I really am liking the Ashen Expeditions! Having Rare focus on a specific region for an event is really cool IMO. The Ashen Expedition is hopefully the start of more Expeditions!
This event has us getting the Ruby Rapier for participating, but I have an idea if Rare continues to do region specific events/expeditions in the future, which I would strongly encourage instead of just throwing Gold and Glory weekends at us to fill seasons.
So, much like the Grogmany tankard that gets dashes etched on it for participating, I suggest a progression jacket awarded for completing missions/voyages during region events. In my mind the jacket would be an opened, not closed design so we can show off part of our tats and curses easier. The color would be the blue of the triumphant sea dog jacket since we don't have too many blue jackets anymore. It would have some designs on the arms and across the back in a different color. Now the front would have places for buttons, like the gold hoarder jacket, rogue sea dog jacket, pirate lord jacket... but you would need to earn these buttons by participating in the regional expeditions that happen. Each expedition would award one new button, that could look like little skulls or whatever design Rare comes up with. You could have 5 button slots on each side and then on completion of the 10th event you could get a larger button/seal in the top left (think Gilded Phoenix jacket as an example), and maybe something else added on the arms and/or back to show that the jacket has been completed. So in the long term, Rare can do much more than just 10 expeditions, but having the jacket complete at 10 events will be nice for people wanting to finish the jacket, but not worry about FOMO, they just have to wait until the next event.
New Jacket for Regional Expeditions
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