The WORST Emissary in Sea of Thieves

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  • The WORST Emissary in Sea of Thieves
    Ever wonder why everybody makes fun of the Merchant Alliance? I mean seriously, I rarely ever see a Merchant Emissary on the seas even though the Merchant Alliance gets to level up very fast when it comes to their emissary standing.
    Today, I decided to find out why that is! We'll be checking out Merchant Alliance Voyages, uncover lost shipments and question why we decided to do all of that without first looking at a guide..
    I hope you enjoy this story with plenty of funny moments!
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Комментарии • 564

  • @shoelace5977
    @shoelace5977 2 года назад +966

    personally as a loner on the seas, i prefer the merchant emissary over others, mostly because it´s the faction oriented around being on the move. effectively abusing trade routes easily lets you sell crates for almost 1k gold each if you check the ledger, and thats before you count in the emissary bonus, which nets you an easy 20k for just docking in at an outpost and exchanging boxes, not counting the voyages you might do on the way.
    the biggest downside of running the merchant flag is of course that it´s not that entertaining, unless another ship comes up to you, since you´re encouraged to stay away, not earning much if you chase other ships; But if you sail solo, and just want a somewhat safe journey, the Merchant alliance delivers.

    • @Acemanveryspecial
      @Acemanveryspecial 2 года назад +45

      If you want to chill and soak in the visuals and be immersed Merchants is the best.

    • @Delta040301
      @Delta040301 2 года назад +22

      I enjoy just sailing around and enjoying the view while making a tidy profit. Very relaxing after a busy day.

    • @Abandonsoyciety
      @Abandonsoyciety 2 года назад +6

      I was solo slooping with a merchant emissary flag up and got obliterated by a lvl 5 reaper, your argument towards a safe journey just fell flat on it's face I was barely a level 2 merchant emissary if your wondering. Now I don't bother with emissaries unless im in an open crew.

    • @blackdiamond7073
      @blackdiamond7073 2 года назад +3

      Agreeded

    • @NKGAMING-ri4qm
      @NKGAMING-ri4qm 2 года назад

      What’s a trade route

  • @invictagecko9606
    @invictagecko9606 2 года назад +9

    "It's not a reaper move. I wanted to take their stuff." It seems Brandon is suffering with some reaper withdrawl.

  • @airtary-4169
    @airtary-4169 2 года назад +8

    I'm so glad sea of tales are back! was the reasone i started watching you. Keep up the great work you do, i'll watch it all! :)

  • @OddNess9339
    @OddNess9339 2 года назад

    Bro i LOVE the fable music in the background. Brings back SO many memories playing that game on my xbox 360 as a kid.

  • @NormanicLogs
    @NormanicLogs 2 года назад +1

    i love the part when you gave them wood
    "WEEEHOOOOO"

  • @Malhaloc
    @Malhaloc 2 года назад +943

    Sunken ships are quick and relatively easy for the amount of loot you get. It's not a lot of work, but it feels more like a job lol You can't help but feel like a deckhand as you're going to spend about as much time as the voyage actually took just unloading your loot.

    • @OddNess9339
      @OddNess9339 2 года назад +57

      I completely understand what you're getting at. But sometimes, just like fishing, you just want to chill and relax and solo sloop for a bit with not a lot of risk. That's the beauty of this game, if you want to swashbuckling adventure where you're lobbing cannon fire back and forth between ships and boarding each other to try and take out another crew and steal their loot, you can do that. But if you just want to relax and chill and not engage in the pirate life, you can do that. And I know not fighting other people and being a pirate is kind of against the core aspect of this game, but they've added so many different things that are not geared towards PVP that I think you can be excused to do anything you want. Then again those other aspects they've added in also benefit pvp.

    • @ritbit1020
      @ritbit1020 2 года назад +20

      I think you're speaking nothing but facts there, but I always feel proud unloading the loot and looking at my riches. It's all down to opinion, if you like fast paced pvp then go with the reapers, if you want slow paced soloing and just chilling, then the merchants are for you.

    • @Malhaloc
      @Malhaloc 2 года назад +4

      @@ritbit1020 same here. Not knocking it, but there are some people who don't like it as you said.

    • @ritbit1020
      @ritbit1020 2 года назад +2

      @@Malhaloc yea, I fricking love being a reaper when I'm with 1 or 2 friends, but I could never be a solo reaper.

    • @Malhaloc
      @Malhaloc 2 года назад +2

      @@ritbit1020 I'm working on OOS currently. But after that, I'm going to try solo reaper. It's going to be interesting.

  • @pal1d1nl1ght
    @pal1d1nl1ght 2 года назад +750

    Merchants were my first (and currently only) to level 50. I love the non-violent, disciplined nature of them. Very un-pirate like though.

    • @brandonhelliker
      @brandonhelliker 2 года назад +113

      I think that the merchant ships in this game are very much like what it would’ve been like, following their trade routes and having to defend themselves from pirates, that’s why I love the merchant alliance. Not really a fan of hunting people down.

