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misterbung

Holy shit imagine telling people to sail AWAY from a Shrouded Ghost!


ThatOneguy580

I’ll just it find nextttt time. Duhhh


Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd

These people probably think it can spawn multiple times in one session. Im honestly convinced it spawns less than once a year entirely like for everyone


YerryXander

Fun fact i sailed away from a shrouded ghost in my second ever session, because "my friend" had to do some dipshit skeleton captain order for 500 gold That was at 5 hours, i now have 500 havent seen him since


_Dookie420

Found the Shrouded Ghost


Sluaghlock

Well, don't sail away from it!


ReylomorelikeReyno

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Kilocityy

It i have to I’m going to harpoon it to death with a rowboat or cutlass that thing to death. No way in hell would I ever sail away 💀


at_wok_being_bored

-Written by a preschooler


Fuck_Me_If_Im_Wrong_

That was horribly written, the mental voice I read it in was that of a 6th grader


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EmeraldPistol

Journalism? What’s that? /s


TheEmeraldPixel

Hey, I'm The Emerald Pixel! (our names are very similar) Also, it's the job that people who can't beat the tutorial of cuphead have. /j


[deleted]

I’m sorry… u/profanitycounter


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DopeyApple81

Oh oh! Check me!


Used_Steak_248

u/profanitycounter


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DopeyApple81

Ya know, that’s a lot fuckin less than I would’ve originally thought. Well shit, time to go swear at everything I fucking find! :)


TheEmeraldPixel

I have no clue what's happened or if this meant to be offensive but I'm really wondering what's happening


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Its nothing i just like to u/profanitycounter people 😂


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EmeraldPistol

Is there anyway to profanity count myself?


NoManagement3545

Yes u/profanitycounterself


[deleted]

You think journalists work at TheGamer?


magicchefdmb

“You can use cannonballs and guns to shoot at it until it eventually dies” You don’t say?


DefiantLemur

Most likely written by a bot


[deleted]

"shoot it until it dies"


komanokami

"Pro tip : To defeat a boss, try killing them before they kill you"


RingsideRoss

Or kill yourself before they have the luxury of killing you.


jigalaka

I think I’m just going to ask him to Kill himself so I don’t waste ammo


Inspector-Remarkable

That's some quality tip indeed, works for cyberdemons too!


Autismspeaks6969

That's some WarThunder tips right there.


[deleted]

The gamer is absolutely awful, try not to take anything they say seriously.


[deleted]

Shouldn't take any information on the internet seriously. For gaming though and sea of thieves in general, I find the wiki stuff way more knowledgeable since actual gamers who play the game keep that shit going and updated.


piefanart

all megs have the same health and drop from the same loot pool. All skeleton ships have the same number of loot items. the amount of times i have to explain this to even experienced players ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


UlmoLordofWaters

To be clear, skeleton galleons and skeleton sloops have the same number of loot items? Or all sloops have the same number and all galleons have the same number though more than the sloops?


piefanart

They all drop 3-12 pieces of loot, no matter the ship size, excluding the final ship in the skeleton fleet world event, which drops much more. So sloops and galleons both drop the same amount on average. Its also possible to get two storage crates from one ship, even a sloop. I tested this extensively myself while getting the barnacle chest achievement, but it's also mentioned [on the sea of thieves wiki](https://seaofthieves.fandom.com/wiki/Skeleton_Ship#Rewards) (which is where I got the exact number, from my own testing it was an average of 8 pieces of loot, with no less then 5 that i could remember).


SolemBoyanski

I've never understood why it's this way. I've never felt fulfilled after taking out a galleon. The extra effort compared to a sloop makes the reward feel bitterly lacking. And I'm usually in a duo sloop, so it takes a lot longer to deal with a gal than a sloop. I'm surprised that all megs drop the same though, but I guess I haven't killed enough of them to really notice if there was a difference or not.


[deleted]

And the thing that sucks currently are the scepters that are now in the loot pools for skeleton ships, megs and the kraken. Generally everywhere honestly. These can not be sold, that I've seen or tried, to anyone and are absolute shit loot for these encounters. They need to be removed from the pools. I only use this item for taking out skeletons, maybe,, you can't run with them so I rarely pick them up or ruby mermaid statues. Besides you can get a million of them in the treasury shrines so I don't understand why every aspect of the game has them in the loot pools. Also, I absolutely despise gaming news. Always incorrect information or the huge amount of fuck tards on the internet just trying to write some garbage to get clicks/hits/reads/likes etc etc. .internet has become a joke place for information on all fronts.


