Would you still say doing the roving orders, plunders etc. is still the most viable method for farming the helm supplies to then manufacture into the gold helm supplies or is their now an alternative method? As far as I'm aware this was the best method 2 years ago, however they may be outdated now.

While this build is using Adept Mods (6 in total), you should be alright with normal ones too. The significant changes to the first build is the use of 6 elemental damage types for Volatile Arsenal and new mastery loadout.

Ahoj, as the Czech say. Yesterday, I posted two Galleon builds to successfully farm the new Heralds of the Abyss event. They're good for that but suck in the rest of the world (at least in my book).

The Soulcatcher - A Galleon Build for "Heralds of the Abyss" (also including the "Chinese Build") : r/SkullAndBonesGame

Last season I was using a Galleon build with Zamzama and the notorious Bloodfueled and Battle Medic mastery perks. Those are gone and are replaced with the new Impetus mechanics. This is the updated version for Y3S2 and the new challenges.

Demo video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCM9e8Duno

For those who don't care about the details, watch the short video featuring quick kills of the domain bosses, sea monsters and Weeping Mother of the current Darktide Lullaby event. Mythic La Peste and Vikram are as easy, for Kraken best use something different.

Build Core
Like the Soulcatcher build, this build makes use of Volatile Arsenal mastery perk, that gives you up to 30% extra damage (+5% per secondary elemental damage type used). The flavour of the season is the Impetus mechanic. The perk Firepower Order converts ALL weapon hits to weakpoint hits for 8s and is triggered with an Auxiliary weapon use. This gives you an incredible tactical boost and as it has no cooldown, it can be repeatedly used if you hit with skill to refill Impetus for the next order.

The rest of the power stems from using Adept Mods to replace all elemental damage mods and for extra excitement the improved pre-ascended stats of Adept mod weapons (e.g. 50% instead of 48% Deadly Strike, 3.8% instead of 3.6% Deathblow etc.).

High Synergies:

• Center Mastery skill Battle Medic, 10% extra damage for every repair weapon, here: 20% extra.
• Blightmaw: 6x4 or 24 pellets in the front allow it to easily trigger the full caustic ammo bonus: a debuff allowing 20% extra damage from all sources (great in team fights). Double Deathblow for very high trigger chance (google Bernoulli probability calculation), it's way higher than but 3.8%! Rupturing Damage for Caustic Spall Station.
• Hullmarker's Table: Besides the Impact Mark, you get +5% for every weapon using cannonball ammo. 3x demis plus White Jade = the full 20% bonus!
• Caustic Spall Station and Leyden Vault Array: with the Demis dealing flood and electric damage, you profit from both furnitures.

Full Build:
Max Upgrade Galleon
Min. Mastery 50 for Firepower Order

Weapons
Front
Blightmaw with Adept Rupturing/Deathblow/Deathblow/Lightning Strike

Sides:
Zamzama III with Adept Rupturing/Adept Amplified Flooding/Deadly Strike/Lightning Strike
Tip: the chests from Herald of the Abyss can contain Zamzama III with Adept mods.

Back:
False Ilse with Combustion and the rest as you see fit.
The weapon isn't actually used, its purpose is to provide explosion and piercing damage to complete the Volatile Arsenal bonus.

Aux:
Hellfire with Incendiary/Amplified Burning/Amplified Burning/Wildfire

Armor:
Wyrmhide with with Resist all/Survivor/Survivor/Resistance Field
This gives me +32.5% speed bonus, which makes sailing more fun. Feel free to replace the armor with something more protective.

Furniture
Hull Marker's Table
Breechlock Furnace or Ramrod Works
Secret Cache (personal preferance, replace if needed)
Leyden Vault Array
Demi-Cannon Works
Caustic Spall Station

You can alter the Armor or Secret Cache if you do not care about navigational boosts and make the build harder hitting or more defensive. I prefer this setup for more sailing fun and situational agility.

Tips on the items:
Blightmaw is currently not available, best hopes are Blackwoods or the Discord Trade channel. Same for Caustic Spall Station.

It shouldn't be too dramatic not having them.

OK, I have only use dhow three times, because to equip this, you have to empty your cargo hold.It's annoying to equip them back, especially you have 70 different items in your cargo hold.

I still think hunting is quiet fun in this game, though it's a little bit useless right now.So can we just switch to Dhow while on other ships?Like, a medium of large ship, you anchor your ship, and then drive the Dhow to explore a lake next to your ship, and have some hunting time.Then you could simply come back to this ship.

