Resource Distribution Changes in the New Outlands

Thorn-Delwyn · Jan 15th 2020, 1:30pm

With the introduction of the new Outlands in Queen we've rebalanced resource distribution to match the new design of the Outlands. We've also incorporated some last minute feedback you gave on the test environment to keep some of the "large" gathering nodes in the game.

So what has changed?

What tiers of resources you can find in each zone based on the tier of the zone.
Respawn-times of resources in the Outlands have been rebalanced.
We have added new small nodes for Tier 7 and 8 which will not spawn fully charged but will take less time to respawn instead. (As previously, big nodes spawn with full charges.)
If the old version of the hide mob dropped a mount, the new one will drop one as well. Overall mount drop rates should remain approximately as they were previously.
Amount of Tier 7 nodes per zone has been increased.
Amount of Tier 8 nodes per zone has been drastically increased.

The resource of the same tier as the zone will always be most abundant. The lower the tier compared to the zone's tier, the lower its amount of nodes.

Tier 5 Zones will have resources of Tier 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Tier 6 Zones will have resources of Tier 4, 5 and 6.
Tier 7 Zones will have resources of Tier 5, 6 and 7.
Tier 8 Zones will have resources of Tier 7 and 8.

Average respawn times:

Tier	Normal Node Max Charges	Fastest to Slowest Respawn	Big Node Max Charges	Fastest to Slowest Respawn
2	9	5 to 15 minutes
3	9	6 to 17 minutes
4	6	7 to 24 minutes
5	5	12 to 38 minutes
6	5	67 to 203 minutes
7	3	3 hours to 11 hours	23	33 to 101 hours
8	2	9 hours to 29 hours	27	36 to 110 hours

Images of Tier 7 and 8 resources (for each image, the normal node is on the left and the big node is on the right):
Fiber

Ore

Rock

Wood

Hide in Forest and Swamp Biome
Tier 7: Feral Boar and Direboar
Tier 8: Feral Bear and Direbear

Hide in Steppe Biome
new Tier 6: Desert Wolf (replaces Rhino)
Tier 7: Rhino and Bighorn Rhino
Tier 8: Mammoth and Ancient Mammoth

Zigmund · Jan 15th 2020, 3:12pm

Good work team!

Guilefulwolf · Jan 15th 2020, 3:18pm

I assume nothing changes for fishing right?

Cawner · Jan 15th 2020, 3:46pm

Just want to clarify. "If the old version of the hide mob dropped a mount, the new one will drop one as well. Overall mount drop rates should remain approximately as they were previously." Does this mean the chance of a pup drop % per mob has been lowered? but due to the vast quanity it averages to the same. or the drop % per mob remained the same

Guilefulwolf · Jan 15th 2020, 4:11pm

Cawner wrote:

Just want to clarify. "If the old version of the hide mob dropped a mount, the new one will drop one as well. Overall mount drop rates should remain approximately as they were previously." Does this mean the chance of a pup drop % per mob has been lowered? but due to the vast quanity it averages to the same. or the drop % per mob remained the same

If the amount of mobs will be increased the only way to keep the amount of drops is lowering the % of getting them.

Bogul · Jan 15th 2020, 5:06pm

Could you explain the location changes of node spawns? @Thorn-Delwyn

I don't think it is publicly stated if resource nodes can change their location and if they do how that works exactly.

Thorn-Delwyn · Jan 15th 2020, 5:19pm

Guilefulwolf wrote:

If the amount of mobs will be increased the only way to keep the amount of drops is lowering the % of getting them.

Essentially this.
The 'small' version of those mobs will see a reduced chance for a drop whereas the 'big' versions can see an increase in drop chance because it takes them longer to re-spawn.

Bogul wrote:

Could you explain the location changes of node spawns? @Thorn-Delwyn

I don't think it is publicly stated if resource nodes can change their location and if they do how that works exactly.

A zone has a certain amount of possible resource positions. Those can be seen on the maps offered by AlbionOnline2d.
Now a certain amount of those positions will be used for resource nodes based on the tier of the zone and some other parameters (e.g. royal or outlands).

