Today's deep-dive covers one of the hottest builds in Skull and Bones-literally. This Sambuk fire setup blends burning, flooding, helports, and explosive utility into one of the most devastating hybrid builds you can run right now.

If you're looking to melt ships, detonate sea lanes, and watch enemy hulls crumble under the combined pressure of fire DoTs and flooding bonuses, this is the build you're going to want to copy. It's fast, deadly, heals itself, and leverages the Sambuk's strong fire passives in a way that makes it far more explosive than the usual Meta helport builds.

Let's break down every component-ship, weapons, armor, furniture, Skull and Bones Items and combat performance-so you can recreate the build exactly.

The Sambuk-Fire Superiority on Full Display

The Sambuk is at the heart of this build, and its ship perk is what makes everything shine. Its passive, Scorch, provides several major fire-focused bonuses:

Sambuk Perk: Scorch

 Deals 5,000 Burn Damage whenever you apply the Ablaze effect.

 Automatically applies Ablaze to all enemies within 150 meters.

 Increases damage to Ablaze ships by 30%.

 Blaze damage deals 100% more damage, but lasts 50% shorter.

 Fire weapon reload time reduced by 12%.

In short, fire spreads faster, hits harder, reloads quicker, and scales off every Ablaze instance you apply. This turns the Sambuk into a roaming inferno-perfect for a helport-driven, burn-amplifying offensive setup.

Helports-The Core Damage Engine

This build uses two Helports on the sides and a long-gun Drown weapon in the rear.

Why Helports?

Helports are mystical cannons currently available from the Saint Anne event. They come with extremely strong passives and synergize perfectly with Ablaze and burn stacking:

 Damage: ~2,400–2,500 depending on rolls

 Phantom Mending: Restores 10% of damage dealt as hull healing

 Burning II Affinity

 Extremely strong God-Roll potential with the right perks

When rolled correctly, these things both break hulls and repair yours-a perfect offensive / defensive balance.

Your Ideal Rolls

The God Rolls to chase are:

 Amplify Burning (your #1 priority)

 Amplify Flooding

 Rupturing

In the showcased build:

First Helport: 2,471 damage, with

 Phantom Mending

 Burning II

 Rupturing

 Amplify Burning

 Amplify Flooding

Second Helport: 2,401 damage, with

 Rupturing

 Amplify Flooding ×2

Third weapon (rear): Drown Long Gun (4,228 dmg)

 Incendiary

 Amplify Flooding

 Amplify Piercing

Why a Drown Long Gun in the Rear Instead of a Helport?

On the Sambuk rear slot, the helport only fires two shots. That makes it inefficient compared to just running a long gun with high base damage and better overall uptime. If you're going to get two shots, they might as well be strong long-range heavy hits.

Auxiliary: Infernal M Seafire Mines Buoy

This is arguably the key to the build's burst capability.

The Infernal M auxiliary deploys a buoy that releases fire mines containing volatile Seafire liquid.

 Base Damage: 4,252

 Incinerate passive

 Deploy Buoy: Explodes for 300% damage when destroyed

 Instantly applies Ablaze to anything in range

That last part is crucial:

Instant Ablaze application means instant Scorch value.

Your AoE fire spreads the moment the buoy pops, chaining damage into every ship around you and triggering your fire passives.

Armor: Nocturn Heart

For armor we run the Nocturn Heart, one of the best fire-build chestpieces.

Nocturn Heart Bonuses

 Increases weapon damage based on missing hull health

 Perfect for burst windows when you're low

 Preferred by Saint Anne raiders for their hit-and-run ambush style

This one is rolled with:

 Stout (+5,400 hull)

 Double Maintenance (massive hull regen and repair efficiency boost)

The combination ensures:

1.You hit harder at lower HP,

2.You heal fast enough not to die,

3.You have enough max health to stay in the fight.

Furniture Setup-Burning, Flooding, and Ablaze Synergy

Furniture makes or breaks endgame fire/flood hybrid builds. Here's the full list and why each piece matters.

