Elizabeth Shaw Quest

[Sarg]

I am looking for practical advice on how to complete the last part of the Elizabeth Shaw quest, namely when you are ambushed in Cayman Islands after Returning Elizabeth to her father the Governor. You get jumped by at least 10 angry mobs who will immediately encircle you and kill you. How the hell as one character are you meant to do overcome that massive disadvantage?

 

[Grey Roger]

Don't be one character. Hire some officers. Make sure you, and they, all have good melee skill, abilities, weapons and armour. This is not a quest for a low level character!

The enemy can't climb over fences, so when you leave the townhall, try staying just inside the gate. That should prevent them from encircling you and limit how many can attack you at once.

Beyond that, practice fighting in dungeons such as the ones in Port Royale and Speightstown, or the one in a cave somewhere between Bridgetown and Speightstown. Don't try to take on Davy Jones if you can't even fight your way through one of those places!

 

[Sarg]

Honestly, that would/should be something the game accounts for? You can take the quest on at level 6 and if you dont have officers then they should account for that handicap. Its just poor game design imho

 

[Grey Roger]

Why should the game account for poor player choices?

As an experiment, I started a FreePlay as a merchant character. FreePlay starts at level 5, and being a merchant, I rose to level 6 by doing cargo deliveries, which raised my Sailing and Commerce skills but didn't do much for Melee, Cannons or Accuracy. (A pirate or privateer pursuing a more violent career could expect to do better in all three.)

You might start "Elizabeth Shaw's Disappearance" at level 6 but you don't have to finish it at level 6. You have a lot of sailing to do before the finale at Cayman. So, by doing more cargo deliveries, I ended up at level 8, and my Melee had improved to 2 due to defending myself against random thugs. The money I'd raised by cargo missions allowed me to buy some skill-enhancing items. And so, by the time I reached Cayman, this was my status:


As you see, even with item help, I didn't have much Melee skill. I didn't even have a particularly good sword. What I did have, as I said in my earlier post, was the townhall fence. So, although I had to fight 2-3 enemies at once, I wasn't surrounded, and this was the result:


Incidentally, during the quest, you visit Octave Fabre in Guadeloupe Naval Academy, who warns you that Davy Jones is dangerous. There's no time limit on this quest so you can prepare yourself for the final fight. Failure of a player to plan ahead does not constitute poor game design.