I have a great question from Elizabeth. She asks this:
"how do you log into your second wizard 101 account."
Great question, and it's really quite simple. There are actually two parts to running Wizard101. You first run the "game launcher," which is the little window showing RavenWood News and has a place to log in.
This is the game launcher
When the bars have finished loading, you press the red "Play!" button, and this closes the launcher and opens the actual Wizard101 program. (You know, where you see your wizards sitting at their desks.)
If you try to run two Wizard101 Game Launchers at the same time, you'll get the message "Wizard101 is already running on your computer" and it won't let you start. So what you need to do is let the Game Launcher complete, close, and bring up the actual Wizard101 program, and then you can run the Game Launcher again!
This time you'll enter your second account information into the Game Launcher and wait for it to load.
I actually own about five or six accounts myself and occasionally (although it is rare these days) will set the game resolution down to 800x600 and run four accounts at once using this method.
"Do you know what the beanie is called from christmas? ive
been looking for the name everywhere and just cant find it."
I do! Um, or at least I think I do. Those beanies come from the Winterland Pack and are the hairstyles (which you can stitch to hats) known as The Fakie Ollie and The Halfpipe.
OH YEAH! I kind of dig that look while riding the Road Warrior's Chopper! Although some kind of snowboard mount would be amazing.
Great choice of hat there. Probably Christmas in July is what recently brought these hats to your attention, amiright? They're a pretty great looking for sure.
Thanks for the question, Big Goof! If that isn't the hat you're looking for, leave me a comment with more description, and I'll see if I can track it down.
So, I've fallen into a bit of a gaming slump lately.
I'm at the final battle for Kane in Valencia 2, and I just need to find some time and mental space to give it a shot.
Morgrim and I have only been playing Wizard101 every other week lately.
I'm stuck in Terraria, so I'm a bit stand offish from it right now
Pokemon Go won't work on my phone.
I'm too poor to go buy a new game.
D&D play is a special occasion.
I'm on a hiatus from my Sunday night game group.
I'm also on a hiatus from DDO -- kinda got bored there.
All the other hundreds of games or so in my collection just aren't calling to me.
Where does that leave me? That leaves me stumbling through the free to play games on Steam, where I found a ninja pig of a different bacon: Iron Snout.
HIYA! (I'm pretty sure that's ketchup on the ground there)
So you're a pig with some pretty sweet ninja skills. You've got low kicks, high kicks, double flips . . . you can cut off the heads of your enemies and then use them as projectile weapons . . . but you aren't much for moving around or being stealthy. No, you're a pig, in the middle of the screen, and this horde of wolves have you marked as enemy number one.
COME AT ME BRO . . . and, yes, they'll come at you wielding axes, cleavers, rockets, chainsaws, and baskets of baked goods . . . and I'm sure as you survive longer, they'll have other nefarious ways to try and take you down.
I wouldn't say this is the most enlightening of game experiences I've ever had, nor the most fun, but when it comes to filling the void . . . thank you Iron Snout!
It even comes with a two-player mode where you can bounce a ball at a pig-friend and try to score points by getting the ball past them air-hockey-style with no animated violence whatsoever! I'm not going to say I beat my kids 2 games out of 3, but . . . ok, I already said it.
If you give Iron Snout a shot or are already familiar with this mayhem, gimme a shout in the comments below with your high score! I just happened to score this . . .
It's a good number, and I got an achievement! (Look at those stupid chuckling wolves.)
I'm very late to the party. Terraria has been around since 2011, and I'm just barely getting to it, but let's just say it kind of consumed the past couple weeks of my life, and I had a blast playing it, which is surprising since upon first play a year ago when I won the game from participating in Blaugust, I wasn't initially all that impressed.
My little town
Terraria had been sitting on my desktop this whole time, and I thought . . . you know what? I'm giving it a fair handshake because I made the mistake as discounting it as a 2D Minecraft, which apparently is a common misconception, and I didn't see the attraction.
