Why is the Darkness Talent bad?

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This is by far the talent I took the most interest in, since it has a perk related to charting and is all about cool ghosts, but it straight up doesn’t work.

One of the darkness talent quests asks you to do something that simply hasn’t been added yet, and has no indication that it’s impossible. It’s also a random event so you might assume it’s just bad luck when you don’t get it.
And it’s not that the win condition is hidden and you have to do something else to finish, it’s just secretly unavailable.

Perk 1 is actually a downside,
Perk 2 doesn’t ever work, (I have not seen a single treasure ghost),
Perk 3 is actually really goated,
And perks 4 and 5 don’t exist.

edit: perk 3 is fixed, and it’s pretty really good.

This talent wasn’t ready to be added to the game.

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:sob: Only perk i care abt rn

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perk 1 makes you immune to certain environmental hazards I believe
like the dirty water and that poison lake in the sky

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Does that include the dark sea rain? (I’ll be split between sentinel and darkness for expeditions)

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I haven’t gone into the dark sea since the update, so I don’t know

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Maybe someone can test once the rift spam problem is done

(and once i manage to actually complete the task i’ll go test in some of those waters to see if the belief is right, the castaways are just being elusive rn, got 1/3)

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Uhhhh well I died to that lake twice.

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The rifts are only in one spot, just enter somewhere else

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I didn’t notice it was supposed to be dangerous until I found the rusty zweihander and it said the lake was dangerous

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honestly haven’t even gone in the dark yet (trying to do talent quests + Hunt Dusk whenever he actually spawns on an island and doesn’t get replaced by the one beyond reach because she can spawn in bronze apparently and was on the island where dusk should have been-)

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After testing both before and after rejoining the game, can confirm it does not stop the poison water

Now gotta figure out if part 1 actually does anything other than aura or not

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that’s odd
oh well, classic vetexgames bug I guess

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So should I wait for the full questline to be added? Ghost sailors look promising but the dragon not being there makes it depressing

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It’s fine, I main it anyways

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don’t need to wait, i’m solely maining it for the level 2 perk (ghosts leading me to chart locations)

It’s so good

Level 3 perk with the ghost sailors are also cool they actually seem to be invulnerable to damage (can’t be killed so i can always fire my cannons)

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That has actually gotten fixed now

slipped and fell into the poison sky river and not taking dmg

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Perk 1 being a downside is just subjective depending if you like the visual of it.
As far as I’m aware it’s purely cosmetic.
Perk 2 has worked for me so far and has been helpful, tough they don’t help everytime.

Dosen’t seem fair to judge the Talent when it’s not finished.
I reckon once its fully added it will be better then Seafaring which only has 2 good perks.

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Makes you immune to some hazards like the poison sky cave and the corroding water at makerinos (ot is either bugged to work at a higher level or actually got fixed)

Weird that it doesn’t get explained though

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Yes, it is, because it’s in the game. Even if you release a game and say it’s a beta, I will still judge it as a full game and consider it to be bad if it’s not good.

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It’s actually my favorite talent rn

chart ghosts are so weirdly cute as they follow me everywhere when I got some charts, I even had 5 group of ghosts following me
And they fight animals and enemies(not actually fight them, they just get scared)
And ‘sometimes’ help(they were very helpful when I was doing mythical charts and big/tall land charts)

ghost crews are great as they dont die, making my firepower doesnt decrease even when the ships taking heavy damage.
And they make me feel less ashamed to go dark sea and such, I always worried bout crews dying because of me(its just data but still)
And they silent, I like that

and the aura thing… thats kind of bad honestly
But still, if its the thing needed to meet my ghost friends, I take it

Overall im loving the talent, as any other talents doesnt feel like mine

  • seeker of sight lore make me feel less repulsed to do criminal activities as its needed behavior to get more sight