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Originally Posted by Angel
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?  |
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.
