What weapon are you using for killing Beacon Orcs?

My mage uses an Orc slayer book.

For my archers I decided to make 2 new Bows.  

My two archers do not do specials. I am busy driving the ship while they just shoot.

I decided to make a velocity bow since velocity works with a slayer now.  And a bow that does an area hit.  Both work great, you can see the area spell hit more than 1 orc.



Anyone have a different build bow that works great?

Note: A player is selling Orc slayer bows on Atlantic, but they did not powder them before imbuing, Look at the durability before buying imbued items.

The requirements are really low 

Maybe they will bring back the Halloween Orcs that had more HP.

Faster kills means move to the next one faster.

A pair of rising colossus and meteor swarm spells whilst the orc crew are in range (3 clients- 3 screens) with a cu to distract any swimming pests 

The way I was shown is to approach the beacon from an angle until you can just reach the first orc on one side.  Kill that orc and slowly move toward the beacon one tile at a time, taking out orcs as you go.

And I was shown using a mage with Orc Slayer. 

Neither I or my ship take damage with the method someone showed me on Chessy.  Thank you! Wish I remembered who.

JackFlashUk said:

A pair of rising colossus and meteor swarm spells whilst the orc crew are in range (3 clients- 3 screens) with a cu to distract any swimming pests 

Those or EVs work.  I can imagine the orc seeing an RC pop up next to him, Oh $#!^ this is not going to end well.

Feigr said:

The way I was shown is to approach the beacon from an angle until you can just reach the first orc on one side.  Kill that orc and slowly move toward the beacon one tile at a time, taking out orcs as you go.

And I was shown using a mage with Orc Slayer. 

Neither I or my ship take damage with the method someone showed me on Chessy.  Thank you! Wish I remembered who.

I go in parallel to the beacon.

Players from Chessy made this video. 

Whatever you do that does not take damage works great.

That's it.

This is how I do it:


btw, did you know that if a bard casts tribulation on the lighthouse while shooting it with the cannon you can get extra damage?  My boat does 6500 damage from the cannon plus 3250 from Tribulation.

well I now have 7.5 million doubloons over 3 shards, there better be nice rewards!

Petra_Fyde said:

This is how I do it:


btw, did you know that if a bard casts tribulation on the lighthouse while shooting it with the cannon you can get extra damage?  My boat does 6500 damage from the cannon plus 3250 from Tribulation.

Have a bard running provo mastery then cast evil omen!

I use my chiv-AI pp WW

Grimbeard said:

Petra_Fyde said:

This is how I do it:


btw, did you know that if a bard casts tribulation on the lighthouse while shooting it with the cannon you can get extra damage?  My boat does 6500 damage from the cannon plus 3250 from Tribulation.

Have a bard running provo mastery then cast evil omen!

keven2002 said:

Grimbeard said:

Petra_Fyde said:

This is how I do it:


btw, did you know that if a bard casts tribulation on the lighthouse while shooting it with the cannon you can get extra damage?  My boat does 6500 damage from the cannon plus 3250 from Tribulation.

Have a bard running provo mastery then cast evil omen!

Just to confirm, as I start to figure out my hunting party, Evil Omen doesn't require Spirit Speak to make it stronger, right? If that's the case, I can probably fit some necro skill on my bard rather than doing some sort of brand new hybrid.

@ PlayerSkillFTW ??

If you use evil omen the next hit from anyone is the one amplified. You can't have archers doing damage or one of their hits will do more damage.

keven2002 said:

Grimbeard said:

Petra_Fyde said:

This is how I do it:


btw, did you know that if a bard casts tribulation on the lighthouse while shooting it with the cannon you can get extra damage?  My boat does 6500 damage from the cannon plus 3250 from Tribulation.

Have a bard running provo mastery then cast evil omen!

Just to confirm, as I start to figure out my hunting party, Evil Omen doesn't require Spirit Speak to make it stronger, right? If that's the case, I can probably fit some necro skill on my bard rather than doing some sort of brand new hybrid.

@ PlayerSkillFTW ??

Thank you - I'm casting on the beacons and seems that 80 SS is enough to stick long enough for me to shoot a cannon.

I summon water and earth elementals to distract the crew while I use a 27 SDI orc slayer spell book and chain lightning to kill the crew.

Chain Lightning is the best spell that I have found to cast on the crew.

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 Mystic-Spellweaver at the helm and cast either Reaper or RC on the beacon craft. IF the Beacon spawn also drops "pirate hats" I may just linger a while at beacon before final shot in order to farm the spawn...

After you sink the beacon you can pull into the middle of it and loot the orcs. The ones wearing black will have arrows. Around 60ish.  You usually get at least one of these type Orcs. Sometimes you get four.  So after a few beacons I'll still have at least 300 of my 500 arrows. Sometimes I'll have more than the original 500. Also these Orcs are on ships.

Pawain said:

After you sink the beacon you can pull into the middle of it and loot the orcs. The ones wearing black will have arrows. Around 60ish.  You usually get at least one of these type Orcs. Sometimes you get four.  So after a few beacons I'll still have at least 300 of my 500 arrows. Sometimes I'll have more than the original 500. Also these Orcs are on ships.

keven2002 said:

I tried to pull into the beacon yesterday based on your earlier post saying this was possible and I still was unable. The tillerman keeps saying we are stuck when I try to go through it.

Tokuno and Orc ships will fit through the middle of the first two sets of orc bodies to your right and left. But not pass completely through all four sets. And you can double click on the bodies from quite a distance. Are you using a Brit ship? Maybe there’re too big to fit? I’ve no idea, I’ve never piloted one. 

Yup be in the middle then pull up just a couple of spaces and you can reach them all.

If all the orc bodies are still visible and lootable when the beacon sinks you get an Accommodation: Legendary Beacon Destroyer.