Announcements[]
Hollow, AQ's game lead, has announced that we will finally get the Archmage class. However, we will have to wait a bit for it still. After finishing the Necromancer rework in 2021, they will start developing on Archmage. In addition to the messages about Archmage in the official AE Discord server, Hollow also mentioned it in a thread about suggestions for old quest updates. Thread: https://forums2.battleon.com/f/tm.asp?m=22382117
Golden Dev Ticket winner[]
The winner of the Golden Dev Ticket contest has been found. The winning character ID is 7150295. If the winner decides to make the item public, I'll add it here and say if it's worth picking up or not.
Independence Day[]
To celebrate Independence Day, some returning items were added to the Limited-Time Shop. These items include: Liberty Crown faces; Stars, Stripes and Patriot Griffin pets; Lady Liberty's Footsteps, Lady Liberty's Flame and Fireworks spells; Fireworks Buckler shield; Patriotic Light of Destiny, Sparkler, Liberty Beacon, Liberty Torch, Patriot Blade, Freedom Dagger/Spear/Staff, Dominion Sickle/Glaive/Mace and Firework Spear weapons.
Out of all of those items, only the Fireworks Buckler shield is worth mentioning. It's a Fire/Light compression shield.
Summer Donation Contest[]
The yearly Summer Donation Contest has started. As usual, this is only Z-Token donations. The prizes for this contest are the Veywild set pieces.
Top 15: Veywild Riding Armor
Top 50: Veywild Fawn Pet
Top 100: 3 Veywild Weapons
Donate at least 2000 Z-Tokens - Veywild Shield
Donate at least 1000 Z-Tokens - Veywild Helm Misc
Prize update: ALL donators will receive color custom Veywild Male & Female Player Faces
Z-Token item updates[]
The AQ team has started updating old Z-Token items to make them up-to-date and usable at max level.
So far they have updated: Felled Gunfighter , Cello Bow , Ice Katana
Update: Ice Katana has been reworked due to player complaints. New link: Ice Katana
Paladin update[]
The second part of the Paladin rework has been released. We can now train our Paladin level up to level 10.
Paladin Class skills 6-10:
Lvl 6: Paladin Reinforcements
- Lets you choose between 3 different guests to summon. Currently only 1 is available: Daimyo.
- You can choose between SP or MP upkeep
- Daimyo:
- +5 Bth lean
- Does +10% damage on monsters tagged as "undead" or "doom" and +6.67% damage on monsters tagged as "demon".
- Can be toggled to pay a 50% higher upkeep cost. Doing so will make him heal you after each attack.
Lvl 7: Harmonic Might
- Gives you +30 STR and INT for an SP cost.
Lvl 8: Lay on Hands
- You spend SP to get 3 LoH charges
- You can afterwards spend 1 charge to heal yourself. This is quickcast but can only be used once per turn.
- Uses END
Lvl 9: Unwavering
- Makes attacks from undead monsters deal damage as if they were attacking on your armor's lowest resistance.
- Does the same for demons, although slightly weaker, see formula below.
- Undead: resistance = [armor resistance] + 1 * ([armor Light%] - [armor resistance])
- Demon: resistance = [armor resistance] + 0.66667 * ([armor Light%] - [armor resistance])
For the best protection, you should use a shield that protects against the attack element, not against Light. The only exception for this is the Paladin Armaments shield (Resonant Bulwark). It has the same effect as the armor, so it can be used against any Undead/Demon.
Lvl 10: Defiance
- You receive 1 charge per turn. You can spend a bit of SP to gain 3 charges per turn instead.
- You can choose between 4 different effects (only 1 is available at the moment, the others will become available in the other parts of the update.)
- When you die and if you have 10 or more charges, your chosen effect will be used and you will lose all of your charges. The effect gets stronger the more charges you have.
- The effects (only 1 available currently):
- Glorious Renewal. You heal some HP. The more charges spent, the higher is the healing.
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Dragonlorn Keep[]
The third part of the Dragonlorn Keep summer event was released. It's called Dragonlorn Keep: The Far West and makes you fight through monsters without the traditional heal after every two battles. Instead you get to have 2 HP potions and 2 MP potions that you can use when necessary (between battles). You also get one "campfire" that makes you fully rest (heal both HP and MP). The potions also give you different status effects that will help you in the upcoming fights. Rewards for this quest: Absolute Darkness & Doom Minion
The fourth part of Dragonlorn Keep was also released. This part is called Dragonlorn Keep: Sorrows's Reach and takes place at Falconreach (known from DragonFable). Rewards: Burden of Insight
Doom Minion is a simple toggle between damage mode and Choke mode. While Choke is a good status to reliably decrease a monster's damage, it is not really recommended due to its Token cost and the fact that there are other decent Darkness pets that cost Gold.
Absolute Darkness is an overcharged spell. In addition to a 2-turn Darkness Empowerment (*1.25 damage from player) it also inflicts a permanent (9999 turns) Blind on the monster. Like with the FSB skills from Champion sets, this also changes the background of the battle. Keep in mind that one of the turns for the Empowerment is spent the same turn, so after using the spell you'll have 1 turn left.
Burden of Insight is an interesting weapon. It's a Melee Ice sword with no BR or Bth lean. In addition to its completely normal damage mode it also has an autohit mode. To make the penalty of autohitting lower than normal, you will take about 7% more damage from the monster as well as giving the monster +6 Bth while in this mode. This weapon is a decent choice for Warrior Backlashers.
Golden Gift Boxes[]
This month we got Energy variants of both Bloodzerker and Bloodmage sets. We now have Voltaic Bloodzerker, Voltaic Bloodzerker's Sword, Dynamancer Bloodmage and Dynamancer's Bloodblade. In addition to these we also got a Fire variant of the Infernal Legion Minion guest.
Z-Token packages[]
For July we got the Strawberry Shieldcake shield, as well as the monthly Spirit misc (Spirit of Freedom).
Strawberry Shieldcake is a very good shield. For a number of builds it is the best Light shield currently in the game. Read about it by clicking on the hyperlinked text above or visit our page for recommended shields.