Allods Online

RAWR!

So my first youtube rawr was about Allods Online, which is actually a really fun game, that has a low population, mostly due to really bad changes in the past that drove people away. So, of course, now that good changes are done, people aren't flocking back because of the sour taste in their mouth from the past, but it really is a good game

Allods Online is free to play. Allods Online has currancy that you can exchange between the item shop and in game gold, so you litterally can farm in game for any out of item shop things you might want. Allods Online is a massive MMORPG that has creative interesting things to see everywhere and races that are fun.

The graphics are pretty much WoW graphics, but the world is litterally impossible to constrain, due to the layout being that there are 'allods' which are isles floating in the 'astral' (aka, kinda like outer space but cooler). Each allod is totally diff than the last one, so you never get bored from 'same old scenery syndrom' or 'omgoodness, not more stuff I see in rl again conditions'.

The mounts in the game are AWESOME, and there are so many ways to customize your characters, their gear, their stats, their style, that it is rediculous, once in game. There are normal MMORPG things like dungeons, raids, bg's, and dueling. There is crafting and there are reps to grind (though thankfully not for zillions of hours) and there is gear to get. There are also things that are not in other ones like, Goblin ball (litterally goblin is the ball), astral ship battles, searching astral allods, and some really fun world and seasonal events unlike ones in other games.

For instance, there is a special currancy, that is only for holiday events, and it works for each holiday, and some of the holidays are for races, or classes, not just normal ones we have in rl. Also, the outfits are as creative as the mounts and the allods are. You can dress up as almost anything.

The game has almost no death penalty, an auction house with actual timers on the items posted (awesome for outbidding as it expires) and is not EASY. You actually have to learn how to play your class to be good and do well.

For instance, a paladin can tank or do melee dps... blah blah, what pally in any game can't, right? But in Allods, you also manage shields that are part of your skill base, and depending on how you manage them, you can take huge cuts in damage. The shields hold set amounts of damage and disperse it instead of you taking it right away,and hold it for several seconds. While fighting and doing damage to your enemies, you then have to decide, which skill to use to either, half the damage being held, or to fully waive it but have a long cooldown to do so again, or even how hard you are being hit and at what point during these seconds based on your other cooldowns would be best to even break the shield, instead of letting it absorb more of the pain.

As a healing Summoner, you have to not only keep your team alive with heals, but also keep your blood stockpile you absorb from enemies up so you can keep healing, so you have to do some sort of skills or damage to foes to get blood, so in turn you can heal.

You don't just roll your face on the computer and win. I happen to like that. I like brain function.

Some people do complain about runes in this game, but honestly, the whole complaint is fruitless to me. You DO NOT HAVE TO GET MAX LVL RUNES TO BE GOOD!!!!!

Runes go up to lvl 13, but you don't need them. You could do fine on lvl 8 runes, or some people have mentioned lvl 6 runes to me, but you can do max lvl content and full raids and be a good raider with lvl 8. You do NOT have to buy gpots. You can go to their website and run a stupid commercial in the background while playing and farming in game gold and get free gpots from running the vid, and gold to trade for gpots at the same time. You dont' get a zillion, but over a month, you can get enough to get something decent.

There are also 'lucky events' that increase rep, exp gained, rep gain rate increase, drop rates, so on, and they are decided by the PLAYERS, each  week.

I don't understand people complaining about runes, except that they are lazy. It is all I can figure. I have played Allods Online for more than 2 and half years and total spent 150 usd. I spent more than that in a year of subscription to WoW, and had less fun. Just saying.

If you wanna see the RAWR: youtube vid, you can watch. sorry about the bad picture, didn't get my new web cam yet at that point.  http://youtu.be/vc1LX7gJWaw

So that is my RAWR blog about Allods Online.