How to go Pirate in Archeage

So while I was playing on alpha before it was shut down. People all the time would go uproot trees and such to go pirate which to be honest is a major waste since your talking about 10 labor points to uproot a tree for 3 infamy. And sure you can go around killing people which gives 10 if you can actually kill them but small blood stains only give 1 infamy point and also means you can get killed and spend time in jail. So today I'll show you how you can get 3k infamy with screenshots included.

To accomplish getting to pirate you need a friend or an alt with about 3g and about 4 hours of time. The object is to use the lowest amount of labor per gather so to do that we used cucumbers since they take 9 minutes to be pickable and when you pick them its 1 labor point for 3 infamy. Once you go crazy picking all of them someones gotta report all the footprints too and its a slightly time consuming way but you won't die in the process since it can be done anywhere including the begining of tigerspine.

Keep in mind when you go pirate and your in a party with someone who isn't a pirate you'll still be friendly in a party with the person until you leave the party since you end up as an enemy faction. Also as a pirate you have to worry about guards killing you in any of the non-neutral area's. And players can kill you if they choose the same type of thing applies like the enemy faction. As a pirate people can attack you and trigger a fight but you cannot attack them unless your in a pvp area. To be honest thats kind of disappointing since you would think pirates would be lawless and allowed to attack anyone anywhere which is not the case.

As a pirate you get to enjoy the pirate island which includes being able to get near the NPC black pearl which is not possible when you are not a pirate. The pirate island has different quests that give various pirate items and you can also obtain a title which gives you 20% faster swimming.

You get access to a dungeon which has some interesting items as you can see from the screenshots above and according to the portal in the pirate island this dungeon is opened during the weekend but you must be in a party to enter.

Another bonus to being a pirate is there's a crystal with a 1% damage buff to players you can touch to gain for an hour. Pirates also have a buff all the time that when they die anywhere in the water they will not go to jail but if they die on land they will end up going to trial and likely jail because people hate pirates.

The above is an example of what happens when you die as a pirate on the land even if you have no crime points its an instant go to trial and you will always get atleast 40 minutes of jail time as a pirate.

If you manage to get innocent during a trial you will still remain a pirate until you drop your points all the way back to zero. This means that you would need to work on quests which help to lower your infamy points or buy the infamy potions from the loyalty shop.

The pirate island itself has a quest to remove 100 infamy points. But its likely that you will be unable to complete the quest if you are not a pirate because the npc would be surrounded by many pirate related guards. But as a pirate if you are sneaky you can actually do not only the one on the pirate island but the other quests which are located in the other two contients.

To accomplish the other infamy quests you must have shadowplay so you have the ability to cloak because you will be passing by guards who will jump you and 1 shot you if they catch you. Not only that but if players spot you doing the quests they will also likely kill you and the guards won't help you because your a pirate.

100 infamy pirate quest
http://archeagedatabase.net/us/quest/5494/ starts in Growlgate Isle

The following quests will reduce your points by 240 infamy points and can be completed daily.

http://archeagedatabase.net/us/quest/5197/ starts in Rookborne Basin.
http://archeagedatabase.net/us/quest/5198/ starts in Sandeep, Memoria Lake.
http://archeagedatabase.net/us/quest/2935/ starts in Solis Headlands, Austera.
http://archeagedatabase.net/us/quest/2936/ starts in Solid Headlands, Austera.
http://archeagedatabase.net/us/quest/2926/ starts in Shrine of Awakening, Marianople.

To unlock the quests for Austera you have to go to the prison island off the shores of Austera theres a npc on the dock of the island which will give you a quest that takes you to the npc's. One of the quests requires that you carry trade packs into another part of the city. You need to be careful when you pick up the trade pack because people who see you carrying the trade pack will think that they can steal it and will most likely kill you for it which you will go to trial and it will be a frustrating experience for you. Use steath to sneak past the guards you need to turn in 3 of those trade packs to get the point reduction.

The other quest in austera is cleaning up a building construction site that has ghosts for the most part you shouldn't have too much opposition in this area. But before you go up there some guards patrol near the edge of the ruins just make sure to avoid them or they will kill you and make you have to walk all the way back since the grave is very far from Austera.

The rookborne basin quest requires that you travel around the map and give priests locket items it's not really super dangerous aside from avoiding running though towns or seeing enemy's who could possibly try and gank you but this is one of the more safter area's instead of Austera.

I haven't done the quest for sandeep as of yet but the quest seems to be related to picking up trash off a beach and knowing sandeep is a pretty big questing and PvP area I would say you would just need to becareful for anyone roaming around helping friends quest. The area its located in has some quests so you might need to becareful if you spot anyone.

The one for the shrine requires you to pick up trash inside the main city in the following location.

You'll have to be careful with this one and use stealth since there are also a lot of guards in these area's too.

Its also possible that there might be more quest since the Austera related ones might also include ones on the western faction as well which could be done by a pirate. I have not played western so I only know about the ones which can be compeleted by someone if they are eastern or pirate. If anyone knows information about the ones which overlap and whether they are considered seprate dailies since they are on the western side let me know. Cause in that case it would most likely be possible as a pirate to remove almost 400 infamy on a daily basis.

But even still this should help quite a bit since you could greatly reduce your points on a daily basis. I wouldn't recomend going pirate until you have everything settled in your normal faction since it would end up taking atleast 10 days or more to get back to being friendly with the faction. So in that time you would not be able to quest or do all that much aside from ganking people via water without risking going to jail.

I hope that this guide helps you and allows you an easy way to achive pirate and then have a way to go back to being friendly faction if you choose. Stay tuned for more helpful guides!