It's once again AE's birthday month. Do you have fond memories of their games?
>All Games Newshttps://www.artix.com/news/allnews>AQW Guides and InformationBoosts and Events Calendar: https://www.artix.com/calendarBalance Patch Notes: https://www.aq.com/gamedesignnotes/AQW-Balance-PatchNotes-9515AQW Hub Newbie Guide (Incomplete): https://www.aqwhub.com/other-guides/newbie-guideAQWG New Player Guide (Outdated): https://sites.google.com/view/aqwg-net/new-playerBoosted Items: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iQZopOtK7PJNCwhXoOawYvxYgECX1X6ksOzOUNOU-rEChallenge/Ultra: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1SakAPZrSGG1tl0BIV8bCFjVXxB5WqXGmOzJROlt7pdkEnhancements: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wupDvLuPnRC0fF0aNPc7rzrri7X1YcYy7S2s5Z6o_F4Farming KPM: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RoPfjKD4Hy-gP_rETUISMllKoi8VpRkMApZdTPP5fe8>Other Games Guides and InformationAQC New Player Guide: https://adventurequestwiki.fandom.com/wiki/New_PlayerAQC Content Order: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gUeAhoF2rg0pKxbmXpRO9SLEBmrGA44-Sga1SplSEKcDF New Player FAQ: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g6AYyWQhVUi_wx3ITTMaBVzL2D6MZQ0bLfiGXcR1USkA Guide to DF Guides: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gyr3vcvJtlBkxUud89iPe8r68_Qp6TY2cBDl3ujQDOwAQ3D Starting Tips & FAQ: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fZEXvZIL5MrdcZHr0gi6aM6Wh_b0s7X1BJx8GnrWHTYAQ3D Game Plan: https://aq3d.com/game-plan/
>>3641280>Farming Sovereign of the Storms>Locked behind Rank 10 Skye repAnyone know the best way to farm this? Kicking Iona's ass takes too much effort.
>>3641280Most of my memories come from botting AQW in 2011
>>3641406Nothing good aside from the /balemorale dailies. The world boss quest was good, but it's rare now.This is why you always boost when doing a saga.
>>3641280>Do you have fond memories of their games?Just memories. I think the writing stopped being funny and interesting not because I stopped being a kid, but just because it got really grating. I stopped reading the text and used to play Dragonfable for a bit since I liked them trying to write decent lore. Dropped it all together since they struggle to make it consistent in regards to aging. I would love to be into it again, but the population is mostly ESL if they even speak English and bots.Should I look forward to Infinity because it just sounds like AQW just cross platform. I see no reason to touch any of them again outside of Dragonfable due to just not being fun.
>>3641474>Iona in story is a power hungry tyrant whom everyone, even her own children, despises>The Hero still wants to fuck her, but keeps it to himselfWhy is he like this?
When is AQW coming to mobile?
>>3642046Soon (TM)
>>3642046Never, at this rate.
>>3642046It already has (Puffin)
>>3642886Never worked for me.
>>3641474>>3641664SEX
What are your favorite classes that you wouldn't consider good?
>>3643628Dijin and Shadow Scythe General>absolute dogshit late game but carried me throughout the early game
>>3643628Original Dragonlord. It was fun to use it for everything years ago.
>Finally get Sovereign of Storms>DPS seems lackingAm I spoiled by AI's enhanced state?
>>3643628Necromancer, over a decade ago it was so good that it even defeated VHL players in PVP. Then again any player with VHL at that time was almost guaranteed to be a SEA bot.
>>3644070It’s advertised as a late game class so it’s shit by design
Think they'll ever make another single player game again?
>>3644459LOL maybe, actually
>>3641474Surprised AQW doesn't just fully embrace the coomer identity. Do away with all the kiddy shit and get back to telling dark stories and giving us hot clinically insane women.
>>3645752It's still an E10 game. They'll include fanservice, but I don't think they want to go all out. Company image is still important, you know?I wonder if we'll be able to actually save the next evil woman.
They should make another non-fantasy game.I'd even settle for a mech game.Although, it'd be best to make something set in the near-future, but still allow the characters to use fantasy-type weapons(sci-fi sword, gloves that can create fireballs, etc. Like in Hellgate London).
>>3646038If they do another mech game I hope they add more flavors of scifi like atomic punk and diesel punk.
>>3645752Going full coomer is never good it'll just put off all the current players and will be left with nothing but the braindead e-rp faggot guilds.
>>3645752>get backHave you ever played an Artix game? They've been nothing but parodies/memes/jokes etc they were never dark with the exception of a few quests.
So who are everyone's favorite characters? And I'm curious about something. They've been around for awhile and everyone's thought it at one point but has anyone actually tried to get hired?
yara>gravelyn
>>3648014Rare YaraCHAD
Finally got Praxis
>>3642886>puffinabsolutely based, I remember using that to play aqw and read homestuck updates on my ipad
made an account less than a month ago. in that time I've gotten AP, LoO, SC, YnR, DT, CAv, VHL, carpal tunnel, and LR. I got every rep locked class and got most reps in general to 10. even snagged polly roger. didn't even use an auto clicker. now what?
>>3651333Based autism GODHow is your Forge looking?
>>3651351I haven't started any items or forge stuff really. was too busy getting all the classes. I guess that should be the next thing I work on then. feels like I already beat the game though ngl.
