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How the systems of the games the atlas covers actually work, and which tool answers each question. Written from the data this site keeps, not from a press release.
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Guides for Albion Online
Open Albion OnlineHow to read an Albion killboard
A killboard is not a scoreboard: it is a record of what happened, with the numbers the game exposes. Read it well and it tells you which builds beat yours, which fights were worth taking and which deaths were just a bad night.
3 min readReviewed October 27, 2026
Gold, silver and premium: reading the Albion market
Albion has two currencies and they do different jobs: silver is what you earn by playing, gold is what premium costs. Between them sits a market run by players, and two taxes that decide whether your crafting session ends in profit or in a rounding error.
3 min readReviewed October 27, 2026
Roads of Avalon: how to read a zone before you enter
The Roads are a network of zones that connect to each other through portals. Every zone has a name that encodes its layout and its guaranteed content, and a set of counts that say what is inside. Learning to read both takes ten minutes and saves a lot of wasted portalling.
2 min readReviewed October 27, 2026
Builds and crafting: from the plan to the set you actually wear
A build is not a list of items: it is a decision about what you are going to do, with what, and at what price. This is the order we use to plan one, and where each part of the site answers.
3 min readReviewed October 27, 2026
Guides for Aion 2
Open Aion 2Choosing a class in Aion 2
Aion 2 has eight published classes and three jobs to cover: hold the line, do the damage, keep people alive. Picking well is less about which one is “best” and more about which job you want to be doing in a group at two in the morning.
2 min readReviewed October 27, 2026
Planning a character: gear, skills and the Daevanion board
Three planners, one character. They are separated because each one answers a different question, and read in the wrong order they contradict each other. This is the order that works: gear, then rotation, then board.
2 min readReviewed October 27, 2026
The daily routine: resets, dungeons and world bosses
Aion 2 rewards showing up on time more than it rewards grinding. This is what resets, when it resets, and the order that gets the most out of an evening without turning it into a shift.
2 min readReviewed October 27, 2026