It's a new year. How is your AQW/DF/whatever grinding going?
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I was thinking we lost our bread... Good to see it back
Dang there’s a general for this game? Also it took 3 fucking years but I finally figured out my aqw account password.. The stupid support wagies declined to reset my password because of a few details I couldn’t remember so I literally had to do it the hard way.
>challenge fight about that ghost you found in a crypt 20 years agokino alert
>>3903672I can’t bring myself to play dragonfable anymore after they got rid of kathool adept’s fat 255 shield. I don’t even want to login..
>>3903661New ultra(s) friend?
>>3903840>Got his account back after three yearsCan he even do ultras?
>>3903349Is AQW still just a dress up game?
>>3903884It has gameplay mechanics you have to pay attention to now (only applies to some bosses)
>>3903841I was lv 87 when I lost my password. Apparently they gave out free idoas for anyone with really old accounts. Gonna use it for the necrotic sword I guess. I need that boost since I only have 50 void auras and not even close to getting the apotheosis. Not like there’s any rares I want because I’m dead set on wearing one specific armor set.Ngl I’m pretty glad I farmed that stupid hard to get yami class and vampire lord is an ok farmer that I got and lord of order for support. Guess I’ll start on continuing the half finished dragon of time class quests.
>>3904144LoO and level 87 is already enough to do ultras, AFAIK.
I miss when I could be extremely comfy with vindicator of they. Would be nice if they could buff the class at least like the other classes.
>>3904144That should be fine to do some of the ultras. We usually did them on Friday or Saturday. Come to Gravelyn server at about 17:00-21:00 UTC, Yulgar room 3349. And pray we get 4 people, sometimes we just get 3...
Anyone kill the new Kezeroth boss yet?
Did they just forget about the giftbox items
Anons probably forgot that thread existed lol. Almost no one showed up for ultras.
I expect the Flame of the Beyond storyline to be finished this year, hopefully.
>>3907087I'm on vacation in a different time zone right now, sorry.
Holy fuck this archmage questline grind is disgusting. What the fuck were the devs thinking? Who’s the stupid retard that came up with all this bullshit?Why didn’t they learn that the best questline is the one like lord of order?>130 million gold needed>last quest needs 5k+ materialsFucking hell.
>>3908055King's Echo is fortunately very easy. It's also funny since ArchMage is the best farming class, but one of the worst farms will already be over.
>>3903491Thanks for posting this, I been a bit busy recently and forgotAlso, too bad we forgot to add the Ultras location and time again lolMaking a note to remove the enhancements guide if it isn't updated soon>>3904144Welcome back fellow returnee, support was able to reset my password>>3903562I would recommend against IoDAing NSoD, especially if you're farming DroTA +30% is easy and not much worse, also damage boosts don't work on DoTsYou could also just get anons here to carry you, /timeinn is so easy it's soloableHowever, If you're dead set on a +51% then get the Hollowborn SoD, it's betterMore endgame classes can be IoDA'd now too, just don't pick VHL (it's complicated)Some 10k chests have classes too, the BF2024 has a non-farmable lategame classAlso, if this is your first IoDA, you will get another one for free for two in total
>>3908231Oops, meant for >>3903661
>>3904236https://www.aq.com/gamedesignnotes/AQW-Balance-PatchNotes-9515>10/04/24 - Collector of UpdatesThey already buffed it Elodea-anon, over a year in factDecent with Awe/midgame-Forge, great even with ElysiumStill got the meme rank 10 passive, so it'll never be amazingEven better with Ravenous, but why use VoT at that point>>3908118>ArchMage is the best farming classAI and EW are better, CSH and KE too if farming pottedIt's arguably still the best F2P brainless farmer though>one of the worst farms will already be overHonestly, that's true for most of the endgame farmersI think that's why a lot of people use Dauntless AF
>>3908370>EWBrother, no one. And I mean NO ONE will learn combos for this one. It's only used by like 2-3 autistic people.
Devs should be forced to grind their quests that they made before releasing them. Shit wouldn’t be 10% as tedious if they actually experienced the grind for themselves.
