Grinding Maritime question...

pieratthe · October 2017

maritime quests from some cities where u have to kill 200 npcs in an area and a "formidable enemy" ambushs u every 50 kills, and each time u kill the FE the quest ranks up, to a total rank of 5. They are basically the best quests for grinding battle experience. I think the Black Sea BR pays 62k xp, 28k fame, and 17m for 200 kills rank 5 quest complete'd. You can also turn the quest in at any point between 1 and 200 kills, and without killing the FE's for reduced rewards.

Airhaun · October 2017

Is there a reason to grind up Maritime first if you're planning on being and Adventurer, Trader or Crafter?

Airhaun · October 2017

Or to go with a ship that favors battle for that matter?

Gilligan8567 · October 2017

One reason to level maritime early is to get the SBing skill, which requires r7 Tactics and r3 Repair. Another reason is playstyle preference and some ships simply requires higher maritime levels as well.

Doing BRs give you a lot of fame which can help open up port permits and receive court ranks as well, especially if you sink all 200 npc ships plus the boss fleets (up to five), not to mention the ducat payout will be in the millions as well. :P

theedgedemon · October 2017

to be fair you could get r3 repain crashing to the coast in a few mins, and tactics can be boosted to hell by adventurers, battle exp / arms prof is harder to get later on however

Lerxst · October 2017

@Airhaun

My reason comes form experience. last time I played at the start of the NA server, I leveled Maritime last. At that point, just about everyone at sea who was a pirate, or just looking for battles, were already ten times better than me.

I realized that maritime is a competitive skill to raise and keep up, or else you risk getting overwhelmed by PvP players as you progress later with your other skills. Whereas, Trade or Adventure, can be leveled at any point without much competition.

Lerxst · October 2017

And since we can't edit posts...

@Gilligan8567

In terms of Northern Europe, I had a lot of luck sailing my rowing ships up in the Baltic. Low crew NPCs usually made for fast melee battles when the wind was in my favor.

Gilligan8567 · October 2017

Correction from my earlier post - I said you needed r7 Tactics for SBing, but I was thinking of the Shipwright job, SBing you only need r3 repair. My bad for any confusion. lol :P

crazyhunter2003 · October 2017

1 of the main reasons we do BRs early is to gain enough fame to open all fame based port permits,as BRs give lot of fame

Rogues1 · October 2017

I tend to prefer the faster gunships to rowing ships in general, although I would like to try to better develop my row skill this time around. In a world of shipyard guns and item shop equips, it's not gonna be your high ranked battle skills or your high power equips winning you ship fights. Think body count. Crew size can weigh heavily in your favor in the early stages of the game. Now some galleys aren't well suited for battle and they're all gonna suck at deep sea sailing. But you can melee the crapps out of thousands of low lvl low crew npc ships with no problems. Research Galley is my go to ship for that level. I'll sail a research galley until I can get into a frigate and then I will make a switch to gunships.

fafafohigh · October 2017

you wont see powerful astro ships to begin lol like ALR and MHG.just forget that

Lerxst · October 2017

@Rogues1

Although I did take my little galley on the Circumnavigate quest... came in handy for the NPC ambushes and didn't do too badly in the south pacific. But those waves! Oh my God THOSE WAVES! Took damage that I was able to repair, had my other sailing skills been lower though, I might not have survived it.

And crew size is a MAJOR bonus to any and every fight you'll encounter. Enemy galleys may be a pain, but you'll get a hue bonus against any other enemy ship, just based on your crew numbers... and then you can add additional equipment to get more of a bonus.

Raulbarlad · October 2017

a very important question: from where would players get cannons like carros or RF for grinding?

Gilligan8567 · October 2017

Those can be made through Casting recipe books and when you craft all 14s I believe you can get a memorial book to craft 16s from Balboa in Portobelo, after that you will be able to craft 18s in Manchester at the factory with higher level casting (I think its 15+).

crazyhunter2003 · October 2017

iirc didn't 18s require high management?

Gilligan8567 · October 2017

I believe you are right about that, almost forgot that part. lol

Gilligan8567 · October 2017

Question on SBing aide choice: I am debating between Victor or Chester, which would you say is better? I am going with Pietro as my trade aide for all the casting bonuses and I know both Victor and Chester have casting along with SBing, but wanted to hear your ideas/preference for either one. Thanks.

HeavyWater · October 2017

Chester for two reasons:

1. He gets the +1 earlier than Victor.

2. He doubles as the best surgeon aide.

pieratthe · October 2017

London shipyard sells RF 10's. Perfect for grind gunnery/acc/ball As long as ur doing at least the min damage from those cannons which is 5 ur getting max prof for those 3 skills

Gilligan8567 · October 2017

Thanks Heavywater - I was leaning more towards Chester as well, so I will get Pietro first, then Chester when I get the port permit for East Africa.

pieratthe · October 2017

@crazy r13 management for 18 cannons

crazyhunter2003 · October 2017

so,looks like 18s are a loooong way off

Gilligan8567 · October 2017

14s and 16s are decent until 18s can be made :)

LyonesseJoseph · October 2017

1. Fill out supplies and load of timbers.

2. Looking for stronger enemies that use guns a lot ie Swedish Privateers

3. Use that ship to fight them then they will use guns on your ship.

4. Keep repair then you will be at r3 at no time.

Wipe out Caribbean quest is great for grinding repair, surgery, evasion, and firefighting ,but you will need better ship to keep survive slaughtered by them.

Raulbarlad · October 2017

yes but it would be a time till castor reach the lvls required to make these cannon, got it?

Lugosi · October 2017

I always liked Chester. Pietro is my first aide of choice this time round too - we'll have to grind together! As usual :)

crazyhunter2003 · October 2017

it will be 14s for a while,until someone grinds casting to max and gets carribean open probably will also need ports developed

Destry · October 2017

We will still be able to make cannon18's before the endgame ships arrive, so try not to get one-shot :)

pieratthe · October 2017

fighting against 5x18 m.cannons :D in a MAV or FS ship :D

theedgedemon · October 2017

@pieratthe been there done that and my special bombardment galleon took em like a breeze... or it was probably the breeze through the bullet holes.

point in case unless you go without plates or get a dumb head critical FS ships have nothing to worry, most ships can get almost 60-80 armor with decent plates.

Grinding Maritime question...

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