Fort of the Damned Refresh

  • As I attempted yet another Fort of the Damned today, I found myself not having any fun. The method itself is straightforward, dive to a Skull of Destiny, dig it up and take to the Fotd. It's just the fact that the raid has not changed since it was first added. I become Sisyphus again every time I choose to go another round - never sailing back as it is more trouble than it is worth (distance and fight wise).
    I have found it is very samey and if I have do this 90 or so times so I can get the Chest of Fortune disguise I would like it to vary. For example:

    • All the commendations are for lighting the flames of fate, clearing skeleton waves and the fort itself. The fort layout itself could change - similar to golden sands and the ritual orb skeleton camps - as no commendations are related to anything but the flames of fate and enemies
    • Switch out Graymarrow final boss for an array of bosses which one is randomly selected which you have to fight instead.
    • Have skeletons man the cannons on the fort and attack yours/others ships
    • Make a network of caves underneath the fort for people who want to hide/disguise themselves in to lose pursuing players or wait for unsuspecting players

    The other issue I have is with the chest of fortune itself. The Burning Blade had a Chest of Ancient Tributes appear in the spot where the Chest of Fortune used to be, however for previous world events, a substitution hasn't happened. There should be something else in the Chest of Fortune's place for the Fort of Fortune and the Skeleton Fleet, a similar replacement should happen to the fotd at the end of the season.

    If nothing changes over next while, I think I'll have to wait it out for the next season for better variability to save my sanity.

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  • I like the ideas of the final Boss rotations, and the CoF possibly moved to a different event. Maybe a shakeup with an entirely new, more powerful Boss or the addition of a new chest or item that's as valuable or more than the CoF.

    In saying that, having both a CoL and CoF there with new rewards and achievements have made it pretty fun so far. I've seen many servers with active stacked FotD and it's brought in a lot of different elements to pvp and multiple ships battles that have been really fun in both attacking and defending with having both he funny chest and the CoF there.

    This could end when people get the rewards and the CoF is once again moved, but I think having a specific FotD coveted item would keep it fresh. The new features that will be here again will surely make it even more interesting whenever they are fixed.

  • @unblinkingmass7 I think the substitution was made for burning blade because that was it's first rotation in game, they've changed other loot too. Only one storage crate and I got a generous gift yesterday so I'm happy with updated loot. Old events certainly could do with some tweaking.
    Fotd is still best loot so I don't know about changing too much

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