Sorry for the delay will be back soon guys

Sorry for the delay guys I will be back.

St Patricks Day

Are you and your wizard all ready for St Patricks day this Saturday. Here are some interesting facts from about the Emerald Isles and Saint Patricks day.

GoneDigging for St Patrick's Day Gifts

I Wanna Foo Dog - The Kirins Hoard Pack

Realising that the little niggling voice at the back of my mind wasn't going to shut up about how great those Foo Dogs looked I finally relented and bought some Kirins Hoard packs.  ( well when I say some I mean a lot of Kirins Hoard packs ).  Now I don't know if its just me having a bit of good luck,   but those packs were loaded with pets.  Not all Foo Dogs Sadly.  I ended up with  Goat monks,  Brown Spiders,  Ninja pigs,  Life ghouls, Yellow ghosts, Yellow Elves and one Foo Dog.  It's a myth one,  or rather an Imperial Foo Dog called Sierra, who gets a cyclops card at baby.

Imperial Foo Dog

The Imperial Foo dogs possible talents are as follows ( The below info is taken from the  Petnome website, )

	TALENTS		DERBY
1				1
2				2
3				3
4				4
5				5
6				6
7				7
8				8
9				9
10

 I haven't trained her yet so and not really sure of her loved pet snacks,  but fingers crossed when I do begin to train her she will manifest some useful talents.  There are six different Foo dogs to collect and I so want some more hopefully I will get lucky with some hatches.  I already have one failed attempt :(  It would have been an ice one.  Anyway back to the Kirins Hoard pack I didn't get a mount but I did get some great new gear.  I love my new look,  no weapons were picked up,  but that Rokugo Helmet well I love it.

Wow, new look for me.

The stats for the outfit are below

I'm not wearing the helmet for the stats it gives me - I just love the look.

The military look is so in.

Yes, I was lucky enough to get both these.

I've thrown in some screen shots of some of the Kirins Hoard packs I picked up below

There's my Foo Dog pick up.

Hmm not the best pack, but did get a Goat Monk pet.

A double pet pick up - not too bad.

To be honest I may buy a few more of these packs.  I really do like those Foo Dogs and the packs do seem to be loaded with pets and I am all about the pets.   Anyway thanks for reading - I'm off to try to find out what my Foo Dog loves snack wise.

Wizard Weekly Giveaway - Foo Dog Pet And Wizard Tag

Just to let you all know Wizard 101 over at Face book have a new epic giveaway a free Foo Dog Pet.  Is all you have to do is attend their event/giveaway.  I have posted the link and blurb below - It's worth a try but hurry as the event closes on Friday. ( I nearly managed to get a Foo dog myself,  but sadly the hatch failed and I got another egg pet back )  Good luck to all who enter.

 Foo Dog Giveaway

Attend this Face book event for a chance to receive a coupon for 1 random colour Foo Dog Pet. Pets arrive as eggs that require time to hatch.

All you have to do is click the "Join" button on the Event Page, and Friday afternoon we will randomly choose 15 lucky attendees to receive a coupon for the item.

You don't have to be on line at the time of the event to be eligible, just click "Join" and those randomly chosen to receive the coupon will be sent a Face book Message on Friday.

Apologies for the long break in posts

I did not mean to be absent for so long but work and children have eaten up alot of my time these past few weeks.   I will get my nose back to the grindstone and will get a proper post out very shortly and reply to your comments.

New Wizard Test Realm

Wow interactive housing is now available on the test realm,  ( if you like tag ),  seems like I was only just talking about this.  Hang on I did mention it in my last post - spooky.  Anyways, this game will really, really appeal to my children.
I have pinched some of the blurb from the Update notes ,  you can visit the link for a more in depth explanation.

A new housing object will allow players to play a game of Tag at their Castle or Dorm!

The housing kiosk has a 'Press X to Start the Game' option that will open a window to show you variants of the types of Tag you can play.   ( That's right it seems there are two different types of tag ! )
The game is only active in the interior and exterior of the currently occupied house. Other houses that players can get to using housing teleporters won’t participate in the game.

