Pearl battle alot harder?!?
 

Has anyone else noticed the pearl boss battle is alot tougher? I mean weve done it twice and I dont know if its a bug or what but we sink about the second bridge. Its horrible and we destroy everything fast!! Anyone else have this issue?:bookishfj7:

I had the same problem, as soon as I got on today, a guildie wanted help with it, and I thought it would be easy taking control of the wheel, but I only got to the last bridge before we sunk. All the other times we got the Golith and sunk her, it must be an April Update bug.

I watched the health of the pearl the last time we went. The light frigates were doing about 1/10th damage to the ship each frigate. Then the bridges would hit. Even take cover wasnt giving enough to protect the ship. Definitely made it alot harder....guess thats what we get for sayin it was too easy right?

Yeah I'll know better next time. lol
What I didn't like was after the battle, I had some lvl 19 say how he would be able to do better, and how I should have hit all the bridges. So what I'm happy about is that with the challenging boss battle, he would regret saying that he could do better when he most likely sunk, no different. :piratewheelgo2:

I agree they did make it more difficult, but for now it seems a bit too hard to pass. I dont know if it was just the lag or the constand crew getting discod during. gonna have to try later.

I'm sorry to read that PotCO has brought this mess over from Test, too. I would have posted about it earlier, but was hoping that TPTB would see the error of their ways before it got to Open.

Last week, after the updates on Test, I finally managed to join a crew who was doing the Boss Battle. ('Tis not easy to find pirates on Test to begin with.) There were 8 of us, ranging in Level from 25 to 34 -- so it was a good-sized, able-bodied crew. We'd all had experience playing multiple Boss Battles on Open, so we figured we had it in the bag and would soon be erasing it from our journals.

You can imagine our surprise when we sank at the first bridge! None of us were really paying attention to the Pearl's hull strength, however, so we figured it was a glitch. We regrouped and tried again -- with the same dismal result.

The Frigate attack ships were making mincemeat outta the Pearl, and the 8 of us could not sink them fast enough to avoid taking MAJOR damage. A couple blasts from the drawbridges were then enough to end our rescue attempt.

I send PotCO feedback in the form of a bug report, telling them that they have made the Boss Battle way too difficult. In fact, I'm not sure a full crew of 12 could succeed at recovering the Pearl now.

It's bad enough on Test to try to get a crew together to do it. But now, with the ramped up difficulty, it has become an impossible task. PotCO is only hurting themselves because, if they don't make it more reasonable, many of us will be unable to get past it and test the new story content later this year.

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First Disney re-opens the Boss Battle and it's way too easy. Now a few tweaks later, and they swung in the opposite direction, making it nearly impossible to complete. Ugh. Doesn't Disney understand the concept of a Happy Medium?? That Stinks. Glad I got it done. Good Luck to the rest of you.

I think it was too easy before, so im glad they made it harder :)

Also one thing I dont like, I nailed one of the light frigates with 11 explosives (yes 11!) and it still didnt die. I mean how many explosives does it take!?! They made them harder to kill and us easier.

Cmon disney 2x harder... ok... 10x harder... uh... NOT OK!

Hmmmm may they be trying to slow the tidal wave of users having finished the 1st quest and wanting the 2nd to be released?

Who knows... hopefully they will listen, hear, and adjust some more.

Zeppers lvl40
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I wanna see someone try to do the boss solo now!!! Hahahaha

this is the most insane thing ever. Did the Boss battle 8 times with 10 lvl 40 and a couple of 30s and failed. Get tore up from the floor up everytime lol.

We finally managed a win at the Boss Battle last night.

The "fly through the gates" tactic does *not* work anymore.

It took a good amount of organization and a plan that everyone was clear on before we finally managed to pull it off, and when we did pull it off, it was by the skin of our teeth.

On that note, congratulations to our guildie Jason Voorhes for his demonstration of determination and skill. He didn't give up, we stuck together, and we found a way to get through it with him at the Helm the whole time. He passed the Boss Battle at its peak of difficulty, and we are all very proud of him. And a big thank you to everyone who helped.

Would you care to share any tactics or insight? TIA.

Congratulations... You win .. .. . .. . .. .. . .. . . . . . Leadership, a skill that's so pathetic, it doesn't disserve a name.

The best thing to possibly do after defeating attack ships is dodge! Evasive menuevers all the time from all the cannon fire. My guild tried it and I was steering. After 1st gate we hat 9/10 of hull, second 8/10, third 6/10 and 4th 1/10 then we got to the goliath and she sunk us immediatly. But still with not dodging you can sink at the first gate.

OK... We just did extensive testing on this. From what we have gathered, the difficulty of the battle is now based on the total level of all people participating in it. We attempted it with 2 L30+ and 5 L25+ and made it to the 3rd gate. We then tried it with 5 L30+ and 6 L25+ and did not make it past the 2nd gate. After that, we did the same with 3 L30+ and 2 L20+ and made it to the last gate (sank intentionally as to not complete the quest). In order of the groupings, this was found:

Group 1 - Weaker frigates, weaker bridges.

Group 2 - Barely made it through the frigates with 1/2 life, though they sank much faster.

Group 3 - Simple frigates and easier bridges. We took our time with the frigates and barely took any damage. 2nd set of bridges did the most damage with fire.

So, what it looks like is that they have tried to make the Pearl Quest not so "Leetist" and are basing it on Total level of the crew. So, if you are trying to complete it, grab some L10-20 for the crew and see how much easier it is. I hope everyone will find this a much easier task now. Let me know how this works out for you, as I am so tired of doing it now.

Loot Hard!

Definatly noticed it was harder with a crew of 8 (avg level 35) than 5 (avg level 30). Made it to the last bridge the first time, just cleared the first bridge the second. Died both times.

GOnna have to check that out Monk. Nice leg work u did for us!!!