Issue with tracking is that i Vividly can remember them showing boss with 5-6k hp on the first dev talk about it, meaning, that the boss wouldn't run away before. What happens now, is you NEED TO CRAFT OR BUY tracking kit, then spend 20 minutes to track kill the beast and the rewards it drops are worth 1x 4.1 potion or a fraction of new weapon in T4. It's just insanity. We complained about the mists items before, that it was so hard to get materials for them, that they need to be game-breakingly broken to be worth the price and now.. We will have the same stuff again. All they had to do is add same thing as mists bosses, but track able. You kill a werewolf and you get a relic for their weapon. Easy, rewarding and interesting. Now you just get the same pile of animal remains that gives you no excitement, while also making 4.1 pots 100k for the first month..
When awakened/legendary weapons were teased I thought they‘d make it so you‘d have to do quests to level them up. Something like „kill so many players“ or „aquire this amount of pvp/pve fame“… and so on. Maybe randomize wich quests you can even get or let the player chose 1 out of 3 random quests every time they level up. You could even combine it by saying you can only awaken weapons when you have a certain amount of weapon level in your destiny board. Over all I think it would have been SO much better to make awakening much less accessable via in game activity instead of pure fame farm and paying a lot of silver. I think it should‘ve been a reward for experienced players who PLAY with one weapon in a lot of content and are specialized. Also they should DEFINITELY scale down the impact the extra stats give to that weapon so that it‘s more like a hidden mechanic and not an almost necessary stat to get for certain content. Right now the only bottleneck for those weapons is the absurde amount of silver you need. That temporarily great for SBI because people will buy more gold, but long term they destroy their own game because nobody can afford so much money accept for a few rich ones. And btw sorry for that enormous comment
Half of awakening was to be a major silver sink, which is really needed right now. It's meant for the people who have too much silver on their hands. The enchantment is also difficult cause not only do you have to fame a shitload for it, but if you're doing it for 6 tier + weapons, you cannot farm for it in safe zones.
i get needing silver sinks and giving end game players more to work towards, but as stated, i only see this giving veteran/rich (swipers) players more opportunity to bully new and semi casual players, further locking them out of appealing content. @@Sai-wu5ps
It ticks me that as a solo I can never gather .4 why must this be locked for large group pvp? Why can’t random lesser spawns of it happen in the roads?
As a solo gatherer myself, i think it is fair :/. Imagine being able to gather the most valuable enchanted resource all by yourself and taking 0 or close to 0 risk. The .4 resources are already too rare and expensive for them to be gathered by 1 single player. Some content is healthier if it's meant for small-large groups tbh
i was never really interested in tracking, and while it's disappointing i expected awakened weapons to be inaccessible, so no surprise there. i'm mainly looking forward to the new weapon line which seems pretty fun so i'm happy with the update so far.
I just started playing the game... and now I think I'm going to stop. I was nervous to start playing because of the cash to currency system, and now I see I was right. Basically, every silver sink that is created to fight inflation just incentivizes creating more inflation. All that silver it costs to upgrade weapons? Yeah, just swipe the credit card. I also thought the awakened weapons might create some kind of opportunity to customize a weapon uniquely so that crafting isn't so... boring. As it stands, you don't craft gear in the game; you produce it like a factory worker. As a new player, I have a lot of frustrations trying to get into the game, and I'm pretty sure this is only going to make things worse. (Thought I was doing well having maxed out my island... now I have to compete with whales and bots that are going to max out five islands.)
You are so right... the problem of a few people having too much silver in this game will stay forever... thats just part of the game. "Silver Sinks" dont really exist, because these people will always have enough silver to stay on their wealth. Just the same as in the real world. Albion has so much potential, but the Devs are basicly destroying the enjoyment of the game by basicly making it grind to win or pay and grind to win.
I agree with you forever. But it's just a game, and taking a game seriously and competing has always seemed silly to me. Just try to have fun. If you can't have fun, just shut it down :) .
Tracking is a big hobonocker to the face. I could not find a single T4 mob to solo on rz. It's basically locked to bz if you want to *start the tracking tree*. Not just to get high tier mobs, but to even get the lowest level tier 4 tracking you basically are forced to risk it in bz. Horrible. They need to change so much about it. It's a nightmare.
absolutely agree with all of this especially the point about ip (.4 and 120 spec). It makes the game feel like the vast majority of players are either running tier 4 gear or 8.3 but not much in between.
I'm really surprised you didn't talk about how OP and pay to win upgrading traits is, while you are doing it and getting over 400+hp trait on a 4.4 weapon 💀 and yeah, the shapeshifter weapons are INSANELY broken, but you gotta experiment with them to know it. for example u can pair the auto attack passive on shapeshifter weapons with morgana cape to do insane, broken auto attack damage. idk why they thought it would be a good idea to add awakening and shapeshifting in the same patch, feels like it was rushed by the higher ups or some shit to get more cash xd.
I feel like all of this wouldn’t really be an issue if the max was at like 25 and even that is pushing it, but the biggest issue is that it has to be in a black zone. Why tf can’t it be in a blue or yellow zone and going to 100 different locations back in forth in a black zone is ABSURD for a single “quest”
I couldn’t agree more with your assessment BLM. Tracking is tedious and boring. It took me 7 or 8 individual trackings on avg before the beast spawned. Not to mention guilds with strong zone control will bully the smaller guilds and solo players. (Making this inaccessible during launch). In my opinion, SBI had banked up to much content for a single release. My biggest gripe with Albion / SBI is the lack of new content on a regular basis. From a development basis. Doing more smaller updates not only would have less pressure on the dev team but players can test or provide feedback quicker which tightens the development life cycle. I can see these new weapons being super rare and only accessible from large guilds. But we’ll have to wait and see
Bro if awaken adds new stats or effect its gona completly changing the game fight system entirely and im sure they need to rework all equipment thats already exsist The idea of this update is to make oldcreepy items such as stone and ,4 gear used more frequently,while "Silver costing" awaken is to maintenance silver circulation preventing inflation.i dk but albion never give big update about their battle system,i think they satisfy enough withthat
i believe their motivation for awakened items is to benefit players in Mist or mainly end game content in solo/small scale. their emphasize on these kind of additon and lack of innovation in tutorials and early gameplay will only add more complexity to learning curve which will deter newcomers for trying this game.
i dunno mate... aweakened weaps seems to be something that only yz warriors or high-end whales will use. I don't see the usage for it for me at all. I gank and do small scale/ZvZ in groups of 10-100+ people.
It literally won't make any difference in mists, you literally have to dump so much fame and silver for it that you're better off just running normal high tier gear. Not only that, majority of the time you aren't even making profit even running 8.3 gear, you're not dying to other 8.3's, you're getting jumped by 4 low IP guys.
I didn't know a claymores with built in cooldown was a stat they already had in the game, or life steal. I guess I've must of missed that match the last 6 years playing swords.
About the tracking, today I watched your vid while on a roam with 2 other people we got a legendery outpost objective a purple large chest objective and 2 medium chest objectives as 3 people, blackzone is only for zergs? i dont expect tracking to be blocked by zergs AT ALL. it will be blocked by how slow it is :P
I think the legendary weapon need a fix in the mechanic base of how to get the perks you want, and I definitely agree that They should have more random perks instead of buffing that already existing ones. But I’m most irritated with is the hunting for the new mobs. I think it’s too time consuming and not rewarding enough and it’s too dangerous for solo players and hurts anyone that wants to go out and do this when you need for the six man groups for some mobs.
