What good is grapeshot?

[WizardHawk]

There are lots of issues with flag ships right now. We did many raids over the weekend and had quite a few go very wrong. Not only is the final guy invisible often, but over half the time we came across people that could only be injured with a sword sweep. No other kind of attack had any effect on them. It takes forever to sweep and wait for the sweep to recharge again to take out 15+ level people and the clock really does come into play. As to the invisible people, those left behind on your ship can actually see them while those fighting it cannot.

We also had raids where only 2 or 3 of our crew went across with the captain instead of the whole crew.

The thing that sucks is having the flag ship take off and move while you are on it fighting. If you grapple it while your boat is very close the enemy flag ship takes off after boarding it and can travel quite a distance. Makes the swing back to the boat a real trip.

They have a lot of issues to work out with the whole flag ship part of the game.

And to answer the OP, our team reports that the grapeshot isn't working as it was before last update. It used to do quite a bit of damage to people and most are saying it does nothing right now.