Before we begin with the weapons themselves there are a few quick things to know first. One is you can buy Cheap Albion Gold on our site, another is have three schools of combat that all the weapons fall into, warrior, hunter, and mage. 

Weapons can do two types of damage, physical or magical. Most melee and ranged weapons do physical damage aside from the magic staffs which all do magical damage. After deciding which combat school to go with, you will find that each weapon in that school has three variations which I just like to refer to as class for example in the most inner ring of the destiny board will be the Class 1 weapons, above them in the middle ring of the destiny board are your Class 2 weapons and finally in the outer most ring are your Class 3 weapons. The power level increases as you go up in class by a small margin, just as the power level increases as you go up in tier for each individual weapon. The power increase is stronger however when you progress upwards in tier opposed to class. The difficulty and costs to craft a weapon also increases greatly when you go up in Class opposed to Tier.

COMBAT SCHOOLS

Warrior - obtained through warrior's forge
Hunter - obtained through Hunters Lodge
Mage - obtained through Mage Tower

WEAPON CLASS

Class 1 - found on the inner ring of the destiny board
Class 2 - found on the middle ring of the destiny board
Class 3 - found on the outer most ring of the destiny board

RULES

- Each weapon has 3 to 4 ability slots.
- The first three slots are active abilities which are cast using the Q, W, & E keys.
- The slot 1 & slot 2 abilities (Q&W), are shared with all the weapons of a a specific tree. [Example: Broadsword > Claymore > Glaive, are part of one weapon tree and share the same Q&W abilities.]
- The third slot is for unique abilities which are not shared by any other weapon.
- All of the unique weapon abilities use the E key.
- Weapons that are two handed have a 4th ability slot which is reserved for passive abilities. These passives are shared between the weapon tree.

LEGEND

Slot 1 = Q ability
Slot 2 = W ability
Unique = E ability
Passive = non-casting abilities.

NOTES ABOUT THE CATALOG

- Not all spells available are listed just the ones up to Tier 6.
- The stats of the spells are based on Tier 6 power level
- Use the stats as a simple guideline or estimate not fact.

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Zerging is strong. There is no denying it. This is not a problem in itself. The bigger guilds should have an advantage over smaller guilds.

The problem is that is it nearly impossible for smaller guilds to be able to conquer territory. If they do get to initiate GvG’s, they have a fair shot. The current mechanics makes it nearly impossible for smaller guilds to actually initiate any GvG if they don’t already have territory.

The current suggested changes to the GvG mechanics are all nice and interesting. They don’t suggest anything to balance the fundamental dilemma of “zerg vs small”, however.

I would like to suggest that there are two categories of GvG initiation:
A) The current developer suggestion where zergs can siege up anywhere to initiate a 5v5 GvG. The initiation of very zerg friendly. The resulting 5v5 is balanced and is what we want more of. Let us for the sake of this thread call the territories with these mechanics Plains Territories.
B) “Something else”, which allows for smaller guilds to initiate the actual GvG. This “something else” is what we need to come up with. Let us call the territories with these “other” initiation mechanics Mountain Territories.

Plains Territories
In general, these territories use the current and proposed mechanics:

Initiation
All Zerg friendly stuff. Castles, warcamps and the siege mechanics all fall into this category. If a guild shows up with overwhelming numbers, the defending side has a low chance of preventing the initiation (and in the case of castles, of not losing the territory).

GvG
Currently the dominant type of GvG is the 5v5. I would like plains territories to have bigger fights due to their nature. 10v10 or more would fit the “plains” category better.

Mountain Territories
The mechanics for these territories don’t exist. So this is what we need to come up with.

Initiation
The way I see this working out is with something I’d like to call mercenary warbands. A mercenary warband is basically just a different and more small guild friendly way of launching an attack.

A mercenary warband will offer their services to a guild every 24 hours. They will do this in either the cities or in smaller camps out on the map.

Only one guild can use the mercenary warband per cycle.

In order for a guild to win access to the mercenary band, players will have to participate in a tournament. Each guild can sign up one 5v5 team to participate in the tournament every hour. Once every hour, the competing teams are then matched against each other, so that the current “best” team will be matched against the current 2nd team. Teams 3 and 4 will fight against each other and so forth. The 5v5 takes place on an instanced map.

The winner of the match gets 1 point. The loser gets -1 point.

When the 24 hour cycle runs out, the guild with the most points will be declared the winner.

The winning guild has access to the mercenary warband and has to launch an attack within 12 hours. When this attack is launched, a new tournament starts for a new mercenary warband.

Mercenargy warbands can only launch attacks on mountain territories within a certain range. This is to prevent small guilds from being able to capture large swaths of lands by only using the mercenaries. If you want to hold large swaths of land, you have to have a map presence. Mountain territories are for small elitist guilds. For this reason, only a low number of territories are mountain territories. I’d say one in every 9 territories could be a mountain territory.

