Crafting in Albion is important because literally every single item, every single drop in the game is crafted by players. Next time you loot an item click on it and you'll see it was crafted by a player. It's done through the Black Market system in Caerleon, you sell your crafted items to the Black Market and it is then used as drops from mobs. A really unique and intuitive way to balance an ingame economy imo.

"I haven't had fun in years." As an MMO enjoyer that truth hurts lmfao

To answer your question about crafting in Albion, it does make a load of money for a small minority. If no one crafted, the crafting would make you tons of money. This is because of the city you mentioned at the end, Caerleon. There is something called the Black Market here. The Black Market is similar to the Auction house/GE that most people would be used to. But instead of another player buying the Two-Handed Axe you are selling, the game buys it. Then the game takes your Axe and puts it into the loot pool for the reward chests that you open in PVE or PVP content. This is because nearly every item in the game you interact with (with the exception of crafting materials and things like experience tomes), was crafted by a player and sold to the black market. So if everyone in the game stopped crafting and supplying the black market, the game would eventually run out of loot for dungeon rewards (and the Black Market buys things at the lowest offer that people post it for, so eventually it would start to offer two to three times the value of an item for someone to supply it). Moreover, gear is lost to other players on death in full loot PVP zones (red and black zones). There is a chance that gear "trashes" and becomes completely worthless and unrepairable. So crafters make sure there is a balance in the system of the loot supplied to PVE-ers and the money that the game provides for crafted gear.

I love how you're slowly but surely transitioning into silly zoomer Josh Strife Hayes

I’m so glad I found Albion. It is actually an MMO and not a single player game disguised as an MMO.

as an eveonline veteran, what I feel is that: Albion is eve in fantasy land. LOL

Idyl strife hayes

You're like the modern blues clues of mmo youtube and I'm here for it

So basically Red Zones are scary for crafters/transporters but not scary for solo player Theres Black Zone for that that you missed, its a outland map thats around 3x bigger than the royal continent and where most of the contents/guild contents rest

“Oh no, I don’t think-“ (I don’t comment much but I love your videos, and wanted you to know you have fans watching them all the way through! Keep up the good work!)

I played for 500+ hours and left because of monetisation changes. They heavily increased the premium prices per month to something that's too much.

albion is a great game, but the reasons it isnt big is a few things right. full loot deaths scare casuals away, and zerg pvp controlled areas scare people away. if you have mechanics like that in a game its bound to never have a truly masive audience, but it is one of the few mmos around that still has a steady playerbase, i dont think that game needs any help and i dont think ppl arent aware of it existing

I'm a vet in this game. This is the best MMORPG for people who like playing with others and for people who like pvp. The economy is 100% player driven. 99% of all items are crafted by players. All the mob drop items besides stones ARE crafted by players through the Blackmarket system. Large groups of players have debuffs in stats to balance PVP. There are only 3 servers, no channels. The game is the most alive MMO ever because of that decision. You can play with ANY quantity of friends: 1, 2,3,4,5,20,30,50, you name it. There is content for any group size. There are NO classes, you can play a HUGE number of combinations, and EVERYTHING you level is worth leveling since it powers upthe other branch weapons of the same tree. Having a guild feels amazing, the content you are able to participate is immense. There are all sorts of RISK REWARD mechanics in Albion. It is a full loot game, the higher the risk the higher the rewards. I've started on the new server (EU) in the blackzone. Dont be afraid of dying. Dying and losing everything in your equipment and bag is normal and thats why people buy cheap sets. And thats also why as a new player you can have a good experience. It is rare for people to go full maxed out to pvp zones, so you are not facing an Immortal being camping on you. All systems are meticously thought out, the timers to avoid spawn killing, the invisibility potion you can take to go to pvp zones to get away from spawn, the dismount cooldowns, the mount's health, the anti cc gear, the cc gear... Everything is polished. The coolest thing for me is going roads of Avalon wich limits groups to average 7 player count, with my discord friends and having small fights for the sweet sweet loot from players and the insane XP this zone provides!

This game is fun until you get to higher tiers of stuff and realize the gameplay loop only exists to fuel PVP and the PVE at endgame is non-existant.

As a guy who usually shaves, i decided i would see how long i could go without shaving, and without the ability to grow a beard i basically look like you Idyl and it gives me great joy to see that others embrace their shitty beards.

