Hippo

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Hippo
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Legends
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Wardens of the Abyss (WoA)

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  • Great treatise on ship & crew! On ATL I had my Orc ship HMS Hungry Hippo permission set to Guild for crew. Some low-life looted all my ammo, lesson learned so now change permissions after each cruise. Plus I always drydock flagships now for fear…
  • I use an Orc Slayer spellbook  and spam chain lightning on Orc crews and my archers/throwers use 100% Fire Orc Slayer glaive/magic shortbow with Hit lightning on it. If a Necro in crew, I animate the dead Orcs. Both my ATL and Legends crews have one…
  • Please add a "Privateer" title to rewards  
  • Grimbeard said: People see crew I see possible cargo That's true. Once we figure out who/what drops "pirate hats" I may exercise tough love and exterminate the smuggler crew as well!
  • I "Roleplay" that every merchantman I attack (which is every single one I see) is really a smuggler and I scuttle their vessel and "confiscate" all their illegal goods. I do have a soft spot, I seize the ingots but leave them the ore...
  • Vagabond said: Please put Spell Channeling on the Hildebrandt Shield. I haven't waited for 25 years for the shield to fall out of my hands every time I'm recalling. Thank you. For a 25 year reward, the item is quite underwhelming and usel…
  • Instead of UO Store purchases, I believe the new rewards should be from the Bucs Pirate exclusively, thus rewarding those who put in the work on the Seven Seas.  I like all the suggestions above! I'm always asking for a Jolly Roger flag for ships o…
  • I'd like to see a Jolly Roger pirate flag that can be flown from center mast. Or an enchanted ramrod or cannon that does extra damage. I have 6 pumpkin cannon from original Halloween event. I use them as bow guns on 6 different orc ships. If they of…
  • Cinderella said: no, add them to the rewards at bucs den. shoot your cannons at plunderbeacons and earn your own pumpkin cannon and accessories Yes. Make some of the rewards Bucs Pirate only or make the cargos worth extra "pirate hat" drop…
  • username said: JackFlashUk said: Best expansion/booster ever, GET IT. you are really missing out of great content! Is there a guide anywhere on boats and how to do everything related to the spring event? Battle piratesplunderbeaconsra…
  • Phreak said: I am so glad you stopped by and told me that Trismegistos.  It seems that there has been a mistake.  I applied for the Great Lakes house last week and on Monday received an email from Mesanna that I had won.  I let her know that …
  • Smoot said: JackFlashUk said: Smoot said: Welp, i dont have High Seas so i guess no spring content for me.    Best expansion/booster ever, GET IT. you are really missing out of great content! not for me.  boats are just…
  • JackFlashUk said: I am pretty sure when they first came out they were added to acct so existing house were safe and these became grandfathered I'm the original (and still current) owner of the Legends Abyss House. I had to drop my Great La…
  • Last two extended events, my Mystic Thrower got tons of drops. With LRC suit and SC & area damage glaive i was able to toss RC's and Heal curses, poison and damage with Cleansing Winds. 
  • I had to buy drops/rewards on other shards that I play, but on Atlantic I did very well. The BOTs were annoying at first, but then I realized the size an fast respawn was due to the increase of players (BOTs) at Winter Spur.  I switched from archer …
  • Optimus said: Sparks does not count as a mod or have imbue weight on Storm Lord's Steel, allowing for 6 mod, high weight imbued items. Is this intended? If you imbue it, won't that have a negative affect on Durability and PoF repairs? If …
  • I'm in the minority here, for I welcome the BOT trains. The way the spawn mechanism is setup, it increases the rate and size of spawn based on human or BOT characters running about. I'm like a hyena, I clean up the spawn that the BOTs that they eith…
  • Petra_Fyde said: I have 2 characters who do ok at the event, a swordswoman and an archer. I play each for one hour, while under the influence of the statue. This gives me around 20 - 25 drops per day between them. It's not uber, but I have ju…
  • Larisa said: Yeah I was testing the *I'm not a power gamer, don't have a lot of time to play, just want to be casual and kill small stuff and not get stressed out* kind of person. Most people testing are in the I GOTTA GET IT ALL!! Category l…
  • LilyGrace said: Would it be possible to add a feature where someone doing the lion's share of the work, getting these trees to pop, gets additional rewards? Like, X amount of bods dropped on the elf, a special reward lands in your pack. Somet…
  • Named skels, Grim pumpkins and Butchers live on ATL...
  • I only use Dread Pirates to train pets. My Orc Ships I buy on VS then transfer to other shards that I pirate on. What shard are you on? I may have some Orc Ship parts in a sea chest. My two man crew consists of a mystic thrower (orc slayer glaive w/…
  • Look forward to update:) I have a ton of bubbling cauldrons and XMas tree rewards in storage.
  • I hope there's a rare hue. I can't say it's a joy checking off-shard alt characters but it makes it worthwhile if there's a chance of a rare gift.
  • Kaz said: I would love to see a 1 time use only dye for the lore books, hues for all past and future events. So we can clearly see which lore book is from which event.  So far the deceit event was the only one with a lore book that has a uniq…
  • A one handed fan with Balakai staff mods for mages, a mempo or headpiece (Kabuki mask or Kabuto) with Balron/bone glove type mods, or a jin-baori with some small mod that is farm from game changing. 
  • I enjoyed - and appreciated - the Bunny Bash you all did on Baja at the start of the last Easter Egg event. You guys gave away thorns to everyone that showed up and we all had a great time bashing 3-4 bunnies at a time! I was able to get a "nest egg…
  • Grimbeard said: A central shopping shard would solve many issues  That makes sense! Maybe this Bazaar shard could sell gypsy wagons or booths in UO Store or sell as a gold sink on NPC vendor.
  • Pawain said: New Ship themed deco items would be nice.  Water tiles for homes would be popular. @ Kyronix I agree! There should be a new event themed Bucs Pirate reward added during the Special Spring and or Fall event scycle.