New Wizard in the family

A close friend of ours on Wizard, Suri Spiritcaller, had a papered Yorkie who happened to mix with another Yorkie.  (I don't think this was planned) They had a puppy and gave it to our family.  He has been a joy to us and has enriched our wizard family immensely.  We call him Rockwell Nightsong (last name after Suri's other wizard's last name) and his first name is named after a sheriff/frontiersman/cowboy of some renown.  Sometimes we call him Rocky and I like to call him Rock because he's a solid little thing.  (and it reminds me of "The Rock" and his wrestling intro that goes: "Can you smell what The Rock is cookin'!?")

Here are some pictures of the new Wiz and his big bro Jack ( a German short-haired pointer).  Jack has been feeling quite bad with serious hip problems but Rocky has cheered him up a lot and the two of them share everything including a lot of adventures.  Jack is getting sicker and may not be around much longer but he's been very happy to have a buddy as are we.

 A cuteness duel

 Synchronized napping

 Psychic communication powers

 I bet this is what ice hound looked like as a puppy

 Little Rock using disarmingly charming spell.

Tower of the Helephant Conquered

Suri Spiritcaller, Luke Skywalker, Kestrel Spiritblade and myself in the form of David Dragonheart finally beat the tower of the Helephant.  The bosses in the tower cheat pretty bad but the creators of Wizard101 have given you the tools, and spells to save your own bacon if you are crafty.

Here are the basics of the tower:

First set of bosses - balance, balance, myth (nasty minotaur), death/storm
The worst of these bosses is the minotaur who casts tons of smoke screen and if you fizzle his buddy hits you with a critical bone dragon spell that usually comes close to killing you.  The goal of surviving this battle is to kill the balance minions and minotaur first.  You will find these cards useful in your treasures: fire dispel, life dome, triage, ice dispel, storm dispel.  The minotaur will also cheat and take your blades away.  He is immune to most spells like beguile etc. :(  Basically you need to keep your 1 pip fire dispels on the minotaur to shut down his cheating ways.  Once the minotaur is done the death boss will throw leviathins constantly (even on 2 white pips).  Even with storm resist they hit for 1400 or more if they're critical, so keep the deat boss dispelled for storm.

I strongly advise you have a good life wiz with you... just sayin' :D

Then there are 3 levels of regular 1400 health guys that you can blow through pretty fast.

Then you fight the helephant boss who's kind of a push-over.

Finally you fight 1 storm/ice boss with 3 myth minions.  This battle again is kind of nasty as you have quakes going constantly, and if you kill the minions the boss calls them back again.  Again, you want ice dispels for this boss because he constantly throws gargantuaned blizzards (Whoever set up this tower must have faced our ice team before :)  - With how much these guys throw quake you'll need to keep a dome up and do just-in-time blading.  If someone can hit the others will need to provide blades.  Keep your ice shields up and your ice dispel flying and you'll eventually survive.

Here are some highlights from our battle:

This boss loves to have a crowd

 He shows us his icey heart

 They are looking a bit ragged after some big hits

 Forest Lord has something to say about this

So-so prizes and random dancing

Give Helephant tower a try and let me know how you do.  One last tip is that these guys don't like feint so much :(

Enjoy!
Valerian Nightbringer

I haz teh codez

Woot!  I've been told by a reliable source that the codes are back on www.kifreegames.com AND you can claim a random party prize from Wizard101 by logging into the web site and redeeming this code: 3rdbday
Or simply start wizard and click on the link in the loading screen of the app.

Enjoy!
Valerian Nightbringer

Where are the codes?

This cute little cat was playing Dig Doug and after getting to level 15 he was expecting something awesome by way of a wizard101 code.  What he got was a message that says they're working on updating codes and he can play for free in the mean time.  Anyway, for his sake I hope the codes come back soon.  I have two words: "Wyvern packs"  One can hope right?

Valerian Nightbringer

Where are the wallflowers in Wysteria?

The other day I was questing with my sister Sierra and she went on a mission to find all of the wallflowers.  Little did I know she would find them all within about 20 minutes!  (That's got to be a record!) 
Anyway, I followed her to the wallflowers so I could document their position.  Here are the locations of the wallflowers...

Pegasus Place wallflower

 Pigswick Academy wallflower

 Pigswick Academy #2 wallflower

 Tanglewood way wallflower.

See you all on Wizard101!
Valerian Nightbringer