Once you grab the kris you end up inside the ship. You must kill many creatures, but there seems to be an LOS issue that makes it impossible to hit them. Earlier on my druid I was clearly in view but was getting LOS warning! I had to run up into melee range to kill many of them. Then just now I was standing not 1 yard from of those octodic*s and was getting an LOS warning and had to move to his other side to kill him.
I think I’ll just add this to the list of quests to skip since it’s screwing with any of my ranged dps characters. I literally stand on mobs to attack and half the time that’s not even close enough as a hunter or elem shaman.