I always buy the cannonballs, wood, and fruit crates from the merchant and put them on my ship. It gives you a nice level boost and saves you time so you don't need to look the island before heading out. I found that it's much faster to harpoon your loot onto your ship rather than walking back and forth. Completing merchant voyages also gives you a nice level boost.
Yeah I just tried that yesterday after I saw a few of you guys commented about it. Buying those extra crates is a nice way to get an early emissary boost for sure!
doing the commodoties, animals and cargo deliveries at once. doing three cargo deliveries in the Roar could be as profitable as 60K g extra, 3.5k/unit on max level
personally as a merchant, after fetching a lost shipment to boost my grade, I usually go by the "loop route" aka. going in a big circle around the map (from golden sands to sanctuary to daggertooth etc.) simply because it cuts time. that said it´s not always the most efficient choice, either because : 1- there are reapers around, which pose a risk to the trade routes if you stockpile your cargo 2- there is a simple route between two or three outposts, which reduces risk by having you roam less, or 3- i dont have to much time on me
Definitely go circular next time. Just collect all the surplus and eventually you'll run into an outpost on your route that is in need of something you have. No need to go the other side of the map every time
we did that but, once we 've completed a whole turn, we got back at our starting outpost. the starting npc didn't sell us any commodities as it was on a cooldown, we got bored and logged off. we got around 150k gold from playing 2 hours and doing a whole turn of outposts.
@@bdenix1997 The commodities respawn roughly every 2 hours. So if you're faster than that, you need to wait for respawn. We usually de-flag, do a shipwreck mission, then restart the route. Works out great.
@@bdenix1997 you can add a ton to your profits if you include sea forts into the circuit which increases total income and makes each trip take long enough to where you'll likely have went through the entire commodity cooldown by the time to arrive back at your starter outpost
The concept is pretty simple: buy crates at the first one/two outposts, fight some skeleton ships/complete forts/do other activities that boost your emissary flag level significantly, continue trading after you reach tier 3/4. Might actually level up all the way to tier 5. Rinse and repeat after you complete the circle. One more way is completing delivery voyages while sailing with purchased cargo. You won't get as much, as you would with tier 4/5 flag, but at least you'll get flag level points, so why not try, if it is close to your route? And, if I recall correctly, you can just cancel voyage without losing an ability to start it again, and just start another one (in case quest vendor will be too far away). Devil's roar deliveries are dope, btw, giving you 3.5k per item with maxed out emissary flag. 5 crates, delivered to a nearest isle = 17.5k of additional profit. Plus 35k for completing 2 emissary quests. Just try not to engage in ANY fights, while shipping rom - you are likely to regret it, especially if it's 50-70% of your quest cargo. It doesn't need to be hit directly to be damaged: one hit to your mast can be enough to damage rom crates, which are 3-7 meters away from it. And believe me, you don't want it to happen. Always hide silk under some cover (like captains quarters in the sloop, just make sure to place it right in the middle, near the map table, or it will be damaged by the water from the holes in the back of the ship). Seems like hits on the mast damage everything near it and on top of it, so hiding rom there wont be of much help. PROBABLY, you can leave rom crates near the silk in captains quarters in the sloop, and they will not be damaged, but I never tried. And don't forget to turn the lights off. You can also loot all barrels of plenty along the way, potentially getting some expensive fish for hunter's call rep and some coin, and also supplies to fill cannonball/wood/fruit crates (which cant be sold unless filled to the brim). Also you can find good Devil's roar cargo voyages among these barrels. Might also complete Order of Souls quests from the bottles, but they aren't really profitable, that is just for fun.
I seriously just watched that spot 7 or 8 times trying to figure out what you were talking about because it didn't look like there was a cut, but then I saw the number of crates on the dock change next time I dropped one off. I didn't even mean for that to happen 😂 Funny how that works.
I started the game as being a merchant, I managed to level up to this point by doing the cargo runs and now even as a new Pirate Legend I still use my Merchant Captain title as a symbol of both pride and honor.
What I do in a voyage like this, I pick lost cargo voyage to hit level 5 before selling. I also plan my route by nearest outposts. With yours week route, going Plunder (your spawn) >> Golden >> Sanctuary >> Dagger >> Galleon >> Morrow >> Ancient >> Plunder >> Golden >> Sanctuary, would've been most time efficient. Doing a circle is much faster than crossing entire map. According to planners CW circle whilst visiting Plunder, Golden and Sanctuary x2 times was 350m, when following a route by commodities was 450m. Which shaves like 20-25% off the journey.
