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Love it, great advice. Some additional great advice is: you WILL lose, a lot, and that’s okay. Have fun and stay relaxed, having a good time let’s you learn, getting mad blocks everything out. Stay focused while losing, what could you do better, what did the enemy do that worked well? And ALWAYS give a GG, don’t be the salt in the sea. Much love Phuzzy!

One suggestion I have, if you’re running sloop hourglass is find someone you can play with regularly. I was horrible at naval and tdm before season 8 started. My friend and I even though we kept losing badly in the beginning started learning something from each match. We began to improve and then figured out what each of us were good at. He was good at helm and boarding and I was good on canons. We kept at it, talking about what we did well and what we could improve. After a month we were winning on a regular basis and having more fun. This not only worked out well for hourglass, it translates well to PVE as we were no longer running scared every time we saw a ship on the horizon. It has most definitely helped with obtaining Chests of Fortune this season where we now go for steals with confidence.

Duo sloop fights are also great because the sloop is an extremely tanky ship. Don't give up if your ship gets in a bad spot! Brigs and galleons require several people on bail once only one side of the boat opens up, but a sloop can be efficiently bucketed and repaired by one person until both sides are leaking. A team who is really active about repairs can outlast some of the most extreme pressure. If you want to see this in action, look up Erin Stirling or ItzMino's sloop battles - there are a few videos of their duo rebounding from a full death spiral. To gain every edge when in tough situations, there are a few strategies you can use: (Just keep in mind these are on the sweatier side). 1. Maintain helm over mast. Being able to control your ship's angle is super important, because even if you're in a really bad spot with your mast chopped, you can keep your ship broad to broad with the opposition and match their spiral. This makes it so that the amount of holes the enemy ship can open is limited, under the threshold that a single person can maintain, and you can ideally be able to return fire. If you can kill the enemy cannoneer, or chop their mast as well, that greatly equalizes the situation. (Just remember to straighten wheel after the other boat stops moving, that way you don't overturn and lose the broadside angle). 2. Keep a long ranged weapon equipped. Blunder + sword can be forgiving for new players, but if you want to beat the more challenging fights consistently, you want to have a pistol or sniper in your loadout somewhere (ideally the latter, but you're entitled to what you like better). Since sloops have such a limited crew, getting kills has a huge impact, and your guns still work even from ship to ship distance! Really good helmsman/support players will fire potshots at the other boat's cannon line when they have no other ship management tasks to worry about, and if your shots are on point, often you'll kill the cannoneer because of the splash damage they likely took from your own ship's volley. This is also critical in defensive positions. If you are getting shot at but don't have angle, or aren't able to get on cannon and return fire due to repeated splash damage, gunshots can kill the enemy or at least require them to back off for a bit to heal, buying you a little bit of time. Coordinated crews will "doublecross" enemies by calling out shots and both firing at the same time, which is a really good way to guarantee a kill from range. This is an excellent and fairly reliable method to relieve pressure when your ship is hurting, and tip the scales a little bit. 3. Use the ship's harpoons if you're able. It's risky, but you can pull an enemy on to your ship and kill them if you're quick. Furthermore, the auto aim of the harpoon makes this more reliable than sniping, especially if you also have a blunderbuss to one tap the pirate you just yoinked over. Though, be mindful of how bad your ship is hurting and call out to your teammate when you're doing this. The last thing you want is to have a player jumping around on your deck when your ship has water up to the map table. There are many more things to be said, but I hope this puts a lot of valuable concepts on the table.

As a person level 800 in both factions, the best way to get better is to solo sloop these fights. If you just wanna hop right into the action and start progressing, solo for me was the way to go. Just remember you do not have to repair and bail moment you are hit on a sloop. But keep the water down and turn out of the fight if you get hit too much! Keep practicing pirates! You'll win your battles over time while improving! Happy sailing!

Here is a tip that helped me. Don't aim for level 100 immediately. Aim for level 10, then 20, then 30, then 40, and so on. This way you will feel accomplished for hitting milestones instead of feeling burnt out for not being 70 levels away from your curse, after such a long grind.

I tried the instrumental music and it really helped me. I have problems with my nerves when I do hourglass PvP and the music really helped me stay calm. Thanks for the help!

I recommend watching a ridiculous amount of pvp streamers/youtubers. I have my coral bones for the skelly curse (which means you have to get to level 200) and I still do this. There is still so much to learn, even with the best of the best. Watching this kind of content helps to get a grasp of what to do in specific situations.

The best tip I have for anyone that is new is to not go for plays like ramming and spamming board, these plays can be effective if used in the right places but if used wrongly they can lose you the match.

One of the biggest things that's improved my PVP is recording my battles, watching them later on and discussing with my crew what went wrong and what went right. I think this is important even for battles you won. I highly recommend it to anyone who has the capability and if you don't maybe someone on your regular crew does.

it takes 1200 loses to get level 100

The best advice is to just have fun, for real. I never get upset about it when I choose to make it a fun experience.

Thank you so much for this video. It was reassuring to hear how even you, someone very skilled at the game, have experienced feeling discouraged from time to time. It's rough out here trying to grind for these curses, and I appreciate you encouraging us to have more confidence and give it a go :)

I've just been playing dice all the way to level 200. I play on European servers and most people I encounter always willing to play. I've actually made more friends in the PvP mode than in the adventure mode.

that last clip reminds me of my favorite time in SoT. Teaching 2 new players to sword lunge, as we were sailing away we saw them on the beach lunging back and forth practicing. it was so cute!

Remember, the best thing you can do to get better is practice.

My biggest tip for hourglass is to stop caring about whether you win or lose battles and instead just enjoy the fights and mess around with friends. Doing this makes the grind feel less like a grind and you just gain levels while enjoying what you're doing rather than forcing yourself to grind. There's no point in grinding for the curses if you're not enjoying it.

Hey Phuzzy, I started playing this game in January 2019 and I would call myself a well experienced Pirate. But i always love watching your content even if its more for newer Players. I believe everybody can still learn from your videos. Also your Videos most of the time are really funny and entertaining, for example 1:26 "The lesser of two evils" and then you show two pictures of pizza with Kiwi and Pizza with Pineapple/Ananas 😂 I really had to laugh when i saw this. Its a great example. Anyways keep doing your content pls

I personally think Galleon battles are the best for obtaining the curses. You'll come across newer galleons more than newer sloops because most people don't have 3 friends to play with so the gellons you play against are more often than not open crew. Secondly, galleon battles don't drag on forever like sloop battles do as it's a lot harder to bring yourself back if you're losing heavily.

You rock man, I love everything your doing for the SOT community!