Dark Sea expedition ends in laughable failure

So I went on my first co-op Dark Sea expedition today with a single friend. I’m the only one with a brig, so we took my ship, and went to Insanity 1. We got a good handful of loot, had a good amount of fun, but then, when we were on our way back to the boat on one of the islands, a tornado spawned ON THE BOAT.

We could not go back to the boat. However. I had been off the boat for a while. So I started getting Water Poisoning. There was nothing to hide under for a mile. So I died. Needed to be revived. Okay. Not bad. Time to head back to the Bronze Sea.

However, on the way back, we saw an island we hadn’t explored. So we went to explore it. Bad idea. Atlantean spots me while I’m climbing, and within one actual genuine second, my health drops to 0. The brig despawns, all our loot is gone, and it’s over. A one hour Dark Sea expedition, with nothing to show for it :sob:

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maybe the real treasure is the adventure you got with your friend along the way

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Well, a solo expedition has made up for the losses. There were several VERY close calls though

Why you glass canon

this why i always go solo
losing half the loot for some nerd who prob isn’t getting ten chests an hour not for me

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This is why I almost never leave range 1/insanity 0.

Water poisoning is the single stupidest mechanic in the game.

Imo the worst thing is invisiblity not working anymore it has literally made insanity 2 impossible :< i miss going to insanity 2

Tho i agree water poisoning is ass unless you get that glitch where there’s no rain

how do you get instakilled in range i1 by atlanteans

This reminds me of my last expedition.
Had like 10 chests and went to loot a siren rock. While i was fighting them one by one an atlantean ship that i thought i lost attacked my ship. I tried to take command and run but right before reaching the wheel a wave took me far away while a siren was still agro on me AND got water poisoning all at the same time.when i reached the boat i had double digits of health and died right on top of the bath.
10/10 game.

from what i understand atlanteans/atlantean ships don’t lose agro until you kill them or they despawn and they don’t despawn quickly :sob: so even if you lose an Atlantean ship it WILL find you

My build isnt even close to finished, I only just recently hit max level

That being said I’m focusing attack speed, power, and agility, so even once my build is finished I probably wont have that much defense

In terms of raw loot gain, yeah its better to go solo. But its WAY more fun going with friends imo, and when it comes to stuff like this Im looking to have fun

God, yeah, it is completely and utterly pointless and only serves to make the Dark Sea more annoying. If that wasnt in the game then I’d always go to Insanity 1 or higher

…Chat what do we mean by invisibility not working. What did we mean by that. What does invisibility not do anymore. :fearful:

Idk, I mean I dont have very much HP (as you can see in the screenshot) but the dude was also spamming attacks, I think I got hit by three attacks in the span of one second

so to answer your question vetex nerfed invisibility idk when (cuz i only got back into ao in february after quitting for 6 months) but basically before you could chug an invis pot and atlateans wouldn’t see you and sirens too but now it doesn’t work on atlateans or sirens anymore so if you basically drank invis and walked up to an atlantean they’d aggro

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Man what the hell is the point in Invisibility then?? Thats literally the only thing I ever used it for :sob:

i use it to avoid the op lvl 260 criminals in the nimbus sea when i do charts lol

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NPC’s
Uhh i guess surprise attacks working better?
Drinking one during castrum raid so you don’t get ganked but your friends do

It’ll lower the accuracy of enemies on full release, but now it only works on non dark sea npcs.

the only potions you should chug during a castrum raid are revealing tbh cuz it’s broken and the dumbass npcs get stuck idk how castrum is still so broken tbh

It works on them too? That’s so funny.