Design Notes

August 20, 2019

Battle Concert Happening Now

Korn to play concerts in AdventureQuest 3D & AQWorlds video games

Starting August 20th, get in the most brutal mosh pit ever... and make video game history! Korn is playing the grand opening of the Battle Concert Arena in the massively multiplayer games, AdventureQuest 3D & AQWorlds. The band will play on stage while you fight monsters, score loot, and hear a new song from Korn's upcoming album.... NOTHING.

Ticket price? Free. Travel time? None. Log in at www.AQ.com

WHO: You, your friends, and Korn
WHAT: Free virtual concert in both AdventureQuest Worlds & AdventureQuest 3D
WHEN: Right now!
WHERE: AdventureQuest 3D & AdventureQuest Worlds

Event Collections

The event is free for everyone to play. But yeah, there are special event packs to optionally buy, too. The special event packages include the Korn-branded items, monster morph armors and helms, bonus quests, and more… including a backstage pass so you can get a virtual backstage experience with the virtual band and take a virtual selfie.

Event Collection: Unlocks select Korn-branded items, access to the backstage area + exclusive merge shop during the event, and exclusive Event Collection character page badge
VIP Event Collection: Unlocks ALL Korn-branded items, the color-customizable Heavy Metal Necro class and armor set, access to the PERMANENT version of the backstage area + exclusive merge shop, and exclusive VIP Event Collection character page badge
ALL ACCESS PASS: Unlocks full access to the VIP event collections in AdventureQuest Worlds and AdventureQuest 3D

Purchase your collection now!

Concert Arena Rewards

Talk to Johnny Trax, the concert merch vendor, to see her merge shop full of all-new concert outfits and weapons! Save up the Arena Coins the monsters drop* -- you'll use them to create Korn Tokens and Metal Badges (along with other event merge items) in her merge shop to create the Heavy Metal Necro class!

Complete the event and you will earn the rare Dark Mosh Pit badge! (You will only be to earn this badge during the event featuring Korn!)

Tags: Alina,

August 19, 2019

Battle Concert Series Class Skills Breakdown

Get ready to ROCK the battlefield!

To celebrate our new musical event, the class team has been hard at work on new classes: Heavy Metal Necro and Nu Metal Necro. The Nu Metal Necro class is a version that’s easier to both obtain and use, and ideal for lower level players. The color-customizable Heavy Metal Necro Class will be released as part of our VIP Event Collection package; both that class and its identical farmable variant, the Dark Metal Necro, are built for more experienced players and featurea momentum-based playstyle that keeps the risk high and the damage higher!

The variants of these classes will go rare after this event ends, but their skills, icons, and animations will return during future musical events.

Get the full class skills breakdown here!

Tags: Alina,

August 16, 2019

Mogdring the Harvester

Our Moglin KickStarter Release Builder Story!

Nibbleon, the Greenguard hometown of your favorite moglin friends, has come under attack by an army of… ROBOTS?! Nugget and Zilla, Nibbleon’s two top hunters, have been fighting them back but moglins just keep disappearing. Someone -- or something -- is moglin-napping them, and they need your help to find their friends, save them, and take out whatever dark entity is responsible!

Building the Moglin KickStarter Release: The Story!

This story was crafted during the week-long visit of our AdventureQuest Moglins “Story Designer” backer, Doom Regin Doom, who visited the lab earlier this year. We want to sincerely thank him for making the area possible. He was extremely focused and excited to make a fun and interesting moglin-related story for everyone to enjoy.

After he had an armor made for his NPC, Doom Regin Doom asked the team to release a variant as the reward set this weekend. He was very specific about the farming quest details: no dailies, no 1% drops needed. Just farming and fun!

We had a blast when he and his parents visited the lab for a week to meet and work with us. He is a great guy, and if you see him in game, be sure to say hi and toss him some thanks for not-so-cuddle moglin creation!

Plus, you can read his interview with Artix in the AdventureQuest 3D Design Notes here.

Tags: Alina,

August 16, 2019

New Doom Set: Underworld Thronetaker

Available in the Wheel of Doom merge shop!

The Wheel of Doom spins round and round... and this week, as we prepare for a dark new event next week, we're keeping the theme strong with an all-new underworld set in the Wheel of Doom merge shop: the Underworld Thronetaker!

