If you are not having much luck with the Bounty Voyages, you can always try having the Phantoms at Sea Forts kill the Captain of the Fortress on the final wave.
If you vote cancel Bounty Voyages while near an island until you have just Regular & or Shadow captains (it shows you which type of captains it will be from the voyage map) Then you get to the captain wave, shoot the captain 5 times with sniper, then shoot the lure dart. The captain will die very quickly and you will get 3 captain kills towards the commendation. Busted this one out in about 2 hours or less.
@@awesomeduck500 blunderbuss the captain a few times before putting a lure on him. once the lure is on the captain, place a keg near where the battle takes place. if a phantom hits the keg while trying to kill the captain, it counts.
Fun fact: The update added a ship milestone for skeletons lured in the Rogue category. This can be used to rapidly increase your Rogue rank if you're after the Rogue ship rewards for a ship much faster than the other categories. Just find an activity with a group of skeletons and put a bunch of lure darts on the ground around them. I'm uncertain if you can repeated lure the same group or if it only works on each skeleton once. Regardless it's quite effective. I did a run of Heart of Fire which has 3 multiwave skeleton encounters and it got me from rank 0 to roughly 15 in 1 run.
Can you do a follow-up video doing the "correct" tactic for "grinding" them: Fleets/Skeleton ships. On there (random ships or last ship in a fleet), the captains respawn, making for infinite captains. - You want to kill the first captain with your sword, counting how many swipes it takes to finish it off. - Then you want to do 1 less than that many swipes to the next captain followed by the lure dart. This guarantees the captain to be at lowest health possible when the AI attack. - After doing that, break line of sight from the other skeletons and enter a disguise to make the skeletons de-agro you. This is easy on a gallon as you can move to the balcony on the back of the boat. You can move while disguised back to the captain and it won't cause any re-agro. - You may have to re-dart the captain if the AI was bad and didn't kill the captain right away. - After the captain is dead, a new one will spawn shortly after, making this repeatable without having to travel by boat anywhere nor going through waves of enemies each time. If you want to try poison instead of sword slashes, you can try it, but I can't test if that might accidently kill the captain or not. It might be faster but if the poison kills the captain rather than the skeleton crew, it won't progress the commendation. The last damage source on death is what determines commendations. All other damage other than final damage is irrelevant.
The Skeleton Ships method is definitely a good one. However, we usually don't cover methods that will more than likely get patched. Seeing as earning Renown from Skeleton Captains on Skeleton Ships was removed, we can see this also being patched later to not count for the Commendation.
Aye :) During the first few Seasons, people were farming Skeleton Captains on Skeleton Ships like this for Renown. It was removed pretty quickly after it spread to the broader community. As far as we know, you don't get Renown for killing Skeleton Captains from Skeleton Ships anymore.
@@RareThief What is "renown"? Again, i'm sorry but "using skeleton ships for renown" is the part I wanted you to explain. That and what seasons/what event.
Oh, I see. So Renown is the "XP" you earn from performing various actions while you play. It's what levels up your Season Pass. During Season One, people found out they could quickly jump from Renown Level 1 to Renown Level 100 by farming Skeleton Captains on Skeleton Ships. I believe sometime in Season Two they stopped those Captains from giving Renown, so people couldn't get to Level 100 with it. Since it was removed for boosting that, we can see them patching it for this too.
For those that need to open 50 Sea Fort vaults, this can be completed in conjunction with "They Work for Me Now" by repeatedly diving to a sea fort, and using a lure on the sea fort captain.
One way I found, instead of shooting skeletons and hope and pray, you could set up a keg, lure dart all 3 skeleton captains, and jump in with the keg and kill maybe all 3 of them. It is not as reliable.
Good shout out! Aye, those are great to go after too. We just found that this Voyage worked well as it was the same amount of time as a Sea Fort and you could get two to three depending on your luck. Being at a Sea Fort is also seems a bit more precarious than being on an island.
