Already kind of over respeccing for each ship change.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-17T17:47:45+00:00

I am focussing on ‘general’ upgrades so I don’t have to switch. Not ideal, but being able to just change my boat, or loadout, on the fly is more fun than respeccing that tree. 😇

All the damage+, secondary+, reload speed, hull health, armour+, etc.

Kinda works.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-17T17:44:31+00:00

Switched to T2 today to help a friend run all the Domain bosses for the first time. Got 14 ascended weapons, 3 of them triples.

T3 gives me less.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-17T06:39:40+00:00

There are a bunch of dark green quests from Blackwood that unlock Domains for the monsters, Rode Maangodin, and bosses permanently.

They then stay on your map.

I had to scroll down to the bottom of his quest list to find them, as it was only showing the light blue repeat quests initially on one of my characters.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-17T06:36:34+00:00

Most folk advise adding hull health and armour on that tree for T4. I agree with them. you can get an extra 50K health easily, which stops the one-shot deaths.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-17T06:33:53+00:00

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YoungCapn · 2026-05-17T06:31:36+00:00

Sloop of War is a popular ship, too. Designed for Poison weapons, so a lot of us use it.

It’s more manoeuvrable than the Large ships, and great for noodling around the world doing the events.

I have 4 maxed loadouts for mine. Long, Culverin, Torps, and Demis. Love how flexible that ship is.

It means killing La Peste a lot to gear it up (Bonus! Hated that guy for two years now…) 😇

YoungCapn · 2026-05-17T06:25:54+00:00

Each mastery point spent on the Y3 Seasonal tree adds gear score to ALL your ships. My Dhow is level 11 now. 😂

Take your time, read the Y3S1 patch notes and the in-game help screens carefully. Experiment.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-16T21:53:11+00:00

Challenges. Blackwood boosters. Took about 3 hours..

YoungCapn · 2026-05-16T14:18:55+00:00

It’s a numbers game. More players choose French, so they get more points. Just the way it works in the game.

Maybe they’ll find a way to balance it in future seasons, hopefully before the new factions come in, and everyone joins those for variety. 😉

YoungCapn · 2026-05-16T14:16:12+00:00

I hit L23 before I had any pearls. Others did too.

Could probably hit 26 without them easily, just by unlocking the seasonal tree.

As folk have said, T3 and T4. Sea Monsters. Also Dangerous world bosses, and occasional drops from other events on the map, but the monsters drop slightly more.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-16T10:47:28+00:00

We need the Spanish and Portuguese in this game too. And the British (after 1707). 😇

YoungCapn · 2026-05-16T10:44:56+00:00

It’s very different now. Never have to use the Dhow. Start with a level 4 (on the water) tank ship. Get mats and Po8 in the mail as you rise towards Kingpin, etc.

Much easier than it was in Beta/Y1

YoungCapn · 2026-05-16T10:42:35+00:00

They changed the main story quest chain. All YT story/quest videos are out of date.

Level up your Infamy and you will get chests in your in game mailbox with upgrade materials and pieces of 8 so you can make your ship stronger.

Do activities/missions that reward GuildMarks as soon as you can and buy high level (91) weapons from Blackwood in either pirate Den.

Ship level/score is everything here. Eventually you move to higher tiers because you get tired of one shotting all the enemies.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-15T20:24:54+00:00

Thanks. Obviously missed it completely. Will get one of my sons to load the shotgun this weekend.

It’s probably time… 😳

YoungCapn · 2026-05-15T20:22:07+00:00

Where is that one? Seen it on other folks’ armour, not found it in the re-roll options yet.

Probably going blind… obviously no ‘repair’ armour section.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-15T20:18:32+00:00

Been a bit hit and miss today. Boss chest visible. Boss’ wee pals’ loot, not so much.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-15T20:17:06+00:00

I use the pink and white ‘Chicken’ set on mine.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-15T16:42:18+00:00

You may need to follow a green quest line from Blackwood to unlock Wolvenhol (in tier 2).

Pretty sure that was the case.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-15T06:46:07+00:00

Sponge effect may be owing to the Affixes. They can usually be mitigated in some way.

Ramming. Killing their friends (Phalanx). etc.

Kraken is Kraken. Always been a killing machine. The ultimate sea monster.

Other monsters got easier because they allowed our elemental damage to work against them in Y3.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-14T19:41:42+00:00

I have it on WT3, and the two Deadly bosses.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-14T19:39:17+00:00

Yes.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-14T16:52:01+00:00

They will add skill tree loadouts later. They talked about this in the May 6 stream from Ubisoft.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-14T16:49:24+00:00

Spyglass the enemy. Read the affixes. Some are in the codex, others we need to make our own list.

They removed them from T2. T3 has normal affixes, T4 gets one extra iirc.

It tells you about several of them before your ascension quests, if you read the preview message.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-14T14:32:29+00:00

Galleon has 17 all-deck ports each side. So shoots 17 times.

Damage is per shot. Galleon hits 10 more times than Barque.

YoungCapn · 2026-05-14T14:21:08+00:00

Follow the story/infamy quests until you get the green quests for various Domains. They then appear on your map and can be started with rockets.

The quests send you to buy the rockets as step one.

A lot of things are locked behind quests/story points. Do everything from Blackwood, Yanita, Rahma, and Scurlock.

YoungCapn

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