This is so much harder (and will the staff be pointless now?)

[CoolLittleJ_]

The Staff can still be used to take out SEVERAL enemies at once..I don't know where you got that from..
~CLJ

[Hile]

I think leveling was too easy. God forbid they challenge us! :O

[Eliza Shipwrecker]

Originally Posted by Hile

I think leveling was too easy. God forbid they challenge us! :O

If they're trying to cater to the "family" audience, then they shouldn't make it too hard. If it's too hard to accomplish the tasks in the game, too hard to level up, to hard to upgrade your ships because it's too hard to get the gold to afford it, the target audience is going to give up quickly and go to something else.

And based on the comments on this forum, the majority of players don't feel that their game play experience is being improved by these latest changes.

[Plunderin Mom]

Originally Posted by CoolLittleJ_

The Staff can still be used to take out SEVERAL enemies at once..I don't know where you got that from..
~CLJ

Yesterday I could go into The Catombs of Padre Del Fuego, alone, and draw all of the enemies to my character with the staff (often inculding several 30 plus level enemies as well as a few more in the 20 to t29 range and some less than 20 levels), and kill them all using only the whither skill, and usually without needing a tonic and get 150 to 200 exp pts each time.

Today I walked in, doing the same thing I did yesterday and found myself in jail before I could even hit the T for tonic. So, now I'm back to killing one enemy at a time, as with most of the other weapons, targeting green and yellow enemies for only 10 to 20 points.

Sure, you might be able to kill several enemies at the same time, but you better do it quick, and if there are more than one in the red level range you're probably still going to need someone to heal you, because you'll be taking damage from the others in the group as well, instead of only from those higher level enemies.

I suppose this is mostly an issue if you're trying to level, and want to kill them more slowly for more experience points. Either way, killing a group of enemies is much more difficult now, and especially if some of them are red level enemies.

And like I said before, I dont really mind all of that so much. But I do mind getting fewer points for it.

[Speedway Master]

Grenades and staff didn't give much points before. Now this is rediculous.

[Eliza Shipwrecker]

I went to jail four times in a row from Kingshead today, trying to use my staff and grenades in the field, just to see what the differences were in rep points were.

Before with the staff, using just wither, I got 3-4 rep per soldier. Now it's 2-3 rep and you lose a bunch of your health. And don't step off to the side and wait for it to go back up, because any little lvl 11 Sargeant walking by can finish you off.

I also used to use desolation for the first hit and wither to finish them, and could get 9-12 rep points per soldier. Now I can't hit tonic fast enough to keep from dying!

Grenades are even worse. Now once the soldiers start chasing you, you're taking hits the whole way. And not just from the soldier in front, but from all of them, even though none of them should be able to reach you. I don't even know how many rep points because I couldn't get through without dying - my tonic doesn't recharge fast enough.

[Ironhawk]

It's already hard for me to work on my grenades now they lower the rep
point i don't think i will work on my grenade anymore.
Being a high level pirate also useless now to help other like searching
crates for their grenade quest in kingshead because we might
get killed ourselves.
And healer pirate helping a friend in battle won't get rep point
anymore when the enemy is defeated.

And has anyone tried to win the 'newly improved' boss battle in test?
My friend tried it 7 times and always died. He never reached the 4th bridge.

And the most annoying thing from this 'update' is we DON'T get gold or
treasure anymore from any enemies.
We can only get gold from plundering ship now.

So it seems that they try to make this game harder and harder
and think that it's fun for us to go to jail 20 times a day.
No thank you, if they don't change this i think
i will just find another online game.

[PixiePirate]

I agree. This game is more of a chore now instead of "fun." Ugh I am having to make myself play (to justify spending the money on it). I keep saying it will get better. All the while it keeps getting worse.

Sorry to be so negative!

[CoralBliss]

I really hate the change involving lower level characters now being able to inflict damage. It's not nearly as fun this way. I want to target enemies at a level higher than me, now I have to fight through all the lower level characters before I can do this. Please change it back to how it was. Please stop making changes that ruin the game!

[Plunderin Mom]

Originally Posted by Ironhawk

XBeing a high level pirate also useless now to help other like searching
crates for their grenade quest in kingshead because we might
get killed ourselves.

You know whats gonna happen? Out of necessity, the doll is going to quickly become the only weapon used in many areas of the game, because many of the quests that we used to be able to do alone will require assistance now. But, now, even the helpers will need to be attuned and healed too.