I got it using skeleton ships, just keep diving to them until you're against *PLANT* skeletons. if you manage your ship (and their ship) properly, your ship will never get holes and you can stay on the skeleton ship indefinitely. I recommend bringing a sword, blow-darts (for the lure and poison) and a fruit crate. you don't need ammo crates because the skeletons on the ship drop ammo pouches when killed with sword. This method is much more difficult than the one in the video, so maybe its not for everyone. though its so much faster at around 1 captain every 45-120 seconds depending on how fast the skeletons kill the captain the reason i choose skeleton ships is because the captain re-spawns what feels like 15 seconds after dying. the reason I choose plant skeletons is because they are so much easier to kill with a sword. *The method:* (I'm not sure if this is just a myth, but you get the best chance for plant crews on merchant raids) 0. somehow get the food crate onto the skeleton ship (just ram them and repair both your ship and theirs) you probably wont get banned for spawn-camping) 1. sail boat so its tailing the skeleton ship at 1/3 sail, then sword dash/cannon/crudlaunch to board the skeletons 2. once on board, slash the captain 10 times with sword. (they die to 11 slashes, so this is just a more consistent way to lower their health) 3. hit the captain with a lure, and hang onto the ladder so the skeletons forget about you and cannot shoot you. 3 1/2. if the captain doesn't die, shoot another lure. 4. once the captain is dead, go on board and slaughter the crew. (this is to refill ammo) 5. rinse and repeat! *Warnings:* make sure the skeleton ship has no water in it, if it has water the captain may go below and heal. Knowing Rare, you might get banned for spawn-camping, so be careful! Make sure to keep killing the cannonier so it doesn't shoot your ship (I recommend either poisoning it, or using a sword) Make sure the skeleton ship doesn't sail out of its bounds, if this happens it will void your fruit crate. Do NOT rely on the stairs, they sometimes are very slippery and will trap you temporarily be aware of the sniper in the crows nest, they will wall-bang you as of the most recent patch.
I think if you get a keg skelly alone, you can just keep lure darting it over and over until you get the commendation. Be careful not to miss, othewise it will lock onto the dart and explode.
Get any keg skelly on its own and aim for the legs, hitting the keg won’t count. If you miss do not let it see the lure otherwise it will explode. If you kite far enough away you could destroy the missed lure with a few sword swings
Some pirates have reported that it also isn’t counting for them too. Are you doing the one with three Captains? You can also try the Sea Fort Captains as those seem more reliable for registering.
Yeah, the ones with three Captains work for us as well. The single Captain ones for some reason don't. Perhaps because the Captain isn't "dressed" like a Captain? Even though they have a Nameplate?
@@RareThief That’s good, was a bit worried about the grind. I got practically all the other possible commendations and just have this and some poison ones left
This the game where doing all the commendations for a set of story missions takes players on average 20-50 hours to complete (shores of gold 5 times with all journals)
5k hours in the game and I have to say this is the most annoying commendation ever. They were shooting the captain for over 10 minutes before I decided to kill him myself. And he was still full health when I decided to kill him 😂
This has to be one of the stupidest commendations they have added. I swear it never registers and even if I kill 5 skeletons it only says I killed 3. I have no idea how I am going to complete this without going insane since every time I try the method in the video, I get golden captains which after 10 minutes don't die.
Check your Quest to see what kind of Skeleton Captains you get before you dive. You can always cancel and revote to get Shadow or Plant if you want. Also you can try giving the Captains at Sea Forts a shot to take a break from the Voyage. Good luck!
I feel like saying “the skeleton captains voyage is the most reliable” is a bit too obvious and doesn’t really need to be said lol. Because it’s a voyage specifically for skeleton captains
You'll definitely want to approach it as a longer term Commendation if grinding it out sounds miserable. We did get to 25 over the weekend for whatever it is worth. You can also switch it up by trying it on the Phantom Captain at a Sea Fort.
If you are not having much luck with the Bounty Voyages, you can always try having the Phantoms at Sea Forts kill the Captain of the Fortress on the final wave.
Tried it but the phantom captain killed the other phantoms
If you vote cancel Bounty Voyages while near an island until you have just Regular & or Shadow captains (it shows you which type of captains it will be from the voyage map) Then you get to the captain wave, shoot the captain 5 times with sniper, then shoot the lure dart. The captain will die very quickly and you will get 3 captain kills towards the commendation. Busted this one out in about 2 hours or less.
I do it, and i am finished Yesterday :D i hope we get someday a Better Skeleton KI, for Real FUN
@@awesomeduck500 blunderbuss the captain a few times before putting a lure on him. once the lure is on the captain, place a keg near where the battle takes place. if a phantom hits the keg while trying to kill the captain, it counts.
Thank you so much for making this. It is the last commendation I have to do for this season besides the traps and hanging.
Wow! Nice work! That’s really awesome :) Hope this helps!
That’s crazy, congrats for that
Thank you so much! This is one thats been giving me trouble so I'll definitely do this!
Good luck! You got this!
You guys do great work! Love all your videos.
Glad you like them! Cheers!
I found giving a captain 2 pistol or a poison dart before the lure helps speed it up a good bit
Nice! Thanks for the tip! That will definitely help some pirates out :)
Fun fact: The update added a ship milestone for skeletons lured in the Rogue category. This can be used to rapidly increase your Rogue rank if you're after the Rogue ship rewards for a ship much faster than the other categories. Just find an activity with a group of skeletons and put a bunch of lure darts on the ground around them.
