10 years of magic

Wizard101 is 10 years old! Join in on the celebration by redeeming some gifts for yourself by logging into Wizard101.com with your wizard account and click the "Join the Party" button and "redeem code" button near the bottom of the page. (see below)

You get some hoard packs, a 7 day tiger mount, sparkler wand, Gobbler cake, Origami crane pet, statue and birthday gazebo, and of course the ever handy confetti cannon.

Redeem the code if you haven't already and check out the new updates if you have been offline for a while. (like me) The new graphics are making things look even more awesome than ever.

It's a major milestone for a video game to last as long as Wizard has. I believe the reason is that KingIsle keeps listening to their users and building in all kinds of requested features and new concepts. The worlds keep growing, and despite a brief plateau at 50, Wizards are becoming downright ancient and amazingly powerful now. Of course KI has stayed true to the game being geared toward young players while making the game fun and engaging and complex enough to captivate older generations too!

Jump in on the fun,

Vale

Friendship Festival Contest Wrap-Up

The Friendship Festival ended in epic style with one contestant (Ashley Fairyfriend) guessing all but one character of the password!  The real password for the contest was NiceIceBaby. But we also had some really close ones and some really sneaky guesses so I changed my password really fast!

A lot of you guessed minor variations on icywizrocks which I think is a pretty fine password but now I'm for sure not going to pick that one!
Some of my favorites were:
notherright (now that's thinking like a hacker),
nosferrabbit (this one is going on my list of potential passwords), friendship (a shared vibe I think),
valeiceninja (might have used this if I had thought of it first).

Special shout outs for good guesses were: Blaze TitanFist, Justin DragonMask, Thomas Silvervault, Lucas Dragonslinger and Tyler Myththief.

For everyone that participated THANK YOU! And how cool is that? Putting our heads together we can crack anything!  Good work Wizards!

For those of you really wanting to pick strong passwords that can't be guessed I recommend using a mix of letters and numbers and symbols and keeping your passwords in a password program like LastPass. That way you can make super sneaky and hard to guess passwords and you can pick a new one for every site that you use. That keeps the bad guys from using one password to get into all your online accounts.

Thanks to all those that made this fun!

See you around the spiral...
Vale

Friendship Festival Winners Announced Soon

Life is always a bit exciting even at holiday time. I found out just how exciting it can be with a surgery for my eye that was unexpected.  Yikes! Phobia #2 now confronted! I'm recovering well and looking forward to sending out congratulations to the winners of the Friendship Festival entrants.

I hope you had fun guessing the password!  Sorry I didn't have time to drop some hints during the contest. I look forward to seeing how creative you all were with your guesses.

I'm working with a group of awesome people to ramp up the blog going forward. I'll be stepping back a bit while I recover.  I hope to introduce the new team by the end of the week. If any of you want to audition, now would be a great time to join a group of friends who have reached the heights of wizarding... drop me a line via comments.

Vale

Friendship Festival Contest

The friendship festival has come around again and of course the contest that goes with it! And what is a friend if not a pet? (Thanks Ashley Stalker for the great art)

We are giving away prizes that include a Wizard101 pet and a Pirate101 pet.

3rd Place Codes for = 1000 Crowns + a Cupig + Friendship Grouper

2nd Place Prize Codes = 5000 Crowns + Lovely Ladybug + Huggle Hoggle

1st Place Prize Codes = 10000 Crowns + Lovely Leopard + Bunny Hug

**** Here's the your quest if you choose to accept it! ****
I created a new email account for the contest: icewizardsrule @ gmail . com  I want you to think like a hacker and guess my password!!!!  Every day between now and Feb 13th 5pm MST, you can post to the blog your guess at what my email password is. I will pick the nearest entries with the most matching characters and or words.  I can tell you that the password is 11 characters long!

When you post, respond to this post and include your wizard name, an email address that is safe for me to send the prizes to (if you are a younger wiz you will want to use a parent's email address... that's fine!) And of course don't forget to include your guess.

