Siren's Reef Fractal
The island is the final resting place of the dread pirate queen Captain Arabella Crowe
It is time to go treasure hunting for some dead pirate loot! This Fractal takes you to the beaches, but it wont be a nice relaxing day in the sun. You have to deal with Pirate Ghosts, a hidden maze, and of course... Pocket Raptors
Shipwrecked Beach
When you wash up on the beach of this Fractal you will be greeted with a few mods of enemies, groups of Veteran Bristlebacks, Veteran Bonebreaker, a pair of Veteran Smokescales further in on the right, and a small group of the infamous Pocket Raptors.
After defeating all of these groups a Champion Stonehead will come to attack you, he will do some charges at you, and you can direct him towards walls or trees to cause a stun animation. Once he is down to 25% the Champion Stonehead will run away and get killed by mines. Follow in that direction and you will find a Cannon - use this cannon to blow of the rest of the mines and open your way to the next area.
Kill the adds in the next room by grouping them together and DPSing them quickly. After you progress and go down to the arena below Blasting Black Peter will spawn
Blasting Black Peter
During your fight with Blasting Black Peter a ton of ghost pirates and mines will spawn all around the arena. The mines will do big damage and can cause one person to go down very quickly. Generally you will want to leave one person up above to man the cannon which can do a lot of damage very quickly and help to eliminate the large amount of adds with its AoE skill. You must have atleast one person down below on the arena or a debuff called Cinder Cyclone will start to damage the whole team.
If you are fighting down below try to make sure no adds go up to the cannon so they do not have to get off at all and can end the fight quicker. A gate will open when Peter dies, allowing you to move forward into yet another group of Pocket Raptors!
Pirate Treasure Maze
To complete this puzzle players will need to get three bags of treasure to the chest at the south side of the room. Picking up bag, or catching a bag thrown by yourself or another player will apply a Curse to you. The curse has three levels of progression, eventually slowing movement speed down to nothing.
Curse of Frailty
Inflicts vulnerability, slow, and agony. Worsens when treasure is handled, and intensifies the longer it's held. Effects remain for 20 seconds after the treasure is surrendered
Curse of Enmity
Inflicts vulnerability, slow, and agony. Worsens when treasure is handled, and intensifies the longer it's held. Effects remain for 20 seconds after the treasure is surrendered. Replace Curse of Frailty
Curse of Mortality
Inflicts vulnerability, slow, and agony. Worsens when treasure is handled, and intensifies the longer it's held. Effects remain for 20 seconds after the treasure is surrendered. Replace Curse of Enmity
Throughout the room will be moving AoE markers that if touched by a player will spawn pirate ghosts to attack. If you throw a Cursed Treasure and one of these AoE's touches it, it will reset its position. You are able to teleport through these though and not trigger them. If you do end up spawning them it is best to eliminate them as they will make it very difficult to move the treasures around the maze.
You are able to throw the Cursed Treasure to teammates, and if they get caught by another player it will give them Lighten Curse so its best to not let them land on the ground. Once all three are placed in eliminate any remaining adds and take the chest to the boat.
Achievement - Curse Catcher
5 AP
In the Siren's Reef fractal, catch 8 bags of cursed treasure while navigating the maze
Achievement - Spirit Evader
5 AP
In the Siren's Reef fractal on tier 4, move stealthily through the maze to avoid alerting the spectral orbs
The Kraken's Pride
After leaving the maze with your treasure chest, you will need to bring it up to the boat and place it on the marked area, to do this it is easier to work as a group and continually throw and catch the chest - make sure to not throw it into the deep water as this will reset it - once it is on the boat you will have two cannon spawn on one side, and another chest will be over on the beach of that side. Have two people man the cannons to provide cover fire for the ones collecting the chest! Veteran Ghost Swindlers will chase down those holding the chest and return it to where it started.
After returning the chest to the boat and placing it in the same spot as before the first boss will spawn, Mad Jack Squall
Achievement - Savage Cannoneer
10 AP
Send ghosts back to their graves with the shadow cannons
To complete this achievement fully you will need to get a total of 368 kills using the Shadow Cannon
Mad Jack Squall
The first boss here, Mad Jack Squall, is fairly easy to take down, just watch for his ice attacks that will Daze you.
At 50% there will start to be boat wide AoE's that blow you off the edge, if you get hit by this and it takes you off the edge you will get Fetid Fog applied to you, which causes Torment and Confusion, and if you land in the water you will get attacked by Piranhas of the Deep - quickly get back onto the boat or you will most likely die. During the fight Ghost Pirates will spawn and swarm the deck, they will spawn every 25% of the bosses health. Group/pull them together and burn them down.
At 50% there will start to be boat wide AoE's that blow you off the edge, if you get hit by this and it takes you off the edge you will get Fetid Fog applied to you, which causes Torment and Confusion, and if you land in the water you will get attacked by Piranhas of the Deep - quickly get back onto the boat or you will most likely die. During the fight Ghost Pirates will spawn and swarm the deck, they will spawn every 25% of the bosses health. Group/pull them together and burn them down.
After defeating Made Jack Squall you will have to collect another chest from the beach on the opposite side a last time. Repeat the same steps as before, and get the chest onto the boat, when you do, First Mate Calix will spawn.
First Mate Calix
For the next fight against First Mate Calix you will have a repeat of the last mechanics with the a few new abilities. The first is a Frontal AoE Cone that will Launch players, this wont do a ton, but can send you off the edge depending on where you are.
The next is a Red AoE Marker that targets a player and drops a lingering Grim Lagoon that pulses conditions and gives ghosts Quick and Protect, drag this ability away from the team and off the boss.
You will still have to deal with the waves of Ghost Pirates that come to the bosses aid, and the wind AoE that blows you off the ship. After you beat Calix you will have four Shadow Cannons spawn, 2 on each side, it is best to man all four of these and defeat the large amount of Ghost Pirates swarming the ship, once enough have been killed Captain Arabella Crowe will arrive
Captain Arabella Crowe
For your battle against Captain Arabella Crowe you will experience all of the above mechanics, such as the Wind AoE's blowing you off starting at 75% and a second wave starting at 50%, the cone attacks, the dazes, the red AoE's on players but she will also add a few new ones.
First new one you will see is a new AoE marker on players, it will be a green circle and once it casts it will do a ton of AoE damage, this needs to be shared with the team so stack together to mitigate the damage.
She will also teleport around the arena so be careful with your Grim Lagoon placements as they can sometimes end up right where she's teleporting too.
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