mega_milk said: ↑ edit for brevity:



Anyone care to share their monster ramming technique? I'm at Apprentice level sailing and I don't have Quick Retreat (nor do I care to get it), and I'm not having much luck doing this.



So far, my only feasible tactic is to mimic the video as much as possible, but so far the timing is really tricky. It's reasonably viable for a bit, but it's far too easy to end up far from the monster's spawn point, at which it leashes back and resets, completely wasting my time and ship power/durability.



If I can figure out a consistent method, I'll share it, and I wish others would too instead of merely talking about it.



So far, it doesn't really seem worth it past the initial attack (for which it's quite good), and then resort to reliable armor plating and gunpowder. But at 10k silver per cannonball, I wouldn't mind a cheaper or faster method. Click to expand...

**Some might prefer to withhold information, since tell one what took many people hours of their personal time to figure out is in essence a gameplay equivalent of Paying to Win: that is, getting better at something without actually playing the game. (However when paying to win, you're still doing something to help fund the process of game development, however questionably those funds might be used - whereas something like this would simply accelerate one to the endgame without building any memorable attachments or respect to the subject/craft, leading one to trolling and griefing his/her kin out of boredom, and then quitting - which brings the community to a definitive net loss when it should have been a net gain; but that's just from my experiences across a few games xD). There are still many players here trying to keep the competitive spirit of the game/community going, despite the p2w; I hope you understand their discretion.



With that said, if you nonetheless still prefer to learn vicariously, try PM'ing some of the prof sailors - there should be about 19-20 prof sailors on the NA servers now, and a couple that are right around the corner; some are quite willing to share and promote sailing (like Armoirize, BDONavy's GM; he's prof 3 now I think; organizes naval battles every now and then).



p.s. cropped out extraneous info