Explosive?
 

so I unlocked Explosive last night, spent a skill point on it and spent A LOT of money on the ammo. I was then very disapointed, not only with the ridiculous reload time but the range, I can throw a cannon ball further.

Did I just waste a skill point?

Is there any real use for this ammo?

I skipped that one. I put 5 in Round Shot, 5 in Thunderbolt, and 5 in Fury. I didn't put anything in the others.

Yeah, explosive is pretty dumb, IMO. Loading takes forever, and if you have terrible aim, as I do, you always miss because the range is practically nil. Personally I don't mind that I put one point into it, though, just to unlock it (because I'm OCD like that, LoL), but it's pretty useless compared to the others.

On a related note, I'm no expert but it seems strange to me that most of the best/most useful/most effective skills are mid-level - lightning, hex eater, wither, etc.

The only use I can see it having is for an "emergency shot". Load it on a cannon and then switch to another. If you're in tight with another ship and need to get out... switch to that cannon and shoot.

Although it's really impressive to shoot off at the gulls in light sloops that think it's funny to shoot at your ship leaving port.

Let's just say that A) my aim is good, and B) the enemy ship is close enough in range to hit....how much damage does this thing actually do? Is it cool? I'm still waiting for the lightning unfortunately (1 lvl away..yay!).

Aliese,

Yeah, I agree, all the mid range skills seem to be the most practical and or useful


mongo,

Thats a pretty good idea I'm going to start doing that.


CrimsonRabbit,

It does do alot of damage if you can hit the hull, it also looks pretty cool because fire and dibre go flying all over the place. But lightning is still the must have in my opinion, its range is more important than any amount of damage the other ammo types can do.

I love explosives. It looks awesome when u land a hit and I do the multiple cannon thing. Lightning on one cannon and explosive on another. Also nice for the Spawn points with a good crew. Nail the ship before it hits the water. Explosives do about 2K damage with one hit on one skill point. I will have to double check on that though.