Strike Your Colors (questline step)

Strike Your Colors is a step of The Harbormaster’s Word.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Questline	The Harbormaster’s Word
Previous step	A Hold Full
Wait after previous step	At least one game hour
Minimum level	5+
Feature requirement	Naval Combat on
Offered by	a harbormaster

Objectives

Use the location names in your quest journal. Follow map markers when they are available.

Step	Objective	Optional
1	Make a ship strike her colors in a fight at sea	No
2	Return to the master, the harbormaster, at the quest tavern in the named town	No

Outcomes

Added gear requires a successful quest payment and a qualifying outcome. Quest mail alone does not count as payment.

Outcome	Gold multiplier	Gear choice
You made a ship strike her colors, and the harbormaster drank to the coast's new captain.	100%	Yes
The harbormaster hired a navy captain instead.	No added payment	No

Named gear

Outcome	Item	Base item
You made a ship strike her colors, and the harbormaster drank to the coast's new captain.	Storm-Captain's Coat	Cuirass

A named reward uses its listed base only if your class can equip it; otherwise the fitted reward has a different base and no special name.

With Questlines enabled, these outcomes control the added rewards. Gold multipliers apply only to gold the quest actually pays. A gear choice offers a weapon, armour and jewellery; keep one. See Quest rewards and loot for rarity, payment and online reward rules.

Previous step: A Hold Full.

Scripted gold

Payment	Base amount (gold)
Gold payment	200–400

These are the script’s unscaled payment ranges, before the outcome multiplier and any party split. A payment still requires its quest objective or branch; the listed payments are not automatically awarded together.

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