A new ultraboss was just released in AQW. Will you be farming for the new class?

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>>3792451 (OP)
when will they release it offline

>>3792577
literally never, they'd sooner self-destruct

All I remember from these games is
a) discovering cheating was possible, fucking around and finding out (getting banned) in AQ
b) being torn between two of the houses in MQ because one had an edgy assassin mech and the other one was fucking mecha wizards and at the time both were the coolest shit I could think of
Which is to say, how jank and frustrating is it to play again to relive the nostalgia, just give me a straight simple answer

>>3792633
MechQuest? Still jank, but it's perfectly playable.

>>3792566
Man, I love Arcana Invoker
I assume Dragonslayer General is being used against dragon targets?

Only logging in from time to time to make sets with new stuff, but at the same time it feels great when you assign each with a proper endgame class, so now I'm stuck trying to get Arcana Invoker for this one and Darkon is so stupidly hard to kill in random parties I'm willing to get a chrono to replace every other 200-ping pablo archpaladins who misses his heal timing crap.
>>3792633
>edgy assassin mech
Misthaven was The Edge before edgy even existed as a slang

>>3792841
I just farmed Arcana Invoker the hard way. I hate relying on others since I'm not part of a guild. Fantastic class, though.

>>3792859
Same. I'm in the process of leveling up and grinding for multiple alts because I'd rather be multiboxing four windows than to cooperate with bots and underages.

>>3793170
Some part of me still enjoys playing at public parties rather than in armies. Maybe it is nostalgia for the times I beat chaos lords with randoms, but it's also because otherwise the game feels like a single-player cookie grinder without the unpredictability and player anecdotes. Though too much unpredictability can be unwarranted for your time, that's why I'm going for the middle ground and getting chronic like css and pcm to swap and overperform party roles if one of them is flunking too much

>>3793170
Some part of me still enjoys playing at public parties rather than in armies. Maybe it is nostalgia for the times I beat chaos lords with randoms, but it's also because otherwise the game feels like a single-player cookie grinder without the unpredictability and player anecdotes. Though too much unpredictability can be unwarranted for your time, that's why I'm going for the middle ground and getting chronos such as css and pcm to swap and one-trick-pony party roles if one of the players are flunking too much

>>3793210
>>3793170
The biggest issue is that a lot of randoms are both uncooperative and have no idea what they're doing. Makes things endlessly frustrating.
Really doesn't help that a lot of them are also ESL...

>>3792451 (OP)
Robina is built for vore and painful digestion in a dragon's belly

>>3794096

>Looking for stuff to do
>Turns out there are actually two 50% damage boost weapons I can get easily

>>3794115
that's so meta

>>3792841
Please be nice to AP players. We are new and trying our best to learn while we work on unlocking better classes.

I got another Necrotic Sword of Doom variant. I'm running out of Forge enhancements to put on these.

>>3792451 (OP)
More like fartdix lol.

I still haven't killed Ultra Speaker a single time...

>>3795203
I still haven't done astralshrine a single time. How do you even get enough people for it if you're not in a guild?

>>3792566
>Wanted to find a newer guide for AQ3D, but could only find a fucking fishing guide
Help me you botters REEE! Also, nothing other than Discord channels for ED and MQ

>>3792690
Yeah, that's why "Dragon" was bolded and AI's higher DPS is after it completes a full cycle
However, the guy who made that doesn't have the best latency and it's already outdated too
Wanted a better one, but couldn't find anything. Guardian got buffed recently, glass cannon though

>>3794857
I only keep four +51% since I use the Wall Awe Plaque to switch between Awe enhancements

>>3795203
ha! loser
>>3795468
you don't. make friends, it's an mmo.

>>3795797
>four +51% weapons
>awe enhancements
chat what did he mean by this

>>3795203
I killed Ultra Speaker for the first time today!

>>3792841
Why do you need to kill Darkon? Drago is way easier
Also, they had an insignia boost for the birthday last year

>>3796123
Awe, Elysium, Lacerate, and Ravenous is all I need.

>>3796613
Congratulations! It's always the hardest the first time.

>>3796635
Bro, your Arcana Concerto?

>>3796645
>The only Arcana I need in my life is picture related
Concerto is pretty niche, don't need the poleaxes since I have SDKA, needing insignias for AI
Dauntless/Valiance cuz lazy, low synergy with my classes, no use for IFP & MSFB / AP & DoT

>>3796673
I sometimes wish she was a more relevant NPC. Imagine her reaction to finding out the Hero is now an Archmage.

