Albion Online 12+

I’ve played Albion Online off and on since it’s release on PC, and it’s honestly one of the greatest MMOs available today. You have freedom over the classes you play, never being restricted to only playing an archer, mage or warrior. There’s a variety of different weapons, such as bows, swords, maces, healing staffs, fire staffs etc, and each weapon tree has different types of weapons so you can personalise the experience to how you want to play. Or, you can choose to be a gatherer, a crafter, a farmer, raise mounts, or simply flip items on the market. Want to own a shop? You can do that. Want to own an island? You can do that. You can run dungeons alone or with friends, or go to the outlands and steal loot off unsuspecting targets. Albion Online is also one of the most free to play games around, where being F2P restricts yourself from owning an island (but just start your own guild and buy a guild island instead). You can also buy premium with in game money (silver), so if you play enough and find all the best ways to make money, you can quite literally play premium for years without spending a single dollar. I’ve been playing MMOs for almost 20 years, and this one here easily takes place in my top 5.

Albion online is a great game, if not one of the best rpg games out there. I instantly fell in love with the game and got addicted to it, I just had one problem with the game. The PLAYERS.

I had spent three weeks grinding my soul away for a build just for it to be ruined when I entered a player dungeon, at the time I didn’t know that dying in those would make you lose all of your stuff so I entered thinking not much of the consequences. I was wrong, after finding an alliance with a kind player, a maxed out player with stacks of cosmetics pulled up and killed us with two hits. I didn’t have the motivation to play after this as my account was highly stacked and had a lost of mastery points which if I changed account I would lose. After you lose everything when dying obtaining tools without cash is like creating a city with no architectural knowledge and only with dirt. You can only mine twigs and rocks and the moment your bag gets full you have to spend ten minutes making it back to the capital to craft better gear then you somehow have to obtain copper without a mount which is almost impossible and even with a mount it is hard to get to the mountains because it takes a long time. If you get copper then you have gotten your grind back but have no good gear nor mounts and have to grind low level dungeons for a few days.

The gameplay of if both on mobile and PC are very authentic and quick to understand. The mechanics of the game is really fun thanks to the classless feature. However, I felt that the mounts should enable combat on non battle mounts like armoured horses. I believe it can be better by adding combat mode when mounted which provides unique abilities of each mount while having riding horse and armored horse mounts enables the ability to use weapons when mounted (if combat mode when mounted is enabled). I would also want to add siege engines - Just the catapult and trebuchet. To ensure that it won’t become Op it will have a normal attack cool-down of 3 seconds and be significantly slow with the requirement of mount that he similar to a transport ox . It will have 2 special abilities- scatter shots, which has small projectiles launched from the Seige engine creating an area attack and flaming ball which would have burn effect on players upon hitting a PvE or PVP. Both cool-down on 10 seconds. Despite some missing parts, I like this game and it’s endless possibilities.