Great video man, really had a blast watching it. I must say if you join a guild the layer of depth in the game tenfold, all the group content, guild dynamics and drama is pretty fun and also helps to keep the game engaging. One of my best memories in this game is playing in a small guild fighting to place a hideout in the black zone and claim our right to live there. It is true that the only lore this game has is the one that the players themselves create, and i think that is pretty dope.

Commenting now as I add this to my watch later list so I can see if my assumptions hold up. I'm gonna guess he's in the phase most people who like Albion go through where the PvE has yet to become dry and he hasn't been funneled into the endless loop of getting ganked by sweats using recon bots in the BZ.

I’m so happy seeing this channel growing steadily. Idk how you edit and script but as someone who’s trying to do the KZfaq stuff too (on a different account) it definitely makes me curious. Your humor and niche resonate with me and I am taking notes

Always been interested in albion maybe ill give ut a go now. Also please make a runelite plugin that plays Nigel Thornberry saying "smashing" when you use a dragon pickaxe spec

This man said, "i tried it out as a tank with a battle axe." Lmfao

I have been playing AO for about a year and a half, I love the game, and you did a great job describing it, and yes, once your spec is high enough in crafting you can make good money, you also get higher yield in gathering as you spec up gathering.

So, the crafting system is how the drops are generated. Any time you get an item from a chest in a dungeon or where ever. The game buys items from players from a special market. (It's a little more complicated than that but that's the basics)

I’m not even lying I saw the tire v dagger earlier

its not an regular mmo its a PVPmmo with tiny microscopic pve in it and i even bought into the beta and never played it since it was entirely like eve online where you lose everything on death. Just not fun in my opinion, but the graphic styles does look nice still

Crafting items is really helpful when u get to T8. You can craft your item with max enchantment which u can not buy in the market. Oh and if you can craft a max enchantment gear you can attune them to add unique stats based on your playstyle.

I used to play Albion with some online friends. Outside of guildwide dungeon/ZvZ content, they all did *one* thing. They gathered, refined, crafted, farmed, OR did pvp- never more than a couple of these. Me? I tried to do everything, with varying levels of success. I actually got to T8 herb farming, maxed out a few fire and healing staves, crafted some T7 gear. But for the Idea of being-self sufficient? No, I would NOT recommend that ideal.

Healing is probably my favorite aspect of Albion, it's also one of the few mmos where I found healing to be enjoyable and rewarding.

I miss ~2014 EvE Online. Best sandbox MMO experience I've ever had.

Idyl bro you're funny as shit. Great content as always just wanted to tell you almost every single bit you do actually makes me laugh out loud or at the very least exhale air more quickly from my nostrils.

I was kind of interested in the Albion Online from this video, until the point where it talks about the cash shop, i was like "holy shit, that's a lot of stuff you can buy, i'm out of here".

bro injected so much humor into this video, deserves more subs

Got a bit burned from OSRS and tried a bit of Albion. It's fun at the start but the novelty wears off quickly. If you want to try out this game and do some pvm/pve, don't do it, this game it's focussed around pvp. Probably the best way to enjoy Albion is to play it with a group of friends or guild(with other people that want to do pvp). It's not a very good game to play as a solo player. Generally I want a world that feels lively(other players around) but want to play mostly solo. It's a sandbox pvp mmo, and most of my negative feedback has to do with me looking for a different type of game. So here we go: Once you've done a couple of dungeons, you have seem them all. There are limited amount of mob types. The map is not special, it's a just a bunch of squares linked togheter with no remarkable points of interest. You don't get the wow-factor that you get with other mmos when you discover a new big city. Speaking of cities in Albion, apart from aesthetics and crafting/refining bonusses they all feel like carbon-copies of eachother. Speaking of crafting/refining/gathering, if you don't have premium don't even bother, it will just result in losses. There is no point without premium. You can do stuff like the mists, so you don't encounter large groups. But you will encounter people with double your IP there, and even if you play it perfectly you will still lose because the other person out-gears you. Don't come in and expect it be a competitve environment with a level playing field. Don't come in and expect quests, meanining full gathering/craftging, pve. Only play this game if you like the combat system and like pvp.

