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 :)

Happy New Year - Abit late

Hi everyone, sorry about the long gap between posts, but once the children break up from school its very difficult to find time to do anything. I hope you all had a great Christmas and have had a wonderful New Years. I have been making slow but sure progress throughout the worlds of the spiral. My life wizard is about to face Mailstaire, again. This time its actually my quest yay! I have previously helped out others with Mailstaire before I'd got the quest. The good thing is due to this I think I've worked out a few tricks for completing that tricky dungeon. So now its my life wizards turn I'm hoping things run smoothly and maybe this time I'll get the life robe. ( Fingers crossed ). I have however been helping out my husband in Celestia and Wintertusk a lot with my life wizard and have been picking up some great clothing drops from there. So by the time I get my life robe from Malistaire I'll probably have reached a high enough level to wear that stuff and Malistaire's life robe won't really be my best clothing option anymore.

I have obtained quite a few more pets during the Christmas period, I never managed to get a Christmas pet in the end but did get my level 48 life pet The Satyr, a Rain Beetle, a Life Beetle, a Fire Serpent, a Fierce Hound, a Starfish and three more Storm Cats. 

Rain Beetle - Hopefully some good talents.

My Fierce Hound - Have a feeling he's not going to manifest spritely :(

 

Fluffy The Starfish - He looks weirdly naked from the back view!

I bought the Starfish for gold from the pet vendor in Celestia. The Life beetle and Fire serpent were dropped pets. The storm cats were all failed attempts at new pets but two have spritely in their parentage as well as other great traits I may train them up all the way to epic to see what they manifest and dish them out to my other wizards. The Rain Beetle and Fierce hound were successful hatches.

I am also looking forward to hopefully the elder harvest of one of my boon trees today. – I have heard they can drop pets, 7 day mounts as well as mega pet snacks. I am hoping this is true, I have not had much luck with these at all. I've managed to kill them so many times, I just haven't been able to get online so alas they have perished and been bought back from the dead a lot. So at my elder harvest they will probably give me nothing for being the worst gardener ever!

I'm really sorry boon trees for making Christmas a time of death for you.

 Thanks for reading.

Farming For Christmas Gear

I have been farming Lord Nightshade a lot over this past week in the hopes of receiving some Christmas Gear without having to spend any precious crowns. I have heard rumours on the message boards of some of the bosses dropping Christmas pets but these appear to be only rumours. No one appears to have directly received one, rather they know someone who says they have. So no real substantiated proof yet. There does appear however to be a lot more buzz about him dropping bits and pieces of the Santa suit. I have not been lucky enough to earn any of these items yet. I am able to happily confirm that he does drop the Christmas wands, though these are very rare drops. I have managed to pick up the nutcracker wand, the sweet staff, the ornamental paper staff and the candle wand. That’s the good news – the bad news is it took just over 250 battles for him to drop these. So he is dropping Christmas items, just not very often. I just love the nutcracker wand, soo cute.

Candle Wand

 

 

 

 

Sweet Staff

The Nut Cracker Wand - Too Cute.

The Ornamental Paper Wand.

What to do with all that Gold?

After failing to acquire any Christmas pets from boss drops ( I am now pretty sure they Christmas pets are not dropped. ) I spent some time at the hatchery hoping to find another wizard with one of the Christmas pets who was willing to hatch with me. Sadly although there were a lot of the new pets at the hatchery, I just kept on coming across babies.  So still no Christmas pets for me :(

After all the Lord Nightshade farming I had quite a surplus of gold and received some great offers from other wizards for hatching with my Storm Cat.  OK he is no run of the mill storm Cat I hatched him up with my Sea Dragon as a result he has some great stats.  Through these recent hatchings I now have a red gobbler - quite a low pedigree pet initially.  But he is really sweet looking so I couldn't resist,  he actually came out with a pedigree that wasn't too bad after hatching.  I am not sure what talents he will produce as I have not trained him yet but am looking forward to finding out.

Isn't he adorable.

The second pet I gained was an Evil Sandman - I am really pleased with this one overall.  This was once a crowns pet that I believe has now been discontinued.  I have trained him to adult,  no outstanding abilities so far,  but no selfish talents either and he came out with a high pedigree so I don't think he will manifest any!  He also has a the sandstorm card at baby which is a great little bonus.  

