Black Hand
The Black Hand are equipped with iron weapons, bows, iron shields and use stone clubs. They are clad in leather and iron-reinforced cloth, also sometimes sporting exotic extensions in place of limbs.
They come in far greater numbers than the Darfari Cannibals or the Exiles.
Black Hand pirates are comprised of Cimmerian, Darfari, Hyborian, Hyrkanian, Kushite, Nordheimer, Stygian, Shemite, Zamorian and Zingaran.
Notes:
There are two large areas of the map that contain pirates: the eastern side of the desert stretching from the starting river up until the Highlands, and the north/north-eastern regions of the jungle towards the east coast
Smaller camps are scattered to the east, the south and the southeast of The Black Galleon.
The largest concentrations can be found on Jamilla's Liberty, The Black Galleon, Scavenger's Berth and Flotsam.
They are particularly good for farming small amounts of Gold Dust and Gold Bar early on, especially with a Dismantling Bench by breaking down Black Hand Earrings.
Pirates of the Black Hand enemy NPCs generally have 255 hitpoints. Some notable exceptions are most named NPCs having 330 HP such as Conchaka of Hyrkania or Irniz of the Furnace.
Jungle camps of the Black Hand faction have several Panther pets with 385 HP, making them much more dangerous than the desert camps.
As Thralls, these HP values for Entertainer, Fighter or Archers go up to:
1020 for Tier 1
1530 for Tier 2
1785 for Tier 3
Demon-fire Orb-throwing Fighters have 1380, 2070 or 2415 HP (Rank I, II or III)
2295 for Tier 4
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Strategy:
The smaller camps are usually not challenging with a little gear due to their scattered nature and small numbers of foes. Most of the smaller camps consist of 1-2 Fighter thralls, 1 Archer thrall and 1 worker NPC.
Most pirates are moderately armored, so armor penetration plays a larger role against increasingly stronger foes like the Black Hand Captain.
Due to their small HP pools, poison and bleed stacks are less effective against the majority of Black Hand NPCs, as opposed to high tier factions like Votaries of Skelos.
Apart from The Black Galleon, most pirate camps consist of small groups of separated enemies or even individuals thus making high damage burst weapons with higher stamina drain or spears very effective.
Shields can be very effective against the relatively high amount of spear-wielders among T4 fighters, the amount of 1-hand-sword wielding foes and archers from this faction.
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