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If you've progressed your "adventurer" node in the destiny board you can purchase and equip any mount you want to use. You can also use the category "mount" in the marketplace for filtering.

There is the option of growing the animals yourself and then mounting them but that will require access to a player island so it's not really recommended for a new player.

Personally playing with 120ms from europe and that has never really bothered me. PvP Is fine with up to 200 ping even because Albion has slightly slower gameplay than most mobas.

I'm unsure if there's an article or wiki page about it but you can see the individual modifers when picking up loot from the ground or a chest. It will state the percentage in the top of the window.
Example of a chest in the black zone below:

https://preview.redd.it/lhzqsdo1eqxb1.png?width=204&format=png&auto=webp&s=95ac08d34241dd391ab58d7c4a4f1336b94c4f7f

The frustration is understandable. This will be adjusted in Patch 1 to secure the loot to the tracking party as long as they have dealt damage. You can check the exact changes here: Testserver: Wild Blood Patch 1

How much a dungeon gives can be impacted by a lot of factors. First the tier and enchantment are gonna work as modifers to general silver and loot value. Since you can run up to T8 dungeons in any black zone unrelated to its tier you can still get relatively safe rewards this way.

Then additionally the length and chest qualities have a big impact on what you will get on average. You also shouldn't neglect the fact that you pick up a lot of silver from the ground which adds up over the dungeon. Overall I'd say these dungeons should drop 100k+ on average, hitting a small jackpot from time to time is also not too rare especially if you are able to simply clear a lot of dungeons.

You can still run solo dungeons in these areas although many people nowadays buy t8 maps and use them in portal cities. They will point to a map max 1 zone away so it's relatively safe to do from cities now.

This stems from a change that allows all spawned maps up to T8 to spawn in any black zone unrelated to the zone tier. The zones will still have naturally spawned and upgraded dungeons of the zone tier in addition.

Nah, it's not just you. Currently bugged. Will be fixed with Patch #1. No exact release date for that one yet, but should not be too far in the future.

The daily challenge rewards 50000 keys to the weekly/monthly challenge progress and 10 LP in case you don't have premium so that's likely that.

Focus refining/crafting can be a bit more complex than that. Be sure to check how local production bonus works and calculate how much different materials would cost you to craft to see if they're profitable. Depending on the local production and daily production the actual profit may differ a lot.

Playing through steam has some disadvantages that may or may not hinder your gameplay:

• You can only connect one account (so up to 3 characters) to it. For more you'd need to use the native launcher.
• Purchases in the ingame shop are more expensive since steam takes a cut on every transaction. To circumvent this you could make purchases directly though the Albion Online Shop.

Apart from that the steam version works just as fine. You may sometimes run into issues if there's some steam-specific outage or bug but then you can still log in through the native launcher with your same account details.

No, there is no downside if you do it another players island. Just keep in mind that they could remove your permissions at any given time.