I'm uncertain if you can repeated lure the same group or if it only works on each skeleton once.
Regardless it's quite effective. I did a run of Heart of Fire which has 3 multiwave skeleton encounters and it got me from rank 0 to roughly 15 in 1 run.
Wow! Thanks for sharing! Thats pretty huge!
@@RareThief Beats my old method of hiding my ship and sleeping while waking periodically to avoid the idle timeout.
Thanks for this
No problem! Happy sailing!
Hi i found this channel in the sea of thieves partners section, do you organize serpents lie sails events like giveaways/competitions here?
Can you do a follow-up video doing the "correct" tactic for "grinding" them:
Fleets/Skeleton ships. On there (random ships or last ship in a fleet), the captains respawn, making for infinite captains.
- You want to kill the first captain with your sword, counting how many swipes it takes to finish it off.
- Then you want to do 1 less than that many swipes to the next captain followed by the lure dart. This guarantees the captain to be at lowest health possible when the AI attack.
- After doing that, break line of sight from the other skeletons and enter a disguise to make the skeletons de-agro you. This is easy on a gallon as you can move to the balcony on the back of the boat. You can move while disguised back to the captain and it won't cause any re-agro.
- You may have to re-dart the captain if the AI was bad and didn't kill the captain right away.
- After the captain is dead, a new one will spawn shortly after, making this repeatable without having to travel by boat anywhere nor going through waves of enemies each time.
If you want to try poison instead of sword slashes, you can try it, but I can't test if that might accidently kill the captain or not. It might be faster but if the poison kills the captain rather than the skeleton crew, it won't progress the commendation. The last damage source on death is what determines commendations. All other damage other than final damage is irrelevant.
The Skeleton Ships method is definitely a good one. However, we usually don't cover methods that will more than likely get patched. Seeing as earning Renown from Skeleton Captains on Skeleton Ships was removed, we can see this also being patched later to not count for the Commendation.
@@RareThief "earning Renown from Skeleton Captains on Skeleton Ships was removed"
I'm sorry, can you explain this line???
Aye :) During the first few Seasons, people were farming Skeleton Captains on Skeleton Ships like this for Renown. It was removed pretty quickly after it spread to the broader community. As far as we know, you don't get Renown for killing Skeleton Captains from Skeleton Ships anymore.
@@RareThief What is "renown"? Again, i'm sorry but "using skeleton ships for renown" is the part I wanted you to explain. That and what seasons/what event.
Oh, I see. So Renown is the "XP" you earn from performing various actions while you play. It's what levels up your Season Pass. During Season One, people found out they could quickly jump from Renown Level 1 to Renown Level 100 by farming Skeleton Captains on Skeleton Ships. I believe sometime in Season Two they stopped those Captains from giving Renown, so people couldn't get to Level 100 with it. Since it was removed for boosting that, we can see them patching it for this too.
For those that need to open 50 Sea Fort vaults, this can be completed in conjunction with "They Work for Me Now" by repeatedly diving to a sea fort, and using a lure on the sea fort captain.
Great point! Knock two out at the same time. Thanks for sharing :)
One way I found, instead of shooting skeletons and hope and pray, you could set up a keg, lure dart all 3 skeleton captains, and jump in with the keg and kill maybe all 3 of them. It is not as reliable.
Fortress phantom Captains are also effective and easier to get as there’s six forts around the map.
Good shout out! Aye, those are great to go after too. We just found that this Voyage worked well as it was the same amount of time as a Sea Fort and you could get two to three depending on your luck. Being at a Sea Fort is also seems a bit more precarious than being on an island.
i did this with skeleton lords but i think it doesnt count
Yeah, we probably should have mentioned that. Lords are above Captains so they don’t count. At least not from our testing and you confirming it too.
I got it using skeleton ships, just keep diving to them until you're against *PLANT* skeletons. if you manage your ship (and their ship) properly, your ship will never get holes and you can stay on the skeleton ship indefinitely. I recommend bringing a sword, blow-darts (for the lure and poison) and a fruit crate. you don't need ammo crates because the skeletons on the ship drop ammo pouches when killed with sword.
This method is much more difficult than the one in the video, so maybe its not for everyone. though its so much faster at around 1 captain every 45-120 seconds depending on how fast the skeletons kill the captain
the reason i choose skeleton ships is because the captain re-spawns what feels like 15 seconds after dying.
the reason I choose plant skeletons is because they are so much easier to kill with a sword.
*The method:*
(I'm not sure if this is just a myth, but you get the best chance for plant crews on merchant raids)
0. somehow get the food crate onto the skeleton ship (just ram them and repair both your ship and theirs) you probably wont get banned for spawn-camping)
1. sail boat so its tailing the skeleton ship at 1/3 sail, then sword dash/cannon/crudlaunch to board the skeletons
2. once on board, slash the captain 10 times with sword. (they die to 11 slashes, so this is just a more consistent way to lower their health)
3. hit the captain with a lure, and hang onto the ladder so the skeletons forget about you and cannot shoot you.
