041 - Sargon 2.0 : Hidden Pigs

Hi all, I've had very little time in the past (and will have the next months) so not many updates.  But the hidden goodies in map 1 of the new event I want to share with you.  Ofcours, with many thanks to our German friends ;)

Every hidden pig is worth 10 shadows, enjoy :)

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EDIT : The easter eggs in map 2 seems to be the same as the previous event.  You can find them in post 39.

No Sargon bug anymore !!!  It seems they erased the Sargon bug of the previous event.  It's not possible to stun Sargon at one place anymore.  For a dragon knight it's very difficult to kill him now, ranged attacks are no preferable.

040 - Terrifying Shadows event - map 2

map 2 with all the bosses

First of all, making videos isn't my best skill :)  So be gentle :)

Underneath I will describe or show how to kill the bosses of map 2 of the Terrifying Shadows event.

Devestating Swamp

Nothing special here.  Kill first the little mobs, then circle around the boss and hit when you can.  When he dies, he spawns 5 new mobs, nothing hard.  Just warming up.

Devestating Swamp

Bahadur the Immortal

Similar to Devestating Swamp.  The only difference is that he resurrects 2 times.  You need to kill him 3 times in a row.

Bahadur the Immortal

Dragan

Next boss is Dragan.  Many find him impossible but to be honest, as a dragon knight I don't find him that hard.  In fact I just overpower him with red essence and war banner + smash.  Takes only 30 strokes (100 red essence) and 1 health potion.

Treshold Guardian and Tortured Soul

Again these bosses aren't that hard.  Just don't play to quickly, kill the little ones first and then take your time.  Be aware, the Treshold Guardian explodes when dying.

Neferati Guardian of Wisdom

The 5th boss can be a little difficult solo.  His first hit stuns you and the second one is devestating (sometimes up to 6000 hitpoints).  In fact I find this the most difficult boss.  I often struggle to get started.  Just like in the video underneath.  The start is dramatic but I pull myself out.  The trick here is to keep running, never stand to long in one place.

Sargon

Finally we come to the main boss.  This boss resurrects one time, so in fact you need to kill him twice.

First Sargon :
Actually the most difficult one.  Take the light essence with the most damage (red or blue).  Kill the healers as soon as possible, you will need to take some risks here.  For Sargon, you can circle around him and attack him from behind.

The video underneath begins when the first Sargon is almost dead.

Second Sargon :
The second Sargon is weird.  In the beginning the still spawns healers, again kill them asap.  He also spawns skeletons, DO NOT attack them.  When 5 or 6 skeletons are active, Sargon will stay in one place and won't attack anymore.  Then it's just a matter of pulling the skeletons away from Sargon, rush to Sargon and attack him until the skeletons  catch up to you.  Then you have to pull them back again and so on.

Hopefully this helps some who have troubles killing those bosses.  Have fun !

039 - Easter Eggs - Terrifying Shadows event

Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs in the event maps

Hi all,

haven't had much time last 2 weeks.  I even barely played the event.  Yet today, with Easter, I saw a post on the German forum saying there are Easter eggs hidden in the event maps.  I wanted to share that with you.

Each 'egg' is good for 10 shadows.  Until now they found 5 eggs in map1 and 4 in map2.  Maybe there are more or maybe there are some in other maps too.  If so, please leave a comment so I can update this post.

Underneath you'll see all the locations of the eggs in the event maps.

map 1 - egg 1

map 1 - egg 2

map 1 - egg 3

map 1 - egg 4

map 1 - egg 5

map 2 - egg 6

map 2 - egg 7

map 2 - egg 8

map 2 - egg 9

if you look at map 2, I'll guess there need to be one more on the far east side.

UPDATE :
Tnx to Sper009 from the forum, the last easter egg is located.  Also good news is that the eggs are still there.  Maybe they stay there till the end of the event.

map 2 - egg 10

Some figures about the event

A few quick words about my 'road map' of the event.

-> Farming coffee beans : I farm my coffee beans in Suvius.  This gives on average 4.5 beans per run (15 min).  This also yields on average 115 ordinary light essence.

-> Solo event : As a dragon knight I find it much easier to go solo then in a group.  So I complete the event solo.