>>3908711Funny thing: Alina was talking about auto clicker mechanic... But for some reason it's all radio silent rn
>>3908696>>3908370What the heck is EW
>>3908696>Needing EW's combos for farminglol, lmao even. That's really only a bosses thingWhen farming you just spam the damage skills >It's only used by like 2-3 autistic peopleYou're underestimating the number of autists>>3908719(Legendary/Mythic/Ultra) Elemental WarriorGold for members, buy for ACs, or bonus packageNeeds endgame stuff to shine so don't feel bad
>>3908736Can you post damage chart again? I want to try and check it for myself, also is it pot or no pot? Because I know the guy who made chart has bias towards ew and I don't trust him
I'll have enough ACs for a chrono, after the 1k from Frostval plus HonourableI been looking into whether to buy CSH or PhCM, since AQW Hub is outdatedWe had a question last thread about chrono choice so I'll post my findings later>>3908874Bro what are you smoking? All the farming stuff is already in >>3903491The "Classes" one is by the mentally ill transgender and the "KPM" one is by the NCM haterhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RoPfjKD4Hy-gP_rETUISMllKoi8VpRkMApZdTPP5fe8If you talking about this super outdated one, then they never even tested EW at allAlso, all the farming lists include how they did the tests and the setups involvedIf you mean pic related that's soloing DPS, has nothing to do with farming
>>3903928Do I have to get a new class for said bosses, or are any of the ones in picrel still good these days? Haven't played the game in years.
>>3909105Well, uh...Dragonslayer General is now the best dragon killing class after its buffs, at least. I'd recommend going for Lord of Order if you want to help out with Ultras, though.
>>3909107Is Arch Paladin worse than it? I thought it would be amazing for bosses.
>>3909152They serve slightly different roles. AP is a great tank that helps the entire team's survivability, and it is often used against fights like Champion Drakath. LoO is just a busted support that massively increases the overall team damage.
Finally finished the stupid awescention questline.Was about to start finishing the enchantments and the very last archmage quest until I noticed that it needs a book of arcana.>look up the wiki to see where to get book of arcana>you get it by fucking doing the questline againWhat the fuck is wrong with these devs? Literally the only good reward is the 35% all armor and that’s only useful for fucking drakath up while giving a tiny 4% boost with 75% weapons. Archmage isn’t even that great of a farmer. 99% of the time I’m using frostval barbarian to destroy mobs. At least let it do damage to 6 monsters so it can actually occupy a niche like eternal inversionist.Fucking hell.
>>3909301Reread the questline again and noticed the arcana quest didn’t need materials from other quests. Thank god. Almost lost my shit when i saw that.
Are they gonna update mechquest anytime soon? Like there has to be at least one neet dev willing to work for free like the dragonfable guy who is proceeding to turn the game into shit by meganerfing everything into an unfun mess.
>>3909871Didn't they finish it already?
Wow chaos avenger quest literally took a day to finish after getting the initial 20 insignias.Why can’t the devs make all the questline like this? >muh difficultyLiterally all you need to do to beat him is volunteer to taunt and so long as you don’t skill issue or internet issue, it’s not a problem.
What room are the Ultras again?
I have to go, unfortunately. Maybe next week...
Holy fucking shit I just figured out the disgusting archmage farming combo and build.I'm fucking doing fucktons of damage to mobs now.
>>3910538>>3910686It turns out the anon that usually organizes the weekly Ultras meetup is MIABeing an Europoor, their ISP banned 4chan and VPNs don't work here lolThere's currently 2 of us at Gravelyn yulgar-3349, Yorumi if we need randos
>>3910045You can say the same for dragonfable when book 1 finished. Meanwhile the dev is dragging its soulless corpse around through book 2 and 3 and just adding challenge bosses and updating previous mission and storylines for the sake of “content” but somehow raising the lv to 100 from 90 is a hard ask.
Is it really that hard to ask someone to take a stupid shaman against azalith? I literally offered to use chunin + lacerate for the extra blind and the 2 negative IQ retards that bothered to stay all day hoping for someone to help them continue to use their shitty chronos that’s not even a SWoT.
