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1st Upholder - Similar to "Founder", these are users who contributed to AQW through purchasing Membership, Adventure Coins, or a Vinyl Deady during the month of October 2009, AQW's first anniversary. 1st Upholders items are marked by "
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Adventure Coins (AC) - Currency attained by paying real cash. Items that cost AC are marked by "
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Action Points (AP) - This is the blue bar on your character box. It gets used up when you use skills and different skills use different amount of Action Points. This is identical to Mana. By Resting, you can regenerate it, and certain classes have skills that regenerate it also.
Alignment - During the course of the story you choose to either align your character to Good Faction (King Alteon) or Evil Faction (The Shadowscythe). This will grant you access to specific shops and change the way some NPCs interact with you. You can currently change your alignment by paying 100,000 Gold to either King Alteon or Gravelyn.
Alpha/Alpha Tester - Alpha refers to the very short period of the time in public testing before Beta. Alpha and Beta testing was made available to all Guardians, Dragonlords and Star Captains. This is not an achievement on player character pages. Only one item is Alpha tester only, Alpha Pirate.
Armors - Armor/clothing that go over your class look. Currently, they're just costumes to make you look different while still having the skills of the equipped class.
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Beta/Beta Tester - Beta refers to the puplic testing of AQW. This is an achievement on player character pages to show they were involved. Alpha and Beta testing was made available to all Guardians, Dragonlords and Star Captains. Only a few items went rare after Beta, most notably Beta Berserker and Star Sword.
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Chaos - Chaos is the alignment of the main antagonist of AQW, Drakath. It is not possible to align your character with the chaos.
Class - You start by choosing Warrior, Healer, Rogue or Mage. Subsequent classes are available from shops, quests and drops. The class you are using defines the skills you have. As you raise your class level by earning CP you will learn more skills. You can own and level multiple classes at the same time, but only equip one at a time. Sell a class and it will return to level 1. (click Here for more classes.)
Class Points (CP) - Used to rank up your currently equipped class. Earned by defeating monsters and completing some quests. Amount gained is based on enemy level and rank of currently equipped class. Go here to see the amount of class points needed for each rank.
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DragonLord - The Upgrade form in DragonFable, defenders of Falconreach and owners of a Dragon Amulet. Click here to see DragonLord Items. Click here to Verify your DragonLord Account or click here to Upgrade to DragonLord.
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Experience / Experience Points (XP) - Used to level up your character. Earned by defeating monsters and completing some quests. Based on enemy level and your current level. Go here to see the amount of experience needed for each level.
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Faction - These are groups of NPCs throughout Lore. Do quests for them and you will earn Reputation (Rep), increasing your rank among the factions as people learn to respect (or fear) you. Go here to see the amount of reputation points needed for each rank. Factions can be found here.
Founder - Founder's are players who upgraded to Member before November 17th at midnight. These players gained founder status, shown as an achievement on their character page, and access to the game's first rare monthly pet, the Platinum Dragon and the Armored Platinum Dragon in October 2009. Founder items are marked by "" tags on this wiki.
Frostval - AE's version of Christmas. Occurs every December.
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Guardian - The Upgrade form in AdventureQuest, defenders of Battleon and the Guardian Towers. Click here to see Guardian Items. Click here to Verify your Guardian Account or click here to Upgrade to Guardian.
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Health Points (HP) - This is the red bar on your character box or the green bar under your name (Keyboard Shortcut of V). It gets used up when you are attacked and hit by enemies. Once you reach 0 Health, you die and you must wait 10 seconds before you are allowed to continue playing. Currently there are no other penalties. You can regenerate your health by resting.
Hero's Heart Day - AE's version of Valentines Day. Occurs every February.
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Mana Points (MP) - This is the blue bar on your character box. It gets used up when you use skills and different skills use different amount of Mana. This is identical to Action Points. By Resting, you can regenerate it, and certain classes have skills that regenerate it also.
Member Only - These items are in orange text in the game and they're for people who upgrade their accounts. Member only items are marked by "
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Mogloween - AE's version of Halloween. Occurs every October.
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Not Yet Implemented (NYI) - Even though this skill is in game, it isn't working as intended.
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Passive Skills - These are skills learned by classes that are active all the time, you do not need to use them to gain their effects. There is also no way to turn them off.
Public Test Realm (PTR) - This is a special server for players to help AE test things in AQW. It is only made available for short periods of time, announced by AQW mod's in game chat.
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Rare - Items that are not obtainable anymore. Rare items are marked by "
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Reputation (Rep) - Used to increase you rank within Factions, much in the same way CP and XP work. Reputation is gained by completing specific quests and will allow users to gain access to the items in the faction shops as they rank up. See Factions for more details. Go here to see the amount of reputation points needed for each rank.
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Star Captain - The Upgrade form in MechQuest, defenders of Soluna and Mecha Pilots. Click here to see Star Captain Items. Click here to Verify your Star Captain Account or click here to Upgrade to Star Captain.
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War - Wars are events, that require the defeat of a set amount of monsters, to complete. Wars have War Meters, which keeps count of how many waves people have completed across ALL servers. Once the meter hits 100%, the war boss will be released.
