Hello dear players!

We will soon clear up some old names and characters in the upcoming weeks on both Chimera & Phoenix servers. This should hopefully reduce the recent lag issues everyone's been running into!

Characters flagged for removal must be both:
- Inactive since 6 months
- Under level 40

If one of your character disappears after next maintenance, you have Tuesday October 20th to send us a ticket!

Also, the patch notes will be updated on Steam next week! In the meantime, you can find the PDF version there!

Hello dear players!

We will soon clear up some old names and characters in the upcoming weeks on both Chimera & Phoenix servers. This should hopefully reduce the recent lag issues everyone's been running into!

Characters flagged for removal must be both:
- Inactive since 6 months
- Under level 40

If one of your character disappears after next maintenance, you have Tuesday October 20th to send us a ticket!

Also, the patch notes will be updated on Steam next week! In the meantime, you can find the PDF version there!

Part 1 of the Patch Notes can be found here!




Bry’s Forum Guide for Sky Tower
Doge’s terrible cheat sheet for Sky Tower

This patch brings us the new floors 26-30.
The new floors directly follow the 21-25 floors available on Friday.
You receive no additional lives, only 15 lives for 21-30.
Here you can loot Level 75 trophies, accessories, and weapons!
Dare you face these legendary creatures?

Sky Tower Elite Raid opening hours (all in EDT / server time):
• On Friday from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• On Friday from 15:00 PM - 17:00 PM
• On Friday from 20:00 PM - 22:00 PM




Can you beat the heat? Only a true Envoy can best this blazing inferno.
The entrance to this instance is in the Oblitus Woods, same portal as Ghostweep Cave. Spoopy.

Entry Requirements: Being level 70
Modes: 5 players
Reset timer: 6 hours

There are four bosses total in this instance, and their drop list is here:
• Mysterious Costume/Hat Chest II
• Mysterious Stone Chests
• Level 75 Gold Equipment.
• Luminous Secret Stones.
• x30 Dragon Points.
• Intermediate and Basic Chest enchantments
• Intermediate and Basic Weapon enchantments

Caution: Kaiser Zeta or Kusanagi may spawn at the end with the chest!

Various effects of new equipment sets and stones:

Set 1
Max HP +8%
Damage Reduction -6%.
If attacked, 40% chance to recover 692 HP per second for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.

Set 2
Damage +8%.
Crit +5%.
When attacking, 40% chance to inflict 986 Damage over Time for 15 sec, stacking 5 times.

Base effect of new mysterious stones
• DMG 7%.
• CRIT 2%.




Entry Requirements: Being level 50+
Modes: Solo
Reset time: 24 hours

You can reach this instance Star Sand Desert (x319, y153).
There are three difficulties to choose from. (Levels 50, 60, and 70.)
This is a dungeon-type Tower Defense, you must protect the tower by using different unique spells and strategizing on your own.
Rewards: Experience, Valor Coins, and a Ruin Defender’s Chest.


The following new medals are available:
• Dueling Medal: Bronze and up.
Challenge opponents, be victorious! (Losers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.)
• Grand Medal of Sky Tower:
Got what it takes to beat all 30 floors of this dungeon?

• The various World Boss reward bags/chests/packs can now be opened.

Enjoy the new patch!
Your Aura Kingdom Team

Part 1 of the Patch Notes can be found here!




Bry’s Forum Guide for Sky Tower
Doge’s terrible cheat sheet for Sky Tower

This patch brings us the new floors 26-30.
The new floors directly follow the 21-25 floors available on Friday.
You receive no additional lives, only 15 lives for 21-30.
Here you can loot Level 75 trophies, accessories, and weapons!
Dare you face these legendary creatures?

Sky Tower Elite Raid opening hours (all in EDT / server time):
• On Friday from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• On Friday from 15:00 PM - 17:00 PM
• On Friday from 20:00 PM - 22:00 PM




Can you beat the heat? Only a true Envoy can best this blazing inferno.
The entrance to this instance is in the Oblitus Woods, same portal as Ghostweep Cave. Spoopy.

Entry Requirements: Being level 70
Modes: 5 players
Reset timer: 6 hours

There are four bosses total in this instance, and their drop list is here:
• Mysterious Costume/Hat Chest II
• Mysterious Stone Chests
• Level 75 Gold Equipment.
• Luminous Secret Stones.
• x30 Dragon Points.
• Intermediate and Basic Chest enchantments
• Intermediate and Basic Weapon enchantments

Caution: Kaiser Zeta or Kusanagi may spawn at the end with the chest!

Various effects of new equipment sets and stones:

Set 1
Max HP +8%
Damage Reduction -6%.
If attacked, 40% chance to recover 692 HP per second for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.

