Part bug, part feedback: the Cox Pirates' Ghost Summon Scroll is broken for parties.
- Due to party loot changes, only the player getting the kill shot gets loot.
- If the kill is not by the party lead, there is no Cox Pirates' artifact reward from the black spirit for anyone (basically wasting the scroll).
- I assume only the party lead / summoner ever gets the reward anyway.
- The scroll description still says "party of five recommended".
I was hoping to help someone get their artifacts, but to get them any loot at all, I would just summon while they kill, losing the rewards for each scroll. I suppose I could have just considered those as a loss and gotten them the trash that can be processed into artifacts, but - really?
I don't really have a suggestion, but at the very least, make the description not lead to disappointment. As it is, these are basically just solo content now.
EDIT: Took a closer look. Only the summoner gets the BS quest for the artifacts. If the summoner doesn't get a hit (or kill?), the quest doesn't complete. Once the summoned ship is gone, the quest prevents further summons, so has to be forfeited. Or someone else can summon, and likely sacrifice their quest.
Leaving this here, in case of future searches.
In the past, the only ship we took out to the location was the summoner's. The party members all brought matchlocks, and once they all hit the ship with their matchlocks the summoner would kill the ship. That used to work to get people the loot items they could process into ship mats. I haven't done these in a couple of years, though, so I don't know if this method still works for at least getting people a few of the ship mats they need.
I agree that these scrolls are incredibly outdated and I'm hoping that, with the recent bartering updates and the addition of blue battlefield, the devs will update a lot of the older sea content such as these scrolls to provide rewards more commensurate with current in-game economic standards.
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