Allods Online Forum

Ahh, Allods Online. My very first MMO that I got extremely involved in. How I loved my experience leveling and questing through the zones and gaining a 2nd family in the form of a guild. I have so many fond memories of the game and lately I've been feeling very nostalgic about it.

Version 1 of the game. The very first character I made, I made just before Gipat was released. My main was created just after. I could go on and on with memories and reminiscing about the "good old days." However, I won't for now. I'd love to relive them, but I don't think that's possible anymore.

I decided to make a fresh incarnation lately to level up through the zones, actually reading all the quest text this time (because I actually didn't before). I wanted to relive all the great memories, or at least just a romp through the old zones. However, it's not the same. The game is just so fundamentally different that I'm not really feeling it much.

I stopped playing sometime when the level cap was 55. I hated the gear upgrading system they introduced in whatever patch increased the level cap to 45, but it was bearable and I had my guild to be with. However, as time went on, more and more of what I loved about the game was removed and replaced with monotony and grind. I eventually fell out of the game and just accepted that it was no longer my game. It went too far in a direction that I didn't like and isn't coming back.

That's ok though. I can still just level up and reminisce in the old zones, right? Well, partially. I can't stand the new (please note, when I say "new" I mean new as in new to me, post-Cradle days) stats. Determination, Bloodlust, Brutatlity, Proficiency... They make all the gear feel homogenized. I get a quest reward and none of it is exciting. They don't increase, and each singular point offers nothing. The stats are just so boring, and the quest rewards lack any sort of life to them. I'd MUCH prefer the old system, with strength/intelligence, perception/faith, wisdom, expertise, finesse. It just felt more rewarding and lively.

The game also seems to still be extremely catering to whales. All I ever see in the news feeds are cash shop events and mandatory "meh" events like birthdays or class/profession/patron days. Do the mods ever have any real events anymore? Well, thankfully in my time of playing, I got enough cash shop stuff to still be competent, so as long as it doesn't get even more greedy, I should be fine on that end.

Lastly, I have no interest in endgame. I gave this game another legitimate try last year. I was having fun and enjoying myself, until I hit the endgame loop and found out it's even worse than I remembered and immediately quit. Too much grind makes the game feel like a chore and this game has long since passed that threshold for me.

I also feel sad when I see the state of the game. Like, all I ever see in Novo anymore are just a handful of endgame players who are glowing brightly with all sorts of cash shop items or elite gear. While I'm questing, I'm rarely seeing anyone. I know there was that "dungeon finder" thing added that speeds up leveling, but that just defeats the purpose I'm trying to do. It feels so sad to see all the zones so empty. It honestly feels like seeing an old playground that I used to love and frequent, now monetized so hard that it's practically empty.

I'll keep going periodically. Hopefully I'll run into some familiar faces to chat with, but I don't find it likely. If anyone sees this and would like to reminisce or remembers me, please let me know.

I apologize that this ended up turning into a rant. I just really want to relive some of that nostalgia, but it's very hard to when so much of the game just feels so different, mostly for the worse.

If you see me running around in-game, give me a whisper! I'll be toying around on either my main (Obeik) or leveling my nostalgia character (Quadrobe, who is ironically an engineer, which is a class that was new when I stopped). I might even try out my other incarnations.

I might give endgame another try, but unfortunately I'm very anti-pvp. I've always sucked at it and I've never enjoyed it. I've done it so much and just can't learn to like it. I'm a PvE only player.

The stats I'm still afraid of. They all seem so bland to me aside from the supremacy stat.

I'll just have to give them a try. So far, while leveling, I can honestly say I hate it. I feel my general overall power isn't being affected by my which stats I want to stack. I practically have to pull 6+ mobs to get my determination above 10%.

Also, what I meant when I say "bland" is that I feel like my decisions have no sway in my overall power. Whether I get a +60 to this or a +60 to that will make no noticeable difference. I've gotten to the point I no longer care and just take which quest reward has the most gold stars.

That's also another thing, but more of a personal thing, really. I prefer smaller numbers, because I like to feel boosts. I don't like how everything has static stats (green +60, blue +69 or so, etc) that don't scale, and 60 points in a stat makes almost no noticeable difference. I honestly feel (while leveling) the only stats that matter are Vigor and Stamina (as well as weapon and spell power obviously).

I'm sorry for sounding so pessimistic. I'm just relaying what I've felt so far. I'm also still in fear of endgame and just the general direction most of the game took. Everything seems to be either timed or you have to collect 100+ of unusable items to get it, and if there's any sort of gear upgrading/enhancing as the main endgame goal, I'll most likely dislike it. I played it for 2 major expansions, to raiding level in both, and I can safely say that I disliked it so much that it ruined my entire enjoyment of the game.

My damage output is fine. I noticed my determination getting up to about 25% yesterday.

I'll play a bit on my main and see if I can hit endgame again.

Ok, maybe I won't. I don't see a way to get back to the place.

How do I get to the new zone? I see Alice on my incarnations and she takes me right there, but not on my main

Auto-questfinder doesn't do anything and mail doesn't have anything for it. Could it be my level is too low? I'm 85.

Ah, there she is. I did what you said and pressed the auto quest finder a few times and the quest popped up in the Iron City. I wouldn't have thought of checking there.

Ok, scratch that. I went to the location the quest finder told me to go and she's not there. I then spammed the auto quest finder to pick up or complete everything it gave me until the only new one is to find her. It led me to a million raid quests, and a few random low level quests I somehow missed and then completed, but nothing. My character is legitimately bugged and can't progress to the new zone.

EDIT: I found a questline I missed. I'll follow it and see if it brings me there