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@Ranger1k I'm still on Brigs on PvE forever and hating Galleys : )) I assume one day I'll change my mind : ) I mean devs once made x6 gathering and with full stack of tames (I had all, elly, giraffe, even rhino) I built a Galley and due to lack of maneuverability it was torture to sail it : )

@George Catcher I preferred brigs on PvE forever. I hated Galleys. However the last few months though I switched to running a solo galley. 1 Tons of extra HP 2 Tons more firepower 3 Greater haul weight so its faster 4 With the new increased reverse speed when i wrecked a bunch of SotD I simply backed up to grab my loot insted of taking 20minutes to turn it around My basic build I referred to as a "gally light", ~10 cannons across the back with high damage resist (same for the support walls), then bottem sides filled with 7 medium and 4 heavy cannon each side yielding 32 cannons out the gate and tons of extra crew space. Gradually added some front and side-rear cannons as I leveled up the weight. Even with 6 handling sails i could pull ~16knots.Even w a terrible headwind i usually stayed over 8knots. Carried 20+ spare planks/gunpports. Just my 2 cents. Even if you used a common shipyard to save on gold it's kind of worth it.

@George Catcher & @Chucksteak They announced Tradewinds POTENTIALLY being implemented at the end of Q2/ beginning of Q3 so I would venture to guess that would be the logical time. Just a guess though Also Chuck don't forget he's sailing the brig on PvE solo, so not as risky for an experienced player.

Man, sailing a brig as a solo...ballsy. I stay with the smaller cheaper boats personally. You don't feel as crushed when you run across a mythic that is faster than it has any right to be. About the wipe. I really do not believe they have any date in mind themselves. They probably know weather or not they will wipe, and I assume they will at some point. However they likely do not know for sure when work will be finished on the thing that will necessitate a wipe. We all assume (and hope) it will be the new claim system.

Nice try George, sad to here that you failed that close and got trolled as usual on PVE... well because PvP is to hard for some but they want to be pirates vs others at least while safe themselfes. Unfortunately 1 of 39 is enough to do so... I remeber my own Atlas starts when i played 3 weeks PvP to switch to PVE to learn the game first. We failed several times attempting the kraken too. Our trolls started before everybody was ready... so 15 ships outside and 1 inside not fighting. 3x in a row they did so. Also to die was a good strategy but unfortunately everybody has too but you don't know them. Maybe some of them did not understand that death will end the fight. The boss fights are not in development right now so we have to deal with this quests as they are. It would be great to have some option to choose the V1 or V2. For example there could be a voting of all players in the >visible< circle that lasts two minutes for example. In the ICE Dungeon there is a lever and it depends on the players who pulls it if he has access to V1 or V2. Your idea for an option to leave the fight in the first 2-3 minutes sounds good but this could be also abused by trolls. Disconnect or bugs are an issue as well when you can not respawn. Don't use a scope on the stearing wheel. No mather what this fight is great because you have to survive. Also on PvP the fight may start when you finished it and are surounded by enemy fleet to hunt you down for this one^^ your ship: Your build is good and you had a good ship for this trial. But you cannons on the rear deck get destroyed. The high kraken bolt damage is only against build structures but not vs. planks and gun ports. And as you said they do splash damage. You should only use gun port cannons or cannons placed at the front/center. Also close your gun ports when possible with the risk they may not open some times hitting "R" the first time. Build your Bed and chests etc. in the front of the ship and may place two beds. You can also build a plattform for rear facing cannons(kiting build) like a sports car rear spoiler for absorbing damage as the bolts auto aim you rear highest point if you drive fast. Well I installed Atlas again to check if PVE server is really no where to build and i want to test the trading. Actually i managed to place a bed and build a small dock for a sloop and tamed two bears. I wonder if i can find a place in the arctic regions? @Dev CrusherYour comment is quite funny. This is no story about "naked" heros. You have to put in much effort and prepare yourself to deal 9x with hydra and then beat the Kraken solo. You blaimed Chukiki several times(for reason) but this statement of yours does not honor your reputation.

