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Generally speaking regular ships (the moderate to higher level ones) give the most experience.Me and a bud have been killing hunters. But it almost seems lower level stuff gives more XP
Very thorough reply. Thank you!Generally speaking regular ships (the moderate to higher level ones) give the most experience.
If you can gather the crew for it, the very best way to level up is to have gunners shoot only at the sails while the captain sinks the ship using broadsides. The gunners can/should clean up (sink) the enemy ship if you broadside it down to very low health though (like 10% or less), as at that point another broadside is a waste. This applies only to regular ships. All gunners should aim for the hull at all times on hunters.
Hunters have the potential to be better experience, but that depends largely on your crew. If they can sink the hunter fast enough to where you only just hit the rep cap from the hunter you're in the sweet spot for rep.
Warships are trash, except En Garde - same applies for her as hunters.
Just to build on the first response. Use the ship with the highest broadside count available. Each cannonball counts as an individual hit. And rep is largely decided by the number of hits an enemy takes.
You may not ever come across this, but I'll suggest it anyway. If you befriend someone with a copperhead, ask to sail it. They sink things incredibly fast. That may seem counterintuitive to my first point, but it seems that each explosive round adds a pretty big amount of rep onto the stack. On many occasions, I've reached the rep cap after only 3 broadsides with mine. There's a lot more ships on the sea now as well thanks to a recent update. So go around, 1-2 shot them all in quick succession, and that level will rise very quickly.
Side note: Other special ammo types probably offer more rep rep hit than round shot as well. This concept applies to a few other weapons as well. For example, the voodoo staff. Flaming skull gives more rep per cast than wither does.
I tried but at that point everything got kind of chaotic lol. One shot against normal ships gave me 1 rep, where thunder gave me 33 as well, I think.You should have fired just one round shot. That would be better at telling you what to expect from broadside rep.
sink ghost ships, they give the most XP