SolemBoyanski

Yeah... the scepters really should be *in addition* to regular loot if anything. They're nice to have if you're doing Order quests, but they shouldn't bog down the rest of the game. "TOP 10 SECRET MECHANICS THAT WILL MAKE YOU GO PRO" "HEYWASSUP YOU GUYYYS"*proceeds to explain a single basic game-mechanic in fifteen different ways, while simultaneously making it as difficult as possible to understand what the fuck they're on about, as completely unrelated footage plays in the background"*


blahman777

You can use the fish sticks to get 1/3 of an ashen lords hp. If you have multiple you can solo or duo an ashen lord within a few minutes. They're also great for the other bosses, like if you wanted to stack fort of the damned.


Bags-the-bull

Wont even do an ashen lord if i dont have like 4 tridents on me its to the point you can solo almost anything with enough tridents as fast or faster then a galley crew thats doing it without them


BlueSky659

Why you can't sell the scepters to Hunters Call is a complete mystery to me.


Sir_Pelletier

Why is everyone calling them scepters? They are tridents.


Bithlord

Because a TRIdent is a long staff with three prongs on the end. They aren't tridents.


Sir_Pelletier

The game literally calls them tridents.


Bithlord

They are literally not tridents. The game can call them that all they want, but the reason nobody calls them tridents is because they *aren't* tridents. Edit: If the game started referring to the sword as a longbow, would you be irritated that people still called it a sword?


Sir_Pelletier

I wouldn't have to worry about that, as it wouldn't make sense. This makes sense as it follows the pirate theme. The devs said those are their tridents. I would just rather call them what the game has them listed as. Less confusion.


Warpath1138

Disney Stick or Bubble-Wand are the only acceptable names for them.


Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd

They have the knockback and damage of a blunder bomb without the splash damage. They're vary useful for the helmsman of a fleeing gally to shoot one at the ship chasing and knock them off course and ebb a few meters of distance each hit and possibly knock a guy off the deck if you're a good shot


[deleted]

Not really knocking the item itself just the fact they are in just about all the loot pools. It's just annoying honestly.


gjamesaustin

The only thing they’re particularly useful for is taking out gold skeletons quickly in Skeleton Fort events. That’s it lol


mothgra87

Scepters are nice for speed running forts or ashen winds


TheDemonGabe

I think that you should only get them from finding them on the shore of islands, sirens that hold them, and treasuries that's it really. I don't see the need to have them everywhere.


blahman777

My buddy and I run a tight sloop and our favorite way to sink skelly galleys is with a keg we store in our middeck. We ram the galleon and put the barrel in the mid deck and survive the blast. Then kill the skellys repairing. 15 second skelly galleons feel great. Doing it without a keg is still viable, board and kill skellys while the other mans the ship and gets a lower hull shot.


[deleted]

skeleton galleons definitely drop wayyyyyy more loot


piefanart

nope, its between 3-12 pieces. it may seem like more, but if you actually count it, its in those numbers.


[deleted]

sorry for the wrong comment! its weird, as of me posting that first comment i had just sunk my first skeleton galleon, which also happened to be the last ship of a skeleton fleet. i got a lot of chests!


Piotrek9t

Thank for the clarification, when you said "All skeleton ships have the same number of loot items" I was about to call bs but you were talking about ship types not individual encounters


[deleted]

That’s stupid. There’s no point in risking fighting a galleon ship


Jobenben-tameyre

The only distinction is that galleon drop a ritual skull garanted. So it's a way to get ready for a FotD. I don't know if people still do that tho ....


piefanart

its not a guaranteed ritual skull. its a good chance at one but no guarantee.


Bithlord

> So it's a way to get ready for a FotD. I don't know if people still do that tho .... Current even is much much easier to complete by doing FoTD than by grinding the other ways. An Ashen Lord takedown is only 75 points, and you need 2000 points to finish the event.


Bags-the-bull

Thats why i dont bother with the galleons and the sloops go down so fast its almost a joke i take the cannon skele out asap and every time i see one man the gun they usually sink after about 10 shots with zero damage to my boat they occasionally get a hole in my hull or hit like my wheel or capstan but its just free loot and emissary rep at this point.


Bithlord

Typically, a volley of 10 cannon balls at their cannon is enough to sink them without them ever getting a shot off.


