Albion Online

• On Albion Europe, title holders Sex and Flex have been locked in a fierce contest with Polska Gurom, who are ramping up their attacks with the help of the BOBER alliance. By raiding the reigning champions’ territories, Polska Gurom now has a real shot at taking the throne.
• Over on Albion Asia, One Gin, as part of the season debutant Arthur's Rest coalition, has crushed Peony Flower's push for the top spot and secured a record-breaking lead that may be too much for anyone to overcome.
• In the Americas, allies IFures and D R U Y D S have held on to the top two spots, but The Lonely Men are closing the gap, making this final stretch critical for determining who comes out on top.

• Albion Asia: September 21, 14:00 UTC
• Albion Europe: September 21, 18:00 UTC
• Albion Americas: September 22, 01:00 UTC

Paths to Glory Patch 4 - Version 26.040.1 - September 18, 2024

This patch focuses on combat balance adjustments and fixes.

Please note: a new Albion Online launcher is available to download, and the older version will no longer function as of October 26, 2024. Please ensure your launcher is updated by this date. You can download a new launcher from https://albiononline.com/download

Albion Journal

• Keep a city plot you own in an auction cycle → Bid 5 million Silver on a city plot you currently own

Combat Balance Changes

• Raging Blades (all Axes)
  • Damage per tick: 28 → 26

• Deadly Shot (all Bows)
  • Cooldown: 3s → 2s
  • Energy cost: 4 → 3
  • Debuff duration: 6s → 5s
  • Standtime: 0.4s → 0.3s

• Deathward Climax (Boltcasters)
  • First tick damage: 9.2 → 30.1
  • Damage increase per hit: 9.2 → 5.4 (total damage unchanged)

• Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs)
  • Damage per tick: 5 → 4
• Raging Flare (all Fire Staffs)
  • Cooldown: 10s → 20s
  • Energy cost: 9 → 16
  • Initial damage: 135 → 187
  • Damage per tick: 5.97 → 7.2

• Divine Intervention (Hallowfall)
  • Cooldown reduction: 40% → 25%
• Celestial Sphere (Redemption Staff)
  • Time between bounces: 0.6s → 0.9s

• Vendetta (Camlann Mace)
  • Cast is now uninterruptible

• Elevated Nature (Blight Staff)
  • Healing (alone): 36 → 33
  • Healing (at least one ally): 42 → 39
• Spiritual Seed (Druidic Staff)
  • Cooldown after recast: 30s → 25s

• Reality Fissure (all Shapeshifter staffs)
  • First hit damage: 87 → 101
  • Second hit damage: 137 → 123
• Wild Onslaught (Primal Staff)
  • Fear duration: 1.2s → 1s
  • Cast time: 0.3s → 0.6s

• Spectral Trident (Trinity Spear)
  • Jump speed increased by 25%
  • Standtime after landing: 0.5s → 0.35s

• Soulless Stream (Galatine Pair)
  • Enemy health reduction: 6% → 10%
  • 0 stack damage: 88.2 → 90
  • 1 stack damage: 140.7 → 145
  • 2 stack damage: 211.05 → 215
  • 3 stack damage: 299.25 → 305

• Growing Rage (Royal Hood)
  • Cooldown: 30s → 25s
  • Buff no longer expires if no damage is dealt after reaching max stacks

• Electric Field (Stalker Jacket)
  • Cooldown: 30s → 40s
• Requite (Armor of Valor)
  • Now increases damage resistances by 40% while channeling

• Evasive Jump (Royal Shoes)
  • Range: 12m → 14m

• Immunity bubble after changing regions now also prevents debuffs and damage-over-time effects from being applied
• Being forcefully dismounted now cleanses crowd control and transformation effects, and provides a two-second immunity to further crowd control and transformation effects
• The following spells are no longer reflectable:
  • Burning Field (all Fire Staffs)
    • Area damage-over-time only
  • Fire Artillery (all Fire Staffs)
    • Area damage-over-time only
  • Frozen Hell (Icicle Staff)
  • Hellfire Potion
  • Inner Shadow (Shadowcaller)
  • Nasty Wounds (Hood of Tenacity)
  • Raging Storm (Bow of Badon)
  • Thorn Growth (all Nature Staffs)
    • Area DoT only
  • Wall of Flames (all Fire Staffs)

