I've been playing since Alpha and I approve this video.

1 objection. i have never won against merchant alliance cosmetics. i don't know what it is. they have the speed of their snakes, the health of their pigs, and if you hurt their chickens so help you god you better scuttle before they start loading the cursed cannonballs

You have forgotten the one set of sails that indicate the truly nice and wholesome players: The Glitterbeard Sails.

That Bluurbs joke tho Ray, respect lmao. You two are some of the best SoT KZfaqrs out there.

I feel like the arena ship hulls are going to get a lot more use because they color the inside of your ship as well

My biggest fear is silverblade alongside with DA sails. I met them once and that was horror. The second tho might be unpainted sloop because you're never sure how strong the crew can be. For the third mercenary/wandering reaper maybe. They're anomalies.

Full Party Boat set strikes fear even into the best of the best, not for the fight, but because you KNOW you are about to be blasted with the most obnoxious music on the seas

I use the azure crab set for two reasons: I was a crab player my entire time playing sea of thieves, and it’s my favourite looking version of the set, and apart from the sails it looks eerily similar to the standard ocean crawler set, which can and has definitely served to lull opposing crews into a false sense of security when out for my blood

Whenever I watch these kinds of videos I always see if they include one of the most unpredictable ships of all: mixed cosmetics. If they’re mixing cosmetics it’s very likely they’re not choosing what makes them look scariest, but rather just what they enjoy, which means there’s no telling what their skill-level is

How dare you forget about the Obsidian Ship! I feel that anyone who has the whole ship set even the capstan are people who has the dedication to the game and will most likely be dedicated to sink you, especially if they have the entire Blackdog set which is no easy feat to collect and will certainly give you a challenge

In the short time I have been playing now, I learned to hate the ships (usually brigantines) with the dark adventurer sails. 9.5 out of 10 times they ram you full speed and then proceed to double-gun spawncamp you WITHOUT having at least the deceny of sinking you.

I use cosmetic to get an good looking ship not so that some random humans can say if im bad or good

I prefer to run around with the Party Boat set because of how silly it is. With how easy it is to get some of the pieces, I can honestly say that I haven't seen any other ship using any parts of it.

I use the wild rose, I have more than enough for other ships, but I just think think it looks the best

I love my emporium set, and I’m pretty decent with PVP haha. I figured if I’m spending hundreds of hours playing, I might as well do it on a ship I love

I would add that even those nooby ships aren’t a 100% sink. Some good players will use those cosmetics to try to put others into a false sense of security, or just because they look cool. I’d say it’s a low change but even 1% is still a chance. I’d also put the Rare Crew sails at the 50/50. While incredibly rare (pun intended) they aren’t always super sweaty. Some can just be chilling and others will want you ship at the bottom of the ocean. A full Sapphire Blade ship set will definitely be dangerous whenever that comes to fruition. Fantastic video as always! I’m super excited for Captaincy and can’t wait to see everyone’s ship combos!

The Viva Pinata set strikes absolute *fear* into my heart.

I never touched Arena once when it was up. I only got to rank 5 with it because of pity rep Rare gave all factions when there was a bug with players leveling up. Honestly kinda funny but hey, I got some neat ship sets from it in the end.

You don't know what fear is if you haven't met a brig of merchants who try to deliver their chickens to the outpost... you fire one cannon and all hell breaks loose.

Great video… I have many of these old sails and agree!

I use the ceremonial admiral hull with white sails because it kind of resembles the interceptor from pirates of the Caribbean curse of the black pearl

I tend to use ocean crawler stuff, and I’m pretty likely to just try to avoid other players, especially if I’m sailing alone.

User of the ghost captains sails here- I have only seen three other people in game with them. Not only do we know how to hit our marks, we are godly multitaskers and can get out of the stickiest situations. I have skills like no other when it comes to saving sinking sloops. We also have time. There’s never a rush.