I was so hyped but after I played in test server, I realized that the awakened weapon system is not for me. T5.4 awakened is too low on max upgrade, gave around 1950 to 2000 ip ( Better get excellent 8.4 for YZ contents) And for 6.4, 7.4 and 8.4 awakened, silver is not the problem, the problem is it is too risky for solo player like me. So it makes no sense for me to make it at all!
@@LTECRX You can take your time ROTFLaughing while I'm making silver to enjoy the game. Ohhh btw, you wouldn't lose silver unless u spend it. And people can afford it when they say they don't care about silver. 😁
they can upgrade graphic and animatoins, add more interface settings things, some new ranking things in game (like top kills per week e,t,c, add some zone activities with locked max IP (like in corrupts, but something new), they can rework and add some competitive things (crystall arena bullshit, something like 2v2 or 3v3 rating pvp (not hellgates), add fully pve raids with hard gameplay mechanics that all ppl need to do (not raids in open world like we have now), e.t.c. stuff, but they just draw new gun@@quantum3339
@@quantum3339 how's that question related to my comment? Good, fun patches with systems that are made with fun in mind, not money - is what we need. It's cool that we see they are doing something, but that doesnt make me want to eat the shitcake.
I feel like, other than new shapeshifting weapons, this "big" update offers nothing to a "standard" player like me. And another rich get richer, strong get stronger update is just disappointing
Idk where this is richer get richer tbh The only thing were you need to be rich for is awakened weapons thats it, and seeing how they work even the richest ppl in albion wont have enough money to abuse them as to max a weapon you need ALOT OF SILVER AND FAME
I think tracking will still work if it is profitable enough. With normal gathering I can just move to a different zone if gankers show up and keep making money but tracking I would have to cancel the current hunt and start over in another zone reducing my profits. However, if I am making good money then the frustration will be justified. Awakened weapons were always going to be catered towards niche top level rich players so no surprise there, there are many alternatives that would be more balanced so im not going to go into that. The shapeshift weapons will be like most new weapon lines/changes that have happened, they will be op for a while then be evened out, i think they will permanently change the zvz scene so I am excited to see what that looks like in a few months.
I see a lot of players going 4.4 awakened in corrupted dungeons. I'm excited about islands, not the fact that nutrition costing double if not giving favorite food... But playing together with a friend to transport and trade materials/food/animals would benefit island play/earning alot. I think solo island farming players will suffer and lose out because of this update. For example I wanted to farm sheep and wheat at my islands to craft mutton sandwiches and mutton stew. Perfect synergy but now I just can't. You must play with a friend to have synergies between cities
i dont disagree about the attuning weapons at all, but iirc Robin has said in one of the dev talks that this attuning is just a step toward the LEGENDARY weapons right? in other words: i am copium that there will potentially be MORE UNIQUE effects and boosts for weapons whenever the next step of this comes. am i misremembering this?
I tried leveling a 4.4 ip stat to max and only that stat its impossible i spent 200bil and its stuck at 179.99 and each roll is over 23mil and 36mil fame btw ive hit 6 crit rolls and 4 normals when it hit 179.99 and it doesn't move thanks to them adding more decimal points in the background to it to max all 3 stats it would probably be in the trilions btw THIS IS 4.4 not even 8.4 so your on point with the inaccessibility of it
i sadly agree, and the most frustrating thing i experience now I'm Albion are the overly rich players that dominate every pvp with 8.3/8.4 with full 120 ip and experienced groups in the case of roads and hellgates
You missed another big problem with awakened items... one of the things Albion's economy relies on is the fact that a healthy percentage of high level gear gets trashed any time you are in a pvp situation, this ensures there is a constant demand.... The idea that these awakened items aren't going to be destroyed but instead show back up in the economy through chests, means that over time, Albion's economy is going to drift farther and farther into hyper inflation, and inflating around the value of the most powerful and inaccessable items in the game instead of the "player crafted" economy that it has built itself on.
Tracking seems really boring, and I feel like the only reason they implemented these new awakened weapons, is to create a massive silver sink.. They had no other idea how to remove silver from the rich.. We'll see how it goes
Before I go into the video I'll leave my option form all the things I've tested on pts. New weapon lines are very very fun, however are strong in nearly all regards, and I can only beat them with very very high pressure builds that rush you down fast. Potions seem neat, but idk I only use the Resist, gig, mana, and healing pot still. not sure how cost will break down live, but the flat options are enough for me. Awakened items I have mixed feeling for as much as I love the customization you can do, a 7% to 15% plus cooldown on something a chill howl is just totally busted, as well as on many other weapons. In CD that is not effected by IP Cape either, making some really strong potential weapons In terms of costs you for an 8.4 item you are risking an extra 9 mil and alot of time invested in to just have 8 roles total including your trait rolls alone with your upgrade rolls. It might cost you 100 mil to get a good weapon with a trait you want on it, and 80-100 mil to upgrade it. I've made thousands so far in the past 3 days and I've made only 2 that were godlike under that price, but I did get to 16 rolls with 3 of them being Trait rolls, and 13 of them being Upgrades this would cost around 70mil pve fame. The rng is batshit crazy. With that cost point being a thing these weapons will be very very very costly, as well as hardly seeing in lethal, an 8.4 excellent with good traits will cost more than a 8.4 masterpiece with shit traits. This system will waste so much silver in the player base, and is unrealistic to see in lethal with the sheer amount of cost put into this stuff. However.... I strongly believe I can make a several 4.4 - 6.4 weapon excellent quality with good traits that can rival 8.4 mp weapons for mists especially for roughly 3 to 5 mil each. I'm excited to see the cluster fuk this will all be, and I'm going to miss the pts making weapons that literally would cost more than my $250,000 dollar house.
People used the price argument for 8.3/4 in mists. The rich can drop a few hundred million without a care. The cartel has infinite silver and can fuck the entire economy to fund the sets. At this point the game isn't ptw, because the cartel already won.
Yeah i really want more accessible stuff for solo players and new players to get into pvp. This game has no place except arena which gives literally 0 rewards. Im honestly suprised they can leep a player base, ive seen a couple friends give up. Its like play the way you want. But we want you to play black zone and die every 2 minutes and lock all the decent gathering and end game content behind it. Mist and roads are probably the only thing keeping the game alive. Thougn mist should have an IP capped mode, now that would be fun. BZ is just shit as. 80% or more of their player base is just coming online for a bit to have fun and not organize 20 players to go around BZ. Totally out of touch and trying to force BZ player on players instead of considering whats fun for most players like they did with mist and roads at least a bit. Instead of making the game more fun and adding more content for $25 a month you get soke shitty item that takes endless BZ farming in a game that makes gear temporary 😂
I don't understand the point of awakened weapons in their current state. About 0.01% of the playerbase will even touch them. The only use I see is high tier ava raids using 8.4 awakened weapons. The tracking update is going to be easily griefed by gankers zerging you down, or a group simply following you around to despawn your animal.
The point is to remove all the silver from the game, all the changes are focused on preventing people from having a lot of silver and for those who have billions, awakened weapons
Man! Im a casual player and have been enjoying the game so much but this new update will totally ruin the casual and newcomers player base. I think only the veteran players with big guilds and established sillver will have incentive to play. Also, i think they can balance the game more by adding capped IP for mists cuz it is super stupid to be a new player who wants to enjoy the solo content and go in the mists for some pvp with your lower tier set. The reason being that u dont have silver, and most of the players in the mists are wearing 8.3/4 gear and demolish you cuz they have hundreds of millions of silver. So, after they die they can just come back with the same set that costs millions. So you either gotta do save mists wich is super boring or play some other solo content( which at this point is not a lot). Maybe they can make u enter mists with capped IP for lower tier poor players and mists for high gear rich players. Like in the arena where everything is capped no matter what ur gear's Tier is.
