Its south of booty bay, around the 29,87 area is land and 3 ships for those who wanted to know where the ships are. they are each inside each 3 ships you see in this area, it was tough.

Although the quest is marked level 45 (thus yellow to a level 43), be aware that Fleet Master Firallon is level 48 and surrounded by adds.

These guys have a crazy repop speed

Captain Stillwater (gnome) is level 40 and on the Easternmost boat.
Fleet Master Firallon (human) is level 41 and he and his orc friend Ironpatch (level 42) are on the middle boat.
Captain Keelhaul (goblin) is level 40 and his tauren friend Garr Salthoof (level 40) are on the Westernmost boat.

The pattern is essentially the same for all of them: get on the boat, go downstairs, turn right.

Coordinates are:

Keelhaul: 29,88
Stillhaul: 33,88
Firallon: 30,90

For those of you without coordinates, there are three large ships anchored off the southern tip of booty bay. Looking at the large island southeast of booty bay, there is a smaller oblong island slightly to the west of this large island, and Stillhaul is in a boat at the southern tip thereof. The other two can be found a little further to the west. If you look at the cluster of small western islands, the other two boats can be found at the southern tip of the large, eastern one of this group.

Easy as a 49 hunter. Note that for a hunter, because the area is indoors with tight corners, it is difficult or impossible to use ranged weapons in some locations on the three ships, so be sure that you have a good melee weapon and adequate defense.&nbsp

1) THIS IS FAIRLY DIFFICULT. If possible, grab a friend to do this with you. If you go in a group, please refer to all the previous posters' advice: Pull one by one, use crowd control, and fight your way to the captains. However, if you wish to solo as a priest, read 2)

2) Bring plenty of drinks, buffs, and potions (especially mana). Clear the top deck and begin clearing the inside of the ship. All the captains are located in roughly the same area: in the first floor below the top deck. However, there will be enough mobs to keep you tied up. For the last two captains (I forget their names, but they are on the ships next to each other) I cleared the first floor by using Mind Control and pulling very carefully. When I aggro'd 3 or more mobs, I&nbsp ran off the ship. Keep your shield and renew up constantly, along with Inner Fire.

4) ONCE YOU CAN SEE THE CAPTAIN: I strongly recommend going straight for the captain/fleetmaster, using all your DoT's and high dmg spells. Keep your shields up and ignore the adds. Once he's down, run off the boat.

3) For the first captain (he's on the boat that is by itself), there is a room right before the room with him in it that you can rez in. There seem to be a lot more mobs, so rezzing here and do the following:

a) eat, drink, but conserve mana.
b) you will aggro a patrol, who will in turn, aggro the Captain.
c) Again, dump all your DoT's and high dmg spells into him.
d) Once he's dead, run off the boat.

QED

You don't even have to go on the boats as a Hunter.

Type /target Captain Keelhaul (or whichever) and send your pet in (use Dash/Dive if available). When the target's hp bar starts to go down pull your pet back out, the Captain will come with a load of adds. As soon as he's in range pet attack again and drop him asap with your ranged attacks. Then run away before your pet dies to the adds. If anything goes wrong, like your pet dying too quick, you can just run away and try again.

Worked for me as a solo 45 BM Hunter anyway :)

To avoid some of the rapid respawn on the ships, use an eye of kilrog, run it up the ramp onto the deck and jump off the side while allowing the mobs to chase after it.&nbsp They have to use the ramp to chase you which buys enough time to run up and avoid 3 mobs completely.

In addition to the above facts, you are fighting in very tight spots once you get into the ships. You will pull creeps that are behind walls and the like, so take the advice, don't do it at lvl44 :-)

Both factions do this.
It's close to Booty Bay.

There's generally someone else working on the quest when you are, so it's easy to get a team together.

HOWEVER, if you are soloing, the last boss (the Fleetmaster) is lvl48, dual wielding melee and hits hard.

As a UD 43 Mage I was able to solo both other Captains, but was stymied on the Fleetmaster...he was red to me, and resisted my spells about 2/3 of the time.&nbsp Even so, I was able to get him to about 1/2 health before dying.

