Here's a friendly warning to have in mind of the games future, regarding a specific NEW item.

@SWE-PansaR

While I agree they are too common and waaaaaay too powerful, I don't think they should be removed from everything but smuggler's route, but just the spawn rate lowered. Also remove smuggler loot from reaper forts. Nobody wants that garbo

Almost all natural conflicts that happens now since this item could be found everywhere is now settled upon a BOOM

What else is different? Also, it beats the typical "drop anchor, spawn camp" nonsense. I rather go out in a blaze.

but the POWER this one have in the short amount of time it takes to find one, compared to collecting the amount needed for the same amount of damage from normal kegs, there's no reason not to go for the new

It really isnt all simple to find one.
Shipwrecks: Often not in there. Shores? Havnt seen those in a while. Skeleton ships, your more likely to accidently blow it up to sink the ship fast.
Only real good place is starting a Smugglers voyage.

So if I want power, and quick. Im going to a Fort where I am more likely to find 6 kegs of small boom that = greater boom.

Sneaking (ONE) onto a enemy ship is a guaranteed win.

IF you can.

Getting snuck up on with (ONE) of these is a guaranteed lost.

Not so. 15 second timer is long ways to defuse.

Emergent skeleton ship battles have lost all its challenge

and alot of players would be happy to hear this. Besides they lost there challenge when they nerf them...3 times already.

I assure you rare, people will start to notice, and mayhem will endure.

I hope for more mayhem.

another overpowered item in the game called (Wraith Balls)

If it misses..which a lot of players do. It worthless.

Remove the (Black Powder Barrel) from everything and everywhere except from the Smuggler bottle missions.

Making it super easy to collect.

I don't see enough people talking about this, so I hope I'm being heard.

It not a problem or will be. Unlike your example of a Wraith ball. The Black powder keg is a double edge sword. You could accidently destroy yourself in the process, and happens more often.

@swe-pansar
yeaaahhhh Ive gotten kegged way too many times by people who have like sub 200 hours in the game and lost to that+sword combo
remove them from the normal mission/skelly ships/shorelines

put it in reaper forts and high level quests and that's it

@swe-pansar

I really don't think your assumptions are accurate here. To date, since Season 17, we've had 2 attempts where a player used a normal keg on us, one on a rowboat (didn't work out for them), the other managed to board during a 3-ship battle (we were fighting 2 allianced sloops and a brig), blew it, and gave us 4 holes (oh my goodness major drama). I have yet to see anyone trying using these against us. I know in the past, we've been mega-kegged twice and didn't sink (I have the video), mainly because it failed to kill us and only damaged the ship. I don't think they're a concern at this point, and wouldn't worry about them.

LOL you can also get wraith balls from the OoS ghost voyage, which you can vote down and finish multiple times. They don't only come from the Flameheart world event.

@snugplayer18335

I suppose lowering the spawn rate could be a popular take, but personally, I stand firm on decreasing the amount of way to obtain one, would be the way to go.

And yeah, smuggler loot in reaper forts is a no go bro.

@burnbacon

1. Lack of confidence in breaking free from a spawn camp i see.
2. It's almost every shipwreck, one out of six that I've (recently) came across didn't have one or two in them. And if you seek the keg from a skeleton ship, you could easily not blow the ship up before extracting it.
3. Doesn't matter how you get it on there, if you desperate enough you could even do a surprise Ram Strat, sinking your own chip in the progress, a noob's favorite.
4. Who said this hypothetical player will give you the time to Defuse, or Escape. The blast radius will take you all out, including the ship before you'll back on it.
5. This is no simple nerf, in my eyes they don't even exist anymore. I could sneeze one cannonball at their direction, then to notice that they were never there to begin with.
6. Me too, but not the kind of Mayhem that makes new and returning players say BS then leave for good.
7. Well yeah, just as worthless as a Black Powder Barrel blown up by the enemy before you swim close enough to their ship.
8. Well, someone forgot to read my text more closely i see. there was a solution of mine in the text so that this wouldn't be the case.
9. Agree to disagree.

@europa4033

My guy, you're clearly an experienced player, but I'm speaking for the casuals and new players, where this could concern. Normal powder kegs is not the issue, even noobs could recover from that from time to time.

