Sea of Conquest – Gameplay Tips

Useful Tips and Tricks for New Players

Port Battle Tips

Port battle are done in three stages. Here’s the details:

• Stage 1: After declaration period ends you can attack the port and kill its garrison. Remember to fill up sailors before the siege. High level port can deal serious damage
• Stage 2: Right after killing garrison you will find an option called “alley” in port. Use your heroes to fight here
• Stage 3: After stage-2 you need to reduce ports durability with ship. A giant NPC ship will help you do that. In this period only the NPC ship can attack the port.

To make the NPC attack port you need to feed it cannonball. Go to nearest port your gang captured > armory > buy cannonball (free) > feed it back to NPC ship.

Keep in mind that your gang’s NPC ship can be attacked by other players and defending gang’s NPC ship will spawn periodically to attack it. you have to defend the ship to make the siege successful

Helpful Tips:

• Save up a Storm power before the battle.
• Change your main ships sail to one with speed buff (Stage 3).
• Place your small ships near the NPC ship while your main one transports cannonball (Stage 3).
• Check every once in a while at the NPC ship, if its getting attacked, use your small ships to defend (Stage 3).
• Declare scheme a day before so that the participants gets rewarded for contribution.
• Before starting the battle, pick up some cannonballs from a nearby port.

Sailors

Enlistment Quarters – Primary function is to recruit new sailors. Upgrading this Increase the maximum sailors you can recruit, and also shorten recruitment time. Sailors will stay in the ports.

Crew Quarters – Allow you to pickup the sailors you recruited by going to the ports. Upgrading this cabin will increase the maximum sailors you can carry into your ships.

Ships – Upgrading the ship will increase the sailors you can deploy for combat. The rest of sailors will act as reserves.

Sick Bay – After fighting, some of your sailors will die, or injured. Upgrading the sick bay will increase the chance of your sailors being injured instead of dying immediately. The injured sailors will stay in your ship but cant be deployed until you heal them in ports.

Best Ways to Get Gold

Through Treasure Maps

Go to missions > treasure clues > click a map > go to marked location > use compass to find treasure. Sell the items you find in a port.

Looting Transport Ships (NPC)

You can loot transport ships. In every port you will see some white dotted lines coming or going, these are transport ships route,loot and sell their items. Just be mindful about infamy, 1000+ infamy may put a bounty on your head.

Bounty Hunting

Sometimes system puts bounty on high infamy players. To check bounties click infamy icon (red skull) > view warrant > click on a bounty suitable, this will show the players current location. Beat them and you get the bounty gold on mail.

Black Market

Every once in a while ports will have their black market open, instead of gold you can buy high quality items from it with smuggling warrant. These warrants are given on completing various tasks and available on purchase in point shop. Just remember to sell the black market goods in another port.

Selling Cooked Food

The food you cook can be sold in mess hall for gold, check in once in a while and fill the hall.

Simple Hero / Ship Builds

Layout Basics

Quick and easy basics:

• Heroes can be either Captian, First Mate, Gunner, or Jack of all Trades (All). If they are placed in the correct slot, they get +20% to all stats. You should almost ALWAYS try and get this.
• Most heroes have a specific damage type: Blazing, Drowning, Strategist, Artillery, or Cutthroat. Most benefit from sharing a ship with others who have the same damage type.
• If your flagship dies, your minis do as well, so ideally stack defensive options onto your flagship.
• Legendary (Orange) heroes are better then rare (Blue) ones, but when you have a nearly maxed rare hero against a legendary you only pulled once, the blue can come out ahead.

I Don’t Have a Specific Ship / Hero!

Make do with what you can. If you have everything for a blazing setup but haven’t gotten Crimson Sentinel yet, consider putting them on another ship for the time being. You want to pick the most complete, highest rank team. Some legendary heroes really live and die by their skills being unlocked.

Flagship:

• Captain: Ahab
• First Mate: Madame Lulu
• Gunner: Magnus. Alt: Armstrong

Jacks (Any Slot): Cordelia, Cursed Ed

Warhammer (Cutthroat):

• Purchased with real money.
• Captain: Bones
• First Mate: Lord Kojo
• Gunner: Luna. Alt: Jango

Fearless Princess (Strategist):

• Purchased with real money.
• Captain: Griffin
• First Mate: Boa. Alt: Delilah
• Gunner: Alt: Jango

Jacks (Any Slot): Molly. Alt: Henry Hell

Crimson Sentinel (Blazing Setup):

• Obtained free from event early in the season.
• Captain: Lester. Alt: Zola
• First Mate: Will
• Gunner: Ned

Crimson Sentinel (Drowning Setup):

• Obtained free from event early in the season.
• Captain: Barnacle
• First Mate: Eileen
• Gunner: Mad Dog

Black Raven (Artillery Setup):

• Obtained as part of story.
• Captain: Ophelia
• First Mate: Sharky
• Gunner: Qi Lanting

General Alternatives:

• Cordelia heals based on attack, and is a good all purpose option for any high attack ship.
• Jango buffs his ship’s attack, but also buffs rage generation for his allies. You can put him in the gunner slot of any ship.
• Cursed Ed debuffs enemies, making them take extra damage. He can do anywhere to fill in.

Trinkets

• Ahab – Golden Rudder
• Sharky – Spyglass
• Ophelia – Withered Heart
• Cordi – Elixir
• Griffin – Undying Oath
• Onimusha – Cross Spear “Palace”
• Wanda – Tooth Necklace
• Tanaka – Drifiting Wanderer
• Adeline – Bloodfang
• Bones – Demise Proclamation
• Lester – Chain of Bombs

The rest is more or less whatever works best or second best for each hero. There is no Epic or Rare trinket/hero match per se. Overall, your Warhammer is cutthroat/armor piercing ship so anything with a crit rate or impact is a good match. Hooks are excellent for raising your overall attack on all 3 heroes on any ship in case you don’t have legendary trinkets that correspond.

Ship Lineups Tips

These are my lineups, let me know if something doesn’t make sense. I know people have different preferences, I just want to make sure to avoid any clear mistakes.

Flagship – Doesn’t have any skills and if it sinks, the battle is over. It would be better to have it tanky to make it last longer. The lack of skills makes sense to have it tanky and not dmg focused.

• Captain: Old Ahab – Tank – Skills work on HP
• Firts Mate: Sharky (or Cursed Ed?) – I think Cursed Ed might work better, since it’s a debuff. Sharky scales on DMG, and this ship doesn’t have much DMG.
• Gunner: Armstrong – Tank – Debuff and HP bonus works with Ahab

Warhammer – Heavy hitter. Bonus on Cutthroat. I should stack flat DMG and %DMG as secondary.

• Captain: Bones (got him on my 5th roll lol) – It seems bread&butter for this ship
• Firts Mate: Cordelia – This is tricky. The healing bonus scales with the ship’s ATK and since this is the heavy hitter, it seems to make sense here. Do I need a healer? Or go glasscannon with something else?
• Gunner:Luna – Cutthroat dmg. It seems an auto-fill

Crimson Sentinel – Offensive ship. Blazing/Drowning bonus.

• Captain: Molly Robert – Here I’m debating between Molly or Zola. Zola has blazing bonus, so it seems a better choice? Otherwise Fearless Princess is calling for Molly.
• Firts Mate: Madame Lulu – Running out of options. Is a second healer necessary considering I already have Cordelia?
• Gunner: Ned? – Just filling for the blazing bonus probably. Ned is 2, Mad Dog only 1

I appreciate your time and hope this little tutorial was helpful.