How can you obtain rare items using "Search skill"?

There are many ways to get rare items in this game.

One of them is "Search" skill.

If you have enough Search skill, you can get special items :)
And, you will be able to find them everywhere.
Roadside in the town, in the church, outskirts of the town... etc etc.

Well then,where should you look for?




Ⅰ. In the town

You will be able to find them easily in the town.

First, you fill cargo in your ship hold.
It's convenient to use water.

Next, go to your favorite place, and use Search skill.
I recommend using skill on the place where you found some kind of discovery.

And if you get this message,you can excavate special items on the place.

It takes very long time until you obtain the item.
you need long-long time X)


For example.
I decided to look for a "Galileo-style telescope".
It can get at church in Famagusta.
In the depths of the church, I confirmed the message mentioned above.
I threw away a little water and started search skill…

searching....　5mins

searching... 12mins

searching... 26mins

get it!! XD

Eventually, it is up to your luck.
However, you usually need long time.
You will need many food.




Ⅱ. Outside the town



Excavating outside the town,it's more difficult than in the city.
You will need few preparations.

First,you must have some red ribbons.
Even if you lose your way,you can come back to the town immediately.

Next,you must prepare the big ship of the hold as much as possible.
If you continue excavating, you will dig much garbage(grass,sand...etc).

Last,you might want to appoint Aide having high Lookout.
You can increase probability to obtain rare items.

Then,where should you use search skill ?
There are two points.

One is "near the Object".
"the Reverse Rock","Red flower"...etc.

Near such an object, you may obtain the rare items.

The other one is "near the Discovery"
You may obtain rare items on the place where you found Discovery.

For example.
There is the Campagna region on the outskirt of Naples.
If you were an Adventurer,You might have discovered "Scipio's helmet" on these outskirt.

When you cleared Adventure quest"God of War vs God of War", you can obtain the helmet.
But,if you continue excavating on the same place...

You will be able to obtain a "shipwrights hammer" XD


There are several points that you can obtain the rare items.
However,you will obtain same items even if you excavite on the different point.
You can obtain only the same kind of items in the same areas.


For example.
There is the Beblos region on the outskirt of Beirut.
I tried to excavite "shipwights saw" at various point.

I obtained "shipwrights saw" at various places.


In this way. you can get  various rare items in this game.
Please look for rare items yourself :)

How to PlunderⅡ (Advance)

These are additional information about the rare hunting　:)





●About the enemy of the suprise attack

Do you remember that it was made a surprise attack by NPC when you were a beginner?
What kind of ship was the enemy at that time? Probably it would be "Cog" or "Barca".
Then, if you receive surprise attack in the same sea area now?
Probably NPC of the"Battle Carvel" will attack you.

Why will these differences happen?

The reason is simple. It is because the kind of the enemy changes depending on the total level of the player.
Furthermore, it change by the place.

Of course the items which those enemies have are different.


This thing shows one fact.

The enemy of the surprise attack might have a nice rare item.
However, the enemy may not appear depending on your total level.

I will add information about such NPC.
Look at the tag of "Surprise Attack"


Well, let's take a look at the process I got the rare item from the enemy of surprise attack :)

I went to the Australian Perth Basin with my friend.

Her total level is around 30 (11/8/12) .
It is not usually possible to come to this sea area at such the level.
This is because there is not the permit.
However, the enemy making a surprise attack on the player with a total level less than approximately 35 exist in this sea area.

Probably this NPC is one of the hidden secrets which the developer prepared :)

On the other hand, my total level is too high.
The objective NPC will not appear when I was attacked.
Therefore I stop near her ship.
The stopping ship does not catch the surprise attack in this game.
She continued moving around my ship and waited for the surprise attack from the enemy.

Oops, she received surprise attack.
The flagship is her ship because she was attacked.
I went to protect her hastily  X)

I defeated these enemies and obtained "Maori feathers (normal drop)" and "Popondetta (rare drop)".
Maori feathers several kinds exist in this game.
However, plunder boost's is only this one.

In this way, you will understand that there are various rare items in this game when include the enemy of the surprise attack.
If you have interested this things,try to be made surprise attack from many NPCs.
You might get interesting discovery :)





●About the number of players and relations with the number of NPC

When you go on voyage, there will be that you watched the phenomenon that NPC appears in front, and goes out.
By this game, the number of NPC increases and decreases according to the number of players existing in the same sea area.