This may be a little late but using Merfolks Lullaby is only really effective if you are doing 1 or 2 runs at a time. It’s also much more risky because you are heading through the dead center of the map with many more opportunities to be spotted. I would recommend stealing Clifs idea of just going in a giant circle and hitting the fortresses along the way.
personally, i think that the trade route was simply implemented to give merchant emissaries something relatively safe compared to escorting animals, rum bottles and gunpowder, simply because you´re supposed to deal with reapers if you fly an emmisary. also the fact that you cannot buy this cargo if you´re not an emissary
Nicely done video. When I do these runs solo I use a brig. Faster in the water in most circumstances, and easier to run from others. I also tend to just go in a circle around the map. Ie golden>sanctuary >dagger etc. Thank you for the breakdown though.
I would definitely recommend putting down voyages, if you do this, to take advantage of the large amount of sailing. It will help you accrue miles for the "sail 1,000 miles while on X voyages" commendations. It doesn't matter that you're doing merchant stuff, you can put down an Athena quest if you want.
Thank u for explaining in a way I can understand easily. I appreciate u as well as subbed. Be safe, and have fun. Edit: super chill play style. I’m for it.
When they first dropped this update, there was an ultimate way to make lots of gold in short time. Could get 4 crates of each crate with a 4man galleon crew. About 20 crates per outpost allowing 4x20 crates, so each outpost we could buy 80+- crates for a very cheap price. At emissary level 5, they sold 10-19k a piece. Well that's a bucket of 800.000k easy per pirate per crew. Sadly within 3 days they changed it with a extra update.. and it was not possible anymore to use this method. I completely understand, cause I payed 340k and made 11million in 3 days of merchant commodity crate's pure merchant
Why mad. It was no fun mate.... Like no fun at all you'd realize if you make that much coin in such a time with whole crew for eating out of the nose as in do nothing much. Nah man. Buy all you want in the game, unlock 🔓 it all and there's nothing left to not know and be excited about. Nothing actually earned.... Just some coin that has lost density.
@@IKHAATHAAT I agree. Crews of four were making millions an hour. People just wanted an easy way out of grinding and when it was removed they all got mad on Twitter.
I subbed love the video I have not played this game a lot and I'm not even pirate legend yet so I did not know about this I'm glad you covered it. After watching this, I will for sure do this more often it seems very chill and rewarding solo.
You guys should've seen the trade routes when they were first introduced. Gemstones were going for 11k at grade 5 I think. They were more expensive to buy and you could lose alot of gold if you got sunk early. You couldn't purchase as many crates but the gold you got was insane. I understand they had to nerf it. I do wish they would increase the value a bit though. Good video btw.
Most efficient sailing time would be to make a simple loop of all the outposts. By the time you finish one complete loop you should start seeing some lag. When the lag starts getting too great, that's when you sell everything off and server hop, especially if purchasing becomes glitchy.
I was Order of Souls for the longest, only because I liked their active gameplay. But now that I've gotten back into the game, I much prefer the Merchant Alliance as well. The trade routes are very easy to do and are low risk with high reward.
you get emissary value from buying supplies too so i usually buy all 3 and sell them at the next outpost and do the same till level 5 because it gets you there a lot faster.
something i do when running these routes is that i do a shipwreck find the captain key voyage, usually nets me emissary 5 before i go on the routes, otherwise, great video!
I like to do a lost shipment quest first before doing trade routes because it gets you pretty close to emissary 5, before you even start loading crates. I have a couple times done the emissary grade 5 quest while doing trade routes as well.
I usually only have about an hour to play so i enjoy trade routes, take goods from A to B fairly low risk. And I have met some really chill pirates when running merchant.
Liked and subbed...although I do think your very lucky with that voyage because everytime i try to do trade routes solo Rare just seem to throw everything that it can at me! Kraken, megs, skelly ships, and of course reapers too. I'm not the best at this game and really struggle with solo slooping lol
I play sot to relax and enjoy the sea. So I always just do commoditie runs as a merchant. I also enjoy the paranoia that a criminal can show up at the horizon at any time coming for my emissary. I am awful at solo sloop pvp, so it's just a death sentence if they catch me, lol. Tis the life of a merchant I suppose.
Highly recommend doing one or two voyages before you do this as it gets you to level 5 before you start Also recommend buying every resource from every outpost you visit to stack them all Also i just buy all crates and sail round the map in a circle pick up all crates and sell the ones each place needs
2:42 Funnily enough sir, it actually IS more time efficient to do it that way, cause you're picking up MORE as you sail around, then it's entirely upto you when you wish to not buy again. It's something like 500-600k an hour. Used to be 1m per hour when it first came out, no shit. Also means the LEAST distance travelled between outposts.
Yeah I found that out after I finished this video haha. That's definitely the better way to do things as long as you have the time to dedicate to it. Pretty crazy how much you can earn doing these kinds of runs.
