Albion Online News

Albion’s fourteenth Guild Season starts this weekend with a revamped structure and new features to make guild warfare more competitive and exciting than ever before. Most notably, this season marks the beginning of the Conqueror’s Challenge, which replaces the previous Guild Season reward system and allows a wider range of playstyles to pursue and profit from season goals. Alongside this, Season 14 sees the introduction of Might, Favor, Guild Might Levels, Energy Crystals, Power Cores, and Headquarters Hideouts.

[h3]Season Rewards[/h3]
The Conqueror’s Challenge allows individual players to earn season rewards throughout the course of the season without necessarily being part of a guild – though a successful guild will still benefit its members as it completes Guild Might Levels. Individual Conqueror’s Challenge rewards are as follows:



For a full breakdown of guild and personal season rewards, see this forum post.

[h3]Headquarters Hideouts[/h3]
As recently announced in this forum post, starting with Lands Awakened Patch 1, Headquarters Hideouts qualifications will apply as soon as they are earned within the current season. This means guilds who earn enough Season Points during Season 14 will be able to declare an HQ or upgrade to a higher tier/quality zone immediately, regardless of whether they qualified during the Energy Surge season. And of course, guilds who met the HQ Hideout requirements during the last season can already declare Headquarters in qualifying zones.

For details of Headquarters Hideouts and Power Cores, check out this Dev Talk:

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[h3]Watch the Season Kickoff Live[/h3]
The action starts on Saturday, November 27 and will be broadcast live on AlbionTV from 17:30 UTC, with hosts Shozen, Lewpac and Bogul bringing full coverage of Invasion Day.

At 18:00 UTC all territories will be reset for guilds to claim them and launch attacks. Those in the North and South American time zones can also tune in for the second round of territory resets on Sunday, November 28 at 00:30 UTC, when hosts Shozen, Robinhoodrs and Bogul will cover the next round of invasions from 01:00 UTC. All open-world fights are broadcast live with a 15-minute delay.

Check out AlbionTV's coverage of the second Energy Surge Invasion Day:

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The next era of guild warfare in Albion starts Saturday - we'll see you then!

The massive Lands Awakened update is now live! This update brings a new era of open-world gameplay to Albion with reworked dungeons, mobs, and treasure sites, new open-world PvP objectives for groups of all sizes, hugely improved visuals and layouts for all five biomes, War Gloves, reworked Guild Seasons, numerous quality-of-life improvements, and much more.

To celebrate the occasion, we've created a brand-new trailer:

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[h3]Reinvigorating Albion's Open World[/h3]
Lands Awakened brings a completely overhauled open-world experience, including massively improved visuals and layouts in all five biomes, mobs that become stronger and more rewarding over time, reworked static dungeons, and treasure sites that spawn randomly throughout the world. Whether you're a brand-new player or a seasoned veteran, Albion's lands are home to countless new opportunities awaiting discovery.

[h3]New Weapons, Elite Levels, Faster Fame[/h3]
The all-new War Gloves offer thrilling brawler-style combat for small-, medium-, and large-scale fights, along with numerous options for PvE. Elite Levels add twenty additional mastery levels to each weapon and armor piece, with corresponding medals to let you show off your accomplishments. And the amount of Fame granted for nearly all activities has been boosted significantly, shortening the time needed to unlock new skills and rewarding perseverant players.


[h3]Reworked Guild Seasons[/h3]
Power Cores and Energy Crystals introduce open-world capture-the-flag gameplay with huge rewards. Headquarters Hideouts offer protected bases for dedicated guilds. And the Conqueror's Challenge allows all players to earn Might and Favor for a wide range of activities, unlocking rewards for themselves and their guilds. Overall, Lands Awakened shifts the focus of Guild Seasons from passive territory control to active personal progress, offering dedicated players and guilds a chance at massive rewards.


[h3]The Druid Vanity Bundle is Here[/h3]
The Lands Awakened update also brings the new Druid Vanity Bundle. This premiere bundle is available in the in-game store, and includes a full costume set plus a matching Stag mount skin. The costume skins feature a thick, forest-green cape and a crown of antlers, and both the costume and mount skins are decorated with a glowing aura of fireflies.

The Druid Bundle includes the following vanity skins, which work on male and female characters alike:

• Druid's Horns
• Druid's Garments
• Druid's Shoes
• Druid's Cape
• Druid's Stag

[h3]Additional Improvements[/h3]

• Loadouts can now be purchased directly from the Marketplace
• Large resource nodes now spawn as treasure sites, appearing on the map to those nearby
• Improvements to farming, rerolling, building fees, and party commands
• Numerous combat balance changes
• Massively expanded soundtrack with 17 new tracks
• Real estate plots added to Outlands towns
• New Artifact resources
• Bug fixes, mobile optimizations, new icons and achievements, and much more

For more details, check out the official update page or the update patchnotes.

The Lands Awakened update releases tomorrow, November 24, and you can watch it streamed live! Check out the following channels during the day to see the cool new features in action:


For a rundown of all the new features coming with the Lands Awakened update, check out the update page.

The Lands Awakened update on November 24 brings exciting developments to combat in Albion Online. In this Dev Talk, Combat Designer Michael Schwahn and Game Director Robin Henkys introduce two major new features: the War Gloves weapon line and Elite Levels.

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Read on for a written summary...
[h3]War Gloves[/h3]

• An entirely new brawler weapon line on the Warrior Weapons tree
• Three new base weapons
• Four new artifact weapons
• Allow various attack combos

War Gloves have a great deal of build versatility, giving players a variety of outplay possibilities and interesting decisions to make. They have one more Q slot ability than other weapons, allowing build flexibility for different situations.



Here’s a look at just some of their abilities:

• Triple Kick
  • W-ability
  • Fly towards the enemy, performing three kicks in the air
  • Can be aimed close, or at a distance for extra mobility
  • Can drag one enemy player with you

• Blazing Geyser
  • E-ability of Battle Bracers
  • An explosion in front of you, dealing damage and knocking enemies into the air
  • Hitting one enemy resets Q-slot cooldown
  • Well-suited to building combos

• Purifying Combination
  • Three-part combo
    • Roundhouse Kick knocks enemies away
    • Dive Kick with jump knocks enemies into the air
    • Purifying Fist deals massive damage
    • Can be combined with other abilities between each attack

• Some other new abilities:
  • Cross Step and Aggressive Burst suited to an auto-attack style
  • Infernal Boulder
    • Combined with Triple Kick, can make all three Boulder hits land on one player

New weapon lines for Hunter and Mage are also being worked on for future updates, so stay tuned.


[h3]Elite Levels[/h3]
Lands Awakened brings significantly increased Fame rewards across the game, which players can use to progress with their weapon specializations. As a further Fame objective for veteran players, the Destiny Board has also been expanded with Elite Levels:

• These allow combat specializations to reach level 120
• Can be unlocked with Fame credits and Silver
• Increase maximum possible specialization bonuses by 60 points of Item Power
• New badges appear on equipped items, indicating the level of specialization achieved

Remember, Lands Awakened launches on November 24, and soon after that we’ll have a final Dev Talk where we show some big UI improvements to Loadouts, farming, and party invites.

Thanks for watching!