No Pirates in Toko or are people killing the pirates and leaving the crew?

I been cleaning up Toko water. However i see orc crews but no Red Named pirates. I am not sure if pirates are not spawning there or people are killing them and leaving the ship and crews. 

Anyone else seeing pirate less crews in Toko waters or even in Tram/Fel waters?? 

Not every orc ship has a dread 

Grimbeard said:

Not every orc ship has a dread 

I know but i have seen at 10 orc crews with no pirates. Either i am just super unlucky or something is up. 

If there are none on ships, PM Mariah to tell Misk to fix it.   Then you will have merchant ships galore....  But Dreads will return.

ya there is alot or merchant ships now, and alot of pirate ships with no pirates, and i dont think its possible to kill the pirate with out scuttling the ship first, i know when i attack them while the ship is still alive, they heal really fast and dont take much damage

You need to scuttle the dread-less orc ships to get something else to spawn.  If you kill the orc crew you can get a pirate hat.

TimSt said:

You need to scuttle the dread-less orc ships to get something else to spawn.  If you kill the orc crew you can get a pirate hat.

Unfortunately, with time limited Events which have a deadline, a lot of players look at the drop rate... that is, how many drops they can get per X time that they play.

Having to scuttle the Dread-less Ord Ships takes time which adds to the time to actually then find and kill a Dread Pirate to get Pirate Hats drops and even if killing the Orc Crew on a Dread-less Orc Ship " can " get one receive a Pirate Hat, to many players that may not look a productive way to use their in-game time and, thus, they leave them be...

Perhaps, I am guessing, for this time limited Event the spawn of the Orc Ships should have been made to always have a Dread Pirate on Board and make it so that in any spawn area at least a minimal number of Dread Pirate Orc Ships spawned ?

Also, the spawn engine, to my opinion, should be such that, if a Dread-less Orc Ship or Merchant Ship or Beacon remains not attacked by players for some time (a short time, not too long...), it should de-spawn and respawn into something else (for example a Dread Pirate Orc Ship)... what I am trying to say is, that if Players want to hunt more of a different type of Ship, for example Dread Pirate Orc Ships for this Event, the spawn Engine should thus provide more of them to accomodate players' increased needs.

Otherwise, forcing players to have to attack Ships which the are not interested in in order to then get the ones which they want to attack to spawn, only increases their time to get their Pirate Hats drops and they might see this as a reducing factor in their drops rate and, thus, loose interest in that collection method and go get their Pirate Hats in some other way.

That is at least how I see it.

Yup, nothing to see here,  Do the Void Pool. 

Pawain said:

Yup, nothing to see here,  Do the Void Pool. 

Well, it could be different if the Dread Pirates Orc Ships were "helped to spawn" more generousily by the spawn engine for NPC Ships, at least for this time limited Event so as to better meet the increased players' interest for these Ships because of this Event...

Pirating is the best way and is working perfectly as is 

*ties Grimbeards Hands behind his back.*  

The Fellowship is good.  Do the Void Pool.

On GL I haven't gotten hats from merchant ships nor do I on orc ships with no dread on board. Still need to clear them and merchants just more of a waste of time.

Mariah said:

If you are sinking other ships and still getting no dread pirates, what shard is that on please?

Luc Generally plays Legends. I went and sailed around for about 5 Minutes and found 1 pirateless orc ship and 2 with a pirate, also found 2 merchant ships and a beacon



First pic was in Jhelom Bay in Tram *scratches* this one was in Tokuno. I found 2 ships with pirates there, along with 3 Merchant ships.

popps said:

TimSt said:

You need to scuttle the dread-less orc ships to get something else to spawn.  If you kill the orc crew you can get a pirate hat.

Unfortunately, with time limited Events which have a deadline, a lot of players look at the drop rate... that is, how many drops they can get per X time that they play.

Mariah said:

If you are sinking other ships and still getting no dread pirates, what shard is that on please?

Legends.. I am hunting in Toko waters. not sure about Tram/Fel waters.s Thankss

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Victim_Of_Siege said:

Mariah said:

If you are sinking other ships and still getting no dread pirates, what shard is that on please?

Luc Generally plays Legends. I went and sailed around for about 5 Minutes and found 1 pirateless orc ship and 2 with a pirate, also found 2 merchant ships and a beacon



First pic was in Jhelom Bay in Tram *scratches* this one was in Tokuno. I found 2 ships with pirates there, along with 3 Merchant ships.

Like i said, I am hunting in Toko waters. I said i was unsure about Tram/Fel waters.  I had figured pirates are spawning in Tram/Fel as a friend had ship pieces from questing. 

 I have seen in past Pirate events where people scuttle a ship loot the cargo and then leave the ship a drift.  I happened on to a scuttle ship that had not been looted. I guess it would delete and new ship spawn.  

Also i have gotten pirate hats from all type of ships but it not like the beacon a garenteed drop but i am or was wearing a luck suit
 
I never do well at hand to hand combat type events. I get enough to get my event book pages with a few extras. Some of the earlier events I did well but last couple hand to hand i did very poorly.

Kyronix said a week or two ago that luck suits will not increase the drop rate. You are better off using your best (killing) suit to improve the speed of doing things.

Luc_of_Legends said:

Victim_Of_Siege said:

Mariah said:

If you are sinking other ships and still getting no dread pirates, what shard is that on please?

Luc Generally plays Legends. I went and sailed around for about 5 Minutes and found 1 pirateless orc ship and 2 with a pirate, also found 2 merchant ships and a beacon



First pic was in Jhelom Bay in Tram *scratches* this one was in Tokuno. I found 2 ships with pirates there, along with 3 Merchant ships.

Like i said, I am hunting in Toko waters. I said i was unsure about Tram/Fel waters.  I had figured pirates are spawning in Tram/Fel as a friend had ship pieces from questing. 

 I have seen in past Pirate events where people scuttle a ship loot the cargo and then leave the ship a drift.  I happened on to a scuttle ship that had not been looted. I guess it would delete and new ship spawn.  

Also i have gotten pirate hats from all type of ships but it not like the beacon a garenteed drop but i am or was wearing a luck suit
 
I never do well at hand to hand combat type events. I get enough to get my event book pages with a few extras. Some of the earlier events I did well but last couple hand to hand i did very poorly.

I spent some time on Legends today and the Tokuno spot where i took that Sceenshot had some Dread Pirates regularly. if you sail south of there (or north, both ways wll get you there) the pirates and beacons seem to spawn there as well. I cannot say if more orc only ships spawn than Dreads, But i did find several Dread pirates in Tokuno. Tram/Fel seemed to lean toward Orc only, but there were dreads as well.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

I just did one Beacon and 4 Dread Pirates in Tokuno Legends this evening, I did a "drive-by" on 2 pirate ships w/o Dreads, didn't use cannon  but just killed the crew and got one hat drop from each. No reason to waste fuse cords on non-Dread pirate vessel or Merchants. 

Hippo said:

I just did one Beacon and 4 Dread Pirates in Tokuno Legends this evening, I did a "drive-by" on 2 pirate ships w/o Dreads, didn't use cannon  but just killed the crew and got one hat drop from each. No reason to waste fuse cords on non-Dread pirate vessel or Merchants. 

They still drop cargo chest and have shellfish now

Sunday after i posted, dreads started showing up in Toko.  Did anyone notice the dreads dropped named pirate hats???

Luc_of_Legends said:

Sunday after i posted, dreads started showing up in Toko.  Did anyone notice the dreads dropped named pirate hats???

Yep, @Petra_Fyde did in this thread. someone else may have as well, hers is just the first one i saw.