Easter Fish And The Return Of The Wanderer

Well apologies for my long, long absence from the blog,  my home computer died, not dramatically overnight.  It actually died a long slow drawn out death where, its functionality was slowly eroded over the period of nearly a year, Wizard was the first to go,  then other games, until eventually last week I was left with nothing.  The trouble with the way it went, was it still worked fine for all the things I needed it for work wise and I just could not justify sinking the family finances just so I could play a game.  I could play the game on our family lap top, but it was really choppy and laggy, so I really left Wizard mostly alone,  yes for nearly a year! Shocking. 

  There was a silver lining to the cloud, that was no wizard for a year, for me.  Returning to the game was such fun,  there had been some great updates. Firstly am totally loving the fishing,    I caught some great seasonal fish today,

The black Eggshellfish was the first seasonal fish I caught,  I was actually trying to catch a catfish from The Commons pool,  and even though this cutie is a death fish,  I caught him using the fire lure.  He was a small fish, and quite fast moving compared to the others in the Commons pool.

And the second catch of today was the Springfish, a storm seasonal fish, caught in Northguard and even though he is a storm fish,  he was caught using the life lure.  Maybe these seasonal fish are easy to catch on any lure/ or rather not too lure specific, or just confused, who knows?

Anyway I'm back yay, here to stay, yay, well fingers crossed, this PC stays fully operational.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its Crushing Time, Thats Spike The Crusher!

After some lengthy farming in Marleybone,  I thought I'd put up my results.  Firstly I will concentrate on Spike the Crusher.  He is an optional boss in Big Ben the final dungeon of Marleybone. He is a fire boss and has a 3500 health.  If you choose to fight him spill the three milk bottles found throughout the dungeon ( on floors 6,  10 and 13 ).  He won't appear unless you do this,  his a cat who really love his milk!! 
You can battle him with his two potbelly minions ( Storm, 575 Health ).  Or leave the last bottle of milk,  go through to the next room defeat the two pot bellies then go back and spill the milk to face him alone. After defeating Spike you will be awarded a badge the ' Crusher Crusher ' which is a nice bonus.  
The good news is he does drop a pet!  The white rat magician,  he doesn't drop lots in the way of furniture unless you really like milk bottles  ( I am quite partial to the rarer, Crushers milk bottle ),  in fact the empty milk cartons housing item was one of his most frequent drops.   ( The most dropped item was the pet snack square watermelon ). He also dropped some crowns boots,  the Striders of the Verge.

Spike getting ready to crush!

Here are a few of spikes more choice drops.

The white rat magician pet

White rat magician, great drop!

Spike's Amulet Of Smiting

Spikes Robe of the phoenix

Crushers dexterous shoes.

Spikes boots of diplomacy

Spikes Mechanical Visor

Spikes Icicle-Spiked Hat

A quick summary of Spike the crushers drops follows;

For those who want to know every item that Spike the Crusher dropped and how many times, the data is below;

Hats
Shamans hat - 2
Crushers hat - 7
Crushers mysterious cap - 5
Spikes mechanical visor - 5
Brisk cap - 1
Exclusive cap - 1
Silent canine cowl - 1
Spikes icicle-spiked hat - 4
Cap of the inventor - 1
Cat burglars cap - 1
Superstitious canine cowl - 1

Robes
Spikes vestment of history - 9
Polished garments - 4
Crushers winter vestment - 6
Vestment of the sun - 2
Spikes robe of the phoenix - 7
Vest of predominance - 3
Alluring robes - 2
Felines invigorating robe - 1
Crushers deathly robe - 8
Dexterous vest - 2
Robe of ideals - 1
Garment of the supreme - 1
Robe of the bubble - 1
Artificial robe - 2
Tunic of the clever - 1
Marvellous shroud - 1
Savvy vestment - 1

Boots
Spikes boots of excellence - 7
Shoes of the devoted - 2
Slippers of predominance - 3
Exquisite slippers - 4
Crushers dexterous shoes - 7
Exacting boots - 2
Striders of the verge ( Crowns ) - 1
Slippers of the worrier - 3
Opportunists sandals - 1
Shoes of sentiments - 1
Shoes of the chimera - 1
Magnificent boots - 2
Shoes of preference - 2
Shoes of the windless - 2
Spikes boots of diplomacy - 4
Remarkable sandals - 2
Admirable shoes - 1

Athames
Agents Kris - 1
Informants dirk - 1
Watchman's athame - 1

Rings
Mechanical ring - 1

Spell Decks
Deck of chivalry - 2

Amulets
Spikes amulets of smiting - 4

Pets
White rat magician - 5

Furniture
Milk carton - 5
Empty milk cartons - 11
Crushers milk bottle - 2

Reagents
Leather straps - 11
Bronze gear - 17

Pet snacks
Stinky cheese - 6
Square watermelon - 12
Wheat cracker - 3
Medium fish - 8
Redskin peanut - 8
Gummy bloodbat - 3
Caramel popcorn - 7

Treasure cards
Cyclops - 1
Fire trap - 1
Dryad - 1

As I usually say even after my standard 100 fights, its still too few to say that this is a definitive list of every item dropped by Spike the Crusher or to ascertain an overall percentage for the drop rate of an item.   Though he does seems to drop pets at a higher than standard boss rate.  However, I think it definitely highlights what you are likely to get as well as a few more choice items you may want to work at getting. ( Just remember the guys at wizard can add and remove items from the game ) If you really want to go into the 100 battle drops any further I have the fight number and tally of items received below.

