Design Notes

June 13, 2025

Friday the 13th: Noxus vs Grimskull WAR

The undeadliest event ever starts... NOW!

Doomwood is on FIRE this Friday the 13th. Literally! Grimskull and Noxus are rallying their undead armies in /lichwar to prove which of them is Lore's real MVP of Necromancy. You've got a front seat as they go skull-to-skull in a no-holds-barred necromancer showdown! Pick a side, charge into battle, and watch the chaos unfold.

Spoiler: the war doesn't end when the meter hits 100%. Prepare to [REDACTED by the Undeaditor]! With special guest Aurelio Voltaire adding his sinister, snarky style into the mix, this event will be a skeletal slugfest for the ages. It’s WAR, Liches. Get in or get ghosted.

Friday, June 13 Update

• Friday the 13th event: Noxus vs Grimskull WAR!
• Un-deadly Gear: Battle to unlock wicked rewards
• Event Rares: find rockin' new limited time sets in the Featured Gear Shop

Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts

• Server Boost: double Gold
• Resource Boost: Blood Gems
• Saturday: Rockin' rare weapons + pet from the Grim Soldiers in /lichwar
• Sunday: Wicked rare house guards + pet from [REDACTED]!

Lichforged Rewards

This is gear that makes you look like you stole Death’s lunch money. All you have to do? Crush the weak Destroy the undead... again and again! Every skull you crush pushes the war meter higher and earns you the dark resources you'll need to craft your chosen side's cursed armor set.    

Fight for Grimskull to unlock pieces of the Grimskull Psychophant set:

• Grimskull Psychophant armor 
• Morph, Halo morph, and Hair helms (male + female)
• Wings cape
• Scythe
• Grim Fists Gauntlet (single + dual-wield)

Fight for Noxus to unlock pieces of the Noxus Psychophant set:

• Noxus Psychophant armor 
• Morph, Horned morph, and Hair helms (male + female)
• Wings cape
• Spear polearm
• Noxious Beast Gauntlet (single + dual-wield)

This drip is diabolical! So get in there and start grinding... bones to make that bread!

LichWar Notes

This event is permanent for members (or if you own a Friday the 13th house portal). All players can access the event for several weeks each time we celebrate Friday the 13th.

Eldritch Event Rares Now Available

You ever wanted to look like a gothic rock god and a soul-hunting predator from the pits of some cursed dungeon? This weekend's Friday the 13th shop update just dropped, and we've got you covered with next-level killer couture.

Find our 2025 Friday the 13th event gear in your Featured Gear Shop until Friday, July 11th. 

• Rock out in the blood-slick Rockstar Rogue items 
• Dominate your enemies with the Grim DungeonMaster gear
• Control your look (and minions!) like a true evil overlord with the color-customizable Enchanted Grim DungeonMaster set
• Want a glam-horror set that screams "final boss-slayer"? Then get your gauntlets on the color-customizable Phantasmic Chimera set

* This is a set that screams "You rolled a 1, now you die."

🖤 Friday the 13th Is Back… and So Is Aurelio Voltaire!

You know what they say— undead never stay dead. And when Friday the 13th hits Lore, things get weird. Dark magic. Undead armies. It's total Chaos with a capital C. Sound familiar? You better believe it’s that time again.  /Join Voltairetown to replay every Friday the 13th event from the past, then head to /lichwar for this year’s all-new clash. We've got two bickering liches out to prove which one is the real bone-daddy. Spoiler: it's messy. You'll love it.

And Aurelio Voltaire’s music? Pure graveyard groove. This is horror heaven.

🎸 Aurelio Voltaire + Friday the 13th = Perfect Combo

He’s spooky. He’s stylish. He’s baaaaaaack. Aurelio Voltaire returns for another Friday the 13th event, and we are so here for it. This legend has rocked almost every AQWorlds Friday the 13th, and heroes are obsessed. He's known for his music, books, comics, toys, movies... and basically being a one-man haunted house of awesome.

So grab your gear, /slay some skeletons, and enjoy wreaking havok to his latest single, A Monster's Holiday. And if all this creepy-cool content wasn't enough for you, you can binge his YouTube series, "Gothic Homemaking" to get killer style tips from our coolest guest event-collaborator.

Big thanks to Aurelio Voltaire from all of us on the AQWorlds team! You make our spooky season 🔥 every time.

Stay up to date with new release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar and see what the latest Bug Fixes and Balance Changes are in their patch notes.

June 10, 2025

New Tuesday Update is Live

Yulgar's Adventurer's Board Update + Chaos Drop

Yulgar has been watching you all struggle with getting daily quests. He saw how dusty his quest board was getting, so he put a fresh coat of paint on it and added some daily quests to it from all throughout Lore. Most quests that require farming for resources were added to this. It’s located in the second room to the right in /Yulgar!

