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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:

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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.

Outside of personal islands you can use focus on any Crafting and/or Refining you do.

Also with the new awakened weapons, you can use focus to reduce the attunement cost of a weapon.

As far as I know there are no weapons besides offhand but for gear you pretty much have an option for every piece of equipment:

• Assassin hood - channeled ability that greatly reduces your cooldowns.
• Royal jacket - An aura that reduces cooldowns and gives attack speed, can give the bonus to allied players as well.
• Any leather shoes - refreshing sprint slightly reduces cooldown while giving a decent amount of movement speed.
• Food options: Omelettes are the biggest one for cooldown reduction, you also have specialized omelettes like ava or crab that give other bonuses for a slight reduction. Then there's Eel stews which are a mix between stews and omelettes. Theoretically some fish but omelette is always the better option there.

There is surely a lot of information advanced players can gather from you.

• It starts with your guild or rather no guild, which gives away that you don't have any hideouts or territories that offer you a safe zone (means easier way to gank).
• Your gear gives away what kind of content you do. PvE gear usually means you are an easy target without a lot of extra loot, escape gear means you may be carrying something important and group PvP gear might mean that you're not alone.
• An addtional check on the stats can give away how experienced you are in PvP or in terms of crafters or gatherers, how much you might have in your backpack.