two things that will turn me away from an mmo: 1. dailies/weeklies that are required to progress 2. to play effiencent you need to play multiple classes and do said dailies on them 1 part 2. bosses that you can only kill a limited number of times per day/week

I like the player driven economy in this game, but too many bots took over blue and yellow zones. It's very hard for new players to make enough silver to buy premium.

binging this channel rn despite my very limited mmorpg experience... your attitude and video style is not only very entertaining and charming but its addicting and making me wanna get back into mmorpg stuff reeeeeeaal bad despite my lack of money or time to do so. super good content

5:54 I see even the President of MMOs is not immune to gamer rage

I played quite a bit of albion (around 250 hours). For me too much focus on open world pvp which is almost always unfair, it makes some experiences especially rewarding, but most of the time will leave you salty after you losing everything over and over again to a bunch of gankers

This man seems like he's losing his mind and it's beautiful. Loving the direction your channel is going - as a osrs only player.

24:28 noo, you joined at the Martlock Faction, after all the resources that Bridgwatch gave you they even showed you how is the batle at 23:13😭😭

Used to play albion for a few years and was a crafter/zerg player in the black zone for a medium sized guild... I used to maintain 6 accounts with 3 characters each all with premium just with the crafting(did not spend a cent for premium just for cosmetics)... what I did was buy and transport stuff in all the cities and would mainly craft meta items for Zerg vs Zerg(ZVZ) in all the cities and eventually got tired of it as was basically doing it like a job... the best and worst part for me was the ZVZ in the game.

Okay a player here with over 10.000+ hours in albion online (ex-player tbh). The game starts off great thats 100% true, looking back that was my best time it. To get your first cow mount, to get the first few hundred K silver, get your island and your crops going etc. But then it just gets worse and worse and worse. You cant play solo (if you looking for solo game, just look elsewhere), you are forced to cooperate with all kinds of stupid people or people who simply seeking their own gain and leave you to die. But lets say you get lucky and you find your second family over there. You are still going to be grinded down between two wheels. 1. You will be a small spec of dust with no power: You (your guild) dont own any high tier black zones, you dont own any safe land where you can safely farm up from high tier resources / dungeons etc; you will have absolutely no money or you will have to work for the same amount of money 10x more, and you will feed the big guys guilds with your corpses and loots day by day. 2. You will be a small spec of dust with almost no power: You (your guild) does own a high tier black zone, or own hideouts in influental zones. Now you can run around the high tier zone, watch how every resource is already farmed out, or being farmed out by your "teammates". If you get lucky or just have a ton of time, you can eventually find some high tier resources and farm them, trying to dodge rival guilds ganking squads to make it back to the HO, thinking to yourself that "ohh boy, this is nothing... you have to transport it all the way back to the main cities and how hard that will be". Ofc being part of the guild has its benefits as i described, but has its downsides: you have to go to CTA every day/multiple days a week. That means maxing out specs that you dont want for the team (like a job) and then come up multiple times a week to defend those aforementioned high tier zones from the enemy guild. How does this looks like? Well you wil have to follow your shotcaller that means running around in a zerg with 2fps around multiple black zones until you find the enemies (this can take hours) or the enemies decide to attack. Then you will be probably dead in the first few second or if you are lucky you can do that for 2+ more hours.

Just here to say as a near two year player of this game if your new save your learning points for gathering!

The crafting system in Albion is pretty much the backbone of the game. The items crafted by players are used to keep the games economy going and through caerleon's black market they become loot drops for mobs. Some servers like EU servers who dont have, for example, players with islands to craft mounts like the riding horse that server is out of luck and their markets or mobs won't be able to feed the need. This also means that prices fluctuate in a way that is very closeley similar to our real world economic systems. Its really just incredible.

You should review every mmorpg like that. Or atleast the ones that are popular or have high active player count.

ok ok I have a F ton of hours in albion and u want to know the reason why I still play this game? PROGRESSION. This game does prgression REALLY well and it stimulates my ADHD brain knowing I am improving all the time.

advice for new players: don't gather or craft, get some silver from yellow zones, use that silver to go the red or black zones (mists are good), focus on one weapon at a time, save up for premium (then you can gather and craft bcs it saves a lot of time), AAAND only use learning points on gathering

0:51 at this point you should just go full Jimmy mcGill and replace the greenscreen with a bunch of fake cardboard columns in the background 😂

Now Albion Online has a new class, the shapeshifter, Where you can transform into mythical creatures with the magic staff

in FFXIV you actually can start from desert funny enough if you choose Ul'dah as ur choise from 3 starting areas! So some MMO start with desertt!!