>>3651370Forge enhancements are really fucking good, so I highly recommend you get them. Of note are>Elysium - Excellent for many farming classes>Valiance - Good all rounder>Ravenous - Excellent for killing bosses>Arcana Concerto - Excellent for parties>Dauntless - Excellent for just fucking shit upJust note that all of these take fucking forever to get. I hope you still have stuff left over from farming VHL.
>>3651373>I hope you still have stuff left over from farming VHL.no not really. I'll bet the grind can't be worse than what I've done so far though... right?
>>3651376I don't think so? Besides needing to kill ultra bosses a bunch of times for Concerto and Dauntless, at least. You've killed the First Speaker already, right?
>>3651378only ultras I've fought are drakath and dage for the classes. they all seem annoying to do, honestly. the game is too jank for mechanics.
>>3651384They'd be so much easier if public rooms weren't filled with retards...
>>3651333Get every variant of NSoD
>>3651333Go get EDoT, VDK, and AM if you like classes so much. Forge stuff while you're at it, and some 51% and 75% dmg items. Then RGoW. And then Eclipse Emperor I guess. Not much else after that unless you want badges on your char page.
>>3647526>put off all the current playersLol, no, delusional. AQW players are already here just to get boring grinds , turning more coomer wouldn't change that.
Best girl coming through
>>3652741And without the animation
>>3652741>>3652744Holy shit that thigh gap is HUGE. She been pushing out Draconian babies out or what?
>>3652741True.But, playing through the Skye storyline made me like Victoria more.>>3652760Anon, that's a loin cloth not the cape showing between her legs.
>>3652760Anon, that's not a thigh gap...>>3652761Victoria is good, and I'm glad we got an entire story arc focusing on her character.Still funny to me that most of the Cold Thunder stuff is related to Queen Iona, though. Why don't we have a "Royal Archer" class related to Robina yet?
I hate that they changed it so that I can't enchant stuff with the spitfire enchantment anymore.I was using it to mark cosmetic weapons by unenchanting them from when I put lucky on them back at level 55 or whatever.It's fine for book of lore stuff, I can just sell them and get them again, not so much for rares.
>>3652762I'm glad they didn't add a cleavage window to that dress. Would've been too much.
>>3652762Gonna be honest here, if both Iona and Drago were on fire.I'd piss on Drago.
>>3652800What the fuck does that even mean
>>3653216
>>3651980It would because the community would be a lot more unbearable
Wish this guy made more AQW art
>>3656574It's shocking to me that there's people with this much talent spending time on a shitty flash game from the 2000s
>>3656621People don't get this much talent without an equal amount of autism.
Whatcha farming for now?
>>3658278I guess the Soul Sand dailies?Forge is the only thing I haven't done, other than shit requiring me to kill Ultra Malgor. But ultra Malgor is impossible in pubs so I don't bother.
>>3658457*Forge spawn
>>3658278Just got Lament
>>3659091Damage is pretty nice
>>3651333what guide did you follow?
>Malgor in pubsIs this even possible...
of course sis
>>3662261Nope.I saw all the guides coming out for it and never bothered even trying.It is fundamentally impossible to do in pubs.
>>3662379If only I had friends to do this with.
I hate how halfassed AQW's wiki is compared to other game's wikis.It doesn't even keep the descriptions of the temporary quest items that have them.Which sucks for quests that you can only complete once.
>>3662425Be the change you want to see.
>>3662261I got rgow by solely relying on pubsJust get better luck bro
>>3662261>>3662379Stop being retarded doomers. I did RGOW almost purely through pubs
>New story level>Woman ruins everything
>>3663539I mean, that's been the case for basically every storyline recently.Every problem can be traced back to a woman ruining everything.
>>3663834>lynariawoman moment>noellewoman moment>voice in the seawoman moment (avatar)>ionawoman moment>veronikawoman momentI'm seeing a pattern
>>3663938>Malgor
>>3663938can’t believe the entire chaos saga was caused by a woman moment (Queen of monsters)
>>3661743>basic question>4 days with no answerAnother useless circlejerking general, I see.
>>3663973Broadly caused by the Queen of Monsters, and mores specifically caused by Gravelyn and Victoria having a collective woman moment about you killing the QoM.
>>3663539Victoria.Fire the Sparagmos.
>>3664421It's a slow thread where people only talk every other day or so.
>>3663973>Male villain>Did nothing wrong
It's happening
>>3668336What's the best chrono class in DF anyway?
>>3663938>NytheraWoman moment
>still rocking 40k ACs after years of being offlineI’ll probably just donate it during the Christmas event, there’s really no passion for this game anymore
Another day, another hour of failed Malgor attempts
>>3652762Personally I'm waiting for PUNISHED Robina who goes full berserk mode on everybody and stops trying to maintain the peace with all these losers who don't even want it. She's just constantly losing everything and being attacked without respite, meanwhile Evil just constantly gets rewarded and Chaos gets a full pardon.Why would Good even side with them anymore? The truce doesn't benefit them and her people are still being killed by the others in the truce. It's ridiculous.
>I want the calendar and colouring book on heromart but I live in Canada so it'll cost like $75 and shitfeelsbadmancan whoever's planning on buying those scan pics from it and upload it here (sorry for begging but wow it looks so good)here's a picture I have from 2010 saved for this long some reason
What even happened to Varga?
If you think about it, Malgor is pretty much the Lucifer of AQW.
