I'm a completionist, which means I like to complete games as close to 100% as I can. In the case of SoT, this means getting as many commendations as I can. However: I take issue with a couple of items that have awful spawn rates.
The first are the Merchant Alliance Supply Contract voyages, where you bring a supply crate (and/or gunpowder barrel) and deliver it to an Outpost. The voyage rework in Season 11 have now made these voyages too rare to find, as they only spawn when collecting messages in bottles, and even then, it's only around 8-10% of the time (see the video below). Not sustainable at all for those who still don't have the corresponding commendations yet, especially when you need to turn in 100-200 of each to max them out. As such, I request that they be added back into the voyage selection menu at some point during Season 16 (or 17, but preferably 16), to make it MUCH easier to grind out the commendations.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpn7cPv2elU
The other issue are the Pristine Megalodon Teeth and Scales. Right now, they only be obtained by emergent megs/krakens, but even with the nerf from needing 50 of each to 20 in order to hit grade 5, it still takes ages and is similarly unsustainable to sail around island to island or between open seas to even have a chance at one spawning. And while Safer Seas eliminates the threat of other players stealing them, the spawn odds in the first place are still not the best as no one wants to wait for an hour or two to spawn one only to barely be compensated. If you must make them exclusive to emergent megs, then have 2 or 3 of each Pristine item GUARANTEED to spawn on defeat, given how megs are surprisingly infrequent to the average player and right now there's a chance you may get nothing at all upon defeating one. And I'm clearly not the only one who thinks this, as evidenced by the thread below.
Please make the both of these items (contracts and pristine meg loot) more accessible and common to obtain, as no one wants to grind for hours, days, or even weeks JUST for those specific items. You lot were able to accomplish this in a similar way with buffing the odds of finding a Horn of Fair Winds, since those were hard to find when they first dropped. Please do similar approaches for these and save us the headaches and wasted time of grinding so much.
Thank you.