3 1/2. if the captain doesn't die, shoot another lure.
4. once the captain is dead, go on board and slaughter the crew. (this is to refill ammo)
5. rinse and repeat!
*Warnings:*
make sure the skeleton ship has no water in it, if it has water the captain may go below and heal.
Knowing Rare, you might get banned for spawn-camping, so be careful!
Make sure to keep killing the cannonier so it doesn't shoot your ship (I recommend either poisoning it, or using a sword)
Make sure the skeleton ship doesn't sail out of its bounds, if this happens it will void your fruit crate.
Do NOT rely on the stairs, they sometimes are very slippery and will trap you temporarily
be aware of the sniper in the crows nest, they will wall-bang you as of the most recent patch.
this is what I did, this is a well written and informative comment!
Small thing, Rare doesnt care if you spawn camp skeletons on a ship, its just other players they worry about.
@@netherwarrior6113 idk man, they are CRAZY
does ashen captains work too?
Yep!
“Orange nameplate” OneFalcon you may be partially colorblind
Haha! Perhaps! You all keep telling me it is red and I keep forgetting because I still see orange. Doh!
It's funny how shinny they are
So shiny!
How many do I have to kill for grade v
25 for Grade V :)
Yooo can you do the keg skelly one plz it's basically my last one
Also noice vid
I think if you get a keg skelly alone, you can just keep lure darting it over and over until you get the commendation. Be careful not to miss, othewise it will lock onto the dart and explode.
Get any keg skelly on its own and aim for the legs, hitting the keg won’t count. If you miss do not let it see the lure otherwise it will explode. If you kite far enough away you could destroy the missed lure with a few sword swings
Why are these not regestering, i have done 5, none of them have counted
Some pirates have reported that it also isn’t counting for them too. Are you doing the one with three Captains?
You can also try the Sea Fort Captains as those seem more reliable for registering.
Sea Forts definitely work and I tried the 1 captain voyages first, the ones with 3 seem to work mostly
Yeah, the ones with three Captains work for us as well. The single Captain ones for some reason don't. Perhaps because the Captain isn't "dressed" like a Captain? Even though they have a Nameplate?
Nice new method of killing the metal skeleton
The Blowpipe in general devastates the Gold Skeletons. The Black Powder Dart and Poison Dart both kill them easily.
I feel this commendation should have capped at 10, due to the uniqueness of its situation. 25 seems a bit much. Good video still
25 is pretty high. Definitely a longer term commendation. Though, we got to 25 pretty quickly getting at least two Captains on each Voyage.
@@RareThief That’s good, was a bit worried about the grind. I got practically all the other possible commendations and just have this and some poison ones left
Nice! That's so quick! Good luck on the rest :) If you have any issues with the Voyages, the Captain of the Fortress on each Sea Fort will also work.
Everytime you hop servers using a GH dig quest there's a captain, annnd digging up the 2 chests spawns skeletons
This the game where doing all the commendations for a set of story missions takes players on average 20-50 hours to complete (shores of gold 5 times with all journals)
5k hours in the game and I have to say this is the most annoying commendation ever. They were shooting the captain for over 10 minutes before I decided to kill him myself. And he was still full health when I decided to kill him 😂
And people say all the mischief commendations is easy lmao
This has to be one of the stupidest commendations they have added.
I swear it never registers and even if I kill 5 skeletons it only says I killed 3.
I have no idea how I am going to complete this without going insane since every time I try the method in the video, I get golden captains which after 10 minutes don't die.
Check your Quest to see what kind of Skeleton Captains you get before you dive. You can always cancel and revote to get Shadow or Plant if you want.
Also you can try giving the Captains at Sea Forts a shot to take a break from the Voyage.
Good luck!
I feel like saying “the skeleton captains voyage is the most reliable” is a bit too obvious and doesn’t really need to be said lol. Because it’s a voyage specifically for skeleton captains
Haha, fair. However, we did get a lot of requests for this guide, so might as well share what we did :)
This is the worst commendation of all time.
If you are running into issues with the Skeleton Captains, you can always try the Phantom Captains at Sea Forts.
They made these commendations WAAYY too grindy. 25 bosses? Like seriously, who wants to do that?
You'll definitely want to approach it as a longer term Commendation if grinding it out sounds miserable. We did get to 25 over the weekend for whatever it is worth. You can also switch it up by trying it on the Phantom Captain at a Sea Fort.
@@RareThief does it at least count for the whole crew? That's the big factor for me