>log in to my brother's account>2k ac>log in to my account>fuck allI can't fucking take it anymore
>>3641280>Saw browser banner ads for AQ in like 05 or 06.>Played it, begged parents for a year or two to get a guardianship.>DragonFable came out. >It was litty>Waited all summer of I think 07 for a dragon egg to hatch.>Became a dragonlord.Gods America was White then. MechQuest came and went but interest died out. AQW came and was this big monumental thing for the browser game sphere of the internet. They need to do a reboot game. A somewhat massive character action game to try to smush in ALL of the actually good plotbeats and ideas and jokes they've had over the course of the games. They should make an open world Medieval/Devil May Cry clone because at the end of the day the gameplay loop was leveling up and getting stronger and hitting shit with quirky humor. The problem is they'd have to throw money at it and they just don't have the resources I think. No one wants to play a twenty dollar Unity game that feels like it's worth five dollars. People would pay for a high quality 40 or 60 dollar game with cute characters and a legitimately funny twenty or thirty hour story if it's Witcher but funny.
>>3674541>They need to do a reboot gamePretty much what Infinity is, I think
>>3674544It's 2d browser game from fifteen years ago. It's not about pure consoomerism sales, it's about if they want to be relevant and not a memory with their characters and stories then that's not going to cut it.Have a 'zard.
>>3672458I don't even bother with it because the final reward just looks ugly in a dress up game and the bonus to damage is not a game changer compared to the other stuff
>the majority of Ultra Nulgath items are locked behind shitty decade old rares and 8 year membershipWhat a shit game
>>3647970Hired by AE? It’s a company that relies on a single game to keep the lights on not exactly a safe bet
>>3676123All of them have dogshit unstable weapon damage anyway.And you only need one boosted 35% armor.
>>3647970They rely a LOT on cheap Malaysian contract artists and ones they do get on more robust contracts usually get swooped up by other studios fairly quickly. Despera is a ticking timebomb, I'm surprised Dage hasn't left yet (he could easily work for Blizzard), Kotaro's work ethic is shite so he's likely to stay, and nobody else would hire Lae because he only knows three colors, black, dark black, and slightly gray black. I'd love to work there as a stepping stone to get into the industry but the pay is likely really crap and the game itself should've been shut down a decade ago.
>>3677504Thank you for reminding me to buy the battle pet
>>3677711I wish it had more animations beyond following you around.Also, imagine being a citizen of Skye, finally free of Iona's iron rule, and then seeing the Hero that freed you running around with Iona's ghost or something following him.
Anyone here see on Twitter when Beleen posted AI art then got jumped on by everyone autistic screeching at her, even Dage, about it?Was funny seeing her actually stand her ground.
>>3677716Post it
>>3677504
>>3677845>>3677504>>3652762>>3641474I love evil women so much bros
>>3677979Hero...
>>3677979Based
>>3677979Why is the Eternal Dragon like this
Rude, La
Why don't more people talk about the story in this game? The new Christmas event was soul crushing. You people don't just play the game for numbers go up dopamine slop, do you?
>>3679430I'll be straight with you I have NOT followed the story since the 13 lords of chaos finale. They never really hit the same peak after Doomwood anyway. It really had everything. Genuine stakes. Memorable soundtrack. Great side character/villains (Sally and Noxus) A main villain who actually felt like a THREAT. The unforgettable Artix + Gravelyn twists. Man take me back to the first time I heard these songs.https://youtu.be/h4f5f4zXopchttps://youtu.be/lrAUpr0HGS4I only tabbed in for Throne of Darkness after that since Artix was writing it. It was okay, but nowhere near Doomwood level of kino. Felt like an overly comedy focused saga. That being said, didn't that end teasing Sepulchure's return at the end? ...Did they ever follow up on that?
>>3679430Because despite the game going on for almost 20 years (christ we're fucking old) the only two notable storylines are the 13 Lords of Chaos (half of which is boring) and Darkon Saga. There's a few A tier ones like Future Akiba (fuck you I liked it), Throne of Darkness and Seppys origin story but most people never talk about them, god forbid any other storyline.
>>3679500>I have NOT followed the story since the 13 lords of chaos finale>They never really hit the same peak after Doomwood anyway?????so you stopped reading but know they never hit the same peak? a fair amount of the newer stuff shits on doomwood, especially Malgor. I'm at a loss as to why you would even play this game when the gameplay's so shit if you think barely any of the writing is worth a damn>>3679681read reply above. Shadows of War was fantastic. there's a fuck ton of good shit ranging from really funny to really emotionally engaging. this new christmas event especially.
>>3679719>so you stopped reading but know they never hit the same peakI'm not trying to claim that. Maybe I should have worded it better. Nothing else in the Chaos Lords saga (2008-2014 AQW if you want to be technical) hit the same peak as Doomwood is what I meant. I'm not denying there might have been good events since that was a decade (holy shit) ago, but I have not read them.
>>3679724give it a shot. there's a lot of good material there. the anon above listed out some of them.
>>3679719>Shadows of War was fantasticI dunno about that man, Malgor's backstory was pretty good but the rest felt like a political drama which isn't my cup of tea.
>>3679740fair enough if you don't like political dramas, but I thought it was fantastic. at least keep up with the new christmas event, it'll give us more stuff to talk about and is also very good. there's a deep sense of loss in both how many people have died and how much happier times were before.
Holy shit, I didn't realize Sentinel got buffed so much. Hitting 15k+ with only a 51%.Pic related is the Lord Protectress sentinels follow, commissioned by the class designer.>>3679430>>3679681>You people don't just play the game for numbers go up dopamine slop, do you?>I'm at a loss as to why you would even play this game when the gameplay's so shitIn descending order of importance: Nostalgia, Theory-crafting, Lore, FashionWhich was why I only returned when Forge was added and mostly play other games.If story/writing was the priority, then I would play something else like DragonFable.I also enjoy crossover heavy storylines that reference their older games' lore.
qrd on why Tara looks like this now?
