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Vulkania: Grab your flip-flops and your pith helmet!
With the summer season comes the urge to have a picnic and take long walks... through the deepest darkest jungle! Luckily, Vulkania is back, just in time for summer! Grozilla and Grasmera will be your guides on a cheery group tour... of hurting!



What, you thought that a vacation should be safe? Pft! You never value your life more than the moment after you almost lose it! And you'll never appreciate how precious your existance is more keenly once you've survived the explosive safari that Charlie's Agents are offering on the Island of Vulkania! Located south of Otomai Island, this exception archipelago has a flamboyant atmosphere like no other.

Activities include: Decending into exstinct volcanos, trekking through tropical jungles, expeditions in crystaline caverns, and hunting Sauroshells solo or with friends!

This year, the island offers up a grand buffet of surprises:

* The gruesome twosome, Grozilla and Grasmera, have four levels of strength. Weaker adventurers can now stand up to them, but beware... The monsters’ strongest states will pose an even bigger challenge than last year!

* When defeated in their two weaker states, Grozilla and Grasmera will drop tokens that can be exchanged for a new pet: the Krolimea. Moreover, players that defeat the island bosses for the first time will obtain the Vulkanian Salute emote.


* New! A competition between Vulkorog and Otomaisle has commenced! Players will win points for their team by completing quests that can be repeated again and again. Each week, the winning team will see a special shop open on their island for 7 days. But that’s not all...! The winning team will also have access to Maimane Rock, where players will have the opportunity to obtain two new emotes, one per team!


Check out the full Vulkania travel brochure!
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dezira 05 July 2012 - 20:12

(Saltine @ 05 July 2012 15:01) *
Obviously very few on Rosal care to mess with Vulkania. Last year we had all the hearts in a matter of a few days. This year we hardly have any of them so far. Guess everyone is too busy being selfish jerks as usual. I'm truly beginning to hate this game. Everyone I've talked to says "why would I want to stop farming Tengu for mats and getting 50 million xp per fight for some boring island?" It's everyone for themselves on Rosal and it is very sad. Noone gives a shit about quests or lame emotes. Just their endgame sets and set parts to put on the market for unreasonably high prices. It's funny in a way because these are the same people crying for new content. Ankama adds stuff to Vulkania and they still turn their noses up at it.
Thing is, they were supposed to make this event small server-friendly. This being when they reduced the number of people to unlock the Grozilla room from 64 to 32, well done. Good job, very helpful of course it was impossible for small servers to get 64 people sitting there.

But how come every server, large and small, has to kill 16k sauroshells? As you said some are greedy dicks, farming stuff, crafting sets, ruining the economy and they don't give a shit about events. Of course I have no doubt that French servers will complete the task in a matter of a day if not hours. I'm from Shika, till now the highest number of sauroshells we gathered is 800 venes. The others (mature, etc) are still at 80ish. This is gonna take 6 months to complete let alone the 2 months Vulkania is open.

It's very silly that Ankama forgot about this.
lionflip 05 July 2012 - 15:18

(Wolvenwind @ 05 July 2012 08:10) *
If you hunt the Raw Sauroshells in the crater designed for your level you receive two hearts per raw shell, and if five hundred players hunted in each of the four craters every single player would only need to hunt four Raw Sauroshells each. So stop complaining and start hunting!

What I personally see as the difficulty is that the Raw Sauroshells are still very rare (I’ve only seen two after several hours gameplay in the craters), meaning an effort should go into eradicating the non-raw groups from the maps as well…

On the other hand two possible bugs (unless they are features):
  • The Rock Crystal at [-56,40] isn’t harvestable (I have not been able to click on it at least, because of the cross)
  • I only receive scarves as reward when doing the crystal hunt, not the sauroshell one…

I've been having the exact same problems, I hope they'll be fixed soon.
Saltine 05 July 2012 - 15:01
Obviously very few on Rosal care to mess with Vulkania. Last year we had all the hearts in a matter of a few days. This year we hardly have any of them so far. Guess everyone is too busy being selfish jerks as usual. I'm truly beginning to hate this game. Everyone I've talked to says "why would I want to stop farming Tengu for mats and getting 50 million xp per fight for some boring island?" It's everyone for themselves on Rosal and it is very sad. Noone gives a shit about quests or lame emotes. Just their endgame sets and set parts to put on the market for unreasonably high prices. It's funny in a way because these are the same people crying for new content. Ankama adds stuff to Vulkania and they still turn their noses up at it.
dezira 05 July 2012 - 11:17

