Guild Quests... Dern them!

We keep getting a Corronade challenge on board 3. The problem is as a whole we don't have corronades!
One member does but that's not enough to completer a board 3 quest. At out level it's not like we can buy even an epic and take it to lvl 10 to compete.

Ideas on how to deal with this quest, It's stopped momentum in 3 rivalries.

 

Is corronade a new item?

 

Might as well be cause we don't have 'em!

 

I mean I'm not sure how good they are but if you really want the quest done try these:
1. Tell members of your guild to level up a carronade... they don't need to retrain their crew or anything(they probably don't even need perks...) you just need a carronade that can do enough damage at your level... Yea they may lose some infamy but the more members contributing to the quest the less each member needs to contribute in order to finish it... If less members contribute to the quest then those members are gonna have to do more battles in order to get the damage... while if your whole guild worked on it each member would probably have to lose only a few games this way no one is dropping hundreds of infamy for a quest...
2. Recruit more carronade players, you probably don't want to kick good members or pass up a good player so you have space but if your guild has space you can try recruiting carronade players...

 

We've had the same Carronade issues as well.... they need to reduce the damage requirements to make it realistic. Sure if this is a high infamy guild there will be some decent carronades, but under 3k no one runs carronade, and giving those quests means a guaranteed rivalry loss that week.

 

In our guild, there is only one player (1300 infamy) with carronade. Rare20 + epic10. Result : 400k quest done.

I would like, as guild master, to have the opportunity to change 1 guild quest/x hrs (as it's possible for daily quest). But, not implemented yet.

 

@Zeus Please read this (and other similar posts).
Some of those specific weapon quests (for the bad weapons noone in a Nightmare guild has leveled) is making us bring lvl 10/20 weapons into games where that is a massive hindrance to your teams odds of winning.

These specific weapon quests are disrupting the core gameplay experience and makes it worse.
My suggestion? Replace the weapon specific quests with something that can be done during normal playing, fx;
- Do x damage with a group of weapons (Cannons/torpedoes/mortars/Burn damage etc).
- Make use of the highlights (get x Nice Shot, etc)

 

That't the thing. At our level we'd need something like a t3.
Should we have some leveled up? Maybe. But the carronade isn't a liked weapon, suited to most ships, or playing styles.

I just kicked a bunch of inactives. We have room but recruiting is competitive now. People are dedicated to their guild or they're puddle jumpers.
We took a bunch of infamy hits already on weapons like the long range mortar and have just come back up. So that's a hard one.

 

The guild recruitment section might help you just make sure to specify you need someone who uses carronade...

 

I agree that the carronade (like many other weapons) doesn't fit well with any ship or playing style, but that's a part that I actually like about those quests. I often read, on this forum, rants about how a nerf "has penalized my style of play" and threads in which it is advised to everyone to "find which weapons fit your style". But why should it always work that way ? Adapting your style to a new weapon, and not the other way around, can be fun too and make you a better player in the long run. At least I have fun doing it. Am I the only one ?

As for the infamy loss, we do have trouble with carronade quests in my guild, and completing them DEFINITELY comes with an infamy cost for most of us, but we just agreed that it is a short term cost for a long term (bigger) gain. If you stop using a weapon that is weak or unfit for your ship, eventually you'll get back at your natural infamy level. And if, on top of that, you make your ship better because you gain more waffles, then in the long run, you'll get back all the lost infamy points and then some.

 

I have. We've picked up a member that's been a great asset.

 

Gl finding a guildless Nightmare player with a leveled Carronade

Suppose we could do as the cool kids & recruit lowlevel players so our total infamy drops and we get into lowbie ravalries
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These quests might seem fine for lower ranked play, but running lvl 10 (20/30) weapons in a sea of t5 epics is hopeless. Its so hopeless that even the #1 from last season happily loses on purpose after eating 50 Mortar shots from his guildmates. When a player striving for world #1 happily throws a game, something should probably be reconsidered.

The only way to level a specific weapon fast is to spend hefty $$$, which is sadly why I expect the current system to remain unchanged

 

For 90% (if not more) of Nightmare players infamy doesnt matter. You get the same reward for anything from 5k (if not 5.5k) and below. Heck outside of the top 10 the rewards cant compete with the amazing loot raffle.

 

that was part of the reason I purged all the inactive players right before the start of the new rivalry.

 

While I accept it’s annoying, i run a carronade on a fixer in the 3.2-3.6k range. I have put a lot of time and effort in levelling it and removing it would leave me always having to run different weapons to assist in guild quest and my main weapon would never come up. Granted we have got stuck a bit on the 1.5m damage quest right now, but I don’t think it should be removed by the ban everything brigade. For us napalm is the killer we should remove that instead
But seriously if your guild keeps getting stuck on one quest everyone should chip in. Everyone in our guild is levelling the item that cause us issues. We don’t particularly enjoy those quests but you have to pull through as a team. Eventually they should be easier.

 

Same here. Last quest on the very hard board was a Carronade quest and now we’ll end the season in 2nd place.

 

Well if you manage to finish it the whole team gets 12k token as a bonus. I am sure your fixer is doing a great job trying to finish it. Hopefully he has the help of an enforcer and speeder also doing a huge push to complete it. If they do it, they should all get a massive pat on the back, and song shall be sung about them! hehehe

 

That would be awesome! And not OP. Every guild has their tough weapons, ours would be carronades triple torpedos and rockets.