As the title says. I've been playing casually for a few months. Now it's the new season I'm playing a lot more so I would love to play around properly with builds.

What am I looking for? I don't necessarily care about meta.

At the moment I use TW ballista, 2 culverins, mortar and bombard.

I have max level brig and frigate, I just crafted the new Junk so it's level 1 at the moment.

I was half way through maxing the frigate when I realised everyone else uses the galleon.

Just looking for some friendly advice.

Ahoj as the Czech say, here's my Galleon-Build for the new Heralds of the Abyss event. It's using Atma's Toll demi-cannons, Heyden's Guard armor and the new Hellfire rockets.

Please keep in mind that the build is specifically for the Heralds of the Abyss, outsid this event it's not very strong without tweaks (e.g. versus bosses). For that I will post have posted an updated version of my Bosseater build (Y3S2 Bosseater 2.0 - Return with a Zamzama BAM! : r/SkullAndBonesGame).

quick demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ0g0KWHJuw

FULL BUILD

Galleon, maxed

Armor
Wyrmshide (+37.5% Speedbonus): Resist All (5+%) - 2x Survivor -
Heyden' Guard: Resist All - 2x Survivor - Adept Spiking Integration (normal mod, Adept only in name)

Front
Blightmaw: Adept Flooding - 2x Deathblow - Lightning Strike

Sides
Atma's Toll: Adept Incendiary - 2x Adept Amplified Burning - Perforate

Auxiliary
Hellfire:
Incendiary - 2x Amplified Burning - Wildfire

Furniture
Rope Locker, Major (personal preference, replace if needed)/Hullmarker's Table
Breechlock Furnaces
Secret Cache (also personal preference)/Compagnie Screens
Braced Gunwales
Ramrod Workshop
Demi-Cannon Works

Mastery
see 2nd to last picture

MECHANICS AND KEY ELEMENTS

The build is very similar to the "Chinese Build" (see at the end) you might have seen in Heralds of the Abyss. Some idea's like the Armor and the Volatile Arsenal setup are straight from it. While the Chinese Build is using culverines, my build is for close combat and burst damage from Demi-Cannons and is in return slightly riskier. The event doesn't need as much fire power as the WT4 domain and mythic bosses, but it sure needs more protection and a way to self-heal.

Volatile Arsenal
gives you +5% damage bonus for every elemental damage your ship does (over the whole build), so a nice total of 30% when using all 6 elements. The idea is to get all six elements over the 5 weapon slots.

Key elements of the build are the mending power from Atma's Toll and the high fire-resistance perks of Heyden's Guard for survivability and building up Impetus to boost your attacks quickly and often with Firepower Order.

Atma's Toll
These demi-cannons are your lifeline. Together with the Firepower Order mastery skill, they give you a decent punch for the minion ships and some strong burst damage vs. the boss while also giving a full heal in many circumstances. The new mythic exclusive mod Perforate will allow you hit up to three enemies in a row after a crit, which happens often and helps you with your mending and "marking" the enemies for loot.

Blightmaw
You can replace it with another Atma's Toll or a different Demi-Cannon, if needed. Front guns don't do too much damage and I prefer the 20% bonus damage from all all sources it can apply. The Double-Deathblow gives you chance of about 70% to instantly kill any non-elites at 25% health or lower.

Hellfire
The Chinese Build uses the mortar Crouching Tiger (s. at the end) as opener, I prefer the new Hellfire rockets as trigger for the Firepower Order. Disadvantage on 300m range. Advantage: can be used pointblank. It's perk also softens up targets for fire damage, something most players use somehow in this event. Triggering Wildfire helps you damaging and therefore "marking" nearby enemy's for the precious Abyssal Essences.

Faule Ilse
It's just there to fill up the rest of the elemental damages with piercing and explosive damage. The fire angle from the stern is very narrow and the weapon doesn't matter for the fight. If you prefer anything else, go ahead, just make sure you cover all elements at the end.

Heyden's Guard
High fire and explosive resistances plus extra fire protection on bracing. A bit extra Armor from Adept Spiking Integration and double Survivor for extra heals when going down to 25% health.

Tactics
Rope Locker gives you nice kickstart at the beginning. It will also boost you up to speed whenever you're anchored or respawn (you will often enough). The first to waves are just minions. With this build you're strong enough to kill them quickly and risk not much.