Important Notes

1. All types of Tag games will un-mount you for the duration of the game.
2. All types of purchased and quest transformations will not appear during a Tag game, but the transformation and mount rental timers will continue to countdown for the duration of the game.
3. You cannot equip a mount or transformation while you are participating in a Tag game.
4. You cannot teleport to friends who are playing the same Tag game. 
5.  Players who are participating in housing PvP are exempt from the Tag game until they leave the duel. 

Tag your it, and your a Gobbler.

A couple of things I thinks great about this new ' interactive housing '.  From the description,  it appears more than two people can play the game.  ( It does not mention a maximum number of players ) So if someone has a Sultans Palace or Fantasy Castle there is the potential for some pretty epic games of tag.
If you are on/have been tagged depending on what game you are playing you will either become a gobbler or fire elf,  ( Thats just fun anyway )
The possibility of other future interactive housing items, games is definitely there,  thats what I am looking forward to - bring on my interactive wallpaper.

Thanks for reading.

Free Permanent Blood Raven Mount Giveaway

Just to let you all know Wizard 101 over at facebook have a new epic giveaway a free permanent Blood Raven Mount.  Is all you have to do is attend their event/giveaway.  I have posted the link and blurb below - It's worth a try but hurry as the event closes on Friday at 15:00

Wizard Weekly Giveaway - Permanent Blood Raven Mount

 Attend this Facebook event for a chance to win 1 Permanent Blood Raven Mount. This week we're giving away 1 Permanent Raven Mount for our Weekly Giveaway! Each winner will be given one code that will grant them 1 Permanent Blood Raven Mount. This is the TWO person Mount currently only available through chance in the Raven Hoard pack.

All you have to do is click the "Join" button on the Event Page, and Friday afternoon we will randomly choose 15 lucky attendees to receive a code through Facebook for the items.

You don't have to be online at the time of the event to be eligible, just click "Join" and those randomly chosen will be sent a Facebook Message on Friday. 

Ravens Hoard Pack - A Little Review

Well I finally gave in and bought a few.  I didn't get a mount or the moonflower both of which I was hoping for  ( I have heard mixed reviews of the moonflower,  but I still wanted one ).  But I have to admit I was really pleased,   I received two pets a grumpy snowman ( card at baby ) and the Storm Bird ( card at ancient ). 

Ah a grumpy snowman baby pet

Storm Bird - Only need Ice bird now to complete my bird collection !!!

I also was lucky enough to get the greatly desired bow. I really love it.  It's an ice weapon giving six hits of 100 damage as well as two  ice traps.  I tried to capture some images of me using it,  but I could only seem to get the angle from my back. So heres me holding it.

 

Me holding the bow - looks amazing when I use it.

 
I also recieved alot of housing items in the ravens hoard packs I bought,  usually I am dissapointed when this happens as I'm primarily purchasing the packs for mounts, seeds and pets.  But this time I was really pleased.  I loved the furniture items.  I picked up a cuckoo clock, some cool wallpapers a teleporter ( wow ) and a chicken coop which has an adorable baby chicken that runs around. ( As well as a few other bits and bobs ).

I've come for your eggs

The cuckoo clock and the chicken coop have an active visual action,  unlike some items of furniture,  which are just really showy pieces.  Which made me think about other furniture items I'd picked up recently and what I would love to see more of.  Around Christmas I purchased the milk and cookies item and loved the fact that you could eat the cookies and drink the milk. You actually got to interact with an item in your home.

Just about to gobble up some cookies.

I would personally like more interactive items.  I would love to see lights/lamps that you could switch on or off,  chairs that you could sit in.  I would love wallpaper that gradually performed an action.  I have a cloudy sky one below and would love it if the clouds slowly moved across the screen and I would simply adore a night sky wallpaper with stars that twinkled slowly on and off.

Blue sky wallpaper,  not sure how it ended up with dark corners on the picture?

Perhaps one of the things I would love to see the most in terms of housing would be items your pets could interact with.  Such as bedding/baskets,  perches for the birds.  Items they could play with balls,  squeeky toys and so on.  I not exactly sure how this would work should items be able to be used by any pet,  or a specific item is only for a certain type of pet.  Either way I love the idea itself.


Thanks for taking the time to read.

