@jonathanh.2038 thanks! I've had few recently due to the way things have worked out but don't plan to do more than 2 a month (hopefully will get back to 8 videos a month)
we ran away once with the blade - two cracked gallys and one sloop that somehow had unlimited supplies of kegs - do you think we were in the right? (we still had CoF chest, had 12 streak and tried to fight them for like 20 mins)
I've been saying since the beginning, having the skellies respond to chat wheel text prompts like "Man the Cannons!" and such while at the helm would be a great addition. You would actually feel in charge of the skellies!
The fact that it is being so widely discussed, be it negative or positive, just means Rare added something that actually changed the game. And tho it may need tweaks, this bit of content is set to be something we will use and talk about for ages in game!
Lol ages? Don't gas it up its just a big ship with skeletons it's nothing mindblowing or nice elden ring shadow of erdtree is something to last that long 1 ship and 1 new camp isn't enough
@definitelylorde maybe to you because you're probably bad at the game but the majority of the players like the shadow of the erdtree DLC for Elder ring just look at ratings on it and I agree with the other guy don't gas it up they should have added more than thd burning blade it just gets boring fast now
Boarding is also useless if u r a 2 man crew vs a galleon crew who is in control of BB, u will be ladder guarded, and eventually out-ran, since u r keeping ur distance.
Update! Bonecallers can now be used as an offensive or defensive method on The Burning Blade as of today. Apparently it was just a bug and not a defensive feature.
I feel the not being able to turn in if another ship is around would make it near impossible for a blade to sell. By the time they sink one ship, another one will have arrived. I think they should add the ability to disrupt the turn in though, make it longer harder to do. This would be a nice balance because reaper runners can’t just get easy gold, and skilled crews can still turn in under pressure.
Finally, someone who understands this. I agree with your point, but I'll add that you actually can interrupt "sell" by using sword, blunderbombs or blunderbuss
@@silentshadow2620 That’s true, but at the moment it is a bit too easy since the turn in is only a few seconds. I feel they should just change it to either be longer or have another turn in system.
@silentshadow2620 Maybe, but when the ship takes ages to sink, it's not as simple as "throw a couple blunderbombs," you have to hold them off for minutes, while they only have to get by and press a button for a single second, and only a maximum of 3 times
@macewindow149 firstly, it's not a single second. It takes longer than it takes to vote down hourglass. So you do have time. Secondly, good point. But well, if all bb crew is trying to sell, why can't you move the bb out of selling range and proceed to do the usual stuff with your ship? BB is nothing without its skeleton crew, and if it has a gally crew on board - well, it's never been easy to sink a galleon. I'll make it clear just to avoid unnecessary argument - I do agree that selling it is a bit too easy considering that it is a pvp event. But as a person above said - if BB can't sell while there are ships nearby, it will be stuck there because ships will constantly return putting BB in a constant loop until it runs out of skeletons and sinks. As I said in my other comment, if this is going to happen they need to make it so either crews sunk by bb are moved to another server. Or BB itself gives you ritual stacks/aligience for participating in pvp since there is no reward for it now
@@silentshadow2620 It's still way too easy to sell. Maybe it doesn't take a single second, but it takes 3 at most, and all they have to do is just keep sending 1 person at a time and just wait till they manage to vote once
Tbh instead of just preventing players from turning in the BB due to nearby ships Rare should take that a step further... How about.. A 15min speech from Flamefart berating and condemning crews that run... Of course you can't skip it and it only happens when u turn in while running
I honestly like this idea...it's just such a great way to give the middle finger to people that run to sell and then act as if they are ultra-skilled. Nah man, talk to the pirate lord if that's the kind of gameplay you want
If you were blocked from turning in by other people being around you, a large portion of the community would never get to turn one in. Simply due to the fact that you run out of time when everybody's chasing you. Nothing worse than having your entire day ruined because you ran out of time because somebody bothered you for 20 minutes longer than you had to play And I'm sure this doesn't need to be said but everybody's favorite time to attack you is right before you turn in So the options here are attempt to run and turn it in or scuttle yourself
I understand what you are saying but... Most people basically scuttle when they sell because that's what happens. The ship disappears and they "win". Tbh I'm not sure what I would change but it is pretty disheartening when you chase a Burning Blade they run to reapers while multi boarding you while also spamming bone callers then lower while talking shit. Seems pretty unfair to me. I think the idea is that you have entire servers chasing the burning blade at all times and that simply isn't the case.
@@Jadeblades_I agree with allot of what you said . So maybe the solution is pretty nuanced. I usually roll solo so it’d be nice if there was an “escape plan” aside from sinking all enemies .. I’m decent at pvp but even with the BB it seems impossible to take out multiple competent ships (as a solo). Also I agree the entire server doesn’t always chase but it does happen at times.
@@Syrup4prez Even though you are solo you have allot of advantages a full crew doesn't have access to. For instance you can tuck on the burning blade as someone sinks it and then hop down and vote once to aquire the whole ship. Where the enemy needs all crew mates to vote. Also the obvious of lowering by yourself. In my opinion if you are sailing for flame heart as the burning blade you need to fight your way to victory. That being said to compensate being solo I think solos should have access to more skeletons as Ashinyray said. There is no reason why you should be able to essentially run the entire time and lower with no consequences or draw backs.
The reaper runner and world event slot is probably the biggest issues for the BB. Everything else should be fine in my opinion but it’s gonna take some time for people to adapt to this world event which is good, it is the boss world event. More strategies and plays and creative ideas to take down the blade. Off topic but story, a BB was about to drop but we were gonna try and claim it and the biggest mistake the crew did was sail away from the island which worked in our favor, when they realized how good we were they tried to drop anchor in hopes they can sell but were too far so we killed there skellies and sunk them, giving us a 12 ritual blade of souls.
Considering the scale of the ship, and that the skeletons ignore the sails and anchor, I think the anchor is fine as it is. It's a slow, hulking beast of a ship, it makes sense that keeping what little mobility you do have up and running not a monstrous headache. Athena flag buff would make more sense, so I do agree there. As for the turn in, yeah no, this is a PvP world event you should turn in as a clear victor. While I'm not the biggest PvPer in this game, I agree you shouldn't be able to hot drop a WHOLE ship and world event in seconds out from under other players. Especially if they're right on top of you and fighting you. Also, Rare needs to update alliance flag mechanics to give MORE incentive to use alliances, while PvP is a big part of the game, sailing together was also meant to be an equal draw. I'd argue the buried treasure mechanics (quest board specifically) also needs a rework, but that is a different subject, lol. Rare needs to stop abandoning cool ideas, and actually give them the love and attention they deserve. If something doesn't work out the first time or requires tweaks to go from good to amazing, abandoning the feature just to go make something new shouldn't be the answer.
I agree with you i just sometimes wish it was a little easier to pilot as a duo sloop or solo sloop as the sails and wheel turning is quite difficult in the way they just take so long for a two manned crew
@@TheRauzKindred So you've been going for 8 hours and now you have to get off. So does the rest of your crew as your head for turn in three more ships Show up to challenge you Now what you're saying is they should not be given a chance to turn in. They should just have to drop everything and get off and give it to you right?
@@CalumCoconuts Yeah, that is an understandable frustration. Unfortunately, it's hard to say what a good fix for that might be without causing further imbalances.
@@Why-are-my-opinions-illegal No need to get snide about your opinion man. Despite that, you do make a good point, that would be very frustrating. Counterpoint, you still made the choice to horde for eight whole hours rather than turning in sooner. That is almost no different from making that choice on your normal ship. Risk vs reward is a major part of this game's thematics. If the enemy turn in lock solution isn't an ideal fix for this, possibly better solution might be making a turn in timer. Defend the burning blade within a set amount of time IF other ships are around to fight you. Thematically, you could argue that Flameheart is taking longer cause of the distractions, so he commands you to delay the opposing forces while he performs the ritual. So don't sink in a certain given time, and you can still turn in the ship. This would give both parties a fair fighting chance at the rewards.
@@TheRauzKindred The game's not designed to limit the ways you can play it It's intended to have as little rules as possible. The old saying was tools not rules They try to stay away from anything that forces you into a particular type of gameplay That way they can appeal to the greater player base
@@-fireball65-you dive to a raid ashen winds and since ashen lords are pretty easy you kill em fast and your already moving the world event cycle and sometimes if your lucky, the BB will spawn In fast
@@-fireball65- I mean you could but it’s not part of the world event cycle so when you dive your gonna find other world events or The BB that’s claimed by others which is the issue your saying
Alliances are so, so rare, because sometimes you can't even SUGGEST alliances. Too many people are just kill on sight in this game. Can't even get close with horn in hand without cannons firing and eyes of reach sniping.
I think sinking it as an Athena emissary should also give some Guardians of Fortune reputation, given that hourglass is canonically taking on the opposing faction to fight for the Sea of Thieves. Taking down Flameheart’s flagship should absolutely count towards that. Nothing too crazy though. Maybe 2 and a half levels for AI controlled Burning Blade, and 5 levels for player controlled. I know that sounds like a lot, but keep in mind how difficult that fight can be (especially for Solo Sloops), and how significant that would be for both factions. Hourglass as a whole needs an update in my opinion. It’s gotten to be more of a drag than it used to be. They need more rewards between levels, more reputation earned per battle, and/or more ways to earn reputation apart from what’s available. Maybe allow us to buy levels with dabloons. You could for the Sea Dogs, which were also exclusively a PvP mode, so why not?