What’s the Daily Quest Board?

This is a location in /Yulgar that had a bunch of daily quests from the Chaos Saga on it... until today, when we added even more from around Lore. The quests that were added are ones that players in the community asked for in a recent feedback poll. Adding them decreases the time it takes for players to collect all of the quests, and makes sure new players know they exist.

Why update the Daily Quest Board?

Today's midweek designer has been watching a lot of AQW YouTubers and saw this one video from a content creator named Wahzzers which really hit home -- they had to go to tons of different maps to get all the daily quests they wanted. It was pretty eye opening, the amount of time and effort it took. When he did a runthrough and looked at how long it took to go to each map, it took several minutes JUST to type out all of the map names and go to all of the maps. That has a big impact on how much you and other players enjoy the game. Adding all of the quests all in one spot should help mitigate this issue.

What's next?

The current plan is to have at least one more update in the "not too distant" future. After today's update, we'll get more feedback from the community, then we can add more quests, house items or pets that players might want that have the daily quest board attached, etc

Bonus: New Chaos Weapon Drop

For those that don’t want to deal with the typical crowds in Yulgar’s Inn, then we have a daily drop in a library! Head over to the /BackRoom of the Chaos Librarium to obtain the easily-concealable Chaos Shankers from the Chaos Sp-eyes and Chaos Rats. Travel-sized for the hero who quest is to cause more chaos wherever they go.

June 06, 2025

Unleash the Power. Become the Light

Upgrade to unlock 20+ exclusive Photon Sentinel items

Lost in the Void, or perhaps any void between the fabric of space, light particles link together. It creates a sentience that tasks itself with guarding the path between worlds. Unlock all color-customizable items in the Photon Sentinel upgrade bonus pack when you buy any AdventureCoin or Membership pack of $10 USD or more.

After you purchase an account upgrade, select a bonus set of your choice from a list of options in your Account Manager.

Pack Details

Choose the Photon Sentinel upgrade bonus to 18 fully color-customizable items and two house items.

• Photon Sentinel armor
• Galvanized and regular Photon Sentinel Helms 
• Photon Sentinel Morph, Visage, and Gaze Helms
• Diffraction Rays Cape
• Gamma Ray Bursts Cape
• Solidified Light Wings Cape
• Photon Chasm Ground Rune
• Quantum Force Blade (single + dual-wield)
• Quantum Force Spear
• Quantum Force Blade + Shield
• Quantum Force Spear + Shield
• Photon Sparks Gauntlet
• Quantum Force Armblade (single + dual-wield)
• Photon Sentinel Guard Floor Item
• Photon Sentinel Poster Wall Item
• Character page badge

Once you've chosen the Photon Sentinel pack on the Account Manager page, log in and find the set's shop in the Other Achievements tab in your Book of Lore.

12000 AC or 12 month membership package rewards:

• ALL the Photon Sentinel gear
• 7 Rep/XP/Gold/Class Points boosts
• 10 Wheel of Doom Tickets (worth 2,000 ACs!)
• and a character page badge

Boosts and Doom Tickets will be added directly to your inventory.

2k and 5k AC or 1, 3, or 6 month membership package rewards:

• ALL the Photon Sentinel gear
• 5 Rep/XP/Gold/Class Points boosts
• and a character page badge

Get 50% more ACs During Our Summer Bonus

Need to recharge your AC stash before the next shipment of rare gear? Good news! Now's the time to strike, because our Holiday Bonus is ON! Get 50% more AdventureCoins with any AC or Member pack all Summer long!

Gear up and get ready, because all Summer long, we'll be adding new items for you! 

• Seasonal Summer Shop
• Meme x Anime Fusion gear
• New magic, sea monster, and mountain explorer rares
• Wheel of Doom Merge & Treasure Chest updates
• 2025 Summer Collection Chest

Get 60,000 ACs while our Summer Bonus is on!

During our Summer AC bonus, get 60,000 ACs for $99.95 (that's 20,000 ACs more than normal!) and unlock your choice of upgrade bonus pack, 15x Rep, Gold, Class Points, and XP server boosts, and the Mythic Item of Digital Awesomeness (IoDA). 

Wait...AdventureCoin Bonus?!

That's right! Several times each year, we have bonus AdventureCoin offers (example: Summer, Back to School, and during the holidays). Bonus amounts and dates may change from year to year, so keep an eye on the Design Notes and social media for more news of future bonuses.

Mythic Item of Digital Awesomeness?!