I have been looking for a sandbox mmo because runesscape UI for me a new player is unbearable so thank you for this

damn dude the seinfield part *chefs kiss*

so also it didnt seem like you touched on the market enough which is completely player driven as well as drops from dungeons, everthing on the market was either crafted or gathered by another player, as well as any gear drops dungeons, which come through the black market in the center city. So gathering and crafting fuels pvp as well as the economy as a whole.

So; TL;DR: - which skills you are leveling depends on what you are using to level - the skill tree is immense, but it's actually a merged overview of RS's many skill menu's - equipment tier system is similar to Minecraft's pickaxe system - combat is simplified RS3 combat oh no... I don't, think

if we could get a short mini series of you doing gameplay commentary that would be amazing

i didnt realize that a video yelling "Speak to your computer screen!" would actually make me say something, gj

If you are the president of MMORPGs, why don't you dress like it? You've gotta step up your outfits, Josh Strife Hayes style.

Albion is like a 4/10 it is definitely not the best MMORPG lol. I've played better mobile games than Albion. Funny video though love your content Idyl.

You’re giving me Lucy from Big Bang Theory energy and I’m here for it

Faction chat sounds awesome. I'm sold!

This game would've been very good if it weren't for one big mistake: mobile compatibility. Back in 2017 when they decided the game had to be mobile compatible I knew it wouldn't be as good as it could.

Albion Online started off very strong for me. crafting actually felt useful unlike other MMOs. I hit a massive roadblock going from T3 to T4 (i think at least, not loggin into the game to check lol) as crafting just became such a slog it was no longer fun. I don't mind grinds (hell im doing mlm on OSRS as i type this) but such a crafting heavy game shouldnt have shared resources. That and knowing for every resource I collected i was at a disadvantage because i wasnt a premium member (small benefits sure but still a benefit). That and learning everything basically lead into PVP. Want to do the best PVE stuff?? Well good luck as its in a PVP zone which is NOT optional PVP. Those just really killed my enjoyment of the game.

I was way too stoned for 8:20

"This progression system probably looks confusing" PoE players: "this feels like home"

i remember getting banned from an guild intern pvp tournament because i had a poison dot/self heal dot build where i gave my enemy dots and went invisible or used the stonecutter boots to run away lmao

I played Albion cause my buddy said “hey, play this game with me” and proceeded to abandon me after one session. Over all it’s interesting enough to keep the dedicated base invested, but I don’t like the dailies or lack of concrete progression/unlocks. I bought an island and farmed animals for a couple weeks, completed a corrupted dungeon a night, and promptly forgot it existed until you brought it up. The best part for me is how reminiscent the combat is of early league of legends, but that’s also a downside because it requires much more attention than I’m willing to give an mmo on a consistent basis. Thanks for shedding light on this coolio game idyl

The way the combat system of Albion Online works is similar to moba combat system (which also my style of gameplay), which is why most moba players play this mmo game. But other than that, its "tier list" tier is alongside FF14, ESO, WoW, Warframe, Old School Runescape, EVE Online, and Black Desert Online, however, this tier still won't get into the higher tier that "Guild Wars 2" sitting for (I supposed to include Old School Runescape if it wasn't for its outdated combat type known as "tab targetting" 😅) specially its everything it had Edit: Anyway, can you please also try Guild Wars 2? If already made a video about this game, please give the video link

I'd love to see him redo this review now that the Journal has been added. It has to be the best update for new players in years, possibly ever.

Part of the reason for the crafting grind is the upgrading of already existing gear. There is a merchant in the towns that lets you roll for a bonus to items that you give him, usually ur already equipped gear, and u can make ur items more powerful without needing to craft higher tier gear. BUT u have to bring him the raw materials for this. This is basically a flat bonus to things like damage, cast time and attack speed

When I played Albion years ago it was incredibly pay-to-win, but in the sense that you had to pay in order to win. No amount of grinding was enough.