If the Awakened Weapons are very accessible, then those .3 .2 .1 and flats would lose there value. Though i thought that you can only get legendary weapons thru crafting with a low chance
Albion is a quite good and interesting game in many aspects but imo it is not a good game for solo, chilling game play. I would definitely buy premium, if they had more fun solo content. But I'm not going to becuz i don't think they will add that kinda content in the near future or ever. It gets pretty repetitive after 1200-ish IP and I'm searching for other mmos.
It does look like tracking skill decreases the number of tracking steps youll have to take, so theres that. But I agree that zigzagging the map doesnt seem particularly fun, as thats just fame farming for less fame.
Still, in the test server with high tracking skills and access to T7 toolkit, it's still an issue. Tho I'm not sure how groups are affected by this since I only tracked solo.
Honestly I don't think the blackzone is that deadly at all as a solo player. If you play around road portals you're never too far from a "safe" zone from a gank group.
thing with the black zone is its 0 percent deadly, untill you see a ganker who is in the discord call with +6 to 15 people in it and they all ganking. so you never know when you can die.
Agree bz is safe 90% of the time, until you encounter 30+ players who spread and close the map, then you are dead no matter what pvp or escape gear you use.
i just clocked most tracking times to be 6 minute on a fast one with 4 objectives to about 18 minutes on a longer one with 2 fcking zones and 9 objectives. i think thats way too long and it was on a test server so no gankers. after i killed them i didnt even get the relics, only a single stack of remains not even enough to craft a t3 staff. Does SBI even play the game?!?!?
Honestly I prefer the vibe of the open world vs the mists/CDs/etc. they just need a little more discouragment of multi-player groups ganging up on solos. Still a big fan of ramping up the trash rate in these cases, but I know the implementation of that could be dicey.
It's sad to say, but tracking being so annoying might make it profitable. Who'd want to do any of that aggravating trash other than the select few people who hate themselves THAT much?
Since haf of the problems that currently exists seem to flow out of group vs solo content. Would you think it wise to have a version of the outlands that can only used by groups of players and another version that is only for solo play? (Yes like mist but really instead of having mists a being a nerfed version of the outlands let it be the same or buff outlands in different ways than, you get everything but more)
Cause way to many people hang out in yellow zone, can make so much money in yellow. If done right then this should spready people out enough that maybe zerg ganks squads wont be able to be everywhere and this might work. Hard to shit on something so hard with so little testing.
Much of the (Reddit) community has a general consensus of: •The New weapon line is perfect •Awakened Weapons is confusing •Tracking is a bit underwhelming •Island changes might be bad I share some of these opinions (except Island and Tracking, I'm not interested in them). I'm personally optimistic for the update, but it's definitely a mixed feeling. As long as SBI removes IP Attunement, then I'm less mixed - more excited.
My opinion aswell awakened items are just something that game definetly didnt need why add something extra when the only thing it makes is ruin the pvp we already have 8.3 roaming mists and now with the new update its gonna be hard they may be expensive but knowing there are players with billions and billions silver aswell as going to pvp like take a 1v1 where you have underip lets say 1000ip fighting a 1200ip you do have a chance to kill him ofc if he makes mistakes or if you play better but now with the new weapons that wont be possible because if you dont have enough silver to upgrade and buff them then how are you supposed to take on these people because a lot of money comes from pvp especially and about shapeshifting staffs I think its gonna be game changing I mean they are cool and staff but they are too op atleast I think that as a underip 1800 i fought a 2049ip bearpaws and won with a cloth armor aswell and the morp even had the worst defense unbalanced game in my opinion
Idk about you, but half of the time you don't make profit running 8.3 in mists. You're not even dying to other 8.3's, it's literally just lower IP people ganging up on you. Getting jumped by someone higher IP than you won't change for better or worse regardless of awaken weapons. 8.4 awaken takes an insane amount of both fame and silver. The only people who will are people with infinite silver, and that's like 1% or less of the playerbase
awakened items are just a silver sink for high end players that don’t want to play in zvz, so they are good if they wouldn’t break the balance, there should be some updates for new players, for everyone and for high end players, otherwise albion would end like new world where high end don’t exist so if you hit max lvl you can do some pvp or zvz or you don’t have anything interesting to do, so in my opinion awakened weapons as a silversink are not that bad, and taking in consideration that they could potentially drop in chest if one of them (rarely but still) trashes is creating even more jackpot potential when u open the chest
If you can't track in the redzone then the issue is on you, competent gankers only target transporters and if you get caught by a solo ganker that's on you lmao
adding a few safe zones similar to the faction trade spots with inviibility shrines that would help solos survive if only by making gankers spread out more and shortening the distance needed to flee.
Tracking. Imo this is annoying too, especially if they ask to change zone multiple time risking your life for 30 minutea and not getting the material for making the weapon😂 Awakened weapon. Nope juat nope, 5 mil for extra 0.4 % cd reduct? Nope. Imo they should make it more imbalance like in other games substats si its worth the money and hassle of raising it. I dont want to spend days to increase 1% of something and then get killed😅😂
This is so pointless. We all know awaken weapons are late game content. This wasnt made to be worth lmao. It is done like that ON PURPOSE and i HOPE it will not change at all.
ip should not increase anymore, its unfun for most players. I would prefer if they removed 8.4 (or cap ip, etc). If they wanted to do something that persists, i would have prefered something like building a castle / monument in open world.
Albion has been trying to get more pay to play/win..... its sad cause i thought it was fantastic with payers and non payers being able to compete at the same levels, it just took longer to catch up to payers...... now its actually turning away from those that brought the game up to what it is and going towards whales and thats about it
i think albion is still on player gaining phase which they should not make the game more complicated for new players they may hate the game or may quit it i played albion for almost 3 years and you cant choose the job you want to do in albion anymore basicaly loot drops are mostly shit and even in pvp you get high trash rate last time i played i killed someone and only a cape and potion wasnt trashed. mists and knight falls are have a better drop than open world dungeons because i feel the chests are based on group dungeon chests not solo dungeon chests but its hard to find a knightfall for everyone or play in mist all the time i dont tell you cant play solo in blackzone but its mostly harder and road isnt good group dungeons have good loot but there is more chance to get invaded you can find tier 4 items in it which worth nothing only exp for gathering you find a stone node in iron place iron node in stone place no hide to much cotten like the game thinks we are slaves prem have only 50% bonus but in cd they give you more than 200k in purple chest with out perm 20k or 30k they have a good game i dont want see it ruined like other mmo games which i played albion already have the players who love it it dont need to force them to take more time playing it by wasting it running from another side of map to another side atleast if they want to make the game more fun to play for new players they should give ip cap atleast to nonelethal mists its full of 8.4 which a new player who want to try nonelethal before playing lethal chance to prove because yellow zone open world content isnt good for starter for many because its full of people with high gear getting advantage and onlything works there fine is still factionwarfare which i hope they dont change it i grow up playing most of the games i can and im in near of end of my fun with new era of games i hope atleast albion find a way to fix the problems because it had and nearly have a good community they should take care of it
never thought a day would come where albion would have this bad of a update its such a good game as it is (some little problems here and there) but this update is just non predictable, we never know wha will happen
Don't know what the crying about is regarding to gankers, but now way in hell they stay around for the next tracker. If they do then just move to a different zone. the crying about being ganked by 30 man+ like only around certain timers maybe, usually those groups have bigger fish to fry then your little sorry ass, its the blackzone. Just deal with it. Tracks are found in the open as well for 4-8 man groups, like get a small group and just go, yeah sometimes you run into bigger groups, but just disperse and wait it out. Tracking is gonna be like gathering, you need to invest time, thats all there is too it.
calming potion legit screws solo players and you say it wont harm the game? the way solo players manage to fight groups is by using mobs to even the odds and now people just need these stupid potions to make solo vs group content near impossible
how are you even able to play for the past 3 days now I havent been able to log into the server I have real money in this game premium gold mounts etc wtfh gives was I just robbed stolen from??????????
