Quick overview of what happened:
- I raise Athena's flag.
- Start the quest "An adventure to a Sunken shrine"
- Dive to another server
- Once in the new server, I didnt actually start the shrine until like 1-2 hours later. (Natural gameplay, not delaying intentionally)
- I get server merged
- I do the shrine (Shrine of Tribute)
- Shrine has regular loot. Instead of the Athena's loot at the end, there only piece that levels me up a bit and counts a athena's is a little horn of fair winds
- No way to complete the quest. I took every piece of loot from the shrine I could find, opened the vault, and read all the journals.
I presume this happened because when I STARTED the quest, then the loot of the vault was generated, presuming I would start the quest right away, and any trigger to END the quest was left in my old server prior to the merge.
As far as I understand the loot, what should be athena's themed is what is inside the main vault...so you could just generate the look the moment one opens the vault.
The current way leads to potentially someone else doing the shrine, and getting loot they dont expect.
Also I know it might be an odd occurrence, but the reason I didnt do the shrine straight away, was because there was a reaper lvl 5 coming this way, and another sloop in sight of me doing a fort. I couldnt go down under the vault and lose my athena's flag, so I had to fight and sink the reaper.
I come back to the vault, and then I see the same reaper, this time with no flag, coming to nag the poor guy doing the fort (clearly a noob). So I go sink the reaper again, and stay to help the fort guy a bit. Guy leaves after he sells, I get server merged.
(SECOND MAYBE server merge problem)
Another time, a burning blade was trying to steal a FOTD key from a reaper galleon. While they fought I hid in FOTD and was waiting to ambush the winner with a megakeg I got from the temporary reapers quests. I was always looking in the direction of the burning blade's light...and all of the sudden POP, it just disappears.
- I wasnt server merged
- They didnt sell the burning blade. The light was FAAAAR south of FOTD, so far I couldnt see boat anymore from there. Probably around or pastthieves heaven.
- It wasnt sunk. If it was, the light of the burning blade would then in a few moments change to the light of the sellable sword. Yeah that could be dragged out of the water and buried. But its not immediate. I should have seen the sword's light for at least some time before it sunk or was buried.
My only assumption is that for some reason they somehow changed server and I didnt.
I waited a bit longer before returning to my hidden ship, only to see the map empty. No burning blade, no reaper galleon, no FOTD key. And yeah those could have been buried or sunk. But what happened to the burning blade?