Lol the /suicide part is so funny bro,, why the fack you doin at the rooftop 😂

OH NO. HE USES HIS LEARNING POINTS FOR COMBAT LEVELING. GG

Albion is not for everybody. You barelly scraped surface. It's a high demanding pvp game or pve with pvp involved. Basially Imagine you had only wilderness in osrs. Yeah you have blue/yellow/red areas where's there's limited pvp but it takes week or so to geow past that. Majority of time from mid to end game content are black zones with full drop enabled. If you want to do pve there, be on the look out for gangers. It's awesome for people who loves pvp, or like being on somewhat on edge durring pve. But most fun comes from group activities and fights. Stakes are high, therefore more fun to win.

Albion deserves so much more respect than it gets

didnt even get his q or r at the start lol

Albion crafting system is such that you only make money if you use focus and fill journals while crafting, otherwise you will at best break even. Aside from having to have premium to really use focus, I actually like how it works because it forces you to specialize on just one crafting type, but one specific thing like if you do cooking, you will use your focus more efficiently if you max out specifically pies, then it’s like yeah you’re the pie guy in your city and every day you got your eyes on what pies are selling for, it’s like a stock market mini game.

Having a lot of experience with many mmo's and their history.. the reason nobody is playing it is because most people know this one won't last. You should especially be warry of free to play mmo's in general. I don't know of any one that is actually good and that lasted. It might be good now, but as you know, an mmo is a time investment, and this one will make you regret that in 1-2 years from now.

No, this game is terrible. You can literally get banned for pvping against their protected class of streamers.

5.50 casually swearing 😂😂😂

the big boob cat girl joke got me lol

I'd be a lot more into Albion, if it actually had EU -server, cause the high ping in NA and especially Asia make PvP really hard.

Trick is keep your learning points for gathering levels

Unfortunately that's just another video about positive aspects of Albion Online begining experience. Which literrally dries up after 100 hours of gameplay. Later you just find toxic ganking enviroment, elitist guilds, no way to realistically catch up. Pay to win gold buyers, RMT in way of guild buying each other etc.

Albion is about keeping a high number of new players coming into the game so that they can be devoured by people who've played the game for years. Mega Guilds control all of the Black Zones and are constantly on the look out for gatherers. There's not really a way to dislodge these people because servers never reset. It is too much like the real world for my liking--but to each their own.

I love how niche you’re community is, but goddamn are you an underappreciated content creator. Keep up the good work!

12:33 whoa that was a close one, almost had a complete existential thought!

Imagine if this guy was in The Office this guy's sense of humor is just insanely funny

5:54 that F Bomb tho.

Guilds are also a huge part of the game. A good guild will give you hours of fun game play.

i gave this game a chance about 3 weeks ago. i'm still having fun with the grind. what a surprise.

I’ll say it - this dude is funny.

5:56 Idyl going hard in the chat suddenly, chill bro! Who hurt you?

i umh i like how the letters infront of the names look like breaking bad

My biggest question here is: Was the Baby Idyl story real? 😂

You had me at "demon fang". I will not explain myself

5:57 no ones gonna comment he say FU in global chat wahahahaa

as someone who has been playing albion for around 3 years now, albion is great on the surface but once you start diving a bit deeper, with devs having favoritism to certain RMTers, the black zone politics, how much they hate solo players in open world and make it near impossible to solo gank. Not every weapon is actually viable to use. TLDR it gets worse the better you get, also SBI artificially inflated the gold market which is supposed to ONLY be player run

This feels like a very J1mmy-inspired video editing style, and I love that.

As a OSRS (3yr) player that moved to Albion it was funny watching your vid. I know exactly how your transition was. Albion has it all, worse camera movement, jankyer traversal, boring grinds, more pay-2-lose. The faction warfare discords are hella fun. And the guild structure is more meaningful than OSRS. And the best thing, no questing and spacebar pounding......

I got an ad for Albion watching this, like im already watching a really long ad you dont need to give me another one

despite the apparently crazy cost in silver for premium, once you have premium you can actually relatively easily earn enough gold to buy premium each month through farming and crafting, so essentially premium becomes free by just playing. so my recomendation is do FTP for the first couple of months to get a good sense of the systems, then get premium for one month, and then you should be sailing free after that. Also, the whole "player based economy" is awesome. Albion is basically EvE online in a fantasy setting.