post your sailing build!
 

post your saling build!!!

(i prefer galleons and frigates so i put all my skills in speed and firepower) here is mine:

sailing lvl: 11
left side: 3/5
right side: 3/5
fullsail: 3/5
come about: 1/5
windcatcher: 1/5

well, there is mine. post yours!

lvl 23 sailing

left: 3

right: 3

full sail: 1

come about: 2

Open fire: 1 (duh, most useless skill ever)

ramming speed: 2

Take cover: 1

Windcatcher: 2

Tacking: 1

Treasure sense: 5 :D

Taskmaster: 1

Leadership: locked

Must on right and left broadsides.

ONLY ONE! On Full sail come about and ram speed. No point in putting any more.
MUST 5 on Windcatcher
5 on TS only if you plan to help out your fellow lower pirates.
I havent diciided to do with the rest of the points.

(on my level 33 pirate...)

Sailing lvl: 18
Left side: 5/5
Right side: 5/5
Fullsail: 1/5
Come about: 1/5
Open fire:1/5 (even with 1 skill point has DOUBLED effectiveness of my broadside)
Ramming speed 1/5

I like investing in passive skills, that assist me all the time..
Windcatcher: 2/5
Tacking: 1/5
TreasureSense: 0/5 - Gold's easy to get when level 30+, only good for short term.
Taskmaster: 2/5

Drew Bloodhounds Sailing Stats

Sailing Level 24

Left Broadside - 5
Right Broadside - 5
Full Sail - 1
Open Fire - 1
Come About - 1
Ramming Speed - 1
Take Cover - 1
Windcatcher - 2
Tacking - 1
Treasure Sense - 5
Taskmaster - 1

Sailing level: 23

Left Broadside- 5
Right Broadside- 5
Full Sail- 1
Come About- 1
Open Fire- 1
Ramming Speed- 2 ( gonna be four when I master sailing )
Take Cover- 1
Leadership- Always rank one ( bc you can't add a point )

Windcatcher- 5
Tacking- 1
Treasure Sense- 1
Taskmaster- 1

Windcatcher and broadsides are mostly important to me.. so I think mine is okay.

Right Broadside - 5
Left Broadside - 5
Full Sail - 1
Come About - 1
Ramming Speed - 1
Take Cover - 1
Leadership

Windcatcher - 2
Tacking - 1
Treasure Sense - 5
Taskmaster - 4

After reading this post I have a good idea of what I'm going to be sinking my points into but I can't decide what to max and what not to. Here is a rough draft with questions to follow:

5/5 Left Broadside
5/5 Right Broadside
1/5 Full Sail
1/5 Come About
*/5 Open Fire
1/5 Ramming Speed
*/5 Take Cover

*/5 Windcatcher
*/5 Tacking
0/5 Treasure Sense
*/5 Taskmaster

13/26

I'm not a fan of Treasure Sense. Seems like a good idea if you plan on helping out lowbies. Might be something I'll use on an alt but not on this character.

All of the abilities with a */5 are ones that I'm not sure how many points I want to put in. Open Fire and Take Cover are either going to be 1/5 or 0/5 but I can't decide if I want both, one or the other, or none of them at all. After I can figure that out, I plan on dumping the remainding points into Windcatcher, Tacking and Taskmaster. Right now I already have 4 points in Windcatcher and 2 in Tacking.

If I don't take either Open Fire or Take Cover it can be divided 5/4/4 or 5/5/3 into Windcatcher, Tacking and Taskmaster in any order. If I plan on taking one or both, then that would neglect two points from the 3 passives. If I can't max all three of the above passives, which should I neglect? Would 4/5 on both broadsides be another viable option?

Thanks for any input.

Edit: Incorrect math on skill points.

Sailing level: 25
5/5 Left Broadside
5/5 Right Broadside
1/5 Full Sail
1/5 Come About
*/5 Open Fire
1/5 Ramming Speed
1/5 Take Cover

1/5 Windcatcher
*/5 Tacking
5/5 Treasure Sense
4/5 Taskmaster

LVL 25 SAiLING

left broadside---5
right broadside----5
full sail---1
come about----1
open fire---5(idk wats rong with u ppl this is the greatest skill ever!!)
ramming speed---1
take cover-----3(lifesaver)
windacatcer---0
tacking----0
treasure sense----5
taskmaster----0
no leadership(working on that)

Darman's

both broads----10
full sail ----------1
come about---- 1
open fire ------- 2
ramming---------2
take cover-------0
windcatcher-----2
tacking-----------1
treasure sense-5


might be wrong... i'll check and edit it in aswell as Ordo's

I now have a million ideas of builds, all suited for specific moments. For me, the redistribution of spent points really solves any money problems I'd never yet faced, though it did introduce a fewof its own...

I have master sailing and now that I spend most of my sailing time Privateering, I kind of like this sailing build:

Left Broadside (1/5)
Right Broadside (1/5)
Full Sail (1/5)
Come About (1/5)
Open Fire (5/5)
Ramming Speed (1/5)
Take Cover (3/5)

Windcatcher (4/5)
Tacking (4/5)
Treasure Sense (0/5)
Taskmaster: (5/5)

Total (26/26)

Notes:
I put 1 in full sail and ramming speed simply for a short burst of speed to break away from the pack if I get surrounded. I sometimes like come about when a war sloop is circling. I can sometime break away with it. Treasure sense seems wasted now that I have max gold and all the war ships.

Most of the time when I am sailing I have a crew so I felt that broadsides were less important. I am kind of gimping myself in non PVP but since I don't care about sailing rep, I can always just hop off the wheel and nuke the enemy with my cannons! :newsmi4:

This build changes the way you sail in PVP and even in PVE with a crew. I find myself trying harder to keep the ship angle as tight as I can so my crew can fire the cannons and I don't worry about having to line up my broadsides. If something sails broadside, well a little damage is better than nothing. My crew is going to sink it anyway.

The only thing I am not sure on is how much windcatcher and tacking helps. Not sure if would help to take from those 2 skills and beef up broadsides or not.