Boy do you open up a can of worms....
In my opinion, very little "instructions" came with this content.
First off, you can get boats easy, fish easy... but the cannons is the hard part. They require an ingredient called
Saltpeter. Now, there is only one NPC vendor for this and he restocks (by my calculations) about every 40 minutes. You know darn good and well there are more players needing Saltpeter, than what he is selling.
Buying cannons and ammo is easy. I put some on a vendor for 50k/100k for cannons. Why? Mainly right now for decoration. Cannons and cannon balls can be crafted, very easily. But to fire a cannon you need,
Swab
Ramrod
Match
Fuse cord
ammo (cannonball or grapeshot)
and MOST IMPORTANT you need the Powder Charge
I got 1600 Saltpeter yesterday. It took THREE HOURS to craft all of the above. You need alchemy, blacksmithy, and tailoring mainly. GM alchemy is a must. We did some testing (myself, Summerwind, Scott) and found that heavy is going to be the way to go. Light didn't do enough damage. Heavy uses roughly 30 Saltpeter per shot plus another 6 or 7 for the fuse (used on both light and heavy). So basically uou need a LOT of Saltpeter to take down an enemy ship. Right now it's too hard to buy. Plus every morning it resets to 20 for sale. Then next it sells 40, etc. until evening when it sells 999 at a time.
Some notes;
- You can say "start tracking" to find the 5 closest boats.
- We found a ton of enemy ships by Jhelom. Not sure if they move everyday or not.
- Don't throw away the fish you catch. Keep them in your bank, you will need them for quests!
- If you decide to fight another ship keep a TON of cloth and wood in your ships hold, or you'll sink
- If you don't have the ammo to fight, you may not want to place cannons. They just get in your way!
I'll post more of what I find as I think of it. I wish you all the best of luck. I;d like to try out the two new bosses soon!
I would like to find where to get a 120 fishing PS, nobody knows yet.