Nightshade pays off;

So, farmed like crazy as stated in a couple other posts, by myself, or Z, for a couple weeks straight actually. Here is all the drops I got, before I finally called it kaputs.


Halloween Robe (Female)


Ninja Pig Robe


Another Halloween Robe (Male)

Plain Pumpkin Mask (yes, this does drop from him)

Cyclops Pumpkin Mask


Pirate Pumpkin Mask


Happy Pumpkin Mask


Goofy Pumpkin Mask


Scary Pumpkin Mask


Silly Pumpkin Staff


Black CAT! I finally got it. :)

Sorry I don't have an actual screenie, but I had set the chars to hit and then walked away. I didn't know what I had got as a drop that round until it had already disappeared from the left side of the screen. I have named him Midnight.


An entire Army of Blue Banshee's and Midnight Sprites...
(Click picture to see the full picture..and not all of them are there.)

I actually put about 10 more of those pets on my death character to have for his graveyard. Spooooky. ;)

Now, this picture here, if you click it, it gets bigger..but it made me go, "wha??" When reading it. This is for the Master Crafter Badge quest. Any one know what "room" he happens to be talking about? I thought we were standing outside. ;)



Happy Wizarding Everyone!

PVP and Pet derby

For Kai and myself, last night we ventured into unknown territory. Mycin and Mason - The Ravenbloods found themselves in Unicorn way over toward Diego, and headed into the arena. We both vowed never really to get into PVP but, we decided to give it a try since we've only done it a few times in practice, never ranked until last night. We played five battles and we would have a perfect score if only it had not done what it did. Thus the reasoning behind this blog entry tonight.

For some reason, it was our third battle, and the game froze on my (Mason) client, allowing Mycin to be sucked into the battle yet, I was standing there on the side. I tried running in, more than once, but, it wouldn't allow me to do so. We're only level twenty on these sets of characters, so Mycin (Kai) would not have been able to battle the other two alone, especially since one of the opponents was well over 2k health. It would have been a disaster.

After those five battles and raising our rank to sergeants, we went over toward the pet derby area, since that was also something we have never done before, so Mason strapped on his best teen pet that he has, and we did a few races, but it took forever since for whatever reason it was having a lot of trouble 'confirming' after the race had all of its racers. Mainly came in third. Not really sure that we will continue this, but, we both seen a few things that we want to get with arena tickets just to have.

Anyone have this issue happen with you in the pvp arena? We're curious to know what your opinion is about this.

My thoughts on the change of Wild Bolt on Test

Personally, I think it should have been left alone. I agree, bolt was a problem in PVP, not denying that. However, I've been very strong minded when it comes to the point of, PVP and PVE should be separated. I don't PVP, nor would I ever want to. Especially not on my storm wizard. I've read enough of the crap that people say about Storm Wizards, and I'd rather just stay away.

I never used bolt, actually thought it was stupid. UNTIL, I reached some bosses in the latter part of DS/GH that I was forced to solo against, and I thought, hm, lets throw in a couple of these, just in case I need them.

Boy did they come in handy. They saved my life many times.

They've even saved my wizards life, as well as others when we were struggling to stay afloat. Yes, maybe we could have died, and then tried again, and kept tweaking our strategy to get it right.

HOWEVER, that wouldn't have been so possible for me. And it's not possible for a lot of people. Not every one has all day, every day, to be on practicing strategy. Not saying you do, not even saying every one does. Just saying, I don't have that time.

I have a total of two in game friends. That's it. Why? Well, because I have yet to find anyone willing to actually stray from their in game clique, to give someone outside a chance.

Unfortunate, but true. Why? No clue. Myself, as well as Kash have gone out of our ways to try and meet people, only to be ignored. So, we just ignore people back.

And no, this is still on topic. Because it's usually just my wizard, and Kash's wizard (if we're lucky, my sisters GM Theurgist when she has time to get online and play Wiz). As such, we don't always have easy battles against mobs and bosses.

Especially in Celestia. Countless times we have died, over and over. And many times we would have died had I not used a bolt, k/o'ing the remaining mob/boss before we had enough pips to heal with, as well as attack at the same time. 2 pips for 1000 damage, at 10% accuracy +15% from Grand Gear is worth the risk of losing pips (usually one power pip, rarely use it when it is two white pips, would rather heal if I could) as long as it will significantly do damage to the boss/mob before it does damage to us (myself more in particular).

