Wizard vs Real Life

Ok so I'm not able to get in as much wizard101 time as I would like thanks to work, school, & now also my internet connection. My household has been having issues connecting & staying connected to the Internet the last couple of days. My dad says he is gonna give it a couple of weeks (like 1 or 2) before he once again starts calling & complaining because the problem could be somewhere in one of the fire damaged areas in town. Yea we had some fires in my city this past weekend, but no one was actually physically hurt as far as I know. & it looks like my connection is being friendly again so I can post this myself.

Here is what I worked on in wizard: Grace's garden, which contains about 7 pink dandelion & 1 silver trumpet vine. She is currently the only one of my characters that I'm doing a garden for right now because of my limited time online. I also worked on leveling up some of my baby pets because I want them to be adults so that one day I'll be able to add them to the list of pets X & Z have on here that can be hatched with. Right now I have a satyr & a fierce hound as adults & am currently working on my pet rock which is in it's teens right now. When I run out of energy for that then I can usually be found running around on Christina (my ice char) working on her quests, which currently has her in Knights Court (I think that's the name. I know it's knights something) in MB.

Mount Week and More from Xinaed;

If you haven’t heard by now that it’s mount week ITS then where in the world have you been? Everyone’s talking about it. It’s the buzz about twitter, facebook, wizard101central, DoaW and much much more. Personally, I wouldn’t mind have them all, but, I would really love to have me some swiftshadow wings (been wanting them, and the seraphwings since they first came out!) And it just so happens that HiaG is giving away codes for the wings! I’m trying to do what she has requested, but I’m kind of confused with her rules.

But then again, I confuse easily. Also been keeping track of all the codes that DoaW has been giving out. At least, the ones I’ve seen. It’s hard to do when I can’t have twitter open most of the time. The way our net has been acting lately we can’t keep anything open that is pulling from the internet, if we are trying to play Wizard, or do anything else on line that we might want to do. So it’s been really frustrating. There are other really cool mounts, but like said, I’m not all that in tune with things going on due to net being wonky. I get what I get, and that’s it.

Just in case you haven’t heard, here is the link to Wizard101’s official announcement on said contests. Clicky Clicky. Kind of sad that we weren’t chosen to participate, but we’re thinking we missed the opportunity one of those times we couldn’t have twitter open, or even a browser. Oh well. It would have been fun to finally host a contest, where the prizes are uber, and better yet, sponsored! One thing I will say, is that not having access to twitter and other social networking sites makes one feel so left out of the community.

I hath achieved eternal greatness;

At least on my main alt, Kieran Storm. Only things I really need to work on for him, are a few badges here and there. Mostly the ones in MB because as much as I love the world, and it may be my favorite, I absolutely hate running around there. I have achieved the title of Grandmaster Gardener. I did this a couple weeks ago, but I've been sick, and busy writing another blog that I was hoping would be finished by now, but its not..due to some confusing stuff (at least in my mind) that I need to sort out with it, before publishing.

Yes, I was using Silver Trumpet Vines, but it just so happens that's all I really was benefiting from harvest wise. In terms of what it gives. I plan on when I have more time and opportunity, making space for lots and lots of plants. But right now I'm also trying to level up some of my pets which means I can't be using my energy on gardening. Maybe when the new update comes out where we gain energy faster, but as of right now. Nope. Currently on Kieran I'm farming the REAL Cuthalla that drops Spiny Fish. No luck yet. So wish me luck please. I really want that pet!

Grandmaster Artisan at last!

 Never thought I'd make it this far, but alas I have, woot. And so close to GM Gardener too, yay. All on my main alt, of course, Kieran Storm. However, Adrian and Ryan are both closely tied doing the DS crafting quests, and Adrian rank 8 gardener. Ryan is my lowest gardener, rank 2, but that's because I only a couple days ago actually started gardening on her, lol. Took a lot of time reagent hunting to make it this far, and if only Pink Dandelions were out when I needed them! Ha. S'all good though. Oh no, I need to get the recipe for my Legendary stuffs doh, just remembered.

Happy Christmas to you from Zaolan and Xinaed

Merry Christmas to all of you wizards out there that celebrate it, as well as Happy early Kwanzaa to those of you that celebrate that as well, if any of you do.

With that said, Xinaed and I have been pretty much MIA for a while due to circumstances thrown our way, but, we've been on and off again on the spiral for a few days, and guess what? We finally finished Celestia. Yeah, we have sort of already finished it before our hiatus, minus the Trial of Spheres but, we finally finished that now as well. We were pretty excited to get that out of the way. Now onto gardening? Leveling up other characters, and finishing our crafting quests. That and most likely farming ToS a few times to see what we can get. It's simple enough after we understood what we needed to do for each floor.

