I LOVE the Burning Blade world event. I think it is pretty spectacular.
The only issue I have, is there is no incentive for the Burning Blade Crew to want to engage in PVP... if anything it is better for them to not engage till the final turn in.
Once my crewmate @PaulKenobi85 gets his final 8 streak turn in, we are only gonna focus on sinking other Player Controlled Burning Blade crews.
I have a couple ideas that will make this a bit more desirable for any crew to want to both engage with the burning blade, and pilot it themselves.
- Give the Burning Blade Crew a Ship Sink multiplier. So on top of getting gold for turning in the rituals completed to Flameheart, he will be more rewarding for the number of ships sunk. To prevent this from being something an alliance server can cheese (Too much... cuz pretty much anything can be cheesed) have it only count specific ship sinks once between rituals. (So if they sink Ship A 3 times after Ritual 1, and another two times after ritual 2, it would only count as 2 sinks total). Now a slight alternative to this, would be to have it be just Athena Emissary ship sinks so it doesn't get too ridiculous.... but to add more incentive for people to fly the Athena flag:
- The Only ships that can prevent the Burning Blade from turning in, would be ones flying an Athena Emissary Flag. (Full credit to Paul for this suggestion). This would prevent people from just trolling the turn in by keeping their ship close enough to reapers to prevent the turn in, especially if they are getting Siren Song respawns.
- Provide Hourglass Rep to the Burning Blade crew when they sink an Athena Emissary ship, or to Athena Emissary Ships if they sink the Burning Blade. NOTE: To prevent Alliance Servers from just cheesing this, again: the rep gain would only happen once per specific ship between rituals).
- If Hourglass Rep is deemed to not be something you want to do with this event, you should at least allow Guardians Active ships to get HG rep if they sink the blade, and vise versa if the Blade sinks a Guardian's active ship.
