Wizard101, Runescape and More

Lots has happened in the Spiral for me, though in reality it just feels as if nothing has happened. Maybe that's because a lot of what I had wanted to achieve hasn't quite come to fruit yet. Mostly, pet leveling. I think I've managed to level up 3 pets from teen to adult, and about 6 pets from baby to teen. I have said this before, and I'm saying it again. I really wish KI would do something about the pet games. 

They are too boring (more so redundant) for the minimal rewards you get from them. I understand that's why they put the mega snacks in, but let's face it, I will never be buying any of them. $5 is just too much to pay for them. And I do have gardens full of supposed plants that drop said snacks. So far out of 50 harvests, I've gotten 3. Yes folks, just three.

Sparky that I finally leveled up to adult. Really enjoy having him along side my diviner.

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!

Suprise Bundle for Me

So as blogged about before, yes my birthday wasn't too long ago, and yes I was content with not being able to get anything this year as a present, since times are tough, but low and behold...a couple days after my birthday I got a message from Nins, aka Grace Dreamhaven, to sign out of my game and back in right away. I was like, um, okay? 

So, I did, but then I had to get back off (didn't even log in to a char) because I needed to go do something real quick for Z on another game. Then, as I was about to log in to wiz, I decided I was too hungry, so I again closed it, and went down stairs to cook food. 

Finally, about 1.5 hours later, I get back in front of the computer, sign in to wizard to find a gift box on the left of my screen! Gasp! Mega gasp when I look to see it's the contents of the EPIC BUNDLE CARD!!!!11!ONE

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.

First party for me that didn't crash!

To start off the blog, despite it is the day after - Happy Birthday to Jordan Seadreamer, and I really do hope that you had a wonderful birthday. X and myself would have stayed longer at the party but after almost two hours of being there and the crowds getting larger and larger, we could not see anything, and my poor old laptop could handle no more. I barely made it to jump to my balance house without a major lag. I wonder how far wizard was to crashing like it did that one time? lol. It really was hard for me to move, to see, to do anything, but, I had a fun time. I wanted to battle, but, I probably would have gotten in there eventually, and then, it would have lagged so much for me that I wouldn't have been able to duel anyhow. So, it was probably a very good thing that I didn't get pulled in.

So, here is a picture of when I first arrived from porting to Jordan. I ran across the draw bridge first, before I took a screenie. People were already battling in the circle, but, we were probably within the first ten people there.

Happy Birthday Jordan!

 So, today Z and I actually made it to a party celebrating Jordan Seadreamer's birthday, and were able to stay with out the game crashing on us! Yay, lol. First time though we were actually on seperate computers. Though, for Z, he was having some hard times when the crowds grew, and didn't seem to stop. It was even worse when Friendly arrived, with people screaming frantically his name (though not literally in game, since we don't have voice chat, however I'm betting some people literally screamed his name at home in their chair when they saw him arrive, lol) when he appeared. Little did I know, he was closer to me than I realized.

Grace hath landed;

Or rather, she has swam her way through parts of Celestia! Z's and my's very bestest friend who has been MIA ITS lately due to computer issues, has finally made it back to the spiral. Now, because of scheduling with work, and other things, play time isn't like it was with Kieran and Tristan while running through Celestia for us. Also, our team has dramatically changed! It had always been Kieran, Tristan and Grace running through the spiral together, but since her absence, Storm and Sky were forced to become a duet, rather the trio they were used to.

Because of such, Zaolan and I purposely leveled my Ice, and his Fire to be paired with Grace upon her return. Last week, we had our first run with the newly formed trio, and it was quite an adventure I must say. Very different to be playing in Celestia as the tank, rather the guns I was used to, from my Diviner. It was also a welcoming feeling to know that there was Grace, to heal myself, or even Suri when/if we needed and we were unable to do so ourselves at that moment. 

Very different, since with Kieran and Tristan, we were dying left and right, unable to heal when needed, and hit at the same time. Now, Grace has posting privelages on this here blog, and maybe some day she'll make an appearance. It really depends on her schedule, lol. Here are some screenies from our battles the other day. Enjoy!