Not to mention the incredibly stupid assholes didn’t even use praxis. Can’t believe how stupid people are. Willing to wait all day for help but can’t be bothered to use classes/enchantments that should make sense to use against a boss with almost a billion hp.
>>3912015>>391201790% of the difficulty in AQW is finding a good team, honestly.
I retract my previous statement on just taunting ultra drakath. I've seen too many retards who don't know what a pot is but somehow managed to come across this boss.I literally did the hard part for them and they still fuck up the most simple job of doing damage.Damn these people are stupid.
Finally got the 3rd divine will. I can say goodbye to retards who somehow either don't have or is too retarded to use the most basic and easy to use infinite damage class in the game.
>>3912391Congrats, anon. Azalith is a pain to fight.
Holy fuck sovereign of storms was a pain in the ass to farm. I'm glad I had CSS and archmage or this bullshit would've taken forever. Somehow managed to destroy the 5 stupid annoying bosses with it despite them doing shit tons of damage and applying several annoying effects to me constantly.The stupid skye fragments was a 4-5% drop rate for no reason. Good thing I had archmage. Opened the battle analyzer and my kills per minute was like 50. Of course they had to make that a stupid drop rate on top of all the other stupid annoying shit I had to farm.I don't even know why i farmed this shitty trash class.
>>3913054Completionist, I guess?It's sometimes fun to use if you're bored.
They really need to push the reset time back an hour. I can’t do this anymore but almost everyone else is doing the dailys at this time.
Challenge/Ultra bosses anon is still banned, so reminder it's Gravelyn /yulgar-3349 at 17~20 UTCAlso, if you guys have any preferences for server choice and meetup time, feel free to reply here>>3913054Iona now drops Skye Gold, so you can get SoS first then use it to farm the rest of King's Echo lol
>>3911994>You can say the same for dragonfable when book 1 finished. Meanwhile the dev is dragging its soulless corpse around through book 2 and 3Bro, what? Book 1 storyline is mediocre at best. Book 2 is mid and Book 3 is genuinely great.You do have a point about updating previous missions though
>>3908938Here's my (belated) CSH and PhCM comparison as promised:>Chrono ShadowHunter (a.k.a. Power-creep the Class)Pros:- Best solo DPS, excluding transience (O/T)CM- Best potted farmer spamming 4, still decent potless- Best overall enh is Valiance, easiest endgame forge- Fast nuke cycle (~6s) with a simple skill rotation- Bypasses boss shields with the gunslinger mode- Scales very well with fate tonic and felicitous philtreCons:- Dodge needs timing, spamming tanks DPS (without Rav)- Gunslinger mode needs low ping to do good DPS- Needs two uses of 3rd skill for the nuke to sure-hit- Can't max haste or crit chance without potting- Janky animation with weapon turning into a gun>Phantasm Chronomancer (a.k.a. Better TimeKeeper)Pros:- Hits dodge threshold with only Examen, easy to loop- Nuke is guaranteed to crit and hit with just builtin skills- Debuffs magical/physical resistance which is very scarce- Still works with boss shields and can even farm decentlyCons:- Bad without Vali/Ely/Rav, more than other solo chronos- Slow nuke cycle (~10s) and very high ping lowers DPS- Mashing lowers DPS because you don't loop both buffs- Not as good potted since it has both mag & phys skillsTL;DR CSH is better, but PhCM is still great and has lazy dodgeFeel free to correct if anything is wrong, also here's some tidbits:- With Rav, dodge-spam CSH and button-mash PhCM beats TK- Transience (O/T)CM still has the best solo DPS, potless or potted- Unsure if PhCM or TK is better with just midgame enhancements- AFAIK PhCM is meh without endgame forge due to it's stat model
>>3906337How far did you guys go with the donating? Do you regret it?>>3908055I stopped somewhere in the middle of getting all the repeat books and now I can't remember where to begin again, so I just gave up. I'm happy to spend hours fighting bosses, but I can't stand the grinds like Nulgath that need like 100 different things all gathered from separate sources. The new king class is more than fast enough for most things anyway.