I rarely use WB initially in the battle, only as a last resort, when it becomes obvious that it's do or die. Now, with the changes, it's not even worth it. I'd rather just die. And more than likely, I will be dying a lot more now. What good is hitting 1, 10, or even 100 when the boss/mob that is killing me, has 150+ health and one more hit from them on their next turn, even a hit that comes from a 3 pip spell could kill me?

At least with the former version of WB, if all I had was a powerpip, with wildbolt in my deck, I could use the WB, in hopes it hit. If it didn't hit, big deal, I can heal the next turn, as long as I survived whatever attack they threw my way. Now, with 85% chance of success, but 75% chance of it hitting 100 or below, what good is it to me when I am dying the next hit? Zero. None.

I really don't know what KI was thinking, but I'm really starting to get upset with all this PVP bickering. I agreed with the stun shields put up. I agreed with WB being unable to treasured. I feel/felt bad for those being made victim to immature bolters that had nothing better to throw than bolt first round. And every round after that. But, I personally think this is wrong. And I am going to stick to this opinion. It is, after all, mine.

I am staying off the boards with my opinion, because it really doesn't matter. I've seen people making the same points I've made in this here blog, only to be attacked by others who disagree. I am not asking for a debate. Nor will I participate in one. There are more things in life worth debating than a spell, in a game.

The game will definitely be more challenging, which is what a lot of people wanted. I dare all those people wanting a challenge to make a storm wizard, and try soloing through out the spiral, or just one friend to help, who can't heal minus the basic. Because that's how it's been for myself and Kash for the majority of the time. It took us months to finish Briskbreeze, because we couldn't find anyone willing to run it with us.

That is pretty much how it's going to be with Celestia most likely. But, I look forward to it never the less.

Happy Wizarding.

Addendum: The least they could have done was make the lowest card hit 250, being as our 2 pip spell hits roughly that at it's lowest. If they don't change it, then it's really not fair. Seeing as though Judgment can hit 200 with just two pips, and we're supposed to be the most powerful school hit wise.

Wizard Survey

Main Wizards Name: Kieran Storm

Main Wizards School: Storm, as if you couldn't tell :P

Main Wizards Level and Title: Level 50 Grandmaster

Main Wizards Best Friend(s): Tristan Sky and Grace Dreamhaven

Other Schools Trained: Life, and Balance

Favorite School in Ravenwood: Storm

Favorite Spell: Storm Lord

Favorite World: Marleybone (for the story and look)

Least Favorite World: Marleybone (for the lag)

Mount of Choice: Storm Shark, but since I don't have one, I use a black stallion

Pet Sidekick: Currently, Stormzilla. This might change though at some point.

Wand of Choice: Shockblade of the Hoarder

Most Feared Boss: Any storm boss right now in Celestia :/

Easiest Boss to Solo: Kraysys

Favorite Boss to Farm: For gold? Kraysys or the Ravens

Realm of Choice: Leprechaun because it's lucky ;)

Drops, Pets, Celestia, Hybrids and Spookiness,

This will be a blog full of screenies today. Lots of things to talk about. Starting off, I found an old photo I took while the Legend twins were questing and farming before they had hit grandmaster which was roughly a week ago. Which I'm extremely proud about since it was a very hard thing to do. Being a conjurer isn't the easiest class to pick. We came across another portrait of a professor. We've talked about this before, but, this is professor drake drop I received we believe from greystone in dragonspyre. I, personally still need a whole lot more professor portraits but, I'm sure eventually I'll come across them one by one. I'm still needing my stupid marleybone automobile, if it's even possible to get anymore as a drop.



Onto Celestia on the test realm. I'm beginning to really like Celestia from what I've actually played of it - which isn't much due to how many people are actually on there, and how bad it lags for us on this computer. While we were questing, reporting bugs and commenting to KI about such things, look at how well Tristan has learned to levitate above his turtle mount. Isn't that awesome? Kidding. But, seriously, what's up with the levitating high above the pets there? I remember seeing this during the Selena quest as well a few times. I have also came to love how the lobster mount acts the best, from the mounts that we've tested. Now, don't get me wrong, the turtle mount is cool, but, I think once Celestia is live, I will be getting a lobster if you can get it with gold.



