We have the pleasure today of sharing the hard work of the Winner of Aura Kingdom Video Contest! Players had to use the Japanese opening of Aura Kingdom (Innocent World 幻想神域主題歌) to make a video with game footage.
Please congratulate Kakurezato from the Chimera Server!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEqgz2fGI8A
His impressive trailer-like video has been added to our Store Page! As a little thanks from our side, let us share with you the Concept Art of one of the upcoming Eidolons, Uriel!
The runner-ups for the Video Contest are Pull from the Chimera Server and °Mii from the German Aurora Server. You can find their videos below as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR2phYE4QtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvJrqf3uKg
Happy watching!~
Name Clear incoming!
Hello dear players!
We will soon clear up some old names and characters in the upcoming weeks on both Chimera & Phoenix servers. This should hopefully reduce the recent lag issues everyone's been running into!
Characters flagged for removal must be both:
- Inactive since 6 months
- Under level 40
If one of your character disappears after next maintenance, you have Tuesday October 20th to send us a ticket!
Also, the patch notes will be updated on Steam next week! In the meantime, you can find the PDF version there!
This patch brings us the new floors 26-30.
The new floors directly follow the 21-25 floors available on Friday.
You receive no additional lives, only 15 lives for 21-30.
Here you can loot Level 75 trophies, accessories, and weapons!
Dare you face these legendary creatures?
Sky Tower Elite Raid opening hours (all in EDT / server time):
• On Friday from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• On Friday from 15:00 PM - 17:00 PM
• On Friday from 20:00 PM - 22:00 PM
New instance: HeII Purgatory of the Lava Lord
Can you beat the heat? Only a true Envoy can best this blazing inferno.
The entrance to this instance is in the Oblitus Woods, same portal as Ghostweep Cave. Spoopy.
There are four bosses total in this instance, and their drop list is here:
• Mysterious Costume/Hat Chest II
• Mysterious Stone Chests • Level 75 Gold Equipment.
• Luminous Secret Stones.
• x30 Dragon Points.
• Intermediate and Basic Chest enchantments
• Intermediate and Basic Weapon enchantments
Caution: Kaiser Zeta or Kusanagi may spawn at the end with the chest!
Various effects of new equipment sets and stones:
Set 1 Max HP +8%
Damage Reduction -6%.
If attacked, 40% chance to recover 692 HP per second for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
Set 2 Damage +8%.
Crit +5%.
When attacking, 40% chance to inflict 986 Damage over Time for 15 sec, stacking 5 times.
Base effect of new mysterious stones
• DMG 7%.
• CRIT 2%.
New instance: Subterranean Ruins
Entry Requirements: Being level 50+
Modes: Solo
Reset time: 24 hours
You can reach this instance Star Sand Desert (x319, y153).
There are three difficulties to choose from. (Levels 50, 60, and 70.)
This is a dungeon-type Tower Defense, you must protect the tower by using different unique spells and strategizing on your own.
Rewards: Experience, Valor Coins, and a Ruin Defender’s Chest.
New Medals
The following new medals are available:
• Dueling Medal: Bronze and up.
Challenge opponents, be victorious! (Losers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.)
• Grand Medal of Sky Tower:
Got what it takes to beat all 30 floors of this dungeon?
Bug Fixes
• The various World Boss reward bags/chests/packs can now be opened.
Enjoy the new patch!
Your Aura Kingdom Team
End of Summer Patch Notes (Part 1/2)
End of Summer Patch Notes Part 1
Note: We are aware of the 1/1 durability bug on low-level Scythe weapons. A minor patch will be applied this week to fix it.
Patch Notes Summary:
1. Weapon Specialization System 2. Card Game 3. Sky Tower - Floor 26-30 4. Bank expansions 5. New instance: HeII Purgatory of the Lava Lord 6. New Solo instance: Subterranean Ruins 7. New Medals 8. Changes related to Sky Tower, fishing and various other professions.
Weapon Specialization:
This new feature is available from Level 60. To access it, press K (or Skills menu) and select the last tab.
Once you hit Level 60, you unlock two paths that bring you three skills, active or passive (bonus stats or modified versions of existing skills) as shown below:
1. New Skill(s).
2. Improvement of one or more skills.
3. Passive bonus stats.
The two paths are unique for each main class and it can be leveled up by gaining experience while defeating mobs (both in and out of dungeons) and Bosses in dungeons. (Quest EXP won’t count). The maximum level of weapon specialization is 50 for each path.
Weapon specialization level 30 brings further bonuses to your skills/stats. To change paths, simply click the button underneath the interface. You can swap every 10 minutes (while not in combat or doing a profession).