Thanks to those who hatched with me.  I have not given up on the Christmas drops yet - so watch this space.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Christmas Is Here At The Spiral Finally   - Yayyyyyyyy

The below blurb is taken from the Ravenwood  Bulletin

 It's beginning to look a lot like Yuletide! Hello, I'm Felix Navidad, and I'll be appearing in the Spiral a few days from now to start off the Yuletide Festival. We hold the Yuletide Festival every year and this year it's going to be spectacular!

There will be decorations in the Wizard City Commons, and I'll be taking up my usual post at the fountain in the Wizard City Shopping District. I have many Yuletide themed items for sale, and you'll find many more will be arriving in the Crown Shop throughout the month of December, so keep checking back for new items!

We'll also be holding a special event later in the month with sales, promotions, giveaways and lots of exciting surprises. 

And he is there now in Olde Town.  He has some great Christmas items as well as the pets the Frostman, the Christmas Elf and the Yuletide spirit.  All items can be picked up with crowns.  I will be undertaking some serious boss farming and will let you know if I pick any of the Christmas goodies up and from who.

End of Krokotopia, Planting, Crafting and Mistakes...

The End of Krokotopia

Finally my Ice wizard has finished Krokotopia, I had set apart a night to complete Krokopatras dungeon but finished it in about 25 mins. I remember how long it took me the first time I completed it using my Fire Wizard so I am guessing I am improving. Picked up a lot of pink dandelions from drops, but no more pets and nothing outstanding in the way of equipment.   Well Roll on Marleybone.

Krokopatras Demise

Have I got Sand In my Hair?

 

Gardening, Gnomes, Blue Yarn and Weapons Racks.

Well just a few updates on my gardening progress. I have been beavering away in my garden with my life wizard for a while now and reached the rank of master gardener. Apart from planting my plants and making sure they are next to plants they like I haven’t really done much else for them. So I recently picked up some gnomes knowing they make the plants happier. After this I decided to do a few more things for them. I had heard that Blue Yarn, a drop in Marylebone makes any type of dandelion a lot happier. So having picked up this item awhile ago on my life wizard placed it by them and yes it appeared as a like and the dandelions are growing faster!

Thanks for the wool

After the success of the blue yarn,  I decided to help improve the happiness of my honeysickles.  I had already surrounded them with the plants they like and had read I think on Wiki that they also liked the crafted Weapons rack.  Now I have never crafted anything other than the items specified in my crafting quests,  it was about time I took the initiative and did some I thought.  So I picked up the crafting recipe from Felicia Worthington in Marleybone,  then realised I needed a housing crafting table.  I picked this up from Mooshu at the housing shop.  All ready, to go then - luckily I have been doing lots of farming as the recipe for the weapons rack requires alot of ectoplasm,  44 pieces and a fair bit of scrap iron.  Anyway weapons rack was dutifully crafted and placed by the honeysickes and yipee, it does make them happier.  This has given me the drive to spend alittle more time exploring both the gardening and crafting both of which had been neglected.

Happy Honeysickle :)

Another Huge Mistake By Me - Mutation Spells
I have decided to share my many mistakes and misadventures,  many would keep them to themselves.  But if it helps prevent someone else making the same mistake its worth it.  I have been saving all my gold very carefully on my ice wizard,  I want the ice house and don't want to pay crowns.  So I just have to save 100,000 gold,  it can be done. ( I managed it with my life house ).

However,  I am a great fan of the fire elf spell,  it's great for taking shields off.   Now I know there is an ice elf spell.  Wouldn't it be great if my ice wizard had some of those I thought. I have the Fire Elf spell on my Ice wizard as a result of obtaining the Elven Pendant which gives me the spell card.  I have not paid much attention to them before but am aware of the ' mutate ' treasure cards. I knew there was a mutate elf card, I can just mix this with my fire elf card, it's just what I need I thought. At 800 gold coins each from the Bazaar they are not cheap but I think well worth it in the long run so I spent most my hard earned gold savings on ten of them, yup that’s 8000 gold on the mutate fire to ice elf spell. This all seemed like an excellent idea at the time, but no it was a complete waste of gold and a massive amount of gold at that. I can't use the spell!!!!!! The Fire Elf spell is not a spell I have trained from my schools, its from a treasure item so cant be mixed, just like treasure card spells cant be combined. I really should have thought of this first or just bought one and tried it out so its completely my fault, but I am still gutted.   And so now I know the mutate spells only work on spells you are trained in.

Elven Pendant + Mutate Ice Elf = Stupid mistake

Only 8000 Gold down. Great!!!