GvG
The GvG in mountain territories is the standard 5v5 type.
If the enemy used the proposed siege mechanics to initiate the GvG, then the defender gets +40 defender bonus.
If the enemy used my proposed mercenary warband mechanic to initiate the GvG, then the defender only gets +20 defender bonus.

Map Design
The map needs to be designed intelligently in accordance with this.
Most of the map is “plains”. Plains have 90% plains territories and only 10% mountain territories. In plains areas, maps have 4 exits most of the time, and generally there are fewer choke points.
Some smaller areas of the map could be mountainous. Mountainous areas are bigger areas of mountain territories with only a few plains scattered in between them. In mountain areas, maps have only 2 or 3 exits. And the map design provides numerous choke points.

Conclusion
I feel like adding mountain territories to the game would balance the entire “zerg vs small” dilemma. I would allow for zerg guilds to hold big swaths of land, while the smaller guilds can potentially hold a territory or two within that same area. If the map is designed in accordance, it can create an interesting game flow.

The mercenary warband mechanic can be revised. I feel, however, that adding this arena type of PvP to the game and making it very accessible will allow for a much broader audience to actually do GvG’s. As it is right now, I think that only a very small percentage of the player base will ever be able to experience a 5v5.

Let me know what you think. And more guides in UPAlbion.com.

Crafting is essential in Albion Online. And if you want to become a master in a certain crafting branch, you have to create items of that type to become more skillful. A lot of items. Some people go ahead and salvage their finished products to retrieve some of the invested resources. A large number, however, puts them on the market place in the hopes of finding a willing buyer. With so many people competing though, it has become sometimes quite difficult to sell off an apprentice’s goods. This led to a massive stockpile of low-end and mid-range goods on all the marketplaces in Albion with people undercutting each other, because they still have to practice their skills.

Study Crafting

With the update following after Cador, you will not have to drag a bundle of low-end maces halfway through town to try and sell them on the market or have them salvaged. Instead, you can just stay at that workstation and disassemble the final product. This way, you learn more about crafting items from this particular item group, meaning instead of gaining resources and Albion Online Silver from salvaging, you receive fame.

The amount of fame you receive is, of course, dependant on the type of item you disassemble. Additionally, the location you are in has an influence and can give you some bonus fame, very much like the resource bonus when crafting things – in short: the more dangerous the region you are in, the more bonus fame you receive. On top of that, you can invest crafting focus to receive even more bonus fame.

Here is a first very rough mockup of how it will get implemented (numbers and design are not final!):

To speed things up, you will even be able to disassemble multiple items at once – and those made by other crafters. After all, you can always learn from others, can’t you? And more guides in UPAlbion.com.

Today, I want to talk about Albion Online Silver. Because silver values get so low for freshly spawned mobs and so high if they haven’t been killed in a while there is a big disadvantage for anyone who mostly plays during prime times. Playing extremely late night/early morning I can earn in 30 minutes what would take me many hours to make in the evening. One of the nice things about the last alpha was that there were a lot of dungeons that weren’t marked on the map so if you explored a zone well and learned where the hidden dungeons were you had a much better chance of finding mobs that hadn’t been killed recently. I haven’t found any dungeons like that in this alpha yet and the ones I knew about from the last alpha don’t exist in this one.

That’s alright though, I mean I can always trade or work the market to make albion online silver right? Maybe, but most of the markets are dead and even the most active aren’t active enough to make as much silver as you would running even a T3 dungeon in the early morning. The major issue limiting people’s use of the market is, as far as I can tell, that there is no real reason to trade on a large scale. Resources are pretty much available everywhere. A zone with T3 trees will have T3 of everything else. Even a zone with T7 trees will probably have up to T6 of everything else. There is no region in the game that is missing stone or metal almost entirely, forcing people to trade from the cities with an abundance to those with a lack. Combine that with the fact that you can’t really specialize in the gathering or refining of a specific resource to the point where you can bring your costs down and give yourself a market advantage and it takes away the need to trade completely. The crafting grind would drive trade in equipment but most guilds I’ve seen level up their craftsmen internally and have a non-market system for farming and producing gear for guild members.

I don’t think there’s any way you can fix things in this alpha since it’s all pretty core to the game right now but for the next one you should really look at changing resource distribution to drive trade between cities. Additionally there need to be jobs/services that can be done during peak hours unless you’re planning to have a map big enough to where each player or two online essentially has their own zone. I have no idea what this job could be other than farming and it’s looking like personal and guild islands dedicated to farming are sufficient for all but the smallest guilds to handle their food needs internally.