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Should the Cutthroat Bundle be Reworked?

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Petty Officer
Nov 10, 2013
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The titles says it all, Should the bundle be reworked? I will go over why its bad/Outdated and what changes should be made to make it better.

Gear:

Cutthroat Helm:
Gives: 12 Will, 14, Accuracy, 8 Weapon Power, and 43 Armor
Gives NO abilities

Changes:
Convert the 12 Will to 10 Strength

Tier 1-2: Gives Tritons Song
Tier 3-6: Gives Kraken's Lament
Tier 7-9: Gives Leviathan's Call

Cutthroat Outfit
Gives: 12 Strength, 104 Health, 8 Weapon power, and 43 Magic Resist
Gives: Mighty Charge

Changes:

Tier 1-2 Gives Mighty Charge
Tier 3-6 Gives Brutal Charge
Tier 7-9 Gives Vicious Charge

Cutthroat Boots:
Gives: 12 Agility, 14 Dodge, 6 Strength, and 10 Magic Resist.
Gives: Kraken's Coil

Changes:
1-2: Gives Kraken's Coil
3-6: Gives Shark's Fury
7-9: Gives Whale's Might

Skullcutter's hook:
Damage: 218
Weapon Type: Slashy
Gives: Pirate (Rank 1)

Changes:
Becomes Slashy/Smashy (Would use similar animations to the royal navy sword from the admirals bundle)
1-5: Gives Elusive
6-9: Gives Elusive and Turn the tide.

Reasoning: Until now i have been trying to keep the changes based on what is currently in-game but as of right now pirate is a useless power, not so much as what it gives just what it requires to activate (I.e. only working while your on a enemy ship so you can't use it while farming in pve nor use it in pvp, Though pirate could become really good if pirate can be used outside of ships) also giving it elusive and turn the tide makes it quite powerful, though the trade off is that it hits fairly weak due only have 218 power while most end-game weapons have 256 at least for buccaneers.

Companion: Shark Pirate
The Shark Pirate is a cutthroat companion with a randomized name, recruits 1 level above you, has 2 gold promotions, and gets 3 epics upon recruiting, (Im assuming those 3 are from level 15, 35, and 55)

What it comes with starting out: Epic strike, turn the tide one, and cheap shot one.
Promotions:
Promotion one: changes appearance and gives a choice of a epic talent
Promotion two: changes appearance again, gives a choice of a epic talent, and gets turn the tide 2

Possible Epic list:
Cheap shot 2
Blade 3
Vengeance 3
Relentless 3
Flanking 2

So in total it gets 5 epics, cheap shot one, and tide 2 at max level.

Problems:
All the other bundle companions get 6 choice of epic talents while shark pirate only gets 5.
Epic strike doesn't upgrade at all to a super strike despite getting 2 promotions
Starts off with cheap shot.

Overall a pretty generic chaining buccaneer but with the deficiencies off no super strike, only gets 5 epics, and starts off with cheap shot.

Changes:
Upon recruiting gets 1 epic talent choice (This bumps it up to 6 so its on par with the other bundle companions)
First promotion upgrades Epic Strike to Mega and second promotion upgrade Mega Strike to Super Strike.
Gain access to cheap shot 4 and 5 at level 55
Upon recruiting the title is Cutthroat Pirate but 1st promotion title is Cutthroat Captain and 2nd is Cutthroat Commander.

Reasoning: Adding the 1 epic talent upon recruiting seemed like a no brainer, Same thing with upgrading epic Strike to Super, and the oddball gaining access to cheap shot 4 and 5 should allow some very niche usage as some type of anti-melee companion. (Though note that each time you are upgrading cheap shot past rank 3 you are losing out on the relentless 2 and Blade 2 combo).

Really quickly gonna touch on ships: Right now the ship in the bundle is outclassed by VA2 Ships, though just give the Cutthroat Ship a stat buff and it should be able to compete.

Rating on bundle as of now: 5/10
The gear, companion, and house looks really cool though the gear is unusable in VA2/PvP and The companion is a sub-par chaining buccaneer. Alongside the stupidly high cost of 40 USD this bundle is far from worth it, even if your a collector.

Rating if these changes are added. 7.5./10
Once again everything looks really cool but despite the changes I really cant give anything past a 8. The gear
buff would be really nice though none of it is really practical, the closest thing that can be used in pvp is the weapon and helmet. The companion got a huge buff but a lot of it was for it to catch up, the only unique thing going for it is cheap shot 4 and 5 but at that point your sacrificing your chaining abilities. These buffs would be a big step forward for it and would actually make the 40 USD price maybe worth it though you can 100% perform just fine without it (And that the point, making some good but not so much that your missing out on something)