PvP Best Practices?

[Edward Edgemenace]

If you Log on to the Disney pirates online web page, there is Community on the left navigation side-bar. Under that is Player's Channel. In there, you can open the Directory. In there, you can SEARCH by pirate name. From there, you can look at the skill point allocations of any pirate. Comparing the skill point allocations of various level 40 pirates is humorous and baffling. Some smaller guilds, you can see bizarre patterns, like one person with rank 5 Full Sail, another with rank 5 Ramming Speed and another with rank 5 windcatcher. A combination like that makes it possible for a crew to switch off drivers, to create a faster-than-possible ship.

Grape shot currently is the best assassination ammo. (Note that most of us considered it a wasted skill point, two months ago. Round shot works for single enemies if you bean them...but for foiling glitchers, nothing beats grape, these days.)

Rank 5 thunderbolt is disturbingly destructive. It also has twice the range of any other ammo.

Round shot itself is very destructive when you are at a higher level notoriety. You get three shots (thunder you get only 1) so if two miss, you still take out the outer hull.

Explosive has very limited application, but when it hits, the fireworks are glorious.

Fury is hard to keep reloaded. Amazing destruction. Firebrand is weak fury. Both suffer from restocking (which makes Round Shot that much more attractive.)

Chain shot has not found a niche yet. Still useless, from what I can see. (Having said that, something will probably change, making it long range or something.)

Rapid reload is amazingly helpful. Shoot is amazingly helpful. All the passives are surprisingly beneficial.

If I ever do it again: shoot 5, round shot 5, thunderbolt 1, rapid reload 5, barrage 5, shrapnel 5.

For sailing, I regret every point I've wasted on treasure sense.