I finished that quest, and I got my claw from defeating a regular crab on Port Royal. I founf these crabs to the left of the ship shop.

So is the wording of it changed so that it's no longer a GIANT crab?

by my previous posts here you could see I was having problems with the ships and navy guards quest. Well I made a new character and made sure he took both of the quest parts at the same time and completing that chapter 3 quest went quite well.

Now I am on the quest that this thread originally startted with, the crabs, scorpion and copper rod. I have a few questions, first when I am just outside the tavern where Joshamee Gibbs and Carver are located and standing next to Scarlett my compass shows the gold circle and the light beam that usually points you to your objective are just outside this courtyard and yet there are no crabs there, no scorpions and surely no navy ship that has a copper rod. Anyone else have this and if so what is this trying to tell me? My quests mention nothing that this seems to be pointing to.

Now, how do you fight crabs? I can stand right on top of them and never able to engage them. I am talking about the crabs on the beach at Tortuga. I have not yet found any other crabs to see if I can fight them.

Where are the scorpions?

And finally, for the copper rod, do I need to sink a ship or board a ship and fight the navy guys hand to hand? If I need to board how do you accomplish this? Do I fire the grapple? I have tried this and it does not seem to give me a way to board. Or, do I leave my ship and swim up to the Navy ship and hit ctrl to board?

Thanks for you help.

You can kill any crabs, I have found that shooting them from the ship is easiest. If they climb aboard, just sail away and they will fall off. I had to kill 15 giant crabs on my last task and that took a while, but it worked. Also if you try to fight a crab with your sword, make sure that you move your mouse so that you have a red circle on it and are standing above it and you will be able to hit it. the scorpions are in the jungle everywhere in tortuga and you have to sink a navy ship to get the copper rod. Now, if anyone knows where i can find a "dread" scorpion, i would be grateful (my next task). good luck.

It seems those crabs, we can't engage. Looks more like a bug. But the rock crabs on the other side (2 of them) of the beach, you can engage. They are behind the half sunken boat shop. They are lvl 5 tho and since the 2 are both together, they both attack you at the same time. Difficult to fight two lvl 5 rock crabs at the same time, unless you are a high lvl pirate with high lvl cutlass/pistol.

cool, thanks for the info. I did not know you could shoot them from your ship. Actually I have not seen any on the beaches when I was in my ship but I'll look now. As for level I am only at a 2 so I think two level 5 crabs would do me in.

I did find a crab on Port royal that I could fight but my sword did not seem to do any damage. I tried the pistol but never could get far enough away to use it. I have not tried a dagger yet.

ooo! learning a game with not much information from the creator is soooooooooo! much fun!

Isla Congrejos is full of crabs, you can shoot them from your ship. The giant crabs will board your ship, you just have to get back on the helm and drive off and they drop back into the water. Go to the Medicine Man on Port Royal, he's by the half-ship, and buy some elixir, equip it in f4 then when the crabs get you just f4 and you'll drink yourself back to life.

Yeah, you can shoot the crabs using the cannon on your ship.

Did you also know, you can shoot the skeletons and navy guys on the Navy Ships using your cannon as well? There are some ships you can board. Instead of going over there and fighting them with your sword, shoot them with your cannon. You get the plunder from them in addition to the plunder you get form shooting down the ship.

Yaaaa. :D

I need help finding Claude D'Arcis. I am on the quest to find the crew for the black Pearl, on James Pidgley. He wants me to find 3 assassins. I found two, but can't find Claude, who is supposed to be disquised as an EICO officer. He supposedly has a handkerchief that I need. Help.

I also am on this quest and am looking for an EIC officer. I also need an EIC officer for the Greer quest ( i need 2 earrings). I have sunk a ton of EITC ships and no luck. I wonder if anyone has seen an EIC officer anywhere.

Someone posted in another thread to check the cave in Tortuga. I was in there yesterday and it's full of EITC soldiers.

Success!
 

I was able to finish the Claude D'Arcis Quest!

It was completed in the cave on Tortuga. After defeating a "Hired Gun", it mentioned Quest Completed!

There are three inner island entrances from the village. Facing the village from the beach, the rightmost entrance (closest to lumberjack) eventually leads to a cave area.

(The other two entrances are linked. The leftmost entrance is found from the beach / swamp area (left of crocodile and jail exit). It leads to a swamp area and loops back to the middle entrance).

Whew!

Yeah... I don't think the people who write the quests and the people who put the names on the mobs are working together. I had a quest tell me to sink a navy ship, and gave the hint that navy ships' names start with "HMS", but of course they don't! They all say "Navy"!

Oops?

So there's 5 people we need to get on the Black Pearl to help crew it.

Carver is the quest everyone starts with, it seems.
Cutts, I believe, is the one that can't be done currently because you can't dig up the chest near his house.

So, I skipped ahead to Nill's quest. He's a gambler, and you need to win a lot at Blackjack and Hold'em to start the quest. Basically, you need to repay a person with a gambling addiction's debts. Some fun :rolleyes:

For anyone who still needs to know, the scorpions are on Tortuga. Go to the right, around back. You'll come up to a forest with a bunch of them. You can then keep going deeper if you want - you'll eventually run into Navy guards (level, 10, 12, 13 etc.) in a cave. Yesterday myself and three other guys went back there and cleared the place out. :D

~Q/S