Yeah the way I practice and seal the Sloop I have a routine even before I even hit the water on the first island I go to a Outpost that has everything that I need that's a storage box to put all my cannonballs blunder Bombs all the cursed cannonballs as well as Phillip the top Barrel Naval artillery because running short of something critical like change shot or cannonballs that is a death sentence I've got my 360 degree turn radius is set for the death spiral where I can pretty much I can set the speed and radius once leave the helm and the ships like on autopilot worse leaving me free on cannons starting with chain shots then cursed cannonballs then fire bombs and Then followed by more cannonballs I still got a long ways to go though on my confidence menu whereas multiple ship engagements is still huge challenge for me and usually doesn't end very well for me
usually in this game i do world events and try to get as much pvp action as possible, but occasionally ill watch some youtube or something while doing these merchant routes just to have a calm experience
there's a big flaw with these now with the absence of golden sands, as now some places have a surplus of good, that golden sands would have sought after but it's no longer active so i full trade route can not be completed
I do a lost shipment voyage to get to 5 then I just run from each outpost in a giant circle and grab as much of the supplies that I can then do another circle and sell
I wish you took the gained reputation into account. Gold is pretty moot in this game. I can island hop for foul bounty skulls for my first captained sloop, but this merchant grind is a drag and a half. Im fixin on combining shipments, speedrunning forts for the 4 highish tier crates, and these routes. Guess ill see for myself. If i have to touch another plant ill go mad.
The only thing worth doing as merchant is sunken ships / golden animals / and getting bone dust. Start stacking sunken ship loot 4-5 hours before gold rush and you'll make about 1.5m - 2.5m at gold rush. Not much but it might be the safest grind
When i do these i go clockwise around the map and visit every outpost in order. I also pick up a lost shipment voyage while doing trade routes, i always do the first one for sure and then after that i just do lost shipments if they're on the way to the next outpost, if not i just abandon them. made about 250k-300k in 1hr one time by getting a lost shipment to almost every single outpost in my circuit traderoute.
Yeah going around the map in a circle is definitely a better choice than crossing over the map a bunch of times haha. Never considered pairing a lost shipment voyage with them though, that could be interesting!
@@Trunath Yeah, it works pretty well usually. Plus it'll give you something else to do while sailing from point A - B. It may not make as much money as a Fort of the damned but it's sure as shit a lot less risky. It's how i grind for my money. To cut down on time you can just do the lost shipments until you find the cabin key and then immediately sail for the lost shipments destination, the ship is ALWAYS sunk nearby.
if you still have the numbers, what if you just sailed between morrow's and ancient spire? picking up at morrows and selling at ancient spire. I'm willing to bet you would be able to make a lot more buying and then selling only on the route with the closest distance, less time sailing more time trading. do a lost shipment voyage before you start like turtletoise said and you'll be even further in the green
I jumped a guy last night who was doing merchant stuff by shooting myself onto the island as he was unloading, hiding in the bushes, then ran out and murdered him and helped him sell all of his trade goods and then I disappeared into the sea.
the maximum amount of base gold i could get from an item was 900 something gold(+ the emissary bonus). no matter what i bought and what i've sold, never reached 1300s. 25th of may, 2022. did they nerf it again? also, among all the items, theres 1 type that is not wanted by any of the outposts. i think that's because golden sands is closed. and it was supposed to be sought after golden sands. not a big deal, still could sell that to any outpost that its not a surplus.
That’s a lot of money just to get Emlvl up. That’s like 30ish K. I always like to do a lost shipment. Takes around 45-60 minutes solo, and gets you lvl 5 ‘Em and around 60-70k and ofc you buy commodities while doing this whest
Galleon's Grave all the way to Golden Sands without stopping at Daggertooth first? Hmmm...... Would have been a lot more time/cost effective to stop at outposts along the way...
Actually now that I think about it, if you stacked them for a little while and sold during Gold Rush time you could probably make a pretty nice profit off of them
@@Trunath you can, back when they came out you could make over 17k per crate depending on the crate without even being on gold rush hour… you missed out man it was crazy
i did this yesterday. Leveled way slower and netted way less, only about 96K. It took me 5 runs + sinking one skellie sloop to hit lvl 5. Then i did one extra run too get maximum return before i quit. So this got nerfed somehow.
I believe it's shared! So if I was playing with you, and you bought the crates at an outpost, then I wouldn't be able to buy them for us at that outpost too (at least not until the timer refreshes for them, which I think is around 2 real-world hours or 5 in-game days)
There's definitely better ways to start this kind of session off, like beginning with a Lost Shipment voyage to quickly bump your Emissary grade, so I would make sure you do something like that when you start your trade routes so you can do it from one outpost to another at the start. I can't say for certain since I was level 75 when I did this, so I'm not sure what kind of reputation gains you can make from it, but I'd imagine they're pretty good based on the gold you can make.
