Design Notes
February 26, 2024
Game News: February 26 - March 3
Read on for the latest news and information
Don't miss a battle, boost, or boss drop! Read on to stay up to date with the latest details about what's happening this week in AQWorlds!
Tuesday, February 27: Yokai Thief's Heist
While Valencia was traveling around Yokai Island, she learned of a merchant's stolen supply of weapons. Talk to her in the Museum and she'll be able to give you enough information to begin the hunt to recover it. Find them and you'll be rewarded with the valuable Yokai Sky Ripper Kamas!
Rewards include:
- Sky Ripper Kama (single and dual-wield)
- Backhanded Sky Ripper Kama (single and dual-wield)
Rewards will be permanently available.
Wednesday, February 28: Balance Update Preview
Several balance updates are planned to arrive this Friday, including a rework of the Legion Paladin Class Skills. You can check out the changes in this post, and read on to see what else is on the balance team's list.*
Class Updates
- Legion Paladin: full skill rework, new icons and animations
- Enforcer / Protosartorium: light rework
- Chunin: Quality of Life updates / buff
Enhancements
- Ravenous: added base damage, MP recovery, small stat buffs for self and stat debuffs for target, slightly reduced Execute damage bonus
- Dauntless: slightly reduced damage
- Smite: damage increase
- Avarice: reduced stat penalties
- Absolution: adjusted stat penalties
- Hearty: removed stat penalties
Monsters
- Ultra Exos: Touch of Chaos skill adjustment
Quest Updates
- Quests in /Crashsite
- Various Forge quests
* List is subject to change.
Thursday, February 29: Legion Token + Rib Boost
Get double rewards from select Legion Token quests and 2x Dark Unicorn Rib drops from Binky until March 13th in this special two-week Legion Token boost!
Legion Token Quests:
- Spring Cleaning
- First Class Entertainment
- Legion Quest: Light vs Dark
- Coal for the Legion
- Hearts and Souls
- Hearts and Souls (Member)
- Legion Castle Quest
- Research Materials
- Suffering is Magic
Dark Unicorn Rib
- Battle Binky in the /binky or /doomvault map to get x2 Dark Unicorn Ribs instead of x1
Friday, March 1: Update Details
Evil takes over Lore this weekend! Dage's seasonal Dark Birthday zones and gear return along with the oh-so-evil RNG-themed minigames in the Lucky Day Fair.
- Holiday Events return: Dage's Dark Birthday and Lucky Day seasonal events return
- March Seasonal Set: Legion Warseeker returns
- New Battles: New Underworld Boss + Rewards
- New Bonus Pack: color-customizable Underworld SoulSeeker upgrade bonus sets*
Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts
- Server Boost: double Gold Boost
- Resource Boost: Legion Token and Rib Boost
- Saturday: Futuristic Holographic Guards from the Legionator in /futurewardage
- Sunday: SoulEater's Scythe from Frost Fang in the Event Hub
Leaving This Friday
Seasonal Event Maps
- Hero's Heart Day event maps + gear
- Yokai New Year event maps + gear
- Carnaval event maps + gear
- Superbowl /punt map
- Pancake day gear
- February Seasonal set + Chronomancer
- Nulgath's Birthday Collection Chest
Rare Daily Login Gifts
- Mutou Hong drops in /yokaihunt
- Lovely Mask drops in /yguasu
- Stolen Heart drops in /lovespell
- Paladin Ascendant drops in /voidrefuge + /voidchasm
Stay up to date with upcoming release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar.
* Note: an earlier version of the text listed Dage the Evil as the set artist. His newest set will be included in the birthday collection, not the upgrade bonus pack. My apologies for the error.