Yet another update of solo Kraken. Got him to 5%. Had 7 minutes left. Made just a single mistake and died from LAST TENTACLE I NEEDED TO TAKE OUT before final kraken attack. I'm such a looser lol! : ) So... my thoughts are: - Handling sails are must have for the fight (I've suddenly got Legendary Handling Sails BP). - More health for yourself is better. I'm now 187 health and I survive sparkling tentacle with around 20% of health. Meaning - full spark cycle take out around 150 health. If you bellow or somewhere around - UP IT!!! - Medkit skill with advanced self healing skill is must have either! You'll get in to sparks anyway (for example after you damage Kraken he can push you out and nearest tentacle star to spark). No need to have like plenty med-kits with you.. I used just 80% of single one, but couple of kits is fine I guess. - X-tra cannons are also MUST HAVE. Your cannons will get damaged and you won't be able to repair them because of "recently damaged" debuff which is permanent here. After 53 minutes of fight I've got 2 deck's and 3 gunport's canons destroyed and also one deck's cannon with just 100 health. With 10 attacking cannons I have left half of them, so my last volley would be from 5 cannons. Bad news here is - all my cannons were improved. Those ones destroyed were 9500+ health. - Also guys manning cannons in gunports died with their cannon for some reason. Guys manning deck cannons are survived (or maybe the reason is I put guys 126lvl with 500 health to decks cannons and guys 75+ level with 300hp to gunports). -Things getting damaged through all the ship. It means - all you have inside. all your boxes, beds, grille, etc! So make sure all (especially BEDs) are full health before engage. 3 most troublesome stuff in the fight are: Kraken bolts. Those are hit you hard when you stops. So you always have to sail full speed. You receive 40 damage when you sail and 400-1200 damage when you stop. They do damage through the ship, and all the time. So all your stuff (boxes, beds, cannonst etc) will permanently have "Recently Damaged" debuff. Sparking tentacles. After you attack Kraken 2 times, there will be 2 random tentacles casting sparking zones around them. They cast together every couple minutes, and every cast lasts for 25 seconds. Those are bad because if you hit this sparking zone, you'll be throwed out of ship control, all crew and youself will receive up to 150 damage. You also can not perform any action and get stun from time to time while in this zone. After you attack Kraken more, amount of sparking tentacles increased by 1 (so it 5 or 6 at the end). Please note that when amount of tentacles is equal or less than amount of sparking ones - all tentacle will be sparking every cycle. So you'll have to learn timing and avoid those zones. Don't forget that you can not stop and wait due to Kraken Bolts. Lags and dramatic FPS drops. I have Ryzen 7 2700 (3.20 GHz) and 32Gb RAM. Sometimes my FPS drops to 5-7 : (( It usually happens when there are like 4-5 tentacles do their sparking, 30 kraken bolts at once flying to me, 20 damned ships are following me. So I guess we can't help it. Just suffer. My mistake. I've entered to this sparking zone casted by last ever tentacle. Then I just couldn't turn around and destroy it due to 20 damned ships following me. I just couldn't pass through them to attack point. Their damage is not a problem, but they do ramming and turning me around, also protect tentacle with their bodies. With all flashy and 5 FPS, and sparking zone - I just couldn't handle it. So key to success is to be most concentrated and do NO MISTAKES at the end of a battle. ----------------------- My ship is now 41. I have 140 sturdiness, 260 damage resistance, and 140% attack power. Also my average gun damage was 150% and it took me around 900 cannonballs to get there. So I guess with 1200-1400 cannonballs it's possible to not just deal with Kraken but also with most of damned bastards that lows FPS. The only problem is - you have no time. I made my mistake because I had only 7 minutes left so I decided to sail though all 20 damned ships at once.

You know what's funny? I've engaged Kraken solo 2 times. I failed but survived. Today I accidently found out that group of ppl plan to fight Kraken together. I joined. I meet trolls. And I lost my Brig. I mean, you didn't think trolls are in PVP only, right? ------------------------- We gathered to do V1 Kraken, and after that V2. While we were there, some guy launched V2, and every1 who didn't wanna do that, HAD to do that, captured in fight circle. We've done this fight, I'm now have this Journey of Gods quest complete with all feats CD -40%, but then... I'm on my way to Voyage of Power remember? So we stayed, for V1. Some guys asked some time for repairs and resupply, so we waited for them. Unfortunately there is NO WAY to find if you inside Kraken circle or outside, until battle is started. I stepped back, but unfortunately it was not enough. Some trolls started V2 again, and due to lack of ppl inside and got V2 completed already, all decided to die to despawn boss. All, but few guys, who stayed there for 40 minutes demanded every1 to confess who started this V2 event (someone suspects it was them who started it btw). After 40 minutes they died. All I saw after respawn is this: So bye-bye my lvl-42 Brig with legendary sails, legendary cannons and lvl-90+ crew. And you know what's funny. Past seasons I've been right here for couple of times. - All gather for Kraken. - Trolls start event, and survive there as long as they can. - Players die and loosing their ships. So remember what I wrote like hell alot of times here. This game requires GROUP FEATURE. So every1 could gather up. To sail there. To start event. Not like this, some one gathered, some one didn't, all by themselves, some trolls appeared, and started event, wasted 40 minutes of every ones time, and ruined everything. I repeat. I've been there already. To be honest - every time I've tried to join the party ended like this. Only difference - it's now 18K gold for BRIG and 7K for ship improvements. So does it mean it's better to deal with V1 solo??? I mean it at least safer : (( ------------------------- The worst is - I don't know what to do right now. I lost 25K to trolls guys. I now have 12K in my chest. My market with 8 active trading routes brings me around 180 gold everyday (it stable for past few weeks). To get 18K by trading I need to wait 34 more days... or should I build yet another Schooner, go for treasures again, then build another brig, level it again, catch another 90+ crew, then try to do Kraken solo again, then do more treasure to gather another 22K for Kraken ship I wish to test??? I don't think I'll make it until next wipe is comming. ------------------------- And yeah. DEVS. I know you busy to inventing more fascinating stuff for like 0.0001% of your player base, and probably won't come up with group feature in nearest future. What you can do right now to solve the situation is: - Make Kraken battle circle visible somehow before battle begins. So every1 know if they are inside or outside, and they won't be caught in sudden battle started by trolls. - Make Kraken engage radius visible as well, to ease gathering for the fight. - Make it possible to get out from the battle within few minutes from the start, so after trolls start battle, every1 can escape. - Make it possible to get in the fight within few minutes from the start, so every1 who didn't get inside circle in time would be able to join. ------------------------- P.s - with 39 ppl took part in the first V2 fight - all was LAGGY AS HELL. Ping was around 180-200 with 255 spikes. When tentacles sparking - FPS dropped to 5-7, and ping grew to "steps through ocean" state. One guy was ejected to the ocean by his ship. I was out of steering wheel for repair purposes and couldn't use it again. My pathfinder just stretched out his arms forward and got stuck in this condition. I had to reload the game to be able to control my ship again, and after that I didn't risk to get out from steering wheel. Oh and due to lags, damned ship didn't shoot, just moved around.