Antosha (Anton Stepanov)
Antosha has played World of Warcraft for over 15 years, across PvP, raids, and seasonal content. He's an 11-time Rank 1 Gladiator and a regular competitor in Blizzard's official PvP tournaments, and a former official Blizzard tournament caster who called Arena matches live for the WoW community.
Away from arena, he's raided at a high level for years, with deep experience in modern Mythic progression and the endgame eras before it. On NextTier he writes guides about what wins games at the top of the ladder: meta picks, comps, real cutoffs, and the small things most guides skip past.
Articles by Antosha (197)
Palworld Best Base Pals (1.0): Best Worker for Every Job
The complete Palworld 1.0 base Pals guide: the best worker for all twelve work suitabilities with Level 4 and Level 3 picks, the powerful new Level 8 specialists, where to catch each key worker, the best ranch Pals, and how the Level 10 and condensing reworks change staffing.
Palworld Best Pals Tier List (1.0): Every Combat Pal Ranked
The complete Palworld 1.0 combat tier list: every top Pal ranked S to C, the strongest pick for all nine elements, the partner skills and passives that decide real power, the coverage team you actually need, and where to catch or breed each one.
Palworld Oil Rigs & Crude Oil (1.0): Locations, Loot & Farm
The complete Palworld 1.0 oil rig and crude oil guide: every Oil Rig Stronghold location, how to survive the turrets and Syndicate defenders, the chest loot from schematics to Ancient Civilization Cores, and how to farm crude oil both from rigs and by automating it at a base.
Palworld Ancient Ruins (1.0): Hack Terminals & Schematics
The complete Palworld 1.0 Ancient Ruins guide: what the Hack Terminal minigame is, how to break the Sealing Stones and solve the path puzzle, the schematics you earn, what those schematics craft, and how ruins compare to dungeons and oil rigs as a schematic source.
Palworld Dungeons Guide (1.0): Rewards, Farming & Ancient Ruins
The complete Palworld 1.0 dungeons guide: how to find and enter them, the Alpha Pal boss and guaranteed chests, every reward from Skill Fruits to schematics, how the respawn cycle works for efficient farming, what changed in 1.0, and the new Ancient Ruins minigames.
Palworld Zanara & Astralym (1.0): How to Beat the Final Boss
Everything you need to beat Zanara and Astralym, the Level 80 final boss of Palworld 1.0: the typeless fight explained, the best Pals, passives, and weapons to bring, how to survive the immune phase and the wing charge attack, and the rewards for clearing the Sealed Calamity.
Palworld Paloxite Ore (1.0): Farm Spots, Passives & Ingots
The complete Paloxite Ore guide for Palworld 1.0: where it spawns in the World Tree, the Rainbow passive and Holy Water that stop nodes from vanishing, surviving the toxic gas, the best farm spots, and the Paloxite Ingot recipe behind the game's strongest gear.
Palworld Soralite Ore (1.0): Farm Spots, Mining Pals & Uses
The complete Soralite Ore guide for Palworld 1.0: where it spawns in Sunreach, the three ways to gather it, the best mining Pals and the stat you need, the Soralite Quarry automation, and every Soralite Ingot crafting use across weapons and Ancient gear.
Palworld 1.0 New Resources & Materials: Full Crafting Guide
The complete Palworld 1.0 materials guide: every new resource by tier, with unlock levels and sources - the reworked wooden boards, assembly-line intermediates, the Soralite and Paloxite ore chain, AI Cores, and the World Tree materials behind the best endgame gear.
Palworld Ancient Material Synthesizer: Recipe & Infinite Ore
The complete Ancient Material Synthesizer guide for Palworld 1.0: what it does, the full crafting chain from the Ancient Furnace and Pal Alloy Ingots up, the World Tree materials it needs, the Rainbow-passive trick for mining there, and how to run it for infinite ore and wood.
Palworld Best Base Locations (1.0): Coordinates for Every Base
The best Palworld 1.0 base locations with exact coordinates: the unraidable ore peak, dedicated mining and oil outposts, vendor-access gold bases, the new Sunreach Soralite and World Tree spots, and how to pick the right site for each of your base slots.
Palworld New Weapons & Soralite Gear (1.0): Full Craft Guide
The complete Palworld 1.0 weapons and gear guide: all 13 new weapons by tier, the Soralite and Paloxite material chain, Ancient Series armor and 44 accessories, the Extra Weapon Holster and Wing Pack, and which weapons to craft first for the endgame.