1. Redskin peanut,  milk carton.
2. Cat burglars cap,  caramel popcorn,  crushers hat.
3. Square watermelon,  bronze gear,  crushers hat.
4. Tunic of the clever,  square watermelon,  spikes vestment of history.
5. Dryad TC, Spikes boots of diplomacy.
6. Medium fish,  White rat magician ( pet ), gummy bloodbat.
7. Spikes boots of excellence,  leather straps
8. Shoes of preference,  marvellous shroud,  spikes icicle spiked hat.
9. Vest of predominance,  white rat magician ( pet )
10. Redskin peanut,  Redskin peanut,  empty milk cartons.
11. Caramel popcorn,  spikes robes of the phoenix.
12. Crushers dexterous shoes,  bronze gear.
13. square watermelon,  spikes icicle spiked hat,  leather straps.
14. Spikes mechanical visor.
15. Empty milk cartons,  shoes of the windless.
16. High quality cloak,  spikes icicle spiked hat
17. Stinky cheese,  garment of the supreme,  spikes icicle spiked hat.
18. Bronze gear,  spikes boots of excellence.
19. Superstitious canine cowl,  informants dirk, empty milk cartons.
20. Caramel popcorn, watchman's athame,  empty milk cartons.
21. Spikes boots of diplomacy.
22.  Caramel popcorn, crushers deathly robes.
23. Savvy vestment, Crushers dexterous shoes.
24. Spikes boots of excellence.
25. Square watermelon,  exacting boots, Spikes boots of diplomacy.
26. Spikes amulet of smiting.
27. Artificial robe, medium fish, artificial robe, remarkable sandals, spikes robe of the phoenix, leather straps.  ( Yes he dropped the artificial robe twice )
28. Admirable shoes, fire trap TC, Crushers hat
29. Medium fish, mechanical ring, Crushers deadly robe
30. Gummy Bloodbat, Spikes robe of the phoenix
31. Deck of chivalry, slippers of the worrier, redskin peanut,leather straps, empty milk cartons
32. Robe of the bubble, leather straps, remarkable sandals, Crushers dexterous shoes
33. Spikes boots of excellence 
34. White rat magician
35. Shamans hat, Crushers deadly robe
36. Spikes amulet of smiting, bronze gear, stinky cheese, redskin peanut
37. Exquisite slippers, Crusher deadly robe
38. Redskin peanut, Spikes mechanical visor, leather straps
39. Vest of predominance,  empty milk cartons. 
40. Magnificent boots, slippers of the worrier, spikes boots of diplomacy
41. Spikes boots of excellence
42. Crushers deathly robe , square watermelon, cap of the inventor
43. Spikes mechanical visor, robe of ideals, bronze gear, garment of the supreme
44. Stinky cheese, dexterous vest, crushers deathly robe
45. Spikes robes of the phoenix
46. Crushers milk bottle, alluring robes, bronze gear
47. Nothing
48. Crushers winter vestment, bronze gear, shoes of the windless, bronze gear
49. Dexterous vest, Crushers deathly robe
50. Polished garments, Crushers mysterious cap, shoes of preference
51. Square watermelon,  Crushers dexterous shoes
52. Stinky cheese, Bronze gear, Exquisite slippers, Spikes robe of the phoenix, square watermelon
53. Cyclops TC, Stinky cheese, leather straps,  Crushers deathly robe
54. Crushers dexterous shoes
55. Slippers of predominance,  Crushers winter vestment
56. Exquisite slippers,  Crushers hat
57. Crushers winter vestment,  polished garments
58. Crushers hat, gummy bloodbat
59. Shoes of sentiments,  shoes of the chimera, magnificent boots
60. Crushers mysterious cap
61. Empty milk cartons
62. Felines invigorating robe,  milk carton
63. Crushers dexterous shoes
64. Spikes vestment of history, bronze gear
65. White rat magician pet
66. Alluring robes, spikes vestment of history
67. Slippers of predominance,  spikes robe of the phoenix
68. Polished garments,  wheat cracker,  vest of predominance,  opportunists sandals, milk carton
69. Silent canine cowl, Spikes icicle spiked hat
70.  Spikes robe of the phoenix,  deck of chivalry
71. Crushers hat, bronze gear
72. Medium fish, empty milk cartons
73. Spikes amulet of smiting
74. Medium fish,  slippers of the worrier, Crushers hat
75. Bronze gear, exclusive cap, bronze gear, striders of the verge ( Crowns item ), caramel popcorn
76. Exacting boots, caramel popcorn, Spikes vestment of history.
77. bronze gear,  Crushers dexterous shoes
78. Brisk cap, Crushers winter vestment
79.  Vestment of the sun, shoes of the devoted, Crushers mysterious cap
80. Spikes vestment of history
81. Agents Kris, caramel popcorn, Crushers winter vestment
82. Medium fish, Spikes mechanical visor
83. Spikes boots of excellence
84. Stinky cheese, white rat magician pet
85. Exquisite slippers, Crushers mysterious cap, leather straps, redskin peanut
86. Redskin peanut, Gummy bloodbat, Spikes vestment of history, leather straps
87. Crushers milk bottle
88. Vestment of the sun, High quality cloak, Spikes mechanical visor
89. Square watermelon, empty milk cartons
90. Wheat cracker, medium fish, Crushers mysterious cap
91. Empty milk cartons
92. Stinky cheese, Spikes vestment of history
93. Shamans hat, square watermelon, milk carton
94. Polished garments, square watermelon, Spikes boots of excellence
95. Shoes of the devoted, empty milk cartons
96. Spikes amulet of smiting, square watermelon
97. Wheat cracker, Crushers winter vestment
98. leather straps, milk carton, bronze gear, square watermelon
99. Crushers hat, bronze gear
100. Slippers of predominance, medium fish, bronze gear, Spikes vestment of history, leather straps.

