News Bullets 19 January 2011

There is so much going on with AQW that I have to make a bulleted list! Yay!

• Battle Under, Level 3, is coming this week.
• Unlimited bank space is getting closer to being released.
• With unlimited bank space comes the Limited Shops. Once the shop sells out of an item, it's gone forever.
• EpicDuel T-shirts are on their way to the Secret Underground Lab. Rare Delta V armors come with them.
• Artix is getting ready to release the AQW collectible card game! Hopefully a new class comes with it. Launched at Toys-r-Us in March.
• The AE team is focusing resources on AQW which is why HeroSmash is stalling. Looks like skills might come out in HS late-February.
• Cheese-themed items from the Black Market dealer!
• Finished my AQW potions (and scrolls and foods) page.
• Put finishing touches on the HeroSmash page. It's all done for now. No need to update it until next month.

AQW Sandsea and Bupers Camel Release

Things are getting exciting in AQW! This week we'll finally see the opening of a new zone, the Sandsea. We also get to see for the first time ever Bupers Camel. This legendary mythical beast has been roaming the back woods of Greenguard Forest granting mod status to anyone who can find it.

Along with the new zone will come new shops and- this is exciting- consumable food! Get your bag space expanded because you'll be able to buy equippable food items that will give you buffs. A new element to the game! Yesh!

Here's something really exciting: Beleen mentioned one of my characters in the design notes! My second-favorite character, Loki Bloodstone, is mentioned along with a really bad picture I did of Bupers Camel on my AQW page. This is more exciting than when I won a DF screenie contest way back in March, 2007.

It looks like I have a lot of work to do in AQW because I have three armors I need to rank up. My Evolved Clawsuit is not even enhanced yet. My Shaman is rank five and my Chronomancer is rank six. Lots of work to do there!

AE 2011 Calender in Second Printing

I'm really thankful I was able to order my 2011 calender from Heromart before the first printing sold out. I can't believe how fast these things flew out of the store! My guess is: the Chronomancer armor. I collect armors and had to order the calender (which looks cool on its own, btw) to get it.

I'll probably get my Shaman class when the calender arrives. It takes a long-long time to get a 10 rep in Arcangrove. I still need another 70k rep to get rank 10. I'm averaging around 8k a day.

Here's a question for you: what's the deal with Dage's champion quests? I've done them nine or 10 times already and haven't got a single drop. I know, I know. He's Dage the Evil so of course he's messing with me. The doucher.

There looks like an airship themed area opening up. That looks really awesome. Looking forward to this week's release.

News Bullets 7 November 2010

Just an excuse to make a bulleted list:

• I've been surfing around looking for any little news on SuperHero Quest. Nothing new so far.
• Found the official SHQ Twitter page. No tweets since the beginning of October.
• Still grinding away at getting the Shaman class. There's got to be an easier way! Look at my guide and see if you have any hints yourself.
• Updated my SHQ page with what little I have. Added Twitter feed.
• Do you know of any active Artix Entertainment blogs out there? Please let me know so I can update my blogroll.
• Built my way back up from 70,000 gold to 600,000 by kicking the crap out of Eugene the Unfortunate Grinding Dwakel.
• I'm going to buy the AE 2011 wall calender. Mostly because it contains a code for the Chronomaster class.

To Eugene: I'm Broke and I'm Back

Spending cash on new outfits, enhancements, potions, and what-nots I've found myself broke again. So I searched around looking for the best place to farm gold. Guess what, it's still at Dwakel.

And actually it's better than ever! Before you had to go somewhere else to sell your loot. Taravya has a shop now (the enhancement shop) where I can easily ditch my ill-gotten goods and get back to farming Dwakels.

Poor Eugene.

Vampire pwnage

Do you remember when we couldn't win a few wars? Do you recall how frustratingly slow the counter moved at the top of the list? It looks like AQW players really don't like vampires because we kicked vampire 8u77 in this war!

There are a couple cool drops for members and non-members from Incubus:

• Broad Moglow Blades 
• Incubus Head Morph
• Mogloween Discord
• Vampire Lord Incubus

The links will take you to the official wiki pages for more info!

Vampire War Reminder

I wanted to remind everyone that the medals you get have a limit. Right now, you can have 5 regular and one mega medal in your temp inventory. So make sure you turn them in right away so you can get more!

