How To Part 2 UPDATE

This upcoming how to post on farming the bazaar efficiently will be much more complex than the previous one. This will be more of a full fledged guide than a short post.

I am currently halfway through development of it. The way this guide will work is it will ask you 7 questions about your bazaar farming visit. The answers to those questions will correspond with bullets that give you excellent methods on how to go about your farming. At the end, you will put all of your 7 methods together to create your "Final Personal Method." Can't wait till it's done!

Project Update and Coming Soon!

I have added a small music scroll project to the projects page.

Also my next post will be part two of the "How To" posts, guides to obscure but necessary things on Wizard101.

COMING SOON: How To Part 2: How to Efficiently Farm the Bazaar!

Worldwide Views and a Message to the Friendly Necromancer

The counter recently dinged 300 views! I have been very surprised about the geographical popularity of this blog. Thank you so much for reading my views and projects so far! There are many more to come! I would just like to say thank you again to all of my viewers! I plan to greatly upgrade this blog as time goes on and hopefully have many more original and fascinating updates to share with all of you! I can't wait to see where this blog takes me next! I will also try to make updates more frequent or on a regular basis from now on (if I can). I want to give a huge shout out to everyone who has supported me this far. Until I reach 500 views, I won't be making any more speeches about thank you's LOL.

At the time of this post I have had views from:

United States: 302

Russia: 18

Germany: 4

Ukraine: 3

Kuwait: 2

Sri Lanka: 2

Latvia: 1

Peru: 1

Poland: 1

I am not even sure Wizard101 exists in most of those places!

Anyway, stay tuned for more exciting and original and interesting updates and polls! Keep on clicking because you never know what you will find over here in THE SHADOWVAULT FILES!

HUGE EPIC SHOUT OUT: TO THE FRIENDLY NECROMANCER! (featured on the side blog list)


Thank you so much Friendly for motivating me to start a blog of my own and especially for featuring this blog on your list of side blogs! It really meant a lot to me that you did that! You have really inspired me and are a big influence on me. I visit your blog every day! I can't wait to see what you have for us next!


Keep checking this blog for more fun and magic!

So until next time: I have no slogan!

Kingsisle's Ninja Pack a Hasty Mistake?

The new myth themed Ninja Pack is here! For the first time ever you can get spells as rewards! And a new adorable Sheng Long Dragon Pet in four colors with respective cards! Find out more information by hitting the official news link at the top of the page!

Before I go on my rant, let me present you with this:

Dragon's Hoard pack is released! Buyers are promised a super ultra rare reward of the impressive Skeletal Dragon Mount! It also promises players chances to get different types of dragon's each with their own unique skills and some new housing items among other things all dragon themed! It is instantly a hit with players and now everyone is into the Dragon's Hoard craze! Eventually, everyone who wanted one, has a skeletal dragon mount now or has given up trying. Kingsisle sees how much people liked the pack so they say: This time let's give them even more super rare mounts so that people can be more unique and we will theme it differently with different rewards!
They called it, The Wyvern's Hoard pack! Now players were scrambling with their crowns to be the first ones to get one of the six super rare mounts available as a reward! This pack sells even better than the last! Housing fanatics are tantalized by its promise of brand new housing items and garden items galore! Buckets full of pets were dumped into the reward tables too! Everyone was even more satisfied with this one. The mounts were harder to get but it made them more special. Kingsisle saw this strategy was working and they said, "Hey! Let's make a pack thats out for a limited amount of time so that we can ensure the mount will be special!"
So they came out with the limited edition Nightmare Pack! Everyone loved the new ghost themed pegasus and went gaga for the holiday themed housing items! Along with a brand new introduction of an item called a teleporter tapestry! The promise of it leaving the crown shop made it more successful and they succeeded in making the rewards truly rare and special! "Ok," says Kingsisle, "this is a good strategy. Let's stick with it but take a break for a while now that the pack is out of the crown shop. Let's ration out some of our new content to the players to give the non-crown players something more to do!"
They did stick to the strategy and they came out with the Raven's Hoard Pack which to this day is still stymying wizards for another chance at their coveted prize. This pack had the best marketing plan yet by promising players not only a new high flying mount (so they could be like their friends who had a high flying hawk) that was beautifully rendered, but also promising a second mount to get even more players in on the new development of TWO PLAYER MOUNTS (in case they couldn't get the gift card)! A cleverly red version of the other mount that holds its visitor in its claws! It topped all other packs before it! It was a masterpiece! A true work of marketing genius! Kingsisle had really learned how to use this new discovery! They even figured out how to fill this pack up so much with pets, mounts, housing, and more, that it still lasts in its rarity appeal! All of these packs were also packaged with tantalizing previews before release and more suspense to it on top of the prizes! Kingsisle had created a great formula!
Kingsisle celebrated its new formula with the less successful and appealing pack called the Kirin's Hoard, advertised and built up by contests on IGN. While it is still a popular pack, it is no where near as popular as the others. But it was still very successful! Kingsisle noticed how they did things differently and saw that the previous way was better but that was alright because it was still a huge hit! The formula had been tweaked and perfected! So what was stopping them from using it again? Nothing!