>>3679855Read the story
>>3679890why do you think I asked for a qrd
>>3679913
>>3679855she got torn apart into pieces and came back like that
>>3679914The infernal invasion was such a forgettable footnote people even forgot Tara died in it.
>>3679953You have to read it in the first place to forget it.
HAPPY FROSTVAL
>>3680217Why does victoria look like she's still mind controlled?
>>3680223She got the Ray Charles experience.
>>3680252Do you think the Abel copy is something different compared to the others? Room 4, The copy left us a room of ice and a cold grudge that damages us with creepy writing that says he used me.
All this fanart overhyped the Iona storyline, Victoria wasn’t even mind controlled by her, the story concluded in under an hour and the loot is for female players (male).
>>3680337I just want more basic robina and classic aqw character fanart like mazumi, Yara, beleen, like God why isn't there more
>>3680337>the story concluded in under an hourewww this nigga doesn't carefully read all the characters' dialogue.
>ywn groom a lonely, touch starved, haunted hotel that can take on whatever form you wish forwhy live
>>3680904qrd
>>3679740It was mainly a political drama focused on attempting to reunite their broken ties to face the Queen, which is needed to establish the status quo before moving on after such a world shattering finale to the Chaos Saga. Personally I think everyone shits on it unnecessarily because it followed such a hype finale and it felt a bit directionless where it seemed like the Hero never progressed, but the dreariness and hopelessness of the whole QoM saga was a really nice contrast I think. Not only to both the Chaos Saga's bombastic heroic nature and the Malgor Arc's somber tone of acceptance, but also in the visuals where the enemies switched from legendary mythological beasts and varied motives from the villains to just being monsters motivated by grief and anger.That saga serves to properly humanize the Hero as an actual character before placing them as the central role, which is something you need to do to also build on the other characters like Gravelyn and Victoria going forward. Everything was devastated after the Chaos War from the alliance factions to even (you), the unbeatable wise cracking hero. The Chaos War was the start where (you) caused so much pain to the world (you)'re supposed to protect, but QoM is the point where the hero truly starts to lose faith in their role and their own strength to make a change when every minor arc was at best maintaining the status quo. The whole Queen > Malgor arc is mainly wearing down the hero on all fronts to the point that (you)'re basically just going through the motions until the finale Mana Core segment, which is the spark to that drives the rest of the cast into action when they see how truly hurt (you) are and it ultimately creates an actual alliance (albeit strained) unlike the faux one from before.That might just be coincidence or the work of the new Malgor writer salvaging the arc to be fair, but I think it's really compelling.
>>3681018>>3680223SPOILERS_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________read the story.
Wrote this as a reply to your post >>3681046 but realized it had very little to do with it and was mainly me giving some insight about offtopic shit but I'm too retarded to delete any of it so..AQW had four big "oh fuck"s around the time of Chaos Saga finale. The first was writing the hero to be the dragon of time. I know some people like it but me personally I thought, and still think, it was a massive asspull that wrote themselves into a corner since now powerscaling is on a cosmic level, plus introducing a threat stronger than Drakath at the last minute (QoM). Two was AE feeling in their hearts it was a good opportunity to move onto AQ3D as they've done before with their other games after major storyline finales. Problem was AQ3D was still grossly undercooked and didn't see a profit for several years, on a project they reallocated some of their main AQW driving force to work on. Three, major employees jumping ship. Nulgath, Cysero, Beleen, Artix (technically since he seems to just fuck around or work on AQ3D), pretty sure Zhoom, Samba and Yorumi aren't there anymore either. And four was NEVER releasing a mobile port. Don't even have to tell you how wildly successful it could've been had it released around 2012 like people begged, but as 2013 turned to 2014 and 2014 turned to 2024, well, we just never got it did we?All four situations collided to form a massive buttfuckery moment that led to the AQW-Dark Ages where releases were stale, the story was totally directionless, servers were cut back and most players left. In a perfect world AQW would've ended, Mobile would've released funding AE for the foreseeable future and its players would've all moved onto AQ3D which would've been fun to play.
>>3681086>The first was writing the hero to be the dragon of time. I know some people like it but me personally I thought, and still think, it was a massive asspull that wrote themselves into a corner since nowThe EDoT stuff has been built up since like 2009 at least though, years before the ending of that saga. And it's not as if the Eternal Dragon is even the peak of the scaling in the lore, let alone the hero being capable of wielding that power 100% of the time. There was, and still is, threats stronger than the EDoT. Galanoth killed him in his prime for starters, and there are things like Kathool Atchoo that are implied to be incomprehensibly strong well before the reveal. Remember that we genuinely died against Drakath as well, we had to cheat death just to fight on even ground.>introducing a threat stronger than Drakath at the last minute (QoM).I mean, I would argue that the nature of Chaos and the fact that he's trying to open a Chaos Gate that existed well before his transformation implies that there always was something higher than Drakath right from the beginning. He obviously got the powers from somewhere else since he was initially resurrected by the amulet after losing. That Drakath doesn't really make any major decisions about the Chaos Lords or his "plan" implies that he's just following a script despite supposedly embodying Chaos, since they're already predetermined to become them even before the needlessly confusing Lords of Balance/Mirror Realm stuff.Sadly the rest of your post while correct can be summed up as,>Artix made a stupid business decisionWe're doomed to be led by a passion first guy without any direction, being held together by duct tape and Brazilians. I wish he'd realise his shortcomings and step down as the lead like Steve did for Warframe. I really hoped Beleen coming back was a sign of the good times returning, but the only thing that changed was the writing and getting better fights.