Set 2
Damage +8%.
Crit +5%.
When attacking, 40% chance to inflict 986 Damage over Time for 15 sec, stacking 5 times.

Base effect of new mysterious stones
• DMG 7%.
• CRIT 2%.




Entry Requirements: Being level 50+
Modes: Solo
Reset time: 24 hours

You can reach this instance Star Sand Desert (x319, y153).
There are three difficulties to choose from. (Levels 50, 60, and 70.)
This is a dungeon-type Tower Defense, you must protect the tower by using different unique spells and strategizing on your own.
Rewards: Experience, Valor Coins, and a Ruin Defender’s Chest.


The following new medals are available:
• Dueling Medal: Bronze and up.
Challenge opponents, be victorious! (Losers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.)
• Grand Medal of Sky Tower:
Got what it takes to beat all 30 floors of this dungeon?

• The various World Boss reward bags/chests/packs can now be opened.

Enjoy the new patch!
Your Aura Kingdom Team

Note: We are aware of the 1/1 durability bug on low-level Scythe weapons. A minor patch will be applied this week to fix it.


1. Weapon Specialization System
2. Card Game
3. Sky Tower - Floor 26-30
4. Bank expansions
5. New instance: HeII Purgatory of the Lava Lord
6. New Solo instance: Subterranean Ruins
7. New Medals
8. Changes related to Sky Tower, fishing and various other professions.

This new feature is available from Level 60. To access it, press K (or Skills menu) and select the last tab.



Once you hit Level 60, you unlock two paths that bring you three skills, active or passive (bonus stats or modified versions of existing skills) as shown below:
1. New Skill(s).
2. Improvement of one or more skills.
3. Passive bonus stats.

The two paths are unique for each main class and it can be leveled up by gaining experience while defeating mobs (both in and out of dungeons) and Bosses in dungeons. (Quest EXP won’t count). The maximum level of weapon specialization is 50 for each path.

Weapon specialization level 30 brings further bonuses to your skills/stats. To change paths, simply click the button underneath the interface. You can swap every 10 minutes (while not in combat or doing a profession).

You can allocate points (you get 2 per level, so 100 total) in various stats:
Note: Stat increases scale with character level.
• Increased Damage
• Increased Crit Rate
• Increased Speed
• Increased Hit Points
• Increased Defence
• Increased Evasion
• Decreased Damage from all elemental targets
• Increased Movement Speed
• Increased Crit Damage
• Increased Accuracy
• Increased Healing
• Increased Drop rates
• Increased Wind Skill Damage
• Increased Flame Skill Damage
• Increased Lightning Skill Damage
• Increased Ice Skill Damage
• Increased Holy Skill Damage
• Increased Dark Skill Damage




• Introduction
You’ve got fishing, archeology, cooking, and harvesting, but today another activity makes its way to Aura Kingdom: The card game!
You must reach level 60 and accept the introductory quest. (It pops up as a red blinking scroll.)
To complete the quest, you must visit <AK Card Association> Simone, located near the southwest fountain in Navea.
Participating in card duels will earn you a card rank, experience points, and experience in the profession itself.
You will unlock more rare cards as your card dueling level increases.
This will also unlock more shop stock from the NPC.
Specifically, card duels take place in real time and all the cards have at least one active skill, though rarer cards may possess several skills (some of which may be passive). The effects of them vary: Increased damage, Regeneration, Multi-Target Stuns, etc.



• Beginning the card game:
Once you have completed the introductory quest, you can access a new icon in the lower right of your interface.
This will open the interface with five different card sets for you to create.
The card sets will contains cards from the game. Cards can be:
• Monsters and bosses of the game,
• Various NPCs,
• Fish-Kings,
• Eidolons, and others.
There are currently about 600 cards available, we’re unable to list them here.



• Creating your deck:
You can create your card deck(s) by going to the interface.
Careful, there are rules for the deck:
- You can have only one copy of each card in each deck - so no duplicates.
- 5 stars: One card is allowed per deck.
- 4 stars: Two cards are allowed per deck.
- Your cards’ combat power is limited by your level.



Pro tip: Well-planned elemental attributes will also give your deck an edge against certain opponents.
DMG is inflicted x1.25 according to elemental advantage. DMG is decreased by -25% against the opposite element.



• Normal Competition
There are several types of fighting available, the simplest is dueling NPCs. This is a normal competition.
Click the NPC, then click the card icon on his profile to start the game.
As NPCs get harder, you’ll need more combat power to defeat them.
Note: Cost is 1 Duel point per Duel.

