Shrouded Ghost Megalodon is WAY too rare

have you ever heard the term, "you can never find what your looking for when you need it, and when your not looking for it is when you find it?" just let it happen and sail on. it will show up and you may kill it, or it will show up and sink you haha!

heres a qustion tho if u do find the white meg and start fighting if the fog blows over will she return to the shroud or stay attacking the boat?

@txcrnr said in Shrouded Ghost Megalodon is WAY too rare:

@zalavaaris What a naive thing to assume. I am just saying that by an estimate of statistics, this commendation for killing 50 or more is absurd and impossible, making it horrible for commendation hunters. I want them to either make it more common or adjust the commendation to be reasonable given the rarity of the Ghost Megalodon.

How is what he said naive? He was just calling out the fact that you have presented made up statistics to support your claim, as others have done. No one is saying that you ARE WRONG or that the spawn rate is not low - it clearly is. I have yet to find one as well. However you have made a claim that the spawn rate is SO LOW that it makes earning the commendations IMPOSSIBLE. You have not provided enough evidence to support that claim and others have taken issue with it.

Does @Rare-Ltd have a comment on the spawn rate of the Shrouded Ghost? @Deckhands @KattTruewalker

@zalavaaris Naive for you to assume that the only reason I am making this post is because, as you said, "What you [I] know is theres something you dont have yet and you want it." I am not making this post because I want to find the Ghost Megalodon- I am fine with it being as rare as it is if there are no commendations locked behind finding MULTIPLE. The issue that I do have is that it is basically asking you to find 50 or more of them to get 100% commendation completion, and that means that you will have to sail around for obscene amounts of time that might be tens of thousands of hours, while all other commendations are nowhere near this level of ridiculousness.

@jonaldinho I was calling him naive for assuming that the only reason I made the post was because I am impatient and wish to find one. As I said, I have no issue with rare things, but when a commendation is locked behind finding multiple of something that hundreds of thousands of players have only found a small handful of within days is ridiculous and makes 100% commendation completion statistically impossible unless you sail around for tens of thousands of hours.

@death-pilot37 And how long will it take to find 50 or so of them for the Pirate Legend commendation? It is just way too rare, even if it only takes 100 hours to find that is 5000 hours spent sailing in search of it and is unreasonable for a commendation based on Rare's stance on balancing ones such as the banana crate.

@qtrmaster-zeta Its not finding a single one, its the fact that we have a commendation requiring something like 50 of them.

That is like asking for people to find 50 boxes of secrets, and it is way too crazy and RNG based to be a resonable commendation.

@ghostpaw My whole point is that it might not happen in time. The spawn of this thing is so rare that it could take 10,000 hours to find enough for the commendation, and that is just sailing time- if that is the case would you be ok with that? I mean, if you are, I guess there isnt an argument to be had, but unless you think its easier to find than everyone else does than it is a ridiculously tough commendation that isn't fair even to the most dedicated players.

@ghostpaw I mean "in time" as in gradually. It is as if they are asking you to find 50 boxes of wondrous secrets- even given a player that plays 8 hours a day every day of the week it is still going to take them years to complete, it is a ridiculously rare thing to base a commendation on finding so many.

I don't feel they are too rare. I've seen 2 so far. Never seen a box of wonders tho.

@ant-heuser-kush i currently have 2 stolen chests ... and am almost done all the other meg commendations and have run across 0 ghost megs .. ive been playing 20 hrs sleeping 4 since this update released it is a little insane how rare this ghost meg is ..

@ant-heuser-kush No, the issue is that the White Meg is way too rare for having a commendation for killing 50. The other megalodon variants are actually what I based this off of- They are so much more common that the achievement for them can be done in a few months of regular play! On the other hand the White Meg is near impossible to find. You have to rely on RNG working in your favor... On the other hand you can just find a ship doing an athenas, make friends with them, and trade athenas chests when you finish your voyages... or just track them down and steal theirs!

@p0pc0rnh3mer01d Yeah people seem to think it is just kinda rare... No, its rarer than the Box of Wondrous secrets. Most people here won't even see one before they quit playing, most likely.

@soggybiscuit204 Don't get your hopes up, you might never have one show up. The spawn rate is abysmally low. There's a good chance you just wont ever run into one.

I think that the shrouded ghost should be more common, not super common, not even very common. I would love it if they made it easier so that I and other people can feasibly get the title befor the end of the event. People do other stuff, just divert your cours to the dog if you see it.

@a-cranky-eskimo Thank you for this reply, its the most reasonable in the whole thread (including my own :P) I get what you are saying about having rare achievements and such but Rare has made it a point that they want all achievements and commendations to be doable within a reasonable frame of time, hence the changes to the banana crate commendation and the recent achievement rebalances. This current standard doesn't hold up- The ghost megalodon is much rarer than other things, it is on the same level as the Box of Wondrous Secrets yet we are expected to find 50 of them. Maybe I should have worded the thread as "The achievement for killing Shrouded Ghost Megalodons requires too many"? I don't know if it is actually 50, it could be 100, but from what I have heard from someone who claims to have killed it is that the second level is 5 kills like all of the other megalodon kill commendations for legends.

I have been legend since just after the hungering deep and yes I would love to see the shrouded ghost and yes maybe it is a tad bit on the low side for the spawn rate. But having done a large portion of the content in this game I don’t think it’s a terrible thing we have new megs loot from them as well as the kraken this game has come a long way. Isn’t part of the mystique of sailing the sea not knowing what you may encounter out there? The day my crew and I see her will be a day to remember the white whale so to speak of the sea of thieves a creature so rare it is revered among the crews that sail looking for her. Remember how the giant squid in the real world was so rare that for the longest time it was thought to be a myth even among the greatest oceanographers on the planet. Now imaging how they felt when they found one the sense of discovery must have been amazing! It’s out there let’s find it..... and kill it lol

@drooler103188 Oh the issue isnt finding just one. The issue is finding multiple and the fact that it will be nearly impossible to find enough to get the level 5 legend commendation. Like, we are looking at something asking for you to do something as rare as finding the Box of Wondrous Secrets... 50 or more times :/

@txcrnr said in Shrouded Ghost Megalodon is WAY too rare:

@ant-heuser-kush You must be mistaken. I don't mean 4000 hours of on and off playing. I mean 4000 hours actually spent playing the game. Do you realize how much time that is? To find just one, the estimate there has you playing 4 hours a day for 3 years. And there is a commendation for finding multiple, possibly up to 50+.

Your mathematical prediction is arbitrary and meaningless. It's one thing to suggest a thing is "too rare." But to then attempt to prove your argument with numbers you pulled out of your poopdeck is rather silly.

What's the rush, anyway?

Personally I like it. I would like more extremely rare things that you hardly ever see. I play quite a bit, pretty much daily and have yet to see a shrouded ghost, or a box of secrets. Every time I log on I'm a little excited I may see or find one, gives me something to constantly be on the lookout for, and it's going to be exciting when it does happen. It's ok, just relax, enjoy the game and when it happens, it happens. Just like the grind to PL or Athena 10, you'll get there just enjoy the ride, no reason to rush. Long term goals to work towards are a good thing, IMO.