The creation of AQ3D was a mistake in and of itself, especially with how bland the designs looked compared to the more expressive 2D characters in AQW. They should have started AQ2D a decade ago and ported Dragon Fable, not release some ugly and half baked game.
I'm just waiting for aq mobile.
>follow story through the 13 lords of chaos>foreshadowing for QoM saga>check story tab>it leads me to some archangel story>nothing to do with QoM>tfw QoM storyline isn't even in the tab?>follow disjointed storylines through class quests>some have QoM in the story but it already assumes I started that sagaso where exactly am I supposed to go from here? where do I even start the QoM storyline?I did a lot of storylines unlocking vhl/loo/ap/etc, and I slowly started going through the firewar chain (because I will need it for forge enchants later).I also keep getting told that I need to start the ArchMage grind asap since it takes forever, but from what I've seen it takes you to so many post-storyline areas and I don't want to get spoiled without doing the story in order.
>Elegy of MadnessThis might just be my favourite questline so far. I love the art direction.
>>3681739On a side note, is Arcana Invoker any good? Looks like it's pretty grindy to get, but I've loved the areas for it.
>>3681630https://www.aq.com/lore/guides/shadowsofwarsagaThis probably misses a few events, but it's the main beats at least. You should also cross reference that ingame main story quest thing in the book of lore even when it seems to deviate from QoM saga too, since it tackles some important stuff for later. For example Infernal Invasion has nothing to do with Queen saga really, but it does have relevance to the main story later iirc.>also keep getting told that I need to start the ArchMage grind asap since it takes forever,I mean, you could start with a few things now if you want but it's gated by a ton of Rank 10 reps, some of the quest lines you're specifically trying to do, various item collections, etc. Iirc it is probably simpler to leave until you have BLoD quests done to a certain point so you can get Brilliant Auras easier too.Personally I would not bother at the moment and just do the storyline, occasionally stopping to farm the items you like in each story area. Save yourself the spoilers. Just make sure you do the friendship stuff every day so you can easily get a bunch of the materials (spirit orbs, dragon runestones, etc) and some money vouchers.http://aqwwiki.wikidot.com/friendships
>>3681760Also don't speed read that first link. There are spoilers if your eyes skim ahead.
>>3681760>linkthanks anon, i'll try to follow that for the saga.>rank 10 repswith the 2x rep weekends and 2x rep boosts i grinded alot of 10 reps already>BLoDthere was an event that increased gains for those quests by a ton, so i managed to get my very own BLoD in just a few days!>friendshipis that very important to do? i once went into the area and it all confused me so i left. i didn't really understand all the items that i needed to rank up the friendships, or where to get them, and didn't have the bag space to hold them all.are there any friendships i should focus on in particular?
>>3681872>is that very important to do?It's not mandatory, just handy since it's so easy. Literally just mass grind drops one day, then drop in to hand them their favourite one a day (you can just write it down on a note and only keep like 5 items in your inventory). Especially for people in certain circumstances.>Drakath = 1 x 500k Voucher a day>Mi = 1 x 100k Voucher a day>Yulgar = 4 x 25k Vouchers a dayIf you're at the true endgame this doesn't matter, but anywhere from early to starting all the big grinds this is really good for saving your actual money while still getting event items and other merges you want.>Sally = 3x Dragon RuneStonesYou need a bunch of these for Archmage. Either buy them with gold vouchers, or get them her for free.>Maya = 1x Super Swag Token ABasically a free 5000 rep before boosts daily for reps that you probably missed like everyone else, just stack em up and unload akll at once whenever the next rep boost day is.>Brentan = 25 x Combat TrophiesSo you don't have to do PVP or spend timecheesing PVP to get those items like the cool Beast Bludrut armour.And so on. There's also Void Auras, Spirit Orbs, Unidentified 10 as well which help with certain grinds. And finally if you don't have the good Legion pets like me or haven't joined the Legion it's 100 Legion Tokens daily.
Here's the entire storyline in order from the official AE discord: https://pastebin.com/28wWQacC If anyone wants to clean it up they can.
>>3681740Extremely good DPS, especially against higher HP enemies. Personally, it's my favorite class in the game.
>>3679430I enjoy reading the story. I just don't really talk about it that much.
>>3679749Sentinel feels great, getting 15k DPS with Smite. Slowing working towards Ravenous for it.Will probably finish by next Oct since I don't have enough inventory space for Eternal Rest.>>3681740AI is good for HP sponges and repeat kills; Ultra Drago is easy so use insignias for the grindy parts.>>3681927Super Swag Token As can also be merged into The Collector, which is decent after the buff.
>>3641280>Do you have fond memories of their games?Yeah, mostly from AQWorlds, but I also played others, like DragonFable. But they got too grindy for me.Also, Gravelyn a cute.
>>3641280https://edramatica.com/AQ_WorldsBeleen tits.
>>3682295that was a comfy read
which one of you is this?
>>3682465I saw a screenshot of some kids recreating George Floyd's death in AQW
>>3651373>Elysium - Excellent for many farming classesAlso good for magic & hybrid soloers, it's just most F2P soloers are physical.Arcana Invoker, (Dark) Ultra Omni(K)Night, Elemental Warrior, DroT all benefit.>>3681630They also added flavour/lore text to temporary items, which is not on the wiki.>>3682465Lmao I saw that as well in Yorumi, is this guy room/server hopping too?