Difficulty Beginner: 0
Difficulty Intermediate: 20,000
Difficulty Hard: 150,000
Difficulty HeII: 300,000



Rewards:
• Ranking according to the opponent and level of difficulty,
• Card dueling experience,
• General experience,
• New Cards

• Simple Duel: Players versus Players
You can directly challenge another player to a card duel by targeting someone, right clicking on their username, and then selecting the option from the dropdown list.
This is a free fight and doesn’t consume Duel Points: Neither player receives rewards.

• Random Duel: Player versus Players
On the new card interface, there will be an option to choose for a random duel. There you will be put in a queue until you’re matched with another player with similar deck power. This will consume 1 Duel point per random duel. (Like regular PvP, minus the blood and guts.)

• Duel Points
You can have a maximum of 30 points, you recover 1 point every 15 minutes.
Duel points are shared across the entire account, not per character.

Improving your deck
Existing cards can be ‘Strengthened’ with the option in the Card interface, with their cap level being 99.

New cards can be obtained:
- By purchasing cards from the Navea NPC with gold,
- By purchasing cards with PvP points,
- By purchasing cards with Duel card currency,
- By winning against an opponent in a competition,
- By opening Fish Kings,
- By talking to your Eidolons.

Card Duel Level Bonuses
Like all Aura Kingdom professions, the level of your card dueling adds bonus stats, and little goodies, here's the list:






With this new mechanic, another hot bar has been added.
The default shortcut is Shift key + numbers 1 to 8.
You can change this from game settings: ESC → Settings → Shortcuts.
Gamers, rejoice! You can now conveniently spam more skills than ever before.


New tabs in the bank interface have been added for all characters.
You’ll find: :
• A tab for profession materials (cooking, fishing, etc.).
• A tab to store your various mounts and pets.
You want to put away that Quick Ostrich / Beebis, do you? I know you do. Don't you?
Well, you can't. Items that cannot be stored in those spaces will be dark in your inventory.

To be continued in Part 2!

Note: We are aware of the 1/1 durability bug on low-level Scythe weapons. A minor patch will be applied this week to fix it.


1. Weapon Specialization System
2. Card Game
3. Sky Tower - Floor 26-30
4. Bank expansions
5. New instance: HeII Purgatory of the Lava Lord
6. New Solo instance: Subterranean Ruins
7. New Medals
8. Changes related to Sky Tower, fishing and various other professions.

This new feature is available from Level 60. To access it, press K (or Skills menu) and select the last tab.



Once you hit Level 60, you unlock two paths that bring you three skills, active or passive (bonus stats or modified versions of existing skills) as shown below:
1. New Skill(s).
2. Improvement of one or more skills.
3. Passive bonus stats.

The two paths are unique for each main class and it can be leveled up by gaining experience while defeating mobs (both in and out of dungeons) and Bosses in dungeons. (Quest EXP won’t count). The maximum level of weapon specialization is 50 for each path.

Weapon specialization level 30 brings further bonuses to your skills/stats. To change paths, simply click the button underneath the interface. You can swap every 10 minutes (while not in combat or doing a profession).

You can allocate points (you get 2 per level, so 100 total) in various stats:
Note: Stat increases scale with character level.
• Increased Damage
• Increased Crit Rate
• Increased Speed
• Increased Hit Points
• Increased Defence
• Increased Evasion
• Decreased Damage from all elemental targets
• Increased Movement Speed
• Increased Crit Damage
• Increased Accuracy
• Increased Healing
• Increased Drop rates
• Increased Wind Skill Damage
• Increased Flame Skill Damage
• Increased Lightning Skill Damage
• Increased Ice Skill Damage
• Increased Holy Skill Damage
• Increased Dark Skill Damage




• Introduction
You’ve got fishing, archeology, cooking, and harvesting, but today another activity makes its way to Aura Kingdom: The card game!
You must reach level 60 and accept the introductory quest. (It pops up as a red blinking scroll.)
To complete the quest, you must visit <AK Card Association> Simone, located near the southwest fountain in Navea.
Participating in card duels will earn you a card rank, experience points, and experience in the profession itself.
You will unlock more rare cards as your card dueling level increases.
This will also unlock more shop stock from the NPC.
Specifically, card duels take place in real time and all the cards have at least one active skill, though rarer cards may possess several skills (some of which may be passive). The effects of them vary: Increased damage, Regeneration, Multi-Target Stuns, etc.



• Beginning the card game:
Once you have completed the introductory quest, you can access a new icon in the lower right of your interface.
This will open the interface with five different card sets for you to create.
The card sets will contains cards from the game. Cards can be:
• Monsters and bosses of the game,
• Various NPCs,
• Fish-Kings,
• Eidolons, and others.
There are currently about 600 cards available, we’re unable to list them here.