The Mythic Item of Digital Awesomeness (or MIoDA for short) is a miscellaneous item you will get by purchasing the 40k AdventureCoin pakage. Like the other IoDA items, it allows you to choose any item in the game when you redeem it through your Account Manager.

How to Claim your MIoDA Prize

Make sure you have a confirmed email address attached to your game account, and then follow these steps:

1. Decide on the item you want
2. Log into your Account Manager
3. Click on the "Awesome Prizes" link on the sidebar
4. You'll see a list of the IoDA tokens you have available
5. Choose from a list of ALL the eligible item rewards  
6. You'll be taken to a verification page to confirm your choice

June 12, 2025

From 12-Year-Old Dreams to Wedding-Day Reality: a Legendary Tune Reborn

The AQWorlds Song by Wulff Hunter and The XGuardian

I know I’ve been saying this for years, but it’s the Tog’s-honest truth: the Artix community never ceases to amaze us! And when we say AQWorlds inspires creativity beyond the browser, we really, truly mean it. Don’t believe me? Just ask Jared Rand, better known as Wulff Hunter in the lands of Lore. At just 12 years old, he started playing AQW and immediately pulled in his sister and cousins to join in on the fun. Gotta admit, I’m totally guilty of such things too 😏 But Wulff Hunter & friends didn’t just play the game… they formed a freakin’ band, “The Ebil Dread Paladins,” and composed the appropriately named “AQWorlds Song.”

It was an ~adorable~ first attempt, and it even got a response from Artix himself! Suffice to say, the song became a cherished — and hilarious — memory, often dusted off and played at Shabbat dinners.

Family is super effective at embarrassing us, huh? 🙈

Fast forward 16 years: Wulff Hunter has become a software engineer, his sister and cousins have grown into their own paths, and The Ebil Dread Paladins seemed like a distant memory. But fate had one more surprise in store! 

At Wulff Hunter’s IRL wedding on May 18th, his best man — The XGuardian, hailed in the real world as Tyler Simmons — gave him the ultimate gift: a fully remastered version of their old song! Tyler had re-recorded all of the music with the band’s original singers, save for Wulff Hunter’s lines, which he managed to extract from the mangled original audio. 

The updated “AQWorlds Song” turned the dance floor into a celebration of childhood memories, loads of laughter, and a heartwarming homage to the game that started it all. Witness the wonderful moment for yourself via their YouTube video: 

https://youtube.com/shorts/ky4I0et-E_U?si=JNTu6GWqLGMm7lBR 

I can’t get over how downright adorable and touching this is. I’m practically squealing with excitement over here… and that’s not just the 9 cups of coffee talking. Probably 🤩☕💞

Thank You Wulff Hunter and The XGuardian!

A huge thank you to Wulff Hunter, The XGuardian, and their family for sharing this story and the brand-new song recording with us and the entire Artix community! Your love for AQWorlds shines through every note, and we’re beyond honored to feature this special moment with the world we all know and love.

Rock out and battle on!
Beleen, The XGuardian, Wulff Hunter, and the Artix Entertainment team

June 09, 2025

All Around Lore - House Vaughn's Origins

Chiral Valley Noble Crest Beast Preview

The poll to decide which Greenguard Noble House would be featured in a Boss Release concluded last Saturday night with the Vaughns getting the most votes! Since the event itself won't go live until August, here's a sneak peek of what you're going to be facing in the heart of Chiral Valley!

In the link below is the contents of the Lore books that will be featured in the actual release. I had text like this prepared for all of the Noble Houses in the poll. Don't fret if the one you voted for didn't win. All of them will be shown in-game eventually! The Vaughns just get an earlier turn.

Click here for a peek at the upcoming Noble Crest Beast release!

June 09, 2025

Game News: June 9 - 15

Read on for the latest news and information

Stay up to date with details on the new releases, server boosts, daily login gifts, art previews, balance updates, and more in this week's game digest post.

Monday: Double Class Points Boost

Get double Class Points from battles until Wednesday!

Tuesday: Midweek Update

Our Tuesday Treasure Hunt arrives soon! Keep an eye on the Design Notes for more details on the update.

Wednesday: Double EXP Boost

Get double EXP from battles and quests until Friday!

Thursday: Blood Gems Boost

Get double rewards as you battle to collect Blood Gems of the Archfiend all week long.

Read the full post for more details. 

Friday Update Details

Read on for news about this weekend's new updates.

• Friday the 13th event: Noxus vs Grimskull
• Un-deadly Rewards: Battle to unlock dark new reward gear
• Event Rares: wicked new limited-time gear in Aurelio Voltaire's shop

Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts

Server Boost: Get double Gold until Monday!

Stay up to date with new release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar and see what the latest Bug Fixes and Balance Changes are in their patch notes.