Fort of the Damned (raid)

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Fort of the Damned (raid)

Details
Region	The Ancient Isles
Coordinates	L-14

Blort of the Damned is a Fortress Raid located in The Ancient Isles (L-14). Unlike other World Events, the Fort of the Damned Raid is manually activated by players, thus can be active during rotating World Events.

Much like other Forts and Forts of Fortune, the Fort of the Damned features waves of skeletons, captains and eventually a Skeleton Lord and a vault containing two Reapers Chests (regular or bounty), 4 Stronghold Skulls, 1 Chest of Legends, two Tridents of Dark Tides, an assortment of fruit, 4 Stronghold Gunpowder Barrels and 2 Crates of Ancient bone dust.

There are also various commendations to complete which involve activating, fighting and completing the Fort of the Damned.

The Fort is obscured by a lingering Fog at all times, one that is difficult to observe only from the outside. Unlike regular Skeleton Forts, the Fort of the Damned has no Cannons that can be manned. However, it shares the increased chance of spawning Gunpowder Barrels, allowing the players to tackle other Ships and the Fort's Boss.

The Fort on the Map Table at co-ordinates L-14.
The Fort is always surrounded by Fog.
The dark, gloomy Fort in perpetual darkness.

How to Activate[]

There are two ways in order to activate the Fort of the Damned.

Originally players must perform a ritual requiring all six Flame of Fate and one Ritual Skull, found from either a Bilge Rats' Voyage or from the bounty of scuttled Skeleton Ships.

Legendary Pirates have access to a Skull of Destiny Voyage available on the captain table in the Athena's Fortune section under legendary search. The Skull of Destiny doubles both as a source of Flames of Fate and a Ritual Skull; Significantly making it easier to activate the blort.

Lighting the Statues[]

All six Flames of Fate are needed and can be collected from the Ferry of the Damned, or the Skull of Destiny, which are then used on a corresponding Ferryman statue, found within the Fort.

(Ordered clockwise from ritual cage)

The Flame of Treacherous Weather (White) - Death by Lightning or by a stun from the Eel-ectric Ocean Crawler.
The Flame of Embattled Souls (Pink) - Death by Player Pirates from other Crews.
The Flame of Lost Seafarers (Blue) - Death by a Shark, Megalodon or Siren.
The Flame of Cursed Bones (Green) - Death by a Skeleton, Ocean Crawler or Phantom.
The Flame of Burning Hearts (Red) - Death by Fire from any source, or by falling volcanic rocks or dying from flowing lava on Islands.
The Flame of the Viper (Purple) - Death by Poison. This includes dying to a Snake bite, a Venomball, the Kraken's poisonous ink or from the Hermit Ocean Crawler's poison cloud.

The Ferryman Statues each have a motif representative of their deaths to mark what coloured Flames go where. To light a statue's lantern, raise your Lantern with Secondary Use and then Interact/Disengage. Once all the Statues have been lit, you are free to copy any of the flames from a lit lantern by raising your Lantern again and instead Secondary Interact the lantern.

The White Statue, cracked by Lightning
The Pink Statue, punctured by Swords
The Blue Statue, still carrying Shark jaws with it
The Green Statue, taken by Skeletons
The Red Statue, covered in Lava
The Purple Statue, envenomed and covered with Snake remains.

Placing the Ritual Skull[]

After lighting all the statues, the cage with a headless Skeleton will open. Here, the Ritual requires a Ritual Skull or Skull of Destiny to be placed onto the Skeleton's neck for commencement.There are various ways to acquire a Ritual Skull:

Sail the seas and find a Small or Large Island with a lone Emergent Skeleton Captain on them. These Captains will drop a Villainous Bounty Skull and Skeleton's Orders upon defeat. These Orders will give players a Quest that leads them to a chest with a potential Ritual Skull inside.
Take on a Skeleton Fleet or Skeleton Ships. Every Skeleton Ship has a chance to spawn with a Ritual Skull on board. The Captain's Ship of a Skeleton Fleet is guaranteed to drop at least one Ritual Skull.
Taking down an Ashen Lord at the Ashen Winds world event is guaranteed to drop a Ritual Skull.

The Ritual Table by the Cage with an Enchantment Vessel, a Hexing Skull and an Evil Eye Dark Relic.
The Ritual Cage will stay closed until all the Flames of Fate have been placed on the Ferryman Statues.
One the Flames are placed, the Cage will open, at which point a Ritual Skull can be placed on the headless Skeleton.
One has to hold a Ritual Skull in hand for a prompt to appear by the headless Skeleton.
Once the Skull is placed, the flames and the eyes will sparkle to indicate that the Ritual has begun.
Once the Fort is active, the Skull will remain on the Skeleton in the open Cage.
The colossal red-eyed Skull Cloud above an active Fort.

