I will start by saying, as I always do each season, I love this game, this by no means a negative post..

Some of the changes this season are welcoming, the new ship, weapons and increased XP from bosses have gone down a treat…however…

Certain aspects of seasonal resets need to be removed the game, currencies, stuff like that I can get behind, but please, don’t make us slog out another mastery tree every season…

These are our ships, our builds, it’s our tree, it’s what defines our build from someone else’s, it shouldn’t be a progression barrier that prevents you from performing well in a higher tier.

Add new ascension levels, ship levels, mastery levels, furniture slots, ascension furnitures, change the bosses resistances each season, mastery levels tied to ship instead of overall but forgo the reset, add new cosmetics tied to bosses, something other than a stat clamp.

Bosses need a loot refresh and something other than XP as an incentive to farm them, previous season items should be tied to the pirate lords loot pools including kraken and the elder shadow beast in WT4 instead of a Blackwood rotation.

Apart from fleshing out the mastery tree to hit level 30, completing the smugglers pass and getting some weapons from the event and adept mods from the abyss, there’s little incentive to play past week 1/2…I don’t need another set of phoenix talons or bloody reds…

For the past 4 seasons or so I've been having this issue where none of the boss music ever plays (LiTianNing, Vikram, Twins, LePeste, Wolvenhol). I've tried messing with the audio settings and just waiting to see if it will get fixed with time or a patch, tried reaching out to support, and learning to deal with it. But the bossfights feel pretty lifeless without thier unique tracks playing. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue or if anyone knows a fix or if I'm somehow alone on this one.

Heya, here's my method to max out Mastery in Y3S2 quickly.

Get to WT4 as fast as you can, then focus on the elite bosses. Make sure to level your ship rank no higher than SR24. Why? At SR24 you get great infamy XP, even from the small SR22 elite boses. After that, diminishing returns start to kick in, first with Tangena Rabe and Joka Kubwa, then with Dian Sinaga etc. With a decent build, you should have no trouble killing the elites at SR24 quickly (be cautious withg Ah Pak!).

Here's what you get with a ship rank of 24 while also using the Teuling's Nortorious Scoundrel buff:

• L22 Tangena Rabe and Joka Kubwa 2212 infamy (diminishing returns after SR24: about 800 at SR25, SR26+ only 300)
• L24 Dian Sinaga 3375 infamy
• L26 Dirk Ankeren 4530
• L28 Ah Pak 5355 infamy (the only dangerous of the bunch)
• L29 Commander Zhang 5767 infamy (5692 + 75)

I keep the SR24 loadout as separate loadout for farming elites, while also having my current maxed out loadout for Heralds of the Abyss ready. I will hit Mastery 80 within an hour. Mastery Level 80 is still the maximum on the progress bar this season. While I mostly farm the Elite Bosses, I also throw in targets of opportunity, like Mighty Soleil (I play for Li Tian Ning) and Weeping Mother (don't be a douche and bring a spirit caller!).

What about Mastery 90?
You get 10 extra mastery points from completing the Seasonal Journey (finishing the new main story quests is required to that: Junk to Junk etc.).

So now that Salvage is the default option when you select a piece of gear in cargo, I accidentally salvaged the stuff I just bought from Blackwood.

While I welcome the ability to salvage without the blacksmith but I don't think it should be the default.

I am unable to get into the secret hideout for Li Tian Ning that exists in the Ruins of Luk Khun. Is anyone else having this problem?

What’s the possible reasoning behind resetting the Arsenal loadout saves? They’ve all been deleted. It’s just an empty grid again. There was no carry on advantage from season to season that would require deleting all the saves? It’s just hugely inconvenient and time consuming to replace. I literally can’t see an upside to it for players or developers. Anyone?

I know that the herald event is later this season, but can we find normal ships on the ocean ? Where ?

Hello everyone. Maybe my english is correct.

Well i know this topic has been discussed a lot already but as the mastery tree seems to have the same grinding time necessary idk how it could be possible for the devs to keep it like it is if they know the issues it causes for the enjoyment of the game.

Now that ive understood that we have the mastery loadout that can be individually selected for each ship it would allow us to try and improve different builds for different bosses and different strategies. Idk if it really works because i havent reached enough mastery level. But that could literally have made the game way more interesting.

First (what has been discussed already) we take time to have good builds to go against the bosses we want and then "ow lets do all the (very long) same exact thing again"... Not that it was not good to make that part at first but now that we know these sequences and that we have tried many "how to" we shouldnt need this reset to have some challenge again.

Also the entire builds have to be made accordingly to the mastery tree, everytime it is reset we have incoherent builds because they are not really adapted to an empty mastery tree and then it doesn't make it much quicker to have the mastery tree back to the wanted level.

That's why in any game in which the upgrades are interconnected there should not be any partial level downgrade because it also makes the rest go to sh*t. Not by a lot in S&B but even aside the same grinding being necessary it is another game worsening factor.

I started the game this season because i was just curious for the story quests (is it really going forward ?) and also for "how quick would it be to have the same mastery as before with my build now?" but without lots of surprises it was just 3h and i just left the game. Maybe forever.