You can allocate points (you get 2 per level, so 100 total) in various stats:
Note: Stat increases scale with character level.
• Increased Damage
• Increased Crit Rate
• Increased Speed
• Increased Hit Points
• Increased Defence
• Increased Evasion
• Decreased Damage from all elemental targets
• Increased Movement Speed
• Increased Crit Damage
• Increased Accuracy
• Increased Healing
• Increased Drop rates
• Increased Wind Skill Damage
• Increased Flame Skill Damage
• Increased Lightning Skill Damage
• Increased Ice Skill Damage
• Increased Holy Skill Damage
• Increased Dark Skill Damage
New profession: Card game
• Introduction You’ve got fishing, archeology, cooking, and harvesting, but today another activity makes its way to Aura Kingdom: The card game!
You must reach level 60 and accept the introductory quest. (It pops up as a red blinking scroll.)
To complete the quest, you must visit Simone, located near the southwest fountain in Navea.
Participating in card duels will earn you a card rank, experience points, and experience in the profession itself.
You will unlock more rare cards as your card dueling level increases.
This will also unlock more shop stock from the NPC.
Specifically, card duels take place in real time and all the cards have at least one active skill, though rarer cards may possess several skills (some of which may be passive). The effects of them vary: Increased damage, Regeneration, Multi-Target Stuns, etc.
• Beginning the card game: Once you have completed the introductory quest, you can access a new icon in the lower right of your interface.
This will open the interface with five different card sets for you to create.
The card sets will contains cards from the game. Cards can be:
• Monsters and bosses of the game,
• Various NPCs,
• Fish-Kings,
• Eidolons, and others.
There are currently about 600 cards available, we’re unable to list them here.
• Creating your deck: You can create your card deck(s) by going to the interface.
Careful, there are rules for the deck:
- You can have only one copy of each card in each deck - so no duplicates.
- 5 stars: One card is allowed per deck.
- 4 stars: Two cards are allowed per deck.
- Your cards’ combat power is limited by your level.
Pro tip: Well-planned elemental attributes will also give your deck an edge against certain opponents.
DMG is inflicted x1.25 according to elemental advantage. DMG is decreased by -25% against the opposite element.
• Normal Competition There are several types of fighting available, the simplest is dueling NPCs. This is a normal competition.
Click the NPC, then click the card icon on his profile to start the game.
As NPCs get harder, you’ll need more combat power to defeat them.
Note: Cost is 1 Duel point per Duel.
Rewards: • Ranking according to the opponent and level of difficulty,
• Card dueling experience,
• General experience,
• New Cards
• Simple Duel: Players versus Players You can directly challenge another player to a card duel by targeting someone, right clicking on their username, and then selecting the option from the dropdown list.
This is a free fight and doesn’t consume Duel Points: Neither player receives rewards.
• Random Duel: Player versus Players On the new card interface, there will be an option to choose for a random duel. There you will be put in a queue until you’re matched with another player with similar deck power. This will consume 1 Duel point per random duel. (Like regular PvP, minus the blood and guts.)
• Duel Points You can have a maximum of 30 points, you recover 1 point every 15 minutes.
Duel points are shared across the entire account, not per character.
Improving your deck Existing cards can be ‘Strengthened’ with the option in the Card interface, with their cap level being 99.
New cards can be obtained: - By purchasing cards from the Navea NPC with gold,
- By purchasing cards with PvP points,
- By purchasing cards with Duel card currency,
- By winning against an opponent in a competition,
- By opening Fish Kings,
- By talking to your Eidolons.
Card Duel Level Bonuses Like all Aura Kingdom professions, the level of your card dueling adds bonus stats, and little goodies, here's the list:
4th skill bar
With this new mechanic, another hot bar has been added.
The default shortcut is Shift key + numbers 1 to 8.
You can change this from game settings: ESC → Settings → Shortcuts.
Gamers, rejoice! You can now conveniently spam more skills than ever before.
New bank tabs - More space
New tabs in the bank interface have been added for all characters.
You’ll find: :
• A tab for profession materials (cooking, fishing, etc.).
• A tab to store your various mounts and pets.
You want to put away that Quick Ostrich / Beebis, do you? I know you do. Don't you?
Well, you can't. Items that cannot be stored in those spaces will be dark in your inventory.
Summer is not over yet, and we’ve got some exciting news coming your way! The Monthly Raffle is not enough, so we’ve prepared another one with some amazing prizes up for grabs...