I actually didn't run a single one of these until after I was 75, so I can't say for certain haha. I'd imagine the algorithm that determines how much rep you gain for each item is somehow related to the amount of money it's worth, so I could see these being worth it as long as you're keeping a good pace. You'd just miss out potential commendations from not doing the other Merchant voyages is all.
@@Trunath yeah I'm just trying to make up the last 13 lvls or so, so I can make PL before next season Incase there really is an update to the system. I'm worried they might raise the requirement since it's supposedly to easy to reach now according to some. Thanks for the info!
Trade routes used to be so busted before nerf. I heard stories of people getting 1+ mil in less than an hour the first few days of them being in the game. Dont know how truthful those numbers are, but clearly it was bad enough that Rare hard nerfed it not too long after.
Your method here isn't really optimal, its best to get to lvl 5 with a lost shipments voyage and go in a circle rather than going from surplus to surplus.
Well let's see I started this game 4 and a half months ago and I've been running solo Sloop ever since and I'm not going to lie it has been a struggle but through all those hard Lessons Learned it's made me quite confident to deal with galleons and Briggs because I'm going to come at you aggressively and put you in a death spiral and get you in my side so I can take you out I run back and forth crosses map finding all the shallows all the hard turns on the multiple islands and obstacles to run into but I'm a force that brig or that galleon to make it turn left I'm going to turn right forcing that Brig or Galleon back into a death spiral funny thing is most of them don't even know it until it's too late for me it's just been revenge of all the harsh treatment that I took the ass beatings I took in the beginning when I first started this game almost 5 months ago and I don't win all the battles going to make you work for my flute or my treasure and it's going to cost
I always buy the cannonballs, wood, and fruit crates from the merchant and put them on my ship. It gives you a nice level boost and saves you time so you don't need to look the island before heading out. I found that it's much faster to harpoon your loot onto your ship rather than walking back and forth. Completing merchant voyages also gives you a nice level boost.
Yeah I just tried that yesterday after I saw a few of you guys commented about it. Buying those extra crates is a nice way to get an early emissary boost for sure!
doing the commodoties, animals and cargo deliveries at once. doing three cargo deliveries in the Roar could be as profitable as 60K g extra, 3.5k/unit on max level
personally as a merchant, after fetching a lost shipment to boost my grade, I usually go by the "loop route" aka. going in a big circle around the map (from golden sands to sanctuary to daggertooth etc.) simply because it cuts time.
that said it´s not always the most efficient choice, either because :
1- there are reapers around, which pose a risk to the trade routes if you stockpile your cargo
2- there is a simple route between two or three outposts, which reduces risk by having you roam less, or
3- i dont have to much time on me
Lost shipment for grade 5 seems to be the play then you seem to just get 50k per surplus outpost
Definitely go circular next time. Just collect all the surplus and eventually you'll run into an outpost on your route that is in need of something you have. No need to go the other side of the map every time
Oh for sure, there's definitely better ways to do it haha. Just wanted to see what the potential was for following the circuit exactly.
we did that but, once we 've completed a whole turn, we got back at our starting outpost. the starting npc didn't sell us any commodities as it was on a cooldown, we got bored and logged off. we got around 150k gold from playing 2 hours and doing a whole turn of outposts.
@@bdenix1997 The commodities respawn roughly every 2 hours. So if you're faster than that, you need to wait for respawn. We usually de-flag, do a shipwreck mission, then restart the route. Works out great.
@@bdenix1997 you can add a ton to your profits if you include sea forts into the circuit which increases total income and makes each trip take long enough to where you'll likely have went through the entire commodity cooldown by the time to arrive back at your starter outpost
The concept is pretty simple: buy crates at the first one/two outposts, fight some skeleton ships/complete forts/do other activities that boost your emissary flag level significantly, continue trading after you reach tier 3/4. Might actually level up all the way to tier 5. Rinse and repeat after you complete the circle. One more way is completing delivery voyages while sailing with purchased cargo. You won't get as much, as you would with tier 4/5 flag, but at least you'll get flag level points, so why not try, if it is close to your route? And, if I recall correctly, you can just cancel voyage without losing an ability to start it again, and just start another one (in case quest vendor will be too far away). Devil's roar deliveries are dope, btw, giving you 3.5k per item with maxed out emissary flag. 5 crates, delivered to a nearest isle = 17.5k of additional profit. Plus 35k for completing 2 emissary quests. Just try not to engage in ANY fights, while shipping rom - you are likely to regret it, especially if it's 50-70% of your quest cargo. It doesn't need to be hit directly to be damaged: one hit to your mast can be enough to damage rom crates, which are 3-7 meters away from it. And believe me, you don't want it to happen. Always hide silk under some cover (like captains quarters in the sloop, just make sure to place it right in the middle, near the map table, or it will be damaged by the water from the holes in the back of the ship). Seems like hits on the mast damage everything near it and on top of it, so hiding rom there wont be of much help. PROBABLY, you can leave rom crates near the silk in captains quarters in the sloop, and they will not be damaged, but I never tried. And don't forget to turn the lights off. You can also loot all barrels of plenty along the way, potentially getting some expensive fish for hunter's call rep and some coin, and also supplies to fill cannonball/wood/fruit crates (which cant be sold unless filled to the brim). Also you can find good Devil's roar cargo voyages among these barrels. Might also complete Order of Souls quests from the bottles, but they aren't really profitable, that is just for fun.