Moving on. Pets and hybrids. Looky at what I got while farming at Nightshade? Kai and myself have been farming like mad to try and get this little fella for he and I. I seem to be the only one between us that has had the pleasure of obtaining him during the four days straight of farming just Nightshade. Seven days if you count the farming and the questing during that time. I'm sorry that he hasn't been able to get the cute little thing, but, I will personally continue to farm for him to get it, if he doesn't, since, he's not feeling all that well.



Here's my new hybrid hatches that I've gotten. Reed's Orthrus from finishing his Level 48 Conjurer quest, and Tristan's Hydra. It's a Cerberus, or however you spell it. It's pretty awesome if I do say so myself, but, I think I prefer Kai's Hybrid that he got with his Orthrus and Stormzilla. My hydra apparently doesn't like to breed, since I've hatch three times and only one time have I gotten an actual hybrid, but I don't mind the extra Orthrus'. Suri hatched with Adrian's Colossus and received an Ice Oni. I think I'll be giving it to my ice character Calamity, but I'm not completely sure yet since I think I might want to keep Oni's on Suri for one of her houses.




More on the farming sector from Halloween questing. We've done the Halloween quest on two character's each, and we plan on doing it on all six of our character's on our first account, no clue if we will do it on the second account or not this Halloween, since not really sure if I personally see a point to just yet. But, here are a few of the drops that I've gotten while farming at Nightshade. I'm missing a couple ninja pig costume pieces as screenies, as well as in my bag, no clue where they went. I might have accidentally sold them not meaning too. But, I'm not too keen on the ninja pig look anyhow. I had the shoes and the hat. Oh well.


Pirate pumpkin mask


Here's my plain pumpkin mask from finishing the quest.


Halloween hat. Looks like a skeleton for a boy.


Witch's broom wand. I actually like this.

Kai's already thinking about which two character's to start leveling up to grandmaster. We have three grandmaster's. With Celestia coming soon, I'm not really sure where I want to go next. I like crafting a lot so I'll probably continue in that route. We're still working on to getting to master artisan on Kieran and Tristan. He's thinking Aedan and Calamity to level up next I think but, I'm more leaning onto the Ravenbloods. I want to see where they go.

Now, I'll shut up but before I do I'm gonna ask this - Is there anything any of our readers want to know about wizard, or curious about? Ask away.

Hybrids Galore and a bit of a surprise!

So many successful attempts at hatching for hybrids! Very exciting. I still need to hatch Adrian's Ice Colossus with Suri's Helephant to get the Helephant version of the mix, but this is what I got on the first try. Cool, huh? He's awesome. Suri did however get the Ice Helephant thing, I can't remember the name. My bad, haha.



Two attempts with Ryan's Orthus and Kieran's Stormzilla, both a sucess! Mythzilla and Tempest Hound! So awesome! Very exciting. I'm waiting to hatch with Adrian's Colossus' and Ryan's Orthus' currently. I have enough gold, but I'm holding on to it in case Celestia goes live soon and the new mounts are available in gold, as well as crowns.



Yes, that is Kieran's Stormman in the background, lol.



Ryan, with the Tempest Hound. It is unbelievable. Loving the colors. Notice anything different about Ryan's look?? Yes, that's right, she hit GRANDMASTER three days ago! Woot! Lol. Both her and her twin brother reached the end of the line in the Crystal Grove, just like all their predecessors.

Kash and I need to work on Aedan and Calamity's characters, as well as The Ravenbloods, and then of course the lowly Fallon and Alura, however, we're too busy farming for the Black cat. [[Spoiler alert]] Kash on Reed, got this pet dropped a couple of days ago! Shhh, act surprised when and if he finally decides to post on it. ;)

This is all for now, I have more to post on but I will wait until another day.

Happy Wizarding!

Epic Fail!

After all this time and money...my first crafted cloak has disappeared from my bank. Yet, I still have stuff in there that overflew from my back pack from farming Nightshade last week?? It was there last night, I made sure. I craft my second piece tonight, go to take the first out, and it no longer exists?! Anywhere on my account.

I, am devastated.

Master Crafter Badge; Will I EVER get it?

I am going absolutely mad running around Mooshu in search of Black Lotus' to then transmute in to Black pearls! It takes 15 black lotus' to make 1 black pearl. That is nuts! This has been taking me months, and its going to take me months more before I actually finish all that is required to make it to Master Crafter. Should KI lighten up the amount of reagents needed to craft the pieces? IMHO, yes. It's not that easy for all of us to run around hours on end searching for these things.