    • @shindai_doggo6573
      @shindai_doggo6573 2 года назад +17

      Those are like the royal merchants/navy, not pirates lol

    • @OddNess9339
      @OddNess9339 2 года назад +21

      To me I personally love doing merchants. My brother loves to chill in this game and fish cuz he loves getting his Hunter call up, but he has thalassophobia which is the fear of deep water so I do all the ship diving. Don't get me wrong we will defend our loot with a fierceness, and when I get merchant loot from other people I like to consider myself a privateer not a pirate. Same thing just one has an employer.

    • @herpymcderpy9624
      @herpymcderpy9624 2 года назад +13

      Until you rock up to a merchant crew who murder anything that moves in the name of self defense

    • @Albanus35
      @Albanus35 Год назад +3

      Merchants can be very agressive protecting their profit... lol

  • @douglasparkinson4123
    @douglasparkinson4123 2 года назад +134

    watching this man harpoon bottles and put plants on the bowsprit, then jump into water to carry cloth has just eroded my soul.

  • @KnjazNazrath
    @KnjazNazrath 2 года назад +277

    The real challenge for merchants is keeping your morale up when the key to the sunken ship fails to spawn.

    • @pcdeltalink036
      @pcdeltalink036 Год назад +22

      Or better, you find the key and then later you find the manifest floating all on its own. No shipwreck. Feels even worse.

    • @helicopterharry5101
      @helicopterharry5101 Год назад

      ​@@pcdeltalink036This, but at least you can just skip to the shipwreck of a second voyage.

    • @pcdeltalink036
      @pcdeltalink036 Год назад +6

      @@helicopterharry5101 Nope, the key only works on the ship from that voyage. It can't be used for a different ship.

    • @jaromdabomb9986
      @jaromdabomb9986 Год назад

      OH MY GOSH YES

    • @helicopterharry5101
      @helicopterharry5101 Год назад +1

      Today I had a key despawn on me. It must have because I never left my ship and I spent 10 minutes searching my sloop for it staring at the floor in case it was in the floorboards.

  • @navetwo
    @navetwo 2 года назад +202

    Cliff leveling up by the new merchant voyages: "Easy rep and money."
    The veterans who were doing animal voyages: "Hey, this is not fair!"

    • @Sir_Mangoz
      @Sir_Mangoz Год назад

      I just did like, 10 FOTD’s for the bone crates lol

    • @Wh0s.Butterfly_b0y
      @Wh0s.Butterfly_b0y Год назад

      Snakes are the worst

    • @tonyepic8
      @tonyepic8 Год назад +5

      @@Wh0s.Butterfly_b0y ehh, pigs can be at times. die if you don't feed them enough

    • @Snack_NotTheory
      @Snack_NotTheory 4 месяца назад

      same applyes with bananas being the only food in season 0 even before the dreaded hunters call aswell

  • @macdeschene5969
    @macdeschene5969 2 года назад +493

    Fun Fact: For merchant runs when picking up Cargo Runs
    Any name that starts with “T” = Tavern (Example:Tess)
    Any name that starts with
    W= Weapon Smith Shop
    C = Clothing Shop and so on

    • @boopjackrex7598
      @boopjackrex7598 2 года назад +2

      This would have been very useful yesterday

    • @eageraurora879
      @eageraurora879 2 года назад +20

      Wait how did you even learn this

    • @boopjackrex7598
      @boopjackrex7598 2 года назад +28

      @@eageraurora879 trial and error seems plausible

    • @Priuloch
      @Priuloch 2 года назад +3

      I'm using this thank you very much

    • @ghostface208
      @ghostface208 2 года назад +17

      It's from a 10 minutes of useless information on sot video. But I guess it turns out to be useful lol

  • @bringmebepo727
    @bringmebepo727 2 года назад +236

    After grinding for pl merchant alliance really grew on me. The sunken voyages took like 30-45 min with a sloop and I got a lot of loot and rep, and I think it was pretty fun.

    • @Krawberry
      @Krawberry 2 года назад +8

      Same, I never wanted to touch it because I thought it was boring, now it’s my favorite because it’s such a vibe

    • @thoubythenameofwool
      @thoubythenameofwool 2 года назад +1

      Same, maxxed and main the faction

  • @joshlarue6304
    @joshlarue6304 2 года назад +63

    I love the missing ship ones. Loads of cargo to sell and it’s a semi adventure going solo. Merchant guild is my go to

    • @william3371
      @william3371 2 года назад +5

      It’s also designed so that if you follow through with all of the clues even after finding the captain’s key, the loot will combine to get you emissary grade V by the time you sell. I love that.

    • @Crystan
      @Crystan 2 года назад

      @@william3371 Yeah, I didn't get that. On my lost shipment one I barely hit rank 3 by the end of it all and I'd spent 2 hours hunting flotsam just to find the damned key, which turned out to be on an island. In a cave. Yeah, not going to question that one. When I finally did find it, that's when the reaper's showed up, chased me across the Ashen wastes and sunk me before I could retaliate. The life of a solo slooper.

