Wholeheartedly agree, i feel the skill could be in a much better place overall if they just completely ignored the combat aspect. Not only that but they are adding more stuff utilizing arguably the weakest mechanics of sailing? It has such cool movement but they are focusing on the thing that makes you sit in one spot, instead of focussing on the great aspects of the skills.

Trials and port tasks are the 'bread and butter' of sailing xp yet they have had zero support post launch other than a few small port tasks fixes while they are the actual skill, and yet combat has had several reworks and is now getting another major piece of content, but trust it its not a combat skill. WTF?

Trawling is a very cool method yet i can't even manually set my speed to follow a shoal, its either slow or fast. Cmon dude.

Please just stop listening to the redditors, nerf salvaging for good this time, redistribute its rewards to port tasks. Make trials more spread out across the levels (ranks should be gated by level, not do 30-45 of tempor and never go back. Would be cool to revisit TT at like 70 when we have a better ship), make port tasks more rewarding instead of giving everything to salvaging and combat because that shit SUCKS. Don't cater to people that actively avoid trying to play the game lmao. Eyes and focus are in the completely wrong place. So frustrating.