There are plenty of reviews online that talk about how Terraria isn't just a 2D Minecraft, so I probably don't need to go into the details too much, but I think it's best summed up by a review from Fuzzbot I saw in Steam on the game:
Itsa economic class-building sandbox rogue-like sword-fighting spell-casting survival exploration 2d hardmode RPG Shoot-And-Hoard-Loot Griefing Multiplayer Clickfest crafting game that ISN'T a Minecraft clone.
Just buy it. What ELSE do you want? A SEQUEL!?
Well, its apparently getting that, too.
10/10, would waste time googling adjectives and taking adjectives from the comment section again."
That's possibly the greatest review ever written because the game plays like that. You start to play the game and once you get beyond the "sandbox" "2D" "RPG" "Shooter" aspect of the game, you're good to go and the layers keep peeling back.
If I was to mashup games to tell you what it feels like to me, it'd be this
All games that I've thoroughly enjoyed in my life.
Now . . . all that said, I'm kind of to the point in the game where I've crafted some pretty awesome armor, have fairy wings to fly, have an amazing yo-yo of death, a stockpile of potions, a town full of helpful NPCs, and to progress further into the game I have to kill three bosses that randomly appear, but only at nighttime . . . and I'm stuck.
The hardmode bosses kick my butt, and I'm imagining I have to either sync up and actually play the game with friends to progress or really learn how to avoid taking damage from the bosses (either by bashing my head against it several more times or watching a few spoilery YouTube videos).
If you've got $10 to spare or happen to find Terraria for sale on the Steam store, I'd recommend giving it a go, but when you do . . . just know you may need to give it some time until the layers of the game start to peel back and reveal itself.
Let me know when you've beat the Wall of Flesh! Two words . . . water bolt. ;)
Thank you all for joining me with a week of blogging. I finished up my week's worth of blog posts yesterday, and I'm quite happy I joined in Emy's fun!
Included in that recap is a challenge to participate in another week of blogging sometime in the December 2016 time frame . . . I'm game! (Emy, you will certainly need to remind me of this and chastise me if I say I can't join in when you do this again.)
I think my favorite moment of this challenge was not the daily activity of thinking, "what's on my mind today, and can I smoosh that out into a meaningful blog post," (that was a close second), but actually spending some time getting lost into Emy's YouTube channel in the process. Watching her translate her adorable dog's barks was hilarious, and the Christmas videos were very heartwarming.
Emy, if you're reading . . . you really should do more videos. You've got a knack at that. :)
Hopefully the benefit for you all was catching up with me and seeing where my brain is at when I'm not thinking about KingsIsle all the time. (Ok, let's be honest . . . I really am thinking about KingsIsle 90 percent of the time . . . it's hard not to get sucked in when you're checking forums and getting pinged on Twitter every day about something.)
Consider this an invitation to join in for anyone that reads this blog . . . with any luck we'll have a little more warning next time to plan, and if that's the case, I'll be making a post to declare my intentions to POST POST AND POST SOME MORE during that week!
Along those lines . . . I don't know if Belghast has intentions to run another Blaugust this year, but if he does . . . you should all consider joining in that as well. A week of blogging is fun, but a whole month of blogging is truly an exercise and could be rewarding too. Last year I won a copy of Terraria for participating (which reminds me . . . I still need to write about that game hehe)
(continuing along with the #OneWeekDailyBlogging challenge from Emy . . .)
Hello dungeons delvers!
I've played a bit of D&D before in my life and especially when I was a kid. When I close my eyes and think about playing D&D in the past I remember three locations.
- A guy's kitchen that was about two blocks from my best friend's house
- A guy's basement bedroom that was across the street from my best friend's house
- In the room of the brother of a friend's house.