Big Ben. Yes That Old Dungeon!

Big Ben, love it or hate it and lots of you out there seem to hate it,  is actually one of my favourite dungeons,  so I thought I'd give it its own dedicated talk through blog post.  Big Ben is the dungeon with a little bit of everything, puzzles, secret bosses and lots,  oh yes, lots of unavoidable fights.  It's the final dungeon in Marleybone,  where you get to face Meowiarty,  an ugly looking cat whose been helping Malistaire wreak havoc.  Located in the Royal Museum the dungeon is a tower with fifteen floors,  though a few little tricks can be used to make things a little easier.

 

 

The Entrance.

• The first floor is occupied by Travis Pawman and two O'leary Connivers ( Balance ),  you need to speak to Travis to progress through the dungeon,  the fight with the O'leary Connivers is unavoidable,  there is no sneaking around them,  ( Unless you are doing the dungeon with a friend and you let them enter the fight,  you will then be able to go around the fight to speak to Travis,  you can do this with all of the fights in the dungeon )  

• Floor two is occupied by a Streetsweeper ( myth ) and an O'leary conniver ( balance )

•  Floor three,  no fight here there are two red wisps in the room.  Travis Pawman is back in the room and basically informs you that you are on your own for the rest of the dungeon.  Like he had helped anyway!  Jack Thistleberry, another NPC is also in the room he will give you a quest to open chests that are located throughout the dungeon.  Although the dungeon Big Ben is repeatable,  once opened these chests cannot be opened again.

•  Floor 4 is occupied by a Filcher ( Ice ) and a Kettlehead ( Balance )

• Floor 5 is occupied by a Filcher ( Ice ) and and O'Leary Rowdy ( Ice )

• Floor 6 is occupied by a Gearhead ( Storm ) and a Kettlehead ( Balance ) ,  In this room is the first of three milk bottles spread throughout the dungeon,  if you would like to fight an additional boss later in the game, knock this over.

Notice the shield on the way out! Don't forget to spill the milk.

•  Floor 7 is occupied by an O'Leary Rowdy ( Ice ) and two Brown Recluse spiders  ( Life ).  This room also contains four wooden chests,  you can open one of these if you have Jack Thistleberrys quest.  Two red wisps can also be found on this floor,  you will not be able to reach them until after the fight.

• Floor 8 is a puzzle room,  on floors 4, 5, 6 and 7 when you leave the floor a shield close to the exit has a glowing gold symbol, make a note of these symbols and just stand on the corresponding floor tile.  You can go back into the rooms to check back for these.  Or you could just let me give you the code its snowflake, bird, weird looking dog thing, and moon.  After lighting up the floor tiles by standing on them you need to pull the lever which opens up the rest of the dungeon.  It does not matter in what order you light up the floor tiles.

Lighting up the tiles and pulling the lever.

• Floor 9 has a Filcher ( Ice ) and a Nightmare Spirit ( Death )

• Floor 10 has a Kettlehead ( Balance ) and a Nightmare Spirit ( Death ).  The second milk bottle is in this room.

