Today it took my crew 3 complete Athena's Runs, 2 Skeleton Ship Encounters, 4 skeleton captains and a Megalodon to get to grade 5, has this been nerfed again recently?
Before the latest update you would get grade 5 half way through the second run while completing all PvE encounters, I understand how easy it has been to cycle grade 5 voyages but can't the emissary status gained from just those voyages be nerfed or even have it changed so that those voyages can only be completed while flying a grade 5 flag.
It has literally become around 3+ hours of gameplay to ascertain what is widely considered the new standard when selling loot but surely it's a minority of players that actually have the schedule to do this and thus it takes even longer to level up, especially with the risk of dedicated PvP players server hopping to locate Athena Emissaries.
Maybe instead of completing the runs as intended I should just abuse the server hop system as well, because stealing the loot from players who have been gathering it for hours is quicker and easier than doing it myself, probably even easier than cycling grade 5 voyages used to be.