Gardening, Questing And Crafting With Pets In Mind

As mentioned in my last post, I have decided to concentrate on a few select pets, raising them all the way to epic without the aid of any mega snack packs. Let's be honest using mega snack packs is probably the fastest, most time efficient way of training your pet. True,  there is a large cost of crowns and you never know what you are going to receive in the mega snack pack,  but you don't need that many mega snacks to get a pet to at least adult. However,  with a little patience you can still get great pet snacks in a variety of ways and keep crowns for other precious purchases. I have decided to garden, craft and battle my little wizard heart out and see how far along I can raise my new pets.

 

Concentrating On My Fierce Hound.

This was one of the pets that I mentioned I would be raising in my last post. My fierce hound Mister Rusty is a death pet so obviously likes death snacks. Fierce hounds seem to be a relatively health conscious pet as they also like their vegetable snacks. So by feeding him death vegetable type snacks I am giving him the snacks he loves the most, which in turn gives me valuable extra pet XP points after each feed.

The list of loved pet snacks for the fierce hound I have so far observed are  Dastardly Radishes ( Rank 6 Snack ), Cauliflowers ( Rank 5 Snack ), Orange Jalapenos ( Rank 2 snack ) and Evil Carrots ( Rank 1 Snack ). 

You can usually find all the above loved snacks in the bazaar and simply purchase them with gold. Though Dastardly Radishes can sometimes be a little more tricky to find in there. Cauliflowers the lower Rank 5 snack are often available and usually tend to be reasonably priced around the 800 mark, which is great as they give 8 XP points per snack. I have also been getting a lot of the cauliflowers as drops from street fights in Winter Tusk.

Cauliflowers, not as cheap as they can usually be

found in the bazaar. 

Dastardly Radish, very sinister with a moustache!

Gardening With My Fierce Hound In Mind.

All of the above snacks can be harvested from my garden,  I have been concentrating on harvests of the dastardly radish and the cauliflowers for the higher XP points.

Grapes of wrath, yes they are a pain to grow, often yield dastardly radishes. Grapes of wrath are abit unusual as they dislike garden gnomes, but I have been speeding up their growth with a fickle pickle, they also like the crafted weapons rack. 

The relatively easy to grow prickly bear cactus often produces caulifowers along with many other great pet snacks. I am speeding up their growth by placing a pile of sand by them. Once you have one prickly cactus they almost always drop another seed you can go on almost indefinately with them.

Liked pet snacks which can be harvested or crafted that will give your hound experience of over 5 XP points each feed are listed below.

Crab apples – Rank 8 Snack – Very rare harvest from the prickly bear cactus.

Killer tomato – Rank 7 – Burning Snap Dragon, Purple & Red Grapes of Wrath.

Dr Jalapeño – Rank 7 – Red Bell Pepper

Raising Bran Cereal – Rank 6 – A crafted snack – Recipe available from Darina Bloodflame found in dragonspyre ( The Atheneum  In The Boot Shop, You can also pick pets up from here ).  Crafted using basic crafting table.

Raising Bran - Rank 6 Snack

Rock and Roll Candy- Rank 5 – king Parsley, can be crafted the recipeis available from Yachi the snack recipe vendor in Mooshu ( main shopping area just after entrance ).

Dagwood sandwich - Rank 5 - Crafted snack recipe from Yachi.

Taco Town Special – Rank 5 – Harvest from fickle pickle. It can also be crafted. Recipe from Yachi

Taco Town Special - Rank 5 snack

Another way of training any pet quickly without mega snacks.

OK I so I've mentioned how I am trying to get some of the best loved and liked snacks for the fierce hound. There is another way to level pets up without using mega snacks, it can be wasteful, but it can be very fast. Just feed it everything, throw everything at it that rates high on pet xp points. You will not get any extra bonus points for feeding liked or loved snacks, but you still get points! It's amazing over a period of time how many snacks can build up in your back pack. It's a quick way of cleaning them out.  There are concerns that using this method can make your pet more likely to manifest a selfish talent.  But there is no concrete proof of this.  So if you are in a rush go for it.  

Thanks for reading :)

It's Official Christmas Is Definitely Over.

Felix Navidad has now left the spiral and the Christmas items have left the crown shop, roll on valentines. Wizard 101 have already introduced their first new product of the year the Ravens Hoard pack with lots of new items, I have lifted the blurb from wizard 101 and posted it below.  It all sounds great.