And the bazaar rarely has a few if any to buy. And I just got pulled in for the 6th time since trying to run around the cave of solitude. I read on the central that this is a good place to find all these darn lotus' so I thought I would try it out. Although, come to think of it, it's been an hour since I tried this so called hot spot, and I've only found 3 lotus' and one pearl. Oh, we can't forget the six, oh crap, wait, seven battles I've found as well.

I think I'm heading back to my favorite lotus' spot. After all I managed to find about 50 in an hour just before heading over here. In case you guys have a hard time finding lotus' as per Fawne's guide found here, on the central, try this one that I've got mapped out. Click on the pics to make them larger if you want. But mainly you start out in the Jade palace, and then head to the right and towards Yoshohito Temple.



Once inside, you follow the trail to the pagoda thing in the center and then towards the left, to the Ancient Burial Grounds.



Once here you run up and all the way to the left, and in the culdisac there will be a teleport stone. Use it and then once there, use the fish teleport stone to get where you need to go for the lotus' I shall call Lotus Lane. Lol.



Now, it's a straight and narrow, with four different spawn points. They are marked by the x's and there is two on each end. Sometimes I've gotten lucky getting a lotus' flower at all four, but usually I get one to two active spawn points. Which, that alone is a lot when added up. Especially when they give two lotus' each or more, including a pearl here and there. Just keep changing realms and eventually you'll have a decent amount.

Happy Hunting!

Turtle mount, new pet drops

After doing the Halloween quests that just recently came out, Kai and myself have been farming Nightshade over and over trying to get the black cat so we don't have to buy it with crowns. We've gotten a few other Halloween drops, but, not the cat. We're going to keep trying for it until we get it, but, we both finally got the greater imp which we both needed, as well as a few extra blue banshee's and midnight sprites.



Here's a random pet that I finally got one of while farming.



And, while we haven't been able to do much of Celestia on the test realm due to how many people are on there on a daily basis, and the fact that there aren't that many realms, its almost impossible for us to do it. What we have done has been really hard, but we have taken advantage of the over abundance of crowns on there. I bought the turtle, but the reasoning for this screenie is if you look closely, he's smiling. He's apparently very happy to be in Celestia, don't you think?

Halloween around the Spiral

AHHH! Lol, ghosts ghosts, where ever you are! Ghosts have invaded Wizard City with the upcoming holiday of Hallows Eve. Love Hallows Eve, one of my favorite holidays, if not my absolute favorite. Why? Well, I'll tell you it's not because of candy, or dressing up. :)

I'm really enjoying the festivities in game, and farming is an absolute must if I don't want to spend crowns. Especially since I don't have a whole lot to begin with. So far, I've recieved the Greater Imp, from Mordecai, a Happy Pumpkin Head from Nightshade. Trying to get the black cat! Kash has gotten Ninja pig shoes from Nightshade so far too. But, we've only spent an hour farming him. Well, back to more farming.



Happy Holidays 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?

Frostzilla!

Yay, I finally got my Frostzilla. After about 7 tries, I got it. Woot. Go me. In the process I managed to get the Stormwarden, three Stormzillas, and two new Ice Colossus' lol.



I still need to level up Ryan's Orthus, and then I can start hatching using Orthus and Stormzilla to see if I can get the hybrids. I'm excited. Kash and I are also going to start hatching using our hybrids, to get each others hybrids. Since, I want the Levithian/Creeper/Helion recieved from Hydra. Especially since it is going to be a long while before Fallon has her Hydra, lol.

Happy Wizarding!

Battle Celestia!

Just felt like making a post today, about some of the battling and what not Kieran and Tristan have been undergoing. We've only played on the test realm a total of 3 hours give or take an hour, due to the fact that it severely slows our computer down with the small amount of realms available, and the massive amount of players at any given time trying to access the server.

Just for fun, I also tried on a new color/look. I'm not sure what I like better. The normal dark purple, with yellow trim or the aqua blue with orange trim. What do you think? Oh, and totally living a dream with having the shark mount on the test, as well as having an epic storm hound.

Fatesealer

So, I managed to get a Fatesealer last week. Never got around to taking a picture however, but I did today, after playing on the test realm for some time. As you all should know by now, Celestia is on the TEST REALM!! Lol. Woot. Problem is, it's really hard for Kash and I to get around the test, what with all the millions of people trying to get on, or already on, and only four realms.


