r/albiononline • u/Infinite_Photo_8868 • 18h ago
[Help] Just started playing.. any words of enlightenment and encouragement?
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u/cbarks86 18h ago
Dabble in some arenas or content where you don't lose your gear to decide if you like a build or not. You also don't have to be strictly meta, you can offset some pieces to fit your playstyle.
Your loot and gear is also not yours until you make it back to town.
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u/The-Gentleman-Rat 17h ago
Random bits of advice in no particular order:
Tier + Enchantment Level = Higher Tier Equivalent. Such as Tier 4 Enchantment Level 2 (4.2), can be seen as 4+2, meaning the equivalent would be Tier 6. Or 6.2, 6+2, equivalent to T8. And so on.
Having solid Mastery & especially Specialization levels is more important than having gear with the highest Tier and Enchantment Level without the relevant Mastery/Spec to go with it. So you do not have to spend millions and millions for a full Gucci 8.X set until your Mastery/Spec is in order. If at all. You can get away with running 4.1 or 4.2 gear for a good long while. Possibly pushing to 6.2 if need be (and ideally in safe zones). Beyond that you'd be more gearing up for later game content. Or to be a walking Loot Chest in lethal zones.
Hammer down your preferred content and playstyle/s, which will steer the direction of your builds. I started max speccing Swords before realizing I liked running around as a Holy Healer way more. And now I'm dabbling with Quarterstaffs for PvE shenanigans. Went from Blue and Yellow Zone Faction Warfare to almost exclusively Red Zone Faction Camps and Bandit Assault stuff. As filler I hang around Static Dungeons. You want to find what you actually like doing, what you like using (and can use effectively), and what you can consistently dedicate time to.
Whenever you're about to Quick Sell stuff on the Market always sort by "vs avg market price" to see where your biggest losses will be. Anything more than a ~20k silver loss and I'll usually unmark it for quick sale and just place a Sell Order. This took me a comically long time to figure out so I was just throwing money away until I did.
If wanting to get into any group based/non-solo content you should familiarize yourself with group compositions, or "comps". There is a good bit of overlap but also some very content specific builds. Your group size and preferred content type will determine the overall group comp.
Help out your fellow citizens of Albion. As a healer this is easy for me to do without interrupting someone fame farming, gathering, or whatnot. But if you see someone struggling and you can (tactfully) lend a hand, go ahead and do so. Helping to bring open world randoms back from the brink of death is one of my greatest joys.
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u/Ondrion 18h ago
Do factions and open the rewards chests for easy early XP/silver. Playing healer is super easy points. Once you get a mil or 2, start buying 4.1 gear of whatever play style you find you like and go start doing red zone faction camps with a blob. You can make a couple mil an hour. Once you can afford to start losing sets worth ~200k you can really go do whatever content you like. Find things you find fun to do. You will die and lose gear. It is the core of the game. Always have the attitude of it isn't your gear, you're just borrowing it temporarily.
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u/lowrads 14h ago
Does healing sidestep the mechanic of party fame?
The busiest time of day is the worst for fame farming in the usual FW PUG cycle, because either you don't get into the largest group, or they just aren't coordinated enough to operate separately from the rest of the PUG. I'm mildly trilingual, and it's still a struggle.
Once you are able to secure a static, things get a lot more interesting, but the fallback is still helpful.
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u/BimbouMan 13h ago
Everything on this game is a consumable, stay on t4.1 or t4.2 gears, don't equipped T5 and above gears with no max spec, and you will never be broke in this game
Edit: You will die a lot, so enjoy it, it's part of the gameplay
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u/EnviciouZ 12h ago
With full loot pvp, weapons and armor are more like temporary consumables Albion.
It's okay to die and lose gear, you'll eventually gain kills and loot gear yourself.
Silver comes and goes, fame (xp) is forever
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u/FrjackenKlaken 11h ago
- Remember it is a game
- You do not need to min/max
- Find a group/guild to play with. It is an MMORPG and the social aspect is what keeps you playing
- If after 1-2 weeks of play, you like the game. Buy premium with $$$. It supports the devs and boosts your progression.
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u/catstyle 8h ago
You dont lose progress on switching weapons, gear, playstyle, content or whatever.
market, farming, pve, pvp, crafting, transporting.
If you are at loss of directions, try something completetly different, find a group, find a guild, dont find a guild.
Join a faction, change faction, join the bandits, etc. 😄
you will die, you will lose silver, get used to it if you dont enjoy safe content enough to be fine with never losing but have a slight limit of progression speed.
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u/Luumpy 15h ago
Above all else, do what YOU want. This is a sandbox mmorpg, meaning you don't need to do anything anyone tells you to do. Be it "meta this" or "1M Silver in 1 hour??? (BROKEN?!)", do what you enjoy!
Finding what you enjoy is the journey, and enabling what you enjoy to gain Silver is the goal. For example, I like long-term investments so I gather and refine/craft to make my Silver and then invest into my Faction by pushing objs/camps with zergs. Does it make the most Silver per hour? Certainly not. Do I use "meta" gearing to leverage fights? Absolutely not.
But do I have fun? 🍻🍻🍻
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u/IllustriousBus4339 18h ago
you're just borrowing the gear, it's not yours to keep, someone else is going to have it eventually.