On and off with Allods Online

Allods online has to be one of my favorite f2p MMOs out there. The russians realy did a good job to make a themepark MMO which realy appeals to WoW players. But it has it's up and downs, and with the only 2 remaining servers on the way to being merged, it feels like the game was not realy a success.

I realy don't know if the problem stands with the pay-to-win model, as you do need to invest quite a lot of money to play normaly, or with the repetativness of quests. A while ago, I made an Orc Shaman and it was quite well to play, except for a few problems. The abilities are limited, the talents are not realy interesting and there only are 1-2 viable builds for each class.

But hey, the expension is here and with it a new class - the Bard! My new character was to be an empire human bard, sexy little Russian girl! Once in the game, the feeling of the bard was smooth and playable, the abilities, although few, work realy well and I sliced trough the mobs all the way to level 10 in a matter of minutes. I can't realy point out what, but something has been done to the game which made it feel relaxed and unforced on you. Just hope that feeling doesn't go away once you hit that Piramide and the hopeless grind of millions of shinny orbs to get the teleporters working!

The feel of the game realy doesn't feel changed since the last time I played it, the cash shop is still here and still requires you to own a credit card (I would love to pay for a mount with PayPal). If all goes well I will be played this game for a bit now, you can find me on the Nezeb server, just poke Cocha.