Suri using Meteor Strike under water, looks pretty neat.

Adrian using Colossus.

I had tried to take a picture of Grace using Rebirth, but it screened it late, and there for the pic didn't turn out. Maybe next time. 

And until next time, happy wizarding everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving and Why KI, WHY?!

So, first off, congratulations to the winners of our contest. You've all been emailed with instructions on how to get a hold of us, etc. Second, Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate. And to those that don't: Happy Last Thursday in November! Third, WHY KI, WHY am I seeing drops like this? I thought that maybe, just maybe it was random or something...and that it would go back to normal. However, it's not getting any better. On average, I get one drop per battle, where as Tristan gets 4 drops per battle, on average. 

How is this fair? He has reached 200k in gold selling drops twice now, and I've barely made it to 40k. Is anyone else noticing a drastic drop in drops on their character? We thought it might have just been Celestia, but no. We farmed in Dragonspyre for a couple of days back to back, and the same thing. 0-1 drops for me and 3-7 drops for him.There is no way I'm going to be able to finish anything I've been trying to do since it all takes gold to do it.

This is going to be a short post due to the fact that it's a holiday and all. Kind of started the day off late...and we're only now getting the gravy ready, since the turkey only just now finished cooking...... So, I'll leave you with these screen shots, taken just ten minutes ago. The first battle we did when signing in to the game. Had me so frustrated, I closed the game and decided to blog about it. 

Tristan's Drops....

Kieran's Drops...fair? I think not.

Happy Wizarding and Thanksgiving everyone!

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!

Legendary! To continue, or not to continue?

That is the question. We finally hit Legendary while running around in the Crustacean Empire. We have a quest now to go to Calypso's ship I believe it is. Don't really remember. We had been up all night questing (since that is the best and pretty much only time we can do anything in CL any more) and about thirty minutes before we went to bed, we had taken some benadryl, moved to go back to farming Cuthalla. I really really WANT the Spinyfish pet.

Now we are debating on whether or not we should continue questing, or leave it be until a new level cap is implemented in to the game. However, who KNOWS when that will be. KI could surprise us with this awesome update next month. OR it could be another two years! Don't think I really want to wait for two years before I finish Celestia. Not to mention, most likely I won't be playing Wiz101 another two years, UNLESS they have added more content to play in.

Things do tend to get some what redundant after a while, unfortunately.

Best way to cure redundancy is to change things up. Which, is what we try to do. As best as possible. Hence why we've been sort of playing around with the new stats found on CL gear. Still can't decide which is best. The ones that give me accuracy (Z ppp), health, hit and shield? Or health, crit hit, crit block. What do you guys think is the best way to go when it comes to gear, and being legendary?

Also, a reminder: you have one more day to enter in to the contest we are hosting here on Stormy Skies. Now, I know it's not like many you've seen, and personally I'm happy with the set up we have done. It makes things in our opinion, much more personal. We look forward to helping out the winners, and even making more friends in game. Just remember to enter by Monday at 9pm EST/7pm CST to be counted. The information on what is needed to enter can be found by clicking the link to the left of this blog post.

Note: We will not be posting the winners of the contest, but instead emailing the contestants with their rankings.

Well, this is all for today. Happy Wizarding everyone!

Leviathan!

After it's long awaited arrival in to the spiral, it only seemed that it was taking just as much time to acquire the level 58 spell Leviathan on Kieran Storm. But I can say with confidence, I have finally proven my valor and won the approval of said beast, and granted the permission to summon him in combat whenever I feel the need.

Totally AWESOME!

I am really upset however that for whatever reason, the first half of the quest line to receive the spell, my print screen would not work. To top it off, neither would Xfire allow me to take videos. I think what happened was we had had the computer on for too long yesterday..and it just didn't want to work at all. Restarted the client after I finally beat the boss. I really wanted to video that, however, I'm kind of glad we didn't try. Why? Because it took me about 6 times before I managed to defeat him. That would have been a lot of bad takes to sort through and delete, lol.

