Very Important Lessons (VIL's)

[Crazypirate]

Buy all the clothes and Tats you want before you do the side quest or the quests will fill all of the available spots and you will not be able to buy anything without selling your hard earned quest items!

[Shnoodell]

dont pile up your skill points on combo attacks because that will just make leveling that much harder ;-)

[Basil Dreadflint]

In response to spending your skill points.

With very few exceptions, Only put only 1 point on each skill. Attune and heal, broadsides, and maybe a few of the passives get more than one point each. All the others, the more points you put into them, the harder it is to level. Keeping your damage low guarantees you high rep per kill.

3 of my 4 fully mastered pirates had over 80 unspent points when they hit level 40, and one had 106 unspent spoints when he fully mastered. Even after fully mastering, I kept an average of 5 points per weapon/skill in reserve, for future needs.