I like the new weapon and island.. But.. SBI try to destroy the game... If they make awekening or legendary item... Albion completely 100% will destroy.. The game will be unbalance..
Haven't played albion in about a month cause of work, but yeah I pretty much guessed this would be a flop and hit the nail on the head. I remember thinking that this update was gonna suck because no matter how you look at it, the whole system is based on a sort of artificial scarcity where only the super rich players and guilds will be able to even make use of them much less max them out. I also thought it was a bad addition to the game since these types of weapons will require far more effort to even produce. Meaning that most will never bring them to an actual fight. The great thing about albion is that all weapons are the same. When you die in the black zone you just respawn and buy the same set you lost and you're back at em. But that 8.4 weapon you spent millions on to finely tune what traits you want after grinding all those mobs? Yeah, you can't just replace that so people will never bring them out. They are trophy weapons. Some, mostly veteran super-end-game players, were foaming at the mouth on reddit saying that they wanted it to be even more rare than that. Arguing that legendary weapons had to be both .4 and masterpiece before it can be awakened. A weapon that only 0.1% of people will ever own, let alone use, Needless to say, a weapon that is unusable for 99.9% of people isn't even worth adding to the game.
The idea behind tracking is for 1-3 Man groups to find 1-3 groups in Black zones and the Hunter beast is bonus But The issue is most people will go to high populated zones by big guilds and have a run on with them. In my opiniom this content can work if people go away from cities try sneaking past zergs by hiding to soo dungeons but it s just a coin flip but on nightmare difficulty vs cheater
the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. You can do this but only up to some point. As a solo player with limited resources I feel more and more squized into a niche where 80% of content is no longer accessible for me for the risk/reward-system is not working anymore. I still have premium but I do not feel like extending my membership.
How sbi implemented .4 items really makes no sense to me, That they implemented .4 was for me at least pretty much expected after all there are also legendary chests which could be seen as a .4 chest, so in that regard i pretty much knew it was coming. Now for gathering the .4 resources, why is it locked behind group pvp, makes no sense at all. After all this is not the case with .0 - .3 which just makes it really inaccessible. Sbi was imo better off just streamlining their mechanics, making .0 - .3 spawn randomly and doing the same thing for .4 just with it being way more rare, just like lg chests. Then for the attunement, it's basically described as in the vid, a dumb system overall wich causes the rich players to be able to invest while the more general playerbase has more issues with higher tier attunement access. And, another issue i have with the .4 items, why do only weapons get to awaken, why not all items, sure it would be broken i get that, but it's again something that doesnt make sense. Sbi could have better left out awakening keeping consistency with game mechanics, making .4 just the upgrade from .3, which .3 was and still is for .2 and .2 still is for .1 Overall sbi is adding quite a bit of new content, but there is a lot of content that's just straight up unbalanced, For example solo dungeons and mists, (if we look at yz) There's no risk of losing items in both of them yet mist loot is quite a bit better, risk is the same, but the reward is somehow higher in mists. There's quite some stuff sbi should fix before adding new content, it really unbalaces the game imo
There is no win to the game so it is not pay to win or I would have beat the game a long time ago. I am waiting for the shape shift weapons rally could care less what you think.
Strong disagree on the group size take and the whole "if small groups were pushed into different activities, SBI shouldn't do anything to encourage them doing BZ at all". If anything, it's the way around. BZs are not "meant to be for group sizes 10+ exclusively", they are meant to be enjoyed by ANY group sizes so creating activities for small groups is always great. BZs and RZs are not "zerg areas" by design, it's just that there are not enough smallscale activities and the ones that exist can be done with zergs so the most efficient way to play n those areas is to zerg. 100 steps is an overkill though.
WOW casual player detected wining over full loot pvp game which is originally is a hardcore game for hardcore gamers wtf man, thoguht you are better and see the whole picture.
@@steadychasingmoneybands6213 how is your comment related to mine? Let me make it clear for you, the casual player cries because game's getting harder and he doesnt have time and effort playing it, though originally game was made for hardcore audience, since the full loot pvp oriented games are designed for niche and hardcore gamers. Dude
@@joshuag1795 I'm not staying only in yz. There are different type of fun's. I do love doing faction wars in yz though and I play with my 8.4 toys there. And I'm not bringing these toys in bz, ain't gonna happen or in mists where 4-5 rats are always waiting for the juicer.
Issue with tracking is that i Vividly can remember them showing boss with 5-6k hp on the first dev talk about it, meaning, that the boss wouldn't run away before. What happens now, is you NEED TO CRAFT OR BUY tracking kit, then spend 20 minutes to track kill the beast and the rewards it drops are worth 1x 4.1 potion or a fraction of new weapon in T4. It's just insanity. We complained about the mists items before, that it was so hard to get materials for them, that they need to be game-breakingly broken to be worth the price and now.. We will have the same stuff again. All they had to do is add same thing as mists bosses, but track able. You kill a werewolf and you get a relic for their weapon. Easy, rewarding and interesting. Now you just get the same pile of animal remains that gives you no excitement, while also making 4.1 pots 100k for the first month..
Not only do you produce good content, but your analysis is spot on and you don’t seem to be beholden to the SBI overlords. Great work as usual.
When awakened/legendary weapons were teased I thought they‘d make it so you‘d have to do quests to level them up. Something like „kill so many players“ or „aquire this amount of pvp/pve fame“… and so on. Maybe randomize wich quests you can even get or let the player chose 1 out of 3 random quests every time they level up. You could even combine it by saying you can only awaken weapons when you have a certain amount of weapon level in your destiny board.
Over all I think it would have been SO much better to make awakening much less accessable via in game activity instead of pure fame farm and paying a lot of silver. I think it should‘ve been a reward for experienced players who PLAY with one weapon in a lot of content and are specialized. Also they should DEFINITELY scale down the impact the extra stats give to that weapon so that it‘s more like a hidden mechanic and not an almost necessary stat to get for certain content. Right now the only bottleneck for those weapons is the absurde amount of silver you need. That temporarily great for SBI because people will buy more gold, but long term they destroy their own game because nobody can afford so much money accept for a few rich ones.
And btw sorry for that enormous comment
Totally agree with you. I also think this awakening weapon setup is a little less appealing
Half of awakening was to be a major silver sink, which is really needed right now. It's meant for the people who have too much silver on their hands. The enchantment is also difficult cause not only do you have to fame a shitload for it, but if you're doing it for 6 tier + weapons, you cannot farm for it in safe zones.
@@Sai-wu5ps on the other hand, as mcgee said, it might also promote p2w a lot more, making ppl RMT even harder.
i get needing silver sinks and giving end game players more to work towards, but as stated, i only see this giving veteran/rich (swipers) players more opportunity to bully new and semi casual players, further locking them out of appealing content.
@@Sai-wu5ps
I mean, it's been p2w since launch. A full loot mmo with $$$ for currency is the very definition of p2w.