Im really glad you added the NAL and SoC sails to this video man a lot of people forget or dont know about them. if you ever need or want some new footage with either I would be happy to throw them on for u just hit me up

i think one time my crew and i were going on a rampage through our server and we ran into a person with the NAL sails and we fought for so long and i think we ran through 5 stacks of each cannon balls and planks but in the end we had to book it. my crew was running a bring and the NAL was a sloop it was one hell of a fight and unfortunately we technically lost we said our ggs and booked it

I was wondering whether year one Pirate Legend sails were going to make the list. Pirate Legend used to mean something at first but after month 10 when forts were introduced, the grind became so much easier. I have had two random people recognize my sails just this year for what they were (I didn’t think anyone would know or even care at this point but it felt good to get the recognition).

Great vid, I’ve been playing since the game came out and cycle through a few emporium sets. Ty for saying my ship set means I’m bad, will make ppl underestimate me and will make the game easier than it already is

That blurbs joke about had me dying 😂

8:30 This is unfortunately incorrect. While Rare did say that anyone who got arena level 50 before they announced its closure would be the ONLY people eligible to receive The GoodBoy shipset, when the time came to release the cosmetics, they messed up and almost no one ended up actually having it in their shipwright. Rare made an announcement about this in their discord and said that they were going to fix it (they didn't) For whatever reason they couldn't figure out how to give away The GoodBoy ship sets to the correct people, so they instead made it where if you hit LEVEL 50 in arena (even if you got level 50 1 day before arena closed) then you would get the set. As long as it says SEADOGS 50 in your achievement tab in game, you will have The GoodBoy shipset. Rare told everyone that ONLY people who were Arena Level 50 before January 20th would be able to receive The GoodBoy shipset. Then they messed up and they went back on their word and gave ANYONE who was level 50 in arena, REGARDLESS of when they got level 50, The GoodBoy shipset. Truly unfortunate. I know this because me, my buddies, and plenty of other people getting their alt lsd/tsd before arena closed, most of us only got Level 50 arena on our alts a couple weeks before they removed arena for good (well after the January 20th date that Rare established) And we all got The GoodBoy on our alts even though we didn't get level 50 before January 20th.

Interesting, me and my buddy usually sail with the Magpie's Fortune sails, but I'd say we're relatively good. Most of the crews that attack us seem to be underestimating us, that would explain why. Oh, but we ALWAYS rock the pride flag even tho we're mostly passive (we've actually been attacked several times because of it, lol)

"Please let me know what ships you fear" Me: All of them..

You’re really getting my big sot regrets to resurface in my brain with this

Waiting for my beauuuuuuuuutiful lord guardian sails, I'm not that sweaty just as much to say hello or help lol. Not the same case if im wearing my bonecrusher or triumphant sets though...

Come fight my wild rose ship, I dare you

It makes me so happy to see the barnacle sets being represented. I remember getting them in year one, loved the color of the wailing barnacle. Good memories

every black pearl I've ever fought has been crazy, I'm terrified of them, idk what it is about them

Attributing mild competency to every ship listed really cancels out about half this list.

Anyone else finding these last few weeks insane for sot servers literally every server I go on is like a huge naval battle

Been sailing the seas since launch, these definitely check out!

Great content. Just subbed.

I use default because I just can't be assed anymore to go put on each cosmetic every time I set sail and I avoid everyone like the plague anyways

A RELATIONSHIP LMAO

Love seeing so much year one stuff so high, makes me proud of my grind 💪

As someone who's been playing for a VERY VERY long time Sea of champion and notorious arena still strikes fear into me more then a average person who always plays reaper

My crew and I use different sets and mixes of sets depending on what we want to look like, or what we are doing. If we're grinding a specific faction, we'll often equip the full set for said faction. Otherwise, we'll usually run a mixture of whatever to create a look we like. Some parts will showcase our dedication and time spent on the game, others will be just cause they look cool. This includes Emporium stuff. We don't think much of it, other than our ship looking good to us. If we can be proud to sail on our fine vessel, to the sea of the damned with what anyone else thinks! :P So look out for Captain Krakenbagger and any of his fine vessels: "The Devil's Warden", "Reaper's Revenge" or "Gilded Fateweaver"!