 

Not sure why Xfire didn't upload my video as a Wizard101 video..it did the others. :/ Oh well. Enjoy it anyway! I know I did. Love the new spell. Thanks KI!

Happy Wizarding!

P.S. Don't forget about the contest we're hosting! Click here to be directed to the formalities.

Falling off bridges

This blog entry is all about a glitch or error that I found in Celestia. Maybe I'm the only one that has came across from this, and never know, maybe KI will see this and find out why it happened, but, here is my, Z, experience in Stormriven. Let me know if you or someone you know has had this happen to them.

 

 Here is Tristan looking back up to where he had just fallen from, off the bridge heading toward Leland to try and turn in a quest. He was riding his horse but I unequipped it to get a better look for the pictures. 

 

Here is a view of the other bridge.

 

And, on each end of the running strip, inbetween the bridges down below as you can clearly see Tristan is trapped in. He tried everything he could to get out but he was stuck. I finally had to port him back to the base camp and run all the way back to where I was to turn the quest in. 

 

With that said, again, has anyone ever came across this glitch or error in the game? X and I tried over and over to try and find the exact spot where it happened, but, to no avail we never found it, oddly enough. It's out there somewhere though, apparently. I would assume all games like this would have something like this out there, somewhere, but, I do wonder since we've never came across this anywhere else in the game, if KI even knows about it?

With that said, we've finished Stormriven and Stormriven hall, and zoomed off to the Lunarium last night while we actually had a chance to play in CL. X and I both definitely liked the Morganthe's and Celestian's battling one another in the beginning in one of the rooms. It was awesome in our opinions. I do feel though, and I've been saying this over and over to X about Stormriven hall especially, I feel like theres something else there that we've missed. I mean, the big eyeball thing.. It doesn't explain it at all unless we've missed something in there. Is it a Kraken? Is it the Leviathan? 

Off to do more questing on the Ravenbloods though, to try and get their minions. Deja vu anyone?

Master Artisan at LAST!

It's only taken a literal year to get here. No, I'm not joking either. At least, I think it's been a year. Well, its at least been as long as crafting has been out, that I've been trying to make it to Master. I've been stuck at Initiate (guessing that's the one before master, I've had it for so long that I can't remember what it was) for the longest time. Probably 9 months. The others didn't take near as long (obviously if it's been only a year) to reach the next level. Unfortunately in the process, if you can remember as posted here earlier this year I have had a couple set backs a long the way.

In the long run, I've probably lost, misplaced, and or sold many crafted quest items or their reagents, meaning more grinding and crafting for me. As for Z, we were in MB I believe it was when crafting was first introduced in to the game, and unlike myself, he was selling all the reagents he came in contact with. I was smart, and saved them all. :P It wasn't until we were about half way through with Mooshu, or maybe just into Dragonspyre did he decide he wanted to craft. Why? Well, he saw all the awesome stuff you could make if you had that darn badge! As if it isn't hard enough collecting the reagents for the stuff you WANT to craft, you have to find the reagents for stuff you really could care less about, and wont be able to keep in the long run.

Fair? Meh.

Don't really care because I HAVE MY MASTERS CRAFTING BADGE!

Oh no though...Celestia is out, and that means...

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GRANDMASTER CRAFTING BADGE, OR GRANDMASTER ARTISAN! *dies*

Lol, jk. I didn't really die. I'm just soooo tired, but very very proud and excited of and for myself.

So to answer this post topic here, I have written this post. Yes, I will, and I HAVE. Can you tell I'm excited? ;)

Here is the end of my long waits finale:

 

 

Woot, here it is folks. Right there under my name!

And of course, went straight to our twitter friends and fellow #Twizards around and asked where I could go to start working towards Grandmaster! You all rock for tweeting replies!

Up next is a little treat, sort of lol. Z and I decided it would be neat to try out Xfire and see if we can't make some videos to share with everyone. Decided to test it out with Tristan requesting to learn to be a grandmaster artisan himself. Enjoy!

