Your opinion on these new enemies and bosses....

[Jack I]

Let me just start by saying everything in this post is my pure speculation. Although I am backing up most of my statments with reason and some proof, I am purely making accusations of this future release.


-----LEVEL-----
Levelwise, I would personally like to see the new bosses be around the 30 to 40+ range, since they mention that you should plan to bring a crew to fight these beasts.
-----Visual-----
As for what they would look like, I'm going to pull out the POTCO news archive really quick...

New Enemies Set to Invade the Islands August 27 2008
Pirates Beware!


In addition to new Quest adventures, rumor has it, new enemies will be invading the Caribbean. These new enemies will pose quite a challenge to many a buccaneer. To glance at journal pages from an unlucky Pirate that faced these foes -- click here to view the pages found near his remains.

----Images(Concept Art)----

I would take it that these will be the basis of our new beasties, which means there is a possibility of a bat and stump being included in the mix. We can tell however, that assuming this picture is from their private testing server (which I would assume it is)...



... that the pirate plans have been changed completely to resemble that of an Undead Pirate more than what they had in the concept art, which appeared to me as a pirate that would tamper in the ways of Voodoo. Also, I would like to further make the assumption that this is concept art of some of our new bosses from 1 consistency in the new pic and the concept art, as well as something mentioned by the GMs. The consistency between the two pictures is that both the concept art and image have the monsters carrying an eerie green glow, which is backed up by a statment from Xavier Hench. (Credit to William of POF for this info)

NEW ENEMIES AND BOSSES

Xavier: Jolly is sending new enemies to attempt to destroy our pirate way of life.
These new enemies will be larger, stronger than anything you or I have seen before.
They carry a misterius green glow so dont attempt to defeat one alone.
[...]
Xavier: Remember to take a crew, friends or guild to fight the new bosses.
There are no easy push overs.
I can tell you a tale of one... his name is Simon Butcher...
He is the leader of a horde of Undead Pirates... beware... he has higher powers than anything we 've seen in the Caribbean yet.
Keep your ears to the wind... we will be announcing more details shortly...

-----Accessability-----
I have to agree, with the way they mention these enemies that they'll be out in the open, which would make it hard to battle them. I would suggest since they mention having the new weapon quests in which you must kill a boss monster to finish the quest, that there be something in the map which you must have the quest to examine, and when you examine it then 1 of 2 things happens.

1. You are transported to a "dungeoun"-esque map where the boss and possibly a few minions reside, taking anyone with the party with you.
2. The boss is spawned near the examination point upon examining whatever it may be, and you fight it in that map.

-----Release Time-----
Not much I have to say on this one, since it's not even on the invitation Test Server. Might make a prediction when they are released there, judging by the issues we have with them, but until then I'm gonna leave it be.