How did I even get to him?&nbsp Well, because it's so popular I practiced patience.&nbsp Another solo'er, a NE rogue, had gone in before me.&nbsp He had killed the Fleetmaster and the guard in his room, then ran.&nbsp While he trained the entire ship after him I ran up the ramp and down to the captain's room and waited there, hiding in the corner.&nbsp I died during the fight, but as the quest is so busy, and repops so fast, it's sometimes worth it if you're soloing to be patient and use the other faction when you can.

As soon as I get another level or two I'll try the Fleetmaster again.

Some Tips for Other Mages (and other classes):

-The pirates are for the most part dps classes so try to keep your distance.&nbsp The Sea Dogs are the most annoying since they have a gouge ability.&nbsp
-Do your buffs before you get on the ship, meaning making food and water or throwing on an intellect before you even step foot onto the ramp.&nbsp Keep enough of both food and water on you so that you don't run out when you're on the ship and you have to make more.
-Try to use instant cast spells when you can.&nbsp After all, the less time that it takes to kill the pirates, the less time that other ones have to respawn and kill you.&nbsp However, remember to be mana efficient.
-Don't drink on the stairs inside the ship.&nbsp The people in the captain's room can see you and you may pull them through the stairs.
-You can nova the pirates on the ramp going up to the ship but not on the stairs (which I find really odd).

Personally I hate doing quests on ships.&nbsp Blizzard really didn't spend much time perfecting them so all the npcs can run through the walls and floors at their whim and sometimes they can even range attack you.&nbsp But hopefully these tips help.&nbsp I was a frost mage when I did it so it might be easier with that spec.&nbsp Good luck!

I soloed it as a 44 beast mastery hunter. It is tough. You have to set traps a room behind you and surgically pull the packs. the most you will get is 3. be careful the closer you get to bosses. They have named mobs that, if you aggro, they will aggro boss and all the mobs in his room.

You have to kill a l48 mob, so why this is yellow to a 43 is a mystery. Got too many resists to even kill the final mob.

I did this as 44 warrior. Very hard but I managed to kill all captains by myself. When u have killed the captain, just run out. Use fear or whatever u have on mobs so that u can kill the captain.

Two manned step 5 with me a 44 pally and 42 warrior. died once.

Solo'ed as a 44 Affliction Warlock. I began with Succubus, charming adds, and trying to fight each guard until reaching the boss. Proved slow and dangerous -- they would aggro through walls pretty soon after I reached the stairs.

After killing the first one this way, I pulled out the Voidwalker and changed tactics:

- Climb to deck killing guards one-by-one, sometimes two at a time (easy enough)
- Enter stairwell, kill off any local guards
- Cast Underwater Breathing, just for fun
- Send off VW towards the Captain, then pull him back
- VW comes back with half the middle deck on him
- Pull the captain and lay heavy DOTTing while throwing the VW at him
- Get ready to jump. :)

After the Captain is almost dead (and still with DOTs) you can just jump ship and swim away. Before that you can Sacrifice the VW and/or Howl at any moment when deemed appropriate. Killed the last two captains easily with this kind of tactics. And I didn't spend a single Soulstone. Probably would have worked as 43 as well.

I *heart* being a Warlock. ) Cheers and good luck!

did this as a 44 druid with a 45 pally...did it fairly easily.

do it in group, have somebody who is nicely equiped (in our party it was me lvl44 shaman) to pull mobs out on to deck and then kill them. nice xp (as mentioned 4850xp).

Edited, Mon Apr 4 21:33:29 2005

Attempted this solo at lvl 45/hunter and I'm going to put this one aside for a while. The tip to pull them out onto the deck will not work if you are going at it solo(at least on the boat that I tried). 5 enemies were on the main deck. Killed those, then sent my pet down to draw more up to the main deck. By the time I finished killing the second wave of attackers, the others had already respawned. It would be a never ending killing session. These guys also can put you to sleep rather easily. Very frustrating.

telling us how you did it is fine, but geezus stop flooding all the quest logs with your life stories. give us the locations, coords preferably, so that those of us who aren't anything like your toon can at least FIND where the hell these quests are and attempt them.