Hope everyone continues to enjoy this awesome game, and that you are all in good health, spirit and mind.

Happy Wizarding!

The adventures of The Floating Land.

Kieran and Tristan finally made it to the floating land! It was such a feat since those stupid sharks wouldn't drop their teeth for us. Definitely was not similar to taking candy from a baby that's for sure. Tristan and Kieran came back from under the sea, and up to dry land and this is what their eyes first saw. Is that a Triton?

 

X and I definitely agree that while playing in this section of Celestia it didn't feel like playing wizard101 at all despite the obvious. I love Krokotopia, but, seeing this place, it is slowly stealing the number one spot for the different places in the spiral. Look mom.. It's the ocean! Just like back home.. And, look.. they even fish like we do back home. This place is definitely a bit of fresh air - just what wizards need I would think.

After setting up camp and a few moments rest while taking in all the scenery, Tristan and Kieran were off in help aiding all the water moles and the Marleybonian's. Although, I do have to admit, the talking waterfall face was a bit odd and scary to me. X thought that it was hilarious though. Maybe I'm weird but it reminds me of something from a dream I once had, or something. I can't explain why it freaks me out, stupid, I know.

We finished the floating land a few days after going there, due to how many people we came across while we were there. It's really hard for us to play in Celestia every day due to the crowd. We're excited to see what is to come though. Celestia just keeps getting better and better in our opinion. Anyone else like this place though? Reminds me of Tahiti or something. On another note, X and I want to thank each and every one of you that follow, RSS and respond to our blogs, as well as follow and chat us up on Twitter. If you have a blog that we should add to our list, let us know, we'll add you if you'll add us. Same goes with twitter.

Happy playing guys.

-Zaolan

P.S. This is the 50th post on Stormy Skies!

Stellarium

 Well, its safe to say that Z and I are really enjoying the new world Celestia. We can't help but be awed by it's music, graphics, and over all challenge of the mobs/bosses. I like how things are much more tricky than before, and I actually die, a lot more. I find it funny even how I do not get as angry as before, when I do in fact die. The only bad thing about dying, is the fleeing and coming back. Why? Well, because our computer freezes up every time we enter any commons area, or heavily populated area in the game. Meaning, the person left in battle, could very well die, if I can't get back soon enough.

Tristan standing in front of a device that looks like a solar system machine thing. Totally awesome. 

 Just a few examples of the excellent graphic work. I know, the above two are the same pic, but from different points of view. :P Mine (Xinaed) and Zaolan's. Lol. His is the first one, mine is the second. This spiral depiction looks just like the one in Gamma's room, Wizard City.

And on to the point of this post: Stellarium. This place is so neat. And the mobs are so different compared to any we've faced before in the spiral. Minus the one point near the Ice Sharks that look to be Astral Robots. This entire place is full of Astral minions, and of course, the ever feared Sharks. Man, anyone else having a hard time against these things? They were tougher than tough. Good going KI! Definitely presents a challenge in the game.

 

Here's just a few of the sharks we battled while in the Stellarium. Speaking of Sharks, the quest for the six shark teeth took us an entire day to complete. Why? Because they refused to give up them death of theirs, even though they was KO'd! 

Here we are with the new spin on riddles in dungeons. Still in the Stellarium, this was fairly easy to depict however. I do like the approach KI made with this one. Again, good going KI!

After defeating the boss, we had to take the star piece thing and place it in this little doohicky. Wonder what happens when/if we fill the entire thing up eventually? Really looking forward to where this story/world is going to take us! 

Happy Wizarding!

PS: Welcome all you new readers, both visiting, and following, maybe even RSSing! We appreciate that you take the time out of your day to check in on whats going on here. If you have a blog, or a site dedicated to Wizard, even a Twitter all about wizard, feel free to leave a comment pointing us in the right direction, or even email us if you want to keep that between us. Our email address is khai.dreamweavers.kash @ gmail.com. Take care everyone, and hope you and yours are well, in and out of the spiral.