Fixes

• Added missing AoE escalation to the following spells:
  • Burning Field (all Fire Staffs)
  • Combustion (Infernal Staff)
  • Counter (all War Gloves)
  • Crush Charge (Duskweaver Boots)
  • Electric Discharge (Judicator Helmet)
  • Flame Blast (all Fire Staffs)
  • Inner Shadow (Shadowcaller)
  • Pyroblast (one-handed Fire Staff)
  • Snare Charge (all Maces)
  • Tackle (Great Hammer)
  • Triple Kick (all War Gloves)
• Empowering Beam (all Arcane Staffs): Fixed issue where damage buff would not stack if two players targeted the same player simultaneously
• Backhand Strike (all War Gloves): Fixed issue where the same target could be hit multiple times
• Blind Spot (Shoes of Tenacity): Fixed issue where invisibility would persist while attacking or casting
• Fixed issue where the VFX of damage-over-time or healing-over-time spells would prematurely disappear after the affected player shapeshifted into human form

• Fixed issue where the Embalmed Tiger skin did not display in the Appearance UI
• [iOS] Fixed issue where tapping a search result in the Travel Planner UI would not autocomplete the destination

• Fixed issue where some Steam achievements would not register as unlocked when completed on mobile
• Various additional graphical, animation, terrain, audio, UI, and localization fixes

Note: The tooltip for Sanctify (Exalted Staff) currently displays incorrectly. This issue will be addressed in an upcoming patch.

Zero to Hero is over, but I’m thinking of all tomorrow’s parties…

Paths to Glory Patch 3 - Version 26.030.1 - September 4, 2024

This patch brings some combat balance changes, Destiny Board improvements, and bug fixes, along with Season 23 winner statues.

Season 23 Winner Statues

Changes

• Sentry Mages no longer auto-regenerate health, but their maximum health has been increased:
  • Max health: 61,458 → 68,287

• Improved Destiny Board camera stability when zoomed out
• Improved number readability and reduced overall glare

Combat Balance Changes

• Explosive Arrows (all Bows)
  • Damage: 21.45 → 23
• Lucent Hawk (Mistpiercer)
  • Damage per arrow: 170 → 178

• Auto Fire (all Crossbows)
  • Damage per tick: 30 → 32

• Cataclysm (Damnation Staff)
  • Cast time: 2.5s → 2s

• Assassin Spirit (all Daggers)
  • Charge interval: 2.5s → 2s

• Celestial Sphere (Redemption Staff)
  • Bounces: 10 → 8
  • Area of Effect: 0 → 4m
  • Heal: 85 → 77
• Divine Protection (Divine Staff)
  • AoE Heal:
    • No longer triggers automatically when the shield expires
    • Instead, the spell can be manually reactivated to detonate the shield and trigger the AoE heal
    • Affected Allies: 5 → 10

• Cleanse Heal (all Nature Staffs)
  • Heal value - 0 Charges: 55 → 65
  • Heal value - 1 Charge: 70 → 80
  • Heal value - 2 Charges: 90 → 105
  • Heal value - 3 Charges: 120 → 135

• Piercing Light (Lightcaller)
  • Light Spark explosion damage: 92 → 83
• Unstable Projectile (all Shapeshifter Staffs)
  • Energy cost: 7 → 4

• Razor’s Edge (Rift Glaive)
  • Range: 20m → 17m

• Create Opening (all War Gloves)
  • Damage: 60 → 72
• Fleet Footwork (all War Gloves)
  • Damage: 64 → 78
  • Bonus auto-attack damage: 100% → 150%
  • Resistances now increase by 20% while dashing

• Levitate (Cultist Robe)
  • Resistances while channeling: 50% → 40%

• Poison Cloud (Venom Basilisk)
  • Damage reduction: 25% → 20%
• Intoxicating Breath (Venom Basilisk)
  • Defense reduction: 50% → 33%
• Artillery Fire (Behemoth)
  • DoT duration: 18s → 14s
  • Damage per tick: 0.8% → 1% (total damage unchanged)

• Force Field (all Cloth Helmets)
  • Auto-attacks no longer resume after casting

Fixes

• Fixed issue where missions to deliver Weakened Wisps in Greater Mists would not count those delivered by party members
• Fixed issue where the mission ‘Defeat Faction Champions’ would not count party member kills for the Champion of Martlock
• Fixed issue where enchanted resources would not count towards resource refining missions
• Removed extinct mobs from the ‘Skin all Hide Animals’ mission
• Fixed issue where 'Open open-world Treasure Chests' missions could be completed in the Mists
• Fixed issue where ‘Kill players in Static Dungeons’ missions would count kills in the Caerleon Passageway
• Fixed issue where consuming Tomes of Insight or Fishes would incorrectly progress Journal missions related to gaining Fame
• Fixed issue where some Journal missions that had their conditions changed would no longer progress or register as completed
• Fixed issue where some Dryad Guardians in certain biomes did not count towards ‘Harvest resources from Ancient Resource Mobs’ missions