More Giveaways - Yay

First things first a big thankyou to the Friendly Necromancer for the link to the MMORG givewawy on his wizard blog The Friendly Necromancers Wizard Giveaway Link   I picked up a Krokotopian Hammock and a Wyverns Hoard Pack which contained permenant purple fairy wings. Very, very pleased there are still items left so its definitely worth having a look.

Facebook also has another Free Mount Giveaway – The Ostrich Mount.

Ostrich Giveaway

Attend this Facebook event for a chance to win a Permanent Ostrich Mount! This week we're giving away a Permanent Ostrich Mount for our Weekly Giveaway! Each winner will be given one code that will grant them one Permanent Ostrich Mount that increases travel speed by 40% when equipped.

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

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.

 

Just How Are My Wizards Getting On

I am  progressing slowly but surely through the game. I have reached the last dungeon in Krokotopia with my ice wizard who is now a level 26 and has finally got her blizzard spell. Yay. I am looking forward to finally reaching Marleybone with her and hope to finish Wizard City with my death wizard shortly. Have not made any real progress with my life or fire wizards in Dragonspyre due to concentrating on these lower level ones. Sadly not much else to report. Good luck with the Giveaways.

Chance of a free mount anyone?

New mounts available – Face book chance to win one.

As you may have noticed there are some great new mounts available in the crowns shop. The Hippogriff and the Crokagator. There is a chance to win one of the new mounts on face book.  Good luck everyone. I have attached the link and blurb, remember you can't win if you don't try! Hippogriff Giveaway

Attend this extended Facebook event for a chance to win a new Permanent Hippogriff Mount! This time we're giving away a Permanent Hippogriff Mount for our Weekly Giveaway! Each winner will be given one code that will grant them one Permanent Hippogriff Mount that will increase travel speed by 40% when equipped.

All you have to do is click the "JOIN" button on the Event Page, and MONDAY we will randomly choose 15 lucky attendees to receive a code for the item.

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 MONDAY (note this is an EXTENDED timeframe)

Isn't he sooooo cute!

 Unicorn Finally Shows Up - Nope Not The Statue.

I am beginning to think that my wizards do not have adventures in the world of Wizard 101, rather just a serious of misadventures. And yes it appears to be official,  continuing on from my last post of just when Lady Blackhope will drop her Unicorn Statue. Lady Blackhope no longer drops the Unicorn Statue. Thanks to all who got in touch about this, the Unicorn Statue can now be purchased with crowns/gold in the Crowns shop. It currently costs 7500 gold. Well at least I know. I now no longer have to run down the streets of Unicorn Way hoping no one sees me in my dragonspyre get up and starts sniggering ' What are you doing here, Dragonspyre too hard for you? ' On the theme of Unicorns, there was a visit from one in Unicorn way today. I do love it when they make an appearance.

Unicorn In Unicorn Way Today Ahhhhhh.

Pet feeding and what has happened to the Unicorn Statue?

Pet feeding

It's new and it's here. Are you making use of it yet? Those extra items in your backpack can now be fed to your pets. I have been giving it a go with mixed results.  I have been doing some seriously low level farming of Lady Blackhope in Unicorn way and instead of taking all of the loot back to the bazaar to sell decided to feed a lot of it to my pet with very mixed results. 

Spells, reagents, gold, very little if any pet experience. I tried feeding some of my higher level loot mainly ' level 45 ' items with very similar results. Their does not appear to be a set rule on what you will get. It is just like taking a gamble. If you feed your pet your chosen loot item and just get gold it will not be the same level of gold you would have received if you sold the item at the bazaar. It seems to be roughly about 20% of the value. If,  however you receive reagents or spells their value seems to be usually greater than that of the gold value ( at the bazaar of the item ) . 

As an example the low level loot item Cloak of Calamity can usually be sold for a profit of around 7 gold coins at the bazaar. Upon feeding it to my pet I received 2 gold coins, the next time I fed it to my pet I received a myth shield and an Imp treasure card. 

So you can win or loose, its not a lot of gold you miss out on with these lower level items, I would be abit more nervous about feeding the pet a supply of higher level loot, don't want to loose out on that much gold ! At the moment this method is not something I would recommend to be used to quickly level your pet up as pet experience seems to be quite rarely given. But it definitely is something I'll play around with for a little longer. 

 

The Unicorn Statue.