Dude that super smooth transition at 10:00 is crazy i barely noticed the cut
I seriously just watched that spot 7 or 8 times trying to figure out what you were talking about because it didn't look like there was a cut, but then I saw the number of crates on the dock change next time I dropped one off. I didn't even mean for that to happen 😂 Funny how that works.
@@Trunath oh wow that’s even more epic man ahaha
I started the game as being a merchant, I managed to level up to this point by doing the cargo runs and now even as a new Pirate Legend I still use my Merchant Captain title as a symbol of both pride and honor.
If I get to fight a ship it's always the merchants who always give the best fights fr fr
@@berry6473 lol I've never experienced that
Same brother. For me Sea of Thieves has always just been a 1700’s maritime merchant simulator lol.
Merchant Captain title here too
@@Craig_Tucker48 Cool, brother man
What I do in a voyage like this, I pick lost cargo voyage to hit level 5 before selling. I also plan my route by nearest outposts. With yours week route, going Plunder (your spawn) >> Golden >> Sanctuary >> Dagger >> Galleon >> Morrow >> Ancient >> Plunder >> Golden >> Sanctuary, would've been most time efficient.
Doing a circle is much faster than crossing entire map.
According to planners CW circle whilst visiting Plunder, Golden and Sanctuary x2 times was 350m, when following a route by commodities was 450m. Which shaves like 20-25% off the journey.
great video. I love the format where you show a form of voyage and then analyze the profit/per amount of time.
I haven't been playing SOT long & had no idea you could do something like this. Great info.
Nice quality of sound and video lines , good job !
This may be a little late but using Merfolks Lullaby is only really effective if you are doing 1 or 2 runs at a time.
It’s also much more risky because you are heading through the dead center of the map with many more opportunities to be spotted.
I would recommend stealing Clifs idea of just going in a giant circle and hitting the fortresses along the way.
Wow I've been levelling Merchants and I didn't even know these were a thing! Nice work
I honestly just ignored them for soooooo long myself haha. I should have given them more of a chance. And thanks!
personally, i think that the trade route was simply implemented to give merchant emissaries something relatively safe compared to escorting animals, rum bottles and gunpowder, simply because you´re supposed to deal with reapers if you fly an emmisary. also the fact that you cannot buy this cargo if you´re not an emissary
Nicely done video. When I do these runs solo I use a brig. Faster in the water in most circumstances, and easier to run from others. I also tend to just go in a circle around the map. Ie golden>sanctuary >dagger etc. Thank you for the breakdown though.
I was wondering if a brig might be better. It probably all depends on if the wind is playing to your advantage during these runs too.
Rip golden sands
I would definitely recommend putting down voyages, if you do this, to take advantage of the large amount of sailing. It will help you accrue miles for the "sail 1,000 miles while on X voyages" commendations. It doesn't matter that you're doing merchant stuff, you can put down an Athena quest if you want.
The trade routes used to be broken when they came out, and you had to make lists manually if you wanted to know who wants what
that's little cool actually in, immersive, plan your route accordingly
I used the Rare Thief interactive map lol. But Yeah they were broken when they first came out you were making like 250,000 gold per hour
That sounds pretty cool actually lol
Awesome video dude, really relaxing loved it!
dang you are underrated, earned a sub. thanks for helping me consider adding trade routes to my routine
Wooooo welcome back Tru!
Thanks!
Thank u for explaining in a way I can understand easily. I appreciate u as well as subbed. Be safe, and have fun.
Edit: super chill play style. I’m for it.
I thought u were a big TH-camr with ur content and how good ur mike is
Noooo haha. Just little ol' me
When they first dropped this update, there was an ultimate way to make lots of gold in short time. Could get 4 crates of each crate with a 4man galleon crew. About 20 crates per outpost allowing 4x20 crates, so each outpost we could buy 80+- crates for a very cheap price. At emissary level 5, they sold 10-19k a piece. Well that's a bucket of 800.000k easy per pirate per crew. Sadly within 3 days they changed it with a extra update.. and it was not possible anymore to use this method. I completely understand, cause I payed 340k and made 11million in 3 days of merchant commodity crate's pure merchant
People were actually mad that they fixed something this rediculously broken.
