Sea of Thieves Phantoms

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Sea of Thieves veterans are used to fighting ghosts through ghost ship battles, but Season 3 and A Pirate'south Life introduces ghosts to boxing on land. Phantoms volition appear in both the A Pirate's Life story content and the larger Ocean of Thieves map. While one would presume that fighting these ghastly figures would utilize the same strategies as battling skeletons, these Phantoms are a lot smarter and faster.

Phantoms may announced randomly on whatever island you go to in Sea of Thieves — their advent will be signaled with spooky whooshing and whispering sound furnishings. Y'all will then spot transparent greenish pirates, sometimes in groups and sometimes solo by themselves. When they spot y'all, they will waste no time engaging with you in gainsay. Different skeletons, these Phantoms can switch between using firearms and their sword, switching upwardly their strategy based on their distance from you.

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Sea of Thieves Phantoms
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For the most part, they volition try to shoot yous from a altitude or hit y'all with their sword up close, the aforementioned equally any human enemy player would. Even so, they accept a trick upwards their sleeves — with the power to teleport, they can motility swiftly around the surface area, dodging attacks, disorienting you, and preparing their adjacent moves against yous. They can attack straight out of their teleportation — lookout for Phantoms pulling their sword back, as yous would for a accuse move, equally they volition unleash a powerful teleportation sword lunge attack.

The key here is to never relent from using sword attacks against them, and as you assail them, they will stagger and be left vulnerable. It'south hard to tell whether your attacks are registering, every bit their incorporeal forms make information technology hard to tell how effective your physical hits are. Regardless of the lack of feedback, go on hitting them with their sword and they will dramatically disappear in a puff of green smoke.