  • @vayion
    @vayion 2 года назад +12

    6:28 That dude is fucking great, lmao
    "Meine Freunde, I have present for you" with the best accent of all time

  • @Hatfright
    @Hatfright 2 года назад +39

    Knowing absolutely nothing about this game, I love this videos.

  • @a50ftfall6
    @a50ftfall6 2 года назад +44

    Sunken ship voyages are probably the best and the easiest Solo money Maker they're a little bit better than vaults because volts take a long time and you can only get so much when you're in there solo

  • @muskls6877
    @muskls6877 2 года назад +80

    I am convinced that merchant is cursed though. All in one trip, I was chased by a meg, kelly ship and reaper at the same time. I escaped to get caught by a kraken less than a mile from my outpost, sank and then looted by an opportunist who spawned in during the kraken attack.

    • @kiingsama9441
      @kiingsama9441 2 года назад +8

      Lol was doing a sunken voyage and a meg showed up tried to kill it. And it ran away then started fishing for storm fish a twilight one and my ship sunk I'm new at the game. Lamo

    • @william3371
      @william3371 2 года назад +5

      On my very first lost shipment voyage, I bought my commodities and started my voyage, looking for the first flock of seagulls, but as it was my first time, I didn’t exactly know what I was doing, and it was only after looking up a tutorial that I realized the mistake in LITERALLY SAILING ALL THE WAY EAST TO THE DESTINATION IN SEARCH OF THE FIRST CLUE. When I realized I needed to turn around, a reaper I had to sneak past earlier had DOCKED AT THE STARTING POINT. To have something to do in the meantime, I sailed south to sell the commodities. I started to head back from southeast to northwest- all the way across the map- only to have the storm be in my way, delaying me further. I’m now several hours into this whole situation. I finally get back, find the first and second clues, find the captain’s key at the third place, and then my parents demand I get off. Lovely jobly.

    • @millan6229
      @millan6229 Год назад +2

      No but fr, I bought a quick delivery voyage and the second I left the oupost shores a kraken and met spawned at the SAME TIME

    • @FatedTag
      @FatedTag Год назад +2

      Sounds like a typical day for the Merchant ilk.😭

    • @gijskramer1702
      @gijskramer1702 Год назад +1

      Dont forget headwind every time you lower your sail

  • @Antonioiam
    @Antonioiam 2 года назад +26

    Tbh, I thought merchant was dreadful til I discovered that manifest retrieval voyage. It was some of the quickest, easiest and painless money I’ve ever made.

  • @Eantrin
    @Eantrin 2 года назад +112

    When I first installed SoT I wanted to primarily play as a merchant. Seemed like a simple, honest way to make some coin and not piss off the big PvP ships when I'm a newbie solo sloop. 600 hours later and I'm gleefully joining PvP crews and Emissary hunting. Funny how times change.

    • @effigytormented
      @effigytormented 2 года назад +15

      Well you gotta start out as a basic deckhand to acquire enough skills to go rogue.

    • @revilno
      @revilno 2 года назад +9

      I like the idea of Merchants Alliance because I play Truck Driving Sim for fun.

    • @CraftageNate
      @CraftageNate 2 года назад +2

      @@revilno ahhh. A man of culture I see

    • @AbyssalPlague
      @AbyssalPlague Год назад +2

      Yup, that's the evolution it seems. Lol
      As a solo slooper, I was fishing quite a bit for hunters call. I like it, and I still do it even when not trying to lvl it just for some good food. PvP is inevitable. My last straw to keep my cannons down *_at all times_* and assume all people are threats was when I got destroyed after fishing for pondies and losing only 1 mermaid gem.
      Hunted the brig down that did it and tried to take'em down while they were fighting a skelly galleon, and even got their masts knocked down! We became quick friends and actually invited me to their ship! Good fun!

  • @jonathonrodriguezthomas6457
    @jonathonrodriguezthomas6457 2 года назад +36

    When I got the game my first faction was the Merchant Alliance, I was able to get a fair amount of gold from the various voyages, but if you ever sail under their flag again use one of the sunken ship quests to level up your flag a fair bit then start selling the commodities at their respective outposts that way you get the most bang for your buck

  • @ImStillJarin
    @ImStillJarin 2 года назад +36

    Wow, i haven't played sea of thieves since it first released, this game looks so fleshed out and fun now

    • @CliffTheStoryGuy
      @CliffTheStoryGuy  2 года назад +22

      It's gotten a lot better since release for sure

    • @blax140
      @blax140 2 года назад

      nope... there is still a lack of content

    • @bentheeggboi1327
      @bentheeggboi1327 2 года назад +8

      @@blax140 I don’t want to get into an argument but simply put BULLSHIT

    • @boopjackrex7598
      @boopjackrex7598 2 года назад +21

      @@blax140 if you think there is a lack of content in sea of thieves then the dictionary must look like a magazine to you

    • @thatrandomhomosapien4784
      @thatrandomhomosapien4784 2 года назад +6

      GODDAMN you fucking destroyed him he’s gonna have self esteem problems for the rest of his
      Life!