Why mad. It was no fun mate.... Like no fun at all you'd realize if you make that much coin in such a time with whole crew for eating out of the nose as in do nothing much. Nah man. Buy all you want in the game, unlock 🔓 it all and there's nothing left to not know and be excited about. Nothing actually earned.... Just some coin that has lost density.
@@IKHAATHAAT I agree. Crews of four were making millions an hour. People just wanted an easy way out of grinding and when it was removed they all got mad on Twitter.
I subbed love the video I have not played this game a lot and I'm not even pirate legend yet so I did not know about this I'm glad you covered it. After watching this, I will for sure do this more often it seems very chill and rewarding solo.
how do you not have more subs cause honestly this was a good video with nice editing but besides that thanks for the help
You guys should've seen the trade routes when they were first introduced. Gemstones were going for 11k at grade 5 I think. They were more expensive to buy and you could lose alot of gold if you got sunk early. You couldn't purchase as many crates but the gold you got was insane. I understand they had to nerf it. I do wish they would increase the value a bit though. Good video btw.
That's what everyone keeps saying haha. They must have been crazy back in the day! Also, thanks!
Most efficient sailing time would be to make a simple loop of all the outposts. By the time you finish one complete loop you should start seeing some lag. When the lag starts getting too great, that's when you sell everything off and server hop, especially if purchasing becomes glitchy.
Just the video I was looking for. This is perfect! I am a strong Merchant Alliance main.
I was Order of Souls for the longest, only because I liked their active gameplay. But now that I've gotten back into the game, I much prefer the Merchant Alliance as well. The trade routes are very easy to do and are low risk with high reward.
you get emissary value from buying supplies too so i usually buy all 3 and sell them at the next outpost and do the same till level 5 because it gets you there a lot faster.
or do lost shipment beforehand
something i do when running these routes is that i do a shipwreck find the captain key voyage, usually nets me emissary 5 before i go on the routes, otherwise, great video!
I like to do a lost shipment quest first before doing trade routes because it gets you pretty close to emissary 5, before you even start loading crates. I have a couple times done the emissary grade 5 quest while doing trade routes as well.
I usually only have about an hour to play so i enjoy trade routes, take goods from A to B fairly low risk. And I have met some really chill pirates when running merchant.
Really makes me wish player trading was a thing.
I fear Reapers, I wish I could give them some gold to leave me be lol
@@Opunaat the stupid thing ab them is the fact that they would make so much more gold if they just allied with you instead of griefing
Liked and subbed...although I do think your very lucky with that voyage because everytime i try to do trade routes solo Rare just seem to throw everything that it can at me! Kraken, megs, skelly ships, and of course reapers too. I'm not the best at this game and really struggle with solo slooping lol
Try to avoid the dangerous water zones on the map, that should help with creatures and skeleton ships
Also I have found that if you go to all 7 outposts then by the time you are done the commodities have reset so you can just go in an endless loop
I play sot to relax and enjoy the sea. So I always just do commoditie runs as a merchant. I also enjoy the paranoia that a criminal can show up at the horizon at any time coming for my emissary. I am awful at solo sloop pvp, so it's just a death sentence if they catch me, lol. Tis the life of a merchant I suppose.
Highly recommend doing one or two voyages before you do this as it gets you to level 5 before you start
Also recommend buying every resource from every outpost you visit to stack them all
Also i just buy all crates and sail round the map in a circle pick up all crates and sell the ones each place needs
Keep it up ur gonna go far don't give up
keep up the good work!
Welcome back!
hey good video man v well made keep it up
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words!
2:42 Funnily enough sir, it actually IS more time efficient to do it that way, cause you're picking up MORE as you sail around, then it's entirely upto you when you wish to not buy again. It's something like 500-600k an hour. Used to be 1m per hour when it first came out, no shit. Also means the LEAST distance travelled between outposts.
Yeah I found that out after I finished this video haha. That's definitely the better way to do things as long as you have the time to dedicate to it. Pretty crazy how much you can earn doing these kinds of runs.
I actually had no idea that supply runs were a thing until this video got recommended to me. I'm already level 50 in OoS, GH and MA too :(
Yeah the way I practice and seal the Sloop I have a routine even before I even hit the water on the first island I go to a Outpost that has everything that I need that's a storage box to put all my cannonballs blunder Bombs all the cursed cannonballs as well as Phillip the top Barrel Naval artillery because running short of something critical like change shot or cannonballs that is a death sentence I've got my 360 degree turn radius is set for the death spiral where I can pretty much I can set the speed and radius once leave the helm and the ships like on autopilot worse leaving me free on cannons starting with chain shots then cursed cannonballs then fire bombs and Then followed by more cannonballs I still got a long ways to go though on my confidence menu whereas multiple ship engagements is still huge challenge for me and usually doesn't end very well for me
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usually in this game i do world events and try to get as much pvp action as possible, but occasionally ill watch some youtube or something while doing these merchant routes just to have a calm experience
there's a big flaw with these now with the absence of golden sands, as now some places have a surplus of good, that golden sands would have sought after but it's no longer active so i full trade route can not be completed
I do a lost shipment voyage to get to 5 then I just run from each outpost in a giant circle and grab as much of the supplies that I can then do another circle and sell
My crew and I did it a whole month. Got up to the top 3 on the leaderboard
I really hope they improve this area since getting back to the game I have been enjoying this, just need to pay more.
