Pirate Royalty

Pirate Royalty is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG set on an unfamiliar island where four rival pirate factions must try to survive together. As one of Rena “The Banished” Clifton’s trusted people, you help hold the island together, earn the factions’ loyalty and investigate why a hurricane brought them there.

For years, the factions fought across the lands and seas for territory, treasure and power. Rena tried to warn them of a greater disaster, but few listened. When the hurricane struck, compasses lied, sails turned against their crews and rival ships were drawn to the same point in the ocean. Rena’s small fleet rescued as many pirates as it could before the storm drove them onto an unfamiliar island and wrecked the remaining ships along its shore. The survivors named Rena their Pirate Queen, though she never sought the title and does not fully trust it.

Choose your class

You choose a class early in the opening journey, before assigning stat points. Each level gives you points to spend, while skill books and branching skill trees let you develop your class. Pirates with the same starting training can grow in different directions.

• Nautical Bandit: defend your crew from the front.
• Ocean Scout: track enemies and attack from a distance.
• Pirate Mage: draw magic from the ocean.
• Acolyte: keep allies standing with strange remedies.

At level 9, each class faces its own trial, designed around the qualities expected of its members in the battles ahead. Completing the trial shows that you have progressed beyond early training and earns recognition among those who already hold your class title.

Find and forge gear

Equipment can roll with different values, so two weapons that look alike may differ when examined. The best rolls are rare, and creatures, bosses and dungeons each offer another chance to find better equipment.

At the Forge, you can open equipment sockets, combine matching gems and place their power into your gear. Each successful combination makes a stronger gem, but the chance of success falls as the gem’s level rises. A forged weapon takes on the colour of its gem, showing other players what you risked to make it.

Trade your finds

Eligible gear, gems and supplies can be listed in the public marketplace for Royal Doubloons. You can also browse for items that suit your build, giving useful finds another purpose when they do not fit your own class. The cash shop sells cosmetics only: it does not sell equipment, Royal Doubloons, faster leveling, better drops or better Forge odds. Valuable items and Doubloons cannot be sent through private trades or gifts.

Earn faction trust

The island’s four factions have different interests and histories:

• Blackwater Buccaneers: deal in magical artefacts while questioning Rena’s account of the forces at work.
• The Ledgers: guard old knowledge, permits and political ambitions.
• Stormclaws: respected hunters who have not forgotten that they once banished Rena.
• Fairwinds: support open trade while keeping their most valuable technology carefully hidden.

You travel through salt-worn ruins, forests, stone thresholds and darker places beneath the island. Marked quests and a guidance orb can point you towards tasks, but not every secret lies beside the safest route.

Enter portal dungeons

Dungeon portals open on a schedule, with a warning sent to the whole server before they appear. You can gather a party and enter before time runs out to face the waves inside. Meaningful damage, defense, healing and protection can earn experience and progress on applicable kill quests, whether you join a crew or help outside one. Pirates who contribute take turns receiving a foe’s drops, and an assigned prize cannot be taken by someone else getting the final blow or clicking faster. Local and World chat, along with private whispers, connect players across the island.