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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
- Lunch & Obi
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 8:04am
YAAAAY! FUN TIMES! SO EXCITE! :DDDD! - Lunch
- Koaf(Quitting)
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 8:36am
Cant wait for premium item
- Nemesis Valkyrie
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 10:04am
Arkonsel (#388) Go to the location you want to master, then use the item there, just as you would use a net or aynip. :)
- ~KrimsonCreature
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 10:14am
Hiiro (#755)
Maybe the 'The area is very quiet' description could slightly change as it gets closer to being able to activate? To hint that it's nearing time?
Also, by a 'certain time of the day', would it be like :00s and/or :30s? Or randoms times? XD
- Tae
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 10:38am
Cake (#2060) 2x the magic isn't really viable at low level.... I mean the one I'm stuck on costs 3 magic to activate... but I only have a total of 5.... so if there was a 2x to reject the quest then I still would be unable to complete it as I don't have enough to pay for a double fee... make it equal to what the place would cost to open would be fair I'd think... otherwise people would be stuck (like many of us are now) with an area that's not open... and they have no idea when it would be open and if they could be online for it... and not have enough resources to be able to reset it.
- Tae
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 10:40am
Arkonsel (#388) It will show under "items" when you are in adventure (like where your net shows up) and you use it from that menu in the zone you want to master.
- Tae
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 10:41am
Also - Is there a list some where of the times places are open? or possibly maybe a thread where we can post what times we are finding things open at? I think that would help out a lot of users.
- Cake
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 10:49am
Taena (#66637) - Maybe for the first tier of levels it's 1x, but for higher levels let it be 2x. I can't even test anything and it's been so long I don't remember all the details. As I said, I can't play at all, so testing and seeing numbers isn't possible for me. I just think that skipping should be a considerable penalty for anyone seeking to make the High Score list.
The old thread with times is in Aywas Talk. Hiiro confirmed the times were not changed from before.
- Tae
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Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 10:50am
Cake (#2060) if it's the same as what's posted in the old thread then it still won't work... as the highest tier places will cost 25 magic and that's the max you'll have at max level. So double the cost is not a viable option with the current amount of magic points we have per tier.
Posted on: Wed Jul 6, 2016 5:20am
Sorry if this is a stupid question but how exactly do you USE a book of completion? There's no 'read' or 'use' option in the drop down menu and the library doesn't have it either.