Leon Dreadpratt's Guide to Looting

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I am Leon Dreadpratt a level 50 pirate and a master looter. Though I do not have as many famed as some super looters I think my 61 (in counting) famed weapons qualifies me to share my strategies and expereice on how to get famed fast.

The Two Secrets to Looting
Do you really want to hear the secret to getting good loot? Really? Well there are two: looting a lot and luck. Sound boring. Well its the truth.

The amount you loot have a direct effect on how many famed you will get. If you loot for 10min a day with all the best strategies on the best servers you will not get as many famed as if you spend hours hacking way at some random ghosts. Somethign important to note is that I say how much you loot not how much you play. There is a difference. if you play for hours but spend 99% of your time fooling around you will not get famed. Obvious yes, but a common mistake. For this reason I suggest you master everything and get all your missions and other prioreties done first so you can focus all your time on looting.

The other big secret to looting is luck. You could spend hours killing thralls or urchinfists and get no famed but you could be walking out to leave and get your lost sword of el patron from a random spineskull you shot as you walked by. True story, happened to me.

Well enough of the obvious it is time for the tips, tricks and strategies. The reason you are reading this.

The Server Trick
There is a little known trick that can double your famed count. Though there is no statistical proof I have found it to be true. This was first discovered by the3rdjoker a user with perhaps the most famed weapons I have ever scene. The idea is that different servers give better or worse loot. Now he talks about it somewhere and goes into much more detail about exactly how and why it is true but all you need to know is this. Not all servers are equal. By "better loot" I mean that you wll get more skulls per guy, the number of fmaed in those skulls does not change. Now the common mistake is for people to go off and spent half their time swiching servers and not looting. Remember what I said before, the biggest secret is the time spent looting. Here is how you should take this advice. Chose any server.Go to where you want to loot. Spend some time looting. If after maybe 10 or 20 minutes you feel the loot is sup par change servers but remember the first server. Spend another 10min on the new server. If the loot is better stay there if it is worse either try a new server or go back to your old server. After doing this a few times you should find a server with the best loot. Always remeber the server with the best loot. Odds are it will stay god for at leat a few days. Sometimes there will be big changes in loot quality. Say one server gives you a skull every 20 guys then a new server gives you a skull every 10, stay there. The trick with this is to be content. If you find a moderatly good server stay there, don't keep searching for the joly grail server, you will never find it and only waste precious looting time.

Now I have found that there are three types of looting you can do depending on what you are searching for. There is, looting for numbers, looting for famed, looting for cursed. There are different strategies for eath and I will go into them next.

Looting For Numbers
Now by this I mean looting just to increase your total famed count, the number of famed weapons you have ever gotten. For this there is only one guy, Foulberto Smasho. Now by now I really hope everyone has realised how good he is at giving famed. But the problem is he only gives knives. Now when he first came out I with the rest of the game was there all the time. But after a few days some thing odd happeded. I realised I had gotten every knife in the entire game, both famed and legendary. Geeze, well I guess now there is nothing else he can really give me that I want huh. Well now he is not such a great guy but he is still useful. Because he gives so many famed a few hours there can easily add five or more famed weapons to my list. This can be good either for bragging rights or for those people who simply like the exitement of getting that nice blue weapon in a skull chest!

Looting For Famed
Now this is a huge category of looting. It is for people looking for a better variety of famed than foulberto but also want to get a good number. There are tons of different strategies for this but I will go in to my favorites here.

Big Bad Bosses
There are several big bad bosses in the game that give really great loot. They are very well known and popular. my three favorites are, Darkhart, Neban the Scilent (Remington the Vicous also works), and Devilroot. One of th good things about bosses is that they respawn faster. Meaning you aren't wating half and hour to have someone to kill. And obviously the best thing about bosses is that they give very very goot loot. The strategy for bosses is simple, 1) get a group of higher levels, 2) kill them a lot. Doing this for a few hours can often lead to a nice shiny new famed.

Darkhart might be the most popular. He gives very good loot, he has relitivly low lives, and he is in a very good spot (there are all the different merchants around him).

The two assassin bosses are also very popular. They give very good loot. However they have double the lives of a boss their level which makes them very dificult.

Finally perhaps the least known great boss is devilroot. He is the highest level boss in the game which makes his a very tough advesary against even the strongest pirate. In the past he gave very crappy loot. This lead many people to not go to him very often. Then rather recently they fixed him to give extreamly good loot. Saldly he is still not reconised as a good looting boss though hopefully some day he will gain the title as most popular boss for looting.