  • @HyphenzaOfficial
    @HyphenzaOfficial 2 года назад +8

    "I have been conditioned to take this opportunity to commit murder"

  • @xTenoroc
    @xTenoroc 2 года назад +15

    0:01 How dare you insult my favorite faction. Shame on you

    • @bentheeggboi1327
      @bentheeggboi1327 2 года назад +1

      That’s how I felt

    • @Anti-Rizz585
      @Anti-Rizz585 3 месяца назад

      As a fisher, I only use them for a storage crate and now a bait crate

  • @BaronVonMott
    @BaronVonMott 2 года назад +16

    When I first started playing SOT, I quickly became obsessed with unlocking all the Gold Hoarders content before anything else, so I only recently started using the Merchant Emissary flag myself. But all the ambient Merchant loot I had cashed in previously (simply because it was there) meant I had high enough reputation to jump straight into "Lost Shipment" voyages, and completely skip all that nonsense about time limits and schedules.
    The Lost Shipment voyages are actually quite fun for me, since they have similar feel to the Hoarder's "Ancient Vault" missions, following clues to unlock a stash of loot at the end, and can quite easily get you to Emissary Rank 5 in one go. The Reputation grind to become a Pirate Legend isn't looking quite so arduous anymore!

  • @ragnarok2678
    @ragnarok2678 2 года назад +2

    Despite the game's name, the Merchant Alliance are not pirates, I think they are more like the East Indies Company. Love doing emissary for them, but damn is it annoying to have all my cargo fucked over by a griefer after HOURS of work, losing progress and my grade 5 emissary flag. And the griefers? THey don't even want the cargo, they are not even reapers wanting my emissary flag, they just want to have a laugh and kill people because they can.
    Being a merchant can be so annoying at times.

  • @poofloof8771
    @poofloof8771 2 года назад +31

    Hopefully you keep up this channel and it becomes as good as your overwatch one, loved all of them so far!

  • @LordVordred
    @LordVordred 2 года назад +2

    Merchant isnt too bad, honestly it's just not for people that crave to fight others, i hate the PVP of SoT, it's clucky, awful, and even stupid Minecraft has a functioning combat system, only thing good about pvp is firing the cannons, otherwise it's trash. Merchant is good for players who rather just relax, do trade routes or lost shipments, and maybe abit of mental roleplaying.
    Gold Hoarders is great for people that wanna roleplay as pirates in their head, and not treat the game as "Watery Escape from Tarkov but shitty"
    Reapers is good for profit, but the players who love reapers are either PVP nerds that sink every ship, and fail at it, or just run away as soon as they get grades higher than 2.
    And Order of Souls is good for people who like fighting skeletons and PVE.

  • @spyqui2328
    @spyqui2328 2 года назад +26

    Look man, voyages are shit, what you wanna do is buy crates from outposts then sell them to the next outpost and repeat that process. It might be a bit more boring but the money it makes is insane. Add to that the fact that you can more or less just play like a reaper just that you have some crates on your deck, makes the alliance much more fun.

    • @WilliamHoskins08
      @WilliamHoskins08 2 года назад

      How much money?

    • @spyqui2328
      @spyqui2328 2 года назад

      @@WilliamHoskins08 see, I haven't calculated but I know some people have, just raise up an alliance, buy some crates, play as a reaper till you hit emissary 5 then start sailing around and selling crates to outposts. There are websites that tell you which trade routes make more money at any time. we farmed for about like, 3hours and got up to 2million gold, about 25k gold per minute

    • @whocares11222
      @whocares11222 2 года назад +3

      Sounds boring as fuck.

    • @KeanuCheems
      @KeanuCheems 2 года назад +5

      It's not always about the money spiderman

    • @wjunniorw59
      @wjunniorw59 2 года назад +1

      @@spyqui2328 Are you aware that the crate reselling has been heavily nerfed?

  • @VinnyVidiVintage
    @VinnyVidiVintage 2 года назад +16

    Generally every merchant voyage we do we are attacked by the PVE and PVP... Also the book by the merchant emissary says what places to sell stuff to for the most profit.

  • @HybridCasts
    @HybridCasts 2 года назад +10

    I GOT A HIT MARKER!!!! haha I shot the keg when it was out in front of us, and got a hit marker! it didnt explode! THEN it hit our ship thats why i said "be ready" hahahahahaha Favorite moment from this adventure!!!

    • @CliffTheStoryGuy
      @CliffTheStoryGuy  2 года назад +5

      Alex with the excuses smh my head

    • @HybridCasts
      @HybridCasts 2 года назад +5

      @@CliffTheStoryGuy shaking my head my head?? Lolol nice

    • @naumen6508
      @naumen6508 2 года назад +1

      @@HybridCasts yes that was the joke, good job

  • @vancarson440
    @vancarson440 2 года назад +2

    I’m sure you’ve changed your mind.

  • @tjnaples
    @tjnaples 2 года назад +4

    The sunken ship voyage gets you to level 5 quick and you turn in a ton of loot for max bucks. Best way to make money fast!

