Please balance the legendary sea dog commendation

Disagree. The game has already made many things much easier to achieve. Pirate legend. Athena 10, getting gold and doubloons galore. Game needs to damn well throw more things at people that actually take effort and time to earn. I feel legendary weapons is one of the things they got right. Leave it as it is I say. Will appreciate it all the more when I get it. Currently at 137 wins I belive. I'll get there though 😊

I can understand your desire for those weapons, but I would rather accept the fact that I would probably never achieve that many wins, than have Rare nerf the achievement.

@barnabas-seadog
Spent 20 mins waiting and waiting for a game to start... ( sailing with all players ) cant even get into a match. Just feels to forced to me, such a large number for so many other things working against you. currently at 112 wins tho. maybe one day.

They shouldn't have anything tied to that trash bin of an arena. Just kill it and move on.

@xshadovvhunterx Honestly the vast majority of players dont touch arena anyway, I say keep it for those that do enjoy it, I personally love both modes, Only pain is hit reg and lag spikes which effect both modes but have a larger impact on you in arena, also ships spawns in arena are in dire need of adjusting. One ship spawning a single click away from an 8 chest island while another spawns 5 clicks away?.....ouch. Less chests in general would help so pvp counts for a bigger portion of points, still I find its always tense and love that I come up against some crazy good pvpers in there sometimes which helps me get better too. I love arena really :)

I feel Rare got the accomplishment needed to unlock things from Arena in the right ball park, if we could get some more of that style of "hard to reach reward" for Adventure i'd be sailing much more often.

Having Pirate Legend Items as the unlocked cosmetics however imo was a very poor choice.
Legends had little to nothing to do or unlock back then in the main and only game mode, so with the new game mode they added the rewards there.

To myself at least, when they were released, it feels as though they were underhandedly asking players to play that mode.

Now as much as those cosmetics are amazing, and i'd love to have them for my character, being someone that straight up dislikes the Arena means having to accept that these cosmetic items for Pirate Legend will be things i'll likely never obtain.
I still hope to see alternative ways to obtain these in the future.

My crew has been trying to work on this, and it is getting harder and harder to do due to the lack of qualified lobbies.

Takes forever to get into an actual game, so my crew would hop for an almost full lobby to get going in under 10 minutes. I know hopping contributes to the problem to some degree, but we are not going to sit around for 30-45 minutes waiting in an empty tavern.

If we could actually accomplish something while waiting, that would be great. Something thay may help is to expand the lobby to include the outside of the Sea Dogs' Tavern. Let us run the obstacle course and mess around the actual island and surrounding area while waiting for who knows how long. Perhaps have some sort of 'Devils Shroud' style barrier where the commissioners of the Arena will scold you and port you back to the area surrounding the tavern. Heck, allow us to lobby up in Adventure and get a warning that our session is about to start where we are then loaded either into the Sea Dogs' Tavern to scope out the competition for 2-3 minutes, or load us directly into our ships...

@Vox-45 I've always thought Rare's commendation number's were a little inconsistent. For example, "As a PL, sink 500 ships". -AND- "As a PL, catch and deliver 50 fish." One seems like a ton, the other doesn't seem like enough. I'm sure most, if not all, PLs caught 50 fish on Day 1 of that commendation release.

Stepping through the ranks of Arena and collecting my own Arena wins, I did feel like 240 was a lot, almost unattainable based on the same reasoning you outlined above. I stepped through many LFGs and many open crews until I happened across a crew in which all our play-styles meshed well and we became a well-oiled machine. After finding the right crew, we stayed dedicated to Arena, setting ourselves a Daily "Win Goal". It'll happen eventually for you.

@vox-45

It doesn't need rebalancing. There are only a few high tier accomplishments left in this game, and Legendary Sea Dog is the crowing jewel in that regard.

Leave it alone. This game needs more stuff that's hard to earn.

@monkeyshishan said in Please balance the legendary sea dog commendation:

@vox-45 said in Please balance the legendary sea dog commendation:

I feel like the 240 wins needed to complete this commendation is pretty ridiculous. So Considering the time and effort needed to pull off a win in the first place. Plus it’s sometimes difficult to find a crew to play with. So Can we please drop this number down?? Are make top 3 count as a “win” something I feel should be done.

What they should have done is not tied cosmetics to the commendations. They should have never allowed players the ability to buy levels and just left it to the reputation. Problem with commendation is how long the matches take to start. If the queues were only a minute long I wouldn't care, but depending if it's opt out or not the lobbies can take upto an hour or more.

They should lower the number to 150 since the matches take so long to start.

I would argue that there needs to be more cosmetics based on commendations. Imagine being able to show off that you collected 100 Chests of Sorrow with something other than the title.