Merchant Forager and Black Powder Merchant achievements basically impossible to get

Hello there It's me again with the same topic! Because nothing changed.

You expect them to drop all the important stuff over a mild issue?

Is there is any plan reworking/fixing the situation with 2 achievements?

Mild. Not game breaking

there is no real way of getting the delivery except finding message in the bottle.

Do you expect to finish these quest by dinner or play the game and let them come naturally? There so many other achievements and tasks that require playing long term.

@burnbacon sagte in Merchant Forager and Black Powder Merchant achievements basically impossible to get:

Hello there It's me again with the same topic! Because nothing changed.

You expect them to drop all the important stuff over a mild issue?

Is there is any plan reworking/fixing the situation with 2 achievements?

Mild. Not game breaking

there is no real way of getting the delivery except finding message in the bottle.

Do you expect to finish these quest by dinner or play the game and let them come naturally? There so many other achievements and tasks that require playing long term.

The achievements are not harder than before, they are literally impossible.
Ive played actively in this season finishing the Hunters call commendations and did a ton of the small fishing quests.
But since the release of this season i didnt find a single crate delivery or keg delivery.

This has been an issue for a long time now, which makes 2 achievements and 4 commendations impossible to complete.

This needs fixing as soon as possible.

@itz-majman sagte in Merchant Forager and Black Powder Merchant achievements basically impossible to get:

The kegs needs some way to get them more easily, since you could get them through merchant before. The other ones has always been rare

The others have been rare before, but now they are at least 100 times harder.

Merchant in general has sucked since season 11 came out. Animal and cargo runs only require 4 deliveries. Not only is this terrible for gold and reputation, completing commendations related to these is unreasonably slow, even for this game. For example, the animal commendations require at least 200 of each animal type to reach grade 5. That's 600 animals total, only the reasonable amount of completing at least 150 merchant animal quests, sailing to and from the outpost, finding the crates, and finding the animals. 150 times. Thats terrible.

I've whined about this a few times myself and I am in agreement.

During the Event with the Special Sea forts, I did it almost entirely for the sake of the bottles. Out of the 4 bottles, I feel it only came up 1/5 of the time. Which makes sense since it already share a slot for special cargo runs. But the Treasure maps and Skeletons maps felt way more frequent.

You have 1/3 chance to get a merchant quest from bottles.
It has a 1/2 chance to be a delivery quest.
and then it has a 1/4 chance to be the kind you still need to work on.
(Someone do the math, I cant be bothered)

It IS and issue, and thus should be solved, dont listen to what Bacon is saying. Compared to commendations for GH and OOS, which I've had completed for almost two years now, I still struggle to find these quests in bottles.

We need a reliable way to find and complete them.

Dang, you wrote this while I wrote my post about the same issue, lol. I 100% agree. I'm a Completionist, and I totally get some commendations being a grind to get, or even taking hundreds of hours, but from my experience, the amount of time this commendation would take from zero to 100% in its current state is thousands, is not tens of thousands of hours. It's a serious issue and needs to be fixed

@themetalman4011 said in Merchant Forager and Black Powder Merchant achievements basically impossible to get:

I've whined about this a few times myself and I am in agreement.

During the Event with the Special Sea forts, I did it almost entirely for the sake of the bottles. Out of the 4 bottles, I feel it only came up 1/5 of the time. Which makes sense since it already share a slot for special cargo runs. But the Treasure maps and Skeletons maps felt way more frequent.

You have 1/3 chance to get a merchant quest from bottles.
It has a 1/2 chance to be a delivery quest.
and then it has a 1/4 chance to be the kind you still need to work on.
(Someone do the math, I cant be bothered)

It IS and issue, and thus should be solved, dont listen to what Bacon is saying. Compared to commendations for GH and OOS, which I've had completed for almost two years now, I still struggle to find these quests in bottles.

We need a reliable way to find and complete them.

You had a better hit rate than I did at the Dark Fortress event. I did a Brig crew's worth of the voyage's and got 2 of the relevant merchant voyages. It's painfully slow.

For what it is worth, I did manage to pick up a barrel quest in a bottle last week. Granted it has been a while since I'd seen one, and you can bet I dropped everything to make sure I completed it, but they are still coming around. Drop rate does need to be increased though as it is much less than the early days and needlessly dragging the grind for them.

Can't remember when I last got a fruit crate voyage though.

Commendations and achievements need no fixing or adjustment (as that was done during the first year of the game). Drop rate of the voyages needs to be increased ever so slightly to match the past rate when they were found in bottles OR barrels.

I now also have 285/286 archievments in this game since I wrote my post almost 2 months ago.
Guess which one is missing?

It's simply impossible to complete this achievement! Nobody can tell me that this achievement was more difficult before season 11 than it is now.
For example, you could complete 4 quests with the animal deliveries alone, each with +2 blasting barrels. You could search outposts, and so on.

Fruit crates are rare with 50 but 100 blackpowder barrels are literally impossible to deliver.

Currently, you have to make do with bottle mail and secret journals, which involve a terrible distribution of quests.

Grade 5 emmisary quests would be a good solution, as you usually get a surplus of delivery quests for plants, rum and silk.

(This message was written with a translator, because my english is not perfect, sorry bout that ;))

I hope Rare listens to you guys, Merchants haven't been getting love for ages. And we can't get all the Legendary Gear that's tied to Merchant quests if we joined later, or are trying to finish the quests later. I wish Merchants got quests that were more popular, their removed ones added back, and old ones given work to be more fun.

@artie sagte in Merchant Forager and Black Powder Merchant achievements basically impossible to get:

@dermasterbob said in Merchant Forager and Black Powder Merchant achievements basically impossible to get:

The others have been rare before, but now they are at least 100 times harder.

Eh, this is a bit overstated. if you are used to only searching for bottle quests at the outposts, then yeah these commendations/achievements may seem more difficult. However, the difficulty of finding the emergent merchant contracts in S11+ is the same as before with one MAJOR change... You have to leave the outpost to find the quests, and learn the spawn points of the pink journals on the big islands. Maps have been posted with optimal search routes, and you can easily dive to these islands with riddle quests if you want to server hop like the old days.

Sometimes, it just take a bit of learning the new Meta.... especially when the main goal of S11 was to get boats to actually leave the outpost.

Now yes, gunpowder contracts not appearing in the Merchant alliance fetch quests is a big change, but again once you get in the groove searching pink journals, you will find them in enough quantities to finish them off... assuming you want to leave the outpost.

Its not an overstatement at all.
Since season 11 i have found about 20 of these voyages and im playing actively always shooting out to every island looking for the jurnals and bottles.
But 90% of the merchant missions i find are normal cargo.

These commendations are nigh impossible at the moment, even my mates that have completed them ages ago, say that they are way harder to find these days.

Artie basically wrote everythubg I was going to write.

These aren't impossible. They are harder that the kast few years. They're pretty close to launch difficulty (pre-barrel 2.0 parchments.) Plenty of pirates completed these year 1.

Akso, if you use the term "literally impossible" the you lose the last of your credibility. Learn the definition of "literally. "

If you just said "it is impossible" you'd still be wrong. But at keast I'd give you the benefit of the doubt that you knew you were using hyperbole. But "literally* has no place in a hyperbolic statement. Words matter. Literally.