The STRONGEST Cannonball in Sea of Thieves

The STRONGEST Cannonball in Sea of Thieves
If you're anything like me, chances are you've spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about supplies in Sea of Thieves ever since Season 8 released.
Surely, there must be a way to gain the advantage in these fights, right? A reliable way to win in PvP. And my first idea.. Were cannonballs.
It is a widely known fact that cursed cannonballs are a lot better than the regular hunks of metal but learning how to farm cursed cannonballs is another story entirely.
So join us, as we go about farming these supplies to try and win in PvP!
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[@warwalrus8844]

Nobody: Cliff: Time to make a video all about balls

[@noshutup6617]

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[@AbyssaloftheVoid]

@@noshutup6617 you're just mad it got pinned

[@noshutup6617]

@@AbyssaloftheVoid "Generic comment" as in my response

[@seaOT]

Hmmm this is a generic argument….

[@OskarAnimatesStuff]

Good thing it's december

[@witchinggecko4271]

It's always amazing how cliff can make a video so dramatic and entertaining while achieving absolutely nothing in the end. He is the incarnation of "the journey is the reward"

[@DrixPunk]

Or, a quote he's not really fond of "It was never about the gold, It was about the glory"

[@savitar9478]

“You though all canons were made equal? Far from it!” *something’s wrong, I can feel it*

[@tictac8957]

Savitar what are you doing here!

[@plumb356]

@@tictac8957 tic tac? savitar?

[@grijson3108]

@@tictac8957 Tic Tac what are you doing Here?

[@plumb356]

@@grijson3108 grijson? whats happening

[@plumb356]

i hope you all enjoy me and my friends "super sweatiness" at the end of the video

[@Leukavia]

That, by an far, has to be the most hilarious means of collecting cursed cannonballs I ever did see I can't imagine that method is either expedient or efficient But it certainly is reliable

[@joasschut7559]

Small tip. you can grab the ladder of a skeleton ship and wait there for the skellies to load the canons. when you’re holding the ladder they will not be able to shoot you

[@Alex-hy9cw]

I miss the good old times where you'd get 3-6 of these and you'd have some fun using them in a random pvp fight instead of just 1 ...

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

With the new system I can definitely see why they wouldn't want us to easily stack them.. But yeah, shame

[@mediocre.g]

Their spawn rates are heavily nerfed too the point that you can only find 1-2 cursed balls and they are not even a garuntied spawn at each barrel

[@filipaleksiekczuk3712]

9:53 synchronisation between mast and sleepy pirate is unintentonally hilarious

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

things have a way of lining up like that once in a blue moon lmao

[@Galactic__Wolf]

I am glad that I was able to catch the video before I had to head to work. More amazing content, and interesting to see where you get the good ones reliably. Also very interesting that the skelly fleet wave sunk on their own. All in all, a great video!

[@clues8686]

Im watching on my way home from work 😂

[@MCshadr217]

You're welcome for the tip ;) Only came across the fact 1 wraithball per crate wasn't implemented was due to farming OoS fleets for the sails on day 1, started spreading it ASAP. Just a pointer, only Flameheart's flagship drops the cannonball crate with wraithballs, which requires 75 in Order of Souls, and only has a small chance to spawn, and as with their potential, you realistically need 4-5 to make contact in a row, and in good spots, otherwise they'll deal terrible damage. I suggest aiming top deck where the mast's are, as it has the potential to de-mast in one shot, or crack and provide multiple holes in the hull still.

[@myklmakela2087]

I appreciate your effort into closed caption, as a deaf person who love playing SOT this deserve my support

[@itsbibble4519]

U know its a good day when cliff uploads

[@anthonyortiz350]

INDEED 😊

[@bodhi3796]

The Cannonball Crate of the Damned only drops from the Burning Blade ghost ship. So if you don't see flameheart sails on the boss wave you won't get it. I also heard that they nerfed Wraith ball spawns in season 8. I heard it would only drop one wraith ball, but seeing as you got two in the video... I don't know what the case is. Most I've had in one was 4 I think.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

We also thought we should only get 1 but yeah, there were 2 in there

[@Welsh7133]

Pre patch you could get up to 6, I’ve had the pleasure of getting one Not a good day for Athenas

[@kobetilbury2320]

​@@Welsh7133 so from the cursed cannonball crate now you get 1 or 2?

