I don't get it.
Park your ship out of range of the volcano.
Take two hours to row ashore. (OK, exaggerating, but you get the point.)
Either die w/ the next eruption, or die from skellies before you have a chance to complete the quest.
Now here we are, spawned back on board, miles from the island w/ no row boat.
I don't get it.
Must be doing it wrong.
Honestly we got away with not using the rowboat even with a crew. I'm still not sure why people say don't use a sloop. Yes it was harder, but even with sinking once from a volcano I was still able to do GH and OoS without that much trouble (easy enough with OoS if you just keep moving and lure them into the geysers). As long as you move quick its not that ridiculous. Just stock up on banana's ahead of time.
@muzackmann Love using geysers to kill goldies! Love it! Working as intended in that regard darn straight!
I dunno, yea you lose you rowboat if you die ashore but a quick sword thrust back isn't that huge a deal. Die less, maybe? I dunno. What I do find annoying is the issue of a volcano erupting and the rowboats being a real pain to steer in the bouncing waves, they should be our tool to escape the boom, not a weakness!
By the way, I actually feel the sword thrust should be fixed (as it was a chosen bug to allow to remain in the first place) now that we have rowboats! But that's not really on topic.
I do feel the eruptions are a bit common on each island. I want to see the places blow, alot! But I don't appreciate the same islands blowing their tops constantly one event right after the other! At least perhaps longer smoke cloud duration before each eruption would be cool!
It's really tough for me to ask for reduction in the 'difficulty' of the region... i *want it to remain a tough place to sail in!
@blooddoll22 I think pretty much everyone is agreeing the eruptions are far too much so hopefully we'll see them address this soon. I don't mind the difficulty but when every volcano in the same relative area is going off I'd rather not just hang out every 5 minutes till one of them clears up so i can sail toit.
@muzackmann yea, quite the time sink. I haven't even bothered with an Athena's in the area yet... still helping ppl get their 10 voyages.
@blooddoll22 Only tried the one athena run there but it seemed as quick if not a little quicker due to the islands only being in one smaller area. Plus not having merchants makes it a bit easier as nothing else to manage other than chests/skulls. More often than not so far I haven't had to wait any significant amount of time, so my complaints are minimal.