It ticks me that as a solo I can never gather .4 why must this be locked for large group pvp? Why can’t random lesser spawns of it happen in the roads?
Remove ava roads or turn them all red zones. Risk vs Reward. Scared to pvp or scared to ss/zvz? If so, pick a non pvp mmo
As a solo gatherer myself, i think it is fair :/.
Imagine being able to gather the most valuable enchanted resource all by yourself and taking 0 or close to 0 risk. The .4 resources are already too rare and expensive for them to be gathered by 1 single player. Some content is healthier if it's meant for small-large groups tbh
This guy wants to gather .4 so bad lol join a guild buddy or rat it
I think getting 4.4 in safe zones would be too broken. 4.3 is still pretty strong when you concider it
@@ShortsKulture I don’t hate the game and I’m definitely not poor. Want to compare accounts? I have full t8 gathering of everything
i was never really interested in tracking, and while it's disappointing i expected awakened weapons to be inaccessible, so no surprise there. i'm mainly looking forward to the new weapon line which seems pretty fun so i'm happy with the update so far.
if tracking is a long term process and new weapon parts come from tracking weapons will be partially inaccessible
@@akashrakshit2657 at least that would mean tracking will always be profitable.
I just started playing the game... and now I think I'm going to stop.
I was nervous to start playing because of the cash to currency system, and now I see I was right. Basically, every silver sink that is created to fight inflation just incentivizes creating more inflation.
All that silver it costs to upgrade weapons? Yeah, just swipe the credit card.
I also thought the awakened weapons might create some kind of opportunity to customize a weapon uniquely so that crafting isn't so... boring. As it stands, you don't craft gear in the game; you produce it like a factory worker.
As a new player, I have a lot of frustrations trying to get into the game, and I'm pretty sure this is only going to make things worse. (Thought I was doing well having maxed out my island... now I have to compete with whales and bots that are going to max out five islands.)
You are so right... the problem of a few people having too much silver in this game will stay forever... thats just part of the game. "Silver Sinks" dont really exist, because these people will always have enough silver to stay on their wealth. Just the same as in the real world.
Albion has so much potential, but the Devs are basicly destroying the enjoyment of the game by basicly making it grind to win or pay and grind to win.
This won't affect new players cause you can't afford anyways just play the game
I agree with you forever. But it's just a game, and taking a game seriously and competing has always seemed silly to me. Just try to have fun. If you can't have fun, just shut it down :) .
Tracking is a big hobonocker to the face. I could not find a single T4 mob to solo on rz. It's basically locked to bz if you want to *start the tracking tree*. Not just to get high tier mobs, but to even get the lowest level tier 4 tracking you basically are forced to risk it in bz. Horrible. They need to change so much about it. It's a nightmare.
absolutely agree with all of this especially the point about ip (.4 and 120 spec). It makes the game feel like the vast majority of players are either running tier 4 gear or 8.3 but not much in between.
I'm really surprised you didn't talk about how OP and pay to win upgrading traits is, while you are doing it and getting over 400+hp trait on a 4.4 weapon 💀 and yeah, the shapeshifter weapons are INSANELY broken, but you gotta experiment with them to know it. for example u can pair the auto attack passive on shapeshifter weapons with morgana cape to do insane, broken auto attack damage. idk why they thought it would be a good idea to add awakening and shapeshifting in the same patch, feels like it was rushed by the higher ups or some shit to get more cash xd.
I feel like all of this wouldn’t really be an issue if the max was at like 25 and even that is pushing it, but the biggest issue is that it has to be in a black zone. Why tf can’t it be in a blue or yellow zone and going to 100 different locations back in forth in a black zone is ABSURD for a single “quest”
I couldn’t agree more with your assessment BLM.
Tracking is tedious and boring. It took me 7 or 8 individual trackings on avg before the beast spawned. Not to mention guilds with strong zone control will bully the smaller guilds and solo players. (Making this inaccessible during launch).
In my opinion, SBI had banked up to much content for a single release.
My biggest gripe with Albion / SBI is the lack of new content on a regular basis.
From a development basis. Doing more smaller updates not only would have less pressure on the dev team but players can test or provide feedback quicker which tightens the development life cycle.
I can see these new weapons being super rare and only accessible from large guilds. But we’ll have to wait and see
Bro if awaken adds new stats or effect its gona completly changing the game fight system entirely and im sure they need to rework all equipment thats already exsist
The idea of this update is to make oldcreepy items such as stone and ,4 gear used more frequently,while "Silver costing" awaken is to maintenance silver circulation preventing inflation.i dk but albion never give big update about their battle system,i think they satisfy enough withthat
Great vid biglips!
i believe their motivation for awakened items is to benefit players in Mist or mainly end game content in solo/small scale. their emphasize on these kind of additon and lack of innovation in tutorials and early gameplay will only add more complexity to learning curve which will deter newcomers for trying this game.
i dunno mate... aweakened weaps seems to be something that only yz warriors or high-end whales will use. I don't see the usage for it for me at all. I gank and do small scale/ZvZ in groups of 10-100+ people.
It literally won't make any difference in mists, you literally have to dump so much fame and silver for it that you're better off just running normal high tier gear. Not only that, majority of the time you aren't even making profit even running 8.3 gear, you're not dying to other 8.3's, you're getting jumped by 4 low IP guys.
I didn't know a claymores with built in cooldown was a stat they already had in the game, or life steal. I guess I've must of missed that match the last 6 years playing swords.
About the tracking, today I watched your vid while on a roam with 2 other people
we got a legendery outpost objective
a purple large chest objective
and 2 medium chest objectives
as 3 people, blackzone is only for zergs? i dont expect tracking to be blocked by zergs AT ALL. it will be blocked by how slow it is :P
I think the legendary weapon need a fix in the mechanic base of how to get the perks you want, and I definitely agree that They should have more random perks instead of buffing that already existing ones. But I’m most irritated with is the hunting for the new mobs. I think it’s too time consuming and not rewarding enough and it’s too dangerous for solo players and hurts anyone that wants to go out and do this when you need for the six man groups for some mobs.
Is tracking still in the mists since it's a black zone? Or is it still specifically not in mists
I was so hyped but after I played in test server, I realized that the awakened weapon system is not for me. T5.4 awakened is too low on max upgrade, gave around 1950 to 2000 ip ( Better get excellent 8.4 for YZ contents) And for 6.4, 7.4 and 8.4 awakened, silver is not the problem, the problem is it is too risky for solo player like me. So it makes no sense for me to make it at all!
The problem is not the silver? XD
So, u have trillions of silver as solo player i guess. ROFLMAO
@@LTECRX You can take your time ROTFLaughing while I'm making silver to enjoy the game. Ohhh btw, you wouldn't lose silver unless u spend it. And people can afford it when they say they don't care about silver. 😁
From my POV - new weapon is a nice cherry on top of the shitcake that rest of this patch is.
Is it better to have no updates at all for years?
they can upgrade graphic and animatoins, add more interface settings things, some new ranking things in game (like top kills per week e,t,c, add some zone activities with locked max IP (like in corrupts, but something new), they can rework and add some competitive things (crystall arena bullshit, something like 2v2 or 3v3 rating pvp (not hellgates), add fully pve raids with hard gameplay mechanics that all ppl need to do (not raids in open world like we have now), e.t.c. stuff, but they just draw new gun@@quantum3339
@@quantum3339 how's that question related to my comment? Good, fun patches with systems that are made with fun in mind, not money - is what we need. It's cool that we see they are doing something, but that doesnt make me want to eat the shitcake.