-> Map 1 : map 1 gives me between 50 and 75 shadows and around 250 ordinary light essence.  It takes around 20 minutes to complete.  Map 1 doesn't give that much shadows, but you need to do the map in order to obtain the nightshadows from the bosses so you can get the portal for map 2.

-> Quest map 1 : Don't forget to take the quest of killing 1000 monsters in map 1.  There are a little over 400 monsters thus this quest can be done in 3 turns.  This give you on average 25 / 3 = 8 extra shadows per run.

-> Map 2 : Map 2 is the hardest but I find it doable even solo, even Dragan and Sargon.  Can clean the map on my own without dying.  Normal monsters in map2 give around 165 shadows, Dragan drops 70, Sargon 250, 5 amphora give each 25 shadows, quest  2 gives 50 ->  this sums up to over 550 shadows per run.  With the 4 Easter eggs even close to 600 !

-> Quest map 2 : Don't forget to take the quest for map 2.  Killing 500 mobs gives you 100 shadows.  There are 300 monsters in the map so this quest can be done in 2 runs yielding 50 shadows per run.

-> Amphora's : You can 'buy' a key to open a amphora for 200 ordinary light essence.  Not sure if it's worth.  I opened 20 amphora so far, this is what I got :

slot 1 : minion helmet (11) / 2 coffee beans (5) / 500 ordinary light essence (4)
slot 2 : 5 shadows (20)
slot 3 : 1 draken (20)
slot 4 : 4, 5 or 6 copper (19) / scroll of wisdom (1)

-> Uniques : As said before, the uniques from Dragan and Sargon doesn't drop too much ;)   The cloak however is said to drop the most frequent.  Nevertheless, you'll need a lot of luck to get one of those.


So far my experiences.  If I have time I will make some videos on how the beat the different bosses in map 2.

038 - Terrifying Shadows on testserver

Today the new event Terryfying Shadow - Antonia's Abduction went live on the testserver.  So it's possible / probable that this event starts this weekend.

There are 2 questkeepers at Kingshill, John Sunclair and Sir Hardy.  Underneath you can see their quests.  I don't know which quests are repeatable and which are not.

Sir Hardys quests for the new event

Jon Sunclairs quests for the new event

At first there was a little confusion on how to enter the Swerdfield Pastures at Night.  The pouch given when logged in only contained 5 coffee beans while you need 10 to enter.  So I started farming for coffee beans because it was said that worhty monsters would drop those.  But after a while I got none.  The 'ordinairy essence of light' however did drop regularly in drop of 10.

drop of 10 Ordinairy Essence of Light

After a while I managed to get over 500 essences, but still not a single coffee bean.  Back in Kingshill it seemed there was a quest at Jon Sunclair called 'Vigilance' where you could trade 500 light essences for 10 coffee beans.

So eventually I could enter.  I'm not sure how it will be on the live servers.  Coffee beans as a drop too or only light essences which can be traded.

I made a video from the Swerdfield Pastures at Night.  It was not easy to survive because I have only a weak character on the testserver.  Besides the map is designed to go with 5 ... I was all on my own :)
Link to the video on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ov0470RfY&feature

to be complete, this is the link to the previous post about the Terrifying Shwadows event

Draken :

In total there are 730 draken to be gained. 

  150 progress ->   30 draken
  740 progress ->   50 draken
1830 progress -> 100 draken
3490 progress -> 100 draken
5800 progress -> 100 draken

7800 progress -> 100 draken
9000 progress -> 250 draken

037 - New event - "Terryfying Shadow" - Antonia's abduction

New event : Awful Shadows

Update : just say the official announcement on the English Forum in this post. 


On the German Forum there is a new event announced.  Nothing is being said on the English forum yet, so I try to translate the German post.  Please forgive me if there are any translation errors.

The start and duration of events will be announced later.  But this is the story :

Sargon, the terrible is back!

Sargon puts the country in terror. He kidnapped Antonia and carried her in his castle. Forming groups (up to 5 players) with your friends and fight for her safety!

The event will be held in the Swerfield Pastures.  The entrance is on the right side of Jon Sinclair in Kingshill.  You need 10 coffee beans to enter the world.  The coffee beans are a drop from worthy monsters (or can be bought for Andermant).