Find the gear in the Wheel of Doom merge shop!

Underworld Thronetaker armor
Three Underworld crown helms
Underworld Thronetaker cape
Underworld Thronetaker Blade (single and dual wield)

Get your Free Spins

Everyone loves to get prizes... and that's why we brought back back free spins for the Wheel of Doom!

Members get one free spin a day while their upgrade is active
All players get one free spin a week.

See the Free Spins Design Notes for more details.

Platinum Item of Donated Awesomeness

We've gotten a lot of really positive feedback after introducing the free spins... but also a lot of you who wanted 1) a way to make sure you got an Item of Donated Awesomeness and 2) kept spinning in a quest to get the Epic Item of Donated Awesomeness to drop from the Wheel... and then not didn't get it.

That's why we introduced the Platinum Item of Donated Awesomeness. This item is available from the Doom Merge Shop, so even if you don't receive the EIoDA as a bonus prize, you can save up your Treasure Potions and get the PIoDA.

Important Points

The PIoDA will be a Wheel of Doom merge shop exclusive.
Cost: 1,000 Treasure Potions.
You can get both the EIoDA (from the Wheel) and the PIoDA (from the merge shop)
The PIoDA currently stacks up to x5. We are currently planning to raise the cap later this year.

At a cost of 1,000 Treasure Potions, that means a member who ONLY uses their one free spin per day/week will need to log in every day for about 2.5 years to get it... but they WILL get it eventually.

* Exceptions include staff personal items, custom weapon contest prizes, HeroMart items, etc

Tags: Alina,

August 14, 2019

Battle Concert Happening Now

Log in NOW to see Korn to play concerts in AdventureQuest 3D & AQWorlds

Ticket price? Free. Travel time? None. Log in at www.AQ.com

WHO: You, your friends, and Korn
WHAT: Free virtual concert in both AdventureQuest Worlds & AdventureQuest 3D
WHEN: Right now!
WHERE: AdventureQuest 3D & AdventureQuest Worlds

Event Collections

Event Collection: Unlocks select Korn-branded items, access to the backstage area + exclusive merge shop during the event, and exclusive Event Collection character page badge
VIP Event Collection: Unlocks ALL Korn-branded items, the color-customizable Heavy Metal Necro class and armor set, access to the PERMANENT version of the backstage area + exclusive merge shop, and exclusive VIP Event Collection character page badge
ALL ACCESS PASS: Unlocks full access to the VIP event collections in AdventureQuest Worlds and AdventureQuest 3D

Concert Arena Rewards

Complete the event and you will earn the rare Dark Mosh Pit badge! (You will only be to earn this badge during the event featuring Korn!)

Tags: Alina,

August 09, 2019

Return to the BattleCon Arena

This Friday, log in and battle before the concert begins

Ten years ago (way way back in 2009), AQWorlds had its first-ever live in-game concert with special musical guest, Aurelio Voltaire. Fast forward to 2019 and we're preparing to celebrate that anniversary AND the grand-opening of the Battleon Arena in AdventureQuest 3D with another special musical guest and an INSANE, massively-monstrous mosh pit event. The event begins later this month, but for several weeks, both the AQ3D and AQWorlds teams have been in overdrive preparing for the big day. And now, we need YOUR help! This weekend, log in and /join arenaline to gear up and help Bryce Platinum (the concert promoter) get ready.

Talk to Bryce Platinum, the concert promoter, to begin quests for all new concert outfits and weapons! Save up the Arena Coins he'll give you, too -- you'll use them (along with other event merge items) in Johnny Trax' merge shop to create the Heavy Metal Necro class!

A New CLASS?!!?!

Yes, a new class! Pisces and the class crew have been hard at work on the new Heavy Metal Necro class. Some early information before the full class details post goes up next week...

The Class will be available during the special musical event and future special musical events
The Class can be obtained by farming

Johnny Trax's Pre-Event Merge Shop

Talk to Johnny Trax, the concert merch vendor, for a chance to gear up before the show begins later this month. Select items from her event shop are available this weekend. But save up the Arena Coins you earn from Bryce's quests because once the event opens, she'll have even MORE gear!