My Miserable Hunt for Horns of Fair Winds

Imo the real issue is that it's a tool in a season that was supposed to be shifting away from the monotonous leveling up type of grinds.

If it was just a piece of treasure then it's whatever, happens when it happens. Another extreme grind that a lot of people would ignore or move on from.

The extreme requirements, extreme rng, and extreme nerfs made it pretty pointless as a tool.

Imo the fun part of sot needs to truly be embraced and extreme grinds should stop being a part of seasons. There is enough of it and there aren't a whole lot of people that truly do them organically anymore.

Seasons are often too easy for people to leave. They pop in for the new stuff, see it's behind wild grinds, get uninterested/frustrated and then it's right back to "buggy/broken game" and then bounce for most of the season.

The game is fun at its core, doesn't need to be made less fun by turning every season into an extreme grind imo. The "there is nothing to do" crowd will never be happy, let 'em move on. Creating more frustration through unnecessary grinds is sending people away that might otherwise stay if they were rewarded for having fun.

@obscureberry192 I am sitting at 5 sold so far. Mine have come from shipwrecks as I have not really been interested in re-doing shrines unless I know for sure that there are going to be good odds of finding horns that way. Shipwreck odds are also very low, but at least they are part of my normal playstyle.

I’ve come to find out that if you find a horn in a treasury or shrine leave and come back 15 minutes and another one will respond I’ve searched prob 20-30 shipwrecks since the update and no horn

@tesiccl said in My Miserable Hunt for Horns of Fair Winds:

@obscureberry192 you’d rather just farm them quickly and get the intentionally grindy commendation done in a few days like all the try hards who think they deserve special recognition for no lifing it before the change? Maybe just enjoy the gameplay instead of turning it into a farming scenario. It doesn’t have to be all done by next season.

Typical bad take from you.

The closest commendation to compare with the storm sail commendation is the turn in breaths of the sea one and it’s 30 breaths of the sea.

Other commendations such as open 100 vaults and finish 100 legend of the veils are set to 100 because they can be farmed as quickly as a crew wants.

Even turn in 50 hero items for each company by doing raid voyages is also reasonable.

What is NOT reasonable is the spawn rate of the horn of fair winds OR the commendation being set to 250 horns; even 100 horns is still a lot.

It doesn’t make any sense in typical Rare fashion.

Hey guys let’s reduce many of the other war chest commendations by a factor of 10 or more but the hardest to complete war chest commendation only was reduced by a factor of 2.5 when the horn itself is super hard to find.

Ideally an intelligent dev team would have lowered the storm sail commendation to say 50 horns and simultaneously increased the spawn chances of it spawning.

Instead we get to feel screwed over for how hard the other easier to complete war chest commendations got nerfed and the singular commendation that actually needed a nerf is still really hard to complete.

You literally can’t make this stuff. How can they design the thing and be so out of touch with their own creation?

My heart hurt reading that it takes 100 to complete the commendation, that’s actually silly. I assumed after the update they lowered it to atleast 50, which in my opinion is still a lot. I found 2 horns out of 4 sunken treasuries. I read elsewhere that they most likely spawn in treasuries and shipwrecks that have reaperchest. Such a shame it costs 100 horns to complete, I really want the season title sooner rather than later. Someone needs to change the spawn rate. Maybe even make them available in digs. Something needs to change.
P.S: I feel like season commendations should be able to be completed within the season.

@rare-jumbie said in My Miserable Hunt for Horns of Fair Winds:

Didn't you say in another post that you completed this within the first few weeks of it coming out? With the original commendation of 250? And with the original (higher) spawn rates? And yet you're talking about how the grinds shouldn't be part of the seasons, as if they're bad or something. When Rare looks at the data you will show up as one of those players that gets things done really quickly and will encourage them to make things even more grindy in the future because that particular feature is being recorded as positive engagement, from you.

I know this is a more personal message which is disallowed on the forums but man, you couldn't sound more hypocritical.

The grinds get nerfed because they see how few people are doing them at the extreme numbers. Happened with this season just like it happened with Captaincy.

I've had high numbers in this game as a solo for years. I didn't play a different amount of hours than I normally do and the grind was very comparable to how I play the game every day because I killed a comparable amount of megs/krakens/skelly ships as I always do.

This was one of the few grinds that was completely compatible with how I play. I didn't do any of the HG grind because it was not compatible with how I play.

If they were to examine my data it would line up with how I have played for years.

Everything I do is way more than required for any sort of in-game reward and it's way higher than most people that play.

The only thing about that grind that was out of the ordinary for me was the supping. I typically never gather supplies and it required a lot of supply gathering, the rest was just a bunch of pve that I already do a lot of.

Before season 12 I already had a very high amount of shipwrecks and sea forts, I've done a lot of shrine activity. I've killed more sharks than most. None of that is even outside of my day to day sessions.

I don't take it as a personal attack at all. I welcome being challenged, that's why I post on the forums where people can challenge what I say or do.

I have approached Captaincy exactly how they originally intended it, to tell a story through activity. I do what I like to do and I don't do anything that isn't compatible with how I enjoy playing. If the warchest comms required HG activity or fotds or a bunch of alliance activity I wouldn't have done it.

I know that feel. I'm at 25 or so. I stopped looking. I find em when I find em now. Soon as I fo find one I tush to sell it so I don't loose it to another pirate.