Here are a few pictures that Xinaed took while we were doing ToS I believe it was yesterday for the second time. Hope all of you are having a great and happy holiday. We're trying to enjoy everything that we have at the moment ourselves. Both of us are having a white christmas for the first time. :)

Happy playing to you all.

Danger Hound and Gardening in Wizard? Good-Bye Farmville!

So, after waiting forever, and debating if we really should contact KI about our missing danger hound codes, we finally went ahead and contacted them, asking if we could please get our codes resent or something to us. Took almost the entire day yesterday of writing back and forth, but in the end WE GOT OUR DANGER HOUNDS. Mine was named Hunter, right off the bat so I left it there. That sounds like a good name for a Danger hound, right? I think so anyway. Still trying to get a fierce hound, by hatching with Z's fierce hound. No luck. Still haven't heard word of whether or not its even possible to get one through hatching. 

I'm guessing no news is good news? Lets hope. Leveled my Starfish to adult, but no spritely yet. Really wanting a spinyfish but I refuse to buy it with crowns. I want it to hatch with my zilla time and again to get some decent stats finally. One thing that was disheartening was with KI support, and how it seemed with every message they sent to us, it just 'felt' like it was a totally different person on the other end, who didn't bother to read the messages before. By them, or by us. Very indifferent and impersonal. One said they could help with our level 48 pets, and the other said the complete opposite. Before we got our DH's they were wanting our Central emails to make sure they had the codes available for us, and the next email, about 20 minutes later from them was "The danger hound contest is over, so we can not help you." and left it at that.

Like I said, it felt like random people were just picking up the email and answering it how they felt like at the time, regardless the situation was already being resolved by someone else. In the end though, as stated before, we did manage to finally acquire our Danger Hounds. Woot. Contest news: the winners have been selected, and they will be receiving an email from us some time today, where we can then discuss meeting times and conclude how the hatching/merc days will work out. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoyed reading your stories, etc.

Now, on to Farming. Farm games is probably a really big thing for me and Z. We each love farm games, but separately. Personally, we hate Farmville by Zynga, but there are other farm games that we love. Like Country Story. Its safe to say he and I are both stoked with the new updates secretly found on the TR. At first we were apprehensive to get on, since it does say OFFLINE. However, with as many people on the TR, and submitting Bug Reports, etc. I believe KI is aware that they are there, and get this, they don't mind! Or, at least if they did, they know how and are capable of kicking everyone off and closing the TR for reals.

We first entered on to the test using my screen name. Funnily, we see that Kieran is only level 59. That shows how long this has been implemented in to the test realm. He's been at 60 for over a week now. Of course when we saw we could plant stuff, my MB manor came to mind as the perfect place to do so. I mean, after all, it has a green house on site! :D So, we head over to Farley and do his little quests, yada yada, you can read all about that stuff on the blogs found on our blog roll. :P No need to contribute completely to redundancy. ;)  Then we head over to Kieran's MB Mansion and start planting. 

Think he wants to hear music? I do.

These rank one plants don't require much at all, but I've read (from same said blogs on the right) that the higher rank ones require much more tending too. Which, okay. That's usually how it works with these games. Easy firsts, harder seconds. One thing I did ask of KI was that if they are going to use Pet Energy, maybe they could up the max pet energy by 20 or so. I barely have enough PE it seems to level up my pets, but now it needs to be shared for farming? Eek. We went ahead and bought the beast master clothing set on test to up our pet energy by some, but it isn't something we would want in live. 

Raining outside, now inside. Woot.

Newly planted little bud. Isn't it cute? Lol.

 Definitely think I personally am going to like this expansion to the game.  Wont miss playing Country Story as much, since I'll kind of have it in Wizard. Now if some how we could run our own restaurant (or at least implement cooking in some way) in the game, I'd be set! Love me some restaurant games, like Country Story's sister game Restaurant City. Playfish really know how to keep me entertained, and its safe to say Wizard has them beat! Go Kingisle! Haha. Now lets take a look at Kash's garden, via his Krokotopian House.

Here he is pollinating the entire crop using a treasure card from Moolinda's TCP in the Crown Shop

Moolinda's TCP; Gives pretty awesome cards for those of you who have lots of crops

You..light up my...life.........

Sing....sing a song.....sing along....

Ahaha, okay. I'm done playing around. Seriously though, LOVE this new idea. Rock on, err Plant on KI! This expansion gives a whole new meaning to FARMING. Ha!

/Feels like playing Harvest Moon now...any takers? :P

Happy Wizarding everyone!

P.S. Happy Birthday Vanessa from Diviners Lane!