Athena's Fortune and Mermaid Gems/Siren Gems/Breath of the Sea

@outlawkingpin18 the reason they exist as does other faction loot you find with the standard athena quests, is so that other crew members don't feel left out if you are sailing with others who are not yet pirate legend or maxed out in all factions but athena.

@galactic-geek said in Athena's Fortune and Mermaid Gems/Siren Gems/Breath of the Sea:

Just add in a brand new purple/black amethyst/onyx gem that is rare and can only be sold to the Mysterious Stranger for 5,000g.

lol the chest of legends is nearly that. Are we gonna double that and the ashen version's value too so everything is evened out? Personally, and I seem to share this opinion with many others in the community, the chest of legends should be the most valuable item in the game given it's rarity (excluding the box of wonderous secrets of course)

@outlawkingpin18

That would be broken. It would ruin the natural selection.

1. Gems are common loot. Anyone can get it, and it would be too easy to lvl up athena's fortune.

2. Passive leveling. A massive pool of players would just turn in gems instead of doing athena stuff. Part of hunting athena's is that you can manage to find them because they are actively doing a spesific activity. Thieves haven is a very effective voyage, but it makes players easily predictable. Thats important for hunters. If no one is doing them, it would remove a lot of player interactions.

3. Theves haven would be broken. What, something like dobble value? You get huge amount of gems, and would make athena lvling easy. Worse is only certain people would do it, and finish lvling too quick. Rest will go for random gems instead to avoid risk.

4. No reason for hunting, as it would be too easy to lvl athenas fortune. Community is asking for higher and harder endgame progression, so that would be a step in wrong direction.

5. Non pirate legends would lvl athenas fortune. I realise this is already possible, bjt requiers you to do high risk events or play with friends who can support you. Thats only there for catching up to friends or for doing high risk. Gems are not high risk.

6. You could farm shrines for athena rep, wich is accessable, less risk and there is many of them, litterally everywere. 9 actually, located far and a bit hidden from sight around the map.

7. Emissary grade 5 would be reached too fast. Its suppose to be hard. Its suppose to be long time with long risk. You get a chest of legends for grade 5 remember?

I understand the convinience, you dont want to dump the gems elsewhere when doing thieves haven. They have a reason to be there though. You dont need to bring them.