[@plumb356]

Yo Cliff i was a member of the brigantine at the end of the video sucks you couldnt get the video of the diceroll. GGs

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Good fight man, yall had us on the verge of sinking more than once 😰GGs indeed

[@albinbjorklund3892]

Love your videos❤. They make for really exciting storys that just gets even better with you narration.

[@Zoxxyy]

Amazing work you did to the audio, it makes it sound a lot more immersive!

[@theturtlegoat1827]

Hey Cliff, I had an idea for a video in the future. Visit every island in the game, collect whatever loot you find, and do whatever event is on that island, i.e FoF, Skellie forts, and ashen winds. Just an idea, like a road trip type thing XD

[@axolittle1]

Never thought a video about cannonballs could be so good… how wrong I was!

[@Nightgod284]

Let’s talk about the reference cliff made to new magic wand by Tyler the creator, a direct quote from 2:25 “when rare closes a door they also open a window”

[@ChaosOnyx]

It's always a great day when Cliff uploads

[@gamingwithnero2066]

Oh I remember a very annoying fight. A crew I was fighting had 8 sleep cursed cannonballs and 3 venom cursed cannonballs. They used them all on my sloop (I was solo slooping) This made me hate cursed cannonballs because If you have enough of them they are too OP

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

this would make me ragequit for sure

[@Gold_JustForFun]

I always love to see a new cliff upload in my recommended!

[@lollilo6030]

I watched the intro of this video, then I paused it and the I went to solo the Phantom fleet. I got my phantom cannonballs and I waited for my friend who arrived while I was selling the loot I got. We dived as servants of the flame and we sunk the first time, but we kept the cannonballs and some of our food. We kept trying and we managed to sink 3 ships, 2 of the using the noughty cannonballs from the Burning Blade. Thanks for giving me the idea for my session, I'm going to finish the video now

[@leevikyrki2721]

it’s always fun to be anchorballed and continuously sleepballed while my ship burns to a crisp

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

esp. when the ones anchor and sleep balling you are literal NPCs

[@Bo0mStick1234]

The cannon’s not firing is a bug caused by leaving the Jack Sparrow tall tales. Easy fix is putting all your resources in a storage crate, caching it somewhere and scuttling the ship. Scuttling fixes everything and you only have to come back and get your supplies from the storage crate. Just make sure you don’t scuttle while representing a faction otherwise you’ll get booted off to a different server

[@lumi_doomi]

Cliff: "The most powerful projectile in this game isn't the one that deals the most damage, but the one that stops your enemies From dealing damage. And that is and always will be.. The blunder bomb." The peace ball: Am I a joke to you

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Yes, peace ball. You are.

[@nicktabor6278]

Another Tuesday another 10 minutes period of pure dopamine.

[@kajetax]

I thought wraith cannonball crate only drops from The Burning Blade boss fight. Great video!

[@DangerKiwi]

Heads up about the no shoot cannon glitch. It is triggered whenever you portal hop into another session with the tall tales. Found that out the first day of season 8. It can be fixed if you scuttle your ship or make join a new session. So far I assume it still hasn’t been patched yet.

[@stiixgirl6148]

Rare knows about it, and I think it's intentional. It's only if you use the final checkpoint on the Captains of the Damned tall tale to portal hop, then cancel. If you run through the tall tale start to finish, your cannons will still work. I have also tested out A PIrates Life tall tale and that one is just fine. I think it's Rare's way of preventing people from being overly stocked up for the pvp on demand sessions. I used to use that checkpoint as a bathroom break while solo playing before season 8 but now I'm back to using a Pirates life. At least I still have a way to portal hop on demand. Edit: I forgot to mention, I specifically sent a report ticket regarding the cannons not working. Usually they ask me follow up questions but on this particular topic, I got a completely different and quite aloof response, and they closed the ticket. My spidey sense was telling me they knew exactly what was going on but weren't willing to admit it, reminds me of the time they removed the fleet world event for a few weeks, no matter how many people inquired about it, Rare danced around the question.