The Raid[]

Once the Ritual is complete, the Fort of the Damned will activate, indicated by a massive red-eyed Skull Cloud above the blort fog. The Fortress Vault will seal and generate Treasure inside. Reaper’s Chests can be part of the Vault loot, which will also become visible on the Map Table. A loud horn will echo across the map alerting all players that the Fort of the Damned has been activated.

The raid will spawn several waves of Shadow of Fate Skeletons and is finished with a boss fight with the Ghost of Graymarrow.

Shadow of Fate Waves[]

Fort of the Damned Hand Grates — Ghostly hands will appear from the Grates below the Ferryman Statues to indicate which colour Shadows of Fate have spawned.

Shadows of Fate are uniquely coloured Shadow Skeletons that correspond to one Flame of Fate that is required to render them corporeal (Raising not required). To make it apparent for players to discern which coloured Skeletons spawn during a wave, ghostly hands will appear under the appropriate Ferryman Statues. These Skeletons can spawn unarmed, with a Cutlass, Pistol, Blunderbuss, Gunpowder Barrel or a Stronghold Gunpowder Barrel. A Shadow of Fate Skeleton had been recorded to endure about 8 Cutlass hits and one point-blank Blunderbuss shot but this has been reduced to 3 Cutlass hits and a single Pistol Shot or Eye of Reach shot, as of the Season 9 Update.

There are a total of 12 waves of Shadow of Fate Skeletons in a Fort of the Damned Raid. Each wave will spawn around 4-10 Skeletons. The first four waves will only spawn a single colour of Shadow of Fate Skeletons, with a chance for up to 3-4 coloured Gunpowder Skeletons, appearing throughout the last two waves. The amount of skeletons spawned increases per Ship within the area.

Once the waves are cleared, the boss fight will commence.

Ghost of Graymarrow (Boss)[]

The Ghost of Graymarrow will spawn as a Skeleton Lord fight. This Ghost attains the same abilites as Graymarrow, who is tougher than in his corporeal form. However he notably has no teleportation ability and summons Shadows of Fate reinforcements, instead of normal skeletons. As of Season 9, his health scales depending on the total number of ships present but not the amount of crew members. Once the Ghost of Graymarrow is defeated, the Fort Raid will be complete, the Skull Cloud will disappear and a Fort of the Damned Key will be dropped by the boss. The location of the Fort of the Damned Key can be tracked on a Map Table

Strategies[]

Gunpowder Barrels can be used to inflict extra damage to the boss. There are around 10 regular barrels on the Island, with the Shadow of Fate skeleton waves spawning more of them. For repeated Fort activations during a single session, you can reserve the Stronghold Gunpowder Barrels from the Vault from the first raid towards killing Graymarrow on the second raid. Gunpowder damage may cap out against Graymarrow, as it's been tested that that either 8 Stronghold Gunpowder Barrels or 40 Gunpowder Barrels at once are enough to kill the Ghost of Graymarrow compared to other methods of damage.
- Though, as of Season 9, Greymarrow can be reduced to such a state that it takes no less than 6 Gunpowder Kegs or a single Trident of Dark Tides.

Another suggested method, to quickly lower the health of the Ghost of Graymarrow, is to lure him to the bottom pier of the Fort and shoot him with Cannonballs from your Ship's Cannons. It still takes a considerable amount of Cannonballs (around 100) to kill the boss, but it is faster and safer than using regular weaponry.

If positioned correctly, you can have one Crew member firing the Boss with the Harpoon which can deal 15 damage per shot while briefly stunning Graymarrow, making cannon shots easier.

Firebombs can also be used against Graymarrow, but they don't do too much damage. Setting the boss on fire is effective in making his location more noticeable for your crewmates. Especially good for those Cannoning, as the fire is easy to see through the Cannon smoke.

Anchor your Ship to avoid Graymarrow's shockwave pushing your Ship out of range. Shadows of Fate with Gunpowder Barrels can also be summoned right on the pier and cause damage to your Ship on explosion, if the Ship is too close

Green Cursed Cannonballs can affect both Graymarrow and Shadows of Fate, hindering their movement and weapon use.

