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Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
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James 
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Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-09-2009 11:27 AM
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Posted by The Herald
To celebrate the culmination of CALL TO ARMS, the first live expansion for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Mythic Entertainment is hosting a community event like no other.
Beginning in late-June, WAR
players will be able to venture into the ancient desert kingdom of the
Tomb Kings to explore THE LAND OF THE DEAD. This massive new zone is
free to all players, and introduces a wealth of new challenges for
characters rank 25 and above, including a massive deadly, trap-laden
dungeon.
To mark the occasion, Mythic is giving away exclusive in-game items through an online puzzle of epic proportions.
If
you want to claim your free Scarab Amulet, put your decoding hat on,
because the Rise of the Tomb Kings blog challenge is coming!
Read the Full Article @ The Herald
We've provided a helpful FAQ for the Blog Challenge below, enjoy! What stats does the Scarab Amulet have?
The Scarab Amulet doesn’t have any stats. It’s a fun item that summons a swarm of beetles to scurry around your character.
Which Blogs are you sending the hieroglyphic clues to?
We can’t tell you that! Searching for the clues is half the fun!
Can you send a Tomb Kings package to my blog?
Sorry, we’ve already selected who we are sending these to. If you’d like your blog to be involved in future challenges, contact our Community Team at war-community@ea.com with your name, URL, and postal address. We can’t promise you’ll receive something, but your name will be in the hat.
What if I don’t play on the North American servers, don’t I have a Tomb Kings blog puzzle to solve?
If you are playing on North American servers, you are all set. Just translate a cartouche and be one of the first 5,000 to enter the revealed code in the Account Center. Europe has its own Tomb Kings challenge. Simply visit www.war-europe.com for more details. We are sorry we could not roll this program out to the Russian servers at this time, but translation and localization issues held us back from making this program as slick and cool as we would like. We decided it was better to not do anything at all rather than do something badly. We’re very sorry you’ve missed out, and we’ll try to make sure you get a shot at the action next time around.
What’s to stop me just posting the code solution on a forum somewhere? Or just waiting for someone else to do all the work for me?
Nothing is stopping you from posting spoilers, if you like that sort of thing! Hopefully you’ll work with other players to solve the code together. Or you might decide to keep your solution to yourself. Or maybe you’ll post it after you’ve claimed your Scarab Amulet. This challenge is owned by the community, so it’s up to all of you how go about solving it.
Waiting for someone else to solve the code is easy but risky. You’ve no way of telling if their solution is correct, a hoax, or even partially wrong! There’s also a chance that other people will swoop in and claim all the items before you. Again, your approach to this challenge is entirely up to you.
I’ve entered the code into my account. Where is my item?
Visit an in-game mailbox to claim your item. It will be sent to you in-game once you successfully enter your code.
James Nichols
Community Forums Manager
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-09-2009 11:34 AM
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"If you are playing on North American servers, you are all set. Just translate a cartouche and be one of the first 5,000 to enter the revealed code in the Account Center." This post says 5,000, herald says 1,000. Which is it? 
Shaman. Yep. A Shaman.
Blatantly ripping off sig lines since 2009. Now with fewer spelling errors!
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Quimbos
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-09-2009 11:41 AM
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Rancidmilk wrote:
"If you are playing on North American servers, you are all set. Just translate a cartouche and be one of the first 5,000 to enter the revealed code in the Account Center." This post says 5,000, herald says 1,000. Which is it?
5 Cartouches at 1000 each = 5000
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Jess
Community Team
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-09-2009 11:43 AM
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Rancidmilk wrote:
"If you are playing on North American servers, you are all set. Just translate a cartouche and be one of the first 5,000 to enter the revealed code in the Account Center." This post says 5,000, herald says 1,000. Which is it?
There are five different cartouches, each of which will give out 1,000 Scarab Amulets, so 5,000 in all.
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ShadowWAR
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-10-2009 08:49 AM
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Mine will be empty, unless Mythic has super ninja powers of figuring out my address. Like say, cross referencing my character with my account, and pulling my address from there. That'd be a heckova lota work though. So, I sent them an email, letting them know that I should most definitely be included in future challenges, for the good of the people of course. Not in any means an attempt to hoarde more Warhammer swag to place next to my army of Daemonhunters and Tyranids. No, not at all...
Karstaedt, KotBS of Blitz Zayr, Shadow Warrior of Blitz Shadow WAR"Shadow Warriors are not getting worse with this patch, thats for sure." - Adam Gershowitz on Patch 1.3
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-10-2009 09:25 PM
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You mention US and EU servers, but not Oceanic. Do we also miss out on this contest?
