Devil's Roar needs more content

  • JhonTormenta
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    I'm sure you get this one a lot but I feel like it's been forgotten season to season.

    • When Shrines/Sea Forts were added, they did not appear in the Roar.
      Shrines sort of make sense, but Sea Forts definitely should have been there. From a lore perspective, it could be stated that Flameheart's most elite phantoms patrol the forts of the place of the place he is revived.

    • Ashen Winds does not spawn in the Roar
      See above reason. You could make the fight harder by causing an eruption in the third phase instead of the meteor shower. Flameheart and the Ashen Lords are raised in this area, so there's no reason the world event doesn't happen there.

    • Ashen variations of lost shipments, spectral fleets and Legend of the Veil were not added in those respective updates, yet there are two gold hoarder vaults in the region.

    There are Ashen variations for every quest type except the high level quests for Order, Merchants, and Athenas. Athenas I can sort of understand, the fort portion would be hard to deploy in an area that didn't get expanded map borders.

    Just imagine reading the ship log of a ship in the Roar saying "A fireball is embedded in our ship and we forgot to pack the bailing buckets!" or an Ashen Spectral Fleet that uses more fire cannonballs than normal ones. Sounds like a lot of fun to me.

    Rare, if you do read this, thanks for your hard work. Hope you enjoy this idea.

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  • Nex Stargaze
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    The Devil's Roar is the base game's hard mode PVE activities with less of the worries of enemy players coming to attack you.

    Yeah attracting people to the roar sounds good, but in reality, people don't want to be bothered with volcanoes for a slight extra bit of profit when they can just vibe in the north west potion of the Shores of Plenty for the same result and better replay value.

    The roar doesn't need any massive changes, because that could easily shift the balance of what players would want to do on a server, if they want to make gold without being bothered by other players as often, they can easily go to the Devil's Roar for some of their voyages. If they think they can handle the smoke of the enemies that appear in other regions then they can do that, and have the advantage of stacking without consuming much time between islands.

    Every single idea here would sound cool, but I could just easily do it in the main 3 regions and guarantee another player might see me doing something and then take advantage of it for conversation, a quick battle, a funny tucking play, and several other possibilities. The roar just doesn't offer that freedom because the volcanoes and geysers bottleneck your options and activities.

  • Modern Saboteur
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    I too wish they would update the roar with all the past content added as you stated above, it would also be nice if the outpost was one you could spawn at upon loading in.

  • Nitroxien
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    Rare has a trend of developing awesome content and zones and then just never touching it again.

    Instead of ever building upon previous systems to make complex interesting ones, they toss them aside to make new basic ones. Only exception being FOTD and FOF which are amazing features that built on forts!

    Would love to see Rare do like they did with forts expanding them to FOF and FOTD to other features they added to the game!

    Example of features that should be elaborated upon and not just tossed aside:
    Sea forts, shrines, Shores of Gold, Devil's Roar, Megs, Krakens...

  • IllBushido305
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    There’s a lot of content missing in the region. Hopefully some day on a QoL we get Forts of Fortune, Ashen Winds, and any other things that might be missing.

  • Ninja Naranja
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    Just a couple small corrections: There are multiple Lost Shipment paths through the Devil’s Roar and the Legend of the Veil can and does take place in the Roar occasionally.

    But overall the region does need a lot more love. I’d take a whole season related to updating that region.

  • PithyRumble
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    Ghost ship battles shouldn't happen in the Roar. Activate voyage. Wait for volcano. Clean up loot lol.

    Can't wait for skelly ships to return to normal and drag one of those over to the Athena storm lol

  • JhonTormenta
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    @ninja-naranja said in Devil's Roar needs more content:

    Just a couple small corrections: There are multiple Lost Shipment paths through the Devil’s Roar and the Legend of the Veil can and does take place in the Roar occasionally.

    But overall the region does need a lot more love. I’d take a whole season related to updating that region.

    Yep I am aware of that! My first ever Lost Shipment was from Gally's Grave to Morrow's Peak. I am more hoping for an Ashen variant that is guaranteed to be in the Roar and has more Ashen loot.

  • JhonTormenta
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    @illbushido305 said in Devil's Roar needs more content:

    There’s a lot of content missing in the region. Hopefully some day on a QoL we get Forts of Fortune, Ashen Winds, and any other things that might be missing.

    Fort of Fortune at the fort there sounds fun. Give us an Ashen Chest of Legends at the end? Even better.
    Just be careful with your kegs

  • Skape9964
    Seafarer

    @jhontormenta You can do that other Athena voyage to get a Ashen chest of legends and I also even gave a suggestion for devil's roar to be updated lol, like emissary quest and ashen lost shipment voyage. Would love to see it be added

  • Scheneighnay
    Ship Mate

    Got lucky and wound up doing molten sands recently while my crew was going after a roar vault.

    It's definitely a fun zone just owing to how remote it always feels compared to the rest of the map.

  • Selgewick
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    It is an interesting idea. I like it. Also, I would like to add a idea about long term event (future topic, maybe). What if we as a players would bring different treasures, supplies and crates to the Reaper Representative at Ashen Reaches or The Devil's Thirst or The Molten Sands Fortress (or on all of them). Where with time and help of fellow followers of Flameheart (Servants Of Flame) will be build a Port in Flamehearts Name or series of monolithic structures, which will change the Sea of Thieves Forever. (Serverwide World Event Perhaps).

  • Foambreaker
    Sailor

    @pithyrumble said in Devil's Roar needs more content:

    Ghost ship battles shouldn't happen in the Roar. Activate voyage. Wait for volcano. Clean up loot lol.

    ...

    This, already the new Ashen Captains voyages for killing Skeletons has this issue. They get killed by the geysers.

    The fight involves running in circles till they are all dead or running up and down the shoreline.

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