    • @Dr._Elysium295
      @Dr._Elysium295 2 года назад

      I would argue that sea fort stacking with the reaper flag is the best way to earn cash, if your up for the risk that is.

    • @tjnaples
      @tjnaples 2 года назад

      @@Dr._Elysium295 You put a target on your back for sure!

    • @mikeonlinux5491
      @mikeonlinux5491 Год назад

      @@Dr._Elysium295 Sea fort take a long time to complete though, and you are much more at risk of PvP.

  • @tehcowgoesquack
    @tehcowgoesquack 2 года назад +9

    I absolutely detest the cargo runs. However, sunken ships rock. I swear I get to level 5 emissary every time with just one sunken ship

    • @ShadowOfMachines
      @ShadowOfMachines 2 года назад

      The plant crates are the absolute worst. I have to keep the silks dry and be careful when carrying rum, but those plants? Can't see a blasted thing! AND I have to keep them watered. Those get me more annoyed than when some player decides they want to fight no matter how long it takes them to try and catch up to you.

    • @awesomedog1415
      @awesomedog1415 Год назад

      im the opposite lol i absolutely cry at the sight of sunken ships, it takes me about 5 hours to find a single clue, they really should have made it easier imo

  • @NerfBarb69
    @NerfBarb69 2 года назад +11

    Cargo manifest + selling surplus is hands down the easiest and IMO one of the most enjoyable things Iv done since day 1 in this game. They did a great job with the clues, you are not getting interrupted by NPC’s and pirates. You literally just need one good working eye to see the birds in the sky, and to read the clues, easily 100k an hour.

  • @BasicEntry
    @BasicEntry 2 года назад +3

    As a merchant myself, I take offense

  • @1TW1-m5i
    @1TW1-m5i 2 года назад +6

    Merchants value efficiency and diligence. They're also the closest to the peer. It's not high adrenalin, but I like the chill.

    • @NibbleMyKibble
      @NibbleMyKibble 2 года назад +2

      The adrenalin kicks in when you hear cannonfire whilst your ship is loaded up with rum bottles

  • @OddNess9339
    @OddNess9339 2 года назад +7

    "that's not a reaper move, I just want to take their stuff." - Brandon(I think?) 2021.

  • @danielboll52
    @danielboll52 2 года назад +7

    Much of a pain as leveling merchants to 75 was(we did it first,) I can’t lie in saying me and my fellow leveler killed it in money and fun. We using a sloop and guns killed time with repeated Meg attacks.

  • @bentheeggboi1327
    @bentheeggboi1327 2 года назад +2

    For someone like me who is lvl 75 in merchant and my favorite emissary is merchant this video makes me want to cringe up into a ball

    • @vivekjk6729
      @vivekjk6729 2 года назад

      i too have lvl75. Although i didnt cringe but i would say Merchant has gotten lot better after the introduction shipwreck voyages. The cargo runs were aite and selling animals were just awful. However, i do like to say that cargo runs thaught me how to park the ship perfectly.

    • @bentheeggboi1327
      @bentheeggboi1327 2 года назад

      @@vivekjk6729 I like merchant because it’s so easy and makes you a good bit of cash but I also like it because I like to stock my ship up and go up to people and be like “ how do you do fellow countrymen I have goods for sale would you like some cannonballs?” And if they say yes I just blast the hell out of their ship with the cannonballs they asked for

  • @captainflamefart6233
    @captainflamefart6233 2 года назад +6

    Really glad u came back to this game cuz I enjoy these vids very much
    Maybe try doing a talk tale I wanna know ur thoughts on the lore of this game :)

    • @CliffTheStoryGuy
      @CliffTheStoryGuy  2 года назад +6

      Tall Tales, huh? Sounds interesting

    • @captainflamefart6233
      @captainflamefart6233 2 года назад +2

      @@CliffTheStoryGuy it is, trust me. its basically story mode of sea of thieves :)

  • @jasperohare8216
    @jasperohare8216 2 года назад +14

    As someone who primarily works for the merchant alliance with my friends on a sloop this was hilarious to watch.

    • @SereglothIV
      @SereglothIV Год назад +2

      For me it was painful to watch as his friends just want to kill everything that moves. Such players ruined so many of my merchant voyages, always appearing just as I finish hauling boxes from the sunken ship.

  • @Freezezonian
    @Freezezonian 2 года назад +6

    I really enjoy the Missing Ship mission. I find it fun and interesting actually having to follow some clues.

  • @RangerChex
    @RangerChex 2 года назад +2

    The best merchant ships are also combat ships. You can't steal my cargo if you're dead on the ocean floor. When my crew plays as reapers people always run, when we play as merchants they come to us to get sunk.

  • @Andoroid
    @Andoroid 2 года назад +6

    This is my second favorite emissary, I got leveled up quicker than I did with Gold or Souls, I'm so confused
    Was the merchant emissary literally just made for *me* and everyone else hates it? lol

    • @drewreed8311
      @drewreed8311 2 года назад

      I literally only do cargo runs. We exist. And by "we," I mean probably just you and I.