[@Ben-de6rb]

Really looking forward, to trying out the game in a couple of weeks. Thank you for showing me the amazing parts to get me to buy it

[@Anton_Irwert]

I haven't been able to play much this season because my account got hacked but that doesn't stop me from checking out your videos

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Hope you can get it recovered

[@alessioorru7455]

Thank god, Birdie and Brandon are back! A better monster trio than the straw hat pirates! 😆

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

So who is Sanji..

[@pitched7401]

They change the system for season 11 with the voyage update, but the phantom cannonball crate is not random. even in season 8. You need a max level ghost fleet voyage, which will make you battle the burning blade as a final boss every time. Only the burning blade drops the crate, but it does so every time. In the new season I think you can now pick if you want a generic ghost fleet or the burning blade battle, but they also don't spawn phantom cannon ball crates in a raid ghost fleet voyage.

[@VlekSoT]

Phantom Cannonball Crates only spawn from the Burning Blade voyage, which you can check for on the quest map, iirc.

[@Ramon_nN1alt]

i like watching you... it always works for you (cause you have trusted friends) for me i just lost two hours of loot to a random player who thought the ship that fired at us near the outpost was friendly

[@EclipseEngCorp.]

hey cliff i just completed my first fort of fortune solo and you where the cause of that since you inspired me i even gave the treasure away to an attacker. the feeling of completing the fort of fortune for the first time was exaspurating

[@z07trk]

Great job at getting 210,000 subs my friend keep up the amazing work

[@Danklorian]

The best sea of thieves trio has returned:D

[@TacticalFormat]

Advantages in pvp? Look no further than phantom cannonballs! Seriously, great vid cliff!

[@LauraSanchez-dc8pe]

I love how Cliff goes for a silent bord on a skeleton ship

[@Muelton-]

I have to ask, how do you get those aerial shots like 4:35?

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

The game does that automatically as part of the Pirate's Life Tall Tale

[@lilnoomer596]

I don't know if you read these, but a small tip. The waves are worse on brig and sloop if your sails are full raised. It probably wouldn't have been as bad if you were going a bit faster. :)

[@blood-curseblade]

You are like vaatividiya but for sea of thieves. I love it

[@patrickrutsche7978]

Just to help people who want to get guaranteed wraith balls on oos voyages. They only spawn on burning blade, which means not every voyage you have will spawn it. to know wheter it is a burning blade voyage you can keep a lost shipment or vault voyage in your inventory. if the oos voyage is to the right of it, it's a burning blade. if it's left discard it and buy another one (youll have to use the bell glitch or alt f4 to dpawn a different fleet voyage). It works because the burning blade as a voyage spawn has been added later to the game than the other voyages and thus places it in cronological order

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Is that factual?

[@patrickrutsche7978]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy indeed. it has smething to do with how they coded it. I did my wraith grind this way. If you need more info I suggest the completionist discord. That's where I learned of this, and likely every cheese method there is in the game. the wraith thing is slow as a solo but if you get a full gally you can have 4 people rolling for those voyages. Last bit of info:the game does not care about patchnotes. You can still get more than 1 wraithball

[@mattevans4377]

Actually, from what I've heard, the greatest projectile is your own ship.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

ram strat best strat?

[@MyuNeptune]

Omg... I just made me some food after work and you're blessing me with entertainment! Thank you!

[@1burpat]

When cannons dose not work on your ship, park at a island and fill your storage crate with your supplies, scuttle your ship, leaving a man on the island with the supplies. Your new ship cannons should work fine again. Saving the supplies and the server your on.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Scuttling fixes it confirmed?

[@1burpat]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy confirmed by me yes.

[@1burpat]

I had a ton of supplies on a 8 hour run and wanted to science it out to save it. I ensure you it works.

[@MatteI600]

First and your my fav youtuber ur the best youtuber i have seen on youtube!❤

[@Shuyin534]

Yo! That was a beautiful Yu-gi-oh reference. I almost glazed over when you spoke about the Shadow Realm.

