Congrats to yet another pirate master!! :)

yes congrats!

Ill add the newest ones tommorow, Congratz!

Congrats to all the new Pirate Masters!
Nate, sorry I had to leave b4 ya mastered, but ya no "A Pirate's Work is Never Done"! WTG!!!

Congratz to Jason! Nice job man!

Lizzy, it's fine you had to leave before i mastered, you still showed up.

Add basil...

Congrats Tom - new Pirate Master!
 

Congrats!!

written in original thread by Swash IIYou know... I've always wanted to ask this...

And since I am just a simple Pirate as any other and would love to have a clear explanation
as to how this was possible especially from the top...uh... let's say 5 players on this list...
how did you possibly achieve level 50 WITHOUT leveling your weapons...??????

I like to hear how the actual task was accomplished so I too may try?
As many of us know.. the top 3 at least did not have weapons mastered and did this within a few days after the release....?
With such a prestigious title proclaimed as "First to achieve this" by the first three listed I would love to hear a clear explanation? :)

thanks Mates for indulging me... I am really curious.

That has been a good question from the very start! Many believe that there had to be glitching involved, or that there was no way possible to go from level 40 to level 50 in such a short time without the use of speed, or other forms of cheating.

I for one am not going to debate that any further.

Suffice it to say that it is possible to take a level 40 fully mastered pirate, under the old rules, and do one of three things with them.

1) Level all weapons to level 30 from level 25, and earn no other rep from quests or from invasions, and you will have all weapons maxed and be around high level 46 on Notoriety.

2) Pick one or two weapons/skills, go to Outcast, Tormenta, or sailing, and do nothing BUT work those, earn rep from any quests you may not have done before, and from invasions, and you can get a pirate to level 50 without fully mastering your weapons.

3) Work everything fairly evenly, earn rep wherever you can, and get Notoriety to 50, and get all weapons and skills to 30, to reach FULL MASTERING of your pirate.

I had 4 fully mastered pirates under the old standards. Each of them still had quests available when the new limits came out. 2 of them had never done the level 5 weapons quests, or the clothing quests, since they had reached 40/25 prior to those quests ever being released. One other is only 3% along on the Pearl quest. I played him that way specifically to see if a pirate could reach full Master without any of the Pearl quest rep, and back then, you could.

If you "Saved" quests or some other form of earning gratis rep from the old ways, you can progress thru the new levels fairly quickly.

OBTW: My first pirate to hit level 50 and all weapons mastered again was only 2 weeks ago. My next highest is still only level 42. I'm in no rush to put them all back at the full mastered status, then sit and complain that there is nothing left to do.

What Swash originally meant by that quote, to be added to the list, you just have to hit notoriety level 50, but all of your weapons don't have to be level 30. As we all know, rep can be received from mastered weapons, so if you work one over and over after its level 30, you don't even have to level another weapon.

I'm sure that there are a few people on the list who didn't earn level 50, but there is no way for anyone to really know for sure.

I don't know how, but i have a picture of Swash Guy on Tortuga as 50 without any weapons being over 25.
Odd indeed, so can't really say what he did to get there so fast :pirate.capta:

But Sven is right, you can get to 50 by only mastering one weapon. It's harder, but you can do it.

Please add Catherine Gunflint, who mastered on January 22.

Also please add Thomas Chainrackham who mastered on February 8th.

It is the first for both of them. Congrats to you guys!

Congrats! :)

And to Jeanne... i'm not even gonna go on about that.. but the list is just to distinguish who has hit level 50.

Congratz to the ETC's Benjamin Bladesmythe and Angel Mysstica!!



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