Grinmeer windmill - ship relationship

[ahsanford]

Hey, I did the Grinmeer Windmill clearout and see a note on a body about staying away from the Magnificent.

I go to the Magnificent and it's just two people -- no plot advances, no ability to bring up the note I found, etc.

Is there some additional pre-requisite to trigger the ship's portion of the purple / big county questline?

I am 56/100 done with the main questline. I've done everything I think I can for the purple chain of quests except for the arenas and the rouste field. I've cleared out almost the entire ruin but the L10 pack at the end I am not strong enough for yet, so I'm leaving that for later.

Surely I missed something ya?

- A

[Dorim]

Clear the bandit lair, you're missing a piece of information to know what to do at the ship

You'll need to beat the arenas too to finish the regional story

[ahsanford]

The bandit lair is L10 at 2 skulls, and the roving bandit skull pack I need to kill to thin out the lair is L10 x 18 dudes. That's ridiculous for my L7 party. We'd need a spectacularly fortunate starting map setup to even dream of winning that.

- A

[Olleus]

Originally posted by ahsanford:

The bandit lair is L10 at 2 skulls, and the roving bandit skull pack I need to kill to thin out the lair is L10 x 18 dudes. That's ridiculous for my L7 party. We'd need a spectacularly fortunate starting map setup to even dream of winning that.

- A

You need more guys, sooner rather than later. In Dombach 18 is pretty much the average enemy party size, and I've seen as many as 32 (in multiple waves). And, with xp scaling in it's current broken state, they're going to be at level 12 or 14 when you're struggling to hit 9 or 10. So, yeah, you can't stay tiny for ever on region locked. Less than 10 for Grinmeer and Dombach is going to be very tricky indeed.

[ahsanford]

Originally posted by Olleus:

You need more guys, sooner rather than later. In Dombach 18 is pretty much the average enemy party size, and I've seen as many as 32 (in multiple waves). And, with xp scaling in it's current broken state, they're going to be at level 12 or 14 when you're struggling to hit 9 or 10. So, yeah, you can't stay tiny for ever on region locked. Less than 10 for Grinmeer and Dombach is going to be very tricky indeed.

My party is 12 dudes (1 L8, 10 L7 and 1 L6) and I'm holding my own in Grinmeer. L8 equal size packs are easy, L9 equal sized I win comfortably, but L10 just crush me. I sailed through the tomb until the last fight, but even well food buffed and a great consolidated starting position with 4-shot barrage covering I got rolled quickly and had to reload.

- A