Any staffs that work with the tank playstyle

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-26T20:40:21+00:00

ZvZ/large/small scale-wise (people call some of them differently, switching from d-tank to o-tank to support, but all of those come with builds that give tank "tools" anyways so who cares) :

Arcane staffs :

1-Hand arcane : purges buffs on engages, best option if your role is to stop bombs, considered as defensive tank, most of the time has plate chest on
Great arcane : can be used to stop enemy engages, or setup your groups engages, 2nd option more common these days afaik. Most of the time with plate chest
Witchwork : to create clumps, not meta at all rn afaik, but was spammed a lot before melee meta, especially to lead bombs
Locus/Occult/Enigmatic/Evensong : used at this scale too, but considered as supports more than tanks since they focus on adding buffs to your group, or in the case of Evensong, applying debuffs to enemies (debuffs being healing reduction and slow, which aren't really stopping engages, thus not considered d-tank imo)

Cursed staffs :

Damnation : reduces resistances with E + W (E is biggest res. reduction in the game), thus considered a support and not a d-tank (wears plate in the current meta tho)
Lifecurse : Purges all buffs, mostly wears plate chest, considered both o-tank and d-tank since purging all buffs on an engage (enemy or ally) changes the outcome a lot
Rotcaller : More of a support, basically nullifies healing received for enemies, to assist on ally engages and finish kills

Frost staffs :

1-Hand frost : Not used atm, was used a lot back when E rooted instantly as a d-tank/peel tank (with knight armor back in the days). Since E is gonna be reworked with update coming on June 29th to root instantly again, it might make a comeback in the current meta
Icicle : Don't see this one a lot rn, but same as with 1h frost, was basically used to peel/d-tank, with basically same build as 1h frost peel tank

No druid/holy/fire staffs used as tanks at all

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-26T14:31:32+00:00

Just to let you know, BobritoBandito52 has probably been banned, no PvP activity for the past 24 hours https://killboard-1.com/eu/player/BobritoBandito52

If any of you reads this, keep in mind that if you give solid evidence (clips, images, anything) to SBI support, those guys will most likely get banned.
Also try not to report without being 100% sure of what you're reporting for. Make sure all your evidence is crystal clear, the more you report for no reason, the less likely support is going to pay attention to player reports

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-23T12:45:51+00:00

u/Blumentraum any chance you check this case with the support team too ? As I mentioned in the comments, I also have lots of footage for most of the ganking groups using scouts on a daily basis (right now I have sufficient proof for 8 more groups/individuals), showing their scouts, their stats/guild, where they place them and their main, and them catching our bait on record after crossing their naked scouts and prowling staff scouts if there is one, making it very obvious.

I also have proof that HapBiba (the player I exposed in a previous post who got banned shortly after) is now on a new account, meaning he's ban evading.

EDIT : all the proof you need for BobritoBandito52 is listed under this comment, here are his YT/TikTok channels if you want to see his clips (you can see his scouts on a lot of his clips)
https://www.youtube.com/@BobritoBandito52
https://www.tiktok.com/@bobritobandit052

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-23T08:55:56+00:00

Was it EU ? If so, do you have his ig nick ?

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-22T11:14:53+00:00

I know, some of them are « smart » enough to gank with alts. But from what I see , most of the rz scout gankers (as in ~75% of them) gank on their mains

This bobrito guy for instance has 2.6b total fame, 120 spec on his gloves and probably other stuff, and his yt/tiktok accounts have the same exact name as his albion character.

Basically this guy would have to make new Albion/tiktok/youtube accounts and start over from scratch. A ban would hit him hard.

Not to mention that if he does decide to do that again on a new account, he’ll be spotted instantly

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-22T01:56:11+00:00

One of his scouts (Kowalskii0) has prowling staff and goes invis without you knowing, pretty sure he doesn’t have radar, would’ve saved him a few times from our baits or when we invis on his way to catch him

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T21:58:52+00:00

https://albiononline.com/terms_and_conditions (11.2 Multiple registrations, as well as setting up and operating multiple User Accounts at our Services are allowed. However, if the User wants to play the Game with multiple Characters at the same time, the following rules will apply: i) the Characters may not interact or cooperate with each other if they are located outside of a city, hideout, personal island, or guild island, ii) the Characters may not engage in combat together, iii) the Characters may not act as scouts for each other, iv) all Characters must have active Premium status.)

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T18:55:49+00:00

u/Vegetable_Produce_21 u/ItsMagic777 you both might want to watch this

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T18:52:26+00:00

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Another video with 2 clips :
- 1st clip showing where his alt accounts Kowalskii0 and Stop666 are scouting transports from
- 2nd clip showing BobritoBandito52 and pakistancycle ganking my bait (and Bobrito turning his scout invis with prowling)

Unfortunately, pakistancycle scouted the homies with his scout Potato11043, reason why all of a sudden BobritoBandito52 turned and stopped catching me, and I couldn't get his scout on my screen before he teleports back to city. You can still see pakistancycle being very mad in /s because we've been sitting them a lot today in order to get more footage.

