Introduction
This is a build regarding the Brigantine, it is centered around the Twin-Winch Ballista and long range weakpoint hits. I recommend using this build in PVP or agains’t high-health ennemies.
Strength
High Damage in Long Range
High potential fleeing
Weakness
Not best choice in close range
High skill weapon
Weakpoints max health, making this inefficient outside of large-health-pool ennemies
Details
Ship: Brigantine
Front: Twin Winch Ballista
Port: Dardanelles Gun
Starboard: Dardanelles Gun
Back: Dardanelles Gun
Auxiliary: Leopold
Major Furniture: Scoping Station (marks ennemies which takes 100% more weakpoint damage)
Minor Furniture: Ballista Works (increase elemental damage by 19%)
Minor Furniture: Front Powder Kegs (increase front damage by 10%)
Minor Furniture: Ballista Grinder (increase projectile speed by 19%)
Minor Furniture: La Potence Schematics (increase damage to weakspot by 10%)
Breakdown
On this part I’ll explain each choice and the possible viable options for this build
The loadout is made around the twin winch ballista and the scoping station, so they are the base choices and I chose those because of high accuracy, damage and range. You can swap the twin winch with great springald III if you want this build to work without the issue of max health weakpoints.
The best ship for this loadout is the brigantine, because his speed and maneuvrability makes him more viable in different scenarios, and allows him to have a higher fleeing chance, plus the number of furnitures allows it to have different options rather than just focusing on the twin winch.
Concerning other weapons, since you got long range and a low-rate of fire main weapon, you need to get options for lower range, to help you survive, or escape.
I chose the dardanelles gun for broadsides because of their good versitality and damages, you could swap them out for zamzama’s but the range will be more difficult to deal with.
I chose leopold mortar because of his higher range than the rocket, allowing you to combo with the twin winch and do devastating damages in a few seconds.
Regarding furniture, everything is around the scoping station, which allows to do huge amount of damages at long range. After that, it’s just more damage with the works and front powder kegs, to boost the ballista. The la potence schematics, helping dealing 10% more when hitting weakspots.
I’ve also chosen the ballista grinder, giving a better optimal range, higher velocity, helping you hitting target further and with more damage.
For the armor, the royal custodian, being one of the best armors in the game, when doing long range fights, it is the best choice, but, if you want to secure your short range, you can equip the black prince, to be able to survive high-damage-outburst.