• Limitbreaker (Infinity Blade): fixed issue where the second attack would deal less damage than intended
• Triple Kick (War Gloves): fixed issue where players with immunity to Forced Movement effects could be pulled
• Harpoon (all Spears): fixed issue with targets not reliably being hit at max range
• Fixed tooltips for Deathward Climax (Boltcasters), Separator (all Quarterstaffs), Lucent Hawk (Mistpiercer), and Premonition (Boots of Valor)
• Fixed issue where some tooltips displayed incorrect defense reduction stats

• Fixed issue where the enchantment level for potions could not be selected when creating a Buy Order through the Marketplace
• [MOBILE] Improved active state behavior of party, quest and journal HUD elements
  • Fixed issue where the active selection would change when changing regions

• Fixed issue where the Embalmed Tiger skin could not be traded on the Marketplace after its non-tradable period expired
• Fixed issue where players would not encounter the intended Roaming Mobs when Tracking in the Roads of Avalon
• Fixed rare issue where players could lose all buffs if disconnected while changing regions
• Fixed issue where players could be dismounted after collecting Silver with auto-pickup enabled
• Various additional graphical, animation, terrain, audio, UI, and localization fixes

How to Earn Seasonal Referral Rewards

• Send your referral link, which you can find here, to a friend. (You must be logged into your account on the website to view this page.)
• Your friend registers an account and starts playing Albion Online (preferably along with you!).
• The first time your friend purchases at least 30 days of Premium, they will trigger a reward for you.
• On top of that, for your very first referral ever, you'll receive a T8 Recruiter's Pile of Tomes, worth a massive 200,000 Fame.

Mighty Mules and Heretic Decor

After Paths to Glory

• Rebalancing the Roads of Avalon has led to a marked increase in both PvP and PvE activity there
• The next update will aim to achieve a similar effect for the open world
• The goals are:
  • Increased attractiveness to solo players
  • More rewarding mid-sized group content
  • Increased activity in the inner-Outlands
  • More challenging and rewarding PvE

Open World Developments

• New PvE objectives for solo players
• New mechanics to help solo players journey deeper into the Outlands
  • This will reduce the risk of ganking near Portal Cities
• PvE rewards and difficulty in the inner-Outlands which scale by region quality
  • This should draw competition away from Portal Cities and into the inner-Outlands
• Increased rewards for group Randomized Dungeons
• Rebalanced mobs in the open world and Randomized Dungeons
  • Higher-tier mobs will become more challenging and more rewarding
  • This should bring high-end PvE back to the open world
• Some Tier 5 and Tier 6 content introduced to blue and yellow zones, respectively
  • This will expand the content available to new players before entering full-loot PvP zones

Further Improvements

• Two new categories in the Albion Journal
• A more customizable HUD
• Savable settings presets for quick hotkey adjustments
• Inventory management improvements
• The next batch of Crystal Weapons
• Enhanced rendering performance
• Strengthened cheat protection

• Albion Asia: August 24, 14:00 UTC
• Albion Europe: August 24, 18:00 UTC
• Albion Americas: August 25, 01:00 UTC

Paths to Glory Patch 2 - Version 26.020.1 - August 21, 2024

This patch is intended to fine-tune some of the changes introduced in the Paths to Glory update, refining the overall game dynamics and addressing community feedback.

Mob Changes

• Avalonian Crystal Basilisk no longer regenerates health after the second phase has been triggered
• Reduced health regeneration amounts for all elite and high-tier veteran mobs:
  • Tier 7 Veteran: 72 → 61
  • Tier 8 Veteran: 109 → 76
  • Tier 4 Elite: 111 → 83
  • Tier 5 Elite: 137 → 103
  • Tier 6 Elite: 167 → 125
  • Tier 7 Elite: 241 → 154
  • Tier 8 Elite: 363 → 190
• Mobs no longer regenerate health while invincible

• Demonic Harbinger:
  • Forceful Swing damage per tick: 350 → 250
  • Reckless Swing damage per tick: 400 → 300
  • Raging Onslaught cast time: 1.35s → 1.5s
  • Unrelenting Slaughter cast time: 0.65s → 0.75s
• Elite Earthkeeper Axe-Thrower:
  • Stun duration no longers scales with mob’s ability power or player’s crowd control resistance
• Respawn chances for T6+ resources and resource mobs affected by Dynamic Spawn Rates have been increased by up to 10%