I think they have changed the mob setup so that you can't just prown into the captains quarters without gathering adds

I would highly recommend a good group for this, make sure to kill any magus first. Got 4850 XP, Booty Bay Rep +385 and Bloodsail Buccaneers Rep -350 at Lvl 45.

When you attack your first target on the boat, be careful and dont stand on the plank leading up to the deck. The mobs call will aggro people from the deck below and suddenly you have a situation that is very tough. Did this as a level 44 mage with the help from a level 51 hunter. Also, look for the letter in the small room beside the captains room (I think its in all the boats). That will start Cortello's Riddle, a fun little series of quests with some travelling to do. :)

Edited, Tue May 3 10:41:16 2005

I just solo'd at lvl 48 hunter! Doable if you take 1-2 at a time. died one time when I got jumped by 5 at a time.

44 hunter, managed to solo the northernmost boat + feigns + freeze traps, it was hard and i died on the way out.. respawns are quiiiick.. i wanted to give the others a shot but my server just went down.. im bringin a friend next time

Working on this solo as a warlock. Made 48 while working on this.

At 30.89, eastern ship of 2 ships, killed Fleet Master Firallon and someone named Ironpatch.

Also found "Cortello's Riddle" on floor on first deck down by bow staircase, next to a cannon.

Thought I already the other two captain. Missed Keehaul somehow eventhough I thought I got him. So back to the other ship again.

For those that haven't done these yet. All 3 captains were in captain's state rooms. One deck down and aft from top deck, which you come onto when boarding on the plank. No need to go to bottom deck at all.

Love this site. It's my back-up bible, when I'm stuck or frustrated.

* Cortello's Riddle turned out to be a nice and easy three part quest with a lot of good XP and awards a 14 slot knapsack. Ends in Hintrelands at 80.46. And just south of that you can find the bottles for the quest Whiskey Slim's Lost Grog (another Booty Bay quest), all the way donw to Revantusk Village where you find the most. Good easy quest with XP. Flight path in the village for Horde.

Edited, Apr 14th 2007 9:48pm by Goldyyloxx

Died twice, but can be done as 45 rogue with 5 points in Master of Deception. Can sneak all the way in to chambers, may need to distract if high level captain is facing you. Sap nearest to captain, then start fight with captain as far in the corner as possible. Vanish after captain is dead. Should only have to fight captain and at most one other (use evasion when sap wears off) if you careful going in.

Has anybody had Captain Keelhaul glitch out on them so that he doesn't take any damage? I was just about finished this wuest and then I wsa totally screwed!

Has anybody had Captain Keelhaul glitch out on them so that he doesn't take any damage? I was just about finished this quest and then I was totally screwed!

Solo as a 46 prot pally... Very easy. Had 95% life the whole time pull 4 mobs at a time...took about 15 mins... Reckoning procs the whole time so killing was fast

Soloed as a level 43 undead shadow priest. Hard, but i managed it.

The gnome was the easiest, a fear went bad and pulled the entire boat, managed to kite the gnome away with SW:P.

The goblin was also very easy. Mind controlled one of the mages, took the goblin down to 19% then let the mage die so i actually got the kill and loot.

The Fleet master guy was hardest,had many adds with him and the boat respawned while i was killing them. Basically jumped into the water with a dot on him, kited him away, feared etc.

No deaths, use 3x Superior Healing Potion

Just to clarify, turn right immediately after exiting BB via the jaws. Fight through the bloodsails guarding the way to the coast, and then head south.

After just a bit, you'll be able to see 3 boats in the distance, docked on some islands to the SE. 3 boats, 3 captiains.

Definitely not a quest to solo in your mid 40s. We did it with a Mage, Warlock and Hunter, all 43-44, and it was a challenge. You cannot single pull these guys, and frequently end up pulling 3. If you're not careful, you can wind up with 5-6.

Furthermore, the respawn rate is quite fast. Solo, or with just 2 men, you are likely to get respawns to your pull point, which is no good at all.

Fun quest though, and as noted above, nice reward.