When you use this, e.g., you can do such a thing.

・ A case of the sea area where NPC appears when there are players more than two
  1. you go the sea area with a friend when there is nobody
  2. when there is not rare NPC, your friend enter port or logs out.
  3. NPC disappears.
  4. you confirm that NPC disappeared
  5. your friend go out the port or log in again.
  6. a new NPC appears again.

It is relatively easy to appear rare-NPC if you repeat this.

When you want to suppress the consumption of the cannon or want to attack rare-Nationality NPC fleet,this is useful.
Let's enjoy efficiently rare hunting :)





●The advice of "Persistent Pilfering"

add 09/24/12
There is the person calling what is written here "Guard Spam" in the public.
I think that a word to be called "Guard Spam" is more plain and is better :)

Do you have the experience that wasted long time to let rare-NPC appear?
Even if rare NPC appears, there is only a little number of times that you can plunder from the NPC.
Surely you will be sad if you cannot obtain the rare item.

That is where "Persistent Pilfering" come in! XD
It is way to increase the number of times to plunder from enemy.

The way of the efficient rare-hunting will change depending on the enemy and the situation.
However, "persistent pilfering" is the basically best way.

I wrote an article about this before.
It is a plundering method using "Seize Cargo" skill of the Aide.
I explain it in detail this time.


So,what is "Persistent Pilfering"?
Briefly, It means that you maintain the melee state as much as possible.
You have to prevent that reducing the sailor of the enemy.
And, you should let your Aide activate "Seize Cargo" as much as possible.

Then let's confirm the situation before fighting.




The first: Check your Aide

You set one Aide for "Ambush" in "Lookout",and another one set to "Lieutenant" for "Seize Cargo".
High property value is better.

The second: Adjustment of equipment and skill

This is the most important.
You change the setting of your equipment and skill depending on objective NPC.

The points are three.


・Your attack point are less than (or equal) the defence point of the enemy.
・Your defence point are higher than (or equal) the attack point of the enemy.
・The number of your sailors are less than (or equal) the number of enemies.


Let's adjust it to be like that.
The state that the decrease of sailor become less than 1 is the best.

In addition, NPC don't withdraw by doing it.
When the enemy fail in withdrawal, many sailors die.
It means that you are decreased your time of melee battle.
Therefore, you need to make the situation that NPC don't withdraw easily.

This is the ideal situation.

・Attack Power (numerical value of the sword)

   - "having weapon or not", "having sterncastle or not" "seal swordplay skill in the skillbook or not"; etc..

・Defence Power (numerical value of the shield)
   - "having armor or not", "loyalty of the sailor", etc ...

In addition to these, the combination of melee item and melee skill is effective, too.

"Tactics" increase your attack power and defence.
It is useful if the enemy used "Loud bomb "

"Gunfire" reduce attack power of the enemy.

"Guard" can weaken your attack.
I think that this is useful.


"White smoke bomb" decrease attack power of enemy.
this is very useful.too

"Heady wine barrel" decrease Vigour of enemy.
It is useful for the enemy using the strong skill many times.





The third: Preparations for ship
Except strong enemy, any large battle ship don't have problem for rare-hunting.
However,I recommend that you add "Drainage pump"
When your ship is inundation state, "Evasion" skill have invalid effect.
If you are attacked in this situation,you might be sunk easily
But if you have this skill,you can use it in the middle of the melee battle.





By the way, I have MFCV for the rare hunting.
"Special sterncastle"  can decrease attack power of the enemy's sterncastle.
"Commander post" prevents the confusion state.
This ship is very useful :)

 The slowness such as the tortoise is its only fault・・・XP

The fourth: your skills
Basically,any skill to use for melee battle is required.

"Evasion" skill is required.
"Surgery" skill is required.
"Repair" skill is required.
"Rescue" skill is required.
"Aboardage" skill is useful





Are you with me so far ?
OK, Now let us watch "Persistent Pilfering" :)


V.S. strong NPC
rare Cebard Pirate (Dyeing Admiral's uniform)


Weapon：Katar
Armor：King Richard I's armor ...etc
Ship Parts：Iron plate, Dragon, ...etc
Ship：MFCV
Swordplay Skill：use

Cebard Pirate is one of the most powerful NPCs in this game.
I reduce the attack power of the enemy by Special Sterncastle, but still enemy have high attack power.
The canon is extremely strong, and the melee battle is very aggressive.
Therefore I capture one enemy.


