Nerf Chainshots

I think they have got the balancing of the ships just right at the minute. Gally's aren't very easy to sail unless you have a coordinated crew - their turning circle and poor speed against the wind makes them just a big lumbering target. Plus with the height of the cannons it's not as easy to hit sloops as you may think.

If I'm correct, the gally is the fastest ship to fill with water whilst the sloop is the slowest - so nothing needs to be changed on that aspect

Chainshots are too overpowered, naval combat is pretty much who has the bigger ship and who uses the meta´s first.

I’ve seen sloops take care of galleon ships by hitting all three masts, not missing.

Is that still OP and because of ship size?

I don't think chainshots need nerfing, chainshots just need to be rarer to find so the frequency of use in battle is lower. If you nerf the gally it'll become inferior against the Brig.

Your solutions are more big ship vs small ship and don't address the problem at its core.

With that, I'll just copy and paste myself here:

Chainshots are the most powerful PvP tool in the game. Ask anyone which of these they'd prefer in their arsenal: chainshot, Wraithball, or Cursed Cannonball...you'll 100% get chainshot voted as the holy grail PvP tool every single time. On top of that, with the right RNG, I've left outposts with easily over 20 chainshots at times...and then collect even more in floating barrels and shipwrecks as I go. Wraithballs are incredibly powerful, yet for some reason are tied to completing Flameheart. Why would (arguably) the #2 most powerful PvP tool be tied to an event and not the #1 most powerful?

Here's my suggestions...the first option rewards those who are producing loot on a server with the ability to better defend themselves. The second one would work to balance the power of the chainshot. One or the other of these options, not both.

-1) Tie chainshots to completing world events. This would be my suggested breakdown of chainshot rewards by event:
-Skeleton Sloop (roaming or part of fleet): 2-3 in storage crate
-Skeleton Galleon (roaming or part of fleet): 3-4 in storage crate
-Skeleton Fort: 3-4 in a supply barrel that would be added to the fort vault...throw a couple premium food items in there too.
-Ashen Winds: 3-4 in a storage crate that would rise up like the rest of the loot...throw a couple premium food items in there too.
-Fort of Fortune: 5-6 in a supply barrel that would be added to the fort vault...throw a couple premium food items in there too.
-Flameheart: N/A because it produces Wraithballs instead.
-Megalodon: 1-2 in a supply barrel that would float up.
-Kraken: 1-2 in a supply barrel that would float up.
-Treasuries: 2-3 in a supply barrel that would be added to the treasury vault...throw a couple premium food items in there too.

-2) Only allow for ONE chainshot to be in the pocket of any player at any time. This means you can fire one, then you'd have to grab another or swap with another crew member. This one would force crews to be more accurate with their chainshots instead of just being able to send a rain of helicopters hoping one hits...which against a sloop, is all you really need.

@sweetsandman Only allowing 1 chainshot in the pocket would actually nerf the sloop crews. Bigger ships fire 2 to 4 chain shots at the sloop to down 1 mast. The Sloop fires 1 chain shot at 2 to 3 masts. Chain shots are also important against brigs and gally's to stop them if they are going ram strat best strat. I would be quite happy with chainshots being tied to skeleton ships or at least making them spawn at similar rates to cursed cannonballs in barrels.

@a10dr750 Agreed and that's why I don't like that option quite as much as the first option. It would nerf every crew equally while still giving favor to larger crews as the game is intended. The benefit to option 2 is that it would mostly prevent the endless rain of chainshots that most battles start with regardless of ship type. It would force players to be more accurate and strategic with their chainshots instead of just having them basically on a belt until they hit.

The chainshot is also the only one that's only being used in fights against other player ships that has more advantage than normal balls.

If we could down a mast of a skalleon or hurt a Kraken more (after its tentacles get a significant buff), they will probably more used in the fights against the AI, thus decrease somewhat the possible use in PvP.

I’d rather they make them less common than nerfing the item itself. That way they aren’t as spamy.

@sleepysnowwolf there is a youtube video out there showing sinking speeds with one hole. Brig sinks fastest, then galleon then sloop.

@sleepysnowwolf I'll see if i can find it. Whoever made it had it down to the second for ship sinking times.

Can't find the video currently, might be because I'm on my work PC and it has restrictions on what I can watch so not all videos come up on youtube but pulled this off the SoT reddit page. https://www.reddit.com/r/Seaofthieves/comments/be41c6/sinking_times_confirmed/ . They had Galleon sink fastest, then Brig then Sloop.

@sleepysnowwolf hehehe my friend let me tell you a little story, me and my mate tried to steal a fort of fortune one time from a crew on a galleon with some angry Russians, (i think it was Russian because it sounded alot like it but i could be wrong) but me and my mate were on a sloop and here comes the best part. that fight lasted around half hour and while my mate was in the water i stayed behind on the sloop keeping us afloat i have being boarded and got multiple broadsides on me and we only sunk because they had to double board us. moral of the story is the sloop is a little tank if you know what your doing

Sloop takes the shortest amount of time to raise the sails, use it to your advantage while your teammate shoots back, with sniper or cannon. This is really your own issue

@galactic-geek i thought the galleon sunk the fastest due to its height and its vulnerability to balastballs

IMO they should only reduce the chance of finding chainballs by quite the amount.

Anchor cursed balls are way less effective and are also much harder to find, wich doesnt make much sense.
The meta shouldnt revolve around chainballs, they should just be another tool like the other rare balls that you use wwhen the time is right,
and not spam 20 of them like every other crew does when the fight starts.

We can nerf chainshots when people stop running from battles 90% of the time.