Albion Online News

Not long left to enjoy this deal! Until 10 UTC on December 9, you can save a massive 85% on vanity items, Gold, and Premium when you buy one of our Adventurer Starter Bundles.

Each bundle includes:

• Your choice of Knight, Rogue, or Mage Adventurer Bundle
• 7 Days of Premium total (does not auto-renew)
• 50 Gold

That’s over $35 worth of stuff for just $4.95! (Prices may vary by platform and region.)

[h3]Unleash Your Adventurer Spirit[/h3]
Whether you uphold the virtues of the Knight, embrace the cunning of the Rogue, or wield the arcane power of the Mage, each bundle features unique themed vanity items, including:

• Main-hand vanity weapon with two exclusive vanity spells:
  • Knight: A warbanner to inspire your allies and assert your dominance wherever you go
  • Rogue: Poison bottles that release noxious fumes (whether intentionally or not…)
  • Mage: A spellbook imbued with ancient sorcery to summon magical energy and dazzling fireworks
• Full vanity armor, hat, boots, and cape
• Armored Horse mount skin for all your rides into battle
• Guild versions of the hat, armor, cape, and mount skin so you can proudly display your guild's logo and colors

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But traditional RPG roles are so last season. In Albion, you are what you wear, so why settle for just one look? Seize this chance to get all three bundles before this offer ends on December 9.

Pick them up now from the Albion Online Web Shop, the in-game store, Steam client, or Google Play. And remember, vanity items are account-wide and available for all your characters on any server. So what are you waiting for?

Another AlbionTV interview is here! This time, Sandbox Interactive CTO and one of the game’s founders, David Salz, sits down to offer his unique insights into the technical side of the game, from its earliest days until now. Check it out here.

(Note: This video is only available in English.)

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There are more interviews with the developers on the way soon, and be sure to follow AlbionTV on Twitch (twitch.tv/albiononline) or Youtube (youtube.com/@albiononlineofficial) for more exclusive content. Stay tuned!

This patch further refines the Horizons update with tweaks and fixes. We are also reintroducing developer notes for Combat Balance changes to provide more context for these adjustments.

Note for Android users: With this patch, we are rolling back the recent platform migration introduced with the Horizons Update. This will again require a larger-than-normal installation. If you experience space issues, please uninstall the Albion Online app before performing a clean install.

[h3]Changes and Improvements[/h3]

Albion Journal Missions

• Collect 20 offspring in 10 minutes on a single island → Have offspring from 10 different animals

HUD Editor

• Default Spells and their Transformation Spells are now always displayed
  • If Vanity Spells are in use, they will switch to the default spells while the HUD Editor is open

Dynamic Encampments

• Lair Maps in Solo Encampments are now hidden until the Encampment's objective has been completed by a player. Once completed, the Lair Map becomes visible to all players
  • This change does not affect Lair Maps in Group Encampments

Other Changes

• [Mobile] Adjusted Custom Button Slot hotkey assignments:
  • ‘Recording Mode,’ ‘Walk Up,’ ‘Walk Down,’ ‘Walk Right,’ and ‘Walk Left’ can no longer be assigned to custom buttons
  • ‘World Map’ and ‘Destiny Board’ can now be assigned

[h3]Combat Balance Changes[/h3]

Arcane Staffs

Frazzle has been outshined by Enigma Blade in DPS arcane builds, even in smaller group fights. We’ve increased its burst damage to make it more competitive, even if allies don’t take advantage of the powerful damage-amplifying component.

• Frazzle (all Arcane Staffs)
  • Now reduces enemy defenses before dealing damage
  • Damage: 103.11 → 125

Daggers

Bridled Fury players have struggled to find success in ZvZs, so we’ve reintroduced some resilience penetration to make Merciless Finish live up to its name.

• Bridled Fury
  • Resilience penetration: 30% → 35%

Frost Staffs

Ice Storm hasn’t been very popular, despite its high damage potential. We've reduced its travel distance to boost area denial and threat to keep chokes covered longer. We've also reduced its cast and stand times to make its use smoother.

• Ice Storm (Glacial Staff)
  • Cast time: 1s → 0.5s
  • Stand time: 0.5s → 0.3s
  • Travel distance: 18m → 12m (1.2m/s → 0.8 m/s)

Holy Staffs

We’ve smoothed out Sacred Pulse’s animation and stand time for a better experience in both PvE and PvP.

• Sacred Pulse (all Holy Staffs)
  • Stand time: 0.5s → 0.3s

War Gloves

Counter is outshined by other War Gloves’ W abilities in most contexts. Extending the powerful defense buff should provide more flexibility, allowing players to either disengage more safely or follow up confidently after a successful counter.

• Counter (all War Gloves)
  • 75% defense buff duration: Up to 1.2s → always 2s

Ravenstrikes haven’t been performing well in ZvZs, despite recent buffs. A big downside is that while the damage can be reflected, the caster can't cancel the channel once the ability has started. So we’ve made the ability non-reflectable to make it less likely to die to Demon Armor in ZvZ. Since this makes it significantly more valuable, we’ve reduced its damage slightly.

