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"Time to conjure up a little magic!"
Magic Quest is a feature that once debuted early in Aywas history. However, the feature was disabled for a period of years as the Adventure system was changed and overhauled. This is a particular site feature which also acts as a game of sorts, sending users out around the world of Ay to activate the magic of ancient places. As a reward, the top magicians every month would receive SP.
It is with great enthusiasm we announce that Magic Quest is finally back!
Some older users may remember Magic Quest while a great many have not seen it at all. Whether you're new or old, you should first acquaint yourself with the Knowledge Base Article that covers the feature in detail.
In order to activate Magic Quest, a user must master the Desert. Once a user has reached this requirement, they must visit the Parthenon, where they will be prompted as to whether they'd like to activate the feature.
After that, you're ready for questing!
When you accept a quest at the Parthenon, you will be shown a greyed-out image with a name. The objective is to find the location and activate it. Magic Locations are hidden within the "cities" of the Adventure regions. In order to access these cities, you must master the region it belongs to.
Once at the city, you must find the location needed for your quest by 'clicking' on it. When prompted, it will ask you if you which to activate the location's magic which will cost you some of your "Magic". Magic is a resource which regenerates over time. Select 'yes' and return to the Parthenon for your reward and a new quest!
The more magic locations you activate in your quests, the higher your score for the month will be. In addition, your magic level will increase and it will also increase the amount of Magic you have.
As a small note, Magic may still receive a few tweaks based on feedback and issues that may pop up. So if you encounter an issue, please post your findings on this thread.
But before you go running off, apprentices, we still have some other small announcements!
As you may have noticed, our city locations are now making their glorious return as well to Aywas. You can view the available cities at the City Hub. In the past, the cities only worked to benefit the Magic Quest feature. Going forward, the cities will play a much larger (albeit not-yet-fully-coded) role.
You will find that the cities will also host Gardening and Fishing. While these are not yet activated, you will find that new and returning-old features may be making their appearance in the city hubs. This also include new cities for our currently city-less Ara regions (and with them, new Magic Locations)!
In order to access a region's city (and thus gain access to its features like Magic Quest), you will need to master the region in Adventure. So get out there and adventure!
Finally, we have the infamous Book of Completion. Users read this book to automatically complete a region of explore, but it would also ban them from Adventuring for a week. Due to a rollback error years ago, the consequence of this book was removed in order to grant a grace period for users to re-master regions they had once already mastered but had loss due to the rollback.
As that issue is now long-since gone, the book is being put back into it's original coding. However, due to the fact that many users were not aware of this original punishment and use, there will be a continuing grace period to use this book without incurring the adventure-ban. After 11:59 PM on July 12th, this book will now once again ban users from Adventure for one week upon using it.
So whether you plan to use the book or master adventure the old fashioned way, get out there and master those regions!
ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!
Posted by Hiiro
(#755) on Tue Jul 5, 2016 6:44pm
- Hiiro
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Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 8:07pm
Saturn (#497) I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. Are you referring to low players having access to "low level quests only". Low level players should have a sort of 'boost' in that they can access low level quests that higher level players don't. However, prior (like in the first month) users were able to swap pets to "go back" to low levels and hit the HS boards again over high level players. That is no longer the case since the feature is account-bound, not pet bound. So eventually the lower level players will become "high level players" in Magic.
However, it was (and still is) a concern that there is a large 'drop' in the amount of Magic quests. We are considering some changes in that regard to, so that there are better 'perks' for being a higher level, despite the quest differences. But this will also include some of the Ara magic zones, which hopefully can be released in the upcoming months.
If you are referring to something else however, please feel free to PM me and we can discuss your concern and see if I can understand the issue a bit better :)
- Hiiro
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Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 8:15pm
Tee Hi (#39846)
Apologies, I missed your question earlier. There are no consequences if you use the book between now and July 12th, 11:59 PM.
- Moved to 1599
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Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 8:28pm
This is exciting, thank you!
- Tee Hi <3
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Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 9:44pm
Thanks a lot, Hiiro (#755); I'd actually just started the Rain Forest about 2 days ago and was on Level 4, so I just Book of Completion'ed my way to doneness and now all areas that will be used are available to me, Yay!
- KatieHeppelle
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Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 9:56pm
The Up gif got me XD love that movie so much! All of these updates are awesome as well :D
- BearHeart
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Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 10:03pm
Oh cool!
- Juke
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Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 10:10pm
Aaaa, so cool! Thanks guys!
- Cake
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 2:52am
I think it would be fair to use 2x magic to reject a quest than it would normally cost to activate the location. Using up your resource, but not gaining points for the score board should be incentive enough to not abuse it.
My current quest is only open for me 1-2AM local time, and I will literally not be able to play the game at all until there's a way to reset the location. Feels bad man.
- Hanako
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 4:55am
I have a question, do we all have to re-master the Desert? Because I'm fairly sure I've already mastered it long ago to unlock the East River, yet it says that I'm on lvl 1 now @_@
Posted on: Tue Jul 5, 2016 8:01pm
Hiiro (#755)
I'd go with a cooldown personally. :3