>>3681630The literal big bad of the first decade of game development died off screen and the Angel/Demon war was supposed to be somehow related but that turned out to be a an abandoned storyline.Malgor was just too long winded and was the exact premise of 13CL saga.
>>3641280How long would it take to beat the entire game? Last I played Adventure Quest was in 2011 and I always wanted to try and "finish" the game.
>>3684302
>>3684302>>3684328
wait is robina blind now? wjhat happened
>>3684377Lost her eyesight because she shot a magic arrow at Queen Iona in order to stop her.
>>3684302It would probably take you a week or two of nonstop playing to go through the entire main storyline.
>>3684386More like a month just to get an endgame class then do the main storyline since there are a lot of bosses/mobs that are super tough and were designed for multiple player parties during its release.
what am i supposed to spend gold on? the only time it ever mattered was buying some of the items for vhl.do i just buy the ~15 minute elixirs?
>>3681630Join /garden to do the Darkon saga then never touch the game again. Don't even bother with the QoM shit or Malgor's saga, both are such a boring slog with awful awful quests.
>>3684712>The Hero gets to fuck this
>Yulgar went "I can fix her" and actually did it>>3684734Yeah, pretty much.
>>3684712It's such a shame in a game full of top tier waifus we never got a band of autists to create an eroge out of them
>>3684712Sex
>used a 5k AC donation I recieved and the remaining saved up to get Paladin Chronomancer because I thought it would make Ultra Bosses a lot easier >find out it’s useful for only one single ultra boss that nobody fights I should’ve never doubted you Arch Paladin
>>3685332>5k AC donationhow did you do it bro... i have a grand total of 250 AC from the event so far... here's hoping i get some more before it ends so i can join legion
I am once again begging AE to add banks to houses. Yes, the designs have consistently been pretty good BUT where's all the banks & customizers? Only reason I use Shadowfall Fortress is because it has all three, which I don't wanna because I'm getting kind of sick of it and would like to use my banked Bright Fortress or even today's Midnight Nulgath Castle. Shadowfall Fortress also has the most rooms out of any house in the game, has two NPC's and even the Evil rep shop. Please give me a good reason to use literally any other house. Please even just give us a hub house like the Thanos one but instead of each portal leading to a room it takes players to different maps, /yulgar, /battleon, etc.
>>3685015Because they hire every single good fan artist and poach them out of creating any fan content.
>>3685503just open the map bro lmaotakes 3 clicks to go to either bank, yulgar or battleon
>>3685655this. it's literally faster to just go to the bank in battleon than the one in your house. only downside is having to mute the repetitive music if you have sound on.
>>3685334Luck I guess this is the only gifting event where I get anything.>>3685503There are a bunch of houses with banks but they’re mostly shit designed or have low room count. I recommend toe once to allow us to customise any house we own to include banks/customisers and portals or even more rooms for some AC price but they said that’s never gonna happen.
Just fell back into Dragonfable the other week, so was kinda cool to see this thread.Haven't kept track of their new games since Mech Quest - anything worth poking at?
>>3686106DragonFable and AQW are their main ones, really.
>>3684734Buying dragon runestones for alchemy is cheaper, but basically yes.There's also Fiend Shard/Ravenous and some items costs 500k Vouchers.Though you can get a free daily 500k Voucher from Drakath's Friendship.>>3686106>>3677716AQW, AQ3D, DF are the main three, with AQW being the FOMO cash cow.They have also periodically released some mobile and NES games:https://theretroverse.com/profile/24/ and https://artixgames.itch.io/Apparently Artix made an AI game? Based boss mogging his employees.
Remember HeroSmash?Honestly out of all the old and dead games they're keeping alive I'm surprised this is the one they decided to kill, since it was their only AQW clone
>>3686182>Apparently Artix made an AI game? Based boss mogging his employees.In this cursed Musk timeline Dage got replaced by Dahleet
>>3685015Methinks Artix could have created an animated series with the sheer amount of artists they had in the crew back then. That would've boomed the popularity, unlike AQW3D
>>3679500I also view Doomwood as the peak of golden age AQW. It had a titanic amount of "legacy" lore condensed into a single regional arc, and a secondary one at that since everything was being sidelined to set up the Chaos Lords plotline at the time. The stakes were so high that teenager me feared Artix was gonna die for real kek. Beware of extreme nostalgia-inducing picture.>>3679719Haven't played AQW for some time but I hear the Darkon Saga is pretty good too, I wonder if anyone bothered to do a proper essay reviewing it.
>>3686814>I wonder if anyone bothered to do a proper essay reviewing it.I haven't watched his Darkon Saga video yet but: https://youtube.com/@bonaquadorNo one was doing any decent AQW videos, especially on the stories/quests, so he decided to do it himself. It's a shame, since I really enjoyed his videos but he says he probably won't make more since he's primarily a viewer.
>>3686222>tfw the one game I had Alpha items in is the one that gets shutdownThe universe is cruel.
>>3687026Alright I watched it, the saga seems pretty much AQW-meets-Evangelion moment with the themes being very avant-garde and divorcing completely from the ordinary fantasy tropes I had in mind. Also it was mildly surprising to learn Darkon wasn't the new lead writer for the story but rather just the artist; goes to show how AE can do well when they borrow fresh talent.
Think DF is safe for the time being?Was considering fulfilling one of child me's wishes and buying Doomknight.