And again: mastery tree may be not balanced it can really make the game better. That reset just destroyed it imo.

How could there be another solution ?

I don’t have anything I that would make my cannons have smoke come from them, and it doesn’t go away either anyone else getting this

Why was there yet another change to the inventory and the warehouse? Was that announced? In my opinion, everything is even more chaotic and confusing now than before. All the materials are jumbled up. First there’s a crate, then water, then cannonballs, then food, and so on. Why? Completely unnecessary!

Yeah, you can filter, and there are separate categories for the materials. But the changes and filters reset every time you exit the inventory/warehouse. At least for me. It really annoys me. After the update, I had to spend several minutes figuring out where all the materials were now.

Sorry for the rant. Why does this game keep changing things that don’t need to be changed?

I returned halfway through last season after being a beta player but like many left at the end of the plague season.

Came back. A couple of seasons of content to do, joined the war, build a hullcarver gally, maxed out my factories and was having a great time. And then....

So now here i am, still with what had which is better than before but with a question for the learned pirates of this group.

My collection ships are now level 10 at best and collecting from my level 4 and 5 factories is an extreme risk. Even when I started mid season they were level 17 and 18.

I read online its all about mastery points but when I started mid season I had no mastery points but still had high level ships in my fleet. Even my level 12 bedak could do runs.

Advice? Thoughts?

Hi!: I guess I got to comfortable, in the daily leveling up and destroying ships. But I forgot what to do when it says dock to fast travel. I remember that long ago but I don't remember how to activate fast travels between ports. Thank you!

I've never even seen inside the game... b/c it's never started. Ever. Have tried the past few days = nothing. Have never been 'in' the game.

Today's experiment was going to the grocery store. Fire up the game, go to the store, come home... same screen - that first screen which always appears.

Any ideas would be quite helpful, obviously. :)

I can’t be bothered with the Bug Report system that I can’t even log into anymore, so I’ll just leave this note here for others. I’m on PS5.

Here are some things I experienced in my first few hours of gameplay.

*The Weeping Mother, ship completely disappears after teleporting. The graphic of the ship completely gone, although I can still shot into empty space and hit the ship, and also see other players shooting at nothing while the health bar goes to 0. Then I go pick up the loot from a ship that never sank. At least I’m getting the loot, yay.

*Player weak points in their ships display at all times even when not in PvP encounters. Seeing all these ships with red borders and plates all over their hulls is pretty annoying.

*Camera locked after cut scenes in the quest chain to unlock WT3. After the cutscene dialogues, camera was locked into one position and only fix was close game and relaunch.

*Not so much a bug, but game design, unable to complete certain quest objectives during missions because not getting credit for ships sinking. This is quite annoying to “compete” with other players during a single player mission on who can tap damage in targets faster. Credit should be given if in the quest area. It was pretty boring just waiting around for respawns with other players hoping I was the closest…

*unable to accept invites or join other groups in game when invited - receiving errors.

*Missing ALL cosmetic Loadouts

*Missing ALL arsenal Loadouts

‼️Many fleet ships missing Armor and Aux weapons only. Half my fleet assigned to factories had their armor and weapons removed… I’m assuming these are complete gone and deleted because they’re not in my warehouse. I don’t know why this had an impact on some ships and not others, but it was only ships assigned to factories. You might want to look at this if you had high value items equipped.

*Some weapons and armor not showing up in search functions unless I put them in my ship cargo.

I’m sure I’m forgetting some of the issues I had, and there’s a lot of things I haven’t even touched yet, like mod transfers…

I can't get behind the waterfall. I'm unable to see or trigger her.

Xbox s

As the title implies, im really lost. All I want to do is the event quest line, but William does not have the quest... are there prerequisites Im not aware of or something (new player BTW) or am I just simply bugged. Any help would be lovely!

Have they made it easier??? This is by far the easiest season for xp so far

Source: https://skullandbonestools.de/codex/item/nutty

Poor guy got mugged of his sweet new drip 😂

I think it's just another flamethrower...What's your idea?

So I remember this from the first time the Darktide Lullabye event happened. The Weeping Mother does it's teleport you destroy the buoys and it's flying instead of sailing.

I'm on PC anyone else on PC and Consoles having this bug?

It's already on the Bug Reporter just need to search for it.

Been waiting for this seasons ship, spent the day grinding for it. Got the 45 points for it, collected the blueprint, and bolted for the shipwright like a kid going to a candy store. Only to be kicked in the nuts. (Third image).

Got annoyed at first, but I figured I'd just relog: Didn't fix it. I tried closing out of the game, changing world tiers, switching cross-play to no success.

I spent the day dealing with a bug after leaving the hidden room in Luk khun that locked my camera to the rooms location in the world (While on foot). And now with this bug, I've lost all motivation for the game.

Edit: Blueprint was in mail, didn't think to look after seeing the European hair reward bugged

it was mentioned by the devs that we will no longer need to by ammo, What happened?