>>3914738Donated 250 ACs for the badge and to save up generosity coins for a classKinda regret it, since they still haven't given out the two free coins for this yearConsidered 1k, but decided not to given the delay. Pet's art is mid as expectedNice armour, must have taken a lot of patience and luck to save up so muchIMO last year's 100k set is better, but they're both by Crulon so it's pretty close>>3914419Oh right, I forgot to mention few more Chrono facts:- Transience (O/T)CM is the only one to hit the dodge threshold forgeless & potless- S(S/W)oT is the only one that can really benefit from Smite due to the nuke delay- CSH is so good at farming because if you overkill hard enough a bullet isn't used- There's a theory they reworked Ravenous to synergise with PhCM, to push sales
I should be allowed to equip 3 different types of pets desu. One quest pet, one bank pet, and one battle/normal pet.
>>3914391>Challenge/Ultra bosses anon is still banned, so reminder it's Gravelyn /yulgar-3349 at 17~20 UTCReminder this is happening again today, also still need feedback on server choice and meetup time>>3914885>>3914738Why would they do that when the whales will donate 100k ACs for a single pet that does all three?
>>3914969>Overslept again and missed itAaggghhh
>>3914885>I should be allowed to equip 3 different types of pets desuThis, but for capes. I think with pets it doesn't really matter since you can open the bank with b even if you don't have it equipped and you only need the quest part when you're actually doing it.This is the only good donated acs related pet btw, makes me wish to have a normal version too.
I finally got KE. Guess it's time to cheese ultraspeaker.
>>3915390Good luck, bro
>use dragon of time in god of depths>retard seethes uncontrollably at me using dragon of time >proceeds to do triple his damage while he dies 3 times in a row as void highlordIt’s kinda funny how many people think dot is shit and bank the class because they can’t braindead button mash it like void highlord and expect good results.
>>3915734>VHLs>Absolutely retardedChoose two
>>3914738The armor is sick but those wings are way too huge.
>>3915734>>3915735Most people don't know DoT/HoT squaring is a thing, hopefully it wasn't a VHL(IoDA)>>3915876That's partly because they're not by the same artist, this is the Crulon set >>3914969The wings are a bonus from the original 100k set that got downgraded to a chest set
I’m supposed to IDOA oblivion blade of nulgath (rare) right? For some reason the most popular idoa list has two of them one says rare and one a few items down that doesn’t say rare. Did people make a mistake pasting the wrong item and got the nonrare instead?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artix/adventurequest-worlds-infinityHere's your Kickstarter rewards bro, by you favourite artist Lae!>>3915390I heard after they messed with the servers, the chart changed?>>3916118https://www.aq.com/gamedesignnotes/the-miltonius-mess-182This is why, both versions are rare and functionally the sameNote the quest requires members and +51% needs the sword
Just realized Sovereign of storms with 51% and 30% boosts deals just enough damage to guaranteed crit oneshot the tainted elemental. I'm literally just spamming auto button to farm it. Pretty nice desu.
>farmed a sheathed blade expecting an unsheathe attack animation>instead it’s a regular sword attack that’s swinging it like a fucking batYou don’t know how disappointed I am..
>>3916825I felt the same when I first got some dual wield pistols and you can't actually shoot with them.
>>3917361I changed classes just for an attack animation that looks like a pistol shooting
>>3915161>This is the only good donated acs related pet btwHard disagree.
>POV the whales just bought another mediocre 10k ACs chest>>3914969>Challenge/Ultra bosses anon is still banned, so reminder it's Yorumi /yulgar-3349 at 17~20 UTCAt Yorumi today in case we need randos, still need feedback on server choice and meetup time>>3915161>>3917424I assume they meant only good pet this year, Vordred was cooler BTW
The stupid ultraboss drops really need to be fucking permanent. I disconnected immediately after beating ultradarkon..