(Click the pic to make it larger)

But, so far so good. It is definitely not what I was expecting, nor are the new schools of magic. I am undecided on how I feel about them even. Only time will tell, and it still wont be until later on that I am able to tell how I feel about it. I really really want a pumpkin head, and I really really really want a black cat! I shall name it Sheer, and I'm sure Kash shall name his Shade. ;)

Despite, we can't name them that for real in game. Pitty. I know.

Haha, just thought, Sheer Ibenre, and Shade Sarayi.

Anyways...on to pictures!


(A lost LOUNGING LIZARD! Resembles those salamanders, don'cha think?)


(Tristan on the Left, Kieran on the Right. We thought the Lobsters best fit when not in water)

Oh, and Ryan and Reed got their Orthrus'!

Hydras

After a few hatching tries with Kai's Ice character's Colossus, and my fire character's Helephant, I finally have two more hydra hybrids that I had been wanting for my balance house. I'm excited, although I'm not really sure about why KI named the ice hydra hybrid creeper, while the others are leviathan and helion. That name just does not fit in my opinion.





Now that I have the elemental hydra's, now I need to try and get the seraph, wraith, and the myth one for my balance house. Alittle disappointed that they won't look like hydra's but, oh well. I also want hybrids that look like golem's I think they are called. The colossus looking pets. At least for Tristan's house.

As Kieran and Tristan, we have been farming for our level fifty gear sets for all of our character's. We were at Kraysys for days, and now that we are finished with that, we have moved on to Spiderkeeper, and we will probably be there for a while, because, we've already done it a couple of days and we've gotten nothing. I think that I might move to snowcrusher instead, but, we've got to do spiderkeeper eventually. Anyone else have a hard time with her?

Level 48; and a new Hybrid for me :)

So, we have managed to get the Legends to level 48. Have not gone in to the labyrnth however to finish the quests. Instead, Kash and I have been on Kieran and Tristan, farming Kraysys back to back. For what you might ask? (Since they both have all their level 50 gear already..) Well, for more level 50 gear. We are trying to have three of each set, so that we may make stitches of our level 50 gear.

In total, we have earned well over 200k in gold farming him, and we still are needing one more set of myth shoes on Kash, and I think (but not positive, because I think I got it the last time we battled) balances hat from him. He's actually incredibly easy. We each only have about 4 spells in our deck, and he's k/o'd by turn 6 at the least. One hit kills both minion and boss. Gotta love being a Diviner, eh?

In this picture below, the Legends are fighting the Sea Lord, however, this was not the reason for the pic. It was the Fatezilla and Stormzilla in the battle below that caught my attention. Look at the size of those pets. Bajeebas! Lol. Now that, is scary.



On to other news, hatching has been a success. I managed to hatch a Stormwarden yesterday. Already working towards leveling this beast up. Love him. I think I am going to be playing with him by my side more than I do Zeus. Though, I will miss him terribly, I look forward to having Jackson at my side. That is, if he manifests Pips O Plenty, which is something my Stormzilla has yet to manifest.



Don't know if he ever will. So far, all of his babies haven't manifested it, and all are adults minus Jackson now. Was kind of surprised by what Miss Shadow, Zeus' stormzilla daughter manifested. She managed to manifest Snow Ward. She 'may' cast this in battle. I have absolutely NO idea what this is. I find it odd, being as she is a Stormzilla, that she learned this. HOWEVER, it could make sense, seeing as though her other parent is Tyson, Adrian's Ice Colossus.

Who is also the other parent to Jackson. The first try was a no-go for a hybrid, second time, a success. Though, I was wanting an icezilla, I am happy with my stormwarden. :D At the moment, I am getting ready to hatch with Kash's Hydra, on Kieran, using Tyson, Adrian's ice colossus. Since, he is the one with the money. After this attempt however, I'm most likely going to put both Tyson and Miss Shadow back on Adrian.

Unfortuntely for him, he is getting yet another Hydra. :/ I don't know what mine is yet, I'm checking as I type this, lol. I think I got another Ice Colossus pet out of the deal too. Which, is still pretty cool imo. It says Ice School only, so I can only assume that is what it is. Which, is odd, since I thought that you could only hatch a pet that you could equip.

Oh well, maybe next time. I'm not really sure what Hydra and Ice Colossus make, other than the ice hydra (name escapes me atm) but I'm wanting both. Kash is trying for the ice hydra, since he has both storm and fire already.

Well, this medicine I'm taking makes me real tired, so I'm going to head back to bed.

Peace and Happy Wizarding everyone!