>>3687398It's one of their two pillars. It's highly unlikely to be shut down.
I'm ready for Nulgath's birthday.
>>3687671when is his birthday?
>>3687706Jan 16th.
Finally reached the 15 years milestone for a free IODA. I'm having a bad time choosing between so many rehashed pirate treasure chests though, maybe it's best if I save it for upcoming collections like Nulgath's
>>3688396Nulgath chests are dogshit even the ones that got contributed by Milt. AE can’t decide if they want this faction to be Insectiods, Demons or yet another undead faction.
>>3687671I wonder if they’ll add another endgame item like the last one.
>>3688791Even the more recent Nation armor sets scream 2009 and shoo away anyone devoid of Nulgrindgath sunk cost from touching them, while Legion's have such a dark color palette you get bad eyesight from trying to notice the details without setting your screen brightness to 100.But for some reason their capes and swords are almost always good
>trying to do all quests>get questline that needs you to pvp in a dead arena>get questline that needs 3 players to progress through to the next stepit's all so tiresome...
>>3689424Just have friends LOSER
>>3689586let me play my story mode without having to talk to people
>>3689662Then get yourself a secondary
Dagefags this is you
>>3689424Just do what every other player does and make alt accounts, PVP is broken anyway when everyone just uses Chrono classes or health % based damage classes.>>3689662Then just play Dragon Fable the superior game
Yup, Our heroes....
>>3690208an alt account is okay, but needing 3 (three) accounts to get through a step in a quest is absurd.>Dragon Fabletoo much of the game is gated behind a paywall. in AQW i can do 90% of the quests as f2p
>>3690280Which quest requires 3 players? Besides the Ultra Bosses literally everything can be soloed even with a mid tier class.
>>3690484J6 questline. Need 2 people to press the buttons so the 3rd person can go past instakill turrets. Leaving the room after pressing a button resets it.
>>3690656>get rustbucket class and use the skill to make yourself immune to damage>get a class with range skills and kill off the turrets and sprint to the other screen before they respawn>get an evasion class and max out your evasion thereby being able to bypass the turretsThere now you don’t need friends or ults
>>3689424>>3690656>Here you'll need to use the Potion of Evasion and Oracle's Foretell ability, or your dodge class, to pass by the turrets without dying.>Still filtered by turrets in 2025 when we have a gazillion dodge classes, easy potions, forge helmets, and a linked guide: >>3641288Also, end-game soloers can just tank that damage. Combat Trophies can be farmed without PvP, unless you mean non-Legion YnR.
>>3690900>>3690905The turrets aren't enemies so I just assumed it was unavoidable instakill damage, like in some other areas in the game. Then again, I was wearing my anima helm.I'll have to try again with some buffs.Also >>3690905 I meant the PvP tokens/trophies from Doomwood Arena. Is there a way to solo farm those? From what I can see it just puts you in a queue against other players, and you have to wait until it finds a match for you.
>>3690986Don’t bother with the PvP mechanics and just use an alt account. Go to a private room/server and Que up with your ult.Keep in mind the remaining players in PVP are giga number autists so even if you actually find matches prepare to be one shotted a lot.
>>3691078???Just run bludrutbrawl a couple of times. You can do it completely alone and get five to ten medals iirc like every two minutes.
>>3691091There are specific endgame items that you can only get after completing a couple of PVP in doomwood arena and nowhere else.
>>3691144Which ones? I thought I'm only missing like RGoW and Dauntless and shit you need to do ultras for. I'm pretty sure that if it's a dmg boost item you can get the same % somewhere else easier.
>no more commission artists allowed in the gameI guess pink and insectoid armor sets are all there is gonna be now
>>3691260Empowered Nulgath Items come to mind then again you’d only want those if you’re a Nation fag>>3691410To be fair players have been complaining about commissioned art for a while it’s always either too anime or too overdesigned like the devoured of gods set.
>>3691628>too anime or too overdesignedI don't see how this is a problem. AQW has gone far too long to have a consistent art design at this point.
>>3689424Hah at least that’s doable even in a cheesy way, I’ll never do the Sepulchre armour quests because it’s locked behind membership.
>>3691628>playersA vocal minority morelike.
NSoD is my wife
>>3692892>anon waifus the most botted item in the gameCuck mentality
>>3692895 is my wife
>>3692895You fucking take that back
New Good faction class confirmed. What do we think it's gonna be?https://www.aq.com/gamedesignnotes/AQW-6Jan24-DevBlog4-9832
>>3693521Probably another shitty support class like all the other Good faction classes. AE will never outshine VHL or LR, and players will never break from the Ultra boss meta comp
>>3694293Isn't VHL shit for most Ultras?
>>3694293People are just going to abandon the room if you try to join with VHL, it has become a glorified vitrine class in the current endgame. LR on the other hand is very disgusting since it has never left the meta and every other class in the game orbits it.
>>3694925>glorified vitrine classI come back after two years and this is how I find out VHL is a meme? I farmed my NSOD and everything.
>>3695412As a consolation prize you get to skip one sliver of Ravenous grinding since it's a prerequisite
>>3695412It's still a great class for solo play, but its lack of any sort of utility usually leaves it in the dust. Other classes can reach similar DPS while also providing a bunch of party buffs.
>>3695444>>3695445Ah well it's not like I bothered playing properly after I finished the chaos story.
