Flame Rises Comm changes

  • Thamb0
    Master
    Insider

    I feel like adjustments could be made to the Flame Rises commendations to appeal to more players who might not want to deal with or can't deal with the comms because of their levels not being high enough, I.E. non PLs for Athena comms.

    Sizzling Sinker- Should be changed to any Emissary, not just Athena. Plenty of pirates are not PLs and others like myself love fighting the Burning Blade but I am always frustrated when I'm flying another Emi flag and don't want to have to find an outpost to swap.. just seems like any emissary would be more beneficial.

    Secretive Stash- Please change to 1 or 0... For the past two months, I can find almost no one doing the skelly camps with the burning blade.. They exist, but it's rare that I see them.. Normally I find the Burning Blade making a beeline to Reapers to turn in with 0 stacks. Either change it to simply handing in the sword or find a way to make people want to actually do skelly camps to get stacks..

    Playing the Part- Either lower it to 6 or change it to complete an 8 ritual streak, not turn in 8 rituals. I have had more than a few times that I have gotten to 8 and then found people camping at Reapers with kegs or a few ships in an alliance. This is fine, as it is all part of the game.. but spending 1-2 hours grinding 8 rituals only to get skunked by that should at least work towards the commendation.

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  • WolfManbush
    Champion

    They buried the BB in organic play once they made that change to reapers.

    The cof moving out of there just made it worse.

    People don't wanna spend hours of a slow and boring journey just to get blocked at reapers by hoppers. Was always a terrible idea for the longevity of the content.

    The mass exploiting was very very harmful as well. Even with the rollbacks it was still devastating for the content.

    Get rid of that reapers change, keep a cof in there and lock it now that it's no longer season 13. Only releases after defeating it.

  • Thamb0
    Master
    Insider

    @wolfmanbush totally agree.. I still wanna get these comms done, so hopefully they change them up a bit, because trying to rely on finding the Blade with 3+ ritual stacks is so difficult after the first initial few weeks of S13.
    I always said they should've locked the CoF and the treasure behind a door, and when people actually take over the Burning Blade and pledge to it, the door is unlocked.. but does Rare ever listen before they release content or even after?

  • WolfManbush
    Champion

    @thamb0 said in Flame Rises Comm changes:

    @wolfmanbush totally agree.. I still wanna get these comms done, so hopefully they change them up a bit, because trying to rely on finding the Blade with 3+ ritual stacks is so difficult after the first initial few weeks of S13.

    Pretty much everyone that got those comms done early were benefiting from mass exploiting. Nobody had any idea what BBs were legit or not, it was that widespread and it was only obvious when people made it obvious with big numbers.

    That right there is a good enough reason to lower the comms.

  • F1r10n1
    Ship Mate

    I personally haven't touched the BB since they made the changes. I considered it but I have watched so so many BB's sink streamers 3 and 4 and 5 times only for them to use the SoSS respawn and stop them from being able to turn in. Then they just keep killing the skeles and once the skeles are gone they get the sink. Outside of that I cannot even begin to sink more than one boat fast enough to be able to turn in if there is more than one boat. It turns into a no win situation. I am just plain not good enough to sink two different boats in the speed it would take to come out with a win with the current setup the way that it is. I do hope to someday be able to complete these commendations but I have written them off since the change.

  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
    Insider

    Sizzling Sinker- Should be changed to any Emissary, not just Athena. Plenty of pirates are not PLs

    If not a PL, now they have a Goal to achieve so they can achieve even more. Why reduces this?

    Playing the Part- Either lower it to 6 or change it to complete an 8 ritual streak, not turn in 8 rituals. I have had more than a few times that I have gotten to 8 and then found people camping at Reapers with kegs or a few ships in an alliance.

    So, expect this and as a BB crew...take them out.

    but spending 1-2 hours grinding 8 rituals only to get skunked by that should at least work towards the commendation.

    Hard work pays off better than no work.

  • CainBONG
    Marauder
    Insider

    Changing being able to drop a streak when a ship is near was the wrong move. I can attest as I remember sinking a BB on a 7 streak at Reapers (a solo) when my duo and myself were well beyond two squares away. I was surprised we were able to catch up but I felt bad for the pirate trying to cash out on the drop and being unable to finish his 8 streak commendation with the amount of pressure from various ships.

    It will only become more challenging to complete as there is a commendation for sinking a BB on an 8 ritual streak as well as less active BB crews that attempt to go for the 8 rituals. This is very challenging to complete solo, or even duo. Being able to use the siren song for a closer spawn to reapers, and having tuckers and ships blocking the ability to lower and also server hoppers that will jump at the attempt to sink an increasing rare BB going for the 8 rituals makes it a dead event and near impossible to do solo unless you get a dead server for 1.5-2 hours

  • Blazebeard2313
    Legend
    Insider

    @thamb0 you can get that comm easily just by going on 3 streaks and then go to reapers an vote to scuttle the bb. In a couple minutes it sinks and all the treasures and the sword with 3 rituals spawn. Just sell it to reapers. You need to do this 20 times total to finish the comm and unlock the obsidian bonecrusher weapon set.

  • RealStyli
    Vanguard
    Insider

    The ship block at Reaper's Hideout was a big mistake, and we called it at the time. I even called it out specifically before they made the change, as I feared it would have a negative impact. And it did.

    The change that should have been made was to set a minimum number of Rituals needed (1-3) before turning the Burning Blade in. Lorewise, I don't think Flameheart would be very happy at his followers turning in 0 Rituals.

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