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!

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Oh Em Gee!

So the long awaited wait, has just significantly gotten shorter. Now, I haven't tried yet, because the site said it would be down until 7am Central, which ends in 12 minutes. Could it get any longer?! Lol, jk. Zaolan and I have made the decision that we probably should wait until we venture in to Celestia for at least a -little- while.

We'll see exactly how little that wait is, eh? Mostly because of the massive amount of people trying desperately to get in to the great underwater world. I am definitely excited about the final release. Let's hope it has very few bugs. I wasn't expecting it to be so early, however, when KI changed Wild Bolt, etc, Zaolan and I talked it over, and realized most likely CL would be out the Wednesday -before- Halloween.

And what is today again? Wednesday, before Halloween. Speaking of Halloween, what does everyone have planned? Anything good? I so would go trick or treating.. and I'd probably pass as being young enough to, but at the same time, I don't want to. Mainly, because I don't have a costume. But oh how I wanted to go as Halston Balestrom!

What are you going as, that is, if you are going?

Currently in game, we are leveling up Mycin and Mason Ravenblood, as well as Aedan Dragonbreath, and Calamity Starcatcher. However, I have a feeling we're going to hop on Adrian/Suri or Ryan and Reed and finish some Dragonspyre now that the level cap has been upped! Woot.

What are your plans for Wizard, now that Celestia is live?

Happy Wizarding everyone!

Arrows to Olde Town

I meant to blog about this sooner but have forgotten about it. While on mine and Kai's second wizard account, we were starting to level up some of our characters on there to do the Selena Quest a while back, and out of the blue I noticed these little arrows when we reached the quest to go visit Muldoon for the first time. How long has these arrows been going on? And, why are they there now? Is it just because its taking you outside a place you knew? And, if that's the case, why didn't it do that for Unicorn way? I found it intriguing, but in my opinion unnecessary since there is already a quest arrow. But, I'm assuming one of my cousin's would have found this highly appreciated since she is still quite young. I do however like the fact that KI is finally adding some new nice touches to the game that was not there when we first registered going on two years now. What have you all noticed lately that wasn't there before?

Selena. Selena. Selena.

After all the Selena Questing, on the main account and then on my and Kai's second account, I am so sick and tired of that quest. Having to do all of wizard city on the second account.. its but drove me nuts to get there. I really thought KI fixed this issue with the servers but apparently not. Either make more servers, or fix them where its not like it is for millions of people who don't own new computers, or slow connections, or, by god, both. >.< Here's pictures with the rest of my main account characters finishing the Selena quest, minus Tristan since he was in my last post. From first from last here are the names of the characters. Suri, Alura, Mason, Calamity and Reed.