We were such nerds about D&D, and I'm sure those rooms smelled of sweaty socks and Doritos. I think this was right around the time that Atari was taking off, but besides Atari, this was the LIFE! The smell didn't even matter y'all . . . we were gettin' our fantasy fix and slaying hordes of orcs and other crazy things. YARRR! *insert the sound of rolling dice*
"Eventually when I was in my early 20's I was without a job living in the upstairs apartment of a guitarist that I use to play drums for. It was kind of a sad and very poor time in my life. Well, I traded all my early editions of my D&D books to him in exchange for rent for a month. That was the Monster Manual, the Dungeon Master's Guide, The Players Handbook, Dieties and Demi-Gods, the Monster Manual II, and a really super rare book of traps. By that time I hadn't played the game for a few years, so they didn't really matter to me. But now . . . now . . . I kind of wish I had them again just to take a look at them and laugh a bit at a few memories I had with my friends as we played that game."
A few years ago, I picked up the Red Box basic D&D set again (edition 4 apparently) because my daughter was wanting to play, so I got the box and gave it a shot. It was a struggle for us and my DM skills were incredibly rusty. I continually had to stop gameplay and check rules and scratch my head. I think the experience turned her off to the game . . . but she wanted to go crazy anyway with making a character that was half unicorn and shot rainbows of death out of its butt or something like that, and I just wasn't prepared to bend the rules because I didn't even know the rules to begin with. It was a struggle.
Now, people at work play pen and paper D&D on lunch break all the time at KingsIsle, but I never really got involved much until . . . something I can't talk about . . . sorry, the first rule about D&D Fight Club is that there is no D&D Fight Club. Now who's the rule breaker?!
D&D fight club is DM'd by the one and only Jeff Toney! Basically two people go against each other, you start at level 3, and when one player wins, they advance to the next level in one fell swoop. If you lose . . . well, it used to be permadeath for your character, but it felt a bit punishing when you'd get up to 4th or 5th level and then have to start all over. Now the rules are that when you die, you lose one item to the other player, get 200 gold and keep your level. Currently, my druid is a nice stepping stone to pass better players on to 6th level where you can purchase magic items and start the potion meta-game. I figure I have enough gold built up from defeat I might be able to buy something amazing, which will probably be stolen by another player . . .
Let me cut to the chase by saying IT'S FUN! It's fun and it's gotten me back into D&D a bit. Jeff is even DM'ing a game for me, my kids, and his daughter on the side every other week or so, and it's been pretty awesome. I can safely blame Jeff for getting me back into D&D.
At work I'm now playing a game where on Thursdays at lunch, Blind Mew himself is the DM guiding a group of us through an adventure! (And can I just say it was pretty awesome to be part of a jail break in yesterday's session?)
Tomorrow is another Jeff Toney hosted D&D session for my family, and I can't wait to continue on our journey. Seeing as my kids are involved, it's a bit crazy and Jeff is more than prepared to handle my kids' creative minds. Hopefully when they look back at their D&D experience, they'll find it has a better smell to it than sweaty socks and Doritos . . . it's been upgraded to scented room fresheners and usually pizza, cookies, and sodas . . . complete with colorful characters hand-drawn by Jeff Toney himself.
(continuing along with the #OneWeekDailyBlogging challenge from Emy . . .)
My wife the other day asked me to help her load up Neverwinter on the computer, which is strange.
Because here's the deal. Back in 2014 I was on a crusade to get my family playing Neverwinter. I even managed to coordinate a moment where my daughter, Uber Wife, and I were playing in the same group. This, like, never happens anymore. After that one experience, my family dumped the game. *cries*
Oh well, I'm sure one of Uber Wife's Internet buddies convinced her to download it, and as it turns out the game was crashing on her during mid-load with a nasty "graphicalclient.exe error." Basically I had to run the launcher in Safe-Mode and then everything seemed to work.
I even logged in for a second and checked out my super sexy cleric, Dr. PhilGood. Don't remember him?
Now you do!
Of course the first thing I wanted to do when I was back online was revisit my dungeon that I spent all that time crafting in the Foundry system, because . . . 1- I missed it and 2- let's be honest, Neverwinter has the best UGC (User Generated Content) system out there, right?! Honestly it was my favorite thing about the game.