>The Divine Will
Wow, I hate trying to get this

>>3792451 (OP)
Can someone buy and leak the lore colouring book? Can't afford it here in Canada lol

Exalted Apotheosis acquired

>Trying to help someone do the daily Nightbane quest
>He keeps dying at the last second

https://x.com/ArtixKrieger/status/1943339259747856870
Gravelyn comic is coming, apparently

>>3792451 (OP)
>new ultraboss
I simply will not do nulgath type grinds or ultra bosses. I log on solely to do story quests, farm weekly events and play dress up.

The Arcana and the Hero during the Arcana Invoker questline.

>>3801297
show us your outfits, anon.

>>3797301
Bro??? It's just 20 bucks here, how much do you have to pay?

How are people doing so much damage when farming bosses? Some people outright instakill the bosses, and at times I feel like I'm doing less damage than a level 90.
My gear is:
>+51% weapon forge +6, smite
>head anima +6, clairvoyance
>everything else normal forge +6 enchants
>VHL class
My 2/3/4/5 skills do 9k/9k/5k/30-50k damage (if that means anything).
I try to use consumes like the potent battle elixir/felicitous philtre/power tonic/potion of speed/etc. but they don't really make much of a difference.

Also I get instakilled by a lot of bosses (like the hydra challenge or archfiend dragonlord). I know the clairvoyance helm makes you very squishy, but even if I take it off and switch to a tankier class (like AP), I still get instakilled and just can't solo the fight at all.

>>3795797
>Vindicator Of They
KINO. This was my main class when I was actually invested in AQW like a decade ago. The TMBG collaboration was super cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxXVhdmdZc

>>3801673
Paypig calendar classes all have their dedicated nukes so people keep buying them

>>3801673
Only stuff like CAv or SSoT can solo bosses like Icewing or AFDL. They do monstrous amounts of damage.
Surprisingly, ArchMage actually can solo the level 90 Hydras.

>>3801526
No, you'll make fun of me.

>>3802094
i would never

>>3792633
>All I remember from these games is
>a) discovering cheating was possible, fucking around and finding out (getting banned) in AQ
yea, that's all i really remember about them too, my friend telling me to play in the early 2000s i think, starting it and realizing how insanely grindy it is because they want your money in their insanely content-bare garbage flashgame, then firing up the ol' cheatengine
i never got banned for it though

>>3802044
ArchMage can solo the first two inn ultra bosses if you build for healing and use a few buff bots. You'll just be there for a while.

>still can't decide whether I like this set or not

>>3802252
Nobody could accept the real me
You have no idea how much I resisted spending my Mythic Item of Digital Awesomeness on Alpha Pirate for the memes.

How strong do you guys think the Hero is if we mashed all of the available classes together?

>>3802909
probably as strong as DoT

>>3802813
where are the horns/tail from?
and what did you end up spending it on?

>>3803013
>where are the horns/tail from?
Creature 10 Horns, they should still be available. And Grand Necromancer's Tail from an anniversary a few years back, there's probably a collection chest by now I guess.

>and what did you end up spending it on?
Nothing. I don't particularly want anything because I've been playing for a long time + I don't care about Rares, so I'm waiting to stumble on something I missed over the years. Or maybe I'll just waste it on a class I don't want to farm for like LR or the new Darkon one.

>>3803172
I don't think LR or AI have AC variants

>>3803176
Legion Revenant (without the IoDA tag even) is already the most popular choice for those tokens, AI has an AC tag on the wiki too although I have no idea if it is too new to grab that way yet. AI actually looks pretty fun to farm all the merging materials and the claws/wings from the shop are cool though, so I probably won't do that one.

>>3803184
is LR that much of a pain to get? i'm saving up free AC's from events so i can join the legion and start my LR grind.
how bad is the grind compared to classes like AI or VHL?

>>3803193
It's probably the class with the worst "pure" grind, but it doesn't require ultra bosses. I'd say it's slightly more time consuming than AI or VHL.
Also, the new Lich class requires Rank 10 Grimskull Trolling, so get to those dailies.

Thoughts about creating a guild for anons?

>>3803193
I don't think it looks hard, but it's the bad type of grind. For Archmage, EDoT, AI, etc you sort of go on an adventure for the non-ultraboss methods. You see storylines and items you missed, go to different places, sometimes change classes to counter things like soloing Icewing, go down memory lane, etc. For Nulgath, Darkon, Legion, Necrotic Sword type grinds it's just a grinding and nothing more. I don't mind in small bursts like farming for a merge shop, but I never do those long types of grinds.

>>3803217
An anon proposed doing it a while back, but nothing ever came to be.
>>3803218
>>3803193
LR is just really, really mind numbing. You can at least make things easier since we have more ways to get Legion Tokens nowadays, but it's still quite boring. I'd recommend it, though. LR is probably the single most versatile class in the game.

