Please rework the post level 100 Hourglass commendations.

  • ZKLaurin
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    Please rework the post level 100 Hourglass commendations.

    Currently you only progress most of the lvl 100+ hourglass commendations by killing the opposite faction, which was fine when it got released, but now you can match with your own faction as well.

    This just makes the grind after lvl 100 unnecessarily longer since they didn't think of it when season 8 launched.

    Example:
    I am matching a Servent as a Servant myself. After defeating the other boat ...

    ... I progress these commendations:

    • Pathetic Tokens (After the Ritual of the Flame, hand in Athena's Fortune Emissary Flags at The Reaper's Hideout.) - only if they already have a athena flag onboard

    ... I do not progress these commendations:

    • Risk It All (After the Ritual of the Flame, sink Guardians' Faction ships while flying a Grade 5 Reaper's Bones Emissary Flag.)
    • His Favourite Crew (After the Ritual of the Flame, sink Guardians Faction ships while aboard a Captained ship.)
    • Rack Them Up (After the Ritual of the Flame, sink ships representing The Guardians of Athena's Fortune.)
    • The Flame Never Dies (While wearing the Skeleton Curse, sink ships representing The Guardians of Athena's Fortune.)
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  • TheGingrPrince
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    Pretty sure you do for his favourite crew. I unlocked it a couple of days ago. Not sure about the others.

  • BurnBacon
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    This just makes the grind after lvl 100 unnecessarily longer

    Longer you say? Like...Months longer or years?
    So what is your plan after you reached everything within a months time? You gonna quit?

    That the thing about long grinds...it 'suppose' to keep you engaged longer. If it were short, they lose more players because "they finished"

  • PersonalC0ffee
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    @burnbacon said in Please rework the post level 100 Hourglass commendations.:

    This just makes the grind after lvl 100 unnecessarily longer

    Longer you say? Like...Months longer or years?
    So what is your plan after you reached everything within a months time? You gonna quit?

    That the thing about long grinds...it 'suppose' to keep you engaged longer. If it were short, they lose more players because "they finished"

    But bacon, you're making sense!

  • HiradC
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    @zklaurin it's a valid point but they've left it so long now I'm kinda given up as I'll probably go for 1k curse in longrun and will get them all regardless. I'm around 260 in servants and only have like 3 big grind commendations left

  • Magus104
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    The fact that they expect the commendations to be your motivation to keep grinding from 200-1000 since rewards outside of commendations stop at 200. The system really needed some more TLC and many updates. They did a few quality of life changes and I imagine now the number of people engaging in the hourglass is so small that they don't see it being worth investing much more development time into it. I am sure we will see minor, easier tweaks here and there but just like arena it seems like they released this, offered limited support and moved on. Though that gave us season9 which has been amazing. Not that I am playing much because they aren't releasing multiple ledger rewards per season but doing world events now is much more enjoyable than it was before, especially as a solo player.

  • Zimited8670
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    I like the challenge. I am putting in hundreds of hours into this and I don't want them to water down my effort.

    The more time something takes to get the more valuable it is. You're asking them to make the items worse in a sense.

  • ZKLaurin
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    @zimited8670 i agree with you it gets less valuable if this were to be implemented, but in my opinion the challenge should be just in defeating all enemies not also being lucky that the other crew is the one you're looking for.

    For the skeleton curse especially it stings, because all off the cosmetics are the looks of your priate.

    This being said there are still 3 achievements which are incredibly hard to get(for me at least) even after my proposed change and these are:

    • getting level 1000
    • sinking 500 ships after recieving the blessing/curse
    • reaching the largest possible Allegiance Streak 50 times after recieving the blessing/curse

    In my opinion these would be enough for now to grind out and i hope when they add more cosmetics, there would be some easy ones to get and a few harder ones like these currently are.

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