Space Area? And what about Briskbreeze?

I got an e-mail from Seth Hunter, and he wants to say something and has a question:

i believe the next area will be SPACE
and
i got a question why havent they expanded the briskbreeze thing?

You didn't hear, Seth? They already did that, it's called Star Trek Online, the pre-quest was called Anarchy Online, and the pre-pre quest is called Eve Online. What really hurt was when they cancelled the Tabula Rasa expansion on us. GAH!

OK, none of that was Kingsisle.

In all seriousness though, Celestia seems to have some space elements in it already. District of the Stars looks very "space-ish." If they were to explore some kind of space expansion, then I would love it to have cool little planets like on Mario Galaxy that you can jump from planet to planet on.


picture comes from Super Mario Galaxy wiki.

Personally, I'm hoping for a hive world or at least a hive zone. We've been introduced to Morganthe's evil helpers the Shadow Weavers, right? I think we need to go bust up their hive!

As for Briskbreeze . . . I don't know?!?!? Something sinister was supposed to happen out of Krokotopia and it never happened? Has Kingsisle forgotten this while they were busy with Advanced Pets, Celestia, and Gardening?

(most likely, yes.)

It is really hard to have to hang on to a cliffhanger like that for a year and a half, right? How hard could it be to throw another tower in somewhere like Krokotopia anyway? ;-) I'm sure designing / programming / drawing / implementing / marketing / quality checking / whateverelse some of the cheating boss fights is much more difficult that it appears on the outside.

It'd be awesome to see the Briskbreeze story line resurface, and I hope it does.

Thanks, Seth!

Happy Dueling!

Can you Juggle a Plant in Wizard101 to Keep it Forever?

Question from Luke Goldhorn:

Hey Friendly,

So, I have a question. And I thought, "Who better to ask than the all-knowing Necromancer himself?" So, here it is:

When you "neglect" your garden, your plants will start to wilt, and eventually die. I've had a few wilting plants that I saved, an they went back to the sapling stage (I believe that is the teen stage of gardening). I can't remember what stage it was before exactly, but would you mind checking this out? If this is true, it'd seem like an awfully big flaw in the system, since people could just buy the crowns plants and keep reusing them. I would conduct a test myself, but I am currently on break. Thanks so much for your help!

From your's truly,

Luke GoldHorn

P.S: You're blog isn't covered in awesomesauce. IT'S BURIED IN EPICSAUCE!

HELP! THROW ME A LADLE! I'M DROWNING IN EPICSAUCE!



Once again, I am proving to you that it's not what you know, but who you know.

I asked Greyrose, who then passed the question on to Justin Wingard, who also is buried in epicsauce--much more than I am.

Here was his response:

Elder plant harvests for crown plants should also guarantee a seed drop to players so essentially a crowns plant will never completely vanish on you.

Hopefully, we made the rewards high enough at the elder stage such that players are encouraged to keep growing through the whole plant life cycle as opposed to just bouncing plants around between life and death.

Now, the one exception to this is The Giving Tree. The Giving Tree doesn’t give off a seed at Elder. The only way to keep it alive is to juggle it at the lower stages, but in doing that you’re missing out on its elder stage rewards which are really really awesome!

Thanks Greyrose and Justin!

For some reason I have a nagging feeling that others may have some insight into this as well. I know uber wife was saying that it had appeared to her that some of our daughter's plants went elder even though they had needs, but that would seem to be a bug right? Any of you all have some insight to share??

/scratches head.

Pretty awesome that crown plants pretty much guarantee another crown plant seed, right? YES! Maybe that's why I never seem to run out of pink dandelions.

Happy Dueling!

Busy! Busy! BUSY!

Heya all, just a quick note that I'm busy writing another article for Beckett's Massive Online Gamer magazine this morning, so I don't have time to post. My apologies! Speaking of Beckett's I really hope you all have spent some time sending in a picture or two of your amazing houses for their contest! You could win an MFP or some awesome crown prizes! WOOT!

Best of luck!

Happy Dueling!

Strange Building in Marleybone? Outfits near Zeke?

Elizabeth Seacloud has a couple questions:

1. So i asked this question to the wizard101 support " In the mb commons thaere are two dogs that look like buckingham palace gaurds, there is a building inbetween them, but you cant get into it, what is that building supposed to be?" And guess what they answered! " I'm sorry, but we're not able to answer this type of question. We consider that information a Spoiler, and we're not permitted to reveal the Spoilers to anyone. They're common for all students at Ravenwood School of Magical Arts, so you can ask your friends and in the forums, but the Faculty is strictly forbidden from revealing them." Hump, that wasnt mugh help... but it did do something, it made me think! Do you think that will me a new tower or something? Hummm... interesting right! What do you think.

2. Have you ever noticed that in the wizardcity commons by zeak and the sticing lady there is a cart. the cart has like school spcific outfits. Were thoes the old crowns gear, can you farm them from a boss. They look really cool and i would loke some...Thx

1. I've actually been asked this question before! Here's my long answer. The short answer is (at this point) its nothing more than a staging area for Henry Wellingbrook and Quentin Boodington.

The interesting thing here is their response to you. There's really no spoiler to it . . . UNLESS, they're going to use it for something else some day! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN! (then again, it is kind of their template answer for stuff like this . . .)