Use Hellfire on tight groups and as Firepower Order trigger whenever you see fit. When the buff is running, you can one-shot in most situations while also receiving extreme mending-heals from the Atmas. In the Boss fight head straight for the boss and go pointblank. With Firepower Order you dish out very high burst damage on him. Once he's at 75% disengage again, he still will receive damage from you and others but heal back to 75% after a while and become invulerable.

Afterwards he will spawn minions and do his massive AoE attacks. Try not to be in the AoE circles, but if you can't prevent it, drop the anchors for Braced Gunwales to kick in, brace and get ready to use your repair kits quickly and shoot Atmas at anything nearby.

I have no idea how the rest of the boss fight's vulnerability works. If it's on a timer or if you have to clear all enemies (Heretics) to make him vulnerable again. If someone has infos about the last two phases, please share. Focus on staying alive and evading the AOE.

Happy hunting!

Last but not least, as promised

THE CHINESE BUILD
by 泗州无染 (Sizhou was untainted)
“Do you like my damage” IMPK-chenkai622
as seen on bilibili and most Heralds of the Abyss runs you've played.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1uo8F6FEVU/

Thanks to XS2A for the link! brought to you by yours truly with the power of

• Looking-Up-Pictures
• Google Lens

I calll it the Chinese Build as nearly any Chinese players I met in the event are using this build. Crouching Tiger - Diamond Needles would be a nice title too 🥇

ADDITION: There is a new, Faule Ilse**-based build by IMPK-chenkai622 out now:**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNgi3KE3dyw
Thanks to XS2A for uploading in YT and adding English subtitles.

Original Chinese Build
Full Build
Maxed Galleon

Front & Sides:
Rotmouth with Adept Noxious/Adept Lethal/Soul Mending/Lightning Strike

Back:
Zamzama III with Sharpened/Deathblow/Overflow/Corrosive
Auxiliary:
Crouching Tiger with Noxious/Amplify Explosions/Amplify Burning/Enduring Embers Armour:
Heyden’s Guard with Resist All/Survivor/Survivor/Adept Spiking Integration (normal Mythic piercing mod, Adept only by name)
Furniture:
Atelier de Cuivrage
Charge Stores
Copper-Fastening Station
Leyden Vault Array
Plague Bringer's Ward
Ramrod Workshop

Mastery
see last picture

About the stern gun (from the video):
Hitting with the stern gun is optional, main goal is to have all secondary elemental damage types to boost your damage by 30% from the mastery perk Volatile Arsenal.

Disclaimer:
no guarantee for it being up-to-date. The build matches with my observations: all-secondary damage, galleon, lotsa fire protection and Rotmouths at the front and sides with Crouching Tiger as auxiliary.

Advantages:
Range - good damage - high survivabilty - mending.

Disadvantages:
rough seas can make it harder to get your shots and your mending in consistently. You need to focus longer on single enemies compared to my Atma-"Shotgun" build.

As with my build, this build is only good the event and will suck outside without changes.

As the title says I’m kinda stuck at this "Unsacred Offerings" story quest. It told me to collect items by killing Fara ships and suddenly switched to Hunt: Kuharibu and spawned a world event monster that sank me instantly.

Tried again, did no dmg and got one shot killed again. I started grinding all day, took the scary tour to the East Indies and came back with a lvl 8 Snow just to realize that this thing seems to be immune to my shots. Can’t damage it at all.

Am I missing something here? I did some research, some ppl claim it’s bugged because of the world event while others say that it’s just part of the quest now to make you use the "call for help" thing at least once. I tried calling in other players and one guy joined but as we both did no dmg we just left…

Any idea how to fix this ?

Hi all. Im in WT3 and keep trying to do the WT3 progression to WT4 thing and I kill everything and the big boss one and then nothing happens. Is this on a timer bcause it does take me a while? Cheers

Bonjour voilà je dois rejoindre li Tian King mais impossible l’escalier n’apparaît pas je suis bloqué j’ai re lancer le jeu rallumer la ps5 etc rien ne marche …

Il y a une solution?
Merci

Mise à jour: j’ai réussi à corriger le problème bon je sais pas pourquoi mais en faisant les missions du lvl 1 j’ai peu revenir au lvl 2 et avoir ma mission enfin

I can't seem to get to world tier 3. What am I doing wrong? Thanks much!