Then something strange happened. Kingsisle had the formula just right but then completely veered from it and gave us the strange and uninteresting pack called, The Ninja Lore Pack. Although it promised something new, actual spells! None of the spells are very appealing to players over level 45 or to a max of 50. They are amusing at best and no one really has the motivation to seek out the mysteries of the spells but wait for others to find out. So what did Kingsisle do wrong? They gave new features! They gave four new cute pets! What happened?

1. There is no mount!
2. No special build up or suspense to the release.
3. What motivation was there for players to get these new pets other than that they were "cute?"
4. The spells are not appealing enough to find out about first.
5. The side rewards like housing items, other misc pets, and TCs, are random and mild at best.
6. All of these problems can be summed up in this one: THEY THREW IT TOGETHER TOO QUICKLY!

You guys had the formula! You had the marketing! You had the money to make it happen! You gripped the players to your game! Why be sloppy with this one? You let it slip by you.

Kingsisle is a great company and comes out with innovative new features all the time and is constantly hard at work! I deeply respect them as an artist myself. But people have come to expect certain standards for releases. They expect them to pull them in by the collar and not let go! So maybe take more time with the next one?

200 Views and Host of Updates!

In addition to the exciting event of getting 200 views on this blog, Wizard101 has had a whole host of new updates. Nothing very new but many many changes!

You can click on official announcements link at the top of this page to see the complete list of new updates!

Now some people were disappointed that the tag game was not released off the test realm. But apparently not many people read Professor Greyrose say that it would released some time late this year.

I for one am glad they responded to some major player feedback in these updates and glad they are able to get focused on many issues at once.

One of the updates that I and many other housing freaks are happy about is the addition of MANY more music scrolls! Made even more exciting by the fact that they put many in bold on the update notes!

Players are already trying desperately to find out the drops of all of them and it is progress quickly down at the Complete Guide to Music Scrolls guide on central! See if you can help them out!

Also in other spiral news: THE CHILLANTHROPIST IS BACK ON HIS BLOG WITH HIS FASCINATING INSIGHTS IN THE GAME! You can check out his blog on the sidebar!

Also in worldwide spiral news: WIZARD101 IS AVAILABLE IN MORE PLACES THAN EVER! Not only the UK but Wizard101 is now featured in places such as Poland and Germany (soon china!) Check out the whole list on Official Announcements tab at the top of the page!

Another one of the bigger updates included in Kingsisle's list is the (rather late) change of taking out all crown items from spiral vendors and putting them in the crown shop! Now they are all in once place so you don't have to ask a higher level friend to take you somewhere so you can buy your favorite item! Also some of the prices of these items have even been reduced!

Another exciting housing update is that for most (but not all!) limit 1 housing items, the limits have been removed! That is good news for statue collectors if they have a collection of their favorite statue and want to proudly display them all!

Also in case you missed BlueDevil's very first Wizard101 murder mystery party, hawkie409 will be hosting another of these dazzling deadly doom filled parties! Find out who you are and find the murderer! You can find out more here!

Also Paige has posted some fascinating new pictures in her latest housing showcase! You can check it out on the link to her blog on the sidebar!

As for me: I have some interesting new housing projects I am thinking about posting up here (if I decide to go through with them) Also, I am closer than ever to finishing Valkoor's Story! I also need to practice the tours I give through it because the whole event relies on that. So be sure to check back for updates as to when you can sign up on the Valkoor's Story Spiral Tour!

There are many other updates I could post but these are the highlights for me!



So until next time wizards: I have no slogan!

Evil Magma Peas

I don't know about you, but I use a guide on wizard101central about gardening with Evil Magma Peas (EMPs)

Look it up on central and you will see how you can get up to 32 rank 9 mega snacks in 3 days with barely any work.

I will publish a link later

Fun After 70

Contrary to what most people do after they reach level seventy and/or finish all the quests, I still find the game fun. Many people quit after this fact but there is so much more to do!

Here are some of the fun things you can do:


Housing Activities /challenges :

Hide and seek
Maze
Hotel running
Make a big housing project and do something that has never been done before.
Make a house with items from farming only!
and more!

Pet Challenges:

Make a perfect talent pet!
Make a perfect derby pet!
Mix them to have a perfect pet!
Collect pets
Collect hybrids
Collect one type of pet.
Put on a show at your house with the pets
Beat Grub Guardian
and more!

Other Challenges:

Collect one type of item (i.e. mannequins)
Put on a play
Make a youtube video epic.
Collect mounts
Collect Gear
and more!

Other:

Hold contests and events

Make a house/s

Invite friends to your newly made house

PVP

and many more!

As you can see the fun doesn't stop at the level cap and some of these activities are very repeatable so by the time you finish it will be time for the new world and quests and levels!

100 Views!

Thank you everyone for supporting a beginner's blog! I am just someone with a lot of Wizard101 knowledge and I want to share it! I hope there will be thousands more!

How did this happen?

So I was looking at my google analytics info for this blog and it says I got 3 views from Ukraine and 1 view from Germany. So how did that happen?

The stranger thing is that where it shows what website have linked to me, it shows this russian or ukrainian website called troll something. I have no idea what this is about.

Extreme Design Changes!

I am currently working with deathywiz on making a more pleasing to the eye design for the blog. Stay tuned!