You forgot to mention the most dangerous of all. If you see it you should server hop right away. This is of course the hunter's call set. Only true legends will grind this faction out.

Thanks for the tips

yo abt the min 8:27 when u said that was the set we wish we had i like ashen ships because of the fire on the front of it

You really can’t determine a ships skill set by their cosmetics

i still use the season 2 sails just because i think they're pretty :( i made an entire ship set based around them, and they've been the only constant.

omg the bone crusher set gives me so much happy memories, I used to have so many friends to do the event, now I don't talk to anyone but yeah, good times

6:59 I feel personally attacked 🤣

I have only seen Brave Vanguard sails once and to be honest they really were'nt that good, but I really hope I don't ever run into Sea of champions sails

I took on my own old alliance, 3 of the last 5 ships displayed in the video in fact. They might have had more of them, but it was my own old alliance team. I left my girlfriend, and stopped getting invited. Several of their team kept me on friends. But given they kept me on, the hunt was on. I went in and started watching for confirmation, their standard is all reaper. they averaged 5 ships a server. I was determined to fill the final slot. So I waited for their server hopping to start, and went in solo. I knew things they did not. I knew I was on the right server, I saw it. I saw them meet up. I watched, I tucked, and glory happened. nobody noticed me. I was under the athena kegs in crows nest. So they always did fort of the damned. I waited, and I waited for them to finish all 5 g5 Athena's. to get their stacks started, waited for the propper moment. knowing their mob had something like 100 chests of legends between all the crews. So I kept tucked and waited. And when they finished the last skull, I blew them all up with an athena, we all went to grave together and I watched them all say "gg" as they rage quit as they saw my name. I did not get everything, there was so much. Too much to save. but I got a grand total of 112 chests of legends, and all of them to rage out at my ability to peave them out. They had no clue I was playing. And to tuck a full day on their ship, for 7 hours, and watch her with her new boyfriend, was amazing. He is so useless. They sent him to protect the ship the ship and I got him to believe the ship was haunted. I made sure only he was looking when I vanished. for the others. really messed with him. For like 7 hours

oh. didn’t know that’s what was needed to unlock the barnacle cosmetics, should be fun

Omfg that blurbs reference killed me

I feel like you should have included the full athena set because it shows the players that Weeks of grinding can get you a sick ship set

Lmfao the jab at Blurbs love it

You described me 100% within the first minute I mean what... Just liked the look of it and the talltale Never realized how easy it was to get

Oh my 2 main ships (wandering reaper and golden legend) are cause for concern? you're damn right.

I always keep an eye out for the full Killer Whale set, because those pirates did the hardest grind there is and know what patience is

I have a strange case on my ship where I dont follow one theme, and just put cosmetics on that I want to fit my color preferences.

That Fox fight was great. I was in Fox's twitch that day and there were some great moves going on i must say.

been playing a few years now but i love the low end cosmetics like ashen dragon and gold hoarder base stuff and wild rose. always catches my enemies off guard that have seen these guides when they think I'm a no skill Andy and i whip out an anchor turn on them and proceed to down their masts, set them on fire and fill them with more holes than a block of swiss cheese all while solo. it's beautiful hearing their confused screams over prox' chat as their ship sinks.

I've never been more excited to be sunk in my life. Never knew there was so much history with SoT

This one of the first sea of thieves videos I've watched and I am glad I'm now aware that my mainly wild rose ship and jacket is not as cool as I thought it was

Generally sail The Killer Whale or DA; normally we are chasing commendations but aren't afraid of a fight. When we feel "done" with our objective we usually go on a sinking spree until we are ready to quit and then donate resources/loot

My ship is a mishmash of the Tribute Peak set, the Fearless Bone Crusher set and the Venomous Kraken set. In case you can’t tell, I like green.

I personally use the Rogue Tinker Emporium set as I love steampunk but throw on the Mercanary Sails to avoid looking like a easy target, plus they're just really nice simple sails that work well together.

