A Suggestion To D

[BigJohn]

50-50 on this, part of me says yeah more higher level enemies, another level to aim for. But also at same time, after playing for almost 2years now and due to work, studying, etc my 1 only Pirate is only at level 36, yet to master some weapons. So I'm kinda disappointed not to reach the master status! yet still have to slash, cut and thust more weapons to master them as well! I mean ugh all that work, then someone shifts the goalposts!! Ah well, I like a good fight anyway!

[JM Ohara]

For all of you old guard players out there. I have a great and undying respect for the efforts you all went through to get your first 40s, some of you when it was way harder than now. But I ask you this.

Imagine being a semi new player, someone who has never yet reached a level 40 and has just barely gotten into that last 10 levels to go. The end is finally in sight, and you have just started mastering the first of your weapons. Dunno if you remember that giddy high of the very first time you master your very first weapon, and what that meant at the time. Now imagine that just after you hit striking range of finally, finally finishing a pirate.... They yank the rug out from under you. No, now you have 10 more levels to go on top of your less than 10, now you're the equivalent of being shoved back down to the 20's again. Now another 15 or so endless levels stretch in front of you again. You think, well, maybe we will still get to be Master at 40 and something else at 50. Cause hey, at all the other 10 level marks something happens. But this time, no. You got within striking range after long weeks and maybe months of work, and now all you have to look forward to is more long weeks and months to go.

That is what we never mastered players are sitting on. That's what we have to look forward to. Yes, some of you have waited over a year to bring back your old pirates, your very first 40s. How amazing is that? We don't ever get to see it that way. We don't ever get the chance to say, I made a Pirate Master, and now I get to play him/her at last! I know a lot of you have said it's just a name. That you won't mind giving it up at all. But to those of us who never got the chance to be a Master at 40, that was like out Holy Grail. An now it's gone. Shifted into oblivion.

I don't for a heartbeat regret them finally at last upping the cap for you guys. I'm GLAD they did it. Had I been an older player maybe I would feel just like you do. Maybe then all that would matter is the right to play your long neglected pirates again. All I'm asking is for D to give us, the never mastereds a chance to be one at the place you were, and you, the old Pirate Masters, a whole new title to strive for. That's it. Is it really so much to ask for?