Fire Minion for Bailey

Yesterday I got a call at work. I was busily editing documents and collecting pictures of people's pets for my local newsletter.

*I pick up the phone and answer*

"Hi, yes, I have a question for the Friendly Necromancer?"

LOL. wife. So funny.

You see, the baby had gone down for a nap and she was working on a new spell quest for Bailey. Bailey and Molly are to the Ironworks part of Marleybone now, but Bailey just barely turned 28th and got her Burning Books spell quest. What had happened was she got lost in quest text, clicked something, and lost her quest arrow to take her to the right spot.

I directed her to Wikia, which is incredibly slow lately, and her fire spells quest page . . . and then Kyle begged mom to get off the computer so he could play Spore.

This morning, however, diapermancer had woken her up and she came in to find me playing before work here. So, I loaded up Bailey and finished up the quest while she watched. Wouldn't it be nice to have the Friendly Necromancer be your husband and help you with your quests?

Mr. Incinerator at the end of her quest was a little tough, but Bailey and Molly made short work of him.



Bailey got her book that Anna Flamewright had stolen or lost or whathaveyou (I wasn't watching for that part of the quest)



And Falmea was overjoyed to see her book again!



So much so that she gave Bailey a new wonder friend to activate in battle.



Yup, now Bailey and Molly can call up their minions to do their dirty work while they do their nails. Life is good.

Happy Dueling!

How Can I Get an Earthquake Treasure Card for Crafting?

Tyler Jadeblade has a doozy of a question:

Hey Friendly!

Have I got a question for you! I am in the need of 8 earthquake treasure cards, the bazaar hardly has them, so to get to the question do you know a boss which drops earthquake treasure cards?

Ok, I'm going to assume this is for crafting something because if it wasn't, the easiest solution is player-made earthquake cards through an applied tough card. BUT, if this *is* for crafting, then, yup, I can see your problem because the usual earthquake+tough card treasure cards DO NOT work for crafting receipes.

The only cards that do work for crafting are the ones you craft through the school trees, drop from a boss, or that you get from the Eye of Bartleby or Marvelous Minions crowns card packs.

Here's the receipe for Earthquake cards through Ivan.


The Humongofrog component is available through the library, but that minotaur card presents a problem, yeah here's the minotaur card receipe as well.


And, you'll need to track down a Master Craftsman that's a Myth wizard to make those of course . . . any takers? Well, I'm going to guess that the best place to work out a trade or make a request would be over here on Wizard101 Central in their crafting forum. I'd be careful though, you really have to watch those percentages and damage numbers when making a trade to make sure someone didn't just apply a tough card to an earthquake spell and tried to pass it off as a true crafted treasure card.

cripes, I feel for you Tyler.

To answer your question directly . . . The only boss that Wikia lists as dropping Earthquake treasure cards is the Jade Oni. But, have I ever seen that happen? Um. No. Best of luck with that. You may also want to try the Dragonspyre myth bosses that cast the earthquake spell as well.

/shiver

Happy Dueling!

Nelson Everhart Takes On Project Monster!

Hey all,

So you know I'm a total fanboi for Nelson Everhart, the composer of the Wizard101 music, right?

I talked to Nelson today over e-mail, and he told me that he's been composing again, not only has he been working on a Christmas CD project, but more recently he's taken on music composition for a new Nintendo DS game: Project Monster.

Project Monster comes from the same people that developed Henry Hatsworth.

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These same people are now working under the company name of DreamRift! If you go to their website, the main link they give is to this IGN pre-review of the currently unreleased Project Monster DS game.

Here's a quick quote from that IGN review:

"Your lead character (Ellie) discovers a magical monster by the name of Chomp, and like Hatsworth the entire game is played in tandem between classic Mega Man, Mario, and even Metroid-inspired gameplay while adding in a whole monster raising system as well. The concept was shown off in its preliminary form during the demo I played, with the ability to call in Chomp to put up defensive shields on the playfield, swoop in and attack enemies above and below Ellie with a ranged stretch attack, and even act as a trampoline for her to double jump all over the level. The more damage Chomp takes, the sooner he'll have to retreat back down to the bottom screen and take a rest. Items can be tossed down, which works into the whole monster customization system."

