Blue Prints

[Cmdr RideZ]

Belle Poule provides a:

 

Good Change for:

LGV

Ingermanland

Trincomalee

Essex

 

Change for:

Constitution

 

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LGV with Indianman are the trade ships that are built by players.

Constitution & Ingermanland are the ships used in Port Battles, and often the biggest ships in OW PvP.

Trincomalee happens to be a very good 5th rate.

Essex, just happens to be there as an additional bonus Blue Print.

 

So by just building Belle Poules you can get most from the important ships we have atm. in the game.  Most likely when you are crafting to get these blue prints, you already have ships like Rattlesnake and Surprise.

 

I do believe that this kind of "mega-node" in BP tree, was a bad idea.  Before it was the Frigate, because everyone wanted Ingermanland.  Now it is Belle Poule, because you can get everything from it.

+ Belle Poule is now a lot bigger mega-node than Frigate ever was

+ Belle Poule is less useful than Frigate

 

btw. The MT market has 4 pages of Belle Poules while I am writing this.

 

 

The new Port Battle system, is making 3rd rates to be ~obsolete.  Decreasing radically 3rd, 2nd, 1st rate prices, mainly because people do not need those anymore.  The new system is simply over using 4th rates -> Belle Poule is built even more.

 

Balancing the Belle in crafting tree, should be rather trivial and easy thing to do.  Because of that, would fix that for the next patch.