[Bilgepump]

Yesterday, I joined up with a random crew. Had a great time, we were all about the same level, and were sinking stuff all over the place.

Then we see the flag colossus over there by Cuba/Tormenta.

"Hey, let's board it!"

"You sure? OK!"

We disable it and latch on. I see an Officer at the wheel, and as we're all in the low 20s, I shoot him with the cannon. So far, so good, but this is where it gets weird.

The cannon only did 3 points of damage.

Ok, that was weird, maybe they changed things so you need grapeshot to get him now, but it was a sudden change.

We board, and lucked out. It was the low-level crew (sergeants and veterans), and we made quick work of them.

Except for that officer. He was level 37. He hit hard. Ok, whip out the dollies.

And it got weirder. Poke and Swarm were only doing 2 or 3 points of damage. He managed to kill everyone except me and one other person. We had him and each other targeted. We poked and swarmed for a LONG TIME, every now and then dropping heals on each other when he'd change targets. We got him down to yellow.

Then one of the slain crewmembers takes his ship and pulls alongside to try to shoot the guy with his cannon. Didn't work, and he got sunk by that warlord that's out there, but during this, the officer somehow glitched off the ship, and was standing way out over the water. He was out of dagger range. The only thing we could hit him with was grenades. So we start unloading on him.

3 points damage per grenade.

Then we ran out of grenades. It wouldn't let us teleport off the ship. We finally had to log off.

It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in this game. I thought there was a timer on the ship combat, but it never went off. We must have spent 20 minutes trying to get that guy, way way past the point of diminishing returns.