We’ll be giving away 500 AP, 1000 AP, and 3000 AP to thousands of lucky winners throughout the event! No string attached, simply log in once between Friday August 28th and Wednesday September 2nd to be in for your chance to win. That's right, you only need to log in to participate in this awesome raffle!
Winners will have their prize awarded into their AP balance up to 1 week after the event ends.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity and we’ll see you in-game!
START: August 28th, 2015 at 09:00 AM GMT + 2
ENDS: September 2nd, 2015 at 11:59 PM GMT + 2
For fans of PvP, go to Navea and talk to the NPCs in Navea to buy your new equipment.
This equipment will be available for 2250 Valor coins per weapon.
Changes in the PvP Arena
For Level 60+ Arenas: Increase HP and DEF of the bosses, totems or turrets, depending on the type of arena you are in.
Centurion: The points obtained from battling monsters and bosses have been increased, the monster’s points have also increased as well.
Adjustment for Excelsior: The respawn time has been lowered to 5 seconds, and will increase to 10 seconds over the course of the battle.
Increase of Fighter Points to lower-leveled players by 20%.
Heal percentage in PvP has been increased from 30% to 50%, so that the recovery in PvP is now half of the recovery in PvE.
Item Mall Update
A new item that reduces the cost of crafting/forging will be implemented, it will be usable at the refining NPCs. This will be obtainable in the Item Mall.
A new tab will be available in the Item Mall; it will act as a preview window where you may try on all costumes in the IM. Enjoy the new Action Preview window!
Sky Tower
• Floor 21:
◦ The lag problem that occurs when the boss attacks has been fixed.
• Floor 22 :
◦ Fenrir is now stunned for 6 seconds instead of 3 seconds when players lead him into an ice trap.
◦ Fenrir recovers less life when eating a player that has been transformed into a chicken.
• Floor 23:
◦ The egg’s spawn rate is no longer 100% on every player.
◦ The eggs spawned no longer inflict DMG to players that are not in the boss room.
◦ Once the eggs explode, only the players in range take DMG.
◦ The timer before the explosion has been increased to 4 seconds.
• The HP of chests has been greatly increased on every floor. • The level 60 quest to access Sky Tower has been simplified.
• The level 60 zone requirements have also been simplified to allow newer players to access these zones.
Guild Instance • The guild instance can be started with 3 players instead of 5. The goal of this modification is so that small guilds can participate in these instances and benefit from their rewards.
Bosses and Enemies • The Mushroom Titan’s stun in Titan’s Root (Party and Hell mode) has been reduced from 6 seconds to 1 second.
• The Damage-Over-Time skills of certain monsters have been modified, notably those in the Cadilla Felwood instance.
Field Mob Modifications • Certain field mobs have had their Hit Points adjusted.
• By 'certain' we mean two. (Baaaaaa.)
Fishing • The Equipment Chests obtained from fishing now have higher NPC resale value.
• Fishing tokens can now be possessed in multiples of 100 instead of 10.
System • Once you connect, an info bubble will pop up to inform you that you have hidden players, and will allow you to unhide players if you have forgotten to do so.
• The images used in the ‘card game’ system have now been added.
• The Loyalty Point cap has been increased to 99,999!
Medals • New medals are now available with the arrival of the level 75 Otherworlds.
• The gold medal from Otherworlds is now available.
• The Gold Grand Achievement medal for instances is now available.
Daily Activity Interface • A new tab has been implemented to indicate available instances for your level.
Bugs and Translations: • Source post from the EU version: the infinite loading bug has been fixed.
• Daily activity log is now compatible with Centurion.
• The character swap freeze seems to have been resolved.
• Certain head costume pieces now display properly in party view in the default upper left.
• You receive the daily login present even while you are in the Tutorial, before arriving in Port Skandia.
• The Archeology title for level 6 has been corrected.
• The item Artisanal Chocolate Heart can no longer be obtained, as it was event-specific. Any existing ones will still remain until consumed.
Known Bugs, Problems and Translations • Numerous translations are still inaccurate; we are currently aware of the problem and are working to resolve them.
• More bugs may have been forgotten, do not hesitate to report them to the forums once you’ve completed reading these patch notes.
Thank you for playing Aura Kingdom!
July 30th - Aura Kingdom Massive Summer Patch! (Part 1/2)
July 2015 Patch Notes (Part 1)
Greetings Envoys! We're proud to announce the patch notes of the July 30th 2015 update. Note that the server will be down for the next couple of hours for patching purpose! The patch notes are so big that we've had to cut them in two parts! Read part 2 here!
