Pirate Legend...the untold secrets!

Nothing.

I am dead inside. I'm purple now, but also dead inside.

I play 99% solo, so will never have those silly glowy robes! Weirdly, the funnest Legends I've sailed with have been either French or Spanish. The English speaking ones seem to have been a little grrrr. Haven't encountered a Welsh one yet. Maybe I can be the first!

Fair Winds.

@glannigan I now have an urge to slip you some milk and cover your vessel in chickens.

I have it all (nothing to do in game) so i battle every crew i find, today o sunk the same PL and his crew 4 Times at a fort and that was alot of fun, because he went salty Hahahah :)

hmm In my experience... PL brings nothing if not a sense of freedom from the grind. Which as banal as that sounds... is soooo liberating. I mean sure there's the Athena's voyages but heck, you can do those at level 1/1/1 if you got the right friends.

But knowing that you can sail, do nothing, something, an Athena's, or not an Athena's, and not feel like your failing to get to an end goal?

Yea, that just makes the game so much more playable for me than it had been.

Sure, I still wonder how deep my commitment to SoT will remain in the longest of runs... but I'm still here! PL really just makes screwing off at skull forts, messing around as a stow-away, spending the night docked and chatting, or even helping strangers just because you can and don't feel like your time would be spent better elsewhere, is such a relief!

So yea, despite your likely (presumed) play style, whatever it may be, I would dare-say that your favorite part of it all will be the air of freedom you gain.

(Just don't get bogged down by a feeling of nothing to do, or pointlessness.. that's poisonous)

@drbullhammer hehe sorry I skip alot of posts when making my first offering in a thread and only really read through them all after I've posted, sort of like my own reply specific to the OP. hehe

I read the thread more wholly now and frankly... deserves an upvote we obviously agree!

@pink-geek-chic Each pirate legend treats their title differently. My captain uses his status to look like a 90s p**p, I use it to look like a rejected ghost from Scooby Doo and my boarder...well...he’s doesn’t really wear anything...that’s probably the scariest one of us all...

It takes a second to realize the grind is over. You won’t lose the enthusiasm about getting a villainous or captains chest vs a fowl, castaway etc but it takes a few sessions to realize the progression crawl is finally over.
Now Athena’s on the other hand.....

I like to right lore or make up stories for my crew an my ships to play along on. In short of it I like to nerd out by Role plating made up lore. In one of these sessions I made a legend quote "P**s himself with laughter" unquote. He was a PvP legend an was dieing for a fight it seemed me an my crew came around just in time. We played into are little roles as a cursed gallon forced to fight for are souls on the open seas. Thanking the legend every time he "freed" {in short one shot us} we put a few holes in his sloop so we walked away with giggles around. he caught up to me an told me thank you for the laughs an we went along are way. If you see this post dude lets cross sails again, next time you play the cursed crew.

I agree with the posters above.

It's bittersweet. On the one hand it can be harder to motivate yourself to log in at all. On the other when you do feel like logging in there's no pressure on you to grind out a particular faction. I left a fort without taking a share last night just because I couldn't be bothered sailing to an outpost to cash out. Had my fun helping a Galleon with the commendations so I let them take all the loot. It's nice to be able to do that without even a trace of FOMO.

@pink-geek-chic Best thing about being pirate legend? The shanty to open the gate/stairs to the ghost tavern.

In the first few hours, after achieving my legendary status, I felt lost. I went into the tavern, but the l**t for grog was gone. I kept playing the legendary shanty which cheered me up for a few minutes, only realising I cannot start playing it outside of the tavern.
The grind of Athenas felt useless, because the only reward for it is gold and Athena reputation. Where are the Legendary commendations? No legendary fortresses I can set my sails towards. I want to achieve something more than just doing the same voyages I did before.
Luckily my crew is still determined to keep going which gave me new hope.

I had not looked up the events that happen after you reach lvl 50 in all factions so I was really surprised to see this all play out. The first time you enter the hideout is something special, seeing all the folks there is great!

I hope you like me weren't spoiled and find it out for your first time too.

As for lore, I want to find out more about the pirate lord and the plaque in his room.
See the thing has my name on it, I've heard only I can see this so I'm not surprised you didnt know this but I'm guessing my picture is coming here ;-)

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The moment I became legend I knew what my mission would be, I had heard nothing but stories of how pirate legends were just PVE players that weren't very nice. This terrible reputation troubled me to the very core, I had to combat it in every way I could.

I began by being nice to everyone I could, helping new players and if anyone was friendly in game rewarding them with a chest of a skull, this felt good. I helped with forts and took no loot I helped sloops while they were being attacked without cause by galleons and other rouge sloops. I sank anyone that attacked me because PVP is is one of my favourite aspects of the game.

Recently during an Athena we needed to dig up the legend chest, we came across a sloop on the island as you all know there are 3 choices when it comes to sharing an island, sink em, sail them away or wait for them to be done. I created a fourth option, I got him to show me his map and I helped him dig up his chests.

Even though the fight to redeem the pirate legend title is an on going one, I feel like it's a fight we're winning. ;)

As a Pirate Legend, I love just helping others. I mean, I already did that before I hit PL, but now when I help, I'm not sitting at numbers below 50 longer. It feels good working to get others in my crew to 50/50/50.

@murkrage matey I adore your sentiments and it would br a pleasure to sail with ya. Or sink ya. Yanno, circumstances.