I agree on the fact that the burning blades should be reminiscent to sea fort's sea shrines and sea treasuries Where there is merely a cool down can reappear and not interfering with other world events
Every time I've pledged my crew to the burning blade we weren't sunk, even while being attacked by stronger crews. On the other hand, every time we've attacked it while controlled by players (except when I tried as a solo) we managed to sink it and get the sword. We aren't really strong players, especially in TDM, so my guess is you simply need to use some brain and sail your ship the best you can. I would add that you need at least two ships if the burning blade has a 3+ player crew, but only if they know how to do naval combat. I think that the event is still too new for most players to understand it, even if Rare explained quite a lot about it. It will be interesting to see what happens when people get used to fighting in and against the burning blade
My fix for the « world event » problem would be to move it to the Skull of siren song pool. This would help the Skull of siren song so much by making it more active since everyone would try to clear it to get the BB to spawn and thus also allowing to do other world events like you mentionned
I think my buddy and me got the most rare intended BB experience recently. We got control of the ship and finished rituals while one duo Sloop was constantly fighting uns and sinking but they came back time after time. This delayed Un so much the rest of the server got interested and at the end we fought 3 sloops and a galleon all of them more or less knowing how to fight the BB. We sunk at the end but it was an amazing experience
I think they need to allow it to do hour glass, but not invade. To incentivize people invading the burning blade just make it worth their while. Like when a sloop gets a streak and is allowed to punch above their weight class
I always figured when they added a man-o-war to the game, it would have two anchors like a proper man-o-war. One anchor down would slow the ship to 50% speed, and two would be full stop. I think that would be an interesting way to balance it, and still manageable even for a solo crew.
I had just taken over the Blade with my brother. Immediately without a break, or supplies, fought off 2 gallys. Eventually a cheater sloop came by and ruined everything. They were flying with kegs, and had that dumb dive glitch, their ship didn't leave below the waves. Couldn't even see their mast. What a fun first experience with the shiny new content. Its good content, but the server stability, and countless other issues or cheats need to be adressed before making another giant content update. Idk. Maybe im just salty i sunk to flying cheaters. Maybe im salty that my game chugs or crashes when the burning blade is near.
The one point I have with the anchor is asking why it matters for the attacking crew if, as you pointed out, the tactics needed to take down the BB are different. Boarders should focus on taking out the skeleton crew, and making the anchor easy to raise incentivises this over the meta the BB changes up.
Tbh I don’t think the anchor needs changing either. If you’ve done your job of taking out skeletons and boarding aggressively, the BB crew has to send someone below to bilge, sometimes two. The rest have to do boarder defense. It’s very difficult to find a man to spare to raise the anchor. Also, as of today’s update, the BB crew can summon skeletons on their own ship using bone callers. So now part of boarding the BB also means stealing bone callers. Big agree on the turn in radius. Just 1 square around Reaper’s is enough. I do NOT want other world events while the BB is up. That heavily disincentivizes rituals, which is the whole point of the blade. Those worlds events would also be almost exclusively for the BB, no other ships would stand a chance against them. Absent a competent alliance crew, letting other world events happen while the BB is on the server, is just giving the BB more loot without any major added risk. What I would like to see is the BB in hourglass, legitimately. My pitch is once the BB gets 5 rituals, it can then be invaded by Athena faction champions. This would create some real risk for BBs that otherwise have a dead server, and ensure they face competent opponents. Guardians of Fortune would get an enormous gold/rep payout from the faction stash of the sword and the 5+ streak win turn in.
The changes I'd propose. 1. If the burning blade is scuttled under your command, you change seas. (This also solves *another* exploit that exists/existed that I won't go into.) 2. In the vicinity of Reaper's Hideout and the Burning Blade, a crew should be able to commit to fighting the blade, and take the same rules - If they sink before the Blade, they change seas. This way the blade can't simply get permanently heckled. Some sort of Athena Ghost Magic could come out when in range, the Pirate Lord's voice could spell out the bargain, and a token of some sort appears on the Captain's table for the crew to vote on to prevent the claim.
I've been a Reaper Runner with the BB and the reason was always that we were done for that night. fights can stretch out for a long time if the other crew keeps running away and repairing and we often just don't want to deal with them, so we run for Reapers Hideout and turn in the BB. it might be annoying for the others, but the risk is too high for the BB crew (and no reward) vs no risk for the others, so why even bother? plus since players are constantly trying to kill BB, it'd means Reapers Hideout would keep getting contested. and that's not even mentioning people camping the hideout. this could potentially be solved by having a second hideout, but idk about that. something that absolutely needs fixing is BB running out of resources, I don't understand why this is even a thing, they should get "unlimited" cannonballs and food that respawns after each ritual.
I've taken control of the BB solo about 20 times now with default supplies, it's extremely easy to manipulate the ship AI and can just sail behind it slowly and keep forcing it to change directions while hitting lowers on the rear. Then I just sail straight to reapers, knowing nobody can stop me, hop off with COF sell and repeat lol. Also, a fun "side quest" that I thoroughly enjoy is just getting up in the crows nest of the PVE event and tucking and waiting for another crew to come take the ship. The instant they defeat the ship, I jump down and place my 1 vote on the table, take control, wipe whoever is on board and sail to reapers while they chase me. Yes, it's stupid. But clearly it's how they intended so screw it.
Would love the ability to have other world events up as soon as players take control of the blade. The seas feel a bit emptier without world events spawning in. Also a little note, the skellys cannot bail water from the blade. They’re just really efficient at patching
I can understand why it's so easy to turn in the burning blade. The bb is susposed to be a call to all ships to band together to take it down, and having that many ships when you're trying to turn in becomes impossible. However, the reality of it is very different. Most either ignore or leave. Those that do are too busy trying to fuck over the other crews. They don't want to ally and they don't want to share because "it's a pirate game" and rather troll others by any means necessary.
Probably the strongest feature of the burning blade is the hull auto-repair managed by the skeletons. Usually you can sink a galleon by forcing at least two people in the lower hold, one repairing and one baIling: they lose the ability to put pressure back, you keep shooting, someone goes to board them and it's done. But the burning blade allows its crew to withstand so much more pressure while keeping on the offensive. This creates some much needed freshness in ship to ship combat and will force many players to invent some new tactics, at the very least mixing the pvp usual with what you need to do to sink a pve galleon, guarding lower hold holes and killing skeletons.
The main problem I have with this season is that the Burning Blade is just another thing for solos to worry about. Not only does the Burning Blade make it rare for other world events to spawn [effectively forcing players to fight it] but realistically solos are the main target of the Burning Blade, As fighting the Burning Blade on a solo sloop is just flat out impossible [unless you're teaming up with the whole server].
The Obsidian Skelly's don't bail water. They are really just that good. As a solo I was in a fight with two sloops at the same time and took at least 10 cannon shots before they sank. There was literally only a single bucket worth of water in the hold.
me and my brig crew actually just took down a burning blade. it was piloted by a sloop duo who spent literally like, 3 hours running from us (even after they reset their skeletons twice) and then called us cheaters before scuttling.
My main dislike about the Burning Blade is, like you said that you don’t go to a g5 from sinking it. Solo play feels horrible with the burning blade, I’ve had the ship a few times at this point and I’ve had to skeletons despawn on me a few times randomly. I was fighting a duo sloop crew and mid battle I see all my skeletons turn to dust instantly. I have no clue why the all vanished in front of me, the crew didn’t board, they weren’t shooting cannons and the time, they just vanished
And the loot you get from sinking a fresh spawned Burning Blade is also shit. That being said it’s not hard to sink a fresh burning blade, you just hit it anywhere and it sinks. All you get is a few trinkets, chests, COF, Obsidian Skull and the Blade of souls. Which isn’t work fuck all when it’s a fresh spawn because there’s no rituals, gives you piss poor rep and gold.
I think sails should scale with crew size too. Maybe if you're a solo or a duo and positioning your own sails the skeletons will grab the others and mimic your adjustments. They could also just make it faster to move sails on a smaller crew too.
Fighting the Burning Blade as an Athena Emissary should give you some sort of special commendation Wouldn't it feel awesome and lore accurate to take down flame hearts servants as a representative of the guardians of Fortune!!!
I personally LOVE the burninng blade,when your going after it trying to claim it as your own you feel like you are in a race to see who gets the grand prize, not just that but when your actually aboard the Burning Blade you feel like your on a real ship ship in a way, theres just something that makes me feel good when behind the wheel of the Burning Blade.
The Burning Blade can seem overpowered pretty easily if crewed by a full galley or competent players but I still think it offers lots of counter play. They should also consider changing the anchor on it.
This season is heavily skewed towards large crews. I’m a solo slooper and getting all the obsidian bone caller set feels all but impossible. Definitely need tweaks to skeleton crew and ship functions based on crew size. Hopefully next season has a more balanced gimmick, still having fun tho.
We just cant pretend that some people will never be happy and that doesnt make their complaints valid in the slightest... entitlement and narcissism is out of control in this world.
My friend, who has never played before, and I, playing for the first time in 4 years, saw the burning blade with no idea what it was and just decided to full send. Rammed our boat into the side, boarded, eradicated everything on board, and promptly sailed to the nearest outpost to sell everything. Unfortunately it sank for... some reason. We had patched all the holes from fighting, unless there is a third floor belowdecks
One issue I’m noticing is that people are not going for the burning blade like they used two even when at like 6 rituals. Maybe it’s cause of the inflation of the exploit but there needs to be more incentive in my opinion
I like the idea of having an Athena reward for taking out a crewed Burning Blade. Maybe there could be a Special Athena Quest that is only available while there's a BB on the server. It could take the place of Briggsy's Invitation and automatically enter any crews that accept it into an Alliance.
