December Contest Finished

WOW! Just from a ceiling we got a right answer. I'm blown away to be honest.  Here's another pic from the area.  And I thought this would be WAY too hard!

I guess it's that Wizard magic.

Congrats Michelle Mooncatcher for getting this one first.  We had some other close seconds separated only by a few hours total.  Congrats Aleksandra, Daniel Icespear (Danny R), C Togg, Alina K and Torre.

This was the Tournament hall in Wysteria.
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enjoy!
:D Vale

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The December Bundle Contest - first location

Here is the first location.  Let me know if you know where this is.  Name the location as best you can and draw a picture of the location, take a picture of it and send me an email at valerian.wizard @ outlook . com (be sure to remove the spaces or the address won't work)

Make sure the subject is "December Contest"
Send me: your wiz name, your guess about the location, your picture of the building or boss of the instance and if you're the first you'll win!

LOCATION 1:
This first one might be too easy.  These two pictures are from the same building.

Holiday Bundle

So what would be the typical way that Wizard101 would celebrate the holidays? WITH CODES FOR THE MOST AWESOME BUNDLES OF COURSE!

We're giving away the Evergreen Bundle and the Mystic Fishing Bundle (only one of each)

So we have a dilemma... what kind of contest to do?

I will take a picture of two spots.  One in the first World of the Spiral and the other in a random world.  

Your mission, should you choose to accept it will be to find the spot, draw a picture of the room or area and then email that to me at an email address I will provide soon. 

I think I'm going to have fun with this one.

Vale

Wizard101 Evergreen Bundle

There is a super cool bundle out in Wizard101 called the Evergreen Bundle.  It combines a home, wolf mount, spirit of the forest pet, evergreen gear and 5000 crowns.

You can pick one up at GameStop (in the US) for $39

The one thing I really love about this bundle is the house is super awesome... probably my favorite house yet.

Check out these pictures from the bundle.

Wizard101 Installing trick to save room on C drive

So I have been playing Wizard on my laptop that has a small SSD drive for the C drive (the main place to store stuff on your computer)  * Don't make fun, it was state of the art back in the day... * Recently I ran out of space entirely on my C drive after some brutal Windows updates used up all the remaining space.  I was worried I might not be able to move Wizard to my D drive that has loads of space free still.

I got looking at the Wizard config files and realized that it is all fairly basic and seems to refer to everything using relative paths.  What does that mean to being able to free up room on your C drive you say? Well it means that after discovering that I simply moved the entire folder (KingsIsle Entertainment) structure to my D drive and changed the shortcut to the executable to the new D drive location.

The end result?  I fired up Wizard and it loaded updates and ran just great! I played Wizard tonight after freeing up over 7 gigs of space on my formerly full C drive!!!

While I wouldn't recommend you try anything like this unless you know how to UN-DO it, (basically copying it back to its original location) if you are computer savvy and vexed by too little room on your primary drive you may just be able to move your wiz install to an alternate drive where you have more free space.

Vale

Darkmoor and Malistaire!

So Malistaire isn't fini after all! Somehow I hoped/knew our one time rival wasn't finished.  Now he's come back from beyond the grave looking a lot more spooky.  I think overall this was a good idea for the storyline and gives a little purpose to what you started way back in Wizard City days. 

Here's me posing at Darkmoor castle where Malistaire has challenged me to a duel.

After getting disconnected a number of times and battling through the first guys who don't like it when you heal, (you get hit with a Gnome spell for about 1300) we were battling the second wave in Darkmoor where the boss cheats of course and takes single blades away and the first blade of a tri-blade.  He also spams 40% minus and heals his storm and death buddies. Here we were down to two players and even in spite of hiring a life minion we suffered pretty severe hits while restarting the Wizard101 client app. I got back online in time to heal once or twice under a doom-and-gloom dome and then die from this new death spell.  It's pretty cool if you ask me.  I can't wait for my death wiz to get him!

What are some of your Darkmoor adventures?

Check out this new concept art

Here's a concept for a new Knight. A spooky knight if you ask me...

Maybe even a bit of a "shadowy" knight.

This art has a bit of the feel of Batman the animated series.

I can't wait! This looks so cool.

Test Realm Back Up Monday Nov 10th - Friday

Some new instances are now up for trying in Test Realm.  You can sign into Wizard101.com and hop over and grab the download for Test Realm at https://www.wizard101.com/game/testrealm

Shadow-enhanced spells are there to try out if you are level 100.  So if you have two or more wizards then take your level 100 into test realm if you have one.

Not only this but you can test out the ability to make outfit sets.  So I can have my formal gear in a set and my arena gear, questing gear, ice-fighting gear, storm fighting gear etc and have it all at hand without having to switch hat, coat, boots, amulet, wand, deck, athame etc. This is an awesome idea.  Love it!

Now members also get a larger backpack (150 items) and members can have up to 150 friends now! Members will also be able to use emoticons! Not only that but some surprise benefits that you'll have to wait to see. :)

Housing and Crafting are just two areas where there are tons of changes.  One of the most exciting to me is recipes for making mega snacks from your extra fish.  (now maybe that's a way I can actually get some mega snacks happening)

Storm School gets Glowbug Squall

Glowbug Squall hits for 1220 (excellent damage) AND removes all positive Charms (aka all your blades)

Myth School gets Mystic Colossus

MC removes all shields and attacks for 880 myth damage to all enemies. Kind of like Quake and Humongofrog combined.

Balance School gets Gaze of Fate

GoF attacks for 550 damage and 550 random school damage.

Death School gets Call of Khruhu

This spell attacks all targets for 1100 health drain.  Kind of like a Scarecrow but without the payback. Finally a hard hitting death spell on less than 7 pips! (yay)

Ice School get Abominable Weaver (would snowman been too much to hope for?)

AW attacks for 950-1150 ice damage and applies a -75% shield to the caster.

Life School gets Hungry Caterpillar which attacks for 950-1150 life damage and applies an 800-damage absorb to the caster.

Fire School gets Fire From Above

FFA attacks for a whopping 1100-1300 damage and applies 3 +25% damage traps. Sounds like this one is begging for a follow-up from Heck Hound or Dragon.

Not only that, you can read up more about where to pick up the quests for the different new dungeons at: https://www.wizard101.com/game/update-notes/testrealm

Another New Image from Wizard101

This one looks more like a gothic cathedral.  The high arches and towers makes this look like a haunted world... maybe even Morganthe's stomping grounds.  I love the Halloween vibe though.  Any ideas about it?

Vale

A new mystery from KingIsle

Hints at what our friends are working on is contained in the following pictures...

Also check out KI social media (Facebook and Twitter) for more clues!

To me this seems to have a bit of an oriental feel to it but the weapons look a bit alien.  The building below looks like it could be from the ancient city of Ankar Wot or Maybe from early China or Indonesia?  

Comment with you ideas.

Vale

Halloween Contest Winners

Thanks for all the awesome entries. Here are the winners in random order.  I got the prizes sent out tonight so watch your email. Check out these cool pictures. 

Vale

khemraj ramdeo 

chat & games 

Legend Star 

Marissa Dragon Tail - Alina Kierzun

Samantha Nighttail (Aleksandra)

Patrick   Sour Pie 

Ted Lau 

Brandon OwlSword (Daniel)

Maryam Matta 

Stephanie Cordery 

Destiny Wizard 

zuff98

Blaze FireSmith

Chase Frostslinger 

Patiphan Arsanam

James Catcher

Keira Unicorn 

Tanniym Derya 

Vanessa Stormriver 

Victoria Ice 

Alexandra Iceheart 

Alyssa Stormcloud 

 Julia Rey 

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