. . . "was" my favorite thing about the game. The foundry system and all the quests that went with it were nowhere to be found. *GASP*
And apparently I was late to the party to know about this as I took to an Internet search:
The Foundry wiki states it "disappeared from the game" several months ago.
The Neverwinter uncensored blog had a quote from a Dev that said they were looking at several frustrating bugs with the foundry system, but also gave a very telling couple of sentences: ". . . the more power you give authors in creating user generated content, the more likely some are going to abuse that power. But the less power you give authors, the less the foundry can serve its purpose of being a true sandbox environment."
And finally, Reddit, takes us to the land of truth . . . people were abusing the system to create maps specifically for farming exp and astral diamonds.
I guess it's human nature . . . someone builds a game and someone else tries to break it. It's just too bad we can't have nice things, and that's a shame.
One things for sure, I'm glad I did screenshots of my Labyrinth tribute dungeon and captured it in this post so I could remember it though! Screenshots or it didn't happen! (now if only I would have made a YouTube video of it . . . ahh well.)
(continuing along with the #OneWeekDailyBlogging challenge from Emy . . .)
Yesterday I stumbled upon a blog that was linked to by the former Creative Director of Roblox, John Shedletsky.
My jaw dropped.
A blog . . . about wood grain . . . in Roblox? Sure enough, I followed the links and visited the site, and this is a real thing! I present to you, Wood Reviewer Roblox.
Now now . . . it may seem incredulous at first I admit, but before you simply push Wood Reviewer Roblox into the meta-joke categorization of having blogs on the Internet about very esoteric topics, like odd QR code placement, Awkward Stock photos, and old people posting on Facebook . . . KNOW THIS!
He's serious, and I love it.
I've written about Roblox before and my youngest son right now plays this game a whole heck of a lot. He loves Roblox with a passion, and we've spent more money on Roblox for him than I'm willing to admit. In other words, I'm writing this as being someone highly invested in the product of Roblox.
My son doesn't care about wood grain direction in Roblox . . .
Probably 99 percent of the people who play Roblox don't care about the wood grain direction in Roblox . . .
. . . but Wood Reviewer is invested like a Dev, and I dig that. These are the types of details that artists at video game companies are passionate about, and in a game like Roblox where people of all ages are learning to build worlds and think like Devs . . . YES . . . this topic is exactly what's needed.
I took it to an Internet search and found a great thread about Wood Reviewer on Reddit . . . what is up with the wood grain memes? I, for one, hardheartedly agree with poster IWantGoreinPF: "ssshh... WoodReviewer is our hero... that we don't need. Let us praise his efforts"
I raise my morning glass of water to you, Wood Reviewer! I shall never look at Wood Texture the same in Roblox. Job well done.
Now . . . dear reader . . . ask yourself this question . . . if you were to write an entire esoteric blog about something that bugs you in a video game, what would it be?
(Continuing along with the #OneWeekDailyBlogging challenge from Emy . . .)
Hey all, so I had a wicked long bout of sleep last night. I'm not even kidding . . . 10-11 hours of sleep. I think the sleep deprivation finally caught up with me and I just crashed. I normally would have played a few games last night and then had something to write about, but the only thing I really played yesterday was Miitomo.
Yup, Miitomo . . . it's still a thing, well at least it is for me, and I haven't spent a dime and I kind of feel bad about that. I figure if I've played a free app for any significant amount of time, I should probably ante up at some point to tell 'em thanks for all the fun. I don't feel the pull to get all the outfits I see and change them out 20 times a day or anything like that so the monetization pull doesn't really work on me.
Miitomo for me is simply 20-30 minutes a day chatting with new friends and my family, although, I can tell our interests are all waning a bit. My son hasn't logged on in a long time, but can I just say his answers on Miitomo were the sweetest, cutest thing in the entire world?
Let me give you a few of his answers:
What current event has grabbed your interest? My hard working spirit.
