So I was thinking about this event moving forward and how to make these statues relevant after this event ends.
At some point in this game the devs are going to add hostile mermaids. They are in the lore, they have character models for them, it's more than likely going to happen. It's just a matter of when.
So my idea is basically to incorporate these statues with the merfolk. When merfolk are added the sound of the statue draws them in and more menfolk will spawn until the statue is destroyed. Obviously there will have to be incentive to destroy these statues otherwise people would hear the sound and know just not to swim in that part of the Sea of Thieves. So I was thinking once the Statue is destroyed you can collect it's head and turn it into the OoS for 3,000 to 7,000 gold.
3,000 gold for Sapphire
5,000 gold for Emerald
7,000 gold for Ruby
After the Sunken Curse the statue spawn rate will most likely decrease making these Mermaid raids a bit more sparse than what they would be if they took place now. Also the raids would be of varying difficulty based on what kind of statue you stumble upon.