(Wolvenwind @ 05 July 2012 08:10) *
If you hunt the Raw Sauroshells in the crater designed for your level you receive two hearts per raw shell, and if five hundred players hunted in each of the four craters every single player would only need to hunt four Raw Sauroshells each. So stop complaining and start hunting!
Thing is, in small servers, having 500 people killing sauros is close to impossible. You never find 500 people actually killing those stuff thousands of times just to help their server. That's a gimmick of a theory. No small server will ever have 500 people killing those stuff over and over. I'm sorry but it's true no matter how much you try to shut us up.


(Revil-Nunor @ 05 July 2012 06:55) *

(DarkReaperSaika @ 05 July 2012 06:47) *

(greekg @ 04 July 2012 23:41) *
Again. I am forced to ask the question. WILL WE GET SHIELDS?
I think so but first we have to get 4000 of every sauroshell. This is utterly mind blowing getting 1000 alone will take ages. There's a fine line between a challenge and a burden.

This is more like a burden and to top it off the game is hardly fun anymore. AG crossed the line now they need to make Dofus fun again....

DarkReaperSaika
Can't' be that hard. Apparently french servers were done with the shells in a matter of hours.
I don't need to tell someone like you what's the difference between French servers and English servers, do I?  
Wolvenwind 05 July 2012 - 08:10
If you hunt the Raw Sauroshells in the crater designed for your level you receive two hearts per raw shell, and if five hundred players hunted in each of the four craters every single player would only need to hunt four Raw Sauroshells each. So stop complaining and start hunting!

What I personally see as the difficulty is that the Raw Sauroshells are still very rare (I’ve only seen two after several hours gameplay in the craters), meaning an effort should go into eradicating the non-raw groups from the maps as well…

On the other hand two possible bugs (unless they are features):
  • The Rock Crystal at [-56,40] isn’t harvestable (I have not been able to click on it at least, because of the cross)
  • I only receive scarves as reward when doing the crystal hunt, not the sauroshell one…
Revil-Nunor 05 July 2012 - 06:55

(DarkReaperSaika @ 05 July 2012 06:47) *

(greekg @ 04 July 2012 23:41) *
Again. I am forced to ask the question. WILL WE GET SHIELDS?
I think so but first we have to get 4000 of every sauroshell. This is utterly mind blowing getting 1000 alone will take ages. There's a fine line between a challenge and a burden.

This is more like a burden and to top it off the game is hardly fun anymore. AG crossed the line now they need to make Dofus fun again....

DarkReaperSaika
Can't' be that hard. Apparently french servers were done with the shells in a matter of hours.
DarkReaperSaika 05 July 2012 - 06:47

(greekg @ 04 July 2012 23:41) *
Again. I am forced to ask the question. WILL WE GET SHIELDS?
I think so but first we have to get 4000 of every sauroshell. This is utterly mind blowing getting 1000 alone will take ages. There's a fine line between a challenge and a burden.

This is more like a burden and to top it off the game is hardly fun anymore. AG crossed the line now they need to make Dofus fun again....

DarkReaperSaika
greekg 04 July 2012 - 23:41
Again. I am forced to ask the question. WILL WE GET SHIELDS?  
-Fish- 04 July 2012 - 23:21
I was under the impression that this was going to be much easier/more enjoyable this time around, however, I was mistaken. I don't foresee Zato being able to collect 16,000 hearts in the two months we have.

Maybe it will get altered and made simpler sometime soon, but until then I will continue focusing on other things instead of wasting my time with hearts that won't make a difference on our server.
dezira 04 July 2012 - 23:05

(Benja-might @ 03 July 2012 22:46) *

(dezira @ 03 July 2012 20:53) *

(Exsplosive-Dudes @ 03 July 2012 17:06) *
Really Ankama, really?

4,000 of each Sauroshell generation? WTF is this? This is so stupid. I'm about to leave this game, freaking to many changes!
SOLVE IT.
I'm happy to face challenges but collecting 4000 sauroshell hearts on Shika will take a year let alone a month or so till Vulkania closes.
Are the Sauroshell's the high level ones, or the low levels...?
Last I checked each server has to kill ALL types of sauroshells. Meaning 4k venes, matures etc. Again will take like a year to be completed in Shika. I thought they made this event small-server friendly. Jeez >.>