Sandbox MMORPG Albion Online is gearing up for the launch of its Rise of Avalon update which now has a release date slated for Wednesday, August 12.
Albion Online’s Rise of Avalon update will bring quite a few significant additions to the MMORPG’s world, its main additions being the Roads and Wilderness of Avalon.
The Roads of Avalon can be entered using gateways found in the world, being particularly useful for traversing long distances, regardless if you’re “traveling, transporting items, or launching (or escaping) attacks”. The Roads also offer smaller guilds the option of placing down Hideouts away from their larger cousins.
Albion Online's Rise of Avalon Update Release Date
Situated outside the Roads, the Wilderness of Avalon “offers a whole new realm to explore, with treasures, resource sites, and new creatures to conquer” when the Rise of Avalon update’s release date comes around.
Players seeking to venture alone into dungeons also get something in Albion Online’s next update with the addition of Corrupted Dungeons.
Players will be able to engage in solo PvE battles “in a fiery realm populated with demons, traps, and corrupted beings” or invade other players’ dungeons and face off in 1v1 PvP combat.
The Rise of Avalon update also introduces a set of fifteen new Avalonian weapons and three offhand items.
To craft these, you’ll need to loot Avalonian Shards from the new Avalonian mobs and use them to craft a new type of artifact. Three of the weapons were previewed, for an early taste of how they’ll slot in next to the MMORPGs existing arsenal:
- Lucent Hawk (Bow): shoot up to four high-impact, long-range skillshots in a row
- Majestic Smash (Two-Handed Sword): knock all enemies around you into the air, then follow with a heavy vertical attack
- Soul Link (Nature Staff): temporarily link two targets together, with effects based on targets' alignments relative to the caster
Albion Online’s UI is also getting a number of quality of life improvements in August which include:
- Reworked and improved In-Match Scoreboard for Arena, Crystal League, and City Fights
- Major UIs now show the estimated Market Value in Silver for items
- Added optional numeric cooldown display to spell timers
- Clicking a player-owned building on a cluster map now shows all buildings of that type in the cluster
- Reworked item and spell icons </ul>
Albion Online's Rise of Avalon update will also overhaul the Destiny Board's PvE progression. Players will have more control over how their progress with the introduction of the Satchels of Insight, new items whose role is to reduce how much Silver is earned through PvE while enabling faster Fame progression.
You can get all the details about the Rise of Avalon update ahead of its August release date by visiting its dedicated page on the Albion Online website.
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