I can’t unsee the aurora waves as stink wafts
I can't either 😂 That was the first thing I thought when I saw them
when these came out they were easily the best way to make money i miss those days
I wish you took the gained reputation into account. Gold is pretty moot in this game.
I can island hop for foul bounty skulls for my first captained sloop, but this merchant grind is a drag and a half.
Im fixin on combining shipments, speedrunning forts for the 4 highish tier crates, and these routes. Guess ill see for myself. If i have to touch another plant ill go mad.
Make sure to use the travel time to already put the loot in front of the ship, to reduce offloading time, since it's the most risky.
Why wouldn’t you just put it there in the first place?
Try with. Lost shipment, to lvl 5 then do the commodities. 2+ hours is a lot imo
Yeah I wondered if that'd be the more practical way to do it.
What cosmetic or outfit are you using that gives those silver gloves/hand effect? I would love to see if its still purchasable.
Hey! I think it was actually the Season 5 Creeping Cold outfit. Unfortunately I don’t there’s a way to get it anymore 🙁
@@Trunath Thank you for the information. maybe they might bring stuff back somewhere down the line.
As others have mentioned, starting with lost shipment is the way to go on these.
The only thing worth doing as merchant is sunken ships / golden animals / and getting bone dust. Start stacking sunken ship loot 4-5 hours before gold rush and you'll make about 1.5m - 2.5m at gold rush. Not much but it might be the safest grind
When i do these i go clockwise around the map and visit every outpost in order. I also pick up a lost shipment voyage while doing trade routes, i always do the first one for sure and then after that i just do lost shipments if they're on the way to the next outpost, if not i just abandon them. made about 250k-300k in 1hr one time by getting a lost shipment to almost every single outpost in my circuit traderoute.
Yeah going around the map in a circle is definitely a better choice than crossing over the map a bunch of times haha. Never considered pairing a lost shipment voyage with them though, that could be interesting!
@@Trunath Yeah, it works pretty well usually. Plus it'll give you something else to do while sailing from point A - B. It may not make as much money as a Fort of the damned but it's sure as shit a lot less risky. It's how i grind for my money. To cut down on time you can just do the lost shipments until you find the cabin key and then immediately sail for the lost shipments destination, the ship is ALWAYS sunk nearby.
Awww dang. Golden Sands. RIP Merrick.
if you still have the numbers, what if you just sailed between morrow's and ancient spire? picking up at morrows and selling at ancient spire. I'm willing to bet you would be able to make a lot more buying and then selling only on the route with the closest distance, less time sailing more time trading. do a lost shipment voyage before you start like turtletoise said and you'll be even further in the green
I jumped a guy last night who was doing merchant stuff by shooting myself onto the island as he was unloading, hiding in the bushes, then ran out and murdered him and helped him sell all of his trade goods and then I disappeared into the sea.
the maximum amount of base gold i could get from an item was 900 something gold(+ the emissary bonus). no matter what i bought and what i've sold, never reached 1300s. 25th of may, 2022. did they nerf it again?
also, among all the items, theres 1 type that is not wanted by any of the outposts. i think that's because golden sands is closed. and it was supposed to be sought after golden sands. not a big deal, still could sell that to any outpost that its not a surplus.
The reason you noticed a difference in your prices from 2 to 3 is because level one no longer gives you a bonus
Buy wood, cannon balls and fruit. It takes you to level 2 before you leave the island. Also before you sell buy them again and take them to your ship.
That’s a lot of money just to get Emlvl up. That’s like 30ish K. I always like to do a lost shipment. Takes around 45-60 minutes solo, and gets you lvl 5 ‘Em and around 60-70k and ofc you buy commodities while doing this whest
What are those gloves that you’re wearing called? They look cool ngl. (Edit: someone tell me of those are really gloves or silver hands or something.)
Nice vid
After you buy out every outpost and sell all of your goods, server hop to a fresh server. It's faster than waiting the 2 hours for the respawn.
Honestly I do it cause I wanna get the monocle eyepatch
What I do is complete a lost shipment first to get to grade 5, then i do the trading
Galleon's Grave all the way to Golden Sands without stopping at Daggertooth first?
