The WORST Emissary in Sea of Thieves 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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 RU-vid; and inspires me to continue playing to create new adventures of my ownThanks Cliff! 🍻

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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! :)

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

that moment you see yourself crash into the island to get shit off your ship as fast as possible lmfao

1:57 is literally the meme of winnie looking at a paper and having no clue what the fuck he's looking at.

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.

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

5:58 The best is to put the cargo creates on both sides of the ship. Right and left. Depending on what you need to sell on the outpost you dock as close as possible to the Merchant tent, and then load and unload the 10 creates of commodities takes approximately around 5/10 minutes of real-time. Even on solo slooping. On Duo, One person is buying the cheap creates and loads them and another is selling. In this case, you have all done in 10 minutes in the outpost and can go to another one to avoid being attacked.

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

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

“Being a merchant is easy” TRY HAULING AROUND A BUNCH OF SNAKES THAT ARE ALWAYS FREAKING SPITTING AT YOU

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.

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.

If you treat every other ship on the map as hostile and you consider the skeleton and ghost ships and monsters, playing the merchants rapidly turns into playing like a smuggler. You're sneaking around trying to move as fast as possible, carrying things it seems like everyone is going to punish you for carrying, avoiding threats at every turn, just to make it into port and desperately off load so you can keep moving and get your next run completed before someone takes notice of you. Easily my favorite faction to work for.

My crew ran the Merchant flag last night for the first time and we actually had a fun time, we had a guy whos ship sank at an outpost tuck on our ship while we were selling but he just jumped down and talked to us for a little before falling off, we ran into him again at the last outpost before we logged off we chilled helped each other get achievements on the xbox then we gave him all our supplies and logged off, was pretty fun

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...

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 🤣

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

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

6:54 "That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen."

At the very least, this emissary is SUPER easy to level up. I took a whole year with gold hoarders while merchants only took me a few months to learn fully. I just did a bunch of lost shipments with emissary up back to back, and one commodity run. The only hard part about it is the occasional rare moments, and the rapid decreasing morale that follows some merchant runs.

I feel called out, I spent the entire night yesterday night running Merchant Alliance Cargo across the Devil’s Roar. Pretty profitable for 1,400 gold a sell.

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

That drunk crew was the best thing I’ve seen all day dude, especially that little laugh he had when he received….a wood crate 😂

As somebody who takes in game photography for fun, the merchants bring me all around the map so I get a lot of good photos.

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

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.

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

3:44 me pushing my face against my monitor to see the horizon more closely

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

"This faction isn't fun" Hold my Hunter's Call fishing rod

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

your new channel is awesome im happy your branching out and imo its a good choice

as a dedicated merchant, it brings me alot of joy and laughter watching u guys bumble about with it

The golden age of sails was not permanently about "Pirates". That's the Hollywood version.

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

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

On the shipwreck voyages, Mermen/mermaids start attacking if you keep there too long, happens if you solo

Loved the vid Cliff ☺️ You ever consider trying the Battle Merchant Play style? The occasional invasion really shakes things up on long voyages, and you get that faction horde bonus aswell.

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

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.

Merchant was the first group I maxed out. I liked playing solo sloop as merchant. It was so easy to do

I do believe that man really liked the wood crate you provided him.

As a merchant myself, I take offense

Cliff, not many RU-vidrs or streamers satisfy me. But you are one of my favorite sea of thieves RU-vidr ever

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

Lmfao reapers trying merchant for the first time. "Wait. So..how do we M1 to glory? I don't understand."

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.

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

You can see a gilded Athena voyage when he is select a voyage running from the ship at the outpost

This is an underrated channel.

You can make the most money doing merchant for a sunken ship quest an supplies makes 100k per hour versus other factions where their quests like vault will take 2 to 3 hours to finish with max emissary. Though the pitcher emissary’s have more action

Man was I WRONG when I assumed that merchant quests didn’t involve combat. While retrieving loot from those sunken ships my crew was almost ALWAYS bombarded by sharks and groups of sirens that never seem to dwindle no matter how many you kill. AND SOMETIMES THE SHARKS AND SIRENS WOULD WORK TOGETHER IN A ENDLESS MURDER FRENZY!

I used merchant to get pirate legend ages ago and haven't touched it since. Me and my crew mainly stack vaults, forts and world events now.

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

Merchant isn't boring, you just have the attention span of a toddler, but that's why I love your videos. Just watch the views and enjoy the peace. The truly worst emissary is Gold Hoarders. It's in the name. Gold "Hoarders." They Hoard all the gold so you can't get any. Plus they truly are boring.

6:29 as a german, i can confirm, he was a very friendly german

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

The ship hunt is definitely fun, but animal searches are definitely tedious.

Every time i play merchant I get sunken in 15 min just after leading my ship with spices and stuff, so annoying. It's like I'm not allowed to just chill

Merchant emissary is my favorite. Picking up some commodities and then running a sunken ship voyage is so much money. Also it's pretty fast and safe when solo slooping.

Merchant emissary is the only viable option for solo players. Zero stress because you don’t leave your ship for long and the loot is pretty good

To keep plants fresh, add water, and to keep rum bottles unbroken, don’t be too rough.

Decided to give the commodities another go on Saturday. They're even bad on community weekend.

Merchant is the most relax and chill emissary, Sail around and make easy money without having to run around trying to find an X on a map next to a tree and a rock. Reaper freedom? Ha, not gonna have a lot of anything when everyone on the server can see your location. Forcing you to stay on your ship or get sunk.