The main thing me and my crew keep having an issue with is a galleon/brig crew either ramming on the moment the blade is about to sink, stealing it from under us or just sitting on the ship where skeletons can't get them then claiming moments after it is open thus giving them a full ship for no work. I feel like the blade should once set to the claim mode only be claimable by crews whose ship is nearby and/or do not have another ship nearby IE: You want it? come and take it from me (have the blade not sink for the duration multiple ships are nearby + a bit extra if crewed by skeletons)
A specific mechanic where alliances that take down the burning blade get full rewards for selling the blade no matter who sinks them and sells them would be kinda neat for this specific world event. It should be incentivized that multiple ships work together to take down the burning blade. Just after the ship sinks alliances would go right out the window with people fighting over who gets to sell the blade
On Alliances: Commendations appeal to such a small group that I highly doubt that adding any more (there are too many) would affect gameplay much. Instead, I’d go with Loot or cosmetics as my “carrot”.
We tried with 2 [then a 3rd toward the end] sloops and the Obsidian Skellys on the Blade seemed to keep respawning so we were never able to overtake the crew in charge
I actually tried to swim underneath a PvP controlled Burning Blade with a Strong hold keg like I usually do with some ships thinking it would sink it and I almost made it to ship but one of the players had jumped into the water and hit the keg with their sword.
Honestly, I feel like there should be options for solo sloopers who take out the Burning Blade. Either allowing commands for the skeletons or allowing them to turn their open crews on and getting more than just one other person to then be stuck sailing a large galleon.
Yes!!! I agree the turn in is absolutely ridiculous. Three times now I have had a Burning Blade b-line to the Reaper's Hideout while I and other ships were fighting it. Even while we were right next to it, blasting it to pieces, it was handed in....if you have the Burning Blade, you must be prepared to defend it. It's appalling that they can do that, meanwhile I can't dive down to my next hourglass match because a sloop is digging up chests a couple islands away from me.
I would say a big thing that could be done is make all the skeles killable with one sword lunge unless the bb is controlled by a solo slooper, along with infinite respawns for solos. I think that could go a long ways.
So today I got on to try and the new ship and man o mannn. The ship is a solo’s dream, I used the ship about 4 different times testing things out and just seeing what the hype was about, I don’t know if rules change with more people but as a solo those skeletons did bail water repair to the point to where I wouldn’t even need to go patch or bail any water after take multiple hits, the crew is solid in terms of repair and keeping you afloat. They lack in accuracy with the cannons but if you can get 5 of them shooting they can skin even a gally in just seconds if the stars align. All in all I think the new ship is great, although seemingly better for solo /duo’s as the crew really does work wonder in the bottom decks.
The requirements for the obsidian bone crusher weapons need to be just selling the sword do to the fact you have to wait for the burning blade to have 4 rituals and they will run an sale or if your a solo slooper you will never be able to sink the crew because your out manned and out gunned
I agree with the running BB’s. I put on an Athena flag so I could get commendations to help “sink” it but also I like to give players who are crewing it with the Skelly curse on the ability to earn their commendations sinking an Athena emissary as there isn’t a lot of them just sailing around these days. But most BB crews I’ve seen will just run away instead of fight…
You explained it perfectly I love that you have to use different strategies to take down the ship but most people that I fight when I have it just try to fight it as a big galleon which usually results in easy sinks
To make the ship harder to return should be to start a countdown from when you vote. If someone si on the burning blade, they can restart the countdown up to 3 times from the statue in captains cabin. From the moment the crew votes return the burning blade all skeletons disappear. The countdown should about 2 minutes and it would need 2 interactions(not at the same time) to restart it. This forces the runners to guard ladders and the cabin from boarders(which most of them can't do) and it gives a fighting chance to the other crews.
I must say, Me as a guy who plays this game with his childhood friends alot…Having world events AND The burning blade active sounds so fun, like imagine your doing a Fort of Fortune and you hear your friend yell “GUYS THE BURNING BLADE IS HERE” like all hell would break loose and Id love that xD
First time I managed to get the burning blade was when season 13 launched and everyone was after us. The second and third time however there were no players on site. We even chased a galleon, but a border anchored our ship and stalled us enough for the galleon to get away. Players are just too afraid of sinking for some reason.
The 2 issues I personally have with it are that it stops other world events from spawning, and since you can just board to take the cof (or any of the other loot, but I'm not sure it would be worth the time to get the rest) the only loot being earned for sinking an unpledged BB is the sword with no rituals which doesn't sell for a whole lot cimpared to other world events, meaning there's no real incentive for sinking an unpledged BB outside of cycling world events and stopping other people from taking it and holding up the world event on that server.
You CAN use the Bonecaller on the Burning Blade. They fixed this in the last update. I guess maybe this video was made before that update. I tried it myself about 30 hours ago.
The only way I can see the burning blade in safer seas is to be used to bs around in because as usual in safer seas hardly any xp is given and the pay out is also ridiculously nerfed
I always figured instead of ritual camps to increase value, you have to sink ships/gather more loot. Once you feel like you’re done, the orb is actually on the ship and you have to complete the ritual on it in vicinity of reapers hideout instead of in the camps. You then grab it and take it to Flameheart on the island which gives attackers a chance to intercept the orb. You succeed, he puts the ship back in the orb (like the black pearl in the bottle). It would be cool too if when the BB spawns, Flameheart shatters the orb, which releases the ship and a sound effect like him laughing signifies it spawned
I disagree, tbh. That would cause a negative feedback loop of No one attacks me, so I get no value I get no value, so I won't do it No one does it, so I can't even fight it It's a dead event
@@macewindow149 that’s why you’d go attack people. And like I said, maybe loot would help increase the value too, so have it doable with other world events or voyages
I assumed the ship would already be balanced depending on the crew size. But if not that is definitely something I think would help. Having a 4 player flameheart ship is basically META. But playing solo is very challenging. Ive done it multiple times. Not too rough fighting one other player ship but it tends to attract ALOT of attention especially if you’re doing the rituals. I did this last night got 6 done and realized 3 ships had teamed up and camped reapers until i fought them to sell… i lost that battle, although i got some revenge and dropped a keg on one of the galleons after i spawned with the sloop. Ran it again and sold at 2 rituals to satisfy myself. I like the new change but could use some work for sure.
Idk… DH and I are both decent players but we had a galleon and brig come after us this evening just as we were about to turn in at RH and while we fought, bailed, and even tried to jump off and at least get to Flameheart, we were thwarted. I think it’s pretty well balanced so long as people are smart about taking it on (these guys hid until we were in a vulnerable position and while we nearly had it all repped and ready to go again, while not allianced, the two ships worked together with the galleon shooting and the brig players constantly boarding. We sunk and lost it all. Frustrating but just goes to show that if you approach it properly, you CAN take it, even from a fairly skilled crew. By the end, the galleon had either taken off or sunk but the brig stuck around and their constant bombardment eventually paid off. I think that some people simply don’t understand it but like anything, watch some videos and then give it a go. Learn by doing. So yeah, in my opinion, it’s pretty well balanced. I haven’t really seen many crews chasing other ships down once they have it, I mostly see those who have taken it over being chased (I personally feel like it’s new enough, I don’t mind letting whoever has it keep it while I go about my own business but as a WE it’s fun to do). I think that crewed solely by PVE or a mixture, it’s well balanced and should be left alone but that’s just my opinion. I absolutely agree that Athena should get SOMETHING for going up against their sworn enemy and this goes for the Skelly Camps too. Why would they be the only emissary that can’t get rep from selling the orbs when once again, it would make sense for them to be the ones thwarting Flameheart! Reapers got their update, it’s time Athena got theirs… Not to mention HC…
The skeletons do NOT bail water. They react so quickly to holes, depending on the size of the ship used to crew the Blade, that it seems like they do. A decent brig/sloop will notice they almost never have to bail at all, unless skeletons die. Galleons may find that the fewer repairing skeletons result in more bailing, albeit still not insanely frequent unless they die. And I'm surprised they reversed the Bonecaller bug. (I thought it was a feature, honestly.) It was nice not having to worry about them, and knowing you couldn't use them (because you already have a skeleton crew). Now just imagine a Galleon controlling the Blade, getting attacked by another Galleon, and 24 bonecaller skeletons just running around the ship. It's already laggy enough lol.
Burning blade is literally a burden if you are not that optimize crew, but if a sweaty crew handles the ship, it is OP. However, enemies spawn infinitely while the skeletons you have won′t respawn unless you do the rituals again
My big problem with it is that is is not really viable to use the Blade as a sloop crew. Those of us who don't have a 4-player crew readily available can't really hope to get anything done with it.
I think it'd be less of an issue if Rare hadn't screwed up the scaling dependent on crew size. They even mentioned in some of their patch notes after the season dropped that the scaling's off with the Burning Blade.
I understand not being able to turn in the Burning Blade with ships nearby, but I feel like I'm going crazy when people say it's fast. Me and my friends spent a solid hour last night chasing a single sloop and regardless of if we were with wind, against wind, or with no wind, the sloop out sped us
burning blade brought me back its such a cool event to take on i just would love to see more incentives for alliances too, accommodations would be nice also maybe ship cosmetics in theme of the burning blade if you took it down in alliances enough times or something like that would be really sweet like think of a sloop with the flaming maw of the burning blade would be so silly people would love to work together to unlock it.
I disagree with some points in "reaper runners". Im not that type of reaper, but I have to say that it is not a fast process to turn it in. It is slower than lowering hourglass, and can be interrupted via sword, blunder, and blunderbombs. I myself have prevented several crews from selling their ship with ease by simply camping the entrance to the hideout. I would agree with blocking the sell button while there are enemy ships present, if they could not return after beeing sunk by BB. But they can, and what will happen? The constant struggle were BB crew exists until the skeletons are wiped out because the allience ships continue to return and prevent you from selling. So, I dont think that it is a good solution. Especially considering that BB itself does not receive anything for actual pvp. If they make it so sinking ships gives aligience or ritual stacks, than perhaps blocking the sell option will be a good option. But as of now - it will simply be unfair
Tbf I don't think there's ever going to be a perfect solution for this. The turn in is way too fast to allow any ships that wanted to fight to catch up, but also I've been on the bb where the entire server just will not stop coming back to the point where we had sunk each of them about 3 times while doing rituals. I think they should just make it a 2 minute delay or so and if any of the crew is killed during that time, then they have to reset the countdown to turn it in.
