Levelling::: Basil vs. Prob

[Bartholomew Foulsteel]

I find it very interesting and very valuable. Thanks for posting this.

Question--do you run the risk of mastering all skills and being stuck at sub-40 notoriety?

[Basil Dreadflint]

Bartholomew,

I don't think that is mathematically ppossible.
Prob is less than 3000 points from 40, still has 7 levels of Cannon to do, and 2 levels of sailing, plus, the finish of the Pearl quest will get him about 3500 more or less.

So, I don;t think you can master aall weapons and skills, finish the Pearl quest, and end up below Notoriety 40.

Basil

[TDSChristy]

Thanks for the post. Adding this to the my " Things I wish I had seen when I first started playing pirates" list. An excellent V.I.L!!!

[John Edgefoote]

Good Post - John is in almost the same boat (I finished the Pearl questing, but have been avoiding the BB), but I'm going with your plan for Slim - I guess grinding is inevitable, it's just a matter of when you do it - at the end, when you get little rep, or at the beginning. I also plan to keep my skills level - again, I didn't figure that out with John until @ lvl 32, and it was NOT fun trying to level them all up. Now they are all above 20, with only staff mastered and cannon nearly so. It does kind of stink having to avoid BB's with friends for a while, but I'm determined to hold it off until at least lvl 39.

Slim is level 12 now, so hopefully he can become a contributing member of the clan soon.

[Basil Dreadflint]

Originally Posted by TDSChristy

Thanks for the post. Adding this to the my " Things I wish I had seen when I first started playing pirates" list. An excellent V.I.L!!!

A running joke with Basil, VIL, is a "Very Important Lesson". Basil used to post VIL's ecery day , in Guild chat. They varied from the mundane, where to go to find Brigands, Thru to the profound, A level 32 Seabeard can kill a level 18 pirate in one stroke, and included some amusement, Don't attack 5 enemies at once, you will lose!

I think Lars, (My fourth pirate) will be more active sooner than Purv initiallly, and might go back to posting daily VIL's. I kinda let that slip on Prob, but did enjoy doing it.

Thanks to all who have responded so far. I'm glad to hear that I didn't just post this to the ether!

[Basil Dreadflint]

Prob Turned 40. Mastered!

At the time he turned level 40, He had mastered all 6 weapons, was level 22 sailing, and 18 Cannons. He was about 86% complete with the Pearl quest. the 22 cannons is approximately 14K rep, to master level, and the 18 cannons is about 21K or more in rep,,, and the finishing of the Pearl quest is about 6K. So, to answer the questions below, I don't see any way that someone could Master all weapons, and get stuck at a below 40 notoriety.

[Basil Dreadflint]

Prob mastered cannons today, he has now mastered EVERYTHING! In doing so, he ended up with a total of 81 unspent skill points!!!!
That is an average of 10 points per skill/weapon. Essentially, this means that he reached level 40, mastered all skills, with an average skill level of only 15.

Even at the end, he was still earning full rep, 100 points plus bonus, for sinking ships.

I plan on making one further entry to this post. After finishing the Pearl quest, which he still hasn't done.

OBTW, he did NOT do any of the clothing quests.... I'm still holding out hope that an update someday will increase the Notoriey levels. No sense wasting that rep for nothing other than clothing.