashen Winds.

So..why dont you complete these events and speed up the process? Less diving, more loot collecting from non contested Events.

@poetniknowit said in Finding Reaper Fortresses is a Nightmare:

I thought I heard somewhere that either regular Skelly forts or FoFs were going to be taken out of the world event pool temporarily but I must have been mistaken because we saw many of them today. And none of them were being worked on bc no one wants them while the new Fortresses are live.

I'm pretty sure OG Forts are just now gone, replaced by the Reaper Forts, when naturally being spawned. OG Forts can still spawn from Player Raids though. This means any OG Forts you saw were being done by someone because they were dived to. Though, possible that dived Forts can be abandoned for any potential reasons.

Now, honestly... This is what I hope is kept going forward. The OG Forts are still accessible via Raid Voyages, but let natural spawning Forts being Reaper Forts or FoF now on. These Reaper Forts are such massive improvements over the OG Forts that I honestly been just enjoying doing them, and they have everything that OG Forts have, and more. So them replacing the OG Forts in natural spawns is still pretty valid... They even brought back the Captain Wave! The OG Forts lost the Captain Wave a long time ago, pretty sure around the same time when the Fleet Event was heavily nerfed... Which btw, I now want Rare to give this treatment to the Fleet Event. That event needs some love too.

@burnbacon said in Finding Reaper Fortresses is a Nightmare:

No one was progressing other events on our servers, everyone's just diving to find them, so dive times were excessive whether it was for the Fortresses, digs, or the Ashen Winds.

So..why dont you complete these events and speed up the process? Less diving, more loot collecting from non contested Events.

This.

Never should have made diving to boosted a events a thing. Just makes emergent forts more rare and your dived to event doesn't have the same chances to Mega.
Folk expect things to be handed to them on a plate.

I've been diving to most of them, I'm more interested in completions that loot. So far about 30-40% of my dives have been mega stashes. Obviously a small sample size, but not too bad. I may have just gotten lucky. If I do get a mega stash, I've just been taking the reaper urns and caskets. Someone else can have the rest if they find it. There is supposed to be a chance of pristine meg items. I need about 4 more scales, and I haven't seen them. Bad luck I guess. My last 5 emergent megs haven't given me any.

On a similar note, the athena loot pool is kinda weak. I'd rather just do skelly fleets. Quicker, and a similar amout of loot. Now if they would give us a Reaper raids, with a decent number of urns, caskets and gifts, that would be ideal.

@poetniknowit said in Finding Reaper Fortresses is a Nightmare:

I don't understand why the events are available as an Athena raid. The amount of time it takes to complete a 20 round fortress, whether contested or not, is very long, and it's worth WAY more than a handful of Athena trinkets and a couple crates of voyages. To have only like 1/5 or less of a chance for a raid to have a mega stash isn't worth it when the loot you get is less than even an Athena voyage.

I believe that is to make the commendations tied to the fort itself (like the caches, the skull kills and skull of arms) to be available for on-demand completion. For people that dont care about the chests and loot and just want the commendations completed. Its a bit of a compromise.
I feel your pain however, I've done about 2 Reaper forts that were raid voyages that people abandoned, which I feel shouldn't be the reason people dive to them.

The fact that it's in the raid pool just means that dive times are ridiculously long again and that people are going to check and see if there's a mega stash, and if not they're going to dive out once their comms are done and leave a raid behind for someone not expecting it.

A lot of work got put into making voyages faster to complete bc "our time is valuable" but it's practically impossible to find emergent fortresses right now and there's got to be a better way to churn em out. Reduce the spawn for fofs and skelly forts. Raise the spawn rate for them. Maybe if world events sit untouched for like 10-15 minutes (bc you can sail across the whole map in about 10 minutes) have them refresh and be replaced faster.

I mean I think part of the reason you don't find too many, might be because people are completing them, making them disappear, or people stay on the server to complete it, thus the server stays full and there is not room for your crew to join.

There's gotta be a way to refine the spawn of the Fortresses. We know 100% of the player base is looking for them right now, so let's make it a little easier to find them!

Well I've seen some people do Fort of Fortunes, so now might be a good time to fish battlegills or other would event commendations, so there is that.

Be a bit patient my friend, it is a bit annoying but you do have a month to get those stashes. Might be a lot of traffic this weekend is all...

Interesting, because this was not at all my experience. Indeed, my crew and I had several discussions about how Rare seemed to weight world events heavily toward the new Flameheart forts! Of course, some of them turned out to be Athena forts, but we easily completed the 20 necessary opens. We turned in 18 CoFs on the first day and 12 yesterday.

None of this i to invalidate or question your own experience. It's miserable not being able to find what you're looking for. Just saying that our experience was very different.

Hope your luck improves!

@obscureberry192 spent two hours server hopping this morning with a friend and we didn't find a single one besides a player spawned Athena fort to which we decided to just contest. Was extremely fun, had the whole server fighting over it just for laughs, a galleon, brig, couple sloops. No one even took the treasure afterwards XD
But ya, we still have yet to find a single world spawned Reaper Fort and we played a decent amount this weekend as well, just organically doing stuff but keeping our eyes open.

I find it is everywhere but we have 4 people jumping on servers across 3-4 regions and then we all join.

I feel like it was tweaked after first day, have had 2 maybe 3 in a row on some servers.