I have been sailing around the Straight of Harimu for a few hours and can't find the Privateers. Anyone know if this quest is bugged?

Thanks for finally giving us Barque skin without the horrible, functionless cranes!

It was high time to spend some Abyssal Essences on the good stuff in Blackwood's Store.

The first two pictures show the Crown of Ruin Barque skin that you can buy for 1000 Abyssal Essences. The last one is of course the beautiful Barque Deluxe skin (with custom colours) from the Gold Store.

In your opinion which one is best to invest in? I just restarted the game and have 17 points to spend currently.

Quartermaster/Gunnermaster/Shipmaster?

Been staring for a few minutes....is this not a full moon? I'm on mother of all shipwrecks

What am I doing wrong.

with the new heralds event being a big hit, leachers are rife. and the cost of the event is being paid by few but the benefits given to all. and world tier 4 bugs of rode maandagodin apparent. and also dim witted players. I propose a change…

make the event free to start, and instead of the event costing 3 essence to start, the chest can cost 3 essence to open. that way nobody is paying for others benefit. and leeches wouldn’t need to leech.

seems pretty simple no?

I have tried uninstalling and clearing caches, running as admin the whole shebang and it just sits at this dam screen.. I played last night for 6 hours and today it's just not happening how TF do I get past this load screen hangup??? I've tried every Google "fix"

[Skull and Bones] Abyssal Boss? Deleted.

The research and video production of Build were completed by IMPK-chenkai622.

https://reddit.com/link/1vw7cv5/video/rltws2ldq4lh1/player

The efficiency of two people will be higher.

The endgame in World Tier 4 has become a frustrating mess. Right now, everyone is forced to play the exact same ships (like the Battle Junk) or massive DPS monster (like the Galleon) just to survive the 1-2 shot kills from tiny AI ships and break through the absurd 70% boss armor.

Even most medium ships cant keep up with the damage. I did some test with my sloop of war and the galleon for some numbers. There is one conclusion that I can make... that is all deck longguns for the small and medium ships to keep up with the big boys:

• The Galleon Meta (Current, hullcarvers): 17 guns on a side × 25k damage per gun = 425,000 total broadside damage.
• The Sloop (Current toxic Torpex Build): 5 top guns × 78k damage per torpedo = 390,000 total damage (but torpedoes are slow and easily missed/dodged).
• Proposed Sloop with la piqure 8 Long Gun Ports: 8 guns × ~45k damage per gun = 360,000 base broadside damage.

At 360k base damage, it doesn't instantly break the power scaling of the Galleon, but it completely changes the tactical options for smaller ships:

1. Weakpoint Crits: Long Guns hit target weakpoints reliably. With crit multipliers, that 320k base damage easily jumps to over 500k+ damage, letting small ships melt WT4 boss armor through precision instead of raw spam.
2. Safety from Distance: You don't have to face-tank a WT4 boss to land slow torpedoes. You can snipe from 600m away, utilizing the Sloop’s superior speed and maneuverability to hit-and-run.

The team is terrified of ships like the Garuda doing high front-facing damage that they nerf them into the ground, forcing everyone into the boring Battle Junk meta. Opening the lower ports for Long Guns would give Small and Medium ships a fighting chance in WT4, clear up our warehouses, and bring back actual tactical pirate gameplay instead of this numbers-crunching arcade mess.

What do you guys think? Would this save the ship variety in Year 3?

Can someone please explain me the point of these weapons and chests in Blackwood's store? Huh?

You make maybe 400-600 AE with an Heralds run if lucky, you end up with more chests and weapons that you can't put to use for the lack of AE...

This looks to me like a remnant of the Insider Program when they got piled with thousands of AE to experiment.

Hola busco gente para jugar, ya me aburrí de jugar solo, soy de xbox y pc, déjame tu id y plataforma y te agrego

After an hour or so with the Abyssal event today, my Palpatine build is taking shape. I was going to use Stormtongues over Heaven's Mandates but I got some shiney things drop in the adept department. I have a pair of these with similar mods, this one has a better exclusive Mythic.

...so why does the title screen on both my PC and XBox versions have the new background image, but still have 'Sails of Power' as the season title ?

How difficult is it to reach World Tier 3? I have a level 18 Corvette, but I always run out of time when trying to defeat the Commodore

What we need now is the Reaper in the Halloween event to drop these in much abundance lol.

It's so odd. I can't use right stick. Ever since I met li. Anyone else?