2 months waiting for any new content and they drop this
I feel like, other than new shapeshifting weapons, this "big" update offers nothing to a "standard" player like me. And another rich get richer, strong get stronger update is just disappointing
wdym get richer and richer ur acting like u cant do the tracking yourself as a t4
Idk where this is richer get richer tbh
The only thing were you need to be rich for is awakened weapons thats it, and seeing how they work even the richest ppl in albion wont have enough money to abuse them as to max a weapon you need ALOT OF SILVER AND FAME
I think tracking will still work if it is profitable enough. With normal gathering I can just move to a different zone if gankers show up and keep making money but tracking I would have to cancel the current hunt and start over in another zone reducing my profits. However, if I am making good money then the frustration will be justified. Awakened weapons were always going to be catered towards niche top level rich players so no surprise there, there are many alternatives that would be more balanced so im not going to go into that. The shapeshift weapons will be like most new weapon lines/changes that have happened, they will be op for a while then be evened out, i think they will permanently change the zvz scene so I am excited to see what that looks like in a few months.
The only thing I need is the golem staff and becoming a battle mount and I'm happy :)
I see a lot of players going 4.4 awakened in corrupted dungeons.
I'm excited about islands, not the fact that nutrition costing double if not giving favorite food...
But playing together with a friend to transport and trade materials/food/animals would benefit island play/earning alot. I think solo island farming players will suffer and lose out because of this update.
For example I wanted to farm sheep and wheat at my islands to craft mutton sandwiches and mutton stew. Perfect synergy but now I just can't. You must play with a friend to have synergies between cities
i dont disagree about the attuning weapons at all, but iirc Robin has said in one of the dev talks that this attuning is just a step toward the LEGENDARY weapons right?
in other words: i am copium that there will potentially be MORE UNIQUE effects and boosts for weapons whenever the next step of this comes.
am i misremembering this?
as always, appreciate your vids boss. keep it up
I think you are correct
I tried leveling a 4.4 ip stat to max and only that stat its impossible i spent 200bil and its stuck at 179.99 and each roll is over 23mil and 36mil fame btw ive hit 6 crit rolls and 4 normals when it hit 179.99 and it doesn't move thanks to them adding more decimal points in the background to it to max all 3 stats it would probably be in the trilions btw THIS IS 4.4 not even 8.4 so your on point with the inaccessibility of it
i sadly agree, and the most frustrating thing i experience now I'm Albion are the overly rich players that dominate every pvp with 8.3/8.4 with full 120 ip and experienced groups in the case of roads and hellgates
You missed another big problem with awakened items... one of the things Albion's economy relies on is the fact that a healthy percentage of high level gear gets trashed any time you are in a pvp situation, this ensures there is a constant demand.... The idea that these awakened items aren't going to be destroyed but instead show back up in the economy through chests, means that over time, Albion's economy is going to drift farther and farther into hyper inflation, and inflating around the value of the most powerful and inaccessable items in the game instead of the "player crafted" economy that it has built itself on.
Concordo totalmente com sua avaliação. É triste ver um mmorpg de tanto potencial ser tratado desta forma estúpida pelo desenvolvedor.
Ah... perfect i got to get ready to play vs awakend 5.4 imp staf with def vs all, bonus AD and LS in ranked arena. Cant wait! 😢
awakened weapons don't work in arena
@@youngdrgn Thank you! Thats great to hear. But do they work in CD?
Tracking seems really boring, and I feel like the only reason they implemented these new awakened weapons, is to create a massive silver sink..
They had no other idea how to remove silver from the rich.. We'll see how it goes
it's gonna be hell in yellow zone content in east server xD, can't imagine those zerg of BW with their fully tuned 8.4's 😂
Before I go into the video I'll leave my option form all the things I've tested on pts.
New weapon lines are very very fun, however are strong in nearly all regards, and I can only beat them with very very high pressure builds that rush you down fast.
Potions seem neat, but idk I only use the Resist, gig, mana, and healing pot still. not sure how cost will break down live, but the flat options are enough for me.
Awakened items I have mixed feeling for as much as I love the customization you can do, a 7% to 15% plus cooldown on something a chill howl is just totally busted, as well as on many other weapons. In CD that is not effected by IP Cape either, making some really strong potential weapons
In terms of costs you for an 8.4 item you are risking an extra 9 mil and alot of time invested in to just have 8 roles total including your trait rolls alone with your upgrade rolls. It might cost you 100 mil to get a good weapon with a trait you want on it, and 80-100 mil to upgrade it. I've made thousands so far in the past 3 days and I've made only 2 that were godlike under that price, but I did get to 16 rolls with 3 of them being Trait rolls, and 13 of them being Upgrades this would cost around 70mil pve fame. The rng is batshit crazy.
With that cost point being a thing these weapons will be very very very costly, as well as hardly seeing in lethal, an 8.4 excellent with good traits will cost more than a 8.4 masterpiece with shit traits. This system will waste so much silver in the player base, and is unrealistic to see in lethal with the sheer amount of cost put into this stuff.
However.... I strongly believe I can make a several 4.4 - 6.4 weapon excellent quality with good traits that can rival 8.4 mp weapons for mists especially for roughly 3 to 5 mil each.
I'm excited to see the cluster fuk this will all be, and I'm going to miss the pts making weapons that literally would cost more than my $250,000 dollar house.
People used the price argument for 8.3/4 in mists. The rich can drop a few hundred million without a care. The cartel has infinite silver and can fuck the entire economy to fund the sets. At this point the game isn't ptw, because the cartel already won.
Yeah i really want more accessible stuff for solo players and new players to get into pvp. This game has no place except arena which gives literally 0 rewards. Im honestly suprised they can leep a player base, ive seen a couple friends give up. Its like play the way you want. But we want you to play black zone and die every 2 minutes and lock all the decent gathering and end game content behind it. Mist and roads are probably the only thing keeping the game alive. Thougn mist should have an IP capped mode, now that would be fun. BZ is just shit as. 80% or more of their player base is just coming online for a bit to have fun and not organize 20 players to go around BZ. Totally out of touch and trying to force BZ player on players instead of considering whats fun for most players like they did with mist and roads at least a bit.
Instead of making the game more fun and adding more content for $25 a month you get soke shitty item that takes endless BZ farming in a game that makes gear temporary 😂
This patch will make the strongest, richest and most powerful guilds EVEN stronger, richer, more powerful.
I don't understand the point of awakened weapons in their current state. About 0.01% of the playerbase will even touch them. The only use I see is high tier ava raids using 8.4 awakened weapons. The tracking update is going to be easily griefed by gankers zerging you down, or a group simply following you around to despawn your animal.
The point is to remove all the silver from the game, all the changes are focused on preventing people from having a lot of silver and for those who have billions, awakened weapons
Great video!! :D
Man! Im a casual player and have been enjoying the game so much but this new update will totally ruin the casual and newcomers player base. I think only the veteran players with big guilds and established sillver will have incentive to play. Also, i think they can balance the game more by adding capped IP for mists cuz it is super stupid to be a new player who wants to enjoy the solo content and go in the mists for some pvp with your lower tier set. The reason being that u dont have silver, and most of the players in the mists are wearing 8.3/4 gear and demolish you cuz they have hundreds of millions of silver. So, after they die they can just come back with the same set that costs millions. So you either gotta do save mists wich is super boring or play some other solo content( which at this point is not a lot). Maybe they can make u enter mists with capped IP for lower tier poor players and mists for high gear rich players. Like in the arena where everything is capped no matter what ur gear's Tier is.