    • @mikeonlinux5491
      @mikeonlinux5491 Год назад

      @@drewreed8311 Nope, count me in as well :)

  • @merylsmith5305
    @merylsmith5305 2 года назад +4

    For most of the first couple years of the game, I generally hated Merchant, but I've been coming around to see it as one of my favorites. It used to just feel like nothing more than mind-numbing grinding, and I got level 50 solely from mermaid gems. Never even did a solo Merchant voyage until after I hit PL.
    Now though, I feel like it offers some of the biggest variety of content of all the factions. More and more I find myself looking to just chill and sail after a long day of work. Of the new voyages added to each faction over the years, the Lost Shipments easily feel the most repeatable, organic, and even at times requiring a bit of thought. Even commodity runs are fun to optimize. And the cosmetics are by far the best among all the companies. I still cant bring myself to finish the animal delivery commendations, but all the same, if theres a non-Reaper emissary I'm prone to raising nowdays, its probably going to be Merchant above anything else, aside possibly from GH vaults.

  • @kingsmelliott768
    @kingsmelliott768 2 года назад +3

    My personal theory is that the merchants are having us smuggle drugs I mean look at the item names 'rare tea' and 'fine sugar' and this is why they're my favorite faction

  • @TheLithiriaFactor
    @TheLithiriaFactor 2 года назад +4

    Honestly I have to say I’m infatuated with this channel. The blend between narrating your journey and chatting in game on the sea makes this one of the most unique SoT related channels on RUclips; and inspires me to continue playing to create new adventures of my ownThanks Cliff! 🍻

  • @goodgirlvhagar
    @goodgirlvhagar 2 года назад +1

    I’m level fifty two with them right now, I enjoy their refined nature. The Gold Hoarders seem like low-key creeps, I cant access Athena’s Fortune (yet) and my experience with reapers bones is less than favorable (I mean, their representative literally said “there is no pirate code here” and the pirate code are the rules for the game, so it’s an excuse for reapers to be jerk (which a lot of them are, no offence to cliff, I do enjoy the threat of being attacked, but it’s only fun when they’re good sports, not screaming teens telling me to kms)). Other than the Merchant Alliance the Order of Souls is the only faction that I genuinely enjoy playing as.

  • @REAL_AFLWR
    @REAL_AFLWR 2 года назад +2

    Jokes aside merchant alliance is my favorite emissary, change my mind

  • @KopperNeoman
    @KopperNeoman 2 года назад +3

    Merchants were terrible until manifests and trade routes.
    You had to actively maintain the cargo. Urgh...

  • @papastalin4545
    @papastalin4545 2 года назад +1

    As a proffesionelle solo slooper who's shit at PvP I can confidently declare that merchant alliance is the best way to make a lot of muney and get a lot of rep real fast alone as well as beeing mildly entertaining and not frustrating

  • @vaynearior
    @vaynearior Год назад +6

    I'm a kinda new player and at first i didn't even want to touch the marchants. The thought of time-limited voyages wasn't great, but when i finally gave it a try, i really grew to love this alliance more than any other. I'm solo, so doing the lost shipment or cargo runs feels very good and rewarding, if they don't take me too long :D

  • @pineappleboi27
    @pineappleboi27 2 года назад +3

    As a generally solo soul on the seas, the merchant life is right for me. I'm left alone most of the time because most people know I'm just carrying worthless (to them) crates. I've fully committed to the merchant act and intend to grind to 75 as soon as I can. It's very lonely out here though...

  • @trajan1026
    @trajan1026 2 года назад +2

    I like the merchant

  • @tunaepyrgna9298
    @tunaepyrgna9298 2 года назад +3

    "Murder Merchants" when you are a merchant for the fast gold and rep, but you are a reaper at heart.

  • @McGeistly
    @McGeistly 2 года назад +3

    I think I interacted with that other crew before. That duo appear eerily similar to a sloop duo I interacted with while doing a bunch of voyages with a friend of mine somewhere around a year ago. They were better than me in combat to the point where I was unable to kill them while trying, were non-hostile and seemed more interested in what we were doing, meanwhile I was doing what I could to avoid them.

  • @amethyst_dawn
    @amethyst_dawn 2 года назад +1

    Merchants are the worst?
    I dare you, nay, implore you to try leveling up your Hunter's Call.