In terms of reaper running yeah, it needs ot be changed bc it shouldn't be able to run straight to reapers, however whenever I get the blade I always run to the next skeleton camp if it's contested so that I can get to a point that I can refil skeletons quickly before starting to actually fight. Additionally, I believe that the A.I. on the ship neds to be fixed because sometimes the skeletons don't even get on cannons when there's a player near or in broadside. In terms of The BB in safer seas, I believe it could be fine for them to do like a few days after launch so that people with not as much time to fight such a constested event can still experience it until their next break, but no more than a week before it's taken back out. I don't believe it should take up a world event slot, at least, not forever as you said, and in terms of future world events I want to see ones that are more related to other factions because as of right now lilterally every world event you can do is related to Flameheart, with Skull forts being places that skeletons amass tribute for him, skeleton fleets being made to assist flameheart, Ashen lords as his main commanders (Red ruth was his oolder weaponsmith making the firebomb and blunderbomb. Warden chi was in charge of prisons, Captain grimm was the onne that managed the fleet, but I don't remember what old horatio did), ghost fleets made also to help him when he was first released from his bones, and even FotD being a partially failed attempt to weaken the worlds and bring him back. it makes no sense for the reapers to be turning in the loot that they had pretty much already gotten and still get paid as well as they do.
They need to make it easier on solos, as personally I can take a solo, but a duo gets so much more difficult for me as I'm not the greatest. Si imagine how difficult a galleon is, there needs to be a buff for skeletons as a solo, where they can help raise anchor or pull up and repair broken masts, as it's essentially maintaining a galleon without them
The Galleon we fought while manning the Burning Blade the other day, would beg to disagree. We were all experienced players, 70 days played, all Pirate Legends. It took us 5 hours to finally sink that Galleon, they kept boarding us and dropping our anchor in matter of seconds, evading our attacks, we almost sunk nearly a dozen times, it was nerve-wracking and stress inducing. The anchor may be Sloop, but the Helm Wheel is still Galleon, and it takes a lot to manage those sails without help. My point is, the Burning Blade is easy enough to sink and fight if you're a competent enough crew, even with people manning that ship. So no, I don't think it needs to be changed or rebalanced.
I still think the burning blade needs something that can counter it, something the crew of it can watch out for and other crews can use to not make it a total server domination. Say for example they make an "Athena cannon ball" that damages the burning blade for level 3 holes per hit *max stack of 10 separate from normal cannon balls, but also do no damage vs normal crews ships*, but can only be acquired via the new shrines, And also while carrying the Athena cannon ball you glow like a villainous skull outside a chest, easy to spot from a distance, and the one to be targeted via the burning blade.
I "ran" with my first BB simply because the two brigs trying to fight me had 0 idea what they were doing and I realized I was better off saving my limited Obsidian Skelly supply (was playing solo) for an actual fight instead of the same couple of swabbies trying to firebomb the ship or ram into it. The world event itself is great and I am 100% down for more "giant ship" world events, here's to a Grand Maritime Union Man-o-War in the future!
After Interrupting a temple ritual you should be able to have the option to load the orb in the cannon and use if as an explosive cursed cannonball but only against the burning blade.
It still makes me wonder if rare are planning on adding features that are on the Burning Blade to other ships, I mean the front facing cannons. Or are they testing to see if they can add a bigger ship than the galleon with 1 or 2 more players than the galleon
theres also the problem with finite skeleton respawns in this your a duo sloop facing a gally theres no chance of recovery if they camp your spawn on the bb after taking down the skeletons
I dont really agree with the "no-turn-in" radius. I had a ten streak and we were attacked by players way better than us (Gold Ghost Curse) but we were already on our way to lower and we managed to knock their sails down. Then all 4 of them camped in the reapers hideout and us a trio managed to kill all of them and lower. Now if they would be a certain radius we couldnt have done that and itwould just be unfair because we were also one player less than them.
Had one flight against the burning blade after sinking it our alliance member took the sword of souls as they did most of the work in the fight. They then proceeded to leave the alliance right before selling the sword of souls. So if you decide for an alliance to fight the burning blade it will most likely lead to betrayal.
As a solo who's helmed the Burning Blade a number of times, I think there's definitely room for improvement with skelly spawns for solos/duos. And- unfortunately -sometimes running with the Blade is the only reasonable option you have in a fight. It's not exactly fun to get anchored and spawncamped by a galleon of TDMers who are bent on depleting your skeletons and parking 2 yards away from your hull before they even fire a single cannonball. I'll fight a naval crew 4 times my size any day, but if I see a galleon fire 3 boarders at me immediately while I have 4 ladders to watch? I know there's no way in hell I'm winning that fight. So, might as well at least TRY and cash in my hard work. In hourglass you at least get a little rep for losing, so there's incentive to keep trying even against spawncamping boardlords. There's no such compensation on the Blade, so there's no reason to even attempt a battle you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you'll lose. I'm not defending Reaper Running, mind. it's an annoyance that should remain stigmatized since nine times out of ten, the Runners are fleeing from a fight they could reasonably win, or could at minimum die in honorable battle. But with how the Burning Blade works, and how a lot of sweats refuse to use projectile weaponry at long range (both guns AND cannons for some reason), you're more incentivized to run in some dire situations.
Proximity should not stop you from turning in The Blade. If you don't have thousands of hours in the game, it would be way too easy for a semi-competent crew to endlessly block you by hanging out near the edge and running when you came to to sink them. Also, thematically, the goal of the event is not to sail around fighting people. The goal is to collect orb knowledge and deliver it to Flameheart. If someone stands a chance of stopping you, the correct way to complete the objective is to go straight to Flameheart with the knowledge, and there's nothing about the setting or lore that contradicts that. Reaper daddy won't be happy if you lose his knowledge and ship over an ego kill. The best way to handle it is to make the Blade crew anchor at Reaper's, interact with an object (preferably an orb) on the ship, and walk it in to Flameheart. That way if you get there first, you can capture the flag, turn it in, and win. Disabling turn-ins while other ships are around is a rule. An orb you can take from them and turn in is a tool.
Sunk it as a 2 man crew last night. Got attacked not long after by a galleon and the skelly crew went MIA. Trying to captain a ship that big without the skelly crew is a bust.
I haven't had a problem with it mainly because its the first major update in like 3 years. But genuinely its some of the most fun I've had in the game, controlling it and fighting it. I understand its broken, but it still has its weaknesses and it adds a challenge to the game of which most have been taken out. And most games I get into are not player controlled or its not even spawned, even sometimes when I'm on the game with my newer friends we server hop 1 or 2 times and get it. Cant be mad about a ship that's supposed to be really powerful (literally flame hearts ship) especially since they removed seadogs, this just adds that pvp touch to the game again.
In my opinion the turn in process is fine. The defending crew has already: Taken down the burning blade possibly against other ships. Possible fought off invading crews whilst completing Skele camps. Then defended to make it to reapers for the turn in. The attacking crew has had plenty of time to take down the player controlled blade. The defenders deserve an easy turn in.
I’m still in the process of moving, so I went almost blind into this season. Already knew that small islands like Barnacle Cay would change. Only watched the Burning Blade from afar. Just how I waited for the Siren Skull. I’m still wondering if the Burning Blade handles Server Merge
Its really funny that you cant turn in hourglasses if as much as another crew looks at your ship the wrong way. But the burning blade can be turned in while actively taking damage.
I agree, the ship should be in safer seas. Obviously make it so loot / progression is severely limited. As a solo slooper, it would be nice to casually sail around fighting skeleton ships with an npc crew.
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we ran away once with the blade - two cracked gallys and one sloop that somehow had unlimited supplies of kegs - do you think we were in the right? (we still had CoF chest, had 12 streak and tried to fight them for like 20 mins)
Question:
How do ya feel about the possibility of the Grand Maritime Union????
people so used to "trash mob with more HP" as bosses that they don't understand what a real boss is supposed to be :c
@@MrMordethrhedan that's fair actually
I've been saying since the beginning, having the skellies respond to chat wheel text prompts like "Man the Cannons!" and such while at the helm would be a great addition. You would actually feel in charge of the skellies!
The fact that it is being so widely discussed, be it negative or positive, just means Rare added something that actually changed the game. And tho it may need tweaks, this bit of content is set to be something we will use and talk about for ages in game!
@@Spaniard420 that's an excellent point and couldn't agree more
Lol ages? Don't gas it up its just a big ship with skeletons it's nothing mindblowing or nice elden ring shadow of erdtree is something to last that long 1 ship and 1 new camp isn't enough
@@iammohammad123idk man elden ring dlc was kinda a letdown
@definitelylorde maybe to you because you're probably bad at the game but the majority of the players like the shadow of the erdtree DLC for Elder ring just look at ratings on it and I agree with the other guy don't gas it up they should have added more than thd burning blade it just gets boring fast now
@@iammohammad123 For SoT it's pretty big, obviously doesn't compare to anything fromsoft makes, but those are 2 very different games tbf
You hit the nail on the head. So many players, including streamers try to fight the bb like a big galleon then complain it’s broken and can’t be sunk.
Boarding is also useless if u r a 2 man crew vs a galleon crew who is in control of BB, u will be ladder guarded, and eventually out-ran, since u r keeping ur distance.
Plus buckets on the bb are a joke it’s so easy
@@AngelRamirez-qp7uuyou mean the grate?
@@baselghanem759 best advice i can give is have one player pressure with cannons on the back side
ı am not even veteran player and with my 1 friend we manage to take BB then fighted 3 ships 1 hours straitgh and everyone ı see seens this season good
Everytime I get to control the burning blade everyone in the server immediately comes after me (I play solo)
Well like… that’s the point ….