And experienced players like us (CAN) survive a Black Powder Barrel if we see it coming, the issue here is the (AMOUNT OF TIMES) we don't see it coming. Lucky you, for the lack of exposure to this issue, I guess. No seriously, It just takes (ONE) to explode under your boat for you to sink, with the entire crew dead, due to the extreme damage radius, so we need to limit the ways it can be obtained.

And about the Wraith Balls. Dude, basically the same mission, but one is shorter than the other. There's like a one in three chance of getting the burning blade, through the Order of Souls mission, and Im simply happy with the ways it is obtained, due to the amount of time you need to spend to earn them. And I want something similar or better for the (Black Powder Barrel)

@cutecoffins

I'm not discounting the fact that they are a useful tool for solo sloopers or others, I just think that those who need it, should not have so many different ways to obtain it. Luckily enough, finding one in the water, is not a thing.

@swe-pansar

I guess the lesson here is to always be observant, instead of asking Rare to remove a possible way of sinking.

but I'm speaking for the casuals and new players, where this could concern.

Causals (like myself) enjoy it. The players Ive met who got 10 days, enjoy the stupid stuff.
You speak for them, but do you?

Normal powder kegs is not the issue, even noobs could recover from that from time to time.

Not all the time...easy to find, easy to collect and they even float in the water. Most vets still hit those and are dumb founded to die along with it, then the Ferry tends to take forever, you get stuck on Loading back and...Ship sank.

explode under your boat for you to sink, with the entire crew dead

As long one remains.

Those kegs are the only Tool a Solo sloop can have that matches against bigger crews or bigger threats.

@europa4033

Correction; not to remove, but to limit it.

@burnbacon

1. Is that a rhetorical question? Come on now ""but do you?"" of course I do, is my post a joke to you, perchance? I came here posting about a (REAL CONCERN) of mine about this game's future, and all I'm getting is poorly thought of responses and sassy talk. I'm sorry, but I thought this was the place I could get some real feedback/insight from people like you.

And about the 10 days players, I'm even contemplating if I even should give an answer to that while typing this.. You must realize that they are far too new and blissful to concerned themselves about this yet, but they will, given enough time. If they stick to the game for long enough, then they will see the pattern, and they will form their own negative opinions, and they will enjoy this game less and less, only to play a game every now and then, eventually leave for good, like so many already have, for various reasons of course.

2. Here we go again. This shouldn't be a discussion focused on the regular kegs. Yes, one can find and collect them easily like they should, (UNLIKE) what the Black Powder Barrel should be. (In my very (VALID) and (CONCERNED) opinion). "they even float in the water" Ok. I don't want the Black Powder Barrels to do the same, if that's what you are wondering? (which isn't a question in need of an answer by the way). And no offense, but I'm skipping your sinking due to black screen story, this isn't a thread for that known issue.

3. "Those kegs are the only Tool a Solo sloop can have that matches against bigger crews or bigger threats"
   I'm going to amuse myself in your illusion, in lack of creativity or skill, let's say this is the case. Our solo slooper must either be experienced, bold or revenge driven to attempt. Which I more often view as impressive, don't give me wrong, but this doesn't change the fact that the solo slooper, should (IN MY OPINION) spend the extra time obtaining it, for his daring deeds. I feel like adding, just because an overpowered item would be limited in a balanced way, doesn't it mean it's off the table for the solo slooper or anyone else.

@swe-pansar

The thing is, your post could be a variable to anything in this game that could also sink you, not just smuggler kegs. Most, if not all, refers back to you being observant.

• There's too many cannonballs in barrels around the game. Players could use this to sink my ship.

• There's too many curseballs in barrels around the game. Can these be more rarer? I could sink to some of these effects.

• There's too many chainshots in barrels around the game. If a player uses this, it'll bring down my mast, break my wheel and capstan, and I'm a sitting duck. Can these be more rarer, since I could sink?

• There's too many throwables in the game. Players can put fire all over my ship, kill me with a blunderbomb, and I'm sunk.

• There's too many cannons on islands and forts. A player could use one and sink me. Could these be reduced?

In the years playing this game, never once have I asked for these items to be reduced due to the possiblity of sinking me. I've dug up mega-kegs from island captains. There's tons of normal kegs around too. Nothing is stopping any player from putting 5 of them on a rowboat and coming after you. A friend of mine and I even went as far as to dig up 3 crying chests, put them in a rowboat, and sunk players by quietly docking it to their ship. Just because you're not being observant and said item has the capacity to sink you fast, doesn't mean it should be limited.