Wow its been years since i play this as a witch doctor feels weird being in 2024

Pretty unique quest, I quite like it - the first battle in particular is fun, having to defeat the boss to free the ally. Though as seen here, the 2nd battle doesn't work properly because you'll often kill the enemies too fast. I'd have made it survive 5 turns, and had a Troll or Ettin spawn each turn until Arges is free; for good measure, defeating all enemies before the 5 turns is up wouldn't end the battle, since the other quest goal isn't satisfied.

8:32 Okay so that Dog Thug's wooden bat was made of Valencian Steel, while your steel sword is made of sticks.

Is pirate101 or world of warcraft better

Yuji calls the place a maze, but it’s not really that complicated of a layout. Not to mention they’re keeping the Yakooza in the most obvious spot.

Ratbeard acting like the little devil on the Pirate’s shoulder.

Thank you for this!

If only you'd had Peter Quint to face The Mighty Quint - could have a battle of who's the better reference.

Not worth doing, but the interact glitch will make you talk to Ramirez every time you leave La Mancha, so I’d just do it. You’ll be sailing back to Bonobo’s then all the way across to the City Drains anyways, might as well make the trip more interesting.

You could say Kan Po’s too humble, but he was getting his ass kicked - you pretty much did everything lol.

Quest wise, it perfectly ties into The Chains that Bind. You'll go to Delphos, Nova Aquila, Achaea and Knossos in that order, so just do it alongside then. Reward wise, it's strange they don't even give you a trial, like a 1 day version, or a permanent but normal/average speed version. In Wizard, you can buy a few permanent ones, like the Blue Dragon - but sadly excluding various giveaways/events, your only chance of a free permanent mount (that's actually a speed boost) in Pirate is PVP rewards or farming endgame bosses like Kane or Bran the Raven Lord. The mount is only worth 500 gold, not sure the Vultures would be satisfied with that.

Deliveries like that first line are what make some of these sidequests stick out in my mind.

Every time we hear Hades he sounds totally different to the last.

For the record, pets don’t do anything for this fight. While they could join in the old fight, I’ve not seen one instance of the pet joining the updated fight, so they might’ve added an exception in the code for this battle specifically. And while Stupendor-X appears to get epic grants (since it’s technically the pirate), they don’t do anything. I’ve seen the fight with a Vengeance grant, Repel grant and Relentless grant, none of them triggered. You could _maybe_ buff the ones it already has, like turning Riposte 1 into Riposte 2, but I wouldn’t count on it. Also, if you chat during the fight, your player icon is replaced by Stupendor-X as well. Don’t think anyone can see it because it’s a solo instance, but it’s still funny.

I was dying on the inside to this day when he revealed the piece of the map he was talking about was the very first one we got. All the trouble he made me go through just to get him his Pickled Herring.

Bird with No Name has Galewind. Reduce the Movement by -1 for 3 turns.

Apparently they recently changed his title to be "Kurgha Guard" instead of "Kurgha Captain", though he still promotes to a "Kurgha Major". I think it might've been done to match the new Kurgha titles in Sinbad P3, but it's a strange change to make - it's not like Bagha Khan's titles ever matched the enemies.

How do you get it to summon multiple barricades?

Place.

I'd vote for Subodai to be the new Great Khan. He'd turn the Amber Horde into a force for good. But I'm glad he chose to stay with his captain.

Right, something really weird about this place. There are these stationary Tengu along the path, and if you pick a fight with them, no other enemies join - it'll just be one little Tengu vs your whole team. This Tengu still counts for both the collect quests, so you can just beat them up in 1-2 turns until you get everything if you wanna cheese it. There are other stationary enemies like Geese or Helephants, but those trigger a normal battle, only the Tengu are broken for whatever reason.

15:20 Subodai vs Subodai!

