KRAKEN HUNT?

So what is KRAKEN HUNT? The Kraken is a type of Sea Monster Hunt where pirates smuggle out valuable treasure chests - including the fabled Kraken’s eggs - and kraken’s ink out of the treasure hoard of a monstrous Kraken, all the while facing the full wrath of its myriad defending tentacles.

Now you’d be wondering what’s Sea Monster Hunt.

A Sea Monster Hunt (or SMH for short) is a voyage configuration option. It allows pirates to chart a ship to an Atlantean Outpost, the Cursed Isles, a Kraken lair, or the Haunted Seas. Here, pirates may fight Atlantean Monsters, zombies, the Kraken, or ghosts, respectively.

A ship’s voyage configuration may be set to Sea Monster mode only after being charted to a Sea Monster location with the corresponding map. Any job offers posted after this appear under the “Sea Monster” heading on the Voyages tab of the Notice Board.

On a doubloon ocean, a bravery badge is needed to join a Sea Monster Hunt. On a subscriber ocean, pirates must be subscribed.

KRAKEN HUNT GAMEPLAY

Players entering a Kraken lair board will notice that, instead of a single vessel joining, there will be one rowboat for each pirate that was aboard that vessel. Unlike other Sea Monster Hunts, pirates won’t need to play duty puzzles while the officer in charge battles other ships. Instead, each player controls his own boat, therefore each player may choose where to go and what to do. This makes communication and organization crucial in order for players to acquire as much booty as possible. Since turns are shorter than in other sea battles, players must think fast and be careful with teammates.

There are 6 kinds of rowboats in Kraken Hunt.

Photo grabbed from here.

Damages:

Rock bump: 2 damage points (DPs)

Small tentacle: 5 DPs

Medium tentacle: 8 DPs

Large tentacle: 10 DPs

Defendacle: 10 DPs

Harpoon shot: 2.5 DPs

Powder keg: (instant kill)

You basically drive your tiny little boat around the map and get treasure chests/eggs and even inks and return it to your safe zone.

Each time you go in the Kraken’s Lair you have 30 minutes to gather as much as you can go in couple of times, depending on how many times you want to.

After you decide that your booty is enough. You could go port and divide the booty.

HOW I GOT IN THE KRAKEN HUNT

After hours of grinding to get myself a Bravery Badge (You need this badge to go on SMH’s unless you’re in a subscriber’s ocean.) and getting a hold of a rowboat kit. I got the bumper kit by the way because it’s what they recommended me.

Meet Malificent of the Poison Apples Crew

Maleficent, the Captain and the Muse of the Poison Apples crew. I bet she likes black. Well, maybe without her I wouldn’t be in the Kraken Hunt in the first place, because I was about 100 PoE short on buying myself a rowboat kit! She lent me 100 PoE so that I could buy my kit (Don’t worry I pay back what I loan :P) She taught me a handful about Kraken Hunting! She’s an angel in disguise.

Meet Deb of the Poison Apples Crew

Deb, a Senior Officer and the Tailor of the Poison Apples crew. No, she’s not the Yeti hahaha. She’s a great pirate! She explained KHing because I don’t really know a bit about Kraken Hunting. She kept her patience even if I messed up couple of times. She even gave me gifts to start with, (Thanks a lot Deb!)

Meet Hulagu of the Poison Apples Crew

Hulagu, a Fleet Officer of the Poison Apples crew. He’s the one in charge of the SMH. If not with him the Kraken Hunt wouldn’t have start at first. I am really happy he didn’t plank me for messing up! Hahaha.

This is the ship we used to get to the Kraken’s Lair. There are the pirates who made it very successful!

This is what I got off the Kraken Hunt.

All 26k from Kraken Hunt. (Yeah I know, I don’t have that much :P) But this Kraken Hunt pays well!

Thanks for the Poison Apples Crew for jobbing me! Thanks for showing me what Kraken Hunting is!

-Badjao