So your post should look something like: 
My guess- nottheright
My WizardName is- Valerian NightBringer
My email is - myemail@someemail.com

Happy guessing :D

Vale

Holiday code from Wizard101

(Holiday scenes from some of our art contestants)

If you've not already redeemed this code, now's your chance!  Hurry and log into the web site and redeem the code before December 31st 2016.

The code is: thankful16

What does the code give you you ask?
Immortal's Lore Pack
Major Gold Elixir
Major XP Boost Elixir
Energy Elixir

What are you thankful for?
Vale

Celestial Carpet Mount Promo (Mirage)

It's no Mirage... there is a carpet mount available to Wizards who do one of two things...

1) Have an active Wizard account (membership) on November 29th 2016 at 11:59PM Central Time...
OR
2) Buy crowns between November 1st before midnight 2016 Central Time

Those are pretty easy right? Remeber, you only need to do one or the other... not both. But if you happen to have some extra crowns hanging around you might find they come in handy in shops that will be available to you soon!  So just keep your account active OR buy crowns! And YOU'LL get this awesome mount!

If you have questions or think that's too good to be true... check out the official page on Wizard101.com here

Why do I get the feeling we'll be zipping around over the desert sands soon?

Vale

Awesome Shinobi Bundle Test-Drive

I was super excited to get the Shinobi Bundle - available at Game Stop.  I gave it a test-drive and I think it's a great value for the lower $29 price tag.

What comes with it you ask?

1) 5000 crowns or 1 month membership
2) Turtle pet with Ninja Pig card (Is he a Ninja turtle? IDK)
3) Shinobi Dragon mount
4) Shinobi clothing / gear
5) Shinobi throwing star (wand)
6) Shinobi Dojo which is a building for your house that provides an arena for fighting and blue orbs for energy regen and a statue that allows you to request a daily gift... kind of like the Kong guy in the jungle house etc.

Here's what it all looks like in-game.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  I see some gear stitching in my near future!

The dojo is humble but bigger on the inside!

 Moodha oversee's your pwning of buddies and gives out candy... or, pet snacks or other stuff.

Shinobi dragon looks boss! It's like driving a bus made out of dragon!

Front view of the dragon. Now I feel ready to celebrate the Chinese new year!

Gear Level 1

Gear Level 2

Gear Level 3

Gear Level 4

Gear Level 5

Gear Level 6

Gear Level 7

Gear Level 8

Gear Level 9

Gear Level 10

Gear Level 11

Gear Level 12

Gear Level 13

 Turtle (Ninja) pet and Ninja Pig card ... 

Throwing star level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Level 7

Level 8

Level 9

Level 10

Level 11

Level 12

Level 13 

Much the same at 6% shield break, 65% Crit and 10% Tough with a square gem socket and the same two accompanying spells.

Wizard101 Bundle-a-palooza HURRY!

It's not very often you get a chance for such a great deal
on bundles... check these out and maybe take one home 

before they're gone!

 

• NOT MUCH TIME LEFT TO GET YOUR BUNDLE

  Bundle-a-Palooza ends September 7th 2016

  

  Bundles at 50% OFF

  • Mega
  • Super
  • Olympian
  • Hive
  • Hawkrider
  • Atlantean
  • Arcane Builder's
  • Aztecan Builder's
  • Pagoda Gauntlet
  

  Bundles at 25% OFF

  • Epic
  • Majestic
  • Evergreen
  • Polarian Explorer's
  • Dino
  • Prehistoric
  • Mystic Fishing
  • Winterbane Gauntlet
  • Spiral Cup Gauntlet

Summer Wizard Update

If you've been busy with holidays or hacker conferences, or world-class sporting events, you may notice some changes to Wizard now that you've returned... Of course the Spiral is always getting better and more awesome with every passing year. But wow, there were some cool changes this time!

What are your favorite?

My favorite changes are either:
1) The grammar fixes!
2) The "I can now level my Storm wizard to 50 instantaneously!"
3) Or, I can now play PVP without losing my life savings!
4) New instance and spell stuff with new gear drops!
4) Less "grind-y" play in Celestia!

I have to applaud Wizard101 for making these changes both from the playability aspect to the small things like fixing glitches and grammar. (Was I joking about the grammar thing? The wurld may nevur no...)