[@andrewgardner9688]

Man reads my thoughts for video ideas

[@StrokeMahEgo]

the truly best projectile: Harpoon yeeting megakegs

[@goldenapple3970]

the most powerfull weapon is one that stops your enemies from shooting and that will be the blunderbomb peaceball crying in the corner

[@footedthread9315]

This one galleon skelly ship took 50+ Cannonballs, 2 chainshots, a gunpowder barrel, and it didnt even sink.

[@ThatoneComrade-444]

I was ecstatic when I came home and saw you uploaded cliff keep up the good work!

[@ThatoneComrade-444]

@@BenedictBlue682 cause he’s a awesome and his vids are amazing duh

[@avatog6113]

"You thought all cannon balls were equal?" Well no the ones that actually hit the target have much higher value

[@ulfrick11]

It sucks that rare nerfed them into the ground. You're lucky to find a single one now

[@bill4783]

I’m pretty sure it isn’t ring if you get the cannonball crate. You need the burning blade order of souls mission to get them. Which requires lvl 75 order of souls. Or at least I’m pretty sure

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Well, we bought the same voyage 3 time and only got the crate once, that's all I know

[@bill4783]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy probably one of the three was the burning blade you used to be able to check(idk about now) but you could check your owned adventures and if the voyage for the order of souls was it the back it would be 100 precent be the burning blade

[@pentatron3127]

I today gave my Lootchest (filled with 4 Hours worth of loot) to two Athena guys on a Sloop ...i was solo trying to get some.lvls in the merchands as i only need 9 more for PL.... And those guys where really cool and happy ^^

[@capta1n-ilsm89]

I love how every time Cliff make a video on something almost everyone begins doing it

[@knyt0]

btw you can stand at the edge of the bowsprit on sloop and you won't get hit, you can also sit on the ladder

[@antondevonlh]

If you are having trouble finding Skelly Ships, check to see if the World Event is up. The Skelly Fleet event blocks radiant Skelly ships from spawning.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Makes sense, just sucks when you roll up to the Skelly Fleet and no ships spawn.. Definitely didn't happen twice to us or anything 😅

[@antondevonlh]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy Oh, yeah. Especially when you run up on a pair of Ashen Key masters world hopping and are looking for a quick couple ashen chests. Never around when you need them.

[@koniu2137]

Getting wraith cannonballs depends on the final ghost captain , if its a burning blade you will get it , if its just a ghost captain you will not , you can tell wich one is it by their sails .

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

the more you know

[@__carbon__]

I'd argue that the riggingball is actually more powerful than the anchorball With an anchorball, the crew can immediately begin raising their anchor With a riggingball, the crew must wait for the effect to wear off before being able to drop their sails And when combined with the chainshots, the riggingball makes it so that the other crew can't even begin pulling their mast back up until the riggingball's effect wears off

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

For sure, it's just more of a set-up to get to the point where your prey stops moving which is why I believe people prefer the one-and-done anchorball

[@drierwhisper729]

Great Video! Looking forward to the next one!

[@docholiday9513]

Lol I actually find tons of cursed cannons in the floating barrels you randomly find. Or at outpost in barrels sometimes .

[@Birb56]

Maybe the real cannon balls were the friends we made along the way

[@gtbkts]

Back for more!! Thanks again for the great video!!

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for the awesome content and great video!!

[@The_evil_accountant]

With a brig you could have everyone in your crew fire 1 cursed cannonball each and it would be an anchorball a sleep ball (don't know what it's called) and a wraithball

[@clearedwings]

Bro why are these so entertaining. Keep it up! ❤

[@Haltzo]

The skelly ships only load in curseballs when they're nearly sinking (+50% water)

[@woolleymamoth7425]

Nothing like waking uo to see a new cliff video

[@rileymercera6081]

Doesn't chain shot, doesn't set fire, just stares at them hoping the waves will be nice

[@TheSkreeBat]

I love the voice effects you edit in :D

[@JackHazardEyes]

