I found this quest to be most difficult with a musketeer. Melee classes seem to have no problem, but musketeers at that level have fairly limited range and damage. It seemed to work best is I could send in several melee companions on the first round, but it still took me a while.

You can do it with a Musketeer, but you have to be agressive with your companions.

If you send in your companions, you will usually draw the attention of the Storm Sharks away from Brody.

My problem as a Swashbuckler wasn't drawing aggro from Brody... It was pulling the aggro off of a member of my crew once we had begun our attack.

Whenever I send in my companions to save Brody, the sharks would always turn around and gang up on Subotai or Lucky Jack and chew him to bits.

Talon Devereax.

Kyle Life Caster on Oct 16, 2012 wrote:

Ok I know almost everyone has this problem with this battle/quest. Like people say I can't beat the shakes before they get Brody.i had no trouble in beta but I can't do it,even with my mmusketeerso someone please help me

you just need to take out the sharks near brody first. I think i got lucky because my brody got critical almost every time with my bucaneer........ ha ha ha! that was really funny. my first one had to do it 5 times before i won!

What i did is i took a friend (in my group) to help me, he debuffed the sharks and buffed me, my companions and brody, to easily win

That's wierd. I found this one of the easiest battles of the member quests.

Anyways, if you're a musketeer, I reccomend you stay behind and shoot them. If they all group up, you use a scatterblast attack to shoot them all. If your companions aren't a balance (For example, some companions are trained as good as possible and others are many levels below you) then I'm afraid you'll have to make a new character, because you have completely ruined your companions. Always keep companions at a balance. Also, try going for one shark at once.

Early in the game, a tip mentions something so important it's going to help you for the rest of the game. It says something like:
"The secret to winning tough battles is to reduce the number of incoming attacks by taking out one enemy at a time. The boss is tough, so you might save him for last."

CdeWinter on Aug 14, 2013 wrote:

Perhaps this thread should be locked. The origional post is from way back in October, almost a year old. Since that time, KI has altered and improved this quest so that it is not as hard as when this thread was started. I know that KI has reduced the number of sharks that appear and I believe that the health of the pelican has also been increased.

While I understand that new players may still need help with this quest or with other Skull Island quests, I think that this particular thread is very outdated and should probably be locked.

Agreed!