One of my goals in this alchmerchant reinc was to upgrade my ship from class 2 to class 3. I finally managed to find some time (and resources) to do it.

While testing the ship, I noticed that with only 3 sailors it took about 24 minutes to sail from Lucentium for Laenor. So, I ended up adding maximum amount of sailor and speed mage quarters to the ship. Now, with 15 sailors (and 0 speed mages), the trip from Lucentium to Laenor via tradelines takes only 2 minutes.

Ship quests

When doing the speed mage quarters ship quest, I noticed that it was not a good idea to give the quest item (wand) to the task master:

You give an ebony wand with runes on it to Taskmaster.
Jarear hmms.
Jarear gives wand back to you.
An ebony wand with runes on it turns to dust.
ask taskmaster about speed done
You ask Jarear about speed done.
Jarear tells you 'You're within time, let's see if you got everything you need!'
Jarear tells you 'Hmm, seems you lost your wand somehow. I'll let you try again soon though.'

So, I had to wait a couple of hours and then redo the quest. Luckily, there is a 15 min time limit in the quest and I actually redid the quest in less than 5 minutes, so it wasn’t that big of a problem.

I also added one cargo hold to my ship, since I was able to do the cargo hold ship quest as well. The captain’s cabin ship quest seems too tricky, so I’ll probably need to order that from another merchant at some point.