Pirate in Settlers

Weak build is weak.

Not everyone plays a hyper-optimized 100 Divine build. That's who Admiral Whatsisface is tuned for. The rest of us poor, no-skill, zdp plebes have to slog through a long, boring, drawn out fight with a life pool calculated to prevent the Pros from Dover killing him in one button press.

Not a lot of fun. ='[.]'=

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

Not everyone plays a hyper-optimized 100 Divine build. That's who Admiral Whatsisface is tuned for.

Except it's not lol

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

The rest of us poor, no-skill, zdp plebes have to slog through a long, boring, drawn out fight with a life pool calculated to prevent the Pros from Dover killing him in one button press.

That's just a you problem for playing bad builds.
It's not even that hard to have 2-4kk dmg on almost any decent build during a league start scenario in today's PoE, just via ground loot and passive points.
And yes, the 2-4kk along with some decent ehp is more than enough to tackle the entire content of the game, casually.

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Pashid#4643 wrote:

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

Not everyone plays a hyper-optimized 100 Divine build. That's who Admiral Whatsisface is tuned for.

Except it's not lol

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

The rest of us poor, no-skill, zdp plebes have to slog through a long, boring, drawn out fight with a life pool calculated to prevent the Pros from Dover killing him in one button press.

That's just a you problem for playing bad builds.
It's not even that hard to have 2-4kk dmg on almost any decent build during a league start scenario in today's PoE, just via ground loot and passive points.
And yes, the 2-4kk along with some decent ehp is more than enough to tackle the entire content of the game, casually.

It's a "me" problem because I play the builds I enjoy, which get me where I want to be in the game, except for crap like this briny bullet-sponge.

You either fail to understand that, or you deliberately ignore it, preferring to mock me and those like me who aren't bound to the economy for our builds. ='[.]'=

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

It's a "me" problem because I play the builds I enjoy, which get me where I want to be in the game, except for crap like this briny bullet-sponge.

Yes it's a you problem if you can't get your build of choice to the point of not feeling like a zdps. Cause it really doesn't take much to slap the boss pretty quickly.

I mean sure, you can stick to whatever is to your liking, and don't work on improvements at all. But in this case you shouldn't complain about content "being too hard or too long" as you only set yourself up for suffering.

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You either fail to understand that, or you deliberately ignore it, preferring to mock me and those like me who aren't bound to the economy for our builds. ='[.]'=

I think you just fail to understand that the boss doesn't require much rocket science or exclusive 100 divine builds, or any trading at all in order to have a quick kill.

In the end, without knowledge and experience, a players worst opponent is their own limit.

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KaFeuk#0937 wrote:

This boss got legit 0 HP compared to average boss in this game, your build is the problem.

yeah cept i choose to fight the bosses.
see when i lose 200000 gold worth of staff to potentially win 50k
and
I have only upgraded the town to level 4 or...
and
My ships are using level 5 sailors...

But I NEED to fight this boss or ALL shipping comes to a stop.
The town is on pause until i deal with this mandatory hit point bag.

He should be flavor but no....
He is nice and sweaty....

Build is fine game is flawed
SSF life
fix your game.

say it nice and slow...
as low as you can ..

Sweeeeeeaty.

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

Not everyone plays a hyper-optimized 100 Divine build. That's who Admiral Whatsisface is tuned for. The rest of us poor, no-skill, zdp plebes have to slog through a long, boring, drawn out fight with a life pool calculated to prevent the Pros from Dover killing him in one button press.

Not a lot of fun. ='[.]'=

Im poor. My build is not 100" div one. And yet i always try to farm that pirate because he gives a sufficient amount of gold. Also i play only SSF.

He is not hard boss. If i managed to kill him at the very first time i met him without dying everyone can.

Learn to play. Improve. Stop complaining. World wont adjust to your level.

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de99ial#0161 wrote:

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

Not everyone plays a hyper-optimized 100 Divine build. That's who Admiral Whatsisface is tuned for. The rest of us poor, no-skill, zdp plebes have to slog through a long, boring, drawn out fight with a life pool calculated to prevent the Pros from Dover killing him in one button press.

Not a lot of fun. ='[.]'=

Im poor. My build is not 100" div one. And yet i always try to farm that pirate because he gives a sufficient amount of gold. Also i play only SSF.

He is not hard boss. If i managed to kill him at the very first time i met him without dying everyone can.

Learn to play. Improve. Stop complaining. World wont adjust to your level.

So many words wasted simply to express that timeless exhortation: "Git gud."

The guy before you who said that was sufficient. No need to put the boot in when I'm clearly beaten, yeah? =9[.]9=

I've since tried this boss on my Pherica SSF HC character twice and failed one passed once. I actually think it is one of the better designed bosses in the game. Character is level 91, has under 200k dps. I timed the first fight and it was down to 25% in under 3mins, before It got sketchy from over confidence and I had to log.

Deference and offence is balanced quite well. The mechanics are fair, but there is enough going on in the fight that it is not trivial. There is enough room in the arena and visual clarity. One portal makes the boss less cheesable giving the fight some meaning (albeit at the cost of problems with bugs or disconnects). The rewards are good, unlike the in between eldritch bosses which feel disappointing, frequently dropping nothing.

Could be that there are some level scaling issues that I am not across.

The main problem is the UI after the fight and consequences of potentially loosing. I had not lost this encounter on SC playthroughs, but now understand why there are so many posts about it asking for help on the forum.

I think it is not possible to pay the ransom after the fight (Perhaps it is still possible to ransom if you have enough gold on hand?)? So you only have the option to abandon. Then when you click the only option you have, it asks if you are sure, creating a level of confusion. What is the reason for this exactly? The only thing I can think of is you might be able to go farm up the ransom. Is that possible? Most the information I read on the forum was that if you loose fight, you loose the crew. So why then is there the confirmation button?

50k ransom is probably too high as well. I don't think there needs to be big downsides for the fight, or if people want to skip it. Missing out on the reward by skipping is probably enough. 50k ransom option to save crew after loosing the fight should be fine, and free to skip it before hand (ignoring DC problems). Or maybe skipping costs one crew member. Considering there are already a fair bit of negative outcomes in the shipping that are enough.

I think this is where some of the frustration from the fight is coming from and not so much with the fight itself.

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

Not everyone plays a hyper-optimized 100 Divine build. That's who Admiral Whatsisface is tuned for.

Brother, I did that shit week 1 with shoestring gear in ssf. What is stopping you?