Sailing
Saldly sailing is very unreconised as a way to get famed. However with the right tactics and a good crew you can get some famed you couldn't get anywhere else (such as the highly saught after admirals line of weapons!) Now I have discovered an amazingly easy way to take down some of the toughest ships in the game without taking any damage. So good it might even be cheating. So good you will cry when you try it out and kill a juggernaught in your light sloop. Here is is my "come and get me" method. The idea of this method is simple, keep the enemy pointing right at you so they can't fire any cannons. It is far easier to do this with a geed sized crew but if you are good you can do it solo. Also you need total control of your crew and only half as mny crewmen as can fit on your ship so everyone can have a canon on the same side. These two things are absolutly nessesary. The easiest way to totally screw this up is by having some stupid guy shooting at every single ship within a hundred yard radius. Start by finding a target. Make sure it is really hard. Also make sure no other ships will come over and attack you while you are focused on the target. Second zoom your compass all the way in (press the + button until you can't anymore) now position the target ship so it is right on the edge of you compas and directly to your east or west and stop. Then manuver the camera so you are looking at the sde of your ship facing hte target ship. Now tell all your crew to go to that side, use lightning, and tell them which is the target ship an to only shoot that ship. The edge of yor compass is the perfect range so that your cannons car reach it but you have enough time to kill it before it gets too close. Once one person has shot it at least once it will turn and start coming towards you. Don't panic. As long as it is facing you it can't do anything. Even frigates with front cannons can't shoot you. Now just wait. The ship will come towards you as your crew slowly damages it. If the ship is particularly hard or you are getting nervous you can tell your crew to hit the sails to slow it down or stop it. Once it is a quarter of the way on your map your can use broadsides. Try to avoid haveing your crew either sink or stop it until now as you will get less rep. At this point the ship is doomed. As it comes closer still you can tell your crew to use furry. Now problem. The hardest ships in the game stand no chance anains't strategy. (now of corse the reason I call this a cheat is because it only works becuse the sips are computers and have no brains, any smart ship would just trun and shoot back)

With this method you can go around the hinderseas and start collecting a good hull full of plunder. One of the best things is that as you sink more ships better cargo will replace worse cargo (the order is, cargo crate, chest roayl chest, loot pouch, loot chest, loot skull chest) So if you are at it long enough you could end up with a hull full of royal chests, a hull full of loot, or even a hull full of skulls!

Looting For Cursed
The final kind of looting. It is for those who want the best weapons in the game and don't mind getting them very rarely. Of course there are only two places to go for these weapons. Tormenta and Ravens cove. Now I have no real proof for this but in my experence ravens cove gives more cursed than tormenta. It might just be a coincedence but I got all three of my famed cursed blades on ravens cove. I'm not going to bias my guide however and will give strategies for both. The fact that there is no boss that gives cursed means the big bad boss strategy does not wark meaning you must come up with different strategies. Here are mine.

Tormenta: Round and Round
Now in case you haven't noticed the cursed caves are a big circle. This allows for possible my favorite looting strategy. For this you only need one thing, a good gun. It is possible to do this without one but it makes a a million times better. For most people I would suggest a good blungerbuss. The important thing abou this is that it needs to be able to consisantly do more than 5,000 damage meaning it can kill any non boss in one shot. If you have it a very good pistol (such as fullmoon my weapon of choice) makes it easier because you can get into trouble waiting for your blunderbuss to reload if you miss. Once you have your gun go to a quiet server. This is important because this is a very unsocial way of looting beacue you are essentially going around killing everything in one shot. Once at the server with the gun the strategy is simple, follow the circle of the caves killing every guy you pass in one shot. The reason this is such a good strategy is not beacuse you are killing very good guys but beacuse you are smply killing so many guys so fast you get very good loot.

Tormenta: Gold Room
The gold room might be the most popular place on tormenta. It is very good for a small or medium sized group of people to go to hang out and get loot. It has several high level guys in very close quarters making it very effective and it is hard to miss any loot, often a major problem in a larger area.

Tormenta: Thrall Hall
This is the other canidate for most popular room in tormenta. It has slightly better guys meaing better loot. However since the guys are more spread out is is easy to miss a skull while you are in one part killing someone and someone elso is in another part killing someone else. This can be exreamly annoying.

Ravens Cove: Idol Five
This iscertainly the most popular part of tormenta. It is very similar to the gold room in that is has several high level guys is a small area. Very good for a small to medium group of guys to loot.

Ravens Cove: Traitor!
To the south wast of the mines there are a few traitor ghosts. These are the most powerful ghosts. These are often popular for a solo high level to loot hopling the better guys will give better loot.

Well that is all I have to say on my favorite subject. I really hope this helps you reacj all your legendary dreams.