>>3803229
>I'd recommend it, though.
..but I still need to finish my grinds for Arcana Invoker, Chaos Avenger, Arch Mage, and Dragon of Time.

>>3803240
>>3803232
4chan ate my post. The smug girl is no longer as effective.
>Better get to it, then.

>>3803229
Nah, I'm good. Legion stuff is pretty much all lame aside from the lich related gear, at least Hollowborn has some neat ideas for their designs and has the decency to let you choose the colour.

>>3803184
LR isn't very hard to get, just tedious. If you want to waste a token at least get something that has sentimental value for you. Or get SDKA if you're a free player, it's not tagged so you can use it to get NSoD and stuff.

>>3803326
>If you want to waste a token at least get something that has sentimental value for you.
The problem is that I have both been playing this specific account since like 3 years after the game released and have money to burn, so my bank is chock full of stuff I've gathered over the years including like half of the most popular rare items people use the items for. There isn't anything of sentimental value for me left to get, only items I might want for cosmetics or skipping grinds. Not complaining, I'm just saying.

>Or get SDKA if you're a free player, it's not tagged so you can use it to get NSoD and stuff.
Isn't that like step 1 of 30 or something? At that point you could just grab the sword or a different 50% damage weapon from the get go.

>>3803354
I think NSoD is the most valuable 51% weapon to get since it is used to make a bunch of other 51% weapons. IIRC, the IoDA version cannot be used.

>>3803354
>Isn't that like step 1 of 30 or something?
Nah, you'll have to stand around in shadowrealm for a while but it's immensely faster than doing it the regular way. And then you just go around a couple of maps for the remaining items like necronomicons afaik. I don't know how much faster it is when you're a member, but I remember getting like 80% of the required void auras manually doing the non-member quest before finally the x years played tokens were added to the game. So I used them to get SDKA and an old rare armor that I used to have on a private server before even knowing there was a real AQW - like I said, sentimental value.

Give me something to grind for that isn't locked behind weekly or daily a quests. I need something to do.

>>3803634
LR

>>3803637
Already done

>>3803647
Lumina Elementi

>>3803634
This cape.

>>3803661
Already done
>>3803675
Which cape is that?

which weapon should i use for the outfit?
or are there any other weapons that might fit?

>>3803898
The second one fits the best,

>>3792566
Verus doom knight and void highlord
>really

The Anglers in the Grimgaol are just obnoxious to fight. I swear, the Emperor one will just randomly one shot me even when my HP is well above half, and I'm using a Penitence cape!

>>3804042
I just did my first Grimgaol run, and it was brutal.
The anglers weren't too bad - I just spammed heal on VHL and had an emergency pot on my hotbar just incase (apparently you can do it wit DoT too).
The final boss was horrible though. The only class I could survive the fight on was LoO, so I sat there spamming abilities for 6 mins.

>>3804074
The Anglers are the only things that stop me. Final boss can just be spammed to death with CAv

>>3804075
I need to unlock CaV asap then! I've done everything except progressing the QoM saga to get the drop from her.

>>3804076
Good luck. It's a very useful class.

I swear, the immediate reception to every recent class has been
>It's not as good as VHL, it's worthless
And then half of them are just outright better than VHL

>>3804075
Not him, but is it possible to get CaV without the Ultra Boss? I don't have any friends and I don't work well with groups.

>>3804286
No.
Just use LoO or SC if you need to be carried.

>>3804204
VHL has been overhyped so much that when I finally got it I was very disappointed-- s-surely all the force enchantments are as good as people say, right?

>>3804286
>>3804289
>Just use SC if you need to be carried.
This. Just use SC and get carried. Unlike with LoO, you don't need to time heals or anything. Just faceplant the keyboard and the team carry you.

>>3805012
It's amazing with Dauntless. It just has a very specific niche of "bosses with ~200k HP". For any other scenario, a different class is better.

Finally got CaV!

>>3806248
Congrats, bro. Enjoy soloing a bunch of those heavy hitting bosses. Also learn how to taunt loop with yourself.

One of the writers posted this.

>DoomKnight costs $65 to get in DragonFable
Why

>>3806620
how else can AE milk you for hundreds of dollars since DF doesn't have a monthly subscription?

>>3806620
The company was going through a phase where they were willing to sell ridiculously broken pay-to-win stuff in all of their games. Doomknight these days is actually not even the original Doomknight. The original was so ridiculously outrageously broken in such a way that it trivialized literally the entire game by nature. So the developers were cornered into nerfing it if they wanted the game to have any interactivity at all with a large part of the playerbase. But obviously people who bought it also didn't want to readily accept a nerf to the P2W class they bought. So newer people who've bought Doomknight get a less broken one, and older players who bought Doomknight are grandfathered into the outrageously good Doomknight but also get the less broken one.

