Perfume Removed From Allods Online

In Today's patch Allods Online removed Perfume.  Unfortunately it was replaced with Incense.

Does Allods Online Need A Third Faction?

Will Allods Online face the same problem as Warhammer Online by only having two factions?  How do you keep the populations balanced? 

I have been seeing more, and more League ragequitting over the population imbalance. Is it really an imbalance, or is Empire just better organized, and better players?  Are League just quitters, and not banding together to fight back?

Is a third faction needed, or is there a better way to fix the problem before it gets way out of hand? I saw how in Warhammer Online on the Dark Crag server how Order domination eventually killed the server. I still read how usually one faction still mostly dominates the other even with the underdog system on the remaining servers.

Does being able to have a character on both factions on the same server play into jumping on the winning side?

Why do MMORPG's keep coming out with only two factions? Why has Warcraft never had these problems with just Alliance, and Horde?

I Miss Ruin From Warhammer

I miss my old guild Ruin from Warhammer.  Why is it that this guild has made such an impact on me?

I have no desire to play World of Warcraft with them. I just can't stand the game any longer.

I just miss everyone in Ventrilo. Yes, we were a zerg guild, but we had fun. We made friendships, and lots of them. I don't believe for one second that in a zerg guild you are just a number.

If you spoke up in Ventrilo than you probably made a lasting impression with me. I still feel like everyone is my friends.

I logged into their Ventrilo for the first time in months. You know what happened? I was greeted immediately. Everyone actually missed me, and to tell you the truth I missed them.

It was just like old times of joking around, and having fun. I really wish I could get into Warcraft again, but it will never happen just so I could play with them again.

How can I get this same feeling in a guild in Allods Online, or should I try to make a Ruin branch?

Joining A New Guild In Allods Online

Yesterday I joined a new guild in Allods Online.  I basically was just asking around in zone chat, and someone invited me.

At first I thought it was going to be good. I get into guild information, and look for a website, or ventrilo information. I see nothing listed.

I see the roster is pretty active with 20+ characters, but I just can't see how any guild can operate these days without vent. When I asked about it they said they didn't want to hear a bunch of 12 year old school boys because that is all that plays free to play games like Allods Online.

How can you pvp, or even pve without vent? I left the guild. Would you join a guild without vent in Allods Online, or any MMORPG?

Cash Shop Additions Allods Online

I keep saying how much I love Allods Online. Every day they do something that simply amazes me it seems.

How can you complain about them adding Water of Life, and Water of Death to remove talents, and rubies to the cash shop? How about the new blue Dragonhide Backpack with 30 slots. Can you believe it? It is even less than the other backpack originally was. They even added a blue bank deposit box that expands to 48 slots.

How can you not love what Allods Online is doing to this game? They are the first game I have seen that really listens, and cares about their players.  I think the Allods Online Cash shop is proving that a free to play mmorpg can be successful.

Allods Online Gripe Of The Week

My gripe this week about Allods Online is the abandoned guild I am still in.  I am having issues with myself about it.  Should I just take it over, or join another guild?

Currently I am in the guild Domination. Basically everyone has left, but I am still wearing the guild tag along with just a few others.

On one hand I feel like taking over as guild leader, and actively recruiting. I just have limited playing time still for another month or two.

I would join another guild, but I see zero advertising. I sometimes wonder if the population dropped off that much, or everyone is running solo.

Things may change once the patch hits, and guild tags are visible.  I guess it's just a waiting game.

Allods Online Really Listens To Players

I keep loving Allods Online more, and more.  You have to love a MMORPG where you can vote on changes you want to see happen.

It sounds like Fear of Death may go away in Russia which means more than likely it will here in NA too.

Should they make some other death penalty though?  If Fear of Death is removed what kind of penalty would you like to see added?

Bounty Hunting in Allods Online

Today there is another GM event to hunt down, and collect a bounty by killing the GM's. It is happening in the Holy Lands today at 4pm, and 5pm.

World Champion Coffin Carrier Allods Online

I think I should be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for the amount of coffin runs I did tonight.

The reputation quest in ZIT is the most annoying so far. I had to carry coffins to three crypts across the zone about twenty times. I know it has to be a world record for the amount of coffins carried.

Anyone know how I contact Guinness?

LFG Allods Online

No, I am not looking for a group. I am looking for Guild Tags on players. I am finding it annoying to not know what guilds players are in.

Is it something that eventually will be patched in, or is it at the bottom of Allods Online list of things to do? I have looked high and low thinking that maybe I have a setting wrong, but I haven't seen anything.

Is it annoying to you to not see a players guild tag?

Allods Online Cool Stuff

Today I completed a quest in Allods Online that I thought was pretty cool.  I guess sometimes it doesn't take much to entertain me.

I Love Allods Online GM Events

I really think Allods Online is doing the things that players love.  All of the MMORPG's I have played the last few years have had no GM sponsored events.  Today Allods posted an event to fight the devs five man team in the Arena for the Goblinball Challenge.

How exciting is it to actually fight against the devs who made the game?  How many people do you think are going to show up, and watch it?  I think this shows how much they care about the Allods Online community.  This is what makes this game so great.

Allods Online Gripe Of The Week

The gripe of the week is a new feature I am going to do on Friday.  This week my gripe is about Allods Online since that is the game I am spending the most time in.

The first thing I am going to gripe about is the quest clarity.  Is it due to translation issues, or are they really that poorly worded?  It seems I have run across many quests that really don't even make it clear what you are supposed to do.  Most of the time I just start killing things in the area, or try using things that appeared in my quest bag.

