THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO ALBION

GENERAL TIPS

Quick-looting :

Re-size chat-box & Customize :

Switch Ability & Fame Progression bars :

By default the fame progression for Albion is shown at the bottom of your screen, while your abilities are displayed at the right. This may be just fine for some people. However, throughout the years there may be other people who have become accustomed to having abilities shown on the bottom of the screen instead. For those individuals, click on your character portrait and access the Options menu. Then navigate to the Game Settings tab. Here you will see the checkbox for "Spells at bottom of the screen", just select it.

Resize your UI :

This may be old news to a lot of people, but I wanted to share it anyway. Since Albion is made for both PC and mobile, there is the option to have a larger UI for fingers; however, on PC we don’t really need this enabled and a larger UI just means you will see less of what’s happening in front of you. Click on your character portrait and access the Options menu, and then navigate to the Game Settings tab. Here you will see the checkbox for "Smaller HUD", and select it.

Leader-boards :

More Item Power (Destiny Board & Rerolling) :

TIPS & SUGGESTIONS

Do not use LP (Learning Points) For Anything Besides Weapon and Gear Progression :

Try out small nameplates :

Join a guild :

Take up one, or several gathering professions :

PvP TIPS & MISC. INFO

Yellow Zones, Green Zones & Scaling :

Flagging For PvP (Yellow Zones Only) :

Siege Camps :

A lot of new players may ask what in the world a Siege Camp is (I know I did). Currently there are three siege camps on each continent (I say currently because they will be moved after the next wipe see: lawless lands). They are used to place an ‘attack’ (which costs 250k silver) on a neighboring zone that has a territory. The ‘attack’ will come in the form of a GvG (Guild vs Guild), within the next 24 hours. If you win the attack, you take ownership of the territory; if you lose, nothing happens and you may place another attack.

Hey Everyone, I've been meaning to put together a guide for newcomers for some time now and I finally have gotten around to it. I hope this helps some of you out, and if I've missed something or been incorrect at some point, let me know so I may correct it. This guide will mostly benefit new players, though some more advanced players may still find some interesting tips to use that will improve their experience and gameplay. Some of what I’m including may seem redundant for a lot of us veterans, but when I joined the game I was a little lost and this would have definitely helped me. I hope it may help some of you too![Shift + Left Click] an item inside of a ‘loot drop’ or chest and it will instantly be looted into your bag.If you select the gear icon in the upper left side of the chat-box window it will give you the option to “unlock” the window itself and you can now click-and-drag the box (must have your mouse over one of the tabs). You can also customize the individual tabs or add new ones, which can show more of less information such as whispers or loot drops, etc.Did you know that there are leader-boards in Albion? To my surprise I found a lot of people had no idea that there was a way of tracking an individual’s progress as well as a guild’s. To access the leader-boards, click on your character portrait and select "Rankings". From here you can view anything from the Kill Value from individual players, to the Fame totals of an entire guild. So get out there and make a name for yourself!Almost every player should know that the higher an Item’s Power is, the better its stats are. However, there are a couple of ways to improve the Item Power of an item you already have. The first way is through the Reroll feature available in every city from the NPC in the center of town. Doing this gives you a slight chance to increase the quality (normal, excellent, masterpiece, epic, legendary) of the item, thus also increasing its Item Power. The other way is to level another item(weapon or gear) from the same path in the Destiny Board. For example, if you use the Warbow and have it at max tier, or you’re at a point where leveling it up again will take quite some time, you may want to start leveling the Longbow instead. This is because the Longbow is in the same category as the Warbow, and will give a (+8)Item Power bonus to each other weapon in that same category (each time the Longbow is leveled).The reason being, is that you earn so much fame through gathering/crafting, that using LP to advance these faster isn’t as efficient as using your LP for the combat trees.For an example, you can mine a Legendary T5 ore for‘seventy-thousand’ fame per (3), or smelt a stack of that ore into bars for upwards of ‘five-hundred-thousand’ fame. While gathering, even non-rare resources usually net you over one-thousand fame each. Compared to PvE fame (from T6/T7 creatures) which may net only three-hundred or so in a decent party, you will never get as high a fame per hour grinding for weapons/gear as you will gathering and crafting.They may not look as nice or as fancy as the larger nameplates you have by default, but they don’t cover as much of the screen and will allow you to see more during both your PvE and PvP encounters. You may also want to hide your name altogether, giving you more visibility.Not only are guilds a great place to find people to play with and a place to meet others like you, but they are almost essential for players in Albion. After grinding with a friend of mine for the first few weeks, I was getting burnt out.Playing with a guild ensures you will progress much faster, as well as learn to play better. There were mechanics and features I didn’t know about until it came up in guild conversation. Also, with PvP being such a large part of the game, you will never win a fight 1v10. As much fun as solo fighting can be, you will have much more success ith friends beside you. Don't get caught up too much on the Guild Tax either, because guilds with a higher tax usually give back to their members more than they put in. The guild I am currently a member of, T2D, is 11% higher than the previous guild I was in, however, their guild island has an auction house of a lot of higher-tier food, potions, and gear listed at one silver (they also comp lost gear). Don't be afraid of higher taxes, and look at it as helping out members like yourself. So find a guild and have fun!Not only will gathering give you some extra fame you may need to progress to use higher tiered mounts and tools and such, but it will also put some silver in those pockets. Resources both low tier and high, are always sought after and needed in the world or Albion. Depending on the state of the economy, some individual resources may sell for over two-thousand each. Silver isn’t always everything though.Take a look at what weapons andarmor you will be using in the future, and set those materials asideto have someone craft it for you (or deposit it with your guild)! This way you don’t have to rely solely on the varying markets,which could skyrocket at the time you need those materials most.Yellow and Green zones are unique in Albion because they are one the only zones that will reduce (scale down)your character stats.The zone has a cap on your “Item Power”, and for a rule of thumb most players consider T7 to be the max gearusable before you start to get significant stat reduction. However, more research needs to be done to what the exact caps are. All help is appreciated!While in Yellow Zones, players who flag up will be at a 25% disadvantage to those who have not flagged. This is easy to miss as it is only noticeable from your Player Stats.Sorry if I went on for a while, but I hope those of you who made it through found something that helps you out in the world of Albion. The formatting was a headache here, so if you guys can see a better way to present it, I'm all ears.Thank you all,Your Community Brope