Pet Hatching

Many people have been anticipating an endless variety of pets. Some people have expected it meant that the pets will share the looks of the pets being mixed. For example a firezilla and a colossus might look like part colossus and part zilla. This is not the case. The child of two pets will look exactly like some existing pet in the game. I have heard of someone mixing a wraith and an aurthurus and getting a hydra. I have only seen them come out looking like one of the parents but time will tell.

When you are playing in the test realm and want to get started with pets, check with Merle Ambrose first. He'll set you on your pet quests and give you a pet of your own.

Enjoy,
Valerian

Here's a code for the fastest wizard: 2875A-3L9W7-24NLX-5LL66

Great Gobber Give Away!

We have been graciously allowed to participate in the Great Gobbler Giveaway. A total of 1 gobbler pet will be awarded in each of 5 separate contests.

1) Random new subscriber- for all new subscribers to this blog a random drawing will be done for one gobbler pet.

2) Most prolific commenter- the visitor who posts the most relevant comments (not spam and not the same thing multiple times) will win another gobbler pet.

3) Most interesting comment- the visitor who posts the most interesting or relevant comment.

4) The most awesome game tip.

5) One to be awarded by some mysterious and yet unknown means. I will be puzzling over this one... but already have some fun ideas!

Thanks for the help Kiersten!

AW! Someone told me that I messed up on the last code so here's a few to make it up to you.


Visit these sites for additional chances to win:

Homework in a Graveyard
Diary of a Wizard 

Wizard101 WarCry 

The Friendly Necromancer 

A Mythspent Youth 

Wizard101 Fan Wiki 

West Karana 

Wizard101 Central 

Ravenwood Radio

Here are a couple more codes for the fastest wizards ( log into wizard101 web site to redeem them) Only the first person to redeem the code will be able to get the item.
385QA-4L2L3-26WQX-6L862

EL7QA-QLQJ3-28N3X-4L279

Test Realm with Pets and Responding to a Comment

Test Realm is up! Log in if you haven't already.

So much stuff is happening so quickly I can tell I'll have a million posts going up today...

Sierra Starsong commented that in the release notes for this latest patch that trading of enhanced treasure cards from wizard to wizard will be restricted. This may in fact reduce the bolting issue. I for one will be excited to see!

Another commenter asked last week what my email address is for sending me pictures etc. My email is
Now, if you are one of my younger readers you should always get a parent's permission to email or have your parent email me. It's important to note that it's difficult to post content from an email to my blog so if you want your content posted to my blog you may want to consider sending it in a comment. If it's something more complicated with pictures then an email may be better.

Valerian

T845A-7L329-28P8X-7LQ69

Test Realm is Up!!

If you don't have the test realm version downloaded Go to Wizard 101. Log into the web site using the same account as you do for the game. Then you will notice a ribbon on the right hand side of the screen at the top. It should look like this:

Click on that to download a Wizard101 client program that will connect only to the test realm. It will give you a new icon on your desktop. Whenever you run that version of Wizard it will take you to the test area where new features are ready to test like pets!

Valerian
(new codes for the first wizard to redeem them)

R872A-7L827-27BQX-3L765

J859A-7L8J8-27Q9X-7L762

Pets will be in Test Realm very soon!

I captured the video from Wizard101.com but decided for copyright issues I'd just post some caps of the video that show some detail of pets coming out.

The link to the video is here: Wizard 101 Pets!

Well, one of our friends did it! If you go back and see the interview with my friend Megan... her idea was to allow pets to run free on your property. Well I guess someone at King Isle took notice and voila. A year later her wish is now reality.

Check this out...


Looks like someone started a unicorn farm.


This last one is a picture of a pet that is presumably casting it's own spell.


In the video I haven't seen any mutated pets or any new ones that were hinted at. However it does look like all the usual suspects are present. I wonder who drops the "Timmy the Icepick" pet?

In any event there is rampant speculation that the prolonged update tonight may in fact be the release of the test realm. Cody Skyrider was the first to speculate that update is in fact a test realm release. I suspect if it's not the test realm that it's the database backup that fuels the test realm.

In any case I think we'll see pets in test at least on the first of the month if not sooner.

Valerian