The Albion Online Destiny Board: how it works and what to invest in

What the Destiny Board is

The Destiny Board is Albion Online's progression system and it replaces classes. Everything you do earns fame, and fame fills the board's nodes: weapons and armor, gathering professions, crafting, refining and farming.

Picking one branch doesn't lock you out of the others. The same character can be a warrior, a gatherer and a crafter, it is just a question of where you spend your time.

How fame fills nodes

Each activity gives its own kind of fame: Combat Fame comes from killing mobs and players, Gathering Fame from gathering resources, and crafting fame from crafting. That fame goes to the matching node on the board. For example, using a sword fills the sword nodes, and gathering wood fills the wood ones.

So the way to level up is to play what you want to level. There are no shortcuts that skip the activity, apart from Learning Points, covered below.

Mastery and specialization

Nodes have two levels of progression:

• Mastery: the broader progress, which opens access to each tier of gear and resources.
• Specialization: the specific progress of a weapon or armor family, or of a profession, which rewards players who commit to an item.

The game itself shows the effect on the nodes: a bonus to item power (IP) for all weapons of the category, and a specialization bonus to the item power of each family (for example, only Great Arcane Staffs). The exact numbers of each milestone change with patches, so check each tier's requirements on the node itself.

Item power and why specialization pays off

Item power (IP) measures how strong a piece is. It depends on the piece's tier, quality and enchantment, and on your mastery and specialization with it.

That is why two players with the same weapon are not equally strong: the one who specialized more has more IP with it. Before investing heavily in a line, pick the weapon in the Builds Forge Meta Builds, which show which ones win the most in each type of content.

Learning Points (LP)

Learning Points replace part of the fame needed to complete a level. Players with Premium receive 30 a day, delivered every day after server maintenance. The total point cost to complete a node has not changed with the recent updates.

Low levels rise on their own with use in a short time, so the most common advice is to save the points for the nodes that matter most, such as gathering or crafting professions and the costlier specialization nodes. Spending them early, on levels that would rise in a few minutes of play, is a waste.

Quick Learn: be careful

With Quick Learn active on a node, the fame you earn in that node is worth five times as much, and Learning Points are spent as you earn that boosted fame. Nodes with Quick Learn are highlighted on the Destiny Board, there is an overview of every category where it is active, and a global switch at the top.

It is handy for anyone who wants to level fast, but it spends points without you thinking about it: if you want to save them for somewhere else, don't leave it on for cheap nodes.

Where to start

1. Pick one or two areas, for example combat and gathering, and leave the others for later.
2. In combat, choose one weapon line and stay with it for a while, instead of hopping from weapon to weapon.
3. In gathering, start with the profession of the resource closest to your city.
4. Only invest in crafting if you really plan to craft: check the Crafting recipes to see what it costs.
5. Spend your fame by playing what you enjoy. That is the fastest way to level.

Nodes you cannot reach yet are hidden by default, so the board does not look huge. If you want to see everything, use the option to show all nodes.

Common mistakes

• Spreading fame over too many lines and specializing in none.
• Spending Learning Points on the first levels.
• Changing weapon every week and losing your specialization.
• Ignoring the board's requirements view, which shows what is missing for each tier.
• Buying high-tier gear without the mastery to use it well.

What to check in the game

The board and its values change with patches, so check:

• The mastery requirements for each tier.
• How many Learning Points you get per day and what the cap is.
• The item power bonuses of each node.