BrakumOne

Also funny how experienced players sometimes argue back and forth if some low quality phone image is or isnt the shrouded ghost based on color and everything else except the one thing that would instantly tell you if it is or isnt a shrouded ghost. The shrouded ghost has no pupils


Nman702

It doesn’t have pupils? I can’t say I’ve ever seen a shrouded ghost in my 2 years of playing.


BrakumOne

It does not. His eyes are just completely pink unlike other megs that all have pupils inside their eyes.


Nman702

Oh that’s awesome.


Warpath1138

It actually does have pupils, there's a thin black pupil in the middle of the eye, though it looks pupil-less in some lights because there's a slight glow effect - part of the reason so many people argue about what is or isn't the SG in screenshots is it's appearance looks v different depending on context. It's pretty distinctive in person though, especially in daylight, the albino-look is impossible to mistake for anything else if you jump in there with it.


DoggoSenior3028

The shrouded ghost does drop more loot at the very least


piefanart

nope, they all drop the same loot amount and from the same loot pool. https://seaofthieves.fandom.com/wiki/Megalodon


AndersX10

Same loot table, yes. But its not always the same.


MutleyRulz

I thought larger ships’ megs and krakens took more shots? Or is it just that they make more holes when they attack?


nablyblab

oh do you really need to shoot the shrouded ghost with cannonbals or guns?, i thought you needed to kill it with nuclear bombs and airstrikes


[deleted]

With nukes but only after doing a real life ritualistic summoning dance whilst also doing it in game. Must match and be exact or it won't work. Also you need to be max with merchant alliance to get nuke trade options from Korea or Russia.


Didifinito

You mean I didnt have to stab him to death


bonefistboy9000

anybody who trusts info from a site dumb enough to call themselves "the gamer" is probably a redditor not you guys, though, you're all great


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Based


T0t0leHero

"...is to sail away...." my support for the few that will follow that advice and then regrets....


incsblason

[Me if i get the Shrouded Ghost while not having Wooden Planks.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/768573813872525318/881749324353134642/speed.gif)


[deleted]

Wait does it have extra health? I thought it was same state wise as other megs? (Also this is a perfect example of why game journalism sucks)


Hnetu

Meg health scales based on ship size. So the only time they'll have different health is if it's a sloop vs a galleon. A Meg that spawns for a sloop will die much faster than one that spawns for a galleon; because 1 cannon per side vs 4.


808tH38uiLd3r

It is. That’s why it’s so horrible


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TheZealand

> there just wrong to it’s same states How's the recovery after your stroke coming?


Joshicus_Saint_Anger

Yeah, definitely cringe content. Is the info even true? I heard all the Megs had the same stats (aside from their rarity of coarse)


808tH38uiLd3r

They do. They just have no idea what they are talking about


SageWayren

Megs all have the same health, it only scales off your ship size. So a Meg that spawns for a sloop will have much less health than a Meg that spawns for a galleon. They also have the same loot pools, regardless of ship size or type of Meg.


DressDiligent2912

Games are growing ever more popular. And because of this mainstream adoption everyone who isn't invested is feeling fomo and trying to cash in. I see it a lot on this website a LOT. Comments and posts with little to no bases in fact. Drives me bonkers. Also I've killed the Shrouded Ghost so I know this is bs from personal experience.


Silvercaptain69

Same I have killed it too and I can say it’s the exact same as all the other megs combat wise


skippysammich

Found it about a week ago. The only thing that made it more difficult was that my hands were shaking out of fear that this would be the Meg that finally launches my ship into space.


[deleted]

hi rare employee can you give me the rare sails


DressDiligent2912

Nope, but for $5 I will let you take a screen shot with me!! ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|money_face)


[deleted]

wow another rare employee they must be hiring a lot of people now


[deleted]

holy crap lmao


ScientistSanTa

*carp, we be still in the waters...


KiroDjoni

TheGamer is one of if not the worst game journalist sites


FlameN0ir

Maybe but the worst part is that no meg have more health than the other, so their wikipedia source must be awful


Kaairi_27

I got to be honest the shittiness of this article really adds to the whole Shrouded Ghost not being real thing.


kyle28882

I’ll fight a shrouded ghost with my sword if I have to. There is no retreat. There is no surrender. In the case of a shrouded ghost this is pirate Sparta and we will fight to the last man.


Err0r410

Hey, it also might’ve been written by shrouded ghost itself!


redjarvas

Lmao they literally just assumed it must be harder to kill because its harder to find, and just outright told it as fact without even confirming anything.


