I don’t think the playerbase is headed in the intended direction with this one. I don’t blame them though. As a result of the win rewards being below standards for the participants, not much effort is put toward driving that minion bar down to head to the next step. On top of that, 45 minutes is a long time.
I would think that for something that lasts 45 minutes, requires massive cooperative action and spawns only so often we should be seeing people linking cool things like precursors and maybe an ascended item or two every once and a while. On top of that there could be something like 100 Empyreal Fragments for completing the event.
I think upping the reward or lowering the requirements are the only possible fixes. If the pirates were nerfed I think that would only increase the “why bother?” factor and lower the participation.