What does friendship mean to you? Kindness.
What's something funny that's happened to you recently? Nothing really other than my dad making kermit the frog jokes.
Man I love that kid! :)
I used to post a bunch of pictures from Miitomo on my Twitter timeline, but I felt like it was starting to get a bit spammy. Although, I think I kind of liked the question posts more than the straight up outfit change posts if I was to do more.
That would be this.
vs. this.
Do you have the app? Hate the app? Ever bought anything on the app? Lemme know what you think in the comments below.
(Continuing along with the #OneWeekDailyBlogging Event from Emy . . .)
Hey all! I hope everyone had a great Father's Day yesterday! I know my family really went out of their way to make it a great one for me, and I appreciate them so much. I wasn't even expecting the day to be as cool as it was! Here's what happened:
I woke up. ;) Ok, let's start at the exciting stuff . . . donuts!
I don't know if I've ever talked about this before on this blog, but our family likes to do something called "Saturday Morning Donut Adventure." My wife took it upon herself to drive us an hour away to a completely ordinary donut shop in Marble Falls, TX. Because, while it's important to enjoy a good donut, it's also very important to take an adventure along your way there. We have visited several donut shops in Austin, TX, but we've never been out this way, and it a very beautiful and winding drive through some pretty country.
The Colorado river runs right through the heart of this town and a large park rests right off of Highway 281 called Lakeside Park. They had little picnic table areas where the tables were made of what appeared to be solid Marble. We were more interested in all the spiders we found in the picnic area. I couldn't get a good shot of all the varieties of spiders hanging above our table, and we didn't stay long enough to disturb them too much.
The river/lake was beautiful though and the day was perfect. I managed to snap a picture of a couple of balloons floating into the air that some people nearby released.
It makes you wonder if they were releasing them for their father's. That's kind of a cool way to say I miss you, right?
After we got home, I sat down again to play some more Pirate101.
I helped Desdemona find her love, which was no small task . . . Those sneeple in Aquila were none too happy to see us again! Too make a long story short . . . Bad Pedro and Friendly Thomas both leveled up, and it felt like a natural stopping point for the day.
One of the gifts I got for Father's Day was a DVD copy of Zootopia, so we sat down as a family to watch it . . . and promptly lost the kids (who had other things to watch lol) . . . but the adults had a great time watching it! I loved the scene where, aptly enough, there was another "donut adventure" of sorts.
The day rounded out with a steak dinner with Pablano Pepper rice. It was amazing . . . even more amazing, I didn't have to cook it.
It was a great Father's Day, and I love my family for making it so special for me.
(Continuing on with the #OneWeekDailyBlogging event from Emy . . . )
I played some Pirate101 last night with my Witchdoctor /
Privateer dream team and did pretty well! I lost some companions, but I was
never personally defeated. I’m not sure
if people understand . . . a win is a win y’all . . . we have really deep
companion pools, and we need to use them wisely in new content. You may not always want to rush in with you’re
A-team of companions on new content, especially instanced content where you
know things get progressively harder. Expect a few companions to be defeated
and you’ll be doing a lot better. Your mileage may vary, but I’m digging the strategy bump in Valencia 2 a
lot. :)
Now, all that aside, I was noticing last night that my
witchdoctor companions were just tearing mobs up in Valencia like pros, and I wasn’t
even using Old Scratch. Granted, I was buffing Will, Crits, and Dodge/Accuracy
with the amazing Witchdoctor/Privateer buff combo, but my witchdoctor companions like Carcarius and Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah did
some super heavy lifting last night, and I loved it.
As for the enemies we were facing off against, there were
some deadly combos involving Second Chance, Relentless, and Bladestorm. I had
some unfortunate chains that a few mobs used against me, and I did indeed lose
a few buddies to the wounded task. THIS IS TO BE EXPECTED! On the other hand,
Kan Po loved those Second Chance epic misses . . . it just meant he’d be making
more Riposte attacks.