I guess we'll have to wait and see. :)

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2. Oh yeah, let's go take a look at that:



Hmmm, I think I've seen a few of those around the spiral. A couple of them might be, but I think some are not. Gah, I don't know . . . you're asking a dude. I'M A DUDE! I don't none notice none of these here clothes details and whatnot no way! I'M A DUDE!

;-)

I'm going to have to leave this up to my more . . . fashion oriented . . . readers. Ahem. Please, if you know what any of those clothes on the cart are, let this dude and Ms. Elizabeth Seacloud know in the comments below. DUDE! THANKS!

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Happy Dueling!

Where can I find Scrap Metal in Wizard101?

Question here from Sai:

I need help with crafting! I need to find the regrident scrap iron in Marely Bone if i find this this will save all my problems!!!! P.S: Love you blogs im a lvl 56 Death wizard hope to meet you in wizard 101 some time!

Thanks for reading! You should definitely go check out the maps over at Central. Remember to run a path that will get you the most reagents in a minute and then realm jump. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Also, don't forget you can make your own scrap iron through a transmute recipe. More information can be found here. 10 stone block, 10 ore = 1 scrap iron.

You can always bazaar snipe your scrap metal too if you have a lot of patience and time to sit at the bazaar refreshing the list of reagents and scrolling down to where the scrap metal would be over and over and over . . . and over. Some would argue that this is actually the fastest method there is. Bazaar sniping kind of depends on the time of day and the speed of your fingers. ;)

Probably the least effective method is spending 100 crowns on a regeant card pack. Those make a fun gift for friends, but I'd never use it as a viable way of finding the crafting components I need. I can spend my crowns on a lot better stuff than that.

And finally, with gardening you can now harvest regeants. Helephant Ears and Venus Fly Traps are known to drop scrap metal as a harvest.

Best of luck finding that scrap metal. It definitely is a much sought after crafting component!

Happy Dueling!

Questions from Lauren about Angus and other stuff . . .

Here's a question and a lot of exclamation marks from Lauren FrostTail:

Hi! I wanted to wish you a happppyyyyyyyy new year and I have a question for Angus. 1: HOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2: Do you really still have 0 loooses? 3: Based on hwat you've gone through i'm betting on MS or DS where you finally fail, but I often underetimate Diviners I: Oh and I have to say YOU ABSOLUTLY ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! x. x sigh I said it, I DID IT! oh and I'm a Necromancer too, and have a Questian on my quests,
I JUST GOT TO LEVEL 60 :D and I am trying to avoid XP so i can save it for the level cap increse. When will it be? Does Greyrose known about an increse? (Soon?) otherwise ill just finish celestia....
P.S. This time will we get XP we got when the bar was gone?
P.S P.S. Why can't Dworgan take over for Greyrose? after all she is... awesomely awesome....

---- Forlorn the Skeletal Dragon with Dragon RIder Lauren FrostTail Signing off

1- Through a couple of different methods. One involves a longer battle involving casting a storm minion and using a lot of shields and heals. The other is a quicker (more expensive) method involving three treasure cards. Here's a quick video for the Angus fans out there who want to see the Tempest Minion Method.



(hope this video works, I used an alternate method of uploading)

2- NO. I definitely don't have 0 losses. If I would have stopped at zero losses, I would have stopped at Melweena Spite on Firecat Alley. It took two tries to defeat her. There have been many defeats since then. And, in fact, my method for beating Big Ben involved purposefully dying on a couple of battles just so I could thin the herd of monsters I was facing.

3- Time will tell, and thanks so much for the support. :-)

4- Well, I wouldn't expect a level cap increase for a while. That's me predicting here. I know they would like to do some more content like Grizzleheim since the majority of Kingsisle's players are in their mid-levels. I'm sure there are a lot of factors that go into "What comes next" for players. Then again, maybe they are excited to explore the new story arc of Morganthe. I hope so. I would rather continue playing through the story than have to go back to a prequel.

5- Nah, I'm pretty sure we will stay at the max exp, but I'm also sure that they will continue to give us enough exp to max our levels again when whatever is beyond Celestia is released.

6- Dworgyn is awesomely awesome, but Greyrose is kind of like that comforting grandma that feeds you milk and cookies.

;-)

Happy Dueling!

Housing Item of the Day--Large Willow Tree

Heya all,

I got this note from Donna Spellthorn back in 2010 (sorry, couldn't help myself) about a pretty epic housing item:

I think I found your next housing item of the day...it's called the large willow tree. It can apparently be found at the bazaar, but the alleged drop is from Praetor Mako (no clue where that is) But I thought it was absolutely beautiful. I think other people should know about it too, so that's why I sent you this email.

Well, thanks for the note, Donna! Consider it done!

Large Willow Tree, I hereby declare you the housing item of the day!

So from what I could tell, this item is rumored to drop from not only from Mako, but also from Achaelos. Both are located in the Crustacean Empire.


HOWEVER, I spent a good amount of time farming Achaelos and walked away with no trees, but I did get a lot of the little doghouses. When I went to farm Mako, I got the tree on my first try.


You know, from a distance, this tree looks kind of goofy to me . . . not at all what I would consider a Willow tree.


The Wizard101 Large Willow Tree looks more like one giant trunk with a bowler's cap on.


Regardless, it does provide a good bit of shade and cover. A few of these big trees and you're ready to start your own jungle with undergrowth . . . kind of like Paige Moonshade's trip to Pandora through Wizard101 housing.

Uber wife did something pretty cool with her epic tree . . . Check it out:


So awesome to be up there in the canopy!

Happy Dueling!