  • @Fharcy041
    @Fharcy041 2 года назад +1

    reapers = dump the loot and dont think
    Merchant = unlock your inner brains

  • @VayreenaVulpera
    @VayreenaVulpera 2 года назад +2

    Cute... reaper learning a propper trade. The wheels of commerce must me fueled with the blood of pirates

  • @Gamerking64210
    @Gamerking64210 2 года назад +2

    Advice: Once you found Captains Key, Skip all the clues and go to that sunken ship and you definitely reach Lvl 5 Emissary.
    FOR FREE LVL UP PASS: (Raise flag first before you buy Cannon, wood, storage, and Fruit CRATES)

  • @tbanaszak5595
    @tbanaszak5595 2 года назад +3

    I cant stop laughing when brandon said "ive been conditioned to take this as an opportunity to go commit murder" lmfao

  • @Forbiddina
    @Forbiddina 2 года назад +2

    Cliff, while I didn’t want to be a merchant the moment I woke up.
    I played elite dangerous for a few years… a trading run can honestly be a pretty good time. The thrill of being chased and the stable profits are rather nice.
    That said SoT is a different game, still I want to try being a merchant at some point 🤣

  • @JoveJoved
    @JoveJoved 2 года назад +1

    This is the definition of PVPers will never understand why some people prefer PvE and would like PvE servers.

  • @Oil_for_life
    @Oil_for_life 7 месяцев назад +1

    Raid voyages: *exist*
    Cliff: “No fighting with the merchants”

  • @RoninRonnie
    @RoninRonnie Год назад +1

    The things you mentioned you do not like about the merchants, are the things I love them for. ^^
    Non-violent approach and making money.
    I love alliances as well. Would ne so awesome when 5 ships do all different emmissary stuff.
    Oh what I would give for peaceful servers

  • @samjam1623
    @samjam1623 2 года назад +2

    I don’t regret doing merchant first. Leveled it up first and did everything else last made the game more fun toward the end

  • @TheRauzKindred
    @TheRauzKindred Год назад +1

    Merchants weirdly are the most lucrative, but the most tedious and complex missions, times, dates, locations, specific npcs, lost shipments, how to care for the damn supplies such as feeding pigs or protecting fragile expensive wine bottles. Variety abounds for options on how to interact with them (mostly due to day 1 merchant was horrid so they repeatedly updated merchant until it was passable as a playable faction) and a good number of them pay shockingly well.
    But yeah, no, I don't mess with dedicated merchant players, general rule of thumb, they're bored, paranoid, and on a hair trigger with how much they put up with from their own missions that an opposing player screwing with their deadlines is the last thing they're going to have any patience for. Got to see more than a few reaper emissaries unsettlingly disappear from a map when they went in after an experienced merchant emissary going about their business.

  • @lw9760
    @lw9760 2 года назад +9

    my friends and I tried doing merchant alliance voyages and we found ourselves in the same exact spot as you guys: trying not to succumb to the temptation to attack other ships, after half an hour we couldn't take it anymore and became reapers again, I know exactly what you went through here

  • @AceOBlade
    @AceOBlade Год назад +1

    I dont know if its just me
    But when i see a merchant i generally dont bother even as a reaper
    not cause i dont wanna hurt them
    But im already annoyed i have to take forever to sell my stuff
    I dont need half a billion commodeties to sell as well
    it takes forever even as a merchant selling to sovereigns
    Imagine doing it as a reaper

  • @meetthekitsune3973
    @meetthekitsune3973 2 года назад +1

    i like the merchant emisary because (british granadier starts playing) the captalist machine must be oiled with the blood of pirates.
    sorry for my bad inglish its my second language.

  • @sanssoucitri7345
    @sanssoucitri7345 2 года назад +1

    Tess=Tools/Taverne
    Will=Weapons
    Cliff😂=Clothes
    par example..
    ..the 1st letter tells u where to go

  • @SkyCube.
    @SkyCube. 2 года назад +1

    The thing about merchants is you never want to mess with one. Those guys are the real Reapers of the Seas, they don't run from fights, they have their goal, to make money. You shoot one cannonball or border at them and it's game over.

    • @mikeonlinux5491
      @mikeonlinux5491 Год назад

      That might be true for some of us, but as far as I'm concerned, I picked merchants specifically because I'm bad at PvP combat. PvE is no threat to me and I love a good fight, but those unpredictable bunny hoping pineapple spamming players? Nah, hate PvP combat, as in any game actually, it tends to ruin my immersion when everyone jumps everywhere like a maniac. I do have the feeling that putting merchant flag on my ship is equal to painting a big red target on it though, but I do it for the gold anyway :)

  • @g1ngrbread
    @g1ngrbread Год назад +1

    Hi cliff, at the moment i am VERY sick and can’t even eat. So i just want to thank you for entertaining me and all the others

  • @marcellvarga410
    @marcellvarga410 2 года назад +1

    You didnt get any of the ships logs, thats like 50k coins less than what you couldve gotten and you just left them on the ships!

  • @arfarfsays29
    @arfarfsays29 2 года назад +2

    the trick to the merchant emissary is trading. All those crates you bought have a supply and demand and when you see a ton of a certain type, that means that that island has high supply. What you want to do is check the book next to the merchant rep and check the demand of that item for other outposts. Once you see what outpost has a high demand for that you sail over there and sell it for a nice profit.

  • @muskls6877
    @muskls6877 2 года назад +1

    "I have been conditioned to take this opportunity to go and commit murder." 😂🤣😂🤣

  • @pr0duct1v1ty7
    @pr0duct1v1ty7 2 года назад +1

    Why would I be a reaper emissary if I've never even won in ship combat with another player before?