>>3695456Check out Astravia and try to reach the finale of Malgor's saga.
https://twitter.com/YoshinoAE/status/1877963352250462394PSA: Essences & Totems boost until the 16th and Gold boost until the 15th.They still haven't updated the calendar and daily gifts have been missing for months.>>3693521Probably a Jus Divinum class since they're a major faction in both of the main stories.>We still want to continue with class reworks as well, with the next one up being BerserkerYou do have Beta Zerker or membership right? Don't tell me you IoDA'd Alpha Pirate...>We're looking into potential changes for Ravenous to better differentiate it from ValianceRavenous nerf and just like Dauntless it's a year after release, get fucked early adopters.>>3695412>>3695445Other classes either need grindy enhancements and/or are P2W, see: >>3682204VHL got it's skills' range nerfed too, which makes it annoying to use for general quests.>>3694925To be precise, LoO+LR is very strong, +20% all primary stats and Depravity is insane.AE refuses to nerf them and pussyfoot around it with debuffs to remove Arcane Shield.
>check the wiki on a daily basis to see if there’s a new monstergirl pet/ house item.So this is what it feels like to play a gacha>>3695457Malgor storyline is shit
Alright I've had this happen to me thrice today: Is taunt trolling a thing? Some people stop taunting just in time for me and other players to get oneshot by a Nulgath with 10% hp left and they reap the kill before we respawn.
>>3695587I’ve seen taunt trolling in ultra rooms but most of the time I think it’s just players being overconfident so they skip taunts.
>>3695587I think it's probably just poor internet connections leading to missed taunts.
>>3695542>Malgor storyline is shitYou're shit, cunt
Every time I join yulgar I get to see a dude afking with his male main acc and four female alts around him to make it appear like a samefag pseudo-harem. I don't condemn botting with alts for content but AFK alting (on none other than Artix server) should be a punishable offense since players have to usually wait minutes for a free slot to join in the only quest-active server after a carpal-tunnel-inducing rush of compulsory clicks to refresh its availability.
>>3696890why do they keep lowering the playercount per server reeeeeeeeelet me do my ultras LET ME INTO THE MAIN SERVER
>>3696890Buy a membership, goy
So is there any way to stop the lag in AQW? Some people claim that they don't get any lag at all, but I have a relatively good PC and but have to disable most effects (and not go full screen) so that I don't have to look at a slideshow.
>>3697065It is entirely the processor that matters for AQW, nothing else.
Thoughts? The Rockstar armor is awfully overlooked for being a free set
>>3697153I don't play a woman character because I'm not a homo so can't comment
>>3697082I have an Intel Core i7-11800H processor and it struggles when there's a lot of players/effects on screen. Apparently the game only uses one core, too?
>>3697153slutty demongirls made for whoring out at yulgar's
>>3697153It's all right.I only wear edgy dark knight armor, though.
>>3697065It's a flash game, cunt. Wait for AQ2D
>Like female armor more than male>Character is male>Sex change is 1000 ACs>Worried if I spend it I'll want to use certain male armors instead like Beta BerzerkerI am once again begging AE to change the AC sex change cost into gold or some farmable item. "lmao poorfag" i have 8k ACs, this is a matter of principle and wanting to spend that on other shit.
>>3697383Just make an alt to play dress up. One less random you have to worry about in public rooms if you end up leveling it up.
>>3697190>how to assemble a quick party at yulgar [2025 method]>>3697383You can have your cake and eat it too. Plenty of non-human sets coincidentally happen to be genderless (or have ambiguous variants in case of Nation) so even a female character can switch to male-ish entities of doom whenever without spending a dime.
>>3697383I don't mind the idea of male armors most of the time.I just hate how a lot of otherwise good armors get fucking grossly oversized for the males to the point of being ugly and cumbersome looking as shit.
>>3697383No, your characters gender should be permanent upon creation otherwise it would make your decisions meaningless.
>>3697383Eh? This bland as fuck shit is what you're holding out for? Move on, boomer
>>3697778This is easily one of the coolest armors in the game anon
the virgin alpha pirate vs the chad beta berserker
When will people realize that IoDAing alpha classes will not make you join the cool grandpas club. When you use something gotten from IoDA it is not prestigious in the "I've been there" sense, it's IoDA tagged. You're just conveying to everyone the extent of your frustrations to get a class that won't be equipped outside Yulgar because it sucks. At least get something functional like a new 51% sword or a vast array of customization from chests.
>>3697954>waaah waaah why do people get the items that THEY want
>>3698078>implying anyone actually likes the alpha classesthey only >like them because of the status symbol, but having an ioda tag on the item entirely removes any status that it might have.
Apparently Alina is discussing the viability of an AQW hardmode server
>>3698165>Necro is an It>Pyro and Evolved Shaman are femaleEh?
YOO
>>3698165>take mage or healer to escherion>get blade of awe, cape, and awe blast>powerfarm to 100>do the rest of the challenges>wooooow
when's infinity
>>3698165Who said that? I just find a Reddit post of some autist, I don't think anyone on the team is supporting this
>>3698414https://x.com/Alina_AE/status/1877376916090499449
>>3698425The farms would have to be cut down dramatically for a hardcore run to be worth doing.Otherwise most people will start, remember how much grinding for shit sucks then lose interest.
>>3641280>shiminuki streaming>i'm like younger than 14>i get in his stream and he shouts me out>bestdayever.flacin case you want some proof, my aqw username is Odogian
>>3687671AE did it, many Nilggath anniversary armors were subpar before, with the chest being saved by one or two nice sets, but they finally managed to make them peepeepoopoo unusable now. There's no way someone in the drawing board thought any of that first batch was worth paying 10k for. Get a single cape and sword and move on.
