Invasions skewing the rankings?

[gingeeann]

I suspected that invasions might make weapons leveling difficult for my little pirates so I only used my level 45 + pirate that has mastered all her weapons.

I like to play with how I level up a pirate and see what works best for me and how I play the game.

I might try "an invasion pirate" and see how they turn out.

[Beorn]

Personally, I don't really think this is an issue. I have a skewed pirate, his grenades were maxed out, i think 27 now, and the rest of his weapons were left untended after I hit level 20. He is level 34 now and I am not sure exactly where his other weapons are, but having a hard time leveling them has made the game that much more challenging and therefore, in my opinion, way more fun. Sitting there and grinding against enemies that you can defeat without the use of a tonic is boring to me. Real pirates never had it easy, why should we? Without the challenge, what's the point in playing?