Once in you must collect shadows for the event progress.  The main boss is Sargon.  But before you may atack Sargon you must first defeat his 4 generals.  Those generals drop a sort of fragment which can be exchanged at Kingshill for a entrance to Sargons castle.  Seems a little complicated to me, but maybe it works out fine once we are in.

If it was not complicated enough, to attack Sargon you need a special light essence which you also get from worthy monsters.

Event progress

 

3 different light essences

Different items of the event

The Rewards :

 If you look at the image of the event progress you can see when you get these rewards.

First 4 rewards

next 3 awards, one emote, one mount and a special gemstone

Last 4 awards, one costume, a larger gemstone, 750 scrolls of wisdom and Sargon's Shoulders.

Event Drops :

If that was not enough, there are special event drops too.

The first is a costume which can be gained in several parts.  The format is similar to the costume of the PvP event last year.

The complete costume from Sargon

 Then we have also 2 emotes as a drop

The 2 emotes from a drop

A costume and emotes ... that doesn't please me.  It just get your inventory full.  But this event has also some unique items as a drop !!  This is new I think.

Cloak of Gloom

The first unique is a cape.  I'm not sure this cloak is better the the Cloak of Enlightenment. 3% health is around 200 lifepoints if you have 6600 lifepoints.  No pure damage, but I should calculate how 3% increased attack speed relates to x damage.  This post will help you calculate that.

And it keeps going on.  Beside the cloak, we have a complete unique set for each class !!!  The shoulders are an event reward, the head and torso can only be gained by a random drop.

Unique set for hunters

Unique set for spellweaver

Unique set for dragon knight

Shops :

Some things can be bought from the shop too.

Shop at John Sinclair

Shop at Shady John

Conclusion :

Waauuw, this looks like a main event !!  I guess it will take 10 days or even more.  There are some nice rewards too.  Although we must see if the uniques do drop and if they are worth keeping.  Not sure for that at the moment, need to look a little closer at the stats to be sure.

Anyway, event on it's way !!

again : the original post was made on the German Forum.

023 - New event on it's way

Next new event will be a boss killing event

 
This post on the English forum mentions a new event running on the testserver. It's a boss killing event like the thanksgiving event we had last year in November.  My guess is that it will be launched this weekend.

I have a small character on the testserver and made some screenshots of the rewards.

 

Rewards of the next event

In total there are 450 drakens to be won.  But the other rewards are also worth fighting for :
Jewel of Immunity : + 15 max dmg & +30 critical hit value
Dark Heart fragment 1 : It seems you will need to craft the Dark Heart armor.  This is piece 1 of 4.
Bow : disables movement and skills for 3s ... also in PvP !!  seems a must have.


Because my test character is only level 2, I couldn't see the quests of this event.  Maybe someone can make some screenshots and send them to me.  I heard you need to kill all bosses in normal or hard mode.  But I'm not sure about this.

020 - Valentine drops ?

 

 
Since yesterday evening players report unusual drops of a potion called 'heavenly muffins' and a dye 'rose red'.

I ran both Hailstone Mountains and the Temple Sector.  Got nothing in Hailstone Mountains.  But in the Temple Sector I got 4 heavenly muffins and one 'rose red' colour.  Because I had nothing at Hailstone Mountains, I think you get these drops only from worthy monsters.

Rose red is just a color, so nothing special.  But the heavenly muffins give you +15% lifepoints for 5 minutes.  For me this is +1100 lifepoints, not bad.  Seems ideal for a boss run or in the arena.

On the forums they said this potion is from the Valentines event of last year.  So it looks like we have some sort of mini-event.  I don't know if these drops last longer then today.  In the worst case they only drops today. Therefor I will certainly farm the Temple Sector today to gather some of these potions.

edit 15/02/13 13:00 cet : It seems the valentine drops have stopped.  This morning at 06:00 I still had a drop in the Temple Sector.  But I just finished another farming round and no drop at all.

Underneath some screenshot so you know what to look for.

a drop of 'heavenly muffins'

heavenly muffins : +15% lifepoints for 5 minutes

a drop of rose red

Rose red in the inventory