What has happened to the Unicorn statue drop? I know that Lady Blackhope used to drop a unicorn statue, my husband picked one up on his death wizard battling her. OK, it was a really long time ago. I decided my life wizards garden could do with some prettying up, a unicorn statue or two would be perfect I thought. Knowing that Lady Blackhope dropped one decided to farm her, it has being going on forever. Nearly two hundred battles now and no statue, I am beginning to think it has been retired as a drop, especially as I have been religiously checking the bazaar and not a whisper of one has been there either. Has it been discontinued? Who knows Lady Blackhope is giving nothing away.

I want a Unicorn statue, sob.

Why oh why wont you drop it, nearly 200 fights now.

Are you going to look for one for me?

Slow down - The Beetles do what???

Well, Wizard was going well. I had just reached Krokotopia with my Ice Wizard. My Life Wizard was beginning Dragonspyre and my Fire Wizard, well to be honest she has been languishing in Dragonspyre for a while, I will push her forward soon.

When disaster struck in the form of ' Chickenpox '! O.K I did not get chicken pox, my children did. All wizard questing on my behalf had to be put on hold as I dealt with three little sick spotty ones, and as they began to get better they all played wizard, whilst I began to feel strangely run down. I ignored this for a while and just got on with things until the overwhelming realisation overtook me. ' Hang on , I'm feeling really ill here ' followed by the second quick realisation ' Arghhh, my doctors closes over the weekend. ' It was Friday night. When I finally got to see the doctor on Monday it was confirmed I had tonsillitis, my tonsils by this point had turned gross and oozy. Finally, I got my penicillin medicine and could begin to try to get well. By this time, I now had access to wizard but was just feeling too poorly to play.....

Hence my low amounts of news to blog about wizard, things have obviously being happening Harvest Hannah has arrived, the new world Zafaria is now no longer a test realm but live... But other little things have been updated too, or so I believe.

In krokotopia with my Ice Wizard I picked up Zeke's beetle collecting quest, went on to find my first beetle. Now I nearly fell off my chair when the thing wiggled all of its legs at me. I will swear they never used to move and I have no idea when this update occurred, but it really wiggled. I have also launched a new death character, she is going well and is on Triton Avenue and the Smiths are moving now too!!! They seem to be breathing slowly in and out or just sighing now and then, again, either I never noticed before or they are now moving a little too.

                                          Ok You can't see it moving but that beetle is wiggling.

One more little piece of news my ice wizard picked up a pet first go fighting Krokenkahmen I got the inferno cat. Hopefully I will be able to make more progress this week.

Time to Quest With My Ice Wizard - Oh Dear

 And Now Time To Send My Ice Wizard Off On Adventures In The Spiral..... Ooops...

One of my eventual aims of the game is to work one of each type of wizard through the spiral. I currently have a life and fire wizard in Dragonspyre and have one of each type of other wizard set up. I allow my children, to design the way the wizard looks and pick the wizards name. 

Now my children who play on wizard are five and four respectively, I have a younger one he is too little to play wizard,  but does like to watch. The children have their own account and realising that they seemed more than capable of battling and getting around wizard city. I came up with an inspired ( OK evil plan ). I would let my children play on my newly created wizards,  let them do all of my lower level wizard city tasks like travelling around Unicorn way, meeting all the teachers in Ravenwood ( that tour gets a bit dull after the fourth time ) and would take control back over the wizards once they had the lower levels out the way. OK, its a lazy plan but I thought it would work for me. So after checking the other wizards stats, I noticed the ice wizard had reached level seven. ' Ah time to take over, I though to myself '

So after battling my way through Triton Avenue and starting Firecat Alley and winning a few nice furniture items I decided to get back to my dorm room and and arrange my loot.

Bit of a shock there, my dorm room was strangely empty. Empty of everything, not one scrap of furniture remained not even the pots by the door. I checked my ice wizards bank, nope they hadn't put the items in there. 

 Bemused I asked my children, ' Er where has all the stuff gone '

Pulling an angry looking face my eldest explained ' she lost a battle '

' Right you lost a battle, where's all her furniture '

' No she lost a battle, so we put all her stuff in the bin'

 Er Where' s all my furniture

And yes they had indeed trashed all her stuff. Now there is a lesson to be learned here and I fear it's not - If your character loses its not her fault its yours you are the controller.  Rather the lesson is play the game yourself, you can't moan at anyone else if you let them loose on your character.