• Floor 11 has two nightmare spirits ( Death ) and a potbelly ( Storm ).  If you have the quest you can open one silver chest in this room.

The end is now in sight,  no fight in the next room.

• Floor 12  good news you can find some much needed red and blue wisps in this room.  This room has a nice little trick too,  fill up on some of the wisps making sure to leave some still floating.  Now wait a few minutes,  check your deck or something,  just don't leave the room.  The wisps will then all regenerate to the initial number when you entered the room.  You can also return to this room to pick up any wisps left remaining after you leave,  which can prove a handy energy source.  A stray cat can also be found in this room,  it is behind some tall crates on the left when you enter the room.

•  Floor 13 has a potbelly ( Storm ) and a shield skeleton ( Death ).  The last milk bottle is in this room,  if have knocked all the milk bottles over you will get to fight the optional boss Spike the Crusher in the next room.  Spike has two potbellys in the room with him,  you can leave the milk bottle standing go into the next room and fight the potbellys.  Go back into the previous room and knock the milk bottle over to face Spike on his own!

• Floor 14 Spike the Crusher, optional boss ( Fire ) and two potbellys ( Storm ).  There are two red wisps in this room.

Your going down Spike

•  Floor 15 Yay you have done it, your nearly at the end just Meowiarty ( Myth ) and his pals to go, Agony Wraith ( Death ) and a Clockwork wizard ( Life ).  The gold chests are also located in this room,  one of which you can open if you have the quest.  The book from the quest reading into the past is also in this room.

Meowiartys about to leave his pals to face the music alone!

 Throughout the dungeon you will find plenty of scrap iron and mistwood,  the creatures also seem to drop alot more furniture than usual.  Newspaper pages, blue balls of yarn, crossbone gravestones, tin cans, short metal fences, altars with candles, angled gravestones and steins can all be picked up from the street enemies in this dungeon.
You will probably need some potion bottles to complete the dungeon,  as running low on manna can become a real problem.  As the dungeons so long I would recommend going in with friends,  as it just helps move the game along a little faster.  Most of all enjoy it and don't forget to collect the Stray cat and the book at the end. 

Happy New Year To All

Well I hope you all enjoyed Christmas and the New Year period.  And yes the month of December passed without a single blog post.  It was just such a massively busy month for us here, with new schools started, MANY Christmas productions to attend as well as just getting ready for and enjoying Christmas ourselves. Wizard was still played and enjoyed by all and now we are pretty much back to blogging as usual. 
Anyway I am happy to say that Christmas resulted in a few extra additions to our household.  Now I know its generally considered a ' No No ' to purchase pets for Christmas and yes we did buy pets as Christmas presents.  We had however being in discussions for these pets since early June,  thats no flit decision and they are completely adored. 
So let the huge imaginary drum roll commence,  let me introduce Potter and Weasley, our newest furry family members.

Yes we are Guinea pigs

Well I hope you all have a fantastic New Year filled with amazing achievements both in Wizard and throughout your lives.

Gnissa And Searching For Spiders

Gnissa Farming Results
I decided to farm Gnissa in Savarstaad pass/Grizzleheim ( my standard 100 farms ) as its said she drops spider pets.  Gnissa is a myth boss with 800 health, her minion is an ice webwood creeper.
Gnissa is a bit of a tricky boss to farm as first you have to catch her,  you can find her inside a hollow log,  surrounded by webwood creeper spiders close to Skathi and Wildroot. Also, Gnissa does not show up on the map,  her location is labelled on the map below,  the green teleporter takes drops you closest to her.

Being surrounded by webwood creepers makes Gnissa a little difficult to tag.  The amount of times I thought I had managed to reach Gnissa only to end up facing two webwood creppers, well it was alot!  Also Gnissa is not in a dungeon,  there is no sigil to stand on. So if she's not there ( she's already been fought in that realm ) you will need to either wait a while until she respawns or change realms.  Sadly I did not pick up a pet from Gnissa after 100 battles I did pick up some more couch potatoes,  which appear to be becoming a standard drop in Savarstaad Pass.  Just because I didn't pick up a pet doesn't mean she doesn't drop one,  I may just have been unlucky after all I remember, ( never being able to forget, shudder ) the 300+  fights it took to get my yellow ghost pet from  King Selfish himself AKA King Shemet Djeserit.  I will probably continue to farm her awhile and log the number of fights but not record the dropped items.  The most common item Gnissa dropped was the athame the Reapers quill,  she also drops alot of lower level pet snacks.

Gnissa midspell, aww look at the pretty lights!

And The Couch Potato Drop!

She killed our queen, whilst she screen captures the drop lets get her!

Fighting Gnissa aso greatly helped me to gain the badge the badge spiderbane,  yep I've now killed over 500 spiders!

Yep I don't like spiders, its official now.

A quick summary of Gnissas drops follows.