Okay, cliff, I'm not sure if you can steer skeleton ships but if you can you should try to hijack one

[@hodeeny1182]

Skele and ghost ship would be the most powerful npc if they didn’t have the aim of a storm trooper but that’s a good thing😅

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I swear Phantoms on Forts never hit the broadside of a barn but Skellys have straight up cannon aimbot.. Maybe I'm just unlucky

[@Cougar-F7MP]

I have waited all day for this

[@reese6171]

The legend finally made a new video

[@poyrazlefkeli342]

When i see the thumbnail: OMG A VIDEO ABOUT THE WRAITHBALL

[@humphreyhackerson1182]

The fact that he got the burning blade on one of his tries is mental

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I didn't think it was that rare of an occurrence?

[@humphreyhackerson1182]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy bro I’ve done 43 of those fleets solo to try get him 😭😭 and I still haven’t found it

[@AgentSunglasses]

Its only possible for a Burning Blade to spawn on Lvl.75 Oos Ghost Fleet Missions and then the Chances are like 15:1

[@humphreyhackerson1182]

@@AgentSunglasses bro I’ve done those level 75 ones plenty of times but my lucks terrible

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Unfortunately many people suffer from what I like to call the “ether problem” it’s a reference to Pokémon and similar mechanic is in other games. Mechanically an Ether is a rare limited resource that you save for when you need it onto never use any at all. A TLDR if you have cursed balls. Smoke em while you got em!

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

very true actually

[@ajaze366]

Hey cliff I just wanted to say thank you for adding custom subtitles

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

You're very welcome

[@nikolaiandersson6024]

Great video cliff

[@moerril]

My Hero Academia can have as many plot holes as it wants as long as it serves us with its music for your videos :]

[@Bags1809]

AYY That new my hero academia season is kinda FIRE tho!

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

unironically way more of a banger than I thought it'd be

[@Bags1809]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy oh just you wait baby!

[@sassubaka7109]

Btw you can check the banner above and to the right of the wheel to see what cursed ball they fire.

[@PurpleBear89100]

Great vid man

[@That_weird_guy_Dragooon]

yup after season 8 launch there is a bug when serverhopping the cannons break only to be reset upon sinking or restarting on a new session

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

imagine that was Rare's way to nerf non-matchmade server hopping lmao

[@iced_latteZ]

Thanks for the video cliff!

[@jaydendixon5839]

It's a great time watching you Cliff

[@primrose5031]

The spawn chances of getting the wraith balls is based off if it is the boss is the burning blade or just a random unicorn sails ship

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Really? I never paid attention

[@crusader8102]

When you said the blunderbombs were the most powerful balls as they stopped enemies from dealing damage I think you forgot about peaceballs my man

[@janlol1744]

For the ghost ship voyage the crate with the wraith ball in it only spawns if you get the burning blade as the last wave but thats only possible if you are level 75 in the order of souls but I like videos and Im not here to complain

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

WHAT

[@TacticalFormat]

I'll admit I did NOT EVEN KNOW about the banners that display what type of cursed cannonball until I saw this video....

[@willi.b.2587]

Cliff dropping another banger 🔥

[@Feces_Eater]

I'm surprised you didn't decide the winner with that orc thing

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I started doing that after this session 😅

[@jaywerner8415]

"sailing into the broadside of the boss wave will leave you with more plot holes then your average episode of My Hero Academia" LOL, a fellow anime fan.

[@trevorginder6878]

The big screaming wraith cannon balls inflict big psychological damage

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

bigtime

[@RinoMacEight]

just had the biggest LOL: my last pvp fight also ended in a d20-winner takes all Win hahaha

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Now that's the real Sea of Thieves experience

[@kobetilbury2320]

Do phantom fleets have a chance to drop the cures cannon crates regardless If you have the voyage quest?

[@fernandomonleon7826]

i think his content is the best content of sea of thief in all internet

[@fernandomonleon7826]

@@BenedictBlue682 i see boxy and behaving, and i still thinking cliff is the best. But this is my opinion, and you Will have yours, just let people enjoy things and don't be like that