I also made a couple dumb mistakes . . . I got excited and
forgot to check my enemies for things like Flanking and Repel Boarders and lost
a companion or two to that. Always check your opponents, Tom. Yup! NOTED! Anyway, that’s also part of why I
like my Witchdoctors, they just stand in one place and throw hit after hit:
Jobu’s Ruse, Mojo
Echo, etc. I freaking love the jobu’s and mojo’s!
My stopping point last night was where I leveled up and gained Contessa as
a new companion.
I took some time to put some epics on her and called it a night, but I’m having so much fun with my Witchdoctor companions that I don’t even know if I’ll use her right away!
Hello all! I received a challenge from the one and only Emy Anemsalok . . . Community Manager extraordinaire . . . to join in the #oneweekdailyblogging challenge that she and her cohorts dreamed up. Whew, it can be tough to blog these days for me, but I always enjoy a challenge (and I really loved Blaughust last year, so consider this my warm up I guess lol).
With that, my friends, why don't I catch you up on all things Tom.
1- YouTube! If you didn't know, I have a (kinda) weekly playthrough of Wizard101 going with my buddy Morgrim aka The Art of Warlord. We're deep into Mooshu now and in a couple of episodes I predict we'll be in Dragonspyre.
2- Work! Work has been incredibly taxing lately. I lost my cohorts Leala and Julia :( and I've been scrambling a bit ever since, but I'm starting to find a new groove that I hope carries on to bigger and better things . . . like maybe a new KI Live next week?
3- Book 15! What the what? I thought for sure "Where's Book 15 of Pirate101?" would be etched on my tombstone, but you know what . . . the team pulled it off and I can't wait to really get my feet wet in the content. I will be taking Thomas (my witchdoctor) and Pedro (my Privateer) through a 2-boxed adventure into Valencia 2. woot!
4-Other gaming! I know it's hard to believe that I play other games than Wizard101 and Pirate101, but I do. I've preached it before, but it's good to be a well-rounded gamer.
Just recently I've been playing Legend of Zelda Windwaker. Said what? That old game?! Yup! It's one of the only Legend of Zelda games I've never really played much of, so I decided to give it some time. I was sailing around this morning placing pearls from the first three dungeons.
I've also been playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons Online.
I know you've heard me talk about this game before, and if you didn't know, I have a blog dedicated to this game called the Stormreach Sentinel. I debated killing that blog and just blogging about my adventures over here on TFN, but IDK, I kind of like how everything is neatly compartmentalized to one game over there.
In fact, I've made 16 blog posts on my Stormreach Sentinel blog since March. I'm playing a necromancer (of course) and have been having a blast. You know what stopped me in my tracks though?
5- Physical Therapy! I've been going to physical therapy about twice a week to work on my leg muscles. That left leg of mine really atrophied after being held straight for 3 months and I've got a lot of work to get it back into shape. I've been doing a hour or so of exercises every day, and it really kind of killed a lot of my extra blogging time in the mornings.
All of that, coupled with a fantastic trip to Disney World / Universal Studios last week has kind of taken a lot of my attention away from my old TFN blog here.
Hopefully this daily blogging gig this week will help kick start me a bit.
"What is the movement called where all men go across the board in one turn? Vicious charge is only for the main character."
Cool! I do believe this might be the first Pirate mechanics question to ever hit my inbox. I like it! Thanks for the question Paul.
I'm going to make this short and sweet: Highland Charge is the power you're most likely looking for.
From what I understand, it's very popular in PvP where you can throw on your valor's fort powers and then charge your whole team across the board . . . watch out for that Purge though!
I've yet to use this skill in PvE on my Bucc, but I suppose coupling this with the Pirate ability would give you a pretty good advantage if you could use it in time (or when on a very large battle board)
If you have any tips for using Highland Charge, feel free to leave them below.
"I've been farming a boss for 2 days now for a pet called Zombie it looks like Grubb but umm
Is it confirmed to be dropped?
