Gift Seeker Event Guide

Festival of Giving… and Taking!

NOTE: ALL of the Commendations and Doubloon Rewards from this event are TIME LIMITED and will disappear from the game with the mid-January update!

With update 2.0.10 The Festival of Giving, a shipment of gifts was sunk by nefarious new Skeleton Lords, and the gifts are showing up all over the seas. Stitcher Jim wants you to deliver those gifts to his beloved, the Mysterious Robed Stranger, and there are new Gift Seeker voyages and commendations to earn.

Gifts Galore

A big shipment of small boxed Gifts for the Festival of Giving has been sunk, and you can make a lot of doubloons by finding them. Here’s where to look:

Washed up on beaches

In Fort Vaults (read more about the new Ashen Skull Forts here)

Skeleton Orders voyages picked up from randomly encountered Ashen Key Masters and Guardians have a chance of yielding Gifts

Stitcher Jim’s Gift Seeker Voyages (more details on these below)

Good Gifts and Great ones

Gifts come in two varieties: Humble Gifts and Generous Gifts. Humble Gifts deliver for 5 Doubloons and Generous Gifts deliver for 10 Doubloons. Naturally, Generous Gifts are going to be less common than Humble ones. More details on how to deliver these and what commendations you earn down below.

Time Limited: Gift Seeker Voyages

December 11th-mid January Gift Seeker Voyages are available for free for a limited time in Stitcher Jim’s Black Market (found in any tavern). Skeletons are collecting gifts and storing them on forts, and Jim has maps of where to dig them up. This is the fastest way to get gifts quickly, but they’re guarded by powerful foes… 1. There are Gift Seeker Voyages for each of the three main regions, as well as a Legendary Gift Seeker Voyage which is exclusive to Pirate Legends. 2. The voyages are X-marks the spot maps to skeleton forts where you’ll dig up Gifts. Regional voyages are more likely to yield Humble Gifts, the Legendary voyage is more likely to yield Generous Gifts. 3. During the Voyage, Skeleton Lords will emerge to defend their stash.

Regional voyages are defended by The Mutinous Helmsman, and the Legendary voyage is defended by both The Duchess and The Two-Faced Scoundrel. These new skeleton lords each have a preferred attack pattern, but they utilize the same attacks you’ve seen from previous Skeleton Lords (teleport, weapon switching, summoning skeletons, and an earthquake slam). If you defeat a Skeleton Lord it will drop a Skeleton’s Orders quest, where you can dig up more Gifts and even Ashen Chests on the same fort. If your whole crew dies simultaneously during the battle the Skeleton Lord will escape and disappear before you respawn- you won’t be able to get their bonus treasures. Time Limited Commendations: -Complete the Shores of Plenty Gift Seeker Voyage (+5 Doubloons)

-Complete The Wilds Gift Seeker Voyage (+5 Doubloons)

-Complete the Ancient Isles Gift Seeker Voyage (+5 Doubloons)

-Complete all three region’s Gift Seeker Voyages (+25 Doubloons, “Seaker of Reaper’s Tribute” title)

-Complete the Legendary Gift Seeker Voyage (+15 Doubloons)

Note:

There are new Ashen Treasures commendations for defeating this trio of Skeleton Lords many times, and these Gift Seeker voyages are the fastest way to encounter them and earn these commendations. Read more about the new Ashen Treasures commendations in our guide

Where to Deliver Gifts

Once you’ve got some Gifts stocked up, you’ll notice that nobody on the outpost, even Stitcher Jim, will accept them and pay you. That’s because you’ve got to deliver these gifts (on Stitcher Jim’s behalf) to the Mysterious Robed Stranger.

She’s returned to the dig site on the uncharted island at I13… only it’s not uncharted anymore! The island now has a name — The Reaper’s Hideout — and shows up on everyone’s map tables. Head there and you’ll see her under a tall structure of festive lights, where she’ll take any gifts off your hands for Doubloons. You earn commendations for selling them… but you’ll also earn commendations for doing something else…

Delivering Gifts Commendations

Simply hand Gifts over to the robed stranger and you’ll earn the following commendations:

Deliver a Humble Gift (+5 Doubloons)

Deliver 25 Humble Gifts (+10 Doubloons)

Deliver 50 Humble Gifts (+15 Doubloons)

Deliver a Generous Gift (+10 Doubloons)

Deliver 25 Generous Gifts (+20 Doubloons)

Deliver 50 Generous Gifts (+30 Doubloons)

“Giving” Gifts Commendations

You also earn commendations when other crews deliver YOUR gifts. You can hunt down other crews and try to trade with one another, OR, you can simply leave gifts on the table near the Stranger and hope another crew comes along and delivers them.

BEST TIP: As you play a session, regularly return to the Reaper’s Hideout to leave gifts for other players to discover, and at the very end of your session, any that didn’t get sold you can deliver yourself.

Have another crew deliver one of your Humble Gifts (+5 Doubloons)

Have other crews deliver 15 of your Humble Gifts (+10 Doubloons)

Have other crews deliver 30 of your Humble Gifts (+15 Doubloons)

Have another crew deliver one of your Generous Gifts (+10 Doubloons)

Have other crews deliver 15 of your Generous Gifts (+20 Doubloons)

Have other crews deliver 30 of your Generous Gifts (+30 Doubloons)

Time Limited: Giver of Gifts