Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

- If you do all the major assassin missions (the assassin symbols, not the skulls) you get armor at your manor that is 25% damage reduction

- If you collect all the mayan steles (which isn't as hard as you think), you get armor that basically ignores being shot at which can be super useful. But please note that not all of the steles are available from the start.

- When you can, always go after a shanty, they're great and add to the experience. On the same note, don't feel like you have to get every animus shard unless you're a masochist because some of them are dumb.