A big thanks goes out to the Game Sage team for being there for us whenever we've been confused during the testing phase. Make sure to give 'em hugs whenever you can. Thanks Doge (Paindemonium) for his help with these patch notes, he's been working his tail off putting make up on this post and making sure it's readable.
Here's the summary of the update:
Continuing the Shadow Knight storyline arc
New dungeons: Otherworld Deep’s Cavern and Otherworld Candeo Core
Reworking of cooking, and new level system for harvesting and cooking
Improvement of the Eidolon interface and the Eidolon prayer system
New 3-star Eidolons
Level 70 PvP Equipment: Weapons
Improvement of PvP arena system
Updates for the Item Mall
Sky Tower modifications
Guild system modification
Mob modifications
Arena modifications
Fishing modifications
New Medal additions
Game system modifications
Daily Activity (Journal) modifications
Various bug fixes
Continuing the Shadow Knight Storyline Arc
The fight against the Shadow Knight is coming to an end; come discover the last quest against your arch-enemy in this epic finale. Will the Shadow Knight win? Will he rejoin the Templars? Or will you be his downfall? You’ll discover it all in this quest!
Note: You will have to have finished all of the previous zones prior to accessing the first story arc of Aura Kingdom. You will have to be a minimum of level 72.
Like most main quests, these quests will give you:
-- Experience
-- Gold
-- Blue Fortification Scrolls
New Dungeons: Otherworld Deep’s Cavern & Candeo Core
You’ve waited, and now it arrives…
Come visit the new dungeons, the Otherworld instances of Deep’s Cavern and Candeo Core!
You can access these instances starting from level 70 and from these associated maps:
-- Otherworld Deep’s Cavern is located in Triatio Highlands.
-- Otherworld Candeo Core is located in Candeo Marsh.
Otherworld Deep’s Cavern:
Level Range: Level 70+
Entry Conditions: Minimum Level 70
Entries: Solo (x1)
Solo Challenge Mode (x1)
Party Mode (x1)
Hell Mode (x1)
Otherworld Candeo Core:
Level Range: Level 70+
Entry Conditions: Minimum Level 70
Entries: Solo (x1)
Solo Challenge Mode (x1)
Party Mode (x1)
Hell Mode (x1)
Come fight against Argus and Asheara to have a chance of obtaining prizes containing enchantments, level 75 equipment, level 70 formulas and more!
Each boss has a chance to drop a level 75 Elite Legendary Weapon:
Argus: Dynastic Cannon (Grenadier) / Soul Requiuem Harp (Bard)
Lestaro: Scorching Rune Katars (Brawler) / Dual Blades: Razors of the Demonic Abyss (Duelist)
Toto: Righteous Bow (Warbow) / Six Wings: Heavenly Sword and Shield (Guardian)
Asheara: Ethereal Roseblade (Tachi) / Beast King Decapitator (Ravager)
Beware, Kaiser Zeta has a chance of appearing in Hell Mode in these instances. Defeat him in combat and collect his fragments!
Revamp: Cooking & Gathering
After fishing and archeology, discover two new activities!
Gathering/Harvesting:
Collection of ingredients is now rewarded.
A level system for harvesting is now added to the game!
When harvesting objects in different zones of the game, you get more experience and you unlock a shop located in Navea. This store will offer you various interesting prizes
Cooking:
A new way of creating food is now available!
Cook with a new mini game to increase your chances of getting orange, purple and gold food.
A level system for cooking and a new method of cooking is available!
In using the cooking system, you will obtain experience and unlock another shop located in Navea.
How it works: First you must buy the recipe in Navea from a Cooking Association NPC (735,393). Clicking it will open the minigame, if you have the necessary ingredients on hand. On the screen, ingredients will appear. If you let the correct ingredients pass the red line, the progress bar will rise. If incorrect ingredients touch the red line, then the bar will drop. Click on the incorrect ingredients to remove them from the recipe. Pay attention because when the progress bar advances, the faster the irrelevant ingredients will fill the screen. How far your progress bar reaches during the game determines if you'll get Orange, Purple, or Gold quality cuisine (and maxing it out will earn you an additional one)!
New: Eidolon Prayer System
New Eidolon area: When heading to the Eidolon area (Default N Key), the interface will be completely redesigned for a lot of things.
The prayer system for Eidolons is now available!
The system will simply consist of collecting items your Eidolon requests.
They can be demanding and ask for a lot of specific things (like golden food for example).
Note: There are areas that are intentionally empty; text will be added in future updates.
For example, Serif might ask for two pieces of food available in game, but it can also ask for up to four items at the same time. The items harvested for you Eidolon will allow you to obtain a stat bonus defined in the same manner as titles. These bonuses are listed at the bottom left of the window. The items they need are shown under their Star Buffs.