Leave a comment and let us know what your favorite is.

Vale

Oh, yeah! In the spirit of fixing things... I had so much fun learning to hack and secure new stuff that I forgot to post the pictures from the last contest. Check out this character that shares an career choice with me...

Thanks for your awesome art!

We are putting together the results of the contest and will begin posting your art soon.

Stay tuned!

Vale

Updated: Code Giveaway for Summer Wizard Art!

 It's officially summer and that means... codes???

YES!

Enter to win: (many will enter and only a few can win)

Astral Unicorn mount + 10K Crowns
or
Astral Unicorn mount
or
5K Crowns

Submit your epic art through email by July 16th along with your name, Wizard name and your actual email address or parent's email address.

Prepare your Wizard drawings for summer and send along a fun summer themed Wizard picture drawn by your real life wizard self.

I'll be vacationing in Canada for the next two weeks and will be enjoying time with family.  I want to have some time to write and to draw.  I hope you will also find some things about summer that inspire you to create some great art.

The email account has been expanded to handle all the tons of entries... so if you have had a problem submitting please try again.
Send your entry to: art@supersuper2.33mail.com
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Witch Hunter Package

The Witch Hunter card package is amazing. Possibly my favorite of all so far!

Without being too verbose about it I'm going to show you the awesomeness.

First of all... Gear

Level 1 Hat Coat and Boots

Level 60 Gear begins to get Critical attribute on the hat

At level 110 the gear has decent crit on the hat (I've seen better) but reasonable shadow pips...

 Here's the level of gear I got for my Death wiz... Shadow pips are the main thing here that my guy is missing currently. Tough plus for Death on this gear is weaker than normal stuff you'll find tailor-made for a Death wiz. As far as Crit goes it's also good but not amazing.  Since Death was built to be a weak hitter and it's gear that really revs up the power of Death hits, this gear probably won't be my boss-fighting gear but I'm for sure going to stitch this at a minimum!

Here's the level 1 wand strike. You've gotta love the +4% tough! No cap on the wizard level for this!

Then there's the tier 2 where you start to get pips for Level 10 and up Wiz.

Critical and 8% tough plus for level 50!  Man I wish I had this for questing so long ago...

Now this is more like it! Level 110 Wiz get all the cool stuff! 5% shield break! 12% tough plus! and we have our power-pip of course.

A side view of the epic car mount that comes with this package.  I so so love this mount! It may be the last that I use given how fast it is and how stylish.

The HOUSE complete with a bridge!

Ichabod Crane would be jealous! But there's no pumpkin-slinging bad guy on a horse here... (not yet anyway)

Creepy iron gates and a dueling area round out the necessities in this home away from home...

The ghost du-jour. Don't you need a ghost for your house? I could certainly do worse!

No Witch Hunter house is complete without a how do you say ... grave stone thingy.

Here's a nice Gazebo perfect for sitting out on summer evenings and parties etc.

A creepy statue that turns toward you from whichever direction you look.

A swamp with a dock.  You can ride around in the water too... and see the fish.

 The house looks awesome!  They don't do stained glass like that any more!

I love the vaulted ceilings and columns.

Green glowing lights is a nice touch. It also looks like some whisps of fog swirling around the window areas.

This looks like secret passage to me!

It is!!

I store all the books about my exploits here... in the Library.

If you're willing to climb a ladder for a book you must really love reading! I think I'll send my pet instead.

And there's an awesome organ that you can play and work on your "mad scientist" vibe.

Here's a great picture of the car from the side! It's hard to see in the picture but there are flames coming from the exhaust pipes.

A nice front view of the car. Look! you even have spikes so you can try unsuccessfully to spike people's tires whom you're racing with. Of course it's the thought that counts...  Now and then the car revs up and the valves open on the super-charger.  The car is fast. I've heard claims that it's 50% faster than regular mounts but I'd clock it at maybe 40% faster but that's still great! I like getting things done quickly and this car will having you burning rubber all around the spiral.

I'll show you a few more pictures from the package generally and of the pet as he gains some talents.

I hope you get a chance to try out this amazing bundle.

Vale