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11 Deadeye Grog is a premium combat drink in Windrose that grants a +15% damage buff for 30 minutes. It is commonly layered on top of food buffs before major boss encounters.
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56 PropertyValueBuff+15% damageDuration30 minutesTypeDrink (stacks with food buffs)
67 Recipe
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89 Deadeye Grog is crafted at the Alchemy Table once that station is upgraded to Level 2 (the recipe does not appear in the crafting list until then). A campfire or cooking spit cannot brew it. The recipe combines Coffee Beans with rum and Madeira. Rum Bottles drop from enemy pirates and appear in nearly every supply crate, Madeira is the rarer fortified wine pulled from officer chests on larger ships or bought from high-end Tortuga vendors, and Coffee Beans are gathered from coffee bushes in the Foothills. The recipe itself is unlocked by discovering Coffee Beans for the first time. A single craft yields one Deadeye Grog and the item stacks up to 10.
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1011 IngredientQuantityRum Bottle4Madeira2Coffee Beans1
1112 Item Data
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1314 Properties
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1516 PropertyValueStack10Crafting stationAlchemy Table
1617 Brewing in bulk pairs well with Rosalinda Mercer, the Alchemist worker hired in Tortuga, whose trait gives a 30% chance to produce an extra grog per craft without spending more ingredients.
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1819 Stacking Notes
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2021 Deadeye Grog stacks with food buffs that raise attributes like Strength, Agility, or Precision. A pre-boss loadout typically layers: one Agility-boosting food (+10 AGI for 30 minutes), one Vitality-boosting food (+10 VIT for 30 minutes), and one Deadeye Grog (+15% damage for 30 minutes). Aligning buff timers so all three peak at the encounter opener is the standard community tactic for the Israel Hands and High Priestess fights.
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2223 When it Matters
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2425 Boss fights where every percentage of damage saves a full damage phaseCursed Swamps clears where pulls can stretch the 30-minute windowBoarding actions against Blackbeard Brigs and Frigates where the grog lasts the full engagement plus recovery
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2627 See Also
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2829 Coffee Beans, recipe inputCooking Recipes, full cooking treeAttributes and Stats, how buffs stack with attributesFood and Potions, broader buff ecosystem
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3031 Grog Family Overview
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3233 Deadeye Grog is one variant in a wider grog family. The grog effect categories that have surfaced so far in player naval combat writeups are damage, reload speed, and damage reduction. All grogs share a drink category and stack with food buffs; they differ in which stat they raise. Deadeye Grog specifically targets the damage category, which is why it is the default pick for boss fights and boarding actions where every percent of outgoing damage translates directly into fewer elite enemy phases to survive.
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3435 Grog CategoryEffect TypeBest Fight TypeDamage grog (e.g., Deadeye Grog)Flat +15% outgoing damage for 30 minutesBoss fights, boarding melees, any engagement where you control the pace and can apply pressureReload speed grogFaster cannon and ranged weapon reload for a set durationNaval cannon duels against slower ships where sustained broadside uptime decides the fightDamage reduction grogReduced incoming damage for a set durationOutnumbered naval engagements, 1v2 or 1v3, where survival matters more than outgoing damage
3536 Other named grog variants appear in cooking recipes as you progress. The naming convention generally tells you the category: variants with words like Sharp, Deadeye, or Bloody target damage; variants with words like Swift or Rapid target reload; variants with words like Iron or Stout target damage reduction.
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3738 Naval Combat and Boarding Timing
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3940 Deadeye Grog buffs your character's own attacks, melee and ranged alike. It does not raise cannon broadside damage, so the time to drink it is right before a boarding action when you cross onto an enemy deck and start fighting the crew by hand. The 30-minute window is long enough that activating it as you close to boarding range never wastes the buff, but short enough that popping it only after a drawn-out chase can let the timer lapse mid-fight. Note that the buff counts down in real time, pauses when you log out or open certain safe-zone menus, and clears immediately if you die.
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4142 On the boarding deck the grog's flat damage stacks multiplicatively with food buffs, alchemy elixirs such as the Elixir of Cruelty, and your weapon and talent bonuses, so a fully prepared boarder clears an enemy crew far faster than an unbuffed one. For the ship-versus-ship phase, lean on upgraded cannons from the Shipwright's Workshop and any Naval Tactic slotted on the hull, since those, not the grog, are what drive broadside output.
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4344 Which Grog for Which Fight
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4546 Deadeye Grog is the universal boss-fight pick. Pair with food buffs, alchemy potions, and a +damage Naval Tactic for the highest outgoing numbers the game allowsReload-speed grog takes over on long naval cannon exchanges where the fight is decided by who fires more total volleys. A slower, hit-and-run Ketch captain can outlast a bigger Brig by stacking reload speedDamage-reduction grog is the emergency pick when you sail into a 1v3 or encounter a zone patrol you cannot disengage from. The reduced incoming damage buys survival time to use Combat Repair Kits and bar shot your way out
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4748 A smart captain keeps one of each grog category in the ship hold, selects the appropriate one before each fight based on expected engagement type, and keeps Deadeye Grog as the default for anything boss-like. Mixing grogs mid-fight is not useful because the effects are drink-category buffs and overlapping two drinks replaces the earlier buff with the newer one rather than stacking.
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4950 Pre-Sail Hotbar Placement
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5152 Assign Deadeye Grog to a dedicated hotbar slot at the Wharf before casting off. Mid-combat menu fumbling to find the grog is a common reason players forget to pop it in the first place. With the grog on the hotbar and the Combat Repair Kits on an adjacent slot, the combat loop becomes muscle memory: grog-before-cannons, repair kit when hull dips, grog again if the 30-minute timer runs out during an extended fleet engagement.