The new Raven's Hoard game card pack has more new exciting items than any other pack before! Each pack of 7 cards contains a chance to receive these new items plus pets, treasure cards, pet snacks, and ice themed items.
What's new in the Raven's Hoard Pack?
The Raven's Hoard Pack has two brand new mounts, the Raven Mount and the Blood Raven two person mount! There's also tons of new gear with different sets designed for energy, PvP and more. To go with your new gear, we have three new sets of weapons - an axe, a new sword, and the first bow weapon in Wizard101! For Wizards with a green thumb, there's also a brand new plant, the Moonflower! 

Blood Raven Mount.

 

What my wizards have been getting up to.

My life wizard has finally faced Malistaire and was the victor.  OK,  so she had a little help from friends, but he's done and dusted. Malistaires butt was thoroughly kicked, he has learned the error of his ways. Raising a dragon titan in order to resurrect a dead wife is a definite no no in polite society. Still no life robe drop from him though :(  My life wizard is actually questing in Celestia now, rather than jumping in on friends fights. She has not fought anyone yet, but I am looking forward to some epic battles. My ice wizard has progressed a little through Marylebone but thats about it on questing.

I spy,  with my great big enormous eye...

Malistaire,  nearly dead. ...

 

I finally managed to not kill my Boon trees by increasing my time on wizard and they both reached their elder harvest, yay :) I received quite a few happy holidaisy seeds, a couple of seven day mounts ( candy canes ), some mega pet snacks and two pets. An evil snowman and a frostman, as well as numerous wrapped gifts which I've put away in my houses loft until next Christmas. I've also now put away all my Christmas housing items. Everything, well everything I could remember anyway. I am slowly concentrating on raising a select few of the pets I managed to get over the Christmas period, I say slowly as I am trying to do this without purchasing any mega pet snacks I will see how far I can get through crafting, gardening and hopefully picking up pet snacks as drops.

 

My Fierce Hound -  Mister Rusty

This is one of the first pets I have decided to concentrate on. He was a result of hatching with my 2^nd Generation Storm Cat, Lady Scout ( which is a storm cat mixed with a sea dragon ). Lady Scout has a pedigree of 68 and I have trained her up to ancient. So far her abilities are Pierce Monger, gives a remove positive card. Tower shield, pretty straight forward gives a tower shield card and dashing ( never mind ).

 

Storm Cat Sire of Mister Rusty

The fierce hound is primarily a death pet, so I am hoping to train him up for my fledgling death Wizard who is still languishing somewhere in Triton Alley. The original talents a fierce hound can manifest are pretty awesome.

 

	TALENTS		DERBY
1				1
2				2
3				3
4				4
5				5
6				6
7				7
8				8
9				9
10

The above information was taken from the Petnome Project website a truly excellent place to visit if your into your pets.

The Spritely Talent:

As you can see an original fierce hound has the spritely talent.  Spritely appears to currently be one of the most desired talents that a pet can have. Sorry for those who know what it is - it's when a pet has the ability to independently cast the sprite spell at any point during a battle. It appears to be triggered by attacks upon its the pets owner. However, as this is an independent talent there is no guarantee of when, how many times or even if a pet with spritely will cast its spell.  It's definitely a handy talent but a pet can still be great without it. 

 

Now I know that spritely is a talent/ability that the sire fierce hound of Mister Rusty had manifested. I noted it on the sire fierce hounds statistics/talents before I went ahead and hatched.   However, I have heard rumours that hatched 2^nd generation fierce hound pets do not often manifest this talent. This would make sense after all Kings Isle want you to buy their game cards for the pet, rather than just hatch existing pets with each other for the ability. If the spritely talent is going to appear it usually shows up on the fierce hound once you have trained it to the 'Teen' level. I have trained Mister Rusty to adult and still no appearance of Spritely, so it seems he may not get that talent. 

Not bad so far,  just please leave out dashing...

I am not really upset about this as he has the death shot and tower shield as abilities so far. I also know that even if Mister Rusty does not manifest the spritely talent it is in his parentage, so it may appear through hatching with other pets.

Thanks for reading I'm off to train my pet :)