Also, please turn in any extra candy corns you have so we can activate the bonus drop system.

Now go thrash that vampire army!

Arcangrove Rep Farming

All 10 Quests

The Road to Shammy-ness

In order to get the Shaman class you need to have a 10 rep in Arcangrove. This will take a long, long time. Here's a guide that will help players get the most out of the rep quests in Aracangrove.

The quickest way to gain rep, besides doing the story-line quests, is to get the quests from the four NPCs at Arcangrove (/join arcangrove). The NPCs are:

• Rayst, with two rep quests, outside the building.
• Reens, with two rep quests and three daily quests, inside the building, bottom transporter pad.
• Moonrath, with two quests, middle transporter on the right.
• Blakk, with two quests, middle transporter on the right.

When you first start, you should have 10 quests that will get you rep. That includes Reens' two daily quests (don't do the Experiment 107 quest, I'll explain later).

To do the quests, go one screen to the right of the starting area with Rayst. You'll find two Gorillaphants and one Seed Spitter. Clobber them until you finish all 10 quests. Pay special attention on getting to the Seed Spitter, which many players forget about.

Hint: If you don't see any players there to help, try a different room. Type "/join arcangrove" in the text bar and see if you can find a filled room. You'll have the most help on crowded servers where players trying to gain rep are doing the same thing.

I takes about 15 minutes with my level 33 and level 18 characters to finish the quest. The net rep gained from all 10 quests will be 2,990 to 4,000 rep and a ton of experience and rank points.

After you finish, you can go at it again and it will only take about five minutes because the daily quests from Reens won't be available until tomorrow. You'll have eight quests total.

Experiment 107: Elders Blood Potion

Don't do the 107 quest from Reens unless you want the potion. This quest needs 50 slain Gorillaphants and gets you 800 rep. If you turn them into Rayst's Gorillaphant Poaching quest, you'll get 1,050 rep, and probably more.

Rayst's Gorillaphant Poaching Quest

You can collect many more Slain Gorillaphants than the 7 the quest calls for. You'll probably have something like 30 or 40 when all of the other quests are done. So after you turn in the quest the first time, accept it again, then turn it in again.

Paddylump of Mudluk

Other Daily Quests

The two daily quests outside Arcangrove main are from Ewa, in the Cloister (/join cloister), and Paddylump, in Mudluk (/join mudluck). Both of these daily quests will net you 1500 rep each. Lower-level players (under level 30) should skip it and stay with the four quest-givers in Arcangrove because there will be little help with these quests.

Ewa of the Cloister

Since these quests send you to the other area, Paddylump's quest sends you to the Cloister and Ewa's quest sends you to Mudluk, get the quest in one area, finish in the other, and then grab the second quest on the way out.

Good luck on your journey to Shaman-hood!

Happenings and Goings Ons

Wow! There's a lot going on at AE right now! Here's a bulleted list of stuff you should know:

• BladeHaven Beta starts tomorrow, October 14th. Check to see if you qualify for Beta testing.
• AE has a new novel that will be out in November, The Dragon's Secret. It will be available at Hero Mart. Of course it will have an in-game perk.
• AQW's level cap has been raised to 35. I'm amazed that people have already made it to the top! I've been using Twilly's XP Boost (150 ACs) to help. Only up to level 31.
• AQW's pumpkin carving contest has started and will run until the end of October.
• On Friday, October 15th, the next Chaos Beast will be unleashed on AQW.
• The previous year's Mogloween will also be released on Friday. This will give players a chance to catch up.
• This year's Mogloween will be released on October 22nd, unless they melt the servers (hey, it can happen at AE).
• November 2nd is the deadline for Second Upholder status. 

Too many armors! Too many outfits!

There are a lot of really cool items being released, like the anti-Artix costumes. My bag space is overflowing right now with stuff!

I remember when the coolest armor you could get was Phoenix plate. I think I'm going to wear mine for a while just for old-times sake.

I still wear my noob armor just for giggles. It's fun to have people send me a message, "Why is a level 30 wearing nub stuff?" It's because in PvP I want people to ignore me!

I don't play PvP much anymore so I'm thinking about selling my noob stuff to make room for all the awesome Halloween stuff that will be coming out soon!