This process of randomly distributing the resources over a zone happens every day at maintenance.

Also each re-distributed node will 'remember' its state before maintenance which includes the amount of charges left and time until re-spawn / charge-up.

Radyr · Jan 15th 2020, 9:52pm

Are the T7 sabertooths being removed?

Shadrrow · Jan 16th 2020, 1:03am

Radyr wrote:

Are the T7 sabertooths being removed?

No, they are still there , i see them in test server today

MrFler · Jan 16th 2020, 2:01am

Nice change with desert wolf... Maybe someday you'll consider changing boars and bears in swamps to kind of bigger snakes at T7 and alligators at T8? (imo would be more immersive)...

JugoDG · Jan 16th 2020, 1:31pm

"desert wolf" idk sounds so silly to me.

Shadrrow · Jan 16th 2020, 2:15pm

JugoDG wrote:

"desert wolf" idk sounds so silly to me.

they looks like hyena actually

Undert0w · Jan 19th 2020, 3:33am

Resource node charges are still the same on the Test Server as they are on the live. ie; Tier VI nodes are 5/5 instead of 7/7

Thorn-Delwyn · Jan 20th 2020, 9:01am

Undert0w wrote:

Resource node charges are still the same on the Test Server as they are on the live. ie; Tier VI nodes are 5/5 instead of 7/7

Thank you. You are correct. Those resources hasn't been touched still offer 5 charges.

MrFler · Jan 20th 2020, 12:36pm

Thorn-Delwyn wrote:

Undert0w wrote:

Resource node charges are still the same on the Test Server as they are on the live. ie; Tier VI nodes are 5/5 instead of 7/7

Thank you. You are correct. Those resources hasn't been touched still offer 5 charges.

So what was intended?... To keep them with 5 and there is mistake in info or 7 and it's not yet applied to game?...

Shawesome · Jan 20th 2020, 2:08pm

Guilefulwolf wrote:

I assumer nothing changes for fishing right?

@Thorn-Delwyn

Could you please answer this question?

Thanks in advance!

Thorn-Delwyn · Jan 20th 2020, 2:21pm

MrFler wrote:

Thorn-Delwyn wrote:

Undert0w wrote:

Resource node charges are still the same on the Test Server as they are on the live. ie; Tier VI nodes are 5/5 instead of 7/7

Thank you. You are correct. Those resources hasn't been touched still offer 5 charges.

So what was intended?... To keep them with 5 and there is mistake in info or 7 and it's not yet applied to game?...

5 charges for Tier 5 and 6 are intended.

Shawesome wrote:

Guilefulwolf wrote:

I assumer nothing changes for fishing right?

@Thorn-Delwyn
Could you please answer this question?

Thanks in advance!

No changes to fishing had been made as far as I know.

Unai7 · Jan 20th 2020, 2:29pm

Just got 15 fishes in T6 BZ withouth nodes, 6 tier 4, 6 tier 5 and 3 tier 6. I think its gonna be harder to get T7 rares since we will have to go min T7.

Shawesome · Jan 20th 2020, 2:30pm

Thanks for the quick reply.

Maybe you should take another look at fishing.

At Least a premium bonus like other gathering professions would be cool.

We all know that fishing is not and shouldn't be like the other gathering professions, but in my opinion fishing is neglected too much.

Thanks again!

Shawesome · Jan 20th 2020, 2:36pm

Unai7 wrote:

Just got 15 fishes in T6 BZ withouth nodes, 6 tier 4, 6 tier 5 and 3 tier 6. I think its gonna be harder to get T7 rares since we will have to go min T7.

Thought those changes doesn't affect fishing?

Before the queen patch it wasn't possible to catch t4 fish in a t6 bz only t6, t7 and t8 except for rare (t3, t5, and t7 possible in a t6 bz).

That would mean that the "bad" changes are applied to fishing too but the "good" ones not? @Thorn-Delwyn

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