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3/1/2025 1:14:26   
Laeon val Observis
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Book 2 Reimagined: The Lost Ateala
Hey there, heroes!

This week, we're returning to Atrea! The next part of the Book 2 Reimagined project is here!


In the build up to the Rising Fire war, Veyla, the Ateala freed from Wargoth's control, is nowhere to be found. As your new friends search for her, you're doing your own inquiries to find the lost Ateala... Hopefully you can find her before it's too late!

Head over to Yolande in Atrea to play this week's Reimagined quest: The Lost Ateala!


Also this week, a new cosmetic item is available for purchase!


The DragonKeeper Cloak is now available for 300 Dragon Coins from the DC Cosmetics shop!


This week, we've also made a number of bugfixes and adjustments!
  • The challenge: Test of Meanwhile has been adjusted. While both the Chronomancer and Chronocorruptor are sill alive, they will always share the same special attack interval (early/medium/late), and should telegraph the interval accordingly. This should help mitigate some of the randomness frustration with this fight, as, unless you purposefully de-sync them, their special attacks should line up on the same turn each rotation.
  • Re-built the Bk1 Ravenloss file! While I did my best to rebuild everything as it was (or better!), it's possible I might have missed some things. Please let us know if any issues come up! Re-built components include SoulWeaver training, the Ravenloss War link, Aegis, Pellow Village and Invite Aegis buttons, and more.
  • Added an About SoulWeaver dialogue to Tomix in Bk1 Ravenloss.
  • The Ravenloss War should now return you to Ravenloss, rather than Falconreach.
  • A number of Badges have been updated!
    • The Warmonger badges are now functional, based on how many Defender Medals you currently own.
    • The LQS badge no longer appears at all on the board if you do not have it, as we have no plans to release more LQS events. This should help completionists not have a forever locked badge.
    • The Dracolich fishing badge now works!
    • Some badges have been rearranged on the board.
    • The Gourmet badge is still non-functional. Unfortunately, the way the skill is set up is completely different from anything else in the game, and we're still determining the best approach on how to fix this.
  • A large number of weapons have been updated to have numeral tiers. If you had any of these weapons saved in Builds or Outfits, you'll have to resave them.
  • Anything else I may have forgotten!

And that's all for this week!



< Message edited by Laeon val Observis -- 3/1/2025 1:32:28 >
DF AQW  Post #: 1
3/4/2025 20:55:20   
Bluu
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After a little bit of a dry spell from DF, I finally really enjoyed it again.

I have been feeling as though the releases have been a bit too... cosy... in the past few months--understandably so, since the team was just done with the finale--but I do think that the atmosphere and tension in this release is picking up speed. In these two quests, we have actually built up a lot on the city and the characters, which extends back to the previous Atrea release. I loved the dialogue about the Atelalan plant that Etaos mentioned which the Hero roughly translated to potatoes. That felt like such a genuine moment between the two as Etaos, despite having been through so much in such little time, felt so excited to share something about his homeland that he was so passionate about with... an alien! He really comes off as a genuinely sweet and kind-hearted person that was kinda like us back in his own world.

I like the establishment of social hierarchy. I think the releases did a great job of capturing that the Atealans lost a whole planet full of people, and Atrea was just one city that was teleported in with a slew of refugees, some of whom lived largely outside of civilization. They genuinely do feel like a "people", where before, they felt like a strong tribe but not a nation bound to a hidden empress like they were described to be. Now, it feels like we actually get to see it, even through the lens of the mourning poet who wished to write verses in the Song of the Ateala about those who otherwise wouldn't have anyone to remember them. I also like that Yolande is shown to be a person of power, someone who managed a community, had connections with everyone, helped people out -- kind of like a small scale hero or spirit of the village. It really brought a nice vibe to the idea of what their society was like back on Somorrah.

I LOVED the dialogue between the hero and the people at the market - some of them traumatized and still in shock from the event, some so weary that they didn't fully process the conversation, some that were excited to see an alien, and some who, hilariously, mentioned that lots of Ateala went missing - all of which you'd actually probably expect in that situation. It all felt so real to me.

Finally, I really like the buildup of the concern that Alz'ein has for Veyla. She was too cruel to Veyla in the previous iteration in my opinion, which greatly clashed with her personality in Book 3. However, she comes off now as someone who is concerned about the members of her clan - like they're a family, a team, a group. It makes their base class system sound really fascinating. As though you are actually training to be a member of their faction.

Overall, I liked these two reimagined releases because they felt very substantial and qualitative whilst also being snappy. They were concise and got a lot across in a short amount of time.
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