Legend of Cursed Iron Guide

Don't have any cool sounding titles and want one? Grinding commendations? Shift+tabbed to look at stuff while you were bored of your merchant runs? This is the guide for you, my friend!

The Guide Itself

Here is a way of grinding out the Legend of Cursed iron achievement.



You will be wanting to buy an Order of Souls captain mission (not the ghost fleets, mind you, just the normal skeleton bounty missions.) You will want to scrounge through the barrels to find a green cursed ball. If you do not find one, then just hop to a different server until you find one or two. Once you have obtained a cursed ball and voyage, vote down the voyage and head towards where the quest takes you.


Once you have reached your bounty-mission spot, start killing skeletons. You will most likely want to wait until the last wave as that is where you will (probably) find the most skeletons. After you have the wave you want, lead the skeletons over to a beach-side spot where you have (hopefully) left your boat ready to fire upon the skeletons. Note that you will want to have your boat a little bit outwards from the beach or have the skeletons more up on the beach so you can reliably hit them with your cursed balls.

(Don't ask why I have a ship-affecting cannonball, I couldn't find any green ones.)

When the skeletons are lined up and ready to be shot, equip a cursed cannonball into your cannon and unleash it upon them. As long as anybody in your crew kills the skeletons it will count towards the commendation. You can also use kegs if you do not wish to use cannonballs on skeletons.

Afterthoughts and possible other ways to grind out the commendation

The aforementioned way to grind out the commendation is not definitely the best way to grind out the commendation, and while I have found it as the most reliable way to grind it out, but even if you make the best speed per bounty and get the most amount of skeletons you can with one cursed ball, progress will be slow. You will probably be making 5-6 kills per bounty, 4 or less if you're unlucky. The whole point of a grind, after all, is to take time and patience for the rewards, no matter how meager. So, if you want to try to get the commendation with the utmost speed, even if these are not guaranteed ways to grind out the commendation, here are some bonus ways.

Fort skellies
Forts are a grand way to get as many skeletons as possible in one spot, and they come pre-packed with powder kegs to use, although you should be weary if other players come to the fort.

Ashen winds
Ashen winds commonly spawns skeletons, they are very weak and can come in flocks near the later stages, the only problem is that your ashen lord will be chucking barrel-sized rocks at your ship for almost the whole time. and especially at their final stage.

Skeleton ships
I would not recommend skeleton ships as you will be able to hit only around 4-5 skeletons onboard at one spot, and you will get those numbers by having them all bunch up on someone onboard the skelly-ship, so you will have to have 2 people boarding with one not being affected by the cursed cannonball, or get very lucky with a board immediately after your cursed cannonball is used.

A cheese
I have found that you can stack cursed-balls on skellies, so for example if you stacked 4 curses on one skelly and killed it, you would get points for 4 kills.

[Baja Blastius]

Ok, I will edit my guide

[Biffin]

P4NCAK3 is correct

[P4NCAK3]

Shooting them with cannonballs works, and also the Ashen winds skeletons also work.

["nah these edibles ain't hittin"]

i already have this title but its the worst grind of all time