Each quest will have its own dialogue with the chosen Eidolon, and each Eidolon will have several quests to complete before being fully satisfied.
New: 3-Star Eidolons!
New 3 Star Eidolons are arriving! Use Brilliant Evolutionary Beads and their Key of Gaia to evolve them.
Tigerius Caesar: 3 Star Buff: DMG to Lightning targets +15%, Double Down +15%.
Bahadur: 3 Star Buff: Chance of taking CRIT hits -25%, 3% of DMG inflicted from skills are converted into HP (80% reduced effectiveness against Bosses).
Nazrudin: 3 Star Buff: DMG inflicted to Ice targets +15%, EVA +15 %.
July 15th - Medal Patch Fix Downtime (9pm EDT)
Hello there people!
Aura Kingdom will go down for maintenance on Wednesday July 15th at 9pm EDT. We will be applying the long awaited fix for the Medals & Achievements issue which prevent some players from completing them.
The estimated downtime will be fairly long, from 8h to 15h.
EDIT: Our developers ran into technical problems while performing the merge. We apologize for the delay, but it looks like the downtime may be extended by an extra 12h. Expect the servers to be back up at 9pm EDT Wednesday July 1st!
Siren and Hydra friends rejoice! The long awaited Server merge is here, and you will finally be able to meet each-other in-game on the new Phoenix server. For the Chimera folks, we still have too many players to pack everyone in a single server, so you will have to wait a bit more!
The process will be quite long and the servers will be down for an estimated time of 12 hours 24 hours. In the meantime here is a little preview of a new Eidolon who will join us later this year :)
Downtime: 8:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June the 30th 2015. ETA: 12h 24h
Explore Starstruck Plateau & Silent Ice Field in the newest update!
Two new maps, one new dungeons, the long awaited level 70 Crafted Weapons and Diao-Chan joins the fray!
[H1]Content additions:
<*>New Maps: Starstruck Plateau & Silent Ice Field. You'll finally be able to continue the mainline quest and free these two regions from the forces of darkness.
Along with that, you'll also have 8 new Elite monsters to hunt down (4 on each map) as well as Eavesdrop & Hidden quests.
Last but not least, you'll also be able to discover new treasures in Archaeology and new Fish Kings in both of these new maps.
<*>New Dungeon: In the Silent Ice Field lies the new dungeon: Frozenlea Plains. Fight your way accross dark, frosty corridors and ice giants to reach your ultimate nemesis: The Dark Knight.
Don't let your guard down though, as it is possible that the Eidolon Kusanagi will spawn in Hell Mode at the end of your run. Defeat her and you might get some Key Fragments!
<*>News items & equipment: Quite a few new items are now available in this new patch. This includes:
- Lv. 70 Orange quality weapons which can now be crafted. You can learn the recipes for them from the NPC Analisa in Navea - New alchemy materials and elixirs are now available and can be crafted
- New fishing equipment is also available thanks to the two new maps
<*>New medals available: Along with the two new maps, new medals and achievements have also been implemented in-game.
Here's a list of the medals that you should be able to unlock in this new patch:
- Gold Elitist Medal
- Gold Angler Medal
- Gold Boss Medal
- Gold Oddities Medal
- Gold Semicentennial Medal
- Gold Archaeology Medal
- Gold Conversationalist Medal
<*>New Feature - Recommended Events: Now we know some of you may have already seen a glimpse of this functionnality a while back when it was added in-game (too) early. But now it's finally here!
First off, you'll notice that the login rewards have been moved. So now, when you want to redeem your daily login rewards, you'll have to press L and click on the 4th tab called "Recommended Events".
In addition to that, you will now have a list of Daily Events which you can complete to obtain Event Points. Everyday there will 5 random Events listed in the "Today's Recommended Events" tab which you can complete to get a maximum of 100 points.
Each of the Events will get you a total of 20 points if completed. These points will get you reward chests, which contain a few goodies such as Monster XP books and Dragon Points.
You can also check out the "Available Recommended Events" which contains a list of other activities you can complete if you're ever wondering how you can get crafting materials or even Hidden Quest Achievements.
<*>New Eidolon: Diao Chan is here! Beware of this alluring beauty, she might look harmless but she won't hesitate to unleash devastating attacks upon her enemies.
<*>Loyalty Points: The cap for loyalty points will be increased from 9 999 to 99 999
Please note this has not been implemented yet, but it will be once the Hydra-Siren server merge goes through
- Localization issues: quite a few localization errors which we are already aware of. We are currently working on it to get it fixed.
