Can Cannons hit Serpents, Elements, Kraken etc

[DVDA]

I have yet to purchase the High Seas pack but I was curious about the cannons on these ships...

Can they hit Sea Serpents, Elements etc or can they only do damage to other ships?

I ask because my current Fisherman sucks, he has:

100 Magery
100 Med
100 Fishing
100 Alchemy
100 Poisoning
100 Cooking
100 Hiding

These skills are terrible vs Serpents, Water Elements and such, therefore I was thinking of swapping skills (soulstone) with my other characters and going with:

120 Healing
120 Fishing
120 Archery
120 Tactics
120 Anatomy
120 (Dont Know Yet)

However, I wouldnt do this if I can defend myself vs creatures with Cannon fire

 

[Sevin0oo0]

sounds like fun if you could. A group could have a deep water net casting party any time.

 

[Symma]

Serpents and Water Elementals are easy to kill. By the time ya got the cannon ready you could have killed it lol.

Not sure if the cannon works tho against those critters

 

[DVDA]

Regardless if they are easy to kill, I am curious if they can be hit with cannons

 

[Landicine]

My fisher only has ~85 magery (with jewelry), and with a snake slayer spellbook, I'm able to kill the sea serpents with two to three spells. Since my fisher is sort of a crafter/ skill bank, the character is pretty mediocre, but I'm still able to get the SOS bottles and maps I pull up on serpents. I would suggest that rather than trying the expensive cannon route, get cheap snake slayer and water elemental spellbooks.

 

[Hell's Ironworks]

As far as i know , the only critter that you can fight with cannons atm is scalis.

 

[Tanivar]

My fisher is a mage with bandage healing and kills sea serpents & water elementals with ease.

Cast Protection on your character and then cast the fast spells Fireball & Lightning at the monsters. The Protection spell makes it less likely your spells will fizzle if the monsters spells hit you while your prepping a spell.

The debuffing spells the serpents tend to cast are weakened if you have magic resist.

Cannonfire will kill trolls & ettins on shore. I don't recall if I was firing cannonballs or grapeshot when I tried it back when High Seas was released.

 

[Mapper]

Yes cannons will damage them.

 

[mjolnir131]

stone hiding add 80 ie and then you have 20 fishing left over. Then get a book like people say it's a cake walk

 

[PlayerSkillFTW]

Or get a Vollem (Either Crystal or Golem) and train it up some. Requires no Taming, and can easily kill just about anything you come across on the ocean, besides Pirate Ships, Scalis, Leviathans and Krakens. Trained Crystal Vollems can kill Krakens with some healing, but Golem Vollems can't be healed by spells.

 

[Doubleplay]

Just step to the middle of your boat and the serpent spells will all fizzle. This is if you have the new boats. You can still hit them with your mage spells from there.

 

[Ravenleader]

Whenever I go fishing with my Mage/Fisher I simply cast "Summon Fire Elemental" and command him to "Guard Me". Anything attacks me the Elemental begins to protect causing the enemy to focus on him leaving my Mage free to cast offensive spells at will. Most of the time the Fire Elemental will simply kill the enemy by itself.

 

[Elric_Soban]

If i remember right, i think i may have done some cannon testing and i seem to remember them working against land targets.. hooray for shore bombardment! i havent done that since.. ultima.. 4?