Hmmm......
Would have been a lot more time/cost effective to stop at outposts along the way...
Definitely more optimal ways of doing it! Just wanted to see what it would be like if someone followed Mermaid's Lullaby routes exactly
After doing lost shipment should I sell items at the outpost that is seeking that type of crate for maximum profit or it doesn't matter?
Must you buy every single supply or just the ones they have a surplus of
Question. Does during that gives you a merchant reputation?
Trade routes were ABSOLUTELY BROKEN when they first came out… they’ve since needed them very hard but still not bad on a double gold and glory weekend
Actually now that I think about it, if you stacked them for a little while and sold during Gold Rush time you could probably make a pretty nice profit off of them
@@Trunath you can, back when they came out you could make over 17k per crate depending on the crate without even being on gold rush hour… you missed out man it was crazy
Add a sea fort in at the beginning and this gpm goes up.
does flying emissary flag make it so anyone can see you on their map or is that reaper?
no people cant see you with merchant emissary only with reaper emissary
do you get reputation from doing these? im trying to find out the best way to get level 50 in merchant alliance to get pirate legend
i did this yesterday. Leveled way slower and netted way less, only about 96K. It took me 5 runs + sinking one skellie sloop to hit lvl 5. Then i did one extra run too get maximum return before i quit. So this got nerfed somehow.
Can each crewmate buy a crate or are they shared
I believe it's shared! So if I was playing with you, and you bought the crates at an outpost, then I wouldn't be able to buy them for us at that outpost too (at least not until the timer refreshes for them, which I think is around 2 real-world hours or 5 in-game days)
Does this increase emissary value like for pirate legend?
Of course they’re worth it - you get one of the best eyepatches in the game
Do trade roots give you reputation?
is this method suggested for reputation?
There's definitely better ways to start this kind of session off, like beginning with a Lost Shipment voyage to quickly bump your Emissary grade, so I would make sure you do something like that when you start your trade routes so you can do it from one outpost to another at the start. I can't say for certain since I was level 75 when I did this, so I'm not sure what kind of reputation gains you can make from it, but I'd imagine they're pretty good based on the gold you can make.
It's pretty good when s single game can make me question my console choice
My question is if this is a decent way to level merchant to 50 for reaching PL? 🤔
I actually didn't run a single one of these until after I was 75, so I can't say for certain haha. I'd imagine the algorithm that determines how much rep you gain for each item is somehow related to the amount of money it's worth, so I could see these being worth it as long as you're keeping a good pace. You'd just miss out potential commendations from not doing the other Merchant voyages is all.
@@Trunath yeah I'm just trying to make up the last 13 lvls or so, so I can make PL before next season Incase there really is an update to the system. I'm worried they might raise the requirement since it's supposedly to easy to reach now according to some. Thanks for the info!
How did you get that map
Does this method give Reputation?
Trade routes used to be so busted before nerf. I heard stories of people getting 1+ mil in less than an hour the first few days of them being in the game. Dont know how truthful those numbers are, but clearly it was bad enough that Rare hard nerfed it not too long after.
I did them the first day, and it is not a lie.
Can i sell the items at sovereigns?
Is this still worth it over LOTV?
I don't think it works as well now because of the golden sands outpost
How is the website called?
It's workin' simulator but yeah, I need the money, gonna try it.
Honestly 2 laps would seem faster, easier to keep track one lap to buy one lap to sell just my 2 cent
I think they are worth it. Even as a way to just pass some time
Your method here isn't really optimal, its best to get to lvl 5 with a lost shipments voyage and go in a circle rather than going from surplus to surplus.
Yeeeah I found that out shortly after uploading this video 😂 I'm considering doing a part 2 of doing it a more efficient way
Do we get rep from this
too many flaws to be optimized, obv you did vanilla, but there is an optimal merchant combo that nets past 250K g in one run
This is giving rep?
Well let's see I started this game 4 and a half months ago and I've been running solo Sloop ever since and I'm not going to lie it has been a struggle but through all those hard Lessons Learned it's made me quite confident to deal with galleons and Briggs because I'm going to come at you aggressively and put you in a death spiral and get you in my side so I can take you out I run back and forth crosses map finding all the shallows all the hard turns on the multiple islands and obstacles to run into but I'm a force that brig or that galleon to make it turn left I'm going to turn right forcing that Brig or Galleon back into a death spiral funny thing is most of them don't even know it until it's too late for me it's just been revenge of all the harsh treatment that I took the ass beatings I took in the beginning when I first started this game almost 5 months ago and I don't win all the battles going to make you work for my flute or my treasure and it's going to cost
give em hell
I remember when these were SOO worth it I was making about 3 million a day
I made 135k in like 30 mins so it's still worth to this day
How are you