Nelson added a little bit about it in his e-mail to me as well:

"The game plays really well for being so early in development. The ability to train your monster and have him help you is a pretty neat mechanic. I played it with my nephew, and he kicked my butt . . ."

haha!

I'm excited to play (and more importantly hear) this game. I know a lot of Wizard101 players wish that they could train up their pets while undergoing gameplay. Could you imagine if playing mini-games in Wizard101 would also evolve your pet? Awesome.

Maybe this game will be something some of you might enjoy in the future.

Thanks for sharing, Nelson, and best of luck to DreamRift and Project Monster!

Happy Dueling!

Themed houses are going in this month!

I was slumming around in Twitter when I saw Diary of a Wizard link to this month’s Ravenwood newsletter.  Wow!  Thanks for the scoop!  Sure enough there’s a huge announcement about the new themed houses, and it says they’ll even be going live this month through the crown shop in game with a steep price tag of 100,000 gold or 10,000 crowns.

Best of luck farming up gold for your new school-themed house!  OYOTOMI and RAVENS FEAR OUR FARMING POWERS!

;-)

(p.s. I’ll try to improve the quality of those pictures when I get home . . . those are the best I could conjure up with my phone for the moment)

Happy Dueling!

Why is there no balance shield or balance prism?

Our esteemed Cassandra has a conundrum for us today!

Hello again, my famous friendly friend.
I have been wondering this for some time.
In the Balance school info, they say that balance has a bit of every spell.
Except...
A balance Shield(80% less balance damage) and a balance prism
Why do you think that is so?

Thanks for answering!
C.G

Ahhh, I see what you're getting at. All the other classes get to rub shoulders with good ol' Sabrina Greenstar, sitting there all smug with her awesome level 45 Dragonspyre staff, but not you.


There's just no balance love from Sabrina, is there? Nope.

And prisms? No wai! Alzahred thinks not.


(And he thinks not in purple word balloons, that's awesome!)

But you want to know why? Why? *head explodes* That's like Dexter being asked What's the Purpose of Meaning!



However, I would like to believe that Kingisle built this unresistable class with the future in mind. Perhaps there is more than just weakness and tower shield in your future, fine balance wizard friends. Perhaps somewhere down the road a new class would be instituted in the game that was the opposite of balance! As Sierra coins in the comments there (which is much better than my big word I use): Chaos magic! *A million 1v1 balance pvp'ers are heard screaming in the distance NOOoooooooo!* MUHAHAHA . . . your reign of terror would then be over balance wizards!!! MUAHAHAHAHA.

But really, I have no idea.

Happy Dueling!

Housing Item of the Day--Painted Bowl

I decided today that I need to catch Myrna up to my wife's character, Iridian, since that sneaky Iridian is in Marleybone now. So that means a lot of quick killing with the Myrna and Kyle team. As of today's efforts, Myrna is now in the Temple of Storms!

On her way through the Emperor's Retreat, Myrna picked up a great little bowl from Prince Kebi Sokkwi. It's today's item of the day!


Doesn't it go great on her table there? Attractive hieroglyphics adorning its rim, this piece is sure to create the comment, "nice bowl" from your friends.

Happy Dueling!

Amber got her robe AND a fog unicorn pet!

Hurray!

Amber finally got her robe from Malistaire!


. . . Although I'm embarrassed to say that I threw in a few crowns on the second chance chest to get it. Still, I have defeated Malistaire countless times to get Amber that robe and never got it. So, HURRAY SECOND CHANCE CHEST! Amber finally got her robe!


Also, I got a copy of the Fun Online Games magazine and the wonderfully awesome Fog unicorn pet. I plunked my Fog unicorn pet code into Wizard101 and boom there it was. You want to know the code? Sorry, I can't give it to you because it's a one use only code. It wouldn't work anyway.

Amber was the first person to ask me if she could have the pet. I could tell that she really wanted this unicorn, so I gave it to her.



The pet comes with a card of darkwind, so it's a good one that emphasizes her secondary class choice of storm.

I'm liking this Fun Online Games magazine. It has all kinds of cool stuff in it. It talks a TON about webkins, but it also talks about Club Penguin, Toon Town, Freaky Creatures, Nanovor, Moshi Monsters, Free Realms, Neopets, and some others.

At some point in the future I need to write a little bit more about Freaky Creatures and Nanovor.

Anyway, gratz on all the new stuff, Amber!

Happy Dueling!