Emaxganis

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Friend said his times went from avg 9 hours to avg 7 hours on bowl with the rudder upgrade, I'm definitely going for it first. This could help on weekends but if you are in full time education/job then the 2 hours might not allow you to make a 2nd voyage. Does a palmist's "good fortune" make your voyage more likely to be successful? afaik all a palmist's does is to increase the chance of getting a random from a voyage

Friend said his times went from avg 9 hours to avg 7 hours on bowl with the rudder upgrade, I'm definitely going for it first. Putting a Bureaucrat/Judge of dice on your boat does that as well. This I think its much more important to get all crew before thinking of getting anything else, if you happen to unlock judge of dice on the way get it aswell only then one should think in upgrading ship/hoarding for 4th ship else when you get further deep in the region high reqs are going to kick ur ass :P

At least for the bowl , lvl 6-7 crew from that area gives +300-400 each so it ends up making a big diffence, a lot more than any ship upgrade you can get

You are missing something here which is once you send a mission you get a fresh one aswell, so it doesnt really matter if you get 2 in with high single stat req since you will always have crew lying around :P unlucky would be to get all 3 missions with single req and no leftover crew to hit at least 70% I am sending all my jade voyages at 85%+ bought one ship upgrade to get better times when i cannot put an overseer . 6k cherrywood and 3k jade saved.. almost there!

If I am at home by that time i'll join! :thumbup:

Its automatically added to the skill associated with the adventurer who supplied it. Automatic to the skill. Not sure if this is correct or not but i did one for the Whaler at 10K and i think when the chance for another XP tome from that Whaler it was 15K. So as you do the XP tomes they scale up??? Or are they just random like some are 10k and some are 15K maybe some 20k but just random??? Anyone know? I havent done any XP tomes and I've seen different values of XP in different regions, so i'd assume the higher the region the better xp they give, same thing happens with trade goods

That is unlucky... I have seen and recruited 3 10k captains now - one I got from captain reroll when I had 12k chimes hehe. I won't complain about not getting (still not) any sea witches to recruit because I'd rather have 3 10k captains and no sea witch than the other way around. Good luck getting those 10k captains! Shortly after this post a voyage returned with a random, which gave me a captain reroll.. and guess what captain I got :D ? hahaYou will see me crying in the forums a lot from now onwards Nice. Hope you got one with good traits? I cant access now, but if I remember correctly it was improved seafaring and +1% to ship's Morale , so cant complain :P

That is unlucky... I have seen and recruited 3 10k captains now - one I got from captain reroll when I had 12k chimes hehe. I won't complain about not getting (still not) any sea witches to recruit because I'd rather have 3 10k captains and no sea witch than the other way around. Good luck getting those 10k captains! Shortly after this post a voyage returned with a random, which gave me a captain reroll.. and guess what captain I got :D ? hahaYou will see me crying in the forums a lot from now onwards

I've seen a 10k captain only once! And getting max 1 random a day.. where is my luck :(?

i dont, unfair :P !

I'm at 16% and gaining 5-10% a day or so. There's still people 5-10% ahead of me, so let's not be too cautious and assume 8-12 more days? I thought people were far more into the Bowl by now not sure why. I arrived late to it and im at 8%

Enjoy it while it lasts, once you hit the bowl you will never do all your voyages for the highest region ever again :P

Or like Mu with gems :P

I think it will be profitable for a while..

I havent noticed this, but it might be because I never play with less than 170ms ping :P

Is this not basically a less controlled version of the level my x idea they mentioned they wanted to develop, whereby your gear levels up through use and can gain different boosts and effects through choices in the levelling. Eg your sword would level and give you a choice of say extra crit boost, an enchantment slot or a str boost. Well , yes.It would be a lot more simple though, just random bonuses might be present in equipment when the monster drops it, just that. Enchantment slot would be nice too :D

It would be nice to have "random" bonuses added to armors from PvM. Take Bandos Chestplate for example, you have the regular version but once in a while you could get one with e.g. a small crit bonus, str defence or lp.

