How to make "Legendary hunter of the Shrouded Ghost" possible:

You could even tie it to some lore. saying the Shrouded Ghost is smarter than other megs

There is Lore. It "lives" in the Sea of the Damned

The issue with that is that people would be able to get it in a single session. Legendary Hunter of the Shrouded Ghost is a title no one has, because its meant to be insanely lucky. Like the Box of wondrous secrets, it's super rare which makes it all the more special when it happens. If I knew that I could grind out that comm in a few days at most, there would be nothing special about the Shrouded Ghost anymore. As it stands right now, there is almost nothing in the entire game that I would keep doing if I got a shrouded spawn.

@potatosord a 1% change isn't good enough to get something in a single session. I don't always see megs during a session in the first place.

I think something could be done to link the shrouded ghost to the Meg hunt voyage. To be clear I don't think you should be able to cycle voyages for it (which to be fair is how I completed my ancient terrors) . But what about if there is a 0.001% chance of a bonus shrouded spawn after each completion of a Meg hunt voyage. The orchestral music hitting out of nowhere after a successful hunt would be pretty epic.

It would keep it rare, but give at least a path to completion. Emergent megs are hard enough to spawn as is. I've been working on pristine items and it takes forever. I want to fight megs, not wait around.

@bozaandbanitza A 4.5% chance is though.

Nah, keep’s the myth and legend alive and gives people a chance to feel proper excited about something instead of making it a grind fest.

How many videos and pictures do we see of people screaming with excitement when they get it? Cause they know it’s super rare and it’s an amazing feeling.

I will state, it is absolutely possible, just not very probable!

The shrouded ghost is intended as a purely low chance encounter because rare doesnt want everyone to get it because if its possible for everyone to get it, once everyone has a shrouded ghost, more or less 5 after legend, it really wont be special to most any more.

Think of the famous syndrome line in the incredibles, it holds the same logic, "when everyone is super, no one is". I dont have a shrouded kill, and expect it may not happen, but i know that if it does happen, since its not a guarantee to spawn, it will be a special moment, and regardless whats going on, im dropping anchor to kill it, even mid pvp. If i knew i have a chance to get 5 more later, more or less 1 more later, it gets easier to brush off that meg for my pvp.

@heslashthem If they made it significantly less rare, I wouldn't find it special. Like I said "As it stands right now, there is almost nothing in the entire game that I would keep doing if I got a shrouded spawn." because of how rare it is. If it was made less rare, I would just ignore it like I do with most other megs. I still haven't killed a single yellow meg, because I know its there when I do want to kill it. I know that as soon as I want it, I can have it. The rarity is low enough that I can just ignore them and wait for the next time.

@ghutar said in How to make "Legendary hunter of the Shrouded Ghost" possible::

Folks just keep that last part of magic sot has intact. You don't need and you will not have all comendations get over it.

I wouldnt say this is the right way to look at it, the game has a large FOMO aspect with a lot of things, especially in commendations with many things that have changed over time. With the shrouded its not so much a fomo issue as just the same sort of frustration you can see on some one who eagerly awaits a lottery ticket, everyone is sure they are the one who will get lucky if they are eager for something from it, but get slowly annoyed as they dont get what they want each time.

People have been actually realizing a lot more in recent years its more their own frustration at the rng than feeling like they are going to miss it since there is always a chance, but some times that eagerness can develop into feeling like there is some right to increased odds just to get their chance at the rng sooner. I dont blame people for wanting it sooner, most people who play actively have gone years without seeing one. But at the same time that want to change it out of frustration is ignoring the very reason they want it, the rarity of it.

@ghutar said in How to make "Legendary hunter of the Shrouded Ghost" possible::

@goldsmen im on fance here for one i agree with all yours resoing from the other hand folks seems to be too desperate for fast and granted gratification in each of game aspects. Vide HG courses.

It's maybe personal but I think that acknowlaging that there are parts of game / commendations etc that will be out of my reach from various resons helps a lott.

I kinda miss rng voyage loot becouse that was something that add to stalnes of base loop.

This is something i have seen in so many games, it only becomes a problem in games where the devs have openly done things that the community wants. Skull and bones is currently also experiencing the same issues, but with that we get to see what happens when the devs actually listen to frequent demands instead of trying to customize the game to a set audience. In that case we see a lot of people burnt out because people either have everything done, or see special events pop up in a dozen places on the map every 5 minutes and never do them since theres always later to try it, and people who are getting everything they wanted in the game, are bored of it cause theres little point to do any of it.

I dont know what causes players to get so eager to demand they make stuff they want easier until they dont care about it, but it is not a uniquely sea of thieves issue, and i honestly dont know if theres a way to get players to stop feeling the entitlement to things. Warframe alleviates issues of rare rng items with a pity system so after so many tries you do get it, which helps alleviate that same sort of frustration, but in warframes case that system is used on mostly getting actual gear you use, and only 1 cosmetic with a 5% default drop chance, so in warframes case even the same issue cant be treated the same since sea of thieves is a uniquely experience and cosmetic driven game.

I honestly dont know if there is a way to actually alleviate the tension that this for some reason puts on the minds of people, since unlike warframe who has a working system to alleviate that, has it on things that actually matter for gameplay, and skull and bones shows how even cosmetic rewards you want are ignoble when they are too readily farmed.

I dont blame the gamers on this since its clearly in a pretty wide encompassing portion of psychology that rng on returning items seems to really scratch at, and i dont know enough about it to really blame people in such a wide reaching issue.