Pirate Legend Title Doesn't Seem To Have A Good Reputation

@cptn-time that's pretty awesome lol

I'll put this simply, if & when I get to Legend, I won't care what anyone says. Do you know what people say when you win the lottery? When you get a bonus at work and your peers don't? When your lawn has less weeds than the neighbors? Jealousy drives some people, and yet drives some people mad.

I say, earn the title, own the title. I'd have played without sleep to Legend too if I could have, avast I have too many other things distracting me.

@xxxrookxxx good points!

@xgodkevin My friend got legend recently and I have no idea how, because he isn't normally a grinder, but he can DEFINETLY back it up. He's almost better than me at pvp, vastly superior at pve.

@ardent-38 thats good, I like to hear that others can actually back it up. I know it comes off petty to some, but for me, I also would want to back up that title when I get it.

@solidsnakemig agreed!

Well, contrary to what mouth breathers on this forum will have you believe, PvP is generally less profitable than just minding your own business and grinding through voyages. As a consequence the pirate legend title does not necessarily mean the player is any good at PvP, on the contrary they typically have less PvP experience than a lower level player with the same amount of hours played. I am of course generalizing here and in no way implying all pirate legends are automatically bad.

@xgodkevin TBH, I care less about being able to back it up and more about getting others to legend. I might as well use the legendary voyages on people who cant get them.

@sir-lotus Good points here. exclusivity is something I'd like to see as well. Maybe a dif title higher than legend, who knows!

@ardent-38 I do like to see current legends helping out non legends in that way. Helps them out tremendously. Great point.

@fishst1ck great point man. I agree, there should be a limit on the ferry, if you don't enter the portal within a specific time limit, it should just spawn you back.

@xgodkevin or maybe your soul is claimed by the boat man! and you have to make a new pirate

@unhandythreax oh man ruthless, new pirate no stats ouch lol

@fishst1ck said in Pirate Legend Title Doesn't Seem To Have A Good Reputation:

@xgodkevin said in Pirate Legend Title Doesn't Seem To Have A Good Reputation:

I've noticed something. When someone announces they have hit pirate legend, the biggest response I see are, "wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands" or "no lifer", "All grind etc"

Pirate Legend in my opinion should be a prestigious title, however, with those who got it so fast, I can agree and disagree with some comments. I think if you have the title Pirate Legend, you should be able to back up that title in both portions of the game, pve and pvp. The player should be able to not only grind, which they have so far, but be able to defend.

Over the weekend, I faced a few pirate legends in pvp and let me tell you, what a lackluster experience that was. It honestly felt like I was fighting new players. I mean don't get me wrong, they tried their hearts out, but ultimately got slaughtered.

This happened a few times, different people with the legend title. I am nowhere near pirate legend status. I'm not in this game to grind like nuts to quickly get it. I'm enjoying the game, enjoying the crew time, the pve aspects and the pvp aspects. I know that when I do reach legend status, I'll be able to back it up though in case anyone wants to dual it out.

How about you all? Do you think the legend title at this point has a bad rep? Have you battled it out with current legends only to find they lack the pvp skill? Seeing a legend ship and player out there could technically make you a target, so having the pvp skill would be beneficial. Let me know what you all think, im curious!

I agree it should be somewhat prestigeous because that person put in a lot of time and effort to reach the rank of pirate legend, but I think you can't expect the Pirate Legend to be the most amazing PvP'er when the title is granted based on PvE content only. That said the title was unfortunately already besmirched by the first pirate that reached the legend rank. In his videos it was clear that he hardly even know how to lower a sail, let alone be worthy of a 'legend' title.

Ingame I've only actually met three pirate legends though:

1. Was just about to leave the game, but left us his ship.
2. Was using a macro to AFK on the ferry while having a legendary voyage active.
3. Put down a legendary voyage, helped us for maybe 1 hour spread out during the voyage and was AFK with a macro the rest of the time and even bragged about how people did stuff for him while he was sleeping.

Maybe I was just unlucky but apart from the first guy I met, I've only gotten the impression that "Pirate Legends" are the kind of people that got their title by making others do the work for them, while complaining about the hard "grind" they had to do.

I'm sure that there are actual Pirate Legends worthy of the title, but with so many fakers out there it doesn't really help the real ones out. Maybe Rare could just check everyone who was AFK for 1+ hour on the ferry and replace their title to a unchangeble "Lazy Exploiter" and strip them of their gold and rep. That way people a Pirate Legend would be someone that actually put in the work thus making the title more prestigeous.

It's just not impressive to some people in a "it's the journey not the destination" game to clock in more than full time job hours playing 30 days into release. Or rather - it might be impressive but moreso w/out bragging - because what are you really bragging about...

@xgodkevin said in Pirate Legend Title Doesn't Seem To Have A Good Reputation:

I've noticed something. When someone announces they have hit pirate legend, the biggest response I see are, "wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands" or "no lifer", "All grind etc"

Pirate Legend in my opinion should be a prestigious title, however, with those who got it so fast, I can agree and disagree with some comments. I think if you have the title Pirate Legend, you should be able to back up that title in both portions of the game, pve and pvp. The player should be able to not only grind, which they have so far, but be able to defend.

Over the weekend, I faced a few pirate legends in pvp and let me tell you, what a lackluster experience that was. It honestly felt like I was fighting new players. I mean don't get me wrong, they tried their hearts out, but ultimately got slaughtered.

This happened a few times, different people with the legend title. I am nowhere near pirate legend status. I'm not in this game to grind like nuts to quickly get it. I'm enjoying the game, enjoying the crew time, the pve aspects and the pvp aspects. I know that when I do reach legend status, I'll be able to back it up though in case anyone wants to dual it out.

How about you all? Do you think the legend title at this point has a bad rep? Have you battled it out with current legends only to find they lack the pvp skill? Seeing a legend ship and player out there could technically make you a target, so having the pvp skill would be beneficial. Let me know what you all think, im curious!

Rare have said pirate legend is just the first step... So it's more like Gold Rank in Overwatch competitive, there's still Platinum and Diamond and Master etc above that.

Though Rare will add that over time via content updates like, for instance hungering deep. :)

Pirate legend is just the first step of prestige in this game, there's plenty more to come, apparently... With that in mind, the current level of prestige seems just about right, imo. x]

I play solo and am about halfway to pirate legend. It's more of a back burner goal but when I do get it I will be very happy just on the grounds that I did it myself. I also feel that by then I will have earned it because I have already improved a lot in my sailing abilities from docking smoothly to navigating decently without the map. I know what islands to hit up in which areas for Merchant Voyages. I've out sailed galleons and sloops alike and have used my sloop as a (stationary...terrible shot when I'm moving lol) floating fortress and defended against would be attackers. I'm proud of my ship handling skills and look forward to them improving. That is what Pirate Legend is to me. In actual pvp I might as well gut myself and save myself the embarrassment. Can we get a player scuttle button?

I think the trick with Pirate Legend is it is much like the game itself: Different for everyone. Not supposed to be a single defining title like pvp or pve bragging rights (but could be) but what is it about you and your time playing that IS your Legend. For me it will be my sailing skills. For whatever it's worth to everyone else...shrug..I'll be happy with it.

you all have some great input on this!

Meh Pirate Legend lost all prestige when some dude boosted to get it first and Rare ignored it, so really it has no meaning. The other issue is there isn't much difference in game play once you reach it so who really cares? I would like to get it but I'm not going to grind it out until there is content to make it worth while.