For the past three days, I have been trying to find Dragonlord Apophis again to fight her. Every single trip I make I spend over an hour sailing just to run into almost zero dragon arenas in Insanity 4, much less Apophis.
Guess what I’ve run into more than dragon Islands?
THE OMEN.
My last trip lasted 58 minutes.
I encountered 2 dragon islands in i4. I got to i4 at the 22 minute mark.
I ran into three goddamn omens.
I am going to crash out. This is consistently happening and it’s one of the reasons i hate the dark sea.
Every single attempt that I fail at fighting Apophis means that’s hours of sailing I have to do just to get another attempt. It’s miserable.
And I thought I hated randomly spawning world bosses, but at least you could see if they were around and sense them. Here you just have to hope that a dragon island spawns near you instead of a siren rock, regular island, or one of the many, many tornadoes, whirlpools, and crushing waves, and then you have to hope you land the 1/10 chance for it to be apophis.
Thank you for listening. I am so deeply frustrated right now.
It’d definitely help if certain enemies such as krakens and the omen were forced to spawn outside of a specific area around players, since I really dislike how krakens can spawn right near you before you have a chance to sense them.
ngl there should be a mechanic that allows players to avoid having krakens spawning on them. Maybe they make a sound and you have to stop the ship for a few seconds before you get some confirmation that the kraken is gone
sailing in the far reaches kinda triggers my paranoia because I know that if an omen spawns I’ll have to sail for half an hour again
and ffs can we please make it so dark sea monsters despawn??? the rifts and their passages are completely flooded with krakens like some moron sat there for 3 hours waiting for them to spawn
Yeah I reckon that a dark sea revamp is needed for a future update, since currently the spawns for islands, sea monsters and even Atlantean ships are usually close enough that you have little to no time to properly retract to it, plus we also have the issue of hectare essence spawning in, inaccessible areas (atleast without exploiting or clipping through terrain), poison rain being made nearly redundant with soap, and there’s probably more.
But overall it’s not in the best state, but I’m not sure what the community at large would want overall, more story updates, or a potentially really long update that works on improving nearly all aspects of the dark sea.
Better yet, why not add some sort of talisman or some other sort of divine/religious symbol that wards off the dark sea’s magical energy if it gets to close, so tornados can’t spawn on top of your ship, whirlpools can’t spawn on top of your ship, sea monsters can’t spawn within a certain radius. So it acts as a shield from the dark sea to an extent.
But it can’t destroy waves and hail or even tornados that have already formed, so you can’t just go through everything when you have this item.
Btw if anyone wants to submit this to the suggestions category, go ahead.
I personally respect anyone who can go solo into the Far Reaches, as I am too much of a coward that gets scared of video games, and I cannot physically make myself go that far into the Dark Sea.
One of my friends had an expedition where random kraken tentacles followed them constantly. There wasn’t an actual kraken, the tentacles just spontaneously appeared constantly as if the original kraken followed us. Sea monsters are so fucking infuriating sometimes I wish we had some kind of anti sea monster flare or sum to drive them off
vee sorry to tell you but he loves and hates us all equally, like omen LITERALLY spawned ontop of us last time and i think you were afk or something lol
Not gonna lie the dark sea also freaks me out, like I actively avoid touching the water while in it.
Also is it just me or should the dark sea forests (the ones with the massive trees) gives a lot more supplies when you order your crew to chop them down.
Y’know the 2 waves that force you to steer or get hit?
I was going to sail right through and ignore it, but an Atlantean brig spawned INSIDE the waves
I could not even see it, i only heard the collision and got confused for like half a second. I wasn’t even a full second away from the waves when it spawned
One thing that unironically helped every time i went on a dragon hunt with other people is instead of saying omen saying nemo. Another thing is i personally haven’t gone hunting for any dragonlords but one thing that makes me mad is how dragonlords literally give you nothing but extra health for defeating them, also I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend going with at most 8 people (i did it with 12 and it was genuine hell) just because of the where you are facing mechanic with spawning, and this essentially made it so that a kraken spawned on us maybe twice or so. Also if you dont have friends or a guild that is organizing stuff like that, uhhhhhhh, idk like, go to i5 and kill every atlantean you see to flex instead of flexing you beat a (from what aphrodii said) easier boss with rng.