Other Changes and Improvements

• Defeat 30 Roaming Mob Mini Bosses
  • Elder's Bag of Silver → Master's Tome of Insight
• Gain 3 million Fame from Roaming Mobs
  • Elder's Bag of Silver → Grandmaster's Tome of Insight
• Gain 10 million Fame from Roaming Mobs
  • 5 Elder's Bags of Silver → Elder's Tome of Insight
• Gain 30 million Fame from Roaming Mobs
  • 10 Elder's Bags of Silver → 50 Community Tokens
• Gain 100 million Fame from Roaming Mobs
  • 25 Elder's Bags of Silver → 15 Elder's Bags of Silver
• Kill 1000 Champions in Static Dungeons
  • 5 Elder's Bags of Silver → Elder's Tome of Insight
• Gain 3,000,000 fame in the Roads
  • Elder's Bag of Silver → Grandmaster's Tome of Insight
• Gain 10,000,000 fame in the Roads
  • 5 Elder's Bags of Silver → Elder's Tome of Insight
• Gain 30,000,000 fame in the Roads
  • 10 Elder's Bags of Silver → 50 Community Tokens
• Gain 100,000,000 fame in the Roads
  • 25 Elder's Bags of Silver → 15 Elder's Bags of Silver
• Kill 1000 Champions in Static Dungeons
  • 5 Elder's Tomes of Insight → 1 Elder's Tome of Insight

• 'Defeat 25 T3 Roaming Mobs' → 'Defeat 12 T3 Roaming Mobs'

• Travel Planner and Island Merchant UIs:
  • Now grouped in a two-level dropdown menu for easier navigation of multiple personal and guild islands
  • Icons now indicate the destination’s biome/attached city and type (city, portal, personal/guild island)
  • Clearly distinguishes between Own Islands, Favorites, and Other Islands for quicker access
• Guild UI:
  • Added functionality to copy guild member list as TSV
• Claiming a reward from the Albion Journal now automatically opens the Inventory
• Dropdowns with submenus now have arrow symbols

• System-generated soup, salad, and mules have been removed from Marketplaces on Albion Europe
• Added Guild Logos for Albion Europe Beta Season winners

Combat Balance Changes

• Enigma Blade (all Arcane Staffs)
  • Damage: 180 → 190:
• Frazzle (all Arcane Staffs)
  • Cast Time: 0.6s → 0.5s
  • Range: 13m → 15m

• Merciless Finish (Bridled Fury)
  • 0 Stack Damage: 68.3 → 75
  • 1 Stack Damage: 108.8 → 120
  • 2 Stack Damage: 163.3 → 180
  • 3 Stack Damage: 216.6 → 238

• Frost Bomb (all Frost Staffs)
  • Initial Area Slow: 20% → 30%

• Powerful Swing (all Hammers)
  • Damage: 94 → 113
  • Bonus damage to crowd-controlled enemies: 48 → 56
• Seismic Tremor (all Hammers):
  • 1st and 2nd Hit Damage: 70 → 80
  • 3rd Hit Damage: 140 → 160

• Generous Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  • Cast Time: 0.6s → 0.5s
  • Range: 14m → 15m

• Fireflash Orb (Hellspawn Staff)
  • Initial Damage: 150 → 120
    • Every 0.6s the projectile travels, damage increases by 30, up to a maximum of 240
  • Recast Damage: 220 → 150
• Seedling's Bloom (Rootbound Staff)
  • Empowered Bloom Healing Received: 20% → 10%
• Barbed Roots (Rootbound Staff)
  • Shield: 150 → 175

• Blind Spot (Shoes of Tenacity)
  • Caster is no longer invisible to mobs, but only to other players
  • Buff duration: 1s → 1.5s
  • Movespeed: 20% → 60%

Fixes

• Fixed issue where ‘Defeat Roaming Mobs’ missions would incorrectly count certain other mobs
• Fixed issue where ‘Find Hidden Treasures’ missions would not count those found by party members
• Fixed issue where the ‘Rescue 50 Wisps in Greater Mists’ mission would not count those rescued by party members
• Fixed issue where the mission ‘Defeat another player after invading their Corrupted Dungeon’ could not be completed in Hunter difficulty
• Fixed issue where the mission ‘Win a 5v5 Crystal League Match’ could be completed by winning a 20v20 Crystal League Match
• Fixed issue where the mission ‘Win a 20v20 Crystal League Match’ required a Level 1 match, rather than any level
• Fixed issue where the mission 'Use a crafting bonus in a Hideout' could be completed by acquiring items from the Energy Manipulator in a Hideout
• Fixed issue where untracking a mission in the summary would cause the UI to scroll to the top

• Fixed issue where using Community Tokens to craft an item at the Vanity Merchant would default to the maximum number of items
• Fixed issue where Territory Control Cost tooltip on region map would incorrectly display zero
• Fixed issue where Albion Journal achievement popups could be hidden by other UI elements
• Fixed issue where a two-handed Vanity Item could not be equipped if the off-hand slot was already occupied
• [MOBILE] Fixed issue where region map would sometimes appear pink

• Fixed issue where a stray Blue Zone Randomized Dungeon would appear in the Roads of Avalon
• Fixed issue where Siege Banners could not be raised against a territory that had already been raided
• Various additional graphical, animation, terrain, audio, UI, and localization fixes