Ship to Ship Battles?Follow

Hi all, I have not ordered the new expansion and was wondering if anyone had done a ship battle. Is it random ships passing in the zone? or maybe an instanced zone? or what?

Yes the ships are stationary and because you are on a "shipdeck" the fighting area is cramped and cumbersome. The ships are joined by two gang planks that seem to have a wider walking surface than appears in the graphics. You walk across to pull the mobs from their ship to yours and that is that. The graphics look like ykesia but upgraded a little. The experience is similar to a dungeon crawl because the fight area is tight and one heal too many or resisted mez causes casters/healers to get squashed and squashed fairly quickly too.

Heh. I would say you have high expectations. The doors and catapults anre other structures that we "broke down" in PoR should have removed that expectation. THe graphics in the ship to ship battles are pretty cool but its not nearly that interactive.

man that just sounds lame

How bout this, Your toon gets home city bonuses to attack etc. But only if it is clear of undead or some other mob du jour attacking the city. There would be a purpose to use the cities, build faction adventure in the old cities, and more of a reason to play than watch the exp bar slowly go up.


Edit.. Hey, someone rated me down! Was my post that bad? :)


Edited, Feb 16th 2007 7:25pm by NormannxBates

a few dev's posted that they never intended the marketing guys to tote the ship to ship combat system as one of the big bullet points of the expansion. While something more than a static ship would have been cool i think it would have been expecting a bit to much for the limits they have to work within when making new content.