@@Terminator-Plays101 may I have your servers please?
@@AShinyRay I’m a Xbox player
Yeah same here, cannot have a single minute of peace once I have the Burning blade
Then don't play solo lol. Like what
Update! Bonecallers can now be used as an offensive or defensive method on The Burning Blade as of today.
Apparently it was just a bug and not a defensive feature.
@@confixilman7976 pain, I liked the resistance!
yeah. its a great way to distract and murder the skele crew now. it was an unexpected resistance but itll prove intresting@AShinyRay
I feel the not being able to turn in if another ship is around would make it near impossible for a blade to sell. By the time they sink one ship, another one will have arrived. I think they should add the ability to disrupt the turn in though, make it longer harder to do. This would be a nice balance because reaper runners can’t just get easy gold, and skilled crews can still turn in under pressure.
Finally, someone who understands this. I agree with your point, but I'll add that you actually can interrupt "sell" by using sword, blunderbombs or blunderbuss
@@silentshadow2620 That’s true, but at the moment it is a bit too easy since the turn in is only a few seconds. I feel they should just change it to either be longer or have another turn in system.
@silentshadow2620 Maybe, but when the ship takes ages to sink, it's not as simple as "throw a couple blunderbombs," you have to hold them off for minutes, while they only have to get by and press a button for a single second, and only a maximum of 3 times
@macewindow149 firstly, it's not a single second. It takes longer than it takes to vote down hourglass. So you do have time. Secondly, good point. But well, if all bb crew is trying to sell, why can't you move the bb out of selling range and proceed to do the usual stuff with your ship? BB is nothing without its skeleton crew, and if it has a gally crew on board - well, it's never been easy to sink a galleon. I'll make it clear just to avoid unnecessary argument - I do agree that selling it is a bit too easy considering that it is a pvp event. But as a person above said - if BB can't sell while there are ships nearby, it will be stuck there because ships will constantly return putting BB in a constant loop until it runs out of skeletons and sinks. As I said in my other comment, if this is going to happen they need to make it so either crews sunk by bb are moved to another server. Or BB itself gives you ritual stacks/aligience for participating in pvp since there is no reward for it now
@@silentshadow2620 It's still way too easy to sell. Maybe it doesn't take a single second, but it takes 3 at most, and all they have to do is just keep sending 1 person at a time and just wait till they manage to vote once
Rare has just made the bone crawler work on the burining blade
@@tobiasfogsgaard755 silly Rare
Tbh instead of just preventing players from turning in the BB due to nearby ships Rare should take that a step further... How about.. A 15min speech from Flamefart berating and condemning crews that run... Of course you can't skip it and it only happens when u turn in while running
I honestly like this idea...it's just such a great way to give the middle finger to people that run to sell and then act as if they are ultra-skilled. Nah man, talk to the pirate lord if that's the kind of gameplay you want
i read here massiv mimimi, you to slow the sink the ship, wenn the burning blade crew sell the ship
So they want to make it hard to hand in now that the important players have finished their commendations?
@@medrus2621 What ur talking about? "Important players"?
@@medrus2621 lmao yea
If you were blocked from turning in by other people being around you, a large portion of the community would never get to turn one in. Simply due to the fact that you run out of time when everybody's chasing you. Nothing worse than having your entire day ruined because you ran out of time because somebody bothered you for 20 minutes longer than you had to play
And I'm sure this doesn't need to be said but everybody's favorite time to attack you is right before you turn in
So the options here are attempt to run and turn it in or scuttle yourself
Facts..
I understand what you are saying but...
Most people basically scuttle when they sell because that's what happens. The ship disappears and they "win".
Tbh I'm not sure what I would change but it is pretty disheartening when you chase a Burning Blade they run to reapers while multi boarding you while also spamming bone callers then lower while talking shit.
Seems pretty unfair to me.
I think the idea is that you have entire servers chasing the burning blade at all times and that simply isn't the case.
@@Jadeblades_I agree with allot of what you said . So maybe the solution is pretty nuanced. I usually roll solo so it’d be nice if there was an “escape plan” aside from sinking all enemies .. I’m decent at pvp but even with the BB it seems impossible to take out multiple competent ships (as a solo).
Also I agree the entire server doesn’t always chase but it does happen at times.
@@Syrup4prez Even though you are solo you have allot of advantages a full crew doesn't have access to. For instance you can tuck on the burning blade as someone sinks it and then hop down and vote once to aquire the whole ship. Where the enemy needs all crew mates to vote.
Also the obvious of lowering by yourself.
In my opinion if you are sailing for flame heart as the burning blade you need to fight your way to victory.
That being said to compensate being solo I think solos should have access to more skeletons as Ashinyray said.
There is no reason why you should be able to essentially run the entire time and lower with no consequences or draw backs.
@@Syrup4prez If you have other ideas on what could fix this issue besides from what I said and Ray said I'd love to hear it.
The reaper runner and world event slot is probably the biggest issues for the BB. Everything else should be fine in my opinion but it’s gonna take some time for people to adapt to this world event which is good, it is the boss world event. More strategies and plays and creative ideas to take down the blade.
Off topic but story, a BB was about to drop but we were gonna try and claim it and the biggest mistake the crew did was sail away from the island which worked in our favor, when they realized how good we were they tried to drop anchor in hopes they can sell but were too far so we killed there skellies and sunk them, giving us a 12 ritual blade of souls.
Considering the scale of the ship, and that the skeletons ignore the sails and anchor, I think the anchor is fine as it is. It's a slow, hulking beast of a ship, it makes sense that keeping what little mobility you do have up and running not a monstrous headache. Athena flag buff would make more sense, so I do agree there. As for the turn in, yeah no, this is a PvP world event you should turn in as a clear victor. While I'm not the biggest PvPer in this game, I agree you shouldn't be able to hot drop a WHOLE ship and world event in seconds out from under other players. Especially if they're right on top of you and fighting you.
Also, Rare needs to update alliance flag mechanics to give MORE incentive to use alliances, while PvP is a big part of the game, sailing together was also meant to be an equal draw. I'd argue the buried treasure mechanics (quest board specifically) also needs a rework, but that is a different subject, lol.
Rare needs to stop abandoning cool ideas, and actually give them the love and attention they deserve. If something doesn't work out the first time or requires tweaks to go from good to amazing, abandoning the feature just to go make something new shouldn't be the answer.
I agree with you i just sometimes wish it was a little easier to pilot as a duo sloop or solo sloop as the sails and wheel turning is quite difficult in the way they just take so long for a two manned crew
@@TheRauzKindred So you've been going for 8 hours and now you have to get off. So does the rest of your crew as your head for turn in three more ships Show up to challenge you
Now what you're saying is they should not be given a chance to turn in. They should just have to drop everything and get off and give it to you right?
@@CalumCoconuts Yeah, that is an understandable frustration. Unfortunately, it's hard to say what a good fix for that might be without causing further imbalances.
@@Why-are-my-opinions-illegal No need to get snide about your opinion man. Despite that, you do make a good point, that would be very frustrating. Counterpoint, you still made the choice to horde for eight whole hours rather than turning in sooner. That is almost no different from making that choice on your normal ship. Risk vs reward is a major part of this game's thematics.
If the enemy turn in lock solution isn't an ideal fix for this, possibly better solution might be making a turn in timer. Defend the burning blade within a set amount of time IF other ships are around to fight you. Thematically, you could argue that Flameheart is taking longer cause of the distractions, so he commands you to delay the opposing forces while he performs the ritual. So don't sink in a certain given time, and you can still turn in the ship. This would give both parties a fair fighting chance at the rewards.
@@TheRauzKindred The game's not designed to limit the ways you can play it
It's intended to have as little rules as possible. The old saying was tools not rules
They try to stay away from anything that forces you into a particular type of gameplay
That way they can appeal to the greater player base
I find the fact that I can never find a skele controlled one annoying, there are always players
Have you tried the ashen winds serving hopping method
@@WidgetSkullster-pz6qh whats that
@@-fireball65-you dive to a raid ashen winds and since ashen lords are pretty easy you kill em fast and your already moving the world event cycle and sometimes if your lucky, the BB will spawn In fast
@@skylynx8326 or just dive to a sea fort, that also server merges you, and you don’t need to defeat it
@@-fireball65- I mean you could but it’s not part of the world event cycle so when you dive your gonna find other world events or The BB that’s claimed by others which is the issue your saying
Alliances are so, so rare, because sometimes you can't even SUGGEST alliances. Too many people are just kill on sight in this game. Can't even get close with horn in hand without cannons firing and eyes of reach sniping.
That’s what makes the game fun. It wouldn’t be fun if everyone was allianced and got loot for free without challenge.
I think sinking it as an Athena emissary should also give some Guardians of Fortune reputation, given that hourglass is canonically taking on the opposing faction to fight for the Sea of Thieves. Taking down Flameheart’s flagship should absolutely count towards that. Nothing too crazy though. Maybe 2 and a half levels for AI controlled Burning Blade, and 5 levels for player controlled. I know that sounds like a lot, but keep in mind how difficult that fight can be (especially for Solo Sloops), and how significant that would be for both factions.
Hourglass as a whole needs an update in my opinion. It’s gotten to be more of a drag than it used to be. They need more rewards between levels, more reputation earned per battle, and/or more ways to earn reputation apart from what’s available. Maybe allow us to buy levels with dabloons. You could for the Sea Dogs, which were also exclusively a PvP mode, so why not?
I agree on the fact that the burning blades should be reminiscent to sea fort's sea shrines and sea treasuries Where there is merely a cool down can reappear and not interfering with other world events
Every time I've pledged my crew to the burning blade we weren't sunk, even while being attacked by stronger crews. On the other hand, every time we've attacked it while controlled by players (except when I tried as a solo) we managed to sink it and get the sword.