Thanks for sending a message, Nick. Yes, the zombie pet is confirmed to be dropped by a boss named Grendel Madlings.
A good way to know something is verified as dropped is by checking out the player-made wiki for the item: Zombie Pet. Knowing KingsIsle as I do, there really would be no reason we'd ever remove this pet from a loot table . . . on purpose. And to be honest, I highly doubt anyone has modified or even thought about the Grendel Madlings boss in years, so I'd give it a 99% assurance that it still drops. Also, taking a look at that player-made wiki page, it also looks like it drops from the Purreau's Plentiful Pet Provisions Pack. That should make it quite a bit more available out in the wild.
To be honest, your best bet is probably signing up to a site like Wizard101 Central and asking if someone has one to hatch with you, like this person did back in 2014. Wizard101 Central has a super active pet hatching group and I'm also about 99% sure someone there would hatch with you if you post in the Pet Mixing Meetups forum. Or alternatively try using the #W101 hashtag on Twitter to see if anyone could help.
Hope that helps and best of luck with your pet hunt!
Hey all! I have a Wizard101 question here from Roxie:
"Where can I sell no auction treasure cards? I am overloaded with them and if they cant be
sold what can be done with them?"
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I hear ya, Roxie. I currently have 999/999 treasure cards myself. I really need to offload some of them. Here's a few things you can do.
1- I hate to even recommend this, but if you have a second account, several players will create new level one players just to hold treasure cards on. They just trade them over and when the crafting bug comes calling, they'll dig up whichever character was holding whichever treasure card and trade it back to themselves.
2- Trade them to a lowbie . . . just to be awesome. There's nothing cooler than going into an MMO and someone dumps a game changing item on you. This has only ever happened to me a couple times, but I have to say . . . random acts of kindness rock.
3- Use them. If you can't actually use them in battle, go find someone you can help out with that "one weird treasure card" that's just not right for your class. . . . and what if this is a GARDENING treasure card you're talking about? Well, you really should be doing some gardening!! It's great!
4- Delete them. How? Just right click on the treasure card you want to dump and say YES.
It's as easy as that . . . and, again, what if it's a GARDENING Treasure card? Same thing, only from a different location.
You go into your gardening spells, select the treasure card there, and right click. POOF! It's gone.
5- Hope for something better in the future? I know it's been discussed and discussed, but there's always time to bring it up again . . . never forget you can make requests for new features and conveniences on the Wizard101.com official message boards right here: click me!
Best of luck and thanks for the question. If anyone has additional thoughts, feel free to leave them in the comments.
Hey all! Let's talk games! (Just a quick catch up post for this morning!)
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Minecraft
It happened again!
I destroyed that big bad Ender Dragon in Minecraft again, and . . . it'll probably happen at least one more time.
My youngest son was asleep when I defeated this dragon, and I didn't think much of it at the time. Unfortunately when I told him about it after he woke up, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. "WHY DO I ALWAYS MISS THE COOL STUFF WHEN IT HAPPENS!" Yeah, apparently this is the second time he's missed my defeat of the Ender Dragon.
*claps hands together* AGAIN!
It's ok . . . I know what to do, and THIS time when I fight him, I'm going in STRONG!
(Hehe, you just know I'm going to end up losing all my gear and using ladders and death after death to punch those stupid tower gems.)
NO! This time, it's going to be epic.
Question. Would anyone be interested in watching a Twitch stream of me playing a game of Minecraft from beginning to "The end"? I haven't Twitch streamed in quite a while, but it could be fun?
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Wizard101
Brecken (aka Morgrim aka The Art of Warlord) returned from her long bout of Internet outage and is back for the attack. Here are episodes 6 and 7 of our Let's Play for your viewing entertainment.
(Episode 8 is to release shortly and Episode 9 is in the wings. :))
Team Spode continues to fight the bad guys of DC Universe Online -- it's what we do. There was a brand new duo added with some great gear in Episode 21 that is all the rage now with the team. It'd be a good one for me to do a YouTube on. Stay tuned.
