When did you start playing Allods Online and what motivated you to get more involved with the community here?
I got invited to try out Allods by some American friends in the first week of open Beta, which is how I ended up on NA rather than EU; ironically none of them stuck around past level 15 but I’d made friends here and the setting was awesome enough that I decided to stick around. After all – post apocalyptic steampunk MMO’s with space-opera simulator attached aren’t exactly common; in fact I don’t think I can name any others.

I wasn’t that active in the community at first, but after the Gorluxor patch completely changed the psi class (Allods Gold) the psi population crashed hard, at worst there was probably no more than a handful of level 40+ psis left in the game. The psi forum had no up to date information and some players upset by the loss of their original class were turning away new psis with horror stories of how “awful” new psis were, so I began crunching numbers – realised that in fact the class had new potential – and started testing, theorycrafting, posting the results and doing my best to give some solid data with which to develop new builds from.

What advice would you give players to help them maximize their experience with Allods Online?
Sarnaut is a huge world with a lot on offer, you’ll never find everything by yourself and will end up overwhelmed if you don’t have people to turn to ask questions and get some direction, finding yourself a guild (if only a non-descript levelling one) will take you far in making friends and getting yourself Allods Online Gold centred and should be quite high up your list of things to do; and if you’re a psi, a whole community is only a telepathy message away.