Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Best Place to Rank

The best place to rank up in AdventureQuest Worlds used to be at the Crash Site by killing Eugene the Unfortunate Grinding Dwakel. Eugene is level 15 with only 900 HP (hit points) and a weak attack.Now, the best place is Sleuthhound Inn for ranking. This is because the Table and Chair monsters are level 15 and have only 500 HP. You can grind your way to new ranks with relative ease.Here's a reminder about ranking up:The base amount of Class Points (CP) you get from a monster is 50 per rank of your class. So if you are a rank 5 Warrior and kill a monster, you get 250 (about) CP. But that's only if the monster's level is equal-to or greater-than your level.If you are a higher level than the monster, the amount of CP's you get goes down. I'm not sure what the formula is. Maybe I'll figure it out later.In any case, the best monsters to grind for ranking are equal-to or higher-than your level with the lowest amount of hit points and a weak attack.For balanced farming, Eugene is still the best bet for Class Points, Hit Points, and Experience Points. For money, the Fire Gem quest is still the best.

Battleon is HOME!

GreenGuard Forest, the Keep, and new cutsceneAll of the magic wielding players gathered and teleported the town of Battleon to GreenGuard forest. If you missed the event, click on the "Town Moved" button and see the awesome final cutscene! Now that Battleon is in its final location, you can walk left and right out of town to preview the surrounding area. Next week we will be adding monsters and quests to the forest... and continuing to link them to the upcoming areas! (Feels like a fresh new start for the game) Also, a new house model is available at Centaur 21 called, "The Keep". It is a two story stone structure with a draw bridge, moat and a beautifully designed interior.


Get your own KeepNow Available through Centaur 21 Agent, Penny
Re-cap of the Live EventI would like to thank all of the amazing players who came for the special event. We would have loved to see the look on your face the first time the entire town tipped to the side and your character slid off and fell into the undead infested pit of Skullholme below. The voice acting by Warlic and Cysero was interesting (it was actually them, lol) and if you were there you likely figured out we had no end of last minute technical trouble. We need to put a camera behind me one day so you can see the chaos truely going on behind the scenes while running the a live event. We hope you had a good time and enjoyed the final cutscene in the move of Battleon. Do not get too confortable... it is likely Drakath and his Chaos Lord(s) are up to no good as you read this. Next week... things get interesting.
The TMNT Comic StoryOr... Making your friends jealous 10 years from nowWhen I was very, very, young I went to my school friend's house for the first time. It was a really cool experience for me, first because his family was from India so they had all of this food I had never eaten before*. Second because they were pretty well to do -- he had lots of cool stuff, even his own computer! (Which was a pretty big deal back then!) He said, "You're into that karate stuff right? Do you want to see something cool?" and pulled a perfectly kept, plastic sleeve protected, comic book out of his locker. It had some turtles on the cover. I asked, "What is that?" He said, "This is issue #1 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... it's going to be huge and one day, this comic book will be worth a lot!" I scoffed. Why would anyone care about some silly turtles**? Sure enough, a year later the cartoon goes on the air. Then the games... the toys... and all the movies... the 3D movie... every time I see a TMNT commercial I think of my friend. He called it right, and probably still has that first ever TMNT comic in the protective wrap. Alright, I admit that I will always be a bit jealous of my friend calling it right and having that first ever TMNT comic. I was telling this story last night... and thought you would like me to share it with you too. Seemed fitting as we are releasing our first ever ArtBook right now.
* My mouth burned for weeks, hehe.** Until I saw one of them used Sai, my favorite martial arts form weapon! Raphael will always be my favorite :-)
MechQuest Artbook ReleaseOfficial Play by Play (Starting Friday morning)This is so exciting! Our first Art Book... we are OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED!
1pm - WOAH! 302 books sold in the 1st hour! 3 pages of awesome comments by players on J!nx's site - thank you!NOON - The MechQuest Art book Has JUST been released and is available online now at J!nx Gear!11:50am - 10 minutes left...11:45am - 15 minutes left...11:30am - 30 minutes left..... (just got an email from J!nx, they will be ready at Noon!)11:00am - Only 1 hour until the Art book release! (You can imagine how relieved we were when the books finally arrived at J!nx yesterday.) Although, we have not heard from Ji!nx yet this morning.. hey... when exactly do they get in the office? 10:30am - Coffee not ready yet (not that we look like we need any right now!)10:00am - My copy of the MechQuest Art Book is the one in the picture below! 9:30am - Just got into the lab. I am so excited that I am literally bouncing in my chair. We are just 2.5 hours away from the release of the MechQuest Artbook. It will be available online through J!nx.