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I did the Boss Battle solo yesterday (on October 7th, 2008), BEFORE the update which they say will allow people who have completed the Boss Battle to do it repeatedly afterward. It IS possible. I did it. No glitches.


I did it with a powerful voodoo doll to take out all the soldiers.

On Cannons (mastered) I have 5 points in the following:
SHOOT, RAPID RELOAD, FURY, OPEN FIRE... I have 4 in LIGHTNING.

You need at 1 in RAM for the Goliath at the end.

Since the limit for ammo is 125, you have to conserve ammo. I did that by using OPEN FIRE to double the power of hits whenever I was not being shot at. On the second and third bridges if you tuck your ship behind the hill on the right hand side, the tower on the right hand side won't shoot at you so you can use OPEN FIRE on it, then patiently wait for OPEN FIRE to replenish.



While experimenting, before I recorded the whole thing on video, I discovered the final bridge can see thru mountains and shoot at your ship even if you run with it all the way back to the dock! So!... since it can shoot and hit you through anything and everything, I concluded that running right to it and shooting it point blank would be best. This worked very well. I ran up to it, hit OPEN FIRE, and blasted away, using mostly FURY.

By this time I still had about an eighth health left on the Pearl.

With the Goliath I hit FULL SAIL for about 3 seconds, then hit RAM then TURNED, hit OPEN FIRE and kept blasting away with FURY.

It sank, I won. And yes, I made a video of it since there can't be any witnesses when you do it solo.

Sincerely,
Jason Trueshot (often find me on Tortuga Beaches on Abassa)

Additional Note: When I first did the Boss Battle on my first character, I didn't know anything. The first time I tried it, I tried it solo and died trying to knock out the third leg of the first bridge. I always figured after that, that doing it solo was possible, but it took forever to level up another character, complete the Pearl Quest, then do a lot of experimenting before I set up the video camera, and finished it.

Additional additional note: Once they allow everyone to REDO the Boss Battle, and now knowing it's possible, I believe dozens of people will use their high level characters to do the Boss Battle solo. Oh... the notoriety of the character I just did this with is 33. But I had already mastered sailing, cannons and my voodoo doll is at lvl 23. I believe now that I could complete this with a much weaker voodoo doll and weak sailing, but cannons, they have to be maxxed or nearly maxxed to win the BB solo.