• Earth Crusher (Ravenstrike Cestus)
  • No longer reflectable
  • 0.5s Charge-up damage : 179 → 175
  • 1s Charge-up damage : 190 → 185
  • 1.5s Charge-up damage : 202 → 195
  • 2s Charge-up damage : 214 → 205

Helmets

Royal Helmet is currently only used by niche one-shot combo builds. To encourage tank and support use, we’ve significantly reduced its cooldown.

• Ballista Support Fire (Royal Helmet)
  • Cooldown: 40s → 30s

Armors

Dynamic Defense is strong and popular in ZvZs as both an offensive and defensive tool. Due to the prevalence of reflect, Dynamic Defense has been putting pressure on DPS players to strongly consider only magic damage weapons, as Jacket of Tenacity would do double duty as a strong defense against enemy reflect while also providing a damage boost that brings magic damage users close to the damage levels of cloth armor. We’ve reduced the maximum damage potential, but allowed players to choose the optimal defensive buff without losing access to the bonus damage.

• Dynamic Defense (Jacket of Tenacity)
  • 20% bonus damage based on opponents weapon → 10% bonus to all damage types

Shoes

Scholar Sandals have fallen short of their promise to be a complete energy solution, so we’ve significantly increased their mana regeneration.

• Focused Run (Scholar Sandals)
  • Energy per tick: 2.63 → 4 (max 26.3 → 40)

Demon Boots' movement speed was previously reduced to prevent them from being a guaranteed ‘get out of jail free card’. However, since they are now a fairly underused item, we believe they deserve a cooldown in line with other sprints in their class.

• Vengeful Sprint (Demon Boots)
  • Cooldown: 40s → 30s

Potions

Underutilized potions have been given significant buffs to make them more competitive with their alternatives.

• Acid Potion (all Tiers)
  • Increased armor and magic resistance reduction by 50%
• Cleansing Potion (Tiers 3.1 and above)
  • Added 30% movement speed buff for the duration of immunity only if CC or debuffs are removed
• Hellfire Potion (all Tiers)
  • Added 35% healing reduction for 3s to all targets hit
  • Increased true damage to players and mobs by 25%
  • Cooldown 60s → 90s
• Sticky Potion (all Tiers)
  • Increased damage reduction by 50%
• Tornado in a Bottle (all Tiers)
  • Radius: 3m → 4m
  • Cooldown: 90s → 60s

Misc

• Deflecting Spin (all Spears)
  • No longer stops moving on usage
• Mimic (all Arcane Staffs)
  • No longer queues auto-attacks after casting

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

Spell Fixes

• Fixed issue where spells that activate at a certain health threshold would not be triggered by damage from potions
• Fixed issue where mounting up immediately after casting an invisibility spell would not break the invisibility
• Mend Wounds (all Armors): Fixed issue where it would sometimes override movement commands

Mob Fixes

• Fixed issue where Morgana Occultists in the Mists would not spawn bats after using their instant ability

UI Fixes

• Fixed issue where search filters would reset after switching tabs in the Marketplace UI
• Fixed issue where clicking a loadout shared in chat would also move the character to the clicked position
• Fixed issue where the Building Management UI of some tiers of Guild Halls and Houses could not be opened while inside
• Fixed issue where the Element Switch button could appear on invalid elements when opening the HUD Editor
  • This button is no longer available on Desktop
• [MOBILE] Fixed issue where selected emotes in the Key Bindings settings would reset when selecting a Custom Button Slot
• [MOBILE] Fixed issue where the on-screen keyboard obstructed the Loadouts dropdown in the Marketplace UI

Other Fixes

• Fixed issue where static Randomized Dungeon entrances in the Roads of Avalon would not be visible
• Various additional graphical, animation, terrain, audio, UI, and localization fixes

Psst! Have you heard about AlbionTV? They’ve got interviews, live streams, and all kinds of other cool Albion Online content…

Well, there’s no need to keep it a secret – AlbionTV is streaming on Twitch and, now, on the official Albion Online YouTube channel too! Our trusted crew brings you exclusive content like Guild Season updates, live coverage of Invasion Days, and appearances and interviews with the devs. And they’ll be regularly publishing both long and short-form highlights to their own YouTube channel too, so subscribe to that as well to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

And while we’ve got you here, there’s another interview coming up with Sandbox Interactive founder and CTO David Salz this Wednesday, December 4. Tune in on Twitch (twitch.tv/albiononline) or Youtube (youtube.com/@albiononlineofficial) at 19:30 UTC for an insight into the technical side of Albion Online, including its server setup, and the unique challenges of designing and developing an MMORPG. Don’t miss it!

Joining a guild can enhance your Albion Online experience in a myriad of ways. From providing a community to give you guidance on your journey, to a massive amount of new content and rewards you can unlock, being a guild member is the best way to get the most out of the game.

Albion Online features an ingame Guild Finder which allows you to search and filter by criteria like active times, favored activities, and language to find the right guild for you. To help you on your way, we’ve produced a helpful guide to this, walking you through its main features and gives some helpful tips to help you find the perfect guild and take your gameplay to the next level. Check it out here!