Ocean Fleets

The open sea is not empty. Hostile NPC fleets roam the navigable ocean - themed crews under their own captains, each on a real ship with mounted cannons. Sail out far enough and you'll find one to hunt, and there is always another out there to chase.

What's out there

Fleets come in six flavours, each with its own crew and difficulty:

Theme	Flavour
Pirate	The classic cutthroats - the baseline fight.
Lizardman	Reptilian raiders, a touch tougher than pirates.
Orc	Brutal orcish boarding crews, a touch tougher than pirates.
Skeletal	Undead crews - a real step up.
Daemon	Demon-crewed hulls - among the hardest.
Minotaur	Minotaur warbands - among the hardest.

Each fleet sails one of three hull sizes - small, medium, or large - with a bigger crew (and a bigger bounty) on the larger hulls. Small hulls are the most common sight; large hulls are rare.

Hunting them

Sail up, trade cannon fire, and board to clear the deck. A fleet's captain steers and fires back, and the crew throw spears across the water and defend the deck if you board, so they're a genuine fight - not a sitting target.

Sinking a fleet pays a bounty. Every player who helped bring it down is rewarded - a stack of doubloons, affinity XP, bonus Ocean talent progress, and a tick on the public Fleet Hunters leaderboard. Tougher themes and bigger hulls pay more. See Fleet bounties for the details.

A living sea

There are always around 150 fleets afloat across the ocean at once. Sink one and another takes its place somewhere else on open water, out in the empty stretches rather than beside you, so the ocean stays populated without ever feeling crowded.

The sailable sea is its eastern stretch, so that is where you'll meet the fleets.