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DOTA 2
I've once again been playing DOTA 2 on and off with my significant other and a neighbor. I seem to have moved away from The Beastmaster and Lycan . . . these days I'm favoring Phoenix and (strangely enough) Medusa, who apparently is a very hard "carry" to play. Honestly, I play her more like a strong support. /shrug . . . you know me . . . I'm kind of a MOBA newb.
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Hearthstone
I got the Valentine's Day Back! woot!
Kinda bummed I took a break from the game and missed out on a few the past couple of months, but I've only been playing a few short matches a day lately to keep up . . . anyway, there's still plenty of fun to be had in Hearthstone.
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And that's all I've got this morning, but I wanted to take some time and resurface here on the blog to say hello and give you a brief overview of what I've been up to. Feel free to say hello in the comments and let me know what you've been up to as well.
Also . . . if you have any game or topic you'd like me to hit on, let me know as well!
(p.s. I don't have any Galvanic Hammer Codes to give out. Sorry!)
Hello all! Just going to catch you up on my gaming and whatnot. It's been a couple weeks now, and I hope you're all enjoying 2016!
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Wizard101
Brecken and Tarlac! Tarlac and Brecken! We're like peanut butter and jelly these days in Wizard101, friends!
Every five to seven days we've been putting up a new episode of our Wizard101 Let's Play. Which reminds me. I've been getting stuck on whether to call these videos a "walk through", "play through", or "Let's Play."
According to this forum post, it seems I should be calling them Let's Plays? Um, what do you think?
Regardless . . . here are Episodes 3, 4, and 5:
And if you're behind and want to just catch the highlights, The Art of Warlord has you covered!
That's right, I've been getting my butt kicked in a legit MOBA, and it's pretty freaking fun. A neighbor of mine invited me over for a LAN party, and he talked me through playing the game. I'm not very good at it, but against medium and hard bots, I'm on the positive side for wins. When I first started playing I was drawn to one particular hero and stuck with him through several matches:
Beastmaster.
Yup, I liked the double thrown axes nuke and the somewhat survivable wolf pet coupled with a pretty nice stun.
I think it was good to stick with one character for a number of matches. Now I feel like I've upgraded from Beastmaster to this guy.
Lycan.
I've always been drawn to "pet class" types of characters, and this -- like beastmaster -- is pretty awesome. For me, it's better because I never used the hawk to spy on other characters like I should have, and I think the trade off for Lycan is that he feels just a bit tougher. He's a jungler as well, so I can take trips through the woods between lanes to get gold and spread out the wealth from killing creeps.
Anyway, it's kind of strange legitamately trying to play a MOBA after years of taking a pass.
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Mytheon
I CANNOT believe this game is back from the dead. I was stunned to see it up on Steam for 10 bucks, and I couldn't help myself . . . not after all that Friendly Warcrafter business.
My Warcrafter is level 11 and making his way slowly -- slowly -- through the game. It's been on the back burner, but I gotta play this one a bit.
I still own my shirt after all.
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Minecraft
The kids and I have been kicking it on local area servers lately. It was a little heartbreaking on one of them since we managed to somehow get all the way up to the part of the game where we want to the nether, farmed for blaze rods, and then were in the process of collecting eyes of ender -- had a pretty awesome village built too -- when BOOM . . . the file was somehow corrupted. I read through all the guides of how to try to save it, but I couldn't make it happen. Oh well.
We started over a couple times, and we're back at it like pros.
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DC Universe Online
My Sunday night group continues to play DCUO . . . honestly can't believe we haven't given up on this game . . .
I'll have to write more on this later! I'm out of time for writing this morning. ;)
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. . . and aside from a new quest to get that valentine-themed card back in Hearthstone, that's all the news fit to print!
It'd be nice to stream some Pirate101 again here in 2016, and I'd love to see the chat room jumping again.