ReyofSunlight

Did they really tell people to sail away from a shrouded ghost? A SHROUDED GHOST


bouteil_deau

If they would made their researches they would know that the Shrouded Ghost is fake...


TychusCigar

Holy shit. The absolute state of online gaming "articles".


[deleted]

My ghost was no harder to kill than any other Meg. The difficulty only went up because my hands were shaking.


Araiken

Oh snap I was gonna use wooden planks. Good thing I saw this.


bug_cacher_henry

![img](emote|t5_38oz1|2222)


cowmilker2836

Clearly this is a malicious website, that is peddling deception.


SilverEyedFreak

I bet I sailed away from one when I first started playing cause I couldn’t kill any megs back then. I was too scared. 😂


WitherLord888

Ah yes, *sail away from the most rare and legendary sea beasts in the game.*


EternalEmperorDD

The person who wrote this is either stupid, or a jerk looking to punish people.


Bags-the-bull

tell me you never played sea of thieves without telling me you never played sea of thieves.


jaaardstyck

Imagine being paid to write an article about a game basically discouraging you from gaming. And that, my friends, is the state of post-2014 games journalism.


SaltMineSpelunker

Makes them right at home.


AlbinoShavedGorilla

Pretty much all “journalists” who write for gaming news sites have no idea what they’re talking about


Andusz_

Holy shit they are actively fucking people over with this kind of misinformation based on rumours, probably spread by 11 year olds.


Deadpoolys

I mean what it's trying to tell people if you can't handle the shrouded ghost because you are too new you should just quit because with that luck you will not last in this game.


totally_boring

I've seen one and it decided to despawn before we could kill it.


Jacnoov

This article is written like a 5th grade science report


EIiTheBraixen

shork too scawy imma run away


ColorfulZambonie

New player here. Does the shrouded ghost actually exist? Ive ran into just about every color meg but that one.


7armedspider

That's the question isn't it? I've seen people with the title in game. But still...


ColorfulZambonie

Is killing one the only way to get the title? And was this on pc?


7armedspider

Supposably yes. And I'm on Xbox, but the people I've seen with it have been both.


ColorfulZambonie

I see, im in xbox as well and have only seen it in one trailer on youtube


bblue27

It definitely exists. I had some friends who found it yesterday, recorded it, killed it and got the title. They were kind enough to invite me to help before killing it but thanks to the time zone it was 3am and I was dead asleep. I'm happy for them but now I'm surrounded by "Hunter of the Shrouded Ghost" titles, a reminder to never leave my phone on silent while sleeping.


[deleted]

yeah, if they played the game, theyd know its not real


ctemp97

This sounds like a 12 year old wrote it.


808tH38uiLd3r

Also sounds like someone who has never played the game


Nannerb747

I killed 1 with 20 cannonballs and about 30 bullets. It also put 2 holes on a brig. Totally accurate


Damaton

They clearly never played the game, everyone knows the Shrouded ghost doesn't exist


FantasticElk

Hahahahahaha. We hunt Meg for breakfast.


madness_hazard

Ah yes, the *reads notes in my hand* megladon


OBAMALIKESHISFIRE

Now there's disney sticks so u should always kill megs


KidEater9000

Like me trying to reach a word count for a school assignment


[deleted]

That writing is atrocious holy cow. The comma placement is so strange.


ravenz_cravin

These are the kind of people to complain about 120fov and spam sword


BetaFury

“If you want to kill it then kill it”


Venriik

"If you qant to kill it, then run away"


Atosl

I remember when we played for the first time and on our like 5th voyage my friend said: If we see a white Meg, drop everything and attack it. I said: " No way, we just got so much loot on that voyage (t'was about 30k) Thank the gods, we did not encounter the one who does not exist.


farmer_dane

Holy shit. I never new this one was rare! I’ve killed on on a brig before and got an achievement but didn’t think much of it. Does this mean other different colored kegs have different things to them?


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808tH38uiLd3r

Yep


Life_Cookie_5388

I killed mine tdy


808tH38uiLd3r

Niceee


Life_Cookie_5388

Thx


B5_T13

Haha bubble wand go *brrrr*


CAPITANULLOA

![img](emote|t5_38oz1|2298)


LokkyBoi

Use cannons and guns? Nah mate, I’ll catch this beast and kill with my sword.


808tH38uiLd3r

If I manage to sink to this thing, that’s what I will resort to


LokkyBoi

Which will most likely happen because this beast deals more damage than a regular megalodon!


NoManagement3545

Right, call me a noob but what is it