Major Furniture: Atelier de Curvage

 Reduces incoming secondary damage by 24% above 50% hull

 Increases threat generation by 15%

 Boosts weapon damage by 10%

 Adds +100 armor rating to your equipped armor

If you don't have this furniture, alternatives include:

 Build Fire Barrels

 Munitions Mixer

 Megaphone (reload speed option)

Secondary Burning Furniture

Devil's Concoction

 +12% burning secondary damage

 +8% max range to burning weapons

Culvern Works I

 +19% secondary damage for Culverin-class weaponsFlooding Furniture (New Meta)

Kix Ball Station

 If you hit enemies from 200m+, you get +13% flooding damage for 10 seconds

 Every 1% projectile speed = +1% flooding damage

 +10% damage vs flooded ships

This is where your flood synergy begins stacking.

Expanding Corkscrew Station

 +12% secondary damage to flooded weapons

 +8% range for flooded weapons

Ablaze Furniture

Gunpowder Bench I

 +10% damage vs Ablaze ships

This stacks directly with the Sambuk's built-in +30%.

How to Play the Build-Rotation & Combat Tips

Once everything is equipped, this build becomes a machine. Here's how to maximize your damage.

1. Trigger Your Flooding Buffs

Hit the enemy once from 200m+ to activate Kix Ball Station.

This is mandatory for the flooding multipliers to start stacking. Once it's active, your damage spikes fast.

2. Deploy the Infernal M Seafire Buoy

The moment you drop the buoy:

 Ships around you take a massive explosion

 Instant Ablaze is applied

 Scorch triggers 5,000 burn damage per target

 Burn range spreads to 150m

 Your fire damage bonus goes up

This single action often accounts for 30–40% of your total DPS in multi-ship fights.

3. Fire Your Helports

Helports shred hull, apply burn, and heal your ship through Phantom Mending. With Amplify Burning and Rupturing, their ticks hit extremely hard.

Once both fire and flooding effects are active, enemies melt.

4. Maintain Distance When Needed

If you drop below 50% hull, the Nocturn Heart damage buff activates. You can temporarily play more aggressively. But thanks to:

 Phantom Mending

 Double Maintenance

 Ablaze lifesteal chain reactions

You often return to healthy HP within seconds.

5. Long-Gun Finishers

The Drown long gun in the rear helps:

 Secure kills

 Apply damage safely

 Keep distance during healing windows

Since helports only fire twice on the rear slot, the long gun is mathematically superior.

Build Performance-Real Combat Results

In field testing, this build demonstrates:

 Massive sustained burn damage

Burn stacking scales rapidly due to Scorch and multiple Amplify Burning rolls.

 High burst from auxiliary mines

The explosive buoy is one of your strongest tools-instant Ablaze application is priceless.

 Huge flooding synergy

With Kix Ball Station active, your DPS spikes to brutal levels, creating a fire + flood hybrid that outperforms pure fire builds.

 Strong survivability

Double Maintenance + Phantom Mending lets you tank and regenerate through heavy fire.

 Boss & convoy capability

Even tougher PvE threats like Singe, convoy elites, and armored brutes fall after sustained pressure.

The original gameplay showed the Sambuk handling high-HP targets comfortably. It can take a bit of time against extremely tanky enemies-but it always gets the job done.

Final Thoughts-The Best Fire/Flood Hybrid Sambuk Build to Date

If you want a build that:

 Deals huge fire damage

 Applies Ablaze instantly

 Leverages flooding for extra multipliers

 Heals itself through Phantom Mending

 Uses powerful helport God Rolls

 Combines burning, flooding, and hull-ripping mechanics

 Is fun, explosive, can make more Skull and Bones Silver and satisfying to play

Then this Sambuk setup is absolutely worth running.

Whether you're clearing PvE, taking on world events, or tackling elite hunts, this build proves the Sambuk's fire identity is still one of the strongest in the game.