Please nerf the shrouded ghost

@kozakderg said in Please nerf the shrouded ghost:

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Huh what now ? The spawn rate of the Shrouded is terrible and while I disagree with "should be one on every server", it would be nice to see one every couple of 1000 hours or so (in which case I'm due a few).

It seems that you're the one that takes a disagreement on one topic against the person as a whole here as I don't see a relation here to Insider membership and their posting.

@kozakderg said in Please nerf the shrouded ghost:

@lem0n-curry

First of all. Read the last line of OP's post. Then go on their profile and check the numerous comments they posted about the recent milestone outrage and how belittling and rude their attitude has been towards people with legitimate concerns.

You mean

Everything else has been nerfed on this game.

Well, Rare has nerfed a lot: Kraken has become way too easy for sloops, number of barnacled chests has been halved or even quartered IIRC. Volcanoes in the Roar were too hard at the start but are a laughing matter currently. The list goes on.

I can tell you now, this person did not post the Shrouded Ghost nerf thread without the intent of being malicious, they are trying to ridicule the community that is outraged by the milestones.

I would need more proof for that, and as I consider the content of the post legit either way, I don't think this topic should be allowed to be derailed any further.

Would like to see more Megs in general lol

I personally think it should stay the way it is, said as someone who doesn’t have it. Agree with Pithy about an increase in other megs though for sure.

@musicmee I’ve only sailed about 4/5 hours. Saw 1 Meg, no kraken.

@musicmee said in Please nerf the shrouded ghost:

@pithyrumble @hijack-hayes

Since Season 7 are you guys still not seeing increased Meg spawns? I am.. Plus I am on like my 5th Kraken.

Must be my luck :(

i was wondering about that

i've been farming the shrouded ghost, i can average 1 or 2 megalodons a day, and since the update i've been getting 3 a day. Not sure if i'd just been lucky or if it was boosted

if it was boosted, awesome thanks!

@musicmee said in Please nerf the shrouded ghost:

@pithyrumble @hijack-hayes

Since Season 7 are you guys still not seeing increased Meg spawns? I am.. Plus I am on like my 5th Kraken.

Must be my luck :(

One meg and one Kraken. The kraken took more tentacles to scare off. It was nice. It was also on the way to Pirates Life TT2 lol foreshadowing

Just to be clear, I was including the Shrouded in turning up meg appearances lol.

What they really should do is fix the emergent encounter spawn rate. It’s been lower since the Shrouded Deep concluded. I used to get 1-2 megs and 1-2 Skelly ships spawn on me every session and now I’m lucky to get anyone of them at all. Nothings changed between my sailing from before and now. Still doing veils, still sailing on the open water a lot.

It’s hard to encounter the SG if I can’t even get megs to spawn in the first place.

@musicmee I didn’t see that listed in the patch notes? Did they fix it?

@ninja-naranja said in Please nerf the shrouded ghost:

What they really should do is fix the emergent encounter spawn rate. It’s been lower since the Shrouded Deep concluded. I used to get 1-2 megs and 1-2 Skelly ships spawn on me every session and now I’m lucky to get anyone of them at all. Nothings changed between my sailing from before and now. Still doing veils, still sailing on the open water a lot.

It’s hard to encounter the SG if I can’t even get megs to spawn in the first place.

so some things i've figured out in my attempts to reliably find megs to kill, if it helps:

NOTE: This is just my personal findings, after trial and error and hours and hours of farming megs

• it seems to take an hour after you log in before your first meg spawn is possible. I've never had a meg spawn on me in the first hour
• After you kill one, it seems to take another hour before you get another one
• Loot on board does NOT matter, i've had them spawn with loot on board and with 0 loot on board, it doesnt make a difference
• you have to be in open water. This means no seaposts, outposts, random rocks, shipwrecks, etc. i'm still learning the distance minimum to be away from these

My strategy, when i want to farm megs, is to play for an hour doing whatever. Usually for me it's shipwreck diving or fishing. Then, after an hour has passed, i sail to the edge of the map for a nice open place (south Ancient Isles works nice), and cook my fish while i wait.

Sometimes, the game spawns me a meg immediately. Othertimes, i have to wait a half an hour or more. And other times...i never get one, give up, go sell my fish and log off. Since it's RNG on if it spawns or not, this is not a gauranteed way to get one, but it does increases your chances

i play in 1 or 2 hour sessions, a few times a day, and before the update could get 1 and maybe 2, and after the update have been getting 3 consistently in a day

@jynn-n-tonic if you’ve been getting 3 consistently I’d say they fixed the rates. And if that’s the case then I’m happy. I do a lot of sailing and I play anywhere from 2 hour - 8 hour sessions.

@ninja-naranja said in Please nerf the shrouded ghost:

@jynn-n-tonic if you’ve been getting 3 consistently I’d say they fixed the rates. And if that’s the case then I’m happy. I do a lot of sailing and I play anywhere from 2 hour - 8 hour sessions.

yea i wasnt sure if i was just getting supremely lucky. I tried for a 4th last night but the game didn't spawn one after a half hour so i logged off

i'd say just make sure to swing out to open ocean every hour. I try to make sure there's a grid of open water all around me just to be safe

@kozakderg said in Please nerf the shrouded ghost:

IMHO The Shrouded Ghost spawn rate should stay as it is. It is a legendary Meg and the biggest and meanest of all to kill, you really have to have been in the game for at least a few hundred, maybe a thousand hours to have seen a SG Meg once.

And since the Meg only unlocks a piece of commendation and I think one or two ship cosmetics that's rare, it is fair for it to be so rare.

It's not like killing the Shrouded Ghost gives you all the trinkets and decorations so you can never see it in 10k hours of playtime.

i wouldn't mind it's rarity if there was a more consistent way to kill megalodons.

but, since they are RNG, you can go days without seeing one, even with the farming methods i mentioned up above

anyways i know there is a very real chance i can play for a thousands hours and never get it, but i'm determined to keep trying.