My second gripe this week about Allods Online is also related to questing.   Some quests require you to target mobs after they are dead.  The first example are the spiders in ZIT.  You have to mummify them once they are dead.  I have two different issues with it.  The corpse can't be targetted even though it seems the mob is standing directly in front of you, and the corpse disappears faster than your mummifying casting bar takes.  These spiders cast a web on you when they are close to dying.  If you are a caster you have to wait for it to wear off before you can get close enough to the corpse, and by that time it's to late.

Summary:

Make quests easier to understand the objectives, and please increase the time a corpse lays on the ground if so many quests require additional objectives once mobs are dead.

Where Did The Guild Recruitment Spam Go In Allods Online?

The first few days the guild recruitment spam in Allods Online was everywhere.  I was trying to decipher it all, and make a decision.  I never see any guild recruitment spam in chat now.

Did everyone bail?  It seems like there are still tons of people running around so it doesn't make sense.  It even seems the guild recruitment threads on Allods Online forums are inactive too.

The guild I found last night ended up being a one night stand.  I thought we had a pretty good core started, and than I decide to log on to vent tonight.  The guild leader lays it on me two seconds later.  He, and a few others of the guild decided to reroll League, and abandon us.

I thought it was a pretty lame move on the guild leaders part.  I am now looking for a guild again since I don't think the one I am in will last now. 

High Five To Allods Online

Allods Online deserves a high five today.  They announced the new item shop prices, and I was simply amazed.  I really thought in the back of my mind they wouldn't reduce the prices as much as they did.

It is nice to see they actually listened to their players, and took all the feedback pretty seriously.  It makes me just want to go on a shopping spree tonight to show them my appreciation for everything they did.

On top of lowering the prices, they are refunding the difference to anyone who paid the crazy prices the last week.  This is going above, and beyond for customer service.  It is unbelievable.

Hopefully other companies look at Allods Online, and see how they turned a negative into a positive. 

Cruising Along in Allods Online

I think I have finally figured things out in Allods Online.  My xp is going pretty steady now.

I found a guild to join called Domination, and having a pretty good time.  I forgot how much fun it can be on vent.

I hit level 14 today, and hopefully one or two more levels tomorrow.  It feels pretty good to be in a guild with people around my level.

What level are you?

Allods Online Slimecrawler

Slimecrawler in Allods Online needs to die, and live in Purgatory forever.  The quest for some reason no matter what I do will not work.  I would love to take some salt, and watch it shrivel up and die a horrible death.

I finally had to abandon the quest.  I tried killing him near the pipe, in the water, away from the pipe, try to solidify before looting, grouping, and none of the above ever worked.  After killing Slimecrawler about ten times I decided to just abandon the quest.

It was a bit confusing because one part of the quest said to kill him near the pipe, and the other part said not to kill him by the pipe because it would clog the drain.  I am not sure if it was lost in translation or what. 

Were you able to complete the quest?

Free Storage in Allods Online

Would you like bottomless storage in Allods Online?  Why pay an outrageous amount on the cash shop?  This isn't the perfect solution, but it is definitely better than buying extra bank storage, or a backpack with an extra 6 slots for real life money on the cash shop.

Is the suspense killing you yet?

I use the auction house workaround.  I just put stuff on the auction house at gpotato pricing.  Once it expires it will stay in your mail for over 29 days.  It is like free storage except you do lose your small auction house deposit.  You never know someone might buy it too.

It won't work for when you are out questing, but when you do go in town it works great.

Dying Too Much In Allods Online

Today I was pretty frustrated playing Allods Online.  I am just level 10, and moved out of the city, and out to the next area.  I picked up all the available quests, and headed towards my first one in the new area.

This is when the frustration starting setting in.  I was finding it very difficult to kill mobs with my Mage.  I was either surviving with less than 100 health, or dying repeatedly.  It felt like I was spending more time in Purgatory than out leveling.

I could understand if I was attempting to kill mobs five levels above me, but to have close battles every time with even conned mobs just seemed insane.  I am a Mage, and I feel I should be doing enough damage to kill mobs quickly enough to not be getting hit repeatedly.

I know the Entropy is supposed to be somewhere around 70/30, but it seems the reverse.  Most of the time I die because it stopped me from casting, takes away health, or mana.  I rarely see the beneficial side where I gain health, mana, or faster casting times.  What good is faster casting times if it is just going to backfire, and kill you anyways?

It gets really dangerous because once your health gets low it feels like you are playing the lottery, or gambling.  You are too scared to use your best spells because if it backfires it means you will probably die.

It also makes leveling very, very slow.  I spend more time trying to regain health between mobs.  I would buy some food, or bandages but I can't seem to find any outside of the city.  It should be able to be bought at all the quest hubs.

I feel like right now that the only way to level up is to always team up with someone.  The faster you kill the least likely the mob will hit either one of you.

It just scares me to think that the next patch they want to increase the health of mobs, and the damage they do.  How am I going to even survive that?

Is anyone else feeling the same way, or am I doing something wrong?

Shutting Off Zone Chat in Allods Online

I was so happy when I learned how to shut off zone chat in Allods Online.  The gold spam was about to drive me to ragequit.  It was frustrating to not be able to read party chat, tells, or anything without it scrolling off the screen in milliseconds.

It is actually a real easy fix to remove zone chat.  In your chat window just right click on General.  You will see a checkbox to remove zone chat.  Just click on it to remove, and instantly you will get your sanity back.