NEW Pirate101 Producer's Letter!! 7th Birthday & MORE!

[@WizardToby]

Oh gosh. Looks like the audio cut out at around 10 minutes. You didn't miss much. Just me concluding the video.

[@WizardToby]

@C Gilly Man It is now that they confirmed no more main story updates

[@monument-cafe]

Ah, this month’s Producer’s Letter. _Black Annie Rackham and Vernimius Blightbeard_ Honestly, I’m pretty interested to see what they’ll do for these two boss fights. I hope they consider the abilities that Bonnie Anne and Ratbeard can get during their journey with the Pirate. Perhaps some upgraded form of Scatterblast (reducing Accuracy and Dodge, perhaps?) with Second Wind (50%) for Bonnie Anne? Maybe Ratbeard could have Hold the Line 5, Leviathan’s Call, and a special version of Clear the Decks that affects all enemy units up to 2 squares away? I’m not really liking that you have to buy them in the Crown Shop, but if they’re at the price that other badge-unlocked Crown Shop Companions are at (4495 Crowns), then I might consider getting both of them just to see what they’re like to have as companions, assuming they get special abilities that our beloved Bonnie Anne and Ratbeard wouldn’t already have. _First Time User Experience_ The enemy health curve got lowered for levels 1-40? Not sure how I feel about that, to be honest. I thought levels 1 - 40 were pretty easy, so I hope those enemies’ health isn’t lowered too much. Also, Nautical XP required is now 60 Nautical XP per level instead of 120 Nautical XP for level sounds pretty neat. Although I enjoyed grinding those levels, not everyone feels like grinding for them. (Now I can have an easier time getting my level 14 Witchdoctor to max Nautical level, heh.) Then again, _Companion tasks._ I wonder if they changed the Nautical XP cap per level earned as a result? Also, enemy health / damage being lowered? _Will the full Dreadnaught solo be finally possible now?_ (lol) At least farming Miranda won’t be as bad now, although that place is still going to take 10 minutes to speedrun >_> _Crown Shop Elixirs_ Not going to lie, these new Elixirs seem kind of aight, to be honest. I definitely don’t plan on getting them, but they might be fun to pull out every once in a while just for silliness. _Other Updates_ A simultaneous CCG (collectible card game) launch in both MMOs? Hmm....wait, what? Skipping Test Realm is bittersweet to me, as there may be bugs that come with this update, specifically with the new Obsidian Bosses. (Perhaps the Obsidian Skeleton Keys sewers will be expanded for this?) They came clean about the story updates, which many expected to be no story updates in the future.

[@WizardToby]

1) I’m hoping these new alternate universe Ratbeard/Bonnie have different powers and epics as the companions. That would make these new guys pretty original. 2) I also thought up to level 40 wasn’t too hard. But oh well it’ll be even easier now :) 3) I do really like the half nautical xp thing. My very first characters were in the odd position of being level 65 but only nautical level 39 (YIKES) so hopefully with this new update that will not be possible. And, yes, those original characters had to farm NXP for hours to get up to NL 65. 4) Like in wiz, I have zero interest in these elixirs. 5) The obsidian bosses are a borrowed idea from wiz and not very original. The whole idea of evil Old Scratch opening the shadow doors to the dream world is a nice touch of lore though. SUPER sad about the no more books thing though :/ Thanks for your long comment! I appreciate the support

[@monument-cafe]

WizardToby Yeah, originality would make the Obsidian versions of Bonnie Anne and Ratbeard more interesting. Halved nautical XP makes XP farming much better, but the drop rates haven’t been changed ;; Oh, and I doubt most people would probably spend much money on the Elixirs, aside from the XP-based ones.

[@WizardToby]

I think for the drop rates they meant for defeat & collect quests. At least that’s how I interpreted what the producers letter said.

[@monument-cafe]

WizardToby Yeah, it seems that’s what they meant when they mentioned it.

[@NinjaMatt55]

All these birthday updates and ratbeard and Bonnie anne is cool and good but kingsisle should really understand what we need in p101 isnt obvious by now Tbh alot of us dont care about obsidian key bosses its basically like the w101 key bosses the only new thing in this update that isnt a copy from w101 is ship do you agree?

[@WizardToby]

The only thing copied from Wizard101 is the concept of skeleton key bosses. The rest of the update stuff seems kind of original to Pirate101. However, the update does not do any justice. We still want new main story content xD

[@NinjaMatt55]

@@WizardToby yeah sorry thats what I mean but I do like pirate101's battle mechanic better

[@WizardToby]

@@NinjaMatt55 Definitely. There's more combat variety with a chessboard style instead of a spellcasting circle.

[@ravenhaven2746]

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