We aren't really strong players, especially in TDM, so my guess is you simply need to use some brain and sail your ship the best you can.
I would add that you need at least two ships if the burning blade has a 3+ player crew, but only if they know how to do naval combat.
I think that the event is still too new for most players to understand it, even if Rare explained quite a lot about it. It will be interesting to see what happens when people get used to fighting in and against the burning blade
My fix for the « world event » problem would be to move it to the Skull of siren song pool.
This would help the Skull of siren song so much by making it more active since everyone would try to clear it to get the BB to spawn and thus also allowing to do other world events like you mentionned
I think my buddy and me got the most rare intended BB experience recently. We got control of the ship and finished rituals while one duo Sloop was constantly fighting uns and sinking but they came back time after time. This delayed Un so much the rest of the server got interested and at the end we fought 3 sloops and a galleon all of them more or less knowing how to fight the BB. We sunk at the end but it was an amazing experience
I think they need to allow it to do hour glass, but not invade. To incentivize people invading the burning blade just make it worth their while. Like when a sloop gets a streak and is allowed to punch above their weight class
I always figured when they added a man-o-war to the game, it would have two anchors like a proper man-o-war. One anchor down would slow the ship to 50% speed, and two would be full stop. I think that would be an interesting way to balance it, and still manageable even for a solo crew.
I had just taken over the Blade with my brother. Immediately without a break, or supplies, fought off 2 gallys. Eventually a cheater sloop came by and ruined everything. They were flying with kegs, and had that dumb dive glitch, their ship didn't leave below the waves. Couldn't even see their mast. What a fun first experience with the shiny new content. Its good content, but the server stability, and countless other issues or cheats need to be adressed before making another giant content update.
Idk. Maybe im just salty i sunk to flying cheaters. Maybe im salty that my game chugs or crashes when the burning blade is near.
The one point I have with the anchor is asking why it matters for the attacking crew if, as you pointed out, the tactics needed to take down the BB are different. Boarders should focus on taking out the skeleton crew, and making the anchor easy to raise incentivises this over the meta the BB changes up.
Tbh I don’t think the anchor needs changing either. If you’ve done your job of taking out skeletons and boarding aggressively, the BB crew has to send someone below to bilge, sometimes two. The rest have to do boarder defense. It’s very difficult to find a man to spare to raise the anchor.
Also, as of today’s update, the BB crew can summon skeletons on their own ship using bone callers. So now part of boarding the BB also means stealing bone callers.
Big agree on the turn in radius. Just 1 square around Reaper’s is enough.
I do NOT want other world events while the BB is up. That heavily disincentivizes rituals, which is the whole point of the blade. Those worlds events would also be almost exclusively for the BB, no other ships would stand a chance against them. Absent a competent alliance crew, letting other world events happen while the BB is on the server, is just giving the BB more loot without any major added risk.
What I would like to see is the BB in hourglass, legitimately. My pitch is once the BB gets 5 rituals, it can then be invaded by Athena faction champions. This would create some real risk for BBs that otherwise have a dead server, and ensure they face competent opponents. Guardians of Fortune would get an enormous gold/rep payout from the faction stash of the sword and the 5+ streak win turn in.
Hire this man Rare
Bros apparently not good enough at combat or charismatic enough to talk people into helping
Bro go watch a damn theb vid
The changes I'd propose.
1. If the burning blade is scuttled under your command, you change seas. (This also solves *another* exploit that exists/existed that I won't go into.)
2. In the vicinity of Reaper's Hideout and the Burning Blade, a crew should be able to commit to fighting the blade, and take the same rules - If they sink before the Blade, they change seas. This way the blade can't simply get permanently heckled. Some sort of Athena Ghost Magic could come out when in range, the Pirate Lord's voice could spell out the bargain, and a token of some sort appears on the Captain's table for the crew to vote on to prevent the claim.
Hoping this is Rares way of testing a man-o-war
I've been a Reaper Runner with the BB and the reason was always that we were done for that night. fights can stretch out for a long time if the other crew keeps running away and repairing and we often just don't want to deal with them, so we run for Reapers Hideout and turn in the BB. it might be annoying for the others, but the risk is too high for the BB crew (and no reward) vs no risk for the others, so why even bother? plus since players are constantly trying to kill BB, it'd means Reapers Hideout would keep getting contested. and that's not even mentioning people camping the hideout. this could potentially be solved by having a second hideout, but idk about that.
something that absolutely needs fixing is BB running out of resources, I don't understand why this is even a thing, they should get "unlimited" cannonballs and food that respawns after each ritual.
I've taken control of the BB solo about 20 times now with default supplies, it's extremely easy to manipulate the ship AI and can just sail behind it slowly and keep forcing it to change directions while hitting lowers on the rear.
Then I just sail straight to reapers, knowing nobody can stop me, hop off with COF sell and repeat lol.
Also, a fun "side quest" that I thoroughly enjoy is just getting up in the crows nest of the PVE event and tucking and waiting for another crew to come take the ship. The instant they defeat the ship, I jump down and place my 1 vote on the table, take control, wipe whoever is on board and sail to reapers while they chase me.
Yes, it's stupid. But clearly it's how they intended so screw it.
Would love the ability to have other world events up as soon as players take control of the blade. The seas feel a bit emptier without world events spawning in.
Also a little note, the skellys cannot bail water from the blade. They’re just really efficient at patching
I can understand why it's so easy to turn in the burning blade. The bb is susposed to be a call to all ships to band together to take it down, and having that many ships when you're trying to turn in becomes impossible. However, the reality of it is very different. Most either ignore or leave. Those that do are too busy trying to fuck over the other crews. They don't want to ally and they don't want to share because "it's a pirate game" and rather troll others by any means necessary.
Probably the strongest feature of the burning blade is the hull auto-repair managed by the skeletons.
Usually you can sink a galleon by forcing at least two people in the lower hold, one repairing and one baIling: they lose the ability to put pressure back, you keep shooting, someone goes to board them and it's done.
But the burning blade allows its crew to withstand so much more pressure while keeping on the offensive. This creates some much needed freshness in ship to ship combat and will force many players to invent some new tactics, at the very least mixing the pvp usual with what you need to do to sink a pve galleon, guarding lower hold holes and killing skeletons.
The main problem I have with this season is that the Burning Blade is just another thing for solos to worry about.
Not only does the Burning Blade make it rare for other world events to spawn [effectively forcing players to fight it] but realistically solos are the main target of the Burning Blade,
As fighting the Burning Blade on a solo sloop is just flat out impossible [unless you're teaming up with the whole server].
Especially when there is more than 1 player controlling it
You realize how easy it is to just server hop
@@blueshark5072 buddy EVERY server has a Burning Blade rn.
@@UntoppableToppHat try harder
@@UntoppableToppHatThen find one that isn’t player controlled and take it.
The Obsidian Skelly's don't bail water. They are really just that good. As a solo I was in a fight with two sloops at the same time and took at least 10 cannon shots before they sank. There was literally only a single bucket worth of water in the hold.
me and my brig crew actually just took down a burning blade. it was piloted by a sloop duo who spent literally like, 3 hours running from us (even after they reset their skeletons twice) and then called us cheaters before scuttling.
My main dislike about the Burning Blade is, like you said that you don’t go to a g5 from sinking it. Solo play feels horrible with the burning blade, I’ve had the ship a few times at this point and I’ve had to skeletons despawn on me a few times randomly. I was fighting a duo sloop crew and mid battle I see all my skeletons turn to dust instantly. I have no clue why the all vanished in front of me, the crew didn’t board, they weren’t shooting cannons and the time, they just vanished
And the loot you get from sinking a fresh spawned Burning Blade is also shit. That being said it’s not hard to sink a fresh burning blade, you just hit it anywhere and it sinks. All you get is a few trinkets, chests, COF, Obsidian Skull and the Blade of souls. Which isn’t work fuck all when it’s a fresh spawn because there’s no rituals, gives you piss poor rep and gold.
In my eyes there’s only one incentive to obtain or sink the blade and that’s the chest of fortune.
One time I used the burning blade and we are overpowered we did a whole 45 minute fight and still won
I think sails should scale with crew size too. Maybe if you're a solo or a duo and positioning your own sails the skeletons will grab the others and mimic your adjustments. They could also just make it faster to move sails on a smaller crew too.
Fighting the Burning Blade as an Athena Emissary should give you some sort of special commendation
Wouldn't it feel awesome and lore accurate to take down flame hearts servants as a representative of the guardians of Fortune!!!
They do
I personally LOVE the burninng blade,when your going after it trying to claim it as your own you feel like you are in a race to see who gets the grand prize, not just that but when your actually aboard the Burning Blade you feel like your on a real ship ship in a way, theres just something that makes me feel good when behind the wheel of the Burning Blade.
The Burning Blade can seem overpowered pretty easily if crewed by a full galley or competent players but I still think it offers lots of counter play. They should also consider changing the anchor on it.
This season is heavily skewed towards large crews. I’m a solo slooper and getting all the obsidian bone caller set feels all but impossible. Definitely need tweaks to skeleton crew and ship functions based on crew size. Hopefully next season has a more balanced gimmick, still having fun tho.
We just cant pretend that some people will never be happy and that doesnt make their complaints valid in the slightest... entitlement and narcissism is out of control in this world.
