So last night I decided to finish my last mercenary voyage and it happened to be the one that takes you to the Devils Roar. Well I had no friends online so I decided to do it solo. I have solo'd this area many of times and I knew what to expect, but whatever they did in rebalancing this area has not been favorable for solo players.
I supply my ship before entering the Devil's Roar and I most certainly made sure I had more than enough planks.
Soon I enter this area and head to my first location, Fetcher's Rest. Which I had a riddle. With some difficulty, I could not find the second part of the riddle and the island started to quake. So I ran back to my ship and with luck on my side, I notice a sloop approaching. So I quickly depart and go to the second island that I needed, which happened to be Molten Sands.
I do the voyage on Molten Sands with ease and at this point I decided to go back to Fetcher's Rest and complete the riddle. I was successful in completing the riddle and I load the loot onto my ship. Once I depart, this is where the Devils Roar decides that it hates solo players.
Shortly after leaving Fetcher's Rest a skelly ship spawns on me. I figure no problem, there are some rocks close by I will just run the skelly ships into the rocks. Well, things just escalated from there. Next thing I know the meg spawns on me and soon attacks me and if that is not enough, Fetcher's Rest decides to erupt. Needless to say I sank pretty quickly and lost all of the loot. Then to add insult to injury, that sloop I described before, decided to comeback and get all the loot. Well it didn't workout well for them either, as meg decided to attack them and they were getting hit by flying rocks, so they left the loot.
I then take my mermaid to get my ship back....
Well things just get better from here... not! I spawn on a small island in Devil's Roar with an active volcano right next to it. As I am loading in I here a volcano going off and my ship being pummeled by flying volcanic rocks. So I just stand there and watch the destruction, not worth the effort. Once again I swim to my mermaid....
Now I spawn on Paradise Spring and very frustrated at this point. I stock my ship and start heading towards the Devil's Roar. Once I enter the Roar, I see that same sloop from before fighting and being chased by a players galleon with the Reaper's Mark. With that said, I steer wide of them and go on my merry way...
I was able to complete the mercenary voyage, but what an adventure and what an annoyance.
This was a reminder to me that the Devil's Roar is not the area for the weak and perhaps not for the solo player.