• Creating your deck:
You can create your card deck(s) by going to the interface.
Careful, there are rules for the deck:
- You can have only one copy of each card in each deck - so no duplicates.
- 5 stars: One card is allowed per deck.
- 4 stars: Two cards are allowed per deck.
- Your cards’ combat power is limited by your level.



Pro tip: Well-planned elemental attributes will also give your deck an edge against certain opponents.
DMG is inflicted x1.25 according to elemental advantage. DMG is decreased by -25% against the opposite element.



• Normal Competition
There are several types of fighting available, the simplest is dueling NPCs. This is a normal competition.
Click the NPC, then click the card icon on his profile to start the game.
As NPCs get harder, you’ll need more combat power to defeat them.
Note: Cost is 1 Duel point per Duel.

Difficulty Beginner: 0
Difficulty Intermediate: 20,000
Difficulty Hard: 150,000
Difficulty HeII: 300,000



Rewards:
• Ranking according to the opponent and level of difficulty,
• Card dueling experience,
• General experience,
• New Cards

• Simple Duel: Players versus Players
You can directly challenge another player to a card duel by targeting someone, right clicking on their username, and then selecting the option from the dropdown list.
This is a free fight and doesn’t consume Duel Points: Neither player receives rewards.

• Random Duel: Player versus Players
On the new card interface, there will be an option to choose for a random duel. There you will be put in a queue until you’re matched with another player with similar deck power. This will consume 1 Duel point per random duel. (Like regular PvP, minus the blood and guts.)

• Duel Points
You can have a maximum of 30 points, you recover 1 point every 15 minutes.
Duel points are shared across the entire account, not per character.

Improving your deck
Existing cards can be ‘Strengthened’ with the option in the Card interface, with their cap level being 99.

New cards can be obtained:
- By purchasing cards from the Navea NPC with gold,
- By purchasing cards with PvP points,
- By purchasing cards with Duel card currency,
- By winning against an opponent in a competition,
- By opening Fish Kings,
- By talking to your Eidolons.

Card Duel Level Bonuses
Like all Aura Kingdom professions, the level of your card dueling adds bonus stats, and little goodies, here's the list:






With this new mechanic, another hot bar has been added.
The default shortcut is Shift key + numbers 1 to 8.
You can change this from game settings: ESC → Settings → Shortcuts.
Gamers, rejoice! You can now conveniently spam more skills than ever before.


New tabs in the bank interface have been added for all characters.
You’ll find: :
• A tab for profession materials (cooking, fishing, etc.).
• A tab to store your various mounts and pets.
You want to put away that Quick Ostrich / Beebis, do you? I know you do. Don't you?
Well, you can't. Items that cannot be stored in those spaces will be dark in your inventory.

To be continued in Part 2!

Millions of APs for given out for free!

Envoys of Gaia!

Summer is not over yet, and we’ve got some exciting news coming your way! The Monthly Raffle is not enough, so we’ve prepared another one with some amazing prizes up for grabs...

We’ll be giving away 500 AP, 1000 AP, and 3000 AP to thousands of lucky winners throughout the event! No string attached, simply log in once between Friday August 28th and Wednesday September 2nd to be in for your chance to win. That's right, you only need to log in to participate in this awesome raffle!

Winners will have their prize awarded into their AP balance up to 1 week after the event ends.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity and we’ll see you in-game!

START: August 28th, 2015 at 09:00 AM GMT + 2
ENDS: September 2nd, 2015 at 11:59 PM GMT + 2

Don't know what time this is for you? Use the Time Zone Converter!

Enjoy the rest of the Summer!

Millions of APs for given out for free!

Envoys of Gaia!

Summer is not over yet, and we’ve got some exciting news coming your way! The Monthly Raffle is not enough, so we’ve prepared another one with some amazing prizes up for grabs...

We’ll be giving away 500 AP, 1000 AP, and 3000 AP to thousands of lucky winners throughout the event! No string attached, simply log in once between Friday August 28th and Wednesday September 2nd to be in for your chance to win. That's right, you only need to log in to participate in this awesome raffle!

Winners will have their prize awarded into their AP balance up to 1 week after the event ends.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity and we’ll see you in-game!

START: August 28th, 2015 at 09:00 AM GMT + 2
ENDS: September 2nd, 2015 at 11:59 PM GMT + 2

Don't know what time this is for you? Use the Time Zone Converter!

Enjoy the rest of the Summer!

Millions of APs for given out for free!

Envoys of Gaia!