Finding the Smiths - No Really where are they?
Ah,  back to the good old Wizard City quests.  I remember the finding the smiths quest I thought to myself,  it's going to be a piece of cake.

The quest is picked up from Zeke in the commons. Yes, that bit I remembered, so off I went to find the Smith's.  There are nine in all,  hid in various locations throughout Wizard City and your quest bar will help you by letting you toggle between the areas where you need still need to find the little guys.  Now I have completed this quest a few times but it was a while ago and I when it came down to it I couldn't remember where any of them where.  So I actually had to search for them.... Erghhhh,  thought I could just go and pick them out. Well anyway here's the locations for anyone who wants a pinch of help.

Come on Zeke where are they?

The Commons Smith

You can find him up at the fairgrounds, he is behind two of the tents close to a tree.

The Golem Court Smith.

Go Behind Golem Tower, close to to the Dragons Mouth Cave, right by a tree, again.

The RavenWood Smith.

Go behind the Myth School, close to the way to the Death School. He's close to the back wall by a bench.

The Shopping District Smith.

When you first enter the shopping district there are gaps between some of the buildings. Travel towards Olde Town and go through a gap on the right. Carry on walking through he is at the back by the wall.

The Olde Town Smith.

Find Gloria Krendell, its at the side of a building right by her.

The Unicorn Way Smith.

He is there close to the entrance of the Hedge Maze, as you enter on the left.

The Cyclops Lane Smith.

It's in the area where you have two guards and Nolan Stormgate. Go behind Nolan Stormgate into the grassy islands and stream. The Smith is at the back close to the wall.

The Triton Avenue Smith.

After the middle area of Triton Avenue with Susie Gryphonbone and Duncan Grimwater, you go over a bridge and up. Turn to your left as you are going up and run across the streams to the Smith.

The Firecat Alley Smith.

It's close to the Fireglobe theatre. Look to the right by the large cat statue.

The Colossus Boulevard Smith.

As you are heading to the gobbler palace, in a snowy patch before you reach the palace doors.

So now you've found all the Smiths back to Zeke for a valuble training point!!

My own little bit of good news after all this is my ice wizard has now reached Krokotopia,  she hasn't picked up a pet yet but fingers crossed for her journey through the land of the Kroks.

Halloween is over...did you get your pets?...

Well it's official Spooky Bob has now left the spiral so if you did not complete your Halloween tasks.  I am afraid you will have to wait until next year.

Did I complete my tasks?  Did I get all my desired pets?
Well I'm afraid the simple answer to this is no.  I failed to receive the Black Cat Pet.  ( Dropped by Lord Nightshade during the Halloween season only ).  Now I know I could have given in and simply bought the Black Cat from Spooky Bob using crowns.  But to me that would of defeated the point.  Now,  after what is nearly a year of playing wizard I really enjoy earning my rewards/pets rather than simply buying them.  But hey that's just me!

In the end I battled with Lord Nightshade for nearly two weeks and received tons of stuff,  Many of the items were crowns drops.  I think I have every type of pumpkin mask available, a pirate, pumpkin, a kitty to name but a few.  I did manage to pick up some pets from him. Only one blue banshee,  but I ended up with nine Midnight Sprites!!!.

I did most of the farming with my life wizard I have recently reached Dragonspyre with.  And I am beginning to wonder if one of the draw backs of being a life wizard is a lower percentage of pet drops from battles.  She does seem to receive a large percentage of furniture,  much more than my other high level wizards  but when it comes down to pets she really seems to have drawn the short straw.  Now you may initially disagree and pick me up on the fact that I received nine midnight sprites.  But this was after weeks of battling hundreds of times and during this time I received only one blue banshee.  During this Halloween period I was also battling Baron Mordecai ( temporary Halloween boss ) in order to receive the Blue Cat Thug and The Greater Imp,  now I battled him about five hundred times in all ending up with six blue cat thugs,  but I could not get that Greater Imp.  I decided in the end to switch wizards and on the second battle with my fire wizard I had the Greater Imp. ( Then it was simply a matter of putting it into my shared bank, so my life wizard had the pet. )

 Now it could be simply bad luck over the Halloween period with my attempts at pet farming.  But my life wizard didn't pick up any dropped pets from battles until Mooshu,  my fire wizard had her first one in Krokotopia!!!!  If I get time I will try to look into this further....  But until then I will keep my fire wizard for pet farming.
Hope you all managed to get what you wanted over Halloween.

Still no Black Cat.... but tons of Sprites.....