Furthermore, I reduce vigour of the enemy by heady wine barrel because the enemy use Assault skills many times.

When the vigour of the enemy dried up, I repeat Guard skill.
The evasion skill is required to endure the canon attack from other enemies.
Some my attack point is high, but I don't have any problem because this enemy use white smoke bomb.

Yes,my Aide activated "Seize Cargo" skill.
Regretfully,she brought some mate tea :(
By the next turn, I used the "Bell of withdrawal" immediately.

Even if I do not withdraw ,my Aide can activate "Seize Cargo" skill once again.
However, the activation probability decrease to half.
And there is not the third activation.

Because it is such a reason, I withdraw quickly every time if my Aide  activate ”Seize Cargo”.
If withdrawal succeeds, I try melee battle again.

I repeat this earnestly... earnestly... and repeat "Seize Cargo".
If I reduce the sailor of the enemy too much,I leave the battlefield once, and fight again.
Then the sailor of the enemy recover, and you can use Ambush again if 10 minutes pass.

And,if you play with your friends,it is good way that you leave them to fight the battle.
Because you can go for supply, and the risks that rare NPC disappear will decrease.


V.S. weaken NPC
rare North Sea Armed Merchant Fleet (Spear training -secret)

Weapon：none
Armour：none
Ship parts：Iron plate ,Dragon ,etc...
Ship：Clipper
Swordplay skill：seal in the skillbook

Each other's melee power become equal if in such this state.
This will be easy to fight.


And, if you become advantageous with confusing state,push the "withdrawal" button.
You should not be use "Bell of withdrawal".

When each other choose "withdrawal", the withdrawal always succeed.
However, "the bell of the withdrawal" might fail.
Because the bell is different from normal withdrawal in the judging method.
A lot of sailors of the enemy will die when you fail.

On the other hand,let's repeat "withdrawal" likewise when you feel that there are too many your sailors.
If you fail withdrawal, you can reduce your sailor.
You can regulate your melee power by doing so it.





I make rare-hunting by such way.
I don't use "Persistent Pilfering" for rare NPC which is easy to appear.
However, I have experience that spent three hours to look for rare NPC.
I use "Persistent Pilfering" at such time.
This is because it does not want to wait for an appearance of rare NPC for another three hours XD






●How to gather "Pillage Order"

The Pillage Order is effective for not only the rare-hunting but also PvP.
I think Jakarta's Quest is the most efficient way for collect Pillage Order

You go to Jakarta and get quest called "eastern trade route"
This is a maritime quest.
It is contents that you kill 15 Matarames (Galleass)
This quest does not appear if you do not have more than 25000 maritime fame.
When you receive this quest, you can get Pillage Order with high probability whenever you overcome Mataram.
The attack of the enemy is extremely strong, but the range is short.
I think you can win enough if you use H-Perrier.

Because the enemy will turn to the bow and charge, you aim at the critical-hit from far away :D


And, when you killed 14 Matarames,you should abandon the quest.
You can get the same quest again by doing so it.
If you kill 15 Matarames and clear the quest,you can't get same quest until you clear other quest.





● About rare land enemy

In the land enemy, rare NPC exists.
Such an enemy might have useful rare item.

For example, the outskirts of Hobart, Australia are so.
Only "Darwent River Pirate Lv39" and "Ossa Bandit Lv40" usually appear in this area.
However, "Bounty Lv54" rarely appears when you defeat " Darwent River Pirate Lv39 ".
It is said that this NPC has rare recipe "Firearms enhancement ".

But there is only one way that you get rare items from the land enemy.
It is "Defeat an enemy on land battle".
Yes, you can't use Aide's skill or Pillage Order.

Therefore the acquisition from the land enemies is difficult :(
However,the land enemy may be different from sea enemy.
When you defeated the enemy on land battle, can plunder the number of times same as the number of party members.

How can you plunder rare items from NPCs on the sea

Ⅰ.The basics of rare hunting 

●About distinction of NPC

There are NPC which had various rare items on the sea.

weapon,armor,crest,recipe,treasure map...etc.

