Solo Boss Battle?

[Jellyroll]

What would be the best way to get a crew in-game and go and beat this? I've tried the "go with crew" option in a full district and at most I get 2 other people who tend to die on the deck part anyways and I'm stuck alone.

[davy redflint]

hav ur guild mates help u get a crew together

[Poison elf]

I have done it solo a couple times, before the newer update of it becoming harder. So worked up another pirate, to test it out again.

I don't know if this is a new thing they have done to slow people down or something, but things such as blade instinct, barrage, have been reduced in use. Basically, you can put 5 points into this, but only get a small amount of this each time you level in notoriety.

So with full stats, you are still reduced in your fire power until you reach level 40, where it appears the stats will be full. With 5 levels to 40 I have well under 100 less damage on bottom end, and more on top end of cannon fire.

So this looks like they have made it pretty impossible to do solo until you can get the stats you paid points into, which will be level 40, hopefully.

Soldiers are easy, kill them off.
Before moving the ship go to all cannons you are going to use, and set canon balls you want to use. Take cover, protection from canon fire may help but hard to use solo. Shoot side forts first, than the middle one. Then go in sideways and you can avoid fire from one of the next set of forts all together.

I went full sail at the end before and got away from the goliath, then killed it from a distance. Having more ammo now should make it easier. Going to have to get full stats again to see if it can be done now or not. Lack in cannon fire makes it pretty impossible.

May be this character is glitched too, you should have 900-1800 lightning, and 1050-2100 fury for damage. My 35 level character isn't even close to this.

If this is what is happening to others I would try to find crews to help you get through this if you are looking to complete it. There are also several good captains that have it down well, if they haven't gone limited like some have I know of.

[Jellyroll]

Ok I've been trying to do this for a while now but I can never get enough people to go with me. I go to a full district, hit go with a crew, and then after waiting 5 minutes I get one or two other people with me who seem to die right off the bat.

How do I get a crew? I would juse my guild but it's really inactive.

[JollyRancher]

i did the boss batlle with my friend and i thought it was hard and i was really nervous the whole time and when we beat the Goliath,,, we were like...... "Did we beat it?","Wow". it was fun and cool im looking forward to trying out the Boss Battle for my person

[Poison elf]

If you need a crew I have seen many people gather up a good amount of people on the newbie servers. those are the first two listed on you list of servers, that usually are full. Go to Tortuga and ask for help with the boss battle. Try to get some higher level people to help take down stuff fast. Main thing is locating someone to steer with take cover and such that doesn't just run the ship straight into fire and sink ya.

Most usually take people that have at least heavy damage with lightning.

Once you get a group together crewed, then hit the crew boss battle. Really haven't seen anyone do it by using the looking for crew option. Most people probably think you just want to go out sailing.

[Pierre La Grand]

I have done the BB solo and it is possible. I have posted screenshots on here. You can also see them on my guilds web page under quests. www.maraudersonline.com
I did the boss battle alone back when it was easy and again since the changes have been made. I never completed it with that pirate as I have been using it to train guild members and freinds on how to do 2 person BB's. We do a complete circle around the Goliath shooting broadsides and cannons in the water just to show how easy we could sink it if we want.
I make it everytime with 2 person battles and sometimes it takes me twice to do it alone. I have also been using the same pirate to try every different thing I have found on forums along with different ammo and have posted the results on our web page. It is too hard with a full crew doing the BB to find out what really works and what doesn't but being able to do it over and over alone and with one other crew member we have put it all to the test more than once. Any doubts? PM me and I will take you out and show you.

[Dr. Zeppers]

My only question is how do you do it over and over? Once you beat it, you cant do it again unless someone else invites you on theirs.. and if they beat it then neither can they, and so on. You cant simply do it over and over, especially 'alone'. And starting a new pirate and getting to the BB is not that quickly done. Care to clarify?

[davy redflint]

aye zep, agree with u on this how do u solo over and over. i try it twice before the updates made it to the last bridges both times before sinkin. after the updates once didn't make it then either. lol

[Pierre La Grand]

Read the post it says we don't sink just do laps around the goliath and shoot braodsides and cannons in the water. We all know the Goliath is the easiest part anyway. And Like I said any doubts Private message me an i will tak you out and show you.

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by Pierre La Grand

Read the post it says we don't sink just do laps around the goliath and shoot braodsides and cannons in the water. We all know the Goliath is the easiest part anyway. And Like I said any doubts Private message me an i will tak you out and show you.

Well your post wasnt that clear, thanks for clarifying.

As far as any doubts?

Its all mind over matter. I dont mind, because it doesnt matter.

[erkman1999]

I finished it solo. I started with 3 in the crew and they died right off the bat. Actually one loss internet and the other died, said he lagged and didn't get off any shots.

So I barely made it past the soldiers and used 6 potions and ran alot and that took the longest. Then came the boats. I used up alot of my fury along with grabbing the wheel and using my open fire i think twice, maybe just once, only suffered about 30% damage or so.

Then I hit my ship fairly well to avoid the walls shooting until all my special abilities have recovered. I then attacked the first two walls and suffered about 20% more damage. I then used speed to blast through to the end bridge and blasted one side when i got to the end and got through. At this point however I was down to maybe 5% Hull left if that. When the boss ship cam out I hit ramming speed and then I hit full sail I am maxed in Full Sails, ramming speed and Wind catcher. Basically I ran away and survived. not all that glorious but I survived.

[isnear]

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.

[Poison elf]

I have been wondering about that, since I have taken like 4 characters solo before. I figured all the tricks out also, and even with using regular cannon balls for the bridges that can't hit ya. With such drastic reduction in cannon to us all, I wouldn't of made that call its possible.

I am going to have to play with open fire more, seems to be only chance to get a little damage out of cannon now. I wonder what the battle ratio is 40 level bb, versus 33 level bb. I know the damage i took with the 40 in there even with 5 points against cannon damage, sitting forever shooting everything now. I supppose this was made better for smaller level characters also? When someone gets it , I am sure we all will just go set our stats to the right thing now that it will be such a simple thing.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Congratulations, isnear! Can't wait to see your video! The length of time is very significant when I solo - I am jealous of how much free disk space you must have! Is that over a terabyte of video?

Interesting to hear that you chose to use cannons on Goliath. I was chomping at the bit, waiting to have a broadsides (only) battle with Goliath for months. To each his own...

I have another level 29 pirate that can't make it past the officers using voodoo doll only. Should have voodoo staff today, so I'll be solo-ing it again soon.

Great tip on Open Fire. Many things didn't work once you left helm...broadsides for example. If you fire broadsides and hit ESC, the cannonballs that hit after you hit ESC do no damage (try it in regular sailing.) So it is interesting to hear that OPEN FIRE does not behave the same. Of course, now that OPEN FIRE actually does something, it is good to remember that using it is essential (now.)

I am very surprised to hear that you didn't run out of ammo, even though you wasted some on the inert fortifications. Can't wait to see that video. How significant was the video-delay from the recording software? Which were the hardest scenes because of it?

Side note: Anyone else notice the Black Pearl missing its masts in the Pearl/Goliath cut-scene right before the Goliath battle? I've set my video setting back up to maximum everything, in anticipation of seeing the sky changes...but one side effect is that the Black Pearl does not seem to render quite fast enough, to look right in that cut-scene with the climactic battle music.