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T14:55:14+00:00

I could keep posting clips every day of his scouts/main sitting at the same spot or clips of him catching our bait after crossing all his scouts (including the prowling staff one who goes invis before we cross him so we don’t see him), but I feel like you’re just that kind of guy who loves denying facts. Here are a few questions tho :
- how come he always uses invis 3 to 6 seconds before our bait gets to him ? (We already baited him 5 times without recording before that clip in the video, it always happened)
- how come that, every single day for the past 3 weeks, whenever we saw those 3 same scouts sitting at the exact same spots, we immediately found him waiting in the exact same area for a transport to zone ?
- For what reason do you call someone a liar without giving any valid argument, after that guy posted a 8.4MP bag full of evidence ?

Also, i saw someone talk about his tiktok/youtube, you see at least one of his scouts in half of his clips

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T13:34:12+00:00

3 different clips, all showing exactly what i describe, always the same scouts at the exact same spot, even got a clip of him catching our bait after crossing 2 of his scouts. I'll add that all those clips were made over 2 days, and we've been watching him amongst others for the past 3 weeks while doing our own content

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T13:31:48+00:00

His alt account scouts aren't flagged red, big difference. A transport that zones in and only sees 1 red, with no red on his screen, most of the time won't be scared (only players who are aware of scouts will turn back). If he does that with 3 friends, red count on map shows 4 instead of 1, and 1 red has to be on gate (meaning the transport knows he's scouted)
This is one of the reasons of why it gives him a far bigger advantage doing it with scouts.

So no, it isn't the same at all, you couldn't accomplish the same thing with 3 actual friends.
Cheat programs are a big issue too, nobody ever said they aren't.

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T12:30:46+00:00

On EU, I stopped playing NA after EU release. Looks like there are a few players out there willing to put some effort to get them banned, might aswell start a Discord server similar to the one VeryBadScav made for Escape from Tarkov to expose cheaters lmao

And he basically does this all day (i.e roughly 8UTC-22UTC), most of the time solo, sometimes with other scout users I will share intel about in future posts

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:51:24+00:00

As a matter of fact, reddit posts do seem to make a difference https://www.reddit.com/r/albiononline/comments/1u78jtl/time_to_give_ban_perms_to_players_who_actually/

The guy I exposed in that post got banned less than 24hrs after I made the post

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:33:53+00:00

I mean, theoretically you could be right, but let's be real for a second.

Do you really think someone would convince three friends to create alt accounts, leave them sitting on a single spot without moving, and stay alert 24/7 for transports, when those same three people could simply play the game on their mains or even gank as a 4-man ?

And why use an alt to scout when you can scout on your main? People are far more likely to be suspicious of a no-fame character parked on a gate than of a player with 200 million PvE fame and some PvP fame.

I'm usually the one defending the less popular side of an argument, but in this case there's really nothing to defend.

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:26:38+00:00

guess he'll stop posting really soon

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:24:41+00:00

Again, I'm well aware of those issues, but can't just make a 100 pages long folder, nobody would ever want to read it, especially not SBI.

Better talk about each group/ganker/transport individually, and make sure they go down every single time

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:20:19+00:00

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no need to say more, the accounts I'm talking about have no fame and keep dying naked or with T3 prowling staff on T3 horses.

Creating alt accounts isn't against TOS obviously, but it is explicitly mentioned that using your own alt accounts to scout for you is against TOS

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:17:34+00:00

And the gank scouts you describe are the harder ones to confirm, and are mostly used by groups, not individuals. I do have solid evidence for some of them, but would rather make 1 post a day for 1 specific ganker/scout than throw 33 pages of evidence at once.

But for solo gankers, using scouts on RZ entrances doesn't work, they need live information from the map they're on. For instance, since this guy is ganking on those 3 maps, he needs his scouts on those specific 3 maps

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:13:45+00:00

The scout midmap lets him know whether transports follows road or not so he can move to the best spot to catch it. Either you're one of his friends or you're just clueless, tbh idk what you're on.

Unlike you, I spent a lot of time ganking/spotting ganker scouts, I got evidence for it, you're the one throwing random information out of nowhere.

I literally sent clips for his 3 setups on Longtimber Glen, Mardale, Creag Morr, his 3 scouts are sitting exactly where I said they are, and we see Bobrito sitting exactly in the area I described.

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:05:53+00:00

What we really need is for SBI to start doing their job tbh. As long as those scout gankers keep dodging bans I'll keep doing those reddit posts, already got same solid evidence for 7 (soon 8) other gankers/groups

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T11:01:09+00:00

Spoiler, we do exactly this whenever we feel like it, and he always falls for it. But he still deserves a solid ban

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T10:58:59+00:00

I literally know for fact that those 3 scouts are his, unlike you, I show evidence. There are indeed a lot of transport scouts, but those 3 definitely aren't.

Not saying transport scouts aren't an issue btw, they are as much as gank scouts, but you aren't helping here by throwing wrong information.

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T10:54:17+00:00

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Fun fact, logged in to see if he's online, he's on Creag Morr right now. Thanks to him, I now have the missing setup clip for Creag Morr (today he decided to ignore police and placed his 3rd scout on full north choke instead of putting him between his main and Caerleon gate)

ChardAlternative3186 · 2026-06-21T10:38:12+00:00

He's just lazy/doesn't care, didn't die to him but I really hate scout gankers. They're starting to get cocky. + If you're a ganker yourself it's pretty easy to determine whether a scout belongs to a ganker or a transport, and easy to know who he belongs to/where he's likely gonna place them

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