I laughed out loud when you said foxdie 😂

I was a week late for the golden legendary set and I will never get over that

Damn you're totally right about Wild Rose, it was the first set I got for that exact reason, and the fact that it was a unique currency actually tricked me into thinking I jumped tiers straight to a good one. But it just looks really nice and is cheap. Now though I have almost 150 hours and still am rocking wild rose on my sloop (because it costs money to pin the new cosmetics on) and I wouldn't say I'm an easy sink unless I'm solo slooping ;)

I like how the dark adventure set looks with the dark red ruby

I usually go with the anniversary (reapers mark) sails the triumphant sea dog hul,bone crusher cannons,the masked renegade figure head and the war Smith capstan. I really like the way it looks

Another interesting one I’ve seen quite often is newer players always running the sea dog sails. IDK why, but it’s more common than you think.

Golden Banana: you cannot run, you cannot hide, there is no such thing as safety from this one crew

Tysm since I learnt all the dangerous ships now I will attack everyone of them (especially the strongest ones)

Ooo, I'll have to keep this video in mind next time me and my crew are out for spice. Personally for our crew it's between a couple of looks. We mainly do a mix of scorched/forsaken ashes with BB sails. However most recently we've acquired the royal revenge* and DA sails which we ran for the first time the other day and had a phenomenal first session with. (cracked plain solo sloop whooped our ass and then later some sloopin arena survivors) *Someone got the figurehead with the chalice since were supporters of Flameheart but no one thought it fit any of the hulls rest of us had, so then someone else decided got the hull to match, then later someone else got the rest.

I just barely missed the golden PL stuff because I switched my character at high 40s in the 3 reps, and a few time my teammates blew up stronghold kegs on the boat, so we died

I’ve encountered sea of champions one time. I was a reaper 5 sloop and they were a brig coming right for us. It was a long battle with lots of 3rd parties but in the end we were the last ship floating. They definitely were extremely talented players

hyped to just got the ashen set and im absolute noob in pvp and crying right now seeing this.

Loved the video ! I hope you'll do the same with weapons / pirate cosmetics one day !!

Great video, maybe a pirate cosmetic one in the future?

I usually roll with a mix of silent barnacle, ghost captain sails, and the bone crusher figurehead. I think you nailed where those should be in the tier list lol. This video was great dude. Never thought I'd see you cosplay as Blurbs bahaha

I rock the crimson omen set up that came out when the last gears came out around the time of the launch of the game. I love it because it confuses the hell out of everyone I come across.

I started this week, but I’ve bought my sloop and run the Hunter set on it because I like the maroon and black with white accents greatly.

If I see a not too often bought pirate emporium ship, it's either a tough as nails crew who might even be bit rp heavy or a super casual crew who will either want to alliance or defend themselves depending on what you do.

Damn. I just really like the Black Pearl's Figure head. Makes the ship look so grand.

the ones who does the most random cosmetics that doesn't even mix well together are the best kekw

ok but those 2019 reaper sails are terrifying. i'd log out if I saw even a sloop wearing those coming after me xD

The meanest mf’ers I’ve met out there has the silent barnacle set. They’ve been an absolute menace to me and my crew every time.

the editing is fire

I use the wild Rose for me meme sloop but I agree with you one guy I saw using it couldn't figure out how to vote for a voyage

When you come across the "xbox sails" you know you're in for a treat.

A few months ago me and a friend found blurbs with the brave vanguard sails and title whilst on 2 guilded Athens's and miraculously sunk him

Its clear and apparent, whoever uses the party boat is just god tier

I would say golden sailor cannons are always sweaty because they are just the year one reskin of the default

Overacheiver sails. Those pirates never wanted to lose their loot. 🤣

I love to put on the Brave Vanguard sails. Reminds me of simpler times. :) I'll only care about my own pve content most of the time, but if someone is out for trouble, I'm prepared.

I mean, if you are going after new players when you are experienced, it only makes sense that you will have an easy time. But there is nothing to stop an experienced player from using the very first cosmetics they got in the game, and still smoking your ass the moment you let your guard down