  • @bencegaming1716
    @bencegaming1716 2 года назад +1

    the merchants are going to be my favourites i think, boring but if going solo you dont need to turn on anyone

  • @nicowolters8959
    @nicowolters8959 2 года назад +1

    these guys spoke german, He said: ,, My friends, I have presents for you"

  • @cpl_ethan
    @cpl_ethan 2 года назад +2

    I don’t think he showed them in this video but there is also a ship log book inside the ship that sells for another 15k I think. Worth grabbing!

    • @boopjackrex7598
      @boopjackrex7598 2 года назад

      The ships manifest is only on the ship if the voyage specified it beforehand, otherwise you just get everything else

    • @chickenman5137
      @chickenman5137 2 года назад

      @@boopjackrex7598 lost shipments voyages always got manifest

    • @boopjackrex7598
      @boopjackrex7598 2 года назад

      @@chickenman5137 oh, then I’ve been doing them wrong then, I thought it was just glitched

    • @chickenman5137
      @chickenman5137 2 года назад

      @@boopjackrex7598 you just don’t look for it

    • @boopjackrex7598
      @boopjackrex7598 2 года назад

      @@chickenman5137 I’ve had voyages where even after finding all the clues first and knowing for sure that I’m searching the correct shipwreck, that the manifest was nowhere to be found, and I have found that when the ship rebalances itself when redistributing the weight that some items can get stuck in I reachable areas, so there is a good chance that- that is what is happening but hey, I could just be bad at them too. I do to be fair mostly just do trade routes anyway

  • @Nico-yg8uu
    @Nico-yg8uu 2 года назад +1

    how did you get pirate legend if you never made voyages of the merchant alliance?

  • @Ben-de6rb
    @Ben-de6rb 2 года назад +2

    I guess its time to binge all videos on this channel too

  • @brendankeyfauver821
    @brendankeyfauver821 2 года назад +2

    That awkward moment where keeping him from boarding the other ship "jus' cuz" to avoid a Reaper's move inadvertently causing them to be sunk because he would've noticed the holes otherwise, turning out to be an even bigger Reaper's move.

  • @Baisy
    @Baisy 2 года назад +2

    OMG I was waiting for you to come back to Sea of Thieves! I'm so happy you started a second channel!

  • @dutchynehtam
    @dutchynehtam 2 года назад +2

    It’s funny how everyone hates on the Merchants and they were the first one I maxed out lmao. 😂

  • @Amiruny
    @Amiruny 7 месяцев назад +1

    it broke my heart ur friends shooting at that rum bottle crates😭

  • @notpegamer
    @notpegamer 6 месяцев назад +1

    i just use the merchant's cargo a decoration on my ship lol

  • @coolestcoolian3482
    @coolestcoolian3482 3 месяца назад +2

    Anybody in 2024 watching this?😂

  • @tburrrg2502
    @tburrrg2502 2 года назад +1

    The player asking “can you be my father” while you were talking to Tess made me laugh my ass off

  • @captainred22449
    @captainred22449 2 года назад +1

    I’m a Merchant Commander and just recently invested in the Grand Admiral ship set, clothes and equipment. I like the Merchants because I suck at PVP
    Also I don’t bother with cargo runs, only lost shipments

    • @mikeonlinux5491
      @mikeonlinux5491 Год назад

      I'm the same, except I mostly do cargo runs as they are quite profitable when lvl 5.

  • @michelesinger249
    @michelesinger249 4 месяца назад +1

    I feel like the merchants more represent the British than pirates

  • @berrylarkinpark
    @berrylarkinpark 2 года назад +1

    The merchants are very boring and rude.

  • @RudyTheNinja
    @RudyTheNinja Год назад

    Getting into the older videos now lol
    A good amount of the ones I've watched before this one would start w you doing merchant runs
    Is this how it all started Cliff? xD

  • @LikeEpic
    @LikeEpic 2 года назад +1

    "Meine Freunde...i have presents for you" XD

  • @theevilbucky3651
    @theevilbucky3651 2 года назад +1

    I feel like I do more combat as a merchant than a gold hoarder or even order of souls
    emissary because I really only do lost shipment voyages and I fight SO MANY SIRENS.

  • @ghostleemann955
    @ghostleemann955 2 года назад +1

    when you read the map wrong and don't know where to go

  • @gtbkts
    @gtbkts 2 года назад +1

    Sea of Thieves content!!! Thank you!!!

  • @brodystevenson3478
    @brodystevenson3478 2 года назад +1

    Those crates give you reaper rep when you sell. Raise merchant's and pick up a bunch of crates and deliveries from 3 outposts and bring them to reapers. Base value is profit and by the time you are done selling you'll be lv 5 reaper

  • @banuozdemir9184
    @banuozdemir9184 2 года назад +1

    merchants also have combat, sometimes when you are looting the sunken ship sharks or even sirens might spawn and more then usual times

  • @Illuminati_HD
    @Illuminati_HD 2 года назад +3

    wow 10th sub, i'm look8ng forward to the content here!