Ahoy mates, it's the curse captain here with a new advanced guide dedicated to helping you scurvy increase your chances at spawning the infamous ancient skeletons to help me with this guide video I ran into an infamous pirate in their own right to pirate legend that goes by the name of Kira Lee who's encountered them over 10 individual times. So what are these secrets and how do you up your chances? Well sit back and grab yourself a drug because we are about to blow your freaking minds. For all you pirates out there that don't know what the ancient skeleton is, it is a creature that wind found and kill drops ancient coins, coins that you can use at the point in pouring them to purchase some very awesome cosmetics. So learning how to up your chances on encountering them will help you parts be a little fancier and help your wallet be a little more full. There are three tiers of drops that the ancient skeletons will do. Tier 1, stash will drop 100 to 200 coins, Tier 2 stash will drop 200 to 400 and Tier 3 if you are so blessed by the way lord himself will drop 400 to 800 coins. Now quick note here before I jump into the tips, something to keep in mind is that the ancient coins are only rewarded to the crews who killed the ancient Skelly and their reward does not extend other crews in your pirate alliance. So if you are thinking you can just get a pve grind server to farm these coins, you my friend are out of luck. So what are these tips I speak of? Well first you need to know that what I am about to share only ups your chances on spawning the ancient Skellies. Even with these tips they are extremely rare and it won't be like you see them on every island. With that little disclaimer let's jump into this. This tip seems obvious but it can't be expressed enough. For you to even encounter an ancient boy you need to be on an island to do it. Now I am not just talking about shooting over to an island doing a 5 second check around and then catching them from mid back. I am talking about spending 5 to 10 minutes on an island running all over it. The reason this helps increase your chances is that the longer you are on the island the higher chance an ancient Skelly will spawn. You can use this opportunity to collect supplies for your ship, find him in treasure and even dare I say it fish. In this example from Kearley they were digging for grubs when they went afk and just for a second and that's when an ancient Skeleton spawned. Proving it's the combination of moving around on the island and just simply being present on it. Give yourself something to do while you are checking islands for ancient skeletons. Run your favorite voyage type. Now I am going to make a suggestion here that if you are a pirate legend I would just simply run in a theme of voyage as it gives you the best of all the worlds. Multiple maps on different islands each requiring you to spend a little bit more time than normal. However if you are not yet a pirate legend the voyage I would throw down would be in order of souls. One being that I don't think skeletons like it when you kill other skeletons but number two skeletons can take a bit longer than normal to finish. However a gold-horter voyage can still be really lucrative. In fact you know those riddles you avoid like the black plague itself. Yeah they will help you increase your chances big time because well if you are like me reading it hard and I hate looking for those stupid clues so you will end up killing more time than usual anyway. You will be running all over an island looking for clues and it will take you about 5 to 10 minutes to do it. Now last thing here I heard a rumor that they can spawn more often on the shores of gold. Not sure if this is true but hey it's another island you can run around on. If you have time to kill just go fish as confirmed from Kierli you know the pirate who is encountering these ancient skeletons already. Yeah you do not need to be moving for these skeletons to spawn which means if you are like fishing there is no better way to get these skeletons to spawn. However my tip here would be to not spend over 30 minutes on any one island. By switching it up you are increasing your chances so fish on one island for a little bit and move on to the next one. In fact you can even encounter these creatures on fort so if you are after those battle gills there is still an opportunity for you to encounter them. You may just need to keep an eye on your horizon and watch your back while you are fishing. Something terribly sad is having an ancient skeleton spawn and you are too busy or don't recognize the sound to realize that the opportunity is slipping right through your pirate hook. As soon as you hear the first jingle you will have a total of 20 seconds to kill the ancient skeleton. 10 seconds to dig himself out and another 10 seconds while he runs away. Don't end up like Kierli here who missed her opportunity to kill an ancient skeleton leaving herself in utter and desperate despair. So to help you mate out I'm going to play that sound again so listen carefully. So now that you know what they sound like here's how they look. They are covered in blue and gold and have a big backpack on them which is full of ancient coins. So the advance to pier is make sure your music is not on full blast and your sound effects is turned up all the way. This will help you hear clearly when an ancient skeleton has spawned. Now some of you may be wondering what does it take to kill one of these ancient skeletons? Well Kierli has done the hard work for us here as well. She's confirmed for us that it takes four slashes with your sword, two blunders and no idea for the eye of reach in the flint lock. I mean Kierli can't do everything for us. Some of this stuff we're going to have to do for ourselves but we can for sure confirm that it takes four slashes with your sword to kill one of these ancient skeletons. They also shared with me that they noticed an increase of ancient skeletons if they only had one crewmate on the island at a time. I don't know if this actually does increase your odds but hey it's worth a try. The last tip I have for you to increase your odds is a simple one. You need to sell your soul. Now listen hear me out. Hear me out. I know you only have one soul but if there ever was a cause for selling it it would be to get yourself some more ancient coins am I right? Of course I am so next time you're on the ferryman I want you to have a talk with him and discuss the opportunity of a lifetime. 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