2025 AQW Worst Kept Secrets/Tips Guide!

Hey, all! I wanted to give back to the community as it has given so much to me as I play through my silly little challenges and return to the game as a whole. Down below I will be listing tips in no particular order that are less common/hard to find/don't have simple answers.

When you first start out: You're gonna see so many cool outfits/weapons in the game! Many of the players wearing these however, have been playing for a very long time/spent a lot of money so they wanna show off their loot! Don't worry about the super neat stuff you see on high end players as there's plenty of outfits/weapons you can get just by playing through the story.

AC items: I only bring this up because it's not listed in many places: but items with an AC tag do NOT take up space in your bank! Store them away and use 'em later! There's lots of items with this tag that don't even cost ACs!

Play on the Artix server if you're stuck/grinding, play on a low population server if doing story: Okay this one is a weird one but the short version is, this is a flash game running off of vectors and your game will get slower based on people playing. Don't ask me why unless you want a long winded rant, but these FPS drops actually affect things like cutscenes, combat, and certain quest mechanics.

Getting Credit is just one tap! All you need to get credit for a kill is do at least 1 damage to an enemy. Most players don't mind if you just pop in and tag the mob you're killing. I've even had players drag me to a mob they were farming to help me level/grind out items.

Following Story: If you're like me and want to stick to the chronological narrative, there's several timeline articles online. But if you want to explore and avoid spoilers at the same time, here's some tips:

Almost everything in Greenguard takes place either before or during the 13 Lords of Chaos storyline.

Lords of Chaos is the first, fully fleshed out storyline. It will introduce a lot of new locations and establish the rest of the plotlines.

The Blade of Awe storyline unlocks special enhancements that help out A LOT and story-wise take place somewhere in-between the fall of the First Lord of Chaos and the Last.

Some stories, like Doomwood Part 1, Citadel, and Fotia are ambigiously timed with subtle references to recent events.

Anything that mentions the "Queen of Monsters" takes place after the 13 Lords of Chaos storyline

Pick up Oracle: If you get stuck on a fight in Lords of Chaos, chances are, you won't be able to get a strong enough class until later to be able to solo the fight. While most Lords of Chaos have people farming them, some don't. The Chaos Beasts can even sometimes be worse than their lords.

So instead, go to the Class Shop on the main Battleon Screen and there's a 100% free class called "Oracle" that has intense amounts of healing for yourself and comrades. The main downside of it is that is has little damage. But at least you'll survive!

Powerword Die: This enhancement, unlocked by completing the Blade of Awe story, is mostly useless... But if you're having a particularly hard time on a non-Ultra boss and no one is around to help? This enhancement might be the key to continuing your farm/story.

Essentially, it makes it so your autoattacks have a 0.3% chance to automatically do 999,999 damage to a mob. This should work on all non-Ultra bosses.

Try using the /goto feature if a boss is really annoying to get to: If you're playing and you see in the bottom right corner that someone is in that map with you, try /goto name ! It could save you precious time and no one would be the wiser.

REP BONUSES STACK!!!: By this I mean, look at the calender and news articles. See if there's a rep bonus event. If so, POP A REP BONUS THINGY AND GO TO TOWN! I've completed some reputations within two hours of questing due to this. The rep tokens themselves do not stack on each other, but they do stack with events.

Pop Rep buffs during nearly every Chaos Lord storyline: Every Chaos Lord story except Darkovia has a reputation tied to the area and most times they give tons of reputation as one time bonuses. It saves a ton of time you'd spend grinding. I've personally gotten Sandsea to Rank 10 and Arcanegrove to Rank 9 just by stacking rep bonuses + doing their storylines. These reputations also unlock good mid-game classes such as Master Ranger and Darkblood Stormking.

This could theoretically work for other storylines but the one time reputation gains might not be plentiful. Doomwood is an example of one NOT to do due to the sheer amount of minigames/time spent.

Use the Artix Discord Server/Ask for help!: No, really, if you need help, the AQW section of the Artix server is amazing! Unlike most of these public servers, it's a lot more civil and friendly. Guilds don't go around advertising like in most MMORPGs, so asking here or even in Battleon might get you the aid you need! The latter might take longer, however.

Dage's Legion Items: This is gonna be a long one but if you're interested in the neat black and blue Legion items, definitely read this one!

Ultimately, for most Underworld/Legion themed items, you're gonna need Legion Tokens and some real money. How much? At minimum, $10. 2,000 AC package will be enough to purchase the "Undead Warrior" outfit from Dage and access the initiation quests (which after they are done, you can sell the armor back to him). If you want more information on entry-level stuff, look at this guide. You will also get 1 free promotional set of gear of your choosing in your account page for a $10 purchase, several of which are Legion themed.

But if you're really chomping at the bit and want access to the whole currently accessible collection, you can access everything for $20-25 (Look for AC promotions to lower this!). With the 5,000 AC package, you can complete the portal quest in Battleon and get the Dagebirthday portal! This gives you access to his special shops any time of the year instead of just March and access to all currently accessible Dage content (with their own special shops!)

Nulgath items: Unlike Dage, Nulgath's items are less pay forward. The only thing that might help as far as money is having Membership. To access the rare items of Nulgath, I highly recommend being at least half way through (around Sandsea) the Chaos Lord story and finishing the Blade of Awe.

I won't post a full guide here but Nulgath can be reached via the Citadel map's cave system. You'll need various weird drops from Chaos Lords, Chaos Beasts, and side quest bosses just to reach him. Afterwards, he has you grind lots of different enemies to essentially play roulette wheel with you with his rare items.

If you got this far, thank you for reading! If you have any comments/additional info, please post down below! I hope this helps anyone wanting to try out the game/look into specific areas of it.