>>3916395>JX just finished flashing three of the four alignment variant Kickstarter Armors>Lae did the original concept art. The matching weapons are breathtakingHonestly, I wouldn't buy these sets if they were AC ones. Thoughts?>>3918353We waited for over 5 hours and no other anons came, it's so over bros>>3918537Deserved for doing Challenge/Ultra bosses with randos instead of anons lol
Kings echo is literally printing me malgor insignias. Goddamn this class is disgusting if you know how to cheese with it on ultraspeaker.
I finally completed the last archmage quest. I can finally equip my gravelyn bank pet instead of the stupid unicorn. Gonna be able to destroy drakath with praxis too.Now for the annoying goddess of war armor.
>>3918806Nicely done! Good luck with RGoW. It's a pain.
>>3918353>Challenge/Ultra bosses anon is still banned, so reminder it's Yorumi /yulgar-3349 at 17~20 UTCReminder this is happening again today, also still need feedback on server choice and meetup time>>3908874While we're waiting for this anon to finish their testing, Friday the 13th maps will soon be F2P againSince /lichwar is the best gold farm I'll test Ravenous EW, but Dauntless will likely still be better
>>3918937Why farm gold when dailies give all the gold you need?
>>3918937>Challenge/Ultra bosses anon is still banned, so reminder it's Yorumi /yulgar-3349 at 20~24 UTCOK so someone came by really late at 01 UTC, so we're trying again at 20-24 UTC tomorrowAlso, are the servers acting up? We've been getting DC'd a lot recently even when not AFK>>3919227Have to dust off and use all the endgame classes and enhancements I farmed somehow
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>>3919234Something came up so I couldn't make it for the first 2 hours, will hold down fort for last 2-3Also, after discussing with anons, we're thinking of expanding to general game help and hangout>>3919291What possessed you to make this!? Ungrateful AQW players don't appreciate Lae's vision!
Decided to give AQW a visit again. Seeing a dedicated Artix bread in vrpg definitely helped give me a push.I played during release and sporadically throughout the years but barely. Logged back in at 22. Gonna try to get the blade of awe.
>>3919639Good luck. The grind for BoA is pretty simple.
>>3919686Got it done. The awe enhancements coming with extra ability procs is cool. It looks like the boosts from the blade of awe shop items and even armor of awe have equivalents in the "you played X years" shop (more like you existed X years since registration).
Kinda funny how every single dps chart intentionally exclude css.
Man, I don't know how to feel about some classes just being complete at rank 5.
>Challenge/Ultra bosses reminder, Gravelyn /yulgar-3349 at 20~24 UTC Fri & SatI'm busy this week so not coming, also Gravelyn since Yorumi is currently offline>>3921548WDYM? I've seen multiple soloing charts/rankings include CSH and PhCM
>>3922172AQW Infinity soon tm (2035)
>>3922217I'm starting to lose hope.
Still no good private server?
>lv 85 eternal inversionist in xyfrag daily>he can't swap to something else because they're all weaker than it somehowHow the fuck did this retard survive until now?
>>3923416Relying on others? Maybe he grinded low level mobs until he got to level 85?
There really needs to be a non bank gravelyn pet. I keep accidentally clicking on her when I'm juggling between rooms farming with archmage..
Is Escherion the most bullied boss in the game?
Why do retards keep inviting me to their stupid guild? It doesnt even give you benefits.
Permanent scrolls when? Let me merge permanent scrolls already.I fucking hate crafting the stupid taunt/decay scrolls 10+ times in a row.
>>3928487Just use a bot for it, same with pots. I can't imagine myself sitting there crafting max stacks of each tonic and elixir I need.
>>3927646Either him or Chaos Alteon
No I won't grind for archmage, archfiend is all I could ever ask for and more, plus its name and animations effects can't be surpassed
They didnt powercreep css for 2 years. Looks like its futureproof.
>>3930804The damage is great, but did any relevant ultras release post-css? Afaik most endgame bosses predates the class so it's braindead precisely because there are zero mechanical bottlenecks set in place unlike AE did for previous Chronos
>Doing the Valentine's Day event>Killing a Heart drops four chambersHeh
