The Legend of the Veil is a great voyage. I love the modular design, the visuals, and especially the music.
The modular design makes sure I don't get bored, because every voyage is different. I've had a Sudds map that puzzled my entire crew, thankfully I knew where it was (North side of Lone Cove). So the design makes sure that only the most knowledgeable, explorative pirates can get consistently good times on the voyage. And the commendations make sure I don't use any of the fastest ways to level up, because any other way would not be progressing the commenations.
The visuals and music make me want to keep playing the voyage so I can see/hear the beauty more often.
But... Where's the rewards I should be striving for?
My personal usage of the new rewards
For me personally, and probably a lot of other grinders out there, I don't really want any of the new cosmetics in this update. If we're counting titles, Vanguard of Athena's Fortune is a nice one.
- New Legendary Weapons: These are the best things to come from Legend of the Veil. Tying them to levels this high makes them feel balanced enough as a recolor. One problem: I have the originals and don't care about the new versions.
- Ancient Ship: The ancient ship is okay. It does seem to give an ancient feel. But the cannons are literal squares and the colors strike me as all over the place. The colors seem right for ancients, but it's just not something I like.
- Ancient Weapons: The same as the ship. Gives an ancient feel, but the colors are weird to me and the pistol looks to be bad to aim.
- Ancient Costume: Most players don't like costumes. Many players dislike glowing cosmetics. This is both, so I don't see how it's going to be used very often or even how it's a level 30 reward. Want an example of good max level rewards? The Ghost Hat and Ghost Cutlass were amazing max level rewards for their respective time periods. They were the main reason I even grinded AF back at those times.
- The Servant of the Flame's Hat and Cutlass: These are Reaper cosmetics. Why are they Athena's Fortune rewards? Maybe because Rare knew they didn't have many cosmetics for this update?
- Pirate Lord's Pegleg: A cool cosmetic. Too bad that it's really easy to unlock. It seems like another item to shove into this update to make the rewards seem better.
How would I change things?
Given the chance to change things, I would opt for one or a combination of some of these ideas:
- Legend of the Veil Song: Give us the song to play for Grade V of completing LotV voyages. It's such a great theme, I'd like to hear it wherever I am on the seas.
- Curse of Graymarrow: An accidental glitch once caused the asset for a "Curse of Graymarrow" to be shown in someone's vanity chest. It's the Ghost Curse that everyone has been wanting for a while now. Hopefully we see it soon. It would be the ultimate bravery cosmetic.
- "* of the damned" cosmetics: We have received a few of these from the APL tall tales; it would be nice to see these in the future.
- Ancient Equipment: We got a ship, clothes, weapons, but no equipment? At least complete the set.
- Ghost Recolor: There are recolors of the Ghost set still in the Rare vault. When are we going to get all of them if not in "the" Athena's Fortune update?
- NPC cosmetics: If we're being given the Pirate Lord's pegleg, why not allow us to get the unique clothing that some of the NPC's wear? That would be a better reward than giving away reaper cosmetics.