For those who want to know every item Gnissa dropped and how many times, the data is below;

Hats
Doomfollwers hat - 12
Cap of the lost heritage - 14
Circlet of fortune - 2
Cowl of the flameslinger - 3
Cap of dread - 2

Robes
Robe of elan - 10
Vestment of smoke -12
Tunic of atarxia - 1
Robe of elegies - 1
Vestment of serenity - 1
Drape of the white squall - 1
Thanatoid vestment - 1

Boots
Footguards of the disciple - 1
Boots of precipitation - 1
Striders of strife -2
Footgear of the firehaze - 2
Applicants shoes - 14
Slippers of diligence - 1
Ice-caked striders - 9
Hibernall footwraps - 1

Athames
Reapers quill - 16
Bodkin of fury - 1

Rings
Maelstroms Loop - 12
Seal of the tundra - 1

Pet snacks
Chocolate strawberry - 3
Meat soup - 8
Cheese Broccoli - 3
Tasty biscuit - 11
Taco - 4
Moon Pie - 8
Tomato soup - 1
Sugar donut - 2

Reagents
Spidersilk - 5

Plants
Boomshroom - 1
Desparagus - 4
Couch potatoes - 1
Laugh a-dil - 1
Honeysickle - 1

Treasure cards 
Sniper - 1
Sprite - 3
Cyclops - 1
Weakness - 1
Pacify 1
Dryad - 1


Even after 100 fights, its too few to say that this is a definitive list of every item dropped by Gnissa or to ascertain an overall percentage for the drop rate of an item. However, I think it definitely highlights what you are likely to get as well as a few more choice items you may want to work at getting. ( Just remember the guys at wizard can add and remove items from the game ) If you really want to go into the 100 battle drops any further I have the fight number and tally of items received below.

1. Boomshroom, doom followers hat, spidersilk
2. Robe of elan
3. Cap of the lost heritage
4. Vestment of smoke
5. Striders of strife, vestment of smoke, sniper TC
6. cap of the lost heritage, footgear of the firehaze, sprite TC
7. Vestment of smoke
8. Circlet of fortune
9. Cap of the lost heritage
10. Vestment of smoke
11. Applicants shoes, meat soup
12. Slippers of diligence, reapers quill, cheese broccoli
13. Cowl of the flameslinger, meat soup, vestment of smoke
14. Reapers Quill
15. tasty biscuit, cap of the lost heritage, cheese broccoli, tunic of atarxia
16. Bodkin of fury, ice-caked striders
17. Hibernal footwraps, ice-caked striders
18. Meat soup, reapers quill, sprite TC
19. Cap of the lost heritage
20. Doomfollowers cap
21. Desparagus, robe of elan
22. Couch potatoes, reapers quill
23. Reapers quill
24. Maelstroms loop, taco
25. Robe of elan
26.  Meat soup, doomfollowers hat
27. Desparagus, cap of the lost heritage
28. Reapers quill, tasty biscuit
29. Moon Pie, Robe of elan
30. Doomfollowers hat
31. Tasty biscuit, applicants shoes
32. Desparagus, Maelstroms loop
33. Doomfollowers hat
34. Doomfollowers hat
35. Maelstroms loop
36. Moon Pie, applicants shoes
37. Maelstroms loop
38. Meat soup, Ice-caked striders
39. Applicants shoes
40. Robe of elegies, moon pie, robe of elan
41. Maelstroms loop, tomato soup
42. Applicants shoes
43. Tasty biscuit, vestment of smoke
44. Maelstroms loop, tasty biscuit
45. Cap of the lost heritage, cyclops TC
46. Applicants shoes
47. Robe of elan, laugh a-dil, meat soup, boots of precipitation
48. Doomfollowers hat
49. Circlet of fortune, honeysickle
50. Vestment of smoke
51. Moon pie, cap of the lost heritage, ice caked striders
52. Doomfollowers hat, meat soup
53. Reapers quill
54. Cap of the lost heritage
55. Doomfollowers hat, moon pie
56. Vestment of serenity, robe of elan
57. Cap of the lost heritage, chocolate strawberry, cowl of the flameslinger
58. Ice-caked striders
59. Meat soup, reapers quill
60. Footguards of the disciple
61. Reapers quill
62. Tasty biscuit, applicants shoes, taco
63. Vestment of smoke
64. Applicants shoes
65. Moon pie,  doomfollowers hat
66. Tasty biscuit, striders of strife,ice-caked striders
67. Moon pie, drape of the white squall, cap of the lost heritage
68. Reapers quill
69. Thanatoid vestment, vestment of smoke
70. Ice-caked striders
71. Robe of elan
72. Cap of the lost heritage, cowl of the flameslinger, sugar donut
73. Spidersilk, reapers quill, weakness TC
74. Maelstroms loop, taco
75. Applicants shoes, chocolate strawberry
76. Doomfollowers hat
77. Vestment of smoke
78. Vestment of smoke
79. Ice caked striders, sugar donut
80. Robe of elan, cheese broccoli
81. Reapers quill, desparagus
82. Vestment of smoke, footgear of the firehaze
83. Applicants shoes
84. Maelstroms loop, pacify TC
85. Doomfollowers hat, moon pie
86. Seal of the tundra, sprite TC, Applicants shoes, spidersilk
87. Applicants shoes, spidersilk
88. Reapers quill, spidersilk
89. Reapers quill
90. Applicants shoes
91. Reapers quill, spidersilk
92. Maelstroms loop
93. Robe of elan, taco
94. Dryad TC, cap of dread, ice-caked striders, tasty biscuit
95. Tasty biscuit, maelstroms loop
96. Applicants shoes
97. Maelstroms loop
98. Cap of the lost heritage, tasty biscuit
99. Maelstroms loop, tasty biscuit
100. Cap of the lost heritage.

