While scoring silver is important in The Arena, holding on to it is key to your success. There’s only one delivery point in The Arena now, so once you’ve got the chest, everyone else will know where you’re heading. There’s no more X Marks the Spot mechanism for finding the chest, so following the bright beacon to the booty is the easy bit – it’s getting your hands on it and selling it before it’s snatched that’s the challenge! Cash it in successfully and you’ll score 1000 silver. While bagging the chest first puts you on the front foot, remember that it also paints a target on your back. With a reduced contest time, you need to be scoring silver in any way you can – and each successfully landed cannonball awards 40 silver to your team. If other crews are racing you to the chest, that also gives you opportunities to score silver by landing shots on their ships. A popular tactic is to start the contest by racing towards the beacon, even if you’re not sure you’ll be there first that doesn’t necessarily matter, as stealing the chest back is perfectly possible should another crew swoop in before you. As soon as you progress from the Glorious Sea Dog Tavern into The Arena, get your anchor up and set sail. While we want pirates to ultimately discover their own recipes for success, with these changes in mind, we thought it’d be a good idea to offer some up some top tips for tackling the revitalised format!įirst tip: every moment counts, so use your time wisely. Matches are now only 15 minutes long, the arenas themselves are smaller, the silver gains for ship battling have been upped, and there’s now only one Sea Dog Chest available to nab at all times, indicated by an ever-present bright purple beacon.
With April’s Ships of Fortune update came a whole host of changes to format of The Arena, and while the basic principles have remained intact (the crew that finishes with the most silver wins), some of the tools and tactics for increasing your silver score have evolved. Spearheaded by Lesedi and DeMarco Singh, the Sea Dogs are the ones to impress with your silver-winning ways – and as you win matches and rise through the ranks, you’ll be rewarded with Sea Dogs Commendations and striking cosmetics. The next chapter of The Arena is here! Originally introduced with the great Anniversary Update of 2019, The Arena is Sea of Thieves’ purest PvP experience, pitting pirates against one another in – you guessed it – an arena for fast-paced, action-focused play.