Summer is not over yet, and we’ve got some exciting news coming your way! The Monthly Raffle is not enough, so we’ve prepared another one with some amazing prizes up for grabs...

We’ll be giving away 500 AP, 1000 AP, and 3000 AP to thousands of lucky winners throughout the event! No string attached, simply log in once between Friday August 28th and Wednesday September 2nd to be in for your chance to win. That's right, you only need to log in to participate in this awesome raffle!

Winners will have their prize awarded into their AP balance up to 1 week after the event ends.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity and we’ll see you in-game!

START: August 28th, 2015 at 09:00 AM GMT + 2
ENDS: September 2nd, 2015 at 11:59 PM GMT + 2

Don't know what time this is for you? Use the Time Zone Converter!

Enjoy the rest of the Summer!

The patch notes were so long that we had to cut it in two parts! Read the first part here!




Level 70 weapons have finally arrived!

For fans of PvP, go to Navea and talk to the NPCs in Navea to buy your new equipment.
This equipment will be available for 2250 Valor coins per weapon.

Changes in the PvP Arena

• For Level 60+ Arenas: Increase HP and DEF of the bosses, totems or turrets, depending on the type of arena you are in.
  
• Centurion:  The points obtained from battling monsters and bosses have been increased, the monster’s points have also increased as well.
  
• Adjustment for Excelsior:  The respawn time has been lowered to 5 seconds, and will increase to 10 seconds over the course of the battle.
  
• Increase of Fighter Points to lower-leveled players by 20%.
  
• Heal percentage in PvP has been increased from 30% to 50%, so that the recovery in PvP is now half of the recovery in PvE.

Item Mall Update

• A new item that reduces the cost of crafting/forging will be implemented, it will be usable at the refining NPCs. This will be obtainable in the Item Mall.
  
• A new tab will be available in the Item Mall; it will act as a preview window where you may try on all costumes in the IM. Enjoy the new Action Preview window!

• Floor 21:
◦ The lag problem that occurs when the boss attacks has been fixed.

• Floor 22 :
◦ Fenrir is now stunned for 6 seconds instead of 3 seconds when players lead him into an ice trap.
◦ Fenrir recovers less life when eating a player that has been transformed into a chicken.

• Floor 23:
◦ The egg’s spawn rate is no longer 100% on every player.
◦ The eggs spawned no longer inflict DMG to players that are not in the boss room.
◦ Once the eggs explode, only the players in range take DMG.
◦ The timer before the explosion has been increased to 4 seconds.

• The HP of chests has been greatly increased on every floor.
• The level 60 quest to access Sky Tower has been simplified.
• The level 60 zone requirements have also been simplified to allow newer players to access these zones.

Guild Instance
• The guild instance can be started with 3 players instead of 5. The goal of this modification is so that small guilds can participate in these instances and benefit from their rewards.

Bosses and Enemies
• The Mushroom Titan’s stun in Titan’s Root (Party and Hell mode) has been reduced from 6 seconds to 1 second.
• The Damage-Over-Time skills of certain monsters have been modified, notably those in the Cadilla Felwood instance.

Field Mob Modifications

• Certain field mobs have had their Hit Points adjusted.
• By 'certain' we mean two. (Baaaaaa.)

Fishing
• The Equipment Chests obtained from fishing now have higher NPC resale value.
• Fishing tokens can now be possessed in multiples of 100 instead of 10.

System
• Once you connect, an info bubble will pop up to inform you that you have hidden players, and will allow you to unhide players if you have forgotten to do so.
• The images used in the ‘card game’ system have now been added.
• The Loyalty Point cap has been increased to 99,999!

Medals
• New medals are now available with the arrival of the level 75 Otherworlds.
• The gold medal from Otherworlds is now available.
• The Gold Grand Achievement medal for instances is now available.

Daily Activity Interface
• A new tab has been implemented to indicate available instances for your level.

Bugs and Translations:
• Source post from the EU version: the infinite loading bug has been fixed.
• Daily activity log is now compatible with Centurion.
• The character swap freeze seems to have been resolved.
• Certain head costume pieces now display properly in party view in the default upper left.
• You receive the daily login present even while you are in the Tutorial, before arriving in Port Skandia.
• The Archeology title for level 6 has been corrected.
• The item Artisanal Chocolate Heart can no longer be obtained, as it was event-specific. Any existing ones will still remain until consumed.

Known Bugs, Problems and Translations
• Numerous translations are still inaccurate; we are currently aware of the problem and are working to resolve them.
• More bugs may have been forgotten, do not hesitate to report them to the forums once you’ve completed reading these patch notes.

Thank you for playing Aura Kingdom!