If the Awakened Weapons are very accessible, then those .3 .2 .1 and flats would lose there value. Though i thought that you can only get legendary weapons thru crafting with a low chance
Albion is a quite good and interesting game in many aspects but imo it is not a good game for solo, chilling game play. I would definitely buy premium, if they had more fun solo content. But I'm not going to becuz i don't think they will add that kinda content in the near future or ever. It gets pretty repetitive after 1200-ish IP and I'm searching for other mmos.
Ah so SBI wants to get richer?🙉
Money 💰💰 Money 💰💰 Oh Yeah
It does look like tracking skill decreases the number of tracking steps youll have to take, so theres that. But I agree that zigzagging the map doesnt seem particularly fun, as thats just fame farming for less fame.
Still, in the test server with high tracking skills and access to T7 toolkit, it's still an issue. Tho I'm not sure how groups are affected by this since I only tracked solo.
Honestly I don't think the blackzone is that deadly at all as a solo player. If you play around road portals you're never too far from a "safe" zone from a gank group.
I just do mist gathering,bz or rz ,, completely safe unless u're looking for a fight and of course stable internet connection
thing with the black zone is its 0 percent deadly, untill you see a ganker who is in the discord call with +6 to 15 people in it and they all ganking. so you never know when you can die.
Agree bz is safe 90% of the time, until you encounter 30+ players who spread and close the map, then you are dead no matter what pvp or escape gear you use.
@@bankaiiibankaaa4573 exactly.
only thing i like about awakened weapon is that it will probably decrease premium price
Let's hope
Agreed with most of it
No fix to corrupted, making it easier to access from in town? No solo dungeon fame|reward rework? Oh boy they are abandoning these contents lol.
i just clocked most tracking times to be 6 minute on a fast one with 4 objectives to about 18 minutes on a longer one with 2 fcking zones and 9 objectives. i think thats way too long and it was on a test server so no gankers. after i killed them i didnt even get the relics, only a single stack of remains not even enough to craft a t3 staff. Does SBI even play the game?!?!?
Honestly I prefer the vibe of the open world vs the mists/CDs/etc. they just need a little more discouragment of multi-player groups ganging up on solos. Still a big fan of ramping up the trash rate in these cases, but I know the implementation of that could be dicey.
Mist is open world vibe
It's sad to say, but tracking being so annoying might make it profitable. Who'd want to do any of that aggravating trash other than the select few people who hate themselves THAT much?
Since haf of the problems that currently exists seem to flow out of group vs solo content. Would you think it wise to have a version of the outlands that can only used by groups of players and another version that is only for solo play? (Yes like mist but really instead of having mists a being a nerfed version of the outlands let it be the same or buff outlands in different ways than, you get everything but more)
Wtf man
Cause way to many people hang out in yellow zone, can make so much money in yellow. If done right then this should spready people out enough that maybe zerg ganks squads wont be able to be everywhere and this might work. Hard to shit on something so hard with so little testing.
Imagine, we could get summoner-type weapons but nooo, dogwater transformations are "better"
Much of the (Reddit) community has a general consensus of:
•The New weapon line is perfect
•Awakened Weapons is confusing
•Tracking is a bit underwhelming
•Island changes might be bad
I share some of these opinions (except Island and Tracking, I'm not interested in them). I'm personally optimistic for the update, but it's definitely a mixed feeling.
As long as SBI removes IP Attunement, then I'm less mixed - more excited.
My opinion aswell awakened items are just something that game definetly didnt need why add something extra when the only thing it makes is ruin the pvp we already have 8.3 roaming mists and now with the new update its gonna be hard they may be expensive but knowing there are players with billions and billions silver aswell as going to pvp like take a 1v1 where you have underip lets say 1000ip fighting a 1200ip you do have a chance to kill him ofc if he makes mistakes or if you play better but now with the new weapons that wont be possible because if you dont have enough silver to upgrade and buff them then how are you supposed to take on these people because a lot of money comes from pvp especially and about shapeshifting staffs I think its gonna be game changing I mean they are cool and staff but they are too op atleast I think that as a underip 1800 i fought a 2049ip bearpaws and won with a cloth armor aswell and the morp even had the worst defense unbalanced game in my opinion
Idk about you, but half of the time you don't make profit running 8.3 in mists. You're not even dying to other 8.3's, it's literally just lower IP people ganging up on you. Getting jumped by someone higher IP than you won't change for better or worse regardless of awaken weapons. 8.4 awaken takes an insane amount of both fame and silver. The only people who will are people with infinite silver, and that's like 1% or less of the playerbase
awakened items are just a silver sink for high end players that don’t want to play in zvz, so they are good if they wouldn’t break the balance, there should be some updates for new players, for everyone and for high end players, otherwise albion would end like new world where high end don’t exist so if you hit max lvl you can do some pvp or zvz or you don’t have anything interesting to do, so in my opinion awakened weapons as a silversink are not that bad, and taking in consideration that they could potentially drop in chest if one of them (rarely but still) trashes is creating even more jackpot potential when u open the chest
jeez SBI just give me the option to name my MOUNT.
If you can't track in the redzone then the issue is on you, competent gankers only target transporters and if you get caught by a solo ganker that's on you lmao
looks to me like the devs are probably working on another game. Albion has become a secondary priority
Yeah I look at the gameplay of tracking and I already feel its tedious
these new weapon and awaken weapons will only be a flex gear that only the few will take it to the lethal zones
yeah i would agree. we need more ways to get away from zergs and preferably make them so hard to pull off that people do it much less.
adding a few safe zones similar to the faction trade spots with inviibility shrines that would help solos survive if only by making gankers spread out more and shortening the distance needed to flee.
They should add no one can kill u while tracking and killing mob otherwise its a dead activity
Koko stream sniped Equart on the test server with a meta mace build (8.4) and had nearly 8k hp thanks to his awakened mace :|
8k hp is crazy lmfao
Tracking. Imo this is annoying too, especially if they ask to change zone multiple time risking your life for 30 minutea and not getting the material for making the weapon😂
Awakened weapon. Nope juat nope, 5 mil for extra 0.4 % cd reduct? Nope. Imo they should make it more imbalance like in other games substats si its worth the money and hassle of raising it. I dont want to spend days to increase 1% of something and then get killed😅😂
This is so pointless. We all know awaken weapons are late game content. This wasnt made to be worth lmao. It is done like that ON PURPOSE and i HOPE it will not change at all.
They adding new Abilities to legendary Weapons
ip should not increase anymore, its unfun for most players. I would prefer if they removed 8.4 (or cap ip, etc). If they wanted to do something that persists, i would have prefered something like building a castle / monument in open world.
I also think that if u dont like the pve farm in awakened u just dont like albion but you are addicted. Play something else ??