Maybe the Burning Blade itself could be in safer seas but NOT the rituals there's too much to be earned from that to be in safer seas
My friend, who has never played before, and I, playing for the first time in 4 years, saw the burning blade with no idea what it was and just decided to full send. Rammed our boat into the side, boarded, eradicated everything on board, and promptly sailed to the nearest outpost to sell everything. Unfortunately it sank for... some reason. We had patched all the holes from fighting, unless there is a third floor belowdecks
Note: bone callers work now
One issue I’m noticing is that people are not going for the burning blade like they used two even when at like 6 rituals. Maybe it’s cause of the inflation of the exploit but there needs to be more incentive in my opinion
@@Bruh-si6ri I think that has done some damage for sure
I definitely agree with this too
It definitely feels a little lackluster compared to 200+ rituals, but I feel like that'll mellow out after a while
They should too, since there is the secretive stash commendation
I like the idea of having an Athena reward for taking out a crewed Burning Blade. Maybe there could be a Special Athena Quest that is only available while there's a BB on the server. It could take the place of Briggsy's Invitation and automatically enter any crews that accept it into an Alliance.
The main thing me and my crew keep having an issue with is a galleon/brig crew either ramming on the moment the blade is about to sink, stealing it from under us or just sitting on the ship where skeletons can't get them then claiming moments after it is open thus giving them a full ship for no work.
I feel like the blade should once set to the claim mode only be claimable by crews whose ship is nearby and/or do not have another ship nearby
IE: You want it? come and take it from me
(have the blade not sink for the duration multiple ships are nearby + a bit extra if crewed by skeletons)
If u have a sweaty galleon that know how to play greatly the burning blade is fooked unless it's a sweaty blade
A specific mechanic where alliances that take down the burning blade get full rewards for selling the blade no matter who sinks them and sells them would be kinda neat for this specific world event. It should be incentivized that multiple ships work together to take down the burning blade. Just after the ship sinks alliances would go right out the window with people fighting over who gets to sell the blade
On Alliances: Commendations appeal to such a small group that I highly doubt that adding any more (there are too many) would affect gameplay much.
Instead, I’d go with Loot or cosmetics as my “carrot”.
Last night I shot the blade twice and it sunk. Things real buggy right now
We tried with 2 [then a 3rd toward the end] sloops and the Obsidian Skellys on the Blade seemed to keep respawning so we were never able to overtake the crew in charge
The Burning Blade is actually easily defeatable bc you can use kegs to flip it and insta-sink. But its only usable, when it is parked
I actually tried to swim underneath a PvP controlled Burning Blade with a Strong hold keg like I usually do with some ships thinking it would sink it and I almost made it to ship but one of the players had jumped into the water and hit the keg with their sword.
Honestly, I feel like there should be options for solo sloopers who take out the Burning Blade. Either allowing commands for the skeletons or allowing them to turn their open crews on and getting more than just one other person to then be stuck sailing a large galleon.
Yes!!! I agree the turn in is absolutely ridiculous. Three times now I have had a Burning Blade b-line to the Reaper's Hideout while I and other ships were fighting it. Even while we were right next to it, blasting it to pieces, it was handed in....if you have the Burning Blade, you must be prepared to defend it. It's appalling that they can do that, meanwhile I can't dive down to my next hourglass match because a sloop is digging up chests a couple islands away from me.
I would say a big thing that could be done is make all the skeles killable with one sword lunge unless the bb is controlled by a solo slooper, along with infinite respawns for solos. I think that could go a long ways.
I don’t play with friends very often and I’ll take a bb if I see a free one, bloody hell it’s hard when I’m being attacked
No infinite but defiantly more skellie respawns like more than doubt should be fine but infinite is just kinda too op even if solo
So today I got on to try and the new ship and man o mannn. The ship is a solo’s dream, I used the ship about 4 different times testing things out and just seeing what the hype was about, I don’t know if rules change with more people but as a solo those skeletons did bail water repair to the point to where I wouldn’t even need to go patch or bail any water after take multiple hits, the crew is solid in terms of repair and keeping you afloat. They lack in accuracy with the cannons but if you can get 5 of them shooting they can skin even a gally in just seconds if the stars align. All in all I think the new ship is great, although seemingly better for solo /duo’s as the crew really does work wonder in the bottom decks.
The requirements for the obsidian bone crusher weapons need to be just selling the sword do to the fact you have to wait for the burning blade to have 4 rituals and they will run an sale or if your a solo slooper you will never be able to sink the crew because your out manned and out gunned
That's fair. It just has Players scuttling themselves
@@AShinyRay you can just scuttle the blade
I agree with the running BB’s. I put on an Athena flag so I could get commendations to help “sink” it but also I like to give players who are crewing it with the Skelly curse on the ability to earn their commendations sinking an Athena emissary as there isn’t a lot of them just sailing around these days. But most BB crews I’ve seen will just run away instead of fight…
You explained it perfectly I love that you have to use different strategies to take down the ship but most people that I fight when I have it just try to fight it as a big galleon which usually results in easy sinks
To make the ship harder to return should be to start a countdown from when you vote. If someone si on the burning blade, they can restart the countdown up to 3 times from the statue in captains cabin. From the moment the crew votes return the burning blade all skeletons disappear. The countdown should about 2 minutes and it would need 2 interactions(not at the same time) to restart it. This forces the runners to guard ladders and the cabin from boarders(which most of them can't do) and it gives a fighting chance to the other crews.
I must say, Me as a guy who plays this game with his childhood friends alot…Having world events AND The burning blade active sounds so fun, like imagine your doing a Fort of Fortune and you hear your friend yell “GUYS THE BURNING BLADE IS HERE” like all hell would break loose and Id love that xD
First time I managed to get the burning blade was when season 13 launched and everyone was after us. The second and third time however there were no players on site. We even chased a galleon, but a border anchored our ship and stalled us enough for the galleon to get away. Players are just too afraid of sinking for some reason.
The 2 issues I personally have with it are that it stops other world events from spawning, and since you can just board to take the cof (or any of the other loot, but I'm not sure it would be worth the time to get the rest) the only loot being earned for sinking an unpledged BB is the sword with no rituals which doesn't sell for a whole lot cimpared to other world events, meaning there's no real incentive for sinking an unpledged BB outside of cycling world events and stopping other people from taking it and holding up the world event on that server.
You CAN use the Bonecaller on the Burning Blade. They fixed this in the last update. I guess maybe this video was made before that update.
I tried it myself about 30 hours ago.
The only way I can see the burning blade in safer seas is to be used to bs around in because as usual in safer seas hardly any xp is given and the pay out is also ridiculously nerfed
I always figured instead of ritual camps to increase value, you have to sink ships/gather more loot. Once you feel like you’re done, the orb is actually on the ship and you have to complete the ritual on it in vicinity of reapers hideout instead of in the camps. You then grab it and take it to Flameheart on the island which gives attackers a chance to intercept the orb. You succeed, he puts the ship back in the orb (like the black pearl in the bottle). It would be cool too if when the BB spawns, Flameheart shatters the orb, which releases the ship and a sound effect like him laughing signifies it spawned
I disagree, tbh. That would cause a negative feedback loop of
No one attacks me, so I get no value
I get no value, so I won't do it
No one does it, so I can't even fight it
It's a dead event
@@macewindow149 that’s why you’d go attack people. And like I said, maybe loot would help increase the value too, so have it doable with other world events or voyages
I assumed the ship would already be balanced depending on the crew size. But if not that is definitely something I think would help. Having a 4 player flameheart ship is basically META. But playing solo is very challenging. Ive done it multiple times. Not too rough fighting one other player ship but it tends to attract ALOT of attention especially if you’re doing the rituals. I did this last night got 6 done and realized 3 ships had teamed up and camped reapers until i fought them to sell… i lost that battle, although i got some revenge and dropped a keg on one of the galleons after i spawned with the sloop. Ran it again and sold at 2 rituals to satisfy myself. I like the new change but could use some work for sure.
my primary problem with it is megs cannot easily be hit by the cannons on the blade due to how close it gets and how tall the ship is.
Idk… DH and I are both decent players but we had a galleon and brig come after us this evening just as we were about to turn in at RH and while we fought, bailed, and even tried to jump off and at least get to Flameheart, we were thwarted. I think it’s pretty well balanced so long as people are smart about taking it on (these guys hid until we were in a vulnerable position and while we nearly had it all repped and ready to go again, while not allianced, the two ships worked together with the galleon shooting and the brig players constantly boarding. We sunk and lost it all. Frustrating but just goes to show that if you approach it properly, you CAN take it, even from a fairly skilled crew. By the end, the galleon had either taken off or sunk but the brig stuck around and their constant bombardment eventually paid off. I think that some people simply don’t understand it but like anything, watch some videos and then give it a go. Learn by doing. So yeah, in my opinion, it’s pretty well balanced. I haven’t really seen many crews chasing other ships down once they have it, I mostly see those who have taken it over being chased (I personally feel like it’s new enough, I don’t mind letting whoever has it keep it while I go about my own business but as a WE it’s fun to do). I think that crewed solely by PVE or a mixture, it’s well balanced and should be left alone but that’s just my opinion. I absolutely agree that Athena should get SOMETHING for going up against their sworn enemy and this goes for the Skelly Camps too. Why would they be the only emissary that can’t get rep from selling the orbs when once again, it would make sense for them to be the ones thwarting Flameheart! Reapers got their update, it’s time Athena got theirs… Not to mention HC…
The skeletons do NOT bail water. They react so quickly to holes, depending on the size of the ship used to crew the Blade, that it seems like they do. A decent brig/sloop will notice they almost never have to bail at all, unless skeletons die. Galleons may find that the fewer repairing skeletons result in more bailing, albeit still not insanely frequent unless they die.
And I'm surprised they reversed the Bonecaller bug. (I thought it was a feature, honestly.) It was nice not having to worry about them, and knowing you couldn't use them (because you already have a skeleton crew). Now just imagine a Galleon controlling the Blade, getting attacked by another Galleon, and 24 bonecaller skeletons just running around the ship. It's already laggy enough lol.
Burning blade is literally a burden if you are not that optimize crew, but if a sweaty crew handles the ship, it is OP. However, enemies spawn infinitely while the skeletons you have won′t respawn unless you do the rituals again
My big problem with it is that is is not really viable to use the Blade as a sloop crew. Those of us who don't have a 4-player crew readily available can't really hope to get anything done with it.