Dragonfable today has its monthly challenge battles as a core piece of its design philosophy now and I think they do a really good job at pushing the limits of the battle system with that. But anyway as part of that, the old Doomknight is banned from the challenges. New Doomknight is still really good to be clear. But it has some flaws. It's maybe the best class in the game but still doesn't do every challenge very well. Recently I feel like Pirate's been destroying all the challenges the easiest. But it depends what style of fight the devs feel like putting out, and the playerbase is pretty temperamental, and the devs are receptive to the playerbase for good or for bad

>start the arc after Malgor finally
>three (3) Evil options
>Good option is the same response tonally, just wordier
>no Chaos
The Chaos posters will remember this.

>>3807322
Chaosfags are GONE and IRRELEVANT

What do you guys think of this new girl who is going to show up eventually?

>>3807460
sex

Absolute peak kino. Already makes me excited to see where the arc leads with how they're treating the eternal dragon and the inconceivably massive power balance of Lore, but I'm never going to beat the God of the Depths boss.

>>3808022
It has a Legion Token daily associated with it. I'd recommend just visiting it every now and then

>>3807460
The secret love child of Dethrix Drakath and Lynaria Dayne.

Every space entity in this game becomes obsessed with (You), I swear

>>3808151
>why is everyone always obsessed with the literal centre of the universe?

Also, some random lore that shows the Hero can tank the entire force of a star even without becoming EDoT
>>3808154
The constellations are a bit different. The Arcana saw you as its equal and really enjoyed spending time with you, Aranx's creator was insanely envious of you, and now these stars want all of your love and affection (and your body)

>>3808156
Not just any star, but a blue supergiant star.

I haven't really played an artix game since Twilly looked like this. Can someone pill me on which ones are worthwhile and how best to approach them?

I was mostly turned off by the paid aspects and the lack of easy storage options in AQ. I never really got into the other games.

I'm thinking of starting fresh, unless there is a benefit to using my ancient original account (which is not in a particularly good state)

>>3808156
It's the lore of the entire AQW multiverse that the hero is kind of imagining it up, and that's why mechs and shit can exist in the same universe as medieval knights and magic? I thought that's why Malgor is trying to be the bad guy so the hero won't inadvertently become the villain of his own story.

>>3808273
I would say only really Dragonfable and AQW are truly worth playing personally. Mechquest, AQ/Warpforce (forever unfinished) and even Epic Duel are neat however. You play Dragonfable for the storyline and more in-depth battles, AQW for most everything else. DF is much more F2P friendly, but you can do most things in AQW without membership.

As for tips the only things I can say that isn't covered by the guides near the top is that you shouldn't spend your free AC/DC coins on random junk. You get free coins through various means and anniversaries, so save them up for something that unlocks content or features. Like buying the Legion armour that unlocks his entire faction in AQW perhaps.
Also don't bother grinding exp, since you'll get a ton from just doing the storylines and farming for items as you go.

>>3808418
Nah, as far as I recall AQW was created when Galanoth slayed the Eternal Dragon of Time in Adventure Quest Classic. This caused a massive shattering of timestreams or whatever they're called and the dragon's power going out of control inadvertently fused a bunch together into a new universe including Mechquest and Dragonfable. The old ones like Mechquest and Dragonfable still exist in mostly the same separate timeline alongside each other iirc. The EDoT did manifest the AQW world and their body, but it's not like Haruhi Suzumiya where they subconsciously shape it after the fact.

The new world doesn't have a proper Hero, because the dragon subconsciously put itself in that role which is probably why the Evil side is so overpowered now. Malgor was mostly doing it because he's a good boy, not really for cosmic or karmic reasons.

>>3808418
>>3808608
AQW formed after the Eternal Dragon of Time killed himself (with Galanoth) and then "stole divinity" from all of the other gods. He then became close enough to a proper God and also started LARPing as an adventurer.
Malgor's goal is to save the Hero, which is also why he becomes a villain.

>>3808705
>Malgor's goal is to save us, which is also why our son becomes a hero*
Fixed.

^-^

got back to AQW after a long break. when are weekly resets for ultra quests? i forgor.

>>3809887
Friday

How do you even do Temple Shrine without friends

>>3811292
You don't. Make friends!

HOW?

>>3811521
It's a meme quest. The Hero finds OTHER ways to get a bunch of souls. My favorite is literally just nuking the areas they live in

that time adventure quest had a collab with a very specific line of children's toothbrush where the toothbrush's gimmick was that it came with stickers to put on your toothbrush

>>3811598
aww man I missed out on the rugby nipple armor