We've run out of time for contests, but we'd love to raffle off these prizes (courtesy of KingsIsle Entertainment) to the readers of the Friendly Necromancer:
- 10 Death Houses (+ and additional castle elixir)
- 20 Decorating Packs full of Halloween stand-ups and pumpkins
- 20 5,000 Crown gifts
Wow, that's a lot of prizes! Best of luck, friends!
So here's how you enter . . . back in 2008, I asked a question to my much smaller audience and received no answers. Go see the post for yourself.
So here's the question again: Which is spookier, me with my Baby Abbey Krokomummy Pet or the ghoul stand-up, Mr. Slim Shady?
Time to get those test realm game launchers running!
That's right, Azteca was announced today to be KingsIsle's next big addition to Wizard101. Massively and MMORPG.com both had great articles today. You should read those ASAP! (You know . . . while you're downloading the test realm.)
HAHA! I remember when I first heard the word "Azteca" a few months ago, and I had to bite my lip the moment I heard about it. I wasn't even near a computer, and I was tying my fingers in knots. Finally I can at least type the word "Azteca." Whew. That's a load off my shoulders.
After you're done reading the Massively and MMORPG.com articles about Azteca, you should definitely head over to the Update Notes and check out all the changes incoming to the game. Just to give you a quick rundown of the highlights, here you go:
- Level 90.
- Two more training points.
- Rank 10 damage spells.
- New Astral spells.
- New combat tutorials from everyone's favorite Valencian.
- Transcendent crafting levels.
- And a few other needed changes.
Well, looks like my test realm game launcher is ready to go! I'll see you in Azteca!
Continuing with the Halloween fun, we have another contest to run. yay!
Here's what ya' gotta do. So there are three ways you can put on a cool costume in Wizard101: Polymorphs, Transformations, or use your imagination with a cool outfit or costume in game. Take a screenshot of yourself using one of these three methods to put on your Wizard101 Costume with a Halloween greeting to the readers of the Friendly Necromancer. We'll raffle all entries we receive and post the winners' greetings on the blog for all to enjoy!
Here's an example from the Friendlies to all of you!
It's that easy. Please send your entries to thefriendlynecromancer@gmail.com by Midnight US Central time on Thursday, October 18th 2012. We'll post the winners on Friday, Ocotober 19th. Entries in this contest have a chance to win a Graveyard Pack with cool Graveyard-themed housing items.
All entries will be deleted after the contest. If you're 13 or under, please get your parents to help you with your entry.
Uber Wife, Friendly, Diaperzilla, Amber, and Kyle went trick or treating together. They each wore a different costume (Malistaire, a Pirate, Morganthe, a Stormzilla, and a Raven). At the end of the day, each of them counted the number of pieces of candy they collected. They each collected a different amount of candy (63, 77, 83, 54, and 84 pieces).
Using the hints below, figure out the costume worn by each member of Team Friendly and the amount of candy each person collected.
1. Uber Wife was not a Raven.
2. The girls' (Uber Wife and Amber) costumes included a Raven and Morganthe.
3. Friendly and Diaperzilla collected a total of 161 pieces of candy.
4. Malistaire collected 77 pieces of candy.
5. A Raven collected 83 pieces of candy.
6. Friendly and Kyle collected a total of 140 pieces of candy.
7. The Stormzilla collected the most pieces of candy.
Fill out the blanks below and send us an email (if you’re 13 or under, get help from an adult) with the answers to thefriendlynecromancer@gmail.com to be entered to win one of our exclusive Halloween party packs from KingsIsle!
Uber Wife was ___________ and collected _______ pieces of candy.
Friendly was ___________ and collected _______ pieces of candy.
Diaperzilla was ___________ and collected _______ pieces of candy.
Amber was ___________ and collected _______ pieces of candy.
Kyle was ___________ and collected _______ pieces of candy.
In one week, we will raffle off winners from all the correct entries received, and all email will be deleted after the contest.
Last weekend I had a pretty humiliating string of defeats against Malistaire with Angus. This weekend? *wipes hands clean* Here's your video proof:
This was Angus's winning deck against Malistaire:
Doesn't seem like much, does it? It's not. It made for a long drawn out hour and 20 minute long fight. (Much different than playing Kyle, my son's storm wizzie, in a full group where the whole thing wraps up in a few rounds LOL)
Here was the basic strategy I had to pull off to win against Malistaire with Angus:
1- The first thing that needed to happen was a lucky two strikes of Insane Bolt treasure cards to take care of two of Malistaire's minions. Why not three Friendly? Hey, it's hard enough getting two lucky strikes of Insane Bolt out in a row as it is! I probably could have pushed my luck and swapped out one of the minion cards for an Insane Bolt card, but knowing the way the Damage flies out of Malistaire, I kind of figured I'd need an extra minion card. And at 2,000 gold a piece, Insane Bolt cards could have made me run into a monetary wall pretty fast.
2- The next thing that NEEDED to happen was to get my storm minion up and taunting, then do my best to dance a line between protecting the minion and taking out Malistaire's final minion. As you can see from the video it was a difficult dance, and though I took out Malistaire's buddy, he also took out mine. Good thing I had a back up minion card, eh? SMARTZ!!1!
3- Treasure card of Darkwind was definitely the most economical way to get a boost to my damage for the entire fight. What you don't see from this video is . . . the failed attempt against Malistaire that happened right before where I made a lame decision to use Supercharge instead of Darkwind and a regular Stormblade and RAN OUT OF MANA! I definitely had to play more economically than say someone sporting 400 mana. Yup.
4- Shield, shield, shield, and shield some more. I cannot say how important it was to cast every single shield in my deck before Reshuffle. The easiest way to play these was to cast all of the 80% Death Shields on myself and all of the 70% death shields from Life School's Legend Shield card on my minion.
5- One more fizzle and a bad roll on the damage output of Triton, and I would have been toast. It was incredibly close and intense, and I liked that. :) It made the victory all the finer. I think Uber Wife was pretty done with me as I screamed at the top of my lungs a few times, NO I FIZZLED! or TAUNT ALREADY! or GET ME SOME CHICKEN! Ok, I never yelled get me some chicken.
So, there you have it. The big long drawn out story of Angus that started out in December of 2010 has finally (sort of) come to a conclusion. Quoting that original post, "He hopes to see you in Celestia . . . with nothing but the robe on his back, hopefully, soloing the majority of the way--no outside help from other characters or anything." For me that's mission accomplished, he's in Celestia.
I HIGHLY doubt Angus will survive too long in Celestia . . . the whole world is one giant gear check with crit gear and enemies beginning fights with a slew of power pips . . . and not to mention the cheating bosses, but HEY, how about those cheating bosses? Although I really was just aiming to beat Dragonspyre, my plan has always been to test out the limits of Moon Magic and Star Magic here since MOST of the Polymorphs have built in statistics like Crit Block and resistance and the Auras are helpful, but I guess time will tell!