Succeded 2 more story voyages in the bowl, 4/5 now (missing 90 slay ;() I guess ill have the crew completed by tomorrow to start stockpiling for 4th ship

I got it now :P

I don't use golems for their special ability, but I've found the Chimeras' combat/morale stat combo to be pretty useful from time to time, and Jade Golems are a stat upgrade from Chimeras. Both the Sea Witch and Jade Golem have 1050 base stat points compared to the 1000 of standard Bowl crew members. Yeah I wasn't thinking specials either but now that I look at the chart I could see the use for them in this region. Prior regions always had the specialized class with better stats than the golem going into it so it seemed irrelevant but this time since the witch has morale and seafaring instead of morale and combat there could be a use for them here. Sea Witch lvl 6 has 1200 seafaring+570 morale, unless there's another one in jade region? I havent seen one yet

I believe crew and then ship is the most suitable (Especially if you have all the upgrades already and dont really need going back), seeing you need 10k to get the 4th ship and it would take like 5-6(¿?) days to obtain all that jade (120-180 each regular voyage..maybe a 600 one special?), whereas getting better crew will help increase the % of success by a nice number using only 3.6k jade (counting 6 basic crewman for each stat at 200 jade each). Base stat crew is 1k, level 3 jade crew has the same stats as lvl 7 scythe crew which is quite a bit of difference. Thanks for the advice! It's unlikely I'll be able to resist spending some jade before going for the 10k anyway. Base stat crew being 1k is a bit disappointing though, even if it rises quickly. I have several Scythe guys with over 1.3k by now. On another note, has anyone noticed how female crew only exists in the lower ranks, good fortune wenches aside? There's a glass ceiling in the RS ship industry, you guys. The Sea Witch is female, as is one of the base crew members in Bowl :). Regarding crew vs. 4th ship, I think it would be a dangerous risk to go after the 4th ship before crew. When you first start Bowl, you're losing 200-300 stat points each to replace your level 7 Scythe crew members with level 0 Bowl crew. This is a tricky loss to manage, but it's worth it since you're looking at 400+ extra stat points each once the new guys reach level 7. Also, the new crew members reach level 3-4 after only 1-2 missions in Bowl, putting them at par. However if you wait until after 10k+ Jade into the Bowl before starting to make the replacements, then you'll be dropping your stats by significant amounts right as you're leaving behind the easy entry missions and moving on to the tougher missions found in each region. With missions now lasting 7-9 hours, sending missions out at 60% and failing is a much more significant setback than before. You could easily find yourself stuck for several days with little advancement. I plan to get most crew members, the rudder, and maybe the Hull of Glory before the 4th ship. I'm iffy on the hull, but it would offer +750 morale compared to the last morale hull available. By the way, how does everyone plan to set up their crew? Up until now, I've been using only 5 each for the main core stat guys, but with a 4th ship on the way I figure I'll need 6 each for the flexibility. My currently planned lineup is: 3 Judge of Dice 2 Jade Merchants 1 Jade Golem 1 Sea Witch 6 each of Farcrier / Bounty Hunter / Sea Dog Edit: I think that the 25% cap on voyage time reduction must have been a last-minute change to ports, and not something planned from the beginning. Bowl voyages reach minimum time at 2300 speed, and the speed crew member for Bowl gives +2500 speed. What would be the point of designing such a crew member unless it was originally possible to cut voyages times down further? Weighing the tradeoffs of using speed crew members would be far more interesting without the cap. That setup sounds about right and the same I am aiming for, except as someone else mentioned maybe the golem can be dropped. I doubt merchants are of high use whilst building up crew/ship upgrades.. after that they might come in handy

Get a 3rd ship asap :), also i'd try to complete all the crew from scythe and get rid of the older one

I believe crew and then ship is the most suitable (Especially if you have all the upgrades already and dont really need going back), seeing you need 10k to get the 4th ship and it would take like 5-6(¿?) days to obtain all that jade (120-180 each regular voyage..maybe a 600 one special?), whereas getting better crew will help increase the % of success by a nice number using only 3.6k jade (counting 6 basic crewman for each stat at 200 jade each). Base stat crew is 1k, level 3 jade crew has the same stats as lvl 7 scythe crew which is quite a bit of difference.

the scrolls or the actual armor?! if then armor then how? ~~~legoman187~~~ The scroll mate... Sorry I know everyone is dying to see pictures of it. Edit: Just successfully completed a 600 jade special voyage. 1500/10000 jade down. Working on 3k bamboo and 3k slate to finish up my lodging upgrades. You've already acquired all the crew? Im at 7/18 crewpeople from the bowl, then jade farming begins . Had 2 story missions today.. i really need to get 90 slay :P No I haven't yet but the crew is pretty efficient at the moment. I figured I'd get four ships first. What %s are you getting? Those 10.5k voyages are always a 100% but higher ones go in the 80%s I need to get more overseers until I unlock judge of dice :/ , speed bonus are really worth it