Basically, you can obtain them that plunder from NPC fleet on the melee battle.

However,I don't recommend that you defeat NPC fleet at random.

Because,you may want to know "What are you able to plunder from NPC"

One NPC have "money", "food,water,munitions,timber", "two trade-goods", "one non rare item", and "one rare item"

This is very important rule.

So,if you got three trade goods after fighting enemies...

It means that you fought enemies more than two kinds.

Even if the formation of NPC are identical, different NPC exist.

For example, Venetian merchant fleet drop "mode design v5".

You can find easily the NPC fleet at Adriatic sea or Ionian sea.

But,Venetian merchant fleets have three types, and only one of them drop v5
If you are going to look for v5, naturally it is necessary to defeat NPC that have "mode v5"


I will write the information what NPC have items.
You will become easy to obtain rare item by distinguishing the formation of NPC :)

Of course, the amount of the money and trade goods will change by your plunder skill rank.
The information of this site is based on plundering R10 degree mainly.

●About rare fleet
When NPC appears,the rare fleet may occasionally appear.
They are often different in the name, formation, crest and color of the sail.
And,they often own the useful rare item.

If you notice the NPC that you didn't see,you may want to beat the NPC.



●Aide's skill
If you do rare hunting seriously, there are two necessary Aide's skills.
"Ambush" and "Seize cargo"

When you succeed to use Aide's skill "Ambush", you become easy to obtain rare item
I omit the detailed information,but three-fold increase in the probability.

However,this skill is not usable to NPC partner belonging to nationality.
It is more difficult to obtain rare item from such the NPC.

In addition, "Seize cargo" skill can steal items without defeating an enemy.
When you obtain rare items from the rare fleet, it is very useful.



●NPC's skill rank

In this game, NPC has any skills in the same way as a PC, too.
So,when your Plundering skill is too low,your plundering will be interfered by the Storage skill of NPC.

You need to be devised to increase the plunder skill rank.




Ⅱ.How to plundering 

There are three methods for plundering rare item.
I perform a basic commentary about these plundering methods.


A: Beat NPC by melee battle.

This is most simple method.
When you kill NPC in melee battle, you will get items.
If your plundering rank is high, the acquisition rate of rare item rises.


B: Using "Pillage order" during melee battle

If you use "Pillage order" in melee battle,you can plunder items from enemies.
The rare item may be available with luck.

The plundering decision depends on your plundering rank.



C: Actuating "Seize cargo" skill during melee battle
When your aide actuate "Seize cargo" skill during melee battle,you will get items.
This skill is one of the means of plunder without killing enemies.

It is very convenient, but you have some what you may want to remember.

Only twice,your aide actuate "Seize cargo" during one melee battle.
If your Aide actuate "Seize cargo" during melee battle twice, you need to withdraw.
Furthermore, the probability that your Aide actuate the second action falls to half in comparison with the first it.

Of course, if you go melee battle again, you will get twice the chance again.


The plundering decision depends on the Lieutenant rank of your Aide.
It is equivalent to plundering R10 with Lieutenant 100.





Ⅲ . Preparations for rare hunting

・ Much food
・ High plundering rank
・ "Ambush" and "Seize cargo" of the Aide

And...

・ Iron Heart!! XD


It may take one month for you to obtain one rare item.

but ,please don't give up, and try to get the treasure :)


It is only some items to be written here.
Please look for various rare items by yourself.

good sailing!    11/16/2011




add 10/01/2012

●About University Skills

After Great Plains update, University skill was introduced.
and, rare hunting became thereby easy :)
I give some explanations about it here.


There are five skills to be related to rare hunting

・ Plunder Aid 1
・ Plunder Aid 2
These skills increase your Plunder skill.
only increase simply :)


・Successful Plundering 1
・Successful Plundering 2
These skills raise outbreak probability of Seize Cargo of your Aide.
In the case of "Guard Spam", this is extremely effective.

Your Aide can activate "Seize Cargo" only twice.
However, 4-5 times are possible if there are these skills.
Besides, the outbreak probability rises.


・Rare Item Plunder
This skill raises the acquisition probability of rare item.
Simplicity is clear, but is the most important skill.


You might want to use all skills as much as possible.
However, Seize Cago skill has no connection with your Plunder skill rank as wrote before.
So,when you plunder rare item on the sea,three last skills are enough :)