Wizard Harvest Give Away!

 Wizard are currently hosting a great harvest give away, pet snacks and gold!
The blurb from their face book post is as follows;
To show our appreciation to our wonderful Community, we’re giving our players a free awesome pet snack plus gold to spend in the game. Just redeem the code "thx13w" at https://www.wizard101.com/promo/thx13w
 The code may be used one time per account and gives you a chance at up to 5,000 gold plus a Harvest themed pet snack!
Get your free gifts now because this offer ends December 1st, 2013 at 11:59pm US Central Time.

Up to 5,000 gold now that's not too shabby!  We were lucky enough to receive 1,000 gold and a fancy pudding,

Good luck to everyone else, remember its a freebie so you can't really go wrong!

New houses and pets levelled.

 New Houses -  Housing Tours Out Later Today!
Yay the housing tours are up and running as well as the new world Khrysalis.  I am really looking forward to the housing tours, as are the other members of our wizarding family!
 In terms of our own wizard housing, as well as the fire school house recently purchased for my fire wizard.  Due to incessant recent  farming, my ice wizard was also able to leave her dorms and obtain her first house. ( All houses have been bought with gold )  I went for an ice house, ( Cause shes ice! ). Its pretty much undecorated as yet, but I'm hoping to go for an eternal Christmas theme as the house provides the perfect backdrop for this.

Love the huge Titan statues in the background.

This means, I guess more farming ahead,  for lots of snowy pines and ice related furniture.  Oh well the farming never ends here.  One of my favourite things about the ice house is the hidden cave with a gobbler frozen in the ice.  If you watch him long enough he blinks.

He will blink in the Ice house!

I also levelled my enchanted armour pet to adult,  I knew he was a very, very mixed pet so had no idea what he might manifest.  He is beginning to look though he might be the perfect companion for my death wizard.

Another death related talent!

I will probably keep on levelling him up rather than hatching for different stats.  My death wizard pretty much takes care of her own healing,  so she is not really missing out not having a pet with a heal talent and the enchanted blade card he gives at baby is very, very handy!

Well I'm off to have a good nose around all those tour houses!

So What Exactly Is My Pet

Nightwalker, Deadly Nightwalker?

I have being levelling up my pet Nightwalker,  Queen Trixie. A successful new hatched pet from the hatchery when I realised that I wasn't exactly sure what she actually was.  The Nightwalker pet I had believed was a hybrid pet mix of Wraith and Orthrus,  that gives a Wraith card at baby.  But Trixie gives does not give a spell card until she has reached ancient,  the deadly minotaur card.

Queen trixie, Nightwalker without the Wraith card?

 Apparently there used to be a Deadly Nightwalker pet,  when the hatchery first came out that did give this card!  That pet has been retired,  so maybe Queen Trixie is some strange mix of the Nightwalker and Deadly Nightwalker or maybe she's just a fluke. Maybe all new hatches of the Deadly Nightwalker just get called a Nightwalker as the other pet is now retired. Who knows?  I can't find any reference to what the original retired Deadly Nightwalkers stats were like and a Nightwalker being a hybrid pet, only has a mix of its parents stats.  Either way I'm pleased with the talent Trixie manifested at adult, pain giver.

Queen Trixie getting Adult, Yay.

This leaves alot of epic talents left undiscovered on this Trixie,  so hopefully she'll manifest something worthwhile at ancient as well as giving me the Minotaur card.  To be honest she has not manifested anything from my Onyx Shenlong Dragon I used to hatch with,  but this pet has only be levelled up to ancient and was not a pure mix to begin with.

Trixies unfilled stats.

In order to speed Trixies levelling up along, I have been feeding her as many mega snacks as possible,  she also loves death candy snacks and even though cauliflowers isn't a death candy snack, she still gets a +7 rather than the +6 expected each time.  I guess I'll be concentrating alot more on my gardening for mega's and death candy pet snacks for the next couple of weeks.