I think it'd be less of an issue if Rare hadn't screwed up the scaling dependent on crew size. They even mentioned in some of their patch notes after the season dropped that the scaling's off with the Burning Blade.
I understand not being able to turn in the Burning Blade with ships nearby, but I feel like I'm going crazy when people say it's fast. Me and my friends spent a solid hour last night chasing a single sloop and regardless of if we were with wind, against wind, or with no wind, the sloop out sped us
burning blade brought me back its such a cool event to take on i just would love to see more incentives for alliances too, accommodations would be nice also maybe ship cosmetics in theme of the burning blade if you took it down in alliances enough times or something like that would be really sweet like think of a sloop with the flaming maw of the burning blade would be so silly people would love to work together to unlock it.
I disagree with some points in "reaper runners". Im not that type of reaper, but I have to say that it is not a fast process to turn it in. It is slower than lowering hourglass, and can be interrupted via sword, blunder, and blunderbombs. I myself have prevented several crews from selling their ship with ease by simply camping the entrance to the hideout. I would agree with blocking the sell button while there are enemy ships present, if they could not return after beeing sunk by BB. But they can, and what will happen? The constant struggle were BB crew exists until the skeletons are wiped out because the allience ships continue to return and prevent you from selling. So, I dont think that it is a good solution. Especially considering that BB itself does not receive anything for actual pvp. If they make it so sinking ships gives aligience or ritual stacks, than perhaps blocking the sell option will be a good option. But as of now - it will simply be unfair
Tbf I don't think there's ever going to be a perfect solution for this. The turn in is way too fast to allow any ships that wanted to fight to catch up, but also I've been on the bb where the entire server just will not stop coming back to the point where we had sunk each of them about 3 times while doing rituals. I think they should just make it a 2 minute delay or so and if any of the crew is killed during that time, then they have to reset the countdown to turn it in.
@@justapotato4231 this actually sounds as a good option
In terms of reaper running yeah, it needs ot be changed bc it shouldn't be able to run straight to reapers, however whenever I get the blade I always run to the next skeleton camp if it's contested so that I can get to a point that I can refil skeletons quickly before starting to actually fight. Additionally, I believe that the A.I. on the ship neds to be fixed because sometimes the skeletons don't even get on cannons when there's a player near or in broadside.
In terms of The BB in safer seas, I believe it could be fine for them to do like a few days after launch so that people with not as much time to fight such a constested event can still experience it until their next break, but no more than a week before it's taken back out.
I don't believe it should take up a world event slot, at least, not forever as you said, and in terms of future world events I want to see ones that are more related to other factions because as of right now lilterally every world event you can do is related to Flameheart, with Skull forts being places that skeletons amass tribute for him, skeleton fleets being made to assist flameheart, Ashen lords as his main commanders (Red ruth was his oolder weaponsmith making the firebomb and blunderbomb. Warden chi was in charge of prisons, Captain grimm was the onne that managed the fleet, but I don't remember what old horatio did), ghost fleets made also to help him when he was first released from his bones, and even FotD being a partially failed attempt to weaken the worlds and bring him back. it makes no sense for the reapers to be turning in the loot that they had pretty much already gotten and still get paid as well as they do.
They need to make it easier on solos, as personally I can take a solo, but a duo gets so much more difficult for me as I'm not the greatest. Si imagine how difficult a galleon is, there needs to be a buff for skeletons as a solo, where they can help raise anchor or pull up and repair broken masts, as it's essentially maintaining a galleon without them
The Galleon we fought while manning the Burning Blade the other day, would beg to disagree. We were all experienced players, 70 days played, all Pirate Legends. It took us 5 hours to finally sink that Galleon, they kept boarding us and dropping our anchor in matter of seconds, evading our attacks, we almost sunk nearly a dozen times, it was nerve-wracking and stress inducing. The anchor may be Sloop, but the Helm Wheel is still Galleon, and it takes a lot to manage those sails without help. My point is, the Burning Blade is easy enough to sink and fight if you're a competent enough crew, even with people manning that ship. So no, I don't think it needs to be changed or rebalanced.
I still think the burning blade needs something that can counter it, something the crew of it can watch out for and other crews can use to not make it a total server domination.
Say for example they make an "Athena cannon ball" that damages the burning blade for level 3 holes per hit *max stack of 10 separate from normal cannon balls, but also do no damage vs normal crews ships*, but can only be acquired via the new shrines, And also while carrying the Athena cannon ball you glow like a villainous skull outside a chest, easy to spot from a distance, and the one to be targeted via the burning blade.
I "ran" with my first BB simply because the two brigs trying to fight me had 0 idea what they were doing and I realized I was better off saving my limited Obsidian Skelly supply (was playing solo) for an actual fight instead of the same couple of swabbies trying to firebomb the ship or ram into it.
The world event itself is great and I am 100% down for more "giant ship" world events, here's to a Grand Maritime Union Man-o-War in the future!
After Interrupting a temple ritual you should be able to have the option to load the orb in the cannon and use if as an explosive cursed cannonball but only against the burning blade.
It still makes me wonder if rare are planning on adding features that are on the Burning Blade to other ships, I mean the front facing cannons. Or are they testing to see if they can add a bigger ship than the galleon with 1 or 2 more players than the galleon
theres also the problem with finite skeleton respawns in this your a duo sloop facing a gally theres no chance of recovery if they camp your spawn on the bb after taking down the skeletons
I dont really agree with the "no-turn-in" radius. I had a ten streak and we were attacked by players way better than us (Gold Ghost Curse) but we were already on our way to lower and we managed to knock their sails down. Then all 4 of them camped in the reapers hideout and us a trio managed to kill all of them and lower. Now if they would be a certain radius we couldnt have done that and itwould just be unfair because we were also one player less than them.
Had one flight against the burning blade after sinking it our alliance member took the sword of souls as they did most of the work in the fight.
They then proceeded to leave the alliance right before selling the sword of souls.
So if you decide for an alliance to fight the burning blade it will most likely lead to betrayal.
The balancing is good tbh u only need to kill all the skellys and than it gets easy
I like the season. I think it’s a fun event.
As a solo who's helmed the Burning Blade a number of times, I think there's definitely room for improvement with skelly spawns for solos/duos.
And- unfortunately -sometimes running with the Blade is the only reasonable option you have in a fight. It's not exactly fun to get anchored and spawncamped by a galleon of TDMers who are bent on depleting your skeletons and parking 2 yards away from your hull before they even fire a single cannonball. I'll fight a naval crew 4 times my size any day, but if I see a galleon fire 3 boarders at me immediately while I have 4 ladders to watch? I know there's no way in hell I'm winning that fight. So, might as well at least TRY and cash in my hard work.
In hourglass you at least get a little rep for losing, so there's incentive to keep trying even against spawncamping boardlords. There's no such compensation on the Blade, so there's no reason to even attempt a battle you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you'll lose.
I'm not defending Reaper Running, mind. it's an annoyance that should remain stigmatized since nine times out of ten, the Runners are fleeing from a fight they could reasonably win, or could at minimum die in honorable battle. But with how the Burning Blade works, and how a lot of sweats refuse to use projectile weaponry at long range (both guns AND cannons for some reason), you're more incentivized to run in some dire situations.
Proximity should not stop you from turning in The Blade. If you don't have thousands of hours in the game, it would be way too easy for a semi-competent crew to endlessly block you by hanging out near the edge and running when you came to to sink them. Also, thematically, the goal of the event is not to sail around fighting people. The goal is to collect orb knowledge and deliver it to Flameheart. If someone stands a chance of stopping you, the correct way to complete the objective is to go straight to Flameheart with the knowledge, and there's nothing about the setting or lore that contradicts that. Reaper daddy won't be happy if you lose his knowledge and ship over an ego kill.
The best way to handle it is to make the Blade crew anchor at Reaper's, interact with an object (preferably an orb) on the ship, and walk it in to Flameheart. That way if you get there first, you can capture the flag, turn it in, and win. Disabling turn-ins while other ships are around is a rule. An orb you can take from them and turn in is a tool.
Sunk it as a 2 man crew last night. Got attacked not long after by a galleon and the skelly crew went MIA. Trying to captain a ship that big without the skelly crew is a bust.
I haven't had a problem with it mainly because its the first major update in like 3 years. But genuinely its some of the most fun I've had in the game, controlling it and fighting it. I understand its broken, but it still has its weaknesses and it adds a challenge to the game of which most have been taken out. And most games I get into are not player controlled or its not even spawned, even sometimes when I'm on the game with my newer friends we server hop 1 or 2 times and get it.
Cant be mad about a ship that's supposed to be really powerful (literally flame hearts ship) especially since they removed seadogs, this just adds that pvp touch to the game again.
In my opinion the turn in process is fine. The defending crew has already:
Taken down the burning blade possibly against other ships.
Possible fought off invading crews whilst completing Skele camps.
Then defended to make it to reapers for the turn in.
The attacking crew has had plenty of time to take down the player controlled blade.
The defenders deserve an easy turn in.
I’m still in the process of moving, so I went almost blind into this season. Already knew that small islands like Barnacle Cay would change. Only watched the Burning Blade from afar. Just how I waited for the Siren Skull.
I’m still wondering if the Burning Blade handles Server Merge
I just want all the others ships to have the triangle sails that the burning blazed and pirates of the Caribbean ships have
Its really funny that you cant turn in hourglasses if as much as another crew looks at your ship the wrong way. But the burning blade can be turned in while actively taking damage.
I agree, the ship should be in safer seas.
Obviously make it so loot / progression is severely limited.
As a solo slooper, it would be nice to casually sail around fighting skeleton ships with an npc crew.