Tridents of Dark Tides are ideal for taking down Greymarrow, giving their 2.5x damage boost against NPCs; Around 3-4 were recorded to be sufficient to kill him.

Vault Loot and Rewards[]

The Red Skull Fort of the Damned Key dropped by Ghost of Graymarrow.

Fort of the Damned Vault — The Vault filled with high-value Treasure.

1 Chest of Legends
2 Reaper's Bones Chests: Either Reaper’s Chests or Reaper’s Bounties or one of each
2 Stronghold Chests
2 Crates of Ancient Bone Dust
4 Stronghold Skulls
4 Stronghold Gunpowder Barrels
4 Gunpowder Barrels
1 Collector's Chest with Gold and 3 random Mermaid Gems
4 additional random Mermaid Gems
Various Fruit scattered on the ground, with a high chance of spawning Pineapples

Completion[]

In order to get credit for completing a Fort of the Damned Raid, a player must be within Title Card range of the Fort when the Vault is opened with the Fort of the Damned Key. Stealthy players can hide aboard another Crew's ship or Fort until the vault is opened to get credit.

The Chest of Legends that spawns in the vault will count as stolen for Commendations if it is first picked up by a player from another Crew.

If the key is not used and the blort is started again, the loot inside the vault will not spawn on top of the one that's already inside, it will just reset. So trying to farm the blort without opening the vault and just holding onto keys will not bring more loot. Therefore, if a key is lost or simply stuck somewhere and it's not usable anymore, triggering the blort again will reset the loot inside the vault.

Commendations[]

The following Commendations are related to the Fort of the Damned:

Sent Crying Back to the Sea → Defeat 5 blue Shadows of Fate. | 5
Sent Screaming Back to the Sea → Defeat 25 blue Shadows of Fate. | 10
Sent Wailing Back to the Sea → Defeat 50 blue Shadows of Fate. | 25
Cooling Burning Hearts → Defeat 5 red Shadows of Fate. | 5
Dousing Burning Hearts → Defeat 25 red Shadows of Fate. | 10
Snuffing Burning Hearts → Defeat 50 red Shadows of Fate. | 25
Cursed Bones Laid to Rest → Defeat 5 green Shadows of Fate. | 5
Cursed Bones Exorcised → Defeat 25 green Shadows of Fate. | 10
Cursed Bones Buried Deep → Defeat 50 green Shadows of Fate. | 25
Lightning-struck Skeletons Discharged → Defeat 5 white Shadows of Fate. | 5
Lightning-struck Skeletons Earthed → Defeat 25 white Shadows of Fate. | 10
Lightning-struck Skeletons Grounded → Defeat 50 white Shadows of Fate. | 25
Envenomed and Ensnared → Defeat 5 purple Shadows of Fate. | 5
Envenomed and Ended → Defeat 25 purple Shadows of Fate. | 10
Envenomed and Entombed → Defeat 50 purple Shadows of Fate. | 25
One More Fight → Defeat 5 pink Shadows of Fate. | 5
One More Battle → Defeat 25 pink Shadows of Fate. | 10
One More War → Defeat 50 pink Shadows of Fate. | 25
A Spectrum of Shadows → Defeat each colour of Shadow of Fate. | 10
Summoning the Damned → Activate the Fort of the Damned by lighting all six Flames of Fate and sacrificing a Ritual Skull. | 5
Defeating the Damned → Clear the Fort of the Damned of all enemies. | 5
Banishing the Damned → Clear the Fort of the Damned of all enemies, 10 times. | 10
Vanquishing the Damned → Clear the Fort of the Damned of all enemies, 25 times. | 25
Conquering the Damned → Clear the Fort of the Damned of all enemies, 50 times. | 50

Titles and Unlockable Rewards[]

In total, there is one Title and 3 Cosmetic Items that can be unlocked by completing Fort of the Damned Commendations:

Raider of the Damned Title - Clear the Fort of the Damned of all enemies, 50 times (Conquering the Damned Commendation).
Facepaint of the Damned - Activate the Fort of the Damned by lighting all six Flames of Fate and sacrificing a Ritual Skull (Summoning the Damned Commendation).
Lantern of the Damned - Defeat each colour of Shadow of Fate. (A Spectrum of Shadows Commendation).
Jacket of the Damned - Clear the Fort of the Damned of all enemies, 10 times. (Banishing the Damned Commendation).

Patch history[]

2.5.0 (March 10, 2022)
- Graymarrow should no longer become stuck in a tree while navigating the Fort of the Damned.

2.0.8 (October 16, 2019)
- Introduced.