Albion has been trying to get more pay to play/win..... its sad cause i thought it was fantastic with payers and non payers being able to compete at the same levels, it just took longer to catch up to payers...... now its actually turning away from those that brought the game up to what it is and going towards whales and thats about it
I think you are 100% right. The patch aims mainly at monetizing the game one step further (if one island no longer suffice, just buy another ... )
i think albion is still on player gaining phase which they should not make the game more complicated for new players they may hate the game or may quit it i played albion for almost 3 years and you cant choose the job you want to do in albion anymore basicaly loot drops are mostly shit and even in pvp you get high trash rate last time i played i killed someone and only a cape and potion wasnt trashed.
mists and knight falls are have a better drop than open world dungeons because i feel the chests are based on group dungeon chests not solo dungeon chests but its hard to find a knightfall for everyone or play in mist all the time i dont tell you cant play solo in blackzone but its mostly harder and road isnt good group dungeons have good loot but there is more chance to get invaded you can find tier 4 items in it which worth nothing only exp for gathering you find a stone node in iron place iron node in stone place no hide to much cotten like the game thinks we are slaves
prem have only 50% bonus but in cd they give you more than 200k in purple chest with out perm 20k or 30k
they have a good game i dont want see it ruined like other mmo games which i played albion already have the players who love it it dont need to force them to take more time playing it by wasting it running from another side of map to another side
atleast if they want to make the game more fun to play for new players they should give ip cap atleast to nonelethal mists its full of 8.4 which a new player who want to try nonelethal before playing lethal chance to prove because yellow zone open world content isnt good for starter for many because its full of people with high gear getting advantage and onlything works there fine is still factionwarfare which i hope they dont change it i grow up playing most of the games i can and im in near of end of my fun with new era of games i hope atleast albion find a way to fix the problems because it had and nearly have a good community they should take care of it
Well said dude
never thought a day would come where albion would have this bad of a update its such a good game as it is (some little problems here and there) but this update is just non predictable, we never know wha will happen
Perfect update for a private server
Don't know what the crying about is regarding to gankers, but now way in hell they stay around for the next tracker. If they do then just move to a different zone.
the crying about being ganked by 30 man+ like only around certain timers maybe, usually those groups have bigger fish to fry then your little sorry ass, its the blackzone.
Just deal with it.
Tracks are found in the open as well for 4-8 man groups, like get a small group and just go, yeah sometimes you run into bigger groups, but just disperse and wait it out.
Tracking is gonna be like gathering, you need to invest time, thats all there is too it.
Yo can yo do zero to profit with refining
calming potion legit screws solo players and you say it wont harm the game? the way solo players manage to fight groups is by using mobs to even the odds and now people just need these stupid potions to make solo vs group content near impossible
how are you even able to play for the past 3 days now I havent been able to log into the server I have real money in this game premium gold mounts etc wtfh gives was I just robbed stolen from??????????
SBI doesn't play their game, and it shows.
I like the new weapon and island.. But.. SBI try to destroy the game... If they make awekening or legendary item... Albion completely 100% will destroy.. The game will be unbalance..
worried aswell
Haven't played albion in about a month cause of work, but yeah I pretty much guessed this would be a flop and hit the nail on the head.
I remember thinking that this update was gonna suck because no matter how you look at it, the whole system is based on a sort of artificial scarcity where only the super rich players and guilds will be able to even make use of them much less max them out.
I also thought it was a bad addition to the game since these types of weapons will require far more effort to even produce. Meaning that most will never bring them to an actual fight. The great thing about albion is that all weapons are the same. When you die in the black zone you just respawn and buy the same set you lost and you're back at em. But that 8.4 weapon you spent millions on to finely tune what traits you want after grinding all those mobs? Yeah, you can't just replace that so people will never bring them out. They are trophy weapons.
Some, mostly veteran super-end-game players, were foaming at the mouth on reddit saying that they wanted it to be even more rare than that. Arguing that legendary weapons had to be both .4 and masterpiece before it can be awakened. A weapon that only 0.1% of people will ever own, let alone use, Needless to say, a weapon that is unusable for 99.9% of people isn't even worth adding to the game.
Best mmo out Albion online forreal
The idea behind tracking is for 1-3 Man groups to find 1-3 groups in Black zones and the Hunter beast is bonus
But
The issue is most people will go to high populated zones by big guilds and have a run on with them.
In my opiniom this content can work if people go away from cities try sneaking past zergs by hiding to soo dungeons but it s just a coin flip but on nightmare difficulty vs cheater
the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. You can do this but only up to some point. As a solo player with limited resources I feel more and more squized into a niche where 80% of content is no longer accessible for me for the risk/reward-system is not working anymore. I still have premium but I do not feel like extending my membership.
just run 4.1 sets open world
@@ernest3464 sure, just be the underdog forever
@@stefankalisch424 ever heard of ratting? 4.1 builds can kill 8.3 if u play properly n are lucky
How sbi implemented .4 items really makes no sense to me,
That they implemented .4 was for me at least pretty much expected after all there are also legendary chests which could be seen as a .4 chest, so in that regard i pretty much knew it was coming.
Now for gathering the .4 resources, why is it locked behind group pvp, makes no sense at all. After all this is not the case with .0 - .3 which just makes it really inaccessible. Sbi was imo better off just streamlining their mechanics, making .0 - .3 spawn randomly and doing the same thing for .4 just with it being way more rare, just like lg chests.
Then for the attunement, it's basically described as in the vid, a dumb system overall wich causes the rich players to be able to invest while the more general playerbase has more issues with higher tier attunement access.
And, another issue i have with the .4 items, why do only weapons get to awaken, why not all items, sure it would be broken i get that, but it's again something that doesnt make sense. Sbi could have better left out awakening keeping consistency with game mechanics, making .4 just the upgrade from .3, which .3 was and still is for .2 and .2 still is for .1
Overall sbi is adding quite a bit of new content, but there is a lot of content that's just straight up unbalanced,
For example solo dungeons and mists, (if we look at yz)
There's no risk of losing items in both of them yet mist loot is quite a bit better, risk is the same, but the reward is somehow higher in mists.
There's quite some stuff sbi should fix before adding new content, it really unbalaces the game imo
When i say game has become worse in past 6 months.....east release is just to squeeze money from asia for a dying game in west i mean it
I think they should remove weapon enchantments
There is no win to the game so it is not pay to win or I would have beat the game a long time ago. I am waiting for the shape shift weapons rally could care less what you think.
Just because its on the test server, doesnt mean its in its final form. Much can change in the coming weeks until its release
Please. Add. IP. Cap. To. Mists.
Cant belive you making a rant video
it has always been p2w like 95% of online games today
Albion used to be such an awesome game! What happened?it is so gay now! Bunch of coked out sadistic homosexuals got a hold of it!!!
Strong disagree on the group size take and the whole "if small groups were pushed into different activities, SBI shouldn't do anything to encourage them doing BZ at all".
If anything, it's the way around. BZs are not "meant to be for group sizes 10+ exclusively", they are meant to be enjoyed by ANY group sizes so creating activities for small groups is always great. BZs and RZs are not "zerg areas" by design, it's just that there are not enough smallscale activities and the ones that exist can be done with zergs so the most efficient way to play n those areas is to zerg.
100 steps is an overkill though.
I do NOT like this update at all ... Maybe shapeshifti'g can be kinda cool but the rest... I dont like this
WOW casual player detected wining over full loot pvp game which is originally is a hardcore game for hardcore gamers wtf man, thoguht you are better and see the whole picture.
so because its full loot means there can never be anything to complain about? fail logic
@@steadychasingmoneybands6213 how is your comment related to mine? Let me make it clear for you, the casual player cries because game's getting harder and he doesnt have time and effort playing it, though originally game was made for hardcore audience, since the full loot pvp oriented games are designed for niche and hardcore gamers. Dude
we have to much dead zone content...
You can't awaken 8.4 in safe zone. That's my problem. How can I bring 8.4 in lethal zone?! I will need 100 bodyguards at all time to do so.
if you can get 8.4 , get out of yz you noob
@@joshuag1795 I'm not staying only in yz. There are different type of fun's. I do love doing faction wars in yz though and I play with my 8.4 toys there. And I'm not bringing these toys in bz, ain't gonna happen or in mists where 4-5 rats are always waiting for the juicer.