Gurtok Barrier Demon The High Lord Of Train Sets.

Gurtok Barrier Demon 100 Battles Farming Results.

With a pet in mind I decided to commit to my standard 100 farming combats with the Gurtok Barrier Demon.  He was rumoured to drop the fire bat pet.  You can find him in Grizzleheim - Ravenscar,  he's a fire boss with 7000 life points.  He doesn't have a minion and forms part of the blood brother quest line.  A couple of things if you do decide to fight/farm him,  he does indeed drop the firebat pet ( Only took until the 82nd fight, Sigh ).  He also drops a nice housing item,  the small toy train set ALOT.  When I say alot I mean it,  it was literally every other fight.  Really 49 fights out of the 100 he dropped that train set!  Whilst its a nice housing item,  it has sound and movement,  the cute little train whizzes around its track,  it becomes really boring if thats all your getting. Still I gritted my teeth, stuck it out and got the pet in the end.  ( Good things aren't supposed to be easy after all are they! ) 
Gurtoks most common drops were the forementioned toy train and the reagent ectoplasm.

Gurtok pre battle

 If you have already fought Gurtok you will need to reset him for battle by clicking 'x ' on any of the braziers in his lair

Go on take another train!

The highlights of Gurtoks drops
Small Toy Train drop

Another Train set, it can go with the other squillion, thanks.

Evil Snow Peas Drop

Yay it wasn't a train

Fire Bat Pet Drop

And finally a firebat, phew.

 A quick summary of the Gurtock barrier demons drops follows.

 If you want to know every item Gurtok dropped and how many times, the data is below;


Hats
Headdress of expiry - 7
Cap of substinance - 7
Skystorm cowl - 5


Robes
Cloak of divination - 10
Smock of the haruspex - 6
Tunic of the everlasting - 5


Boots
Fuming striders - 5
Shoes of serenity - 7


Housing
Small toy train set - 49
Huge ice cream - 4


Plants
Pink laugh-a-dil - 4
Evil snow peas - 2


Pet snacks
Poncherello chips - 3
Spicy popcorn - 3
Golden candy bar - 4
Golden biscuit - 2
Fairy cake - 4


Pets
Fire bat - 1


Treasure cards
Scarecrow - 1


Reagents
Ectoplasm - 11


Even after 100 fights, its too few to say that this is a definitive list of every item dropped by the Gurtok Barrier Demon or to ascertain an overall percentage for the drop rate of an item. However, I think it definitely highlights what you are likely to get ( a small toy train set ) as well as a few more choice items you may want to work at getting. ( Just remember the guys at wizard can add and remove items from the game ) If you really want to go into the 100 battle drops any further I have the fight number and tally of items received below.

1. Small toy train, huge ice cream
2. Small toy train
3. Small toy train, poncherello chips
4. Cloak of divination
5. Cloak of divination
6. Headdress of expiry, pink laugh-a-dil
7. Fuming striders, scarecrow treasure card
8. Cap of substinance
9. Small toy train
10. Small toy train
11. Smock of the haruspex
12. Headdress of expiry
13. Small toy train, ectoplasm
14. Small toy train, huge ice cream
15. Small toy train, pink laugh-a-dil
16. Small toy train
17. Shoes of serenity
18. Cloak of divination
19.  Small toy train
20. Skystorm cowl, pink laugh-a-dil, poncherello chips
21. Small toy train, poncherello chips, ectoplasm
22. Smock of the haruspex
23. Small toy train, huge ice cream
24. Small toy train
25. small toy train
26. Cloak of divination
27. Small toy train
28. Headdress of expiry
29. Small toy train, spicy popcorn, ectoplasm
30. Small toy train, pink laugh-a-dil
31. Small toy train
32. Fuming striders
33. Small toy train
34. Cloak of divination, golden candy bar
35. Tunic of the everlasting
36. Cap of substinance, ectoplasm
37. Fuming striders
38. Small toy train, spicy popcorn
39. Fuming striders
40. Cap of substinance
41. Skystorm cowl
42. Shoes of serenity, golden candy bar
43. Skystorm cowl, ectoplasm
44. Small toy train
45. Shoes of serenity, golden biscuit
46. Small toy train
47. Small toy train
48. Small toy train
49. Fuming striders
50. Shoes of serenity
51. Small toy train
52. Small toy train
53. Cloak of divination
54. Small toy train
55. Small toy train
56. Shoes of serenity, fairy cake
57. Small toy train
58. Small toy train
59. Small toy train
60. Tunic of the everlasting
61. Small toy train, ectoplasm
62. Small toy train
63. Smock of the haruspex
64. Small toy train
65. Skystorm cowl
66. Cloak of divination, spicy popcorn
67. Headdress of expiry, golden candy bar
68. Tunic of the everlasting
69. Cap of substinance, huge ice cream, ectoplasm
70. Small toy train
71. Cap of substinance, ectoplasm
72. Smock of the haruspex
73. Headdress of expiry, evil snow peas
74. Cloak of divination
75. Small toy train
76. Cloak of divination
77. Small toy train, golden biscuit
78. Shoes of serenity, ectoplasm
79. Smock of the haruspex
80. Small toy train
81. Shoes of serenity
82. Small toy train, Fire Bat Pet
83. Tunic of the everlasting
84. Cap of substinance, ectoplasm
85. Small toy train
86. Cap of substinance, fairy cake
87. Small toy train
88. Headdress of expiry, Evil snow peas
89. Small toy train
90. Small toy train
91. Headdress of expiry, 
92. Small toy train
93. Shoes of serenity, fairy cake
94. Skystorm cowl
95. Smock of the haruspex
96. Small toy train
97.  Small toy train, fairy cake
98. Small Toy Train
99. Tunic of the everlasting
100. Small toy train, golden candy bar