Well, it's only natural there's less since Wizard has way, _way_ more worlds than pirate. That said, some of Zeke's quests feel lacking - part of that being worlds like Valencia or Marleybone not having that many locations to place objects. I like the Funky Bunch, Seagulls, Shonen Knives, Rolling Stones and Eagles, though the Knives were a little annoying due to being flat on the ground; Gypsy Kings and Dixie Chicks I think should've had more hidden around. Something like: Gypsy Kings: Summer Palace, Monquista City Drains, Cavern of the Crescent Moon Dixie Chicks: Infested Tunnel, Watering Hole, Arroyo Grande (both West and East) - Interesting note, this world doesn't have any in the basic zones like Cooper's Roost or Santo Pollo, unlike every other Zeke quest. Also, even though neither are new worlds, there could've been ones for Port Regal and Calabria Skyway. Wouldn't be very long ones, but I could see at least a few locations in each skyway to warrant one.

Thank you for showing how to get to each!

Cabin.

Monkey King: "Home again, eh? Oh well. Two steps forward, three stormgates back." Also Monkey King: "Let's make a _quick_ trip back to Mooshu."

A pretty fun quest, but quite long for not much reward. This is the first instance of a side quest not being for extra rewards or tutorial, but for extra story…and I guess Fin Dorsal if you really want him. What’s kind of strange is that you need to complete “Quid Pro Quo” in order to start it, obtaining your Presidio companion - except they don’t talk in the story when there’s clearly space for them to, which makes me think it was supposed to be done _before_ getting them. Might’ve been to do with the various shifting of paywalls back in the day; then again, Bonnie doesn’t talk either, so maybe I’m reading too much into this.

She’s lived quite a few lives this one, all for the sake of Subodai - that’s loyalty right there.

Good riddance, honestly she had it coming

so overpowered dang aztecosaurs...

The Dog Pirates have to be the most varied enemy type in the game. They always get Blade Storm, but I’ve seen their other epic be Vengeance Strike, Cheap Shot, Hold the Line, and apparently Second Chance too - if you count bosses, Relentless, First Strike and Riposte all also appear. That’s not even factoring in all the ones with a title other than ‘Dog Pirate’, like the Shepherds or Privateers.

Barnabus’ second language being Trog is one of my favourite irrelevant details in this game.

Sex.

This the guy drop the sting?

I didn't know that the Musketeer boss in Skull Island has Refresh. You forgot Typhon's Whale's Might.

when i got there the first boss was not there at all

Here's something fun to try out while setting up Pt2 for this. Rooke's Rookochet epic is considered a ranged attack, so if he reflects onto a unit with Quick Draw or True Grit, that unit will shoot Rooke (Return Fire can't trigger because Rookochet is a guaranteed hit). I've done some tests with this because it becomes _really_ buggy in those situations. Here's what I've noticed: 1. For some reason, True Grit deals damage to Rooke and won't be reflected, completing bypassing Rookochet. 2. Similarly, if the Musketeer unit is hidden, its attack will bypass Rookochet, dealing damage and not getting reflected. 3. True Grit's stun will prevent Rookochet's reflect from going off, but Rooke will still be immune to subsequent ranged attacks. 4. If Rooke is low health and the attack would've killed if not for Rookochet, his death animation will trigger, but he won't actually die and will be invisible for the remainder of the battle. 5. Double Tap doesn't trigger if the attack was nullified by Rookochet, such as using an Epic Strike on Rooke. 6. Sometimes the reflect just doesn't trigger? It doesn't have a limit for how many times it can trigger, so I have no clue why. Steely Resolve works in similar ways; it's a ranged attack and gets blocked by stun - unlike Rookochet it can miss so Return Fire is able to trigger off it. Swift Retribution might be a ranged attack but I'm not sure, you'd want to test with a Musketeer pirate casting Ghostwail or something.

It's pretty cool that the standard sticks around after finishing the quest. You don't usually get changes in the world like that, at least not from what I remember. This one's definitely one of the more noticeable ones on that front, and for a sidequest no less!

Here it is; I respect the effort to show all the quest goals, even though that required multiple cuts. I found it interesting that you fight the Batu and Guyuk Barbarians outside the hall - normally these quests would have you go into the hall for a promotion specific battle. On that note, despite all the battles of this questline, only Hunan actually forces the use of Subodai, even though all these things are tasks specifically for him. I personally replicated the effect by swapping to Firstmate only during promotion quests, just so said companion always featured.