Free Samples

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Mission
Free Samples
Nation:
Type:	Ship Combat
Location:	Georgetown St. Augustine Harbour Island
Career:	All
Level:	11
NPC:	Tobias Ancroft Jean-Marie Arculet Baldwin Byrd
Reward:	960 165 Experience
Requires:	Back Ordered
Information based on version 1.20.51.0

Yet another disaster has befallen your client: pirates have attacked one of his ships and dumped a few valuable crates of scientific instruments overboard! The boxes are sealed and will float for a while, but you have to retrieve them before the currents carry them off.

[edit] Mission Notes

You will have to pick up three crates floating in the ocean, of which you must pick up three. You must slow to a near stop in order to pick up a crate. Five pirate ships will be in the area guarding the crates, ranging in level from 1 to 5.

These will not be hostile to you until you pick up the first box, but then all of them will start to come after you. This gives you the opportunity to plan the most efficient route through the area (take wind direction into account as well). If you don't want to pass up on the xp and chance of loot the guards provide, one tactic could be to come up directly behind the stern of the ship next to the first box, collect that, then immediately fire a point-blank broadside into the ship's most vulnerable area (which should rip away most of his armor there). This should enable you to finish him off before his friends can arrive to help.

You don't have to kill any ships though, you can simply pick up the three boxes and make for the exit point. Picking up the third crate will make the other two vanish, and will also make the exit point appear to the south.

Mission Objectives

• Retrieve Three Crates: 0/3
• Escape