Behind The Scenes At Hogwarts.

It's still on the topic of wizards but not those of Wizard 101, we recently had the amazing opportunity to check out the world of Harry Potter at the Warner Bros making of Harry Potter tour.  We decided not to tell the children we were all going so they awoke to a letter ( owl post ) inviting them to Hogwarts and travel trunks with the Gryffindor robes inside.

To say they were excited is a gross underestimation of the mood that morning.  We had to try and tone things down a little because as far as they were concerned they were off to the real Hogwarts, to stay.  As Connor explained ' No moms and dads allowed, I'll see you again at Christmas '

It really is a great place to visit and if you have an interest in Harry Potter you can spend a good few hours looking at all the props, effects and behind the scenes secrets.  On a side note it would have been nice to have more interactive objects as it was pretty much a look but don't touch deal. 

All dressed up outside, ready to go in.

In the great hall.

Waiting for lunch!

Wand selection, a testing time for the young wizard.

The 3D model they have of Hogwarts is amazing.  Its huge,  it blew the childrens minds, they were simply awestruck and I do think they will remember it for the rest of their lives.  Keira being a massive art fan just loved all the concept art drawings for the film as well as the secrets of the special effects.

Some items in the gift shop are a little pricey,  but somethings you just have to buy;

The every flavour beans, be afraid, be very afraid.

Yes these are genuinely every flavour beans,  I still have not yet recovered.  Or rather my tongue will never ever recover from the flavour ' dirt ' It took hours to get the taste out of my mouth and I didn't even eat the thing.  I just bit into it!  No amount of toothpaste, mouthwash or prayers could shift the taste.  It truly was a thing of evil. 

It was a bit of a let down leaving the magic behind to return to the muggle world.  Oh well,  time to start planning our next adventure!

My Latest Pet Aquisitions

I thought I'd complete a mini update on some of my latest new/original  ( When I say new/original I mean not a duplication of any pets I currently own ) pet acquisitions.  Some have been bought, some farmed most hatched.
Earning loads of gold from my recent farming I had money to burn, literally.  Using gold I treated myself to some red barn farms, the wysteria mansion and a fire house for my fire wizard. Who was wondering why she didn't have her own school of magic home,  or at least I was informed she felt this way by my son!  I still had a ton of gold left so decided to hang out in the hatchery, one of my favourite pastimes anyway.  OK I did get a fair few duplications but in terms of original pets for myself, but from the hatchery I managed to acquire;

A Nightwalker,  which will give me the death minotaur spell at ancient,  she has a pretty good pedigree too With the very becoming name of Queen Trixie.

  I have levelled her up to teen and he has gained the ability ' drop it ' Pretty handy I suppose.

And a velociraptor.  I haven't levelled her up yet but she looks promising as a companion for my fire wizard.

A Meow Wing was also hatched,  she has unicorn and spritely so far as talents,  which are always useful.

My last,  but probably so far my favourite pet received from the hatchery was the enchanted armour

I am really pleased with this one as the card he gives at baby, enchanted blade lets you add 10% to your blade cards.  Which is a fantastic spell,  a word from the wise.  Use your blade when you get it,  I had a cunning plan to try to let the powered up blades once set up to fall back into my treasure deck.  So I could have an amazing arsenal of blades in my deck.  Great plan,  but no sadly this does not work.  They just disappear if they remain unused.

My farmed pets were the White Rat Magician from Spike the Crusher;

and a Firebat from Gurtok Barrier Demon.

From packs I picked up a scorpion pet,  his not yet levelled up and sorry will try to add a photo,  but he has been * cough * hidden away in one of my wizards houses  By my son playing the game of find where I hid our stuff.
I will let you know how they level up and perform,  so far though I just love that enchanted armour!