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
[ Edited ]
06-11-2009 12:39 AM
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Technically shadow war, they can do a whois on your website and as long as you registered your site in your name and submitted your address and info to your site host, they can pull that up and send it to you that way. I was wondering how these bloggers were picked. I didn't realize they had all at one time or another submitted their site and information to Mythic. Message Edited by Xerb on 06-11-2009 12:40 AM
Ironfist
Xerb Painhunter, 40 Shaman
Dark Crag
Atasi Moonshadow, 40 Shadow Warrior
http://www.warunderground.com
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-11-2009 02:53 PM
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The first cartouche from MMORPG has been solved by myself and several others. Check out warhammeralliance.com for info.
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-11-2009 03:05 PM
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Yep, that one's fairly easy now that so many letters have been revealed, and it has two repeats to reduce possible combinations drastically.
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-11-2009 04:48 PM
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Yeah got the item on my main. For a pocket item that gives no buff, just a 10s effect, why does it have a 60m timer? I mean really, that's extremely harsh for just a normal item that has no other ability than to have some beetles crawling on you, 60 minutes, jeez.
Common sense is often the least common sense.
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ninjajucer
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-11-2009 09:46 PM
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Bio got the next letters I got mine, so I'll post what I can for the 2nd name: XEM_N_OBEK 1 symbol looks like a letter, the other kinda looks like an exclamation point. Not many people on my server are doing this or even care, so that's why I just posted the damn thing. The other is DJH_ D _ UMN _ Yes its a djh....egyptians had some odd spelling ideas.
Common sense is often the least common sense.
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-11-2009 10:39 PM
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ninjajucer wrote:
Bio got the next letters I got mine, so I'll post what I can for the 2nd name: XEM_N_OBEK 1 symbol looks like a letter, the other kinda looks like an exclamation point. Not many people on my server are doing this or even care, so that's why I just posted the damn thing. The other is DJH_ D _ UMN _ Yes its a djh....egyptians had some odd spelling ideas.
The DJH one has been used 1000 times already, and from all accounts the other 2 cartouches that have shown up aren't worknig. Can anyone from Mythic confirm they are working? I have guild mates who were too slow to cash in the first code.
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-11-2009 11:34 PM
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gummick wrote:
ninjajucer wrote:
Bio got the next letters I got mine, so I'll post what I can for the 2nd name: XEM_N_OBEK 1 symbol looks like a letter, the other kinda looks like an exclamation point. Not many people on my server are doing this or even care, so that's why I just posted the damn thing. The other is DJH_ D _ UMN _ Yes its a djh....egyptians had some odd spelling ideas.
The DJH one has been used 1000 times already, and from all accounts the other 2 cartouches that have shown up aren't worknig. Can anyone from Mythic confirm they are working? I have guild mates who were too slow to cash in the first code.
Hhahah... really? Something that mythic is in charge of is bugged? No! Really? HAHAHAHA.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. - Pablo Picasso
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-12-2009 06:24 AM
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The reason for this is simple, everyone who solved the first, entered the 2nd and third as well. So if the system wasn't set up to handle duplicates, then those codes are null. Or, people were just too slow on figuring things out quick enough. Really the item itself was not worth it. A scarab with a 60 minute cooldown for a 10s graphical effect. No other buff. Ridiculous. 60m. I'll go back to my Fear in a Bottle.
Common sense is often the least common sense.
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Jess
Community Team
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-12-2009 09:25 AM
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The DJH one has been used 1000 times already, and from all accounts the other 2 cartouches that have shown up aren't worknig. Can anyone from Mythic confirm they are working? I have guild mates who were too slow to cash in the first code.
I'm having some people check into this.
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Jess
Community Team
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-12-2009 09:59 AM
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Alright folks, so here's the scoop! There are still a lot of available Scarab Amulets to be claimed. Only one of the cartouche codes has been completely used up thus far. We did run into a problem with one of the codes that has now been fixed, so if you had a code that was giving you an error, please try it again! Also, please note that once you enter in a code and successfully claim a Scarab Amulet, you cannot enter another code. (You'll get an error message that says "You do not have any Game Accounts that can use the Scarab Amulet!" if you try.)
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Re: Rise of the Tomb Kings Blog Challenge & FAQ
06-12-2009 10:26 AM
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Jess wrote:
Alright folks, so here's the scoop! There are still a lot of available Scarab Amulets to be claimed. Only one of the cartouche codes has been completely used up thus far. We did run into a problem with one of the codes that has now been fixed, so if you had a code that was giving you an error, please try it again! Also, please note that once you enter in a code and successfully claim a Scarab Amulet, you cannot enter another code. (You'll get an error message that says "You do not have any Game Accounts that can use the Scarab Amulet!" if you try.)
LOL. I'm sure a lot did try So right now we have: DJHADTUMNA - Used up X.....yada yada - Still good L.....yada yada - Also Still good Nothing yet from Gamespy or Tentonhammer
Common sense is often the least common sense.
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