A Head Start for the Future!

Ello mates! As you may or may not know, my future career choice is Gaming Graphics and Engineering, as in making video games! I've just downloaded this cool program called 3D Max's which I'm practicing with right now. I think this is a cool opportunity to move away from Photoshop and make some 3D pictures for you guys! Mind you I'll still make some Photoshop pictures for you, seeing as I barely know how to use this new program...

So far I'm learning all the controls but by the time the trial download expires I should at least have 1 piece of Wizard 101 art to show ya! Look forward to a big surprise... Yesh, that means you Friendly Necromancer! I shall learn to use this program!

Oh, shut up already...

Excuse me while I get my wand and dispose of a... Problem...

Wait, gah! What are you doing?! Get away from me you fool! Ahhhh...

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Meet Jinx...

Greetings and Salutations, fellow wizards! I believe it's time you met Jinx...


Jinx is my very own, one of a kind, minion! When I was but a wee little wizard boy learning how to summon dark sprites I came across a very evil and malicious warlock who has disguised himself as a raven in order to further his schemes... I had nowhere to run, I could barely summon a dark sprite, and I was young... I turned away and waved my wand at him viciously and desperately and in the flash of an instant I had made a Wraith appear before me... He attacked Jinx and defeated him, trapping him in his raven form and forcing him to work for me... I questioned him and asked him who he was.... He said, "Dear Child, I am Gizmo..." I wanted to know so much more about my savior but he turned around and opened a gateway... Before he left he said, "Do not fret dear Chase, for our paths will meet again. When you can defeat the mightiest of enemies and the most cunning of villains, I will be there by your side..." And with those words of inspiration he disappeared as quickly as he appeared...


Now as for Jinx, he was knocked out on the ground with his magic severely limited and really no way to fight me or take over the world for the time being... Rest assured, I am more than capable of defeating him with Gizmo by my side should he ever find a way to revert to his original form...


Jinx will now be taking a part in this blog family! From now on Jinx will be answering the many questions I keep getting. Jinx is very wise, evil mind you, but wise... If he can't answer the question you ask him, I highly doubt anybody else can... Except for KingsIsle of course but that's another story... Anyways, without further ado, here's Jinx!

Ask Jinx!

Hello Mortals... It is I, grandmaster of the Clemexia realm, instiller of fear, sovereign of all evil, Jinx... As the blundering fool who has his hold over me for the time being has said I am a dark and powerful Warlock beneath this most preposterous disguise... Unfortunately, when I was reverting back into my human form, Chase's soul partner came out and helped him in his time of need... The attack shattered my concentration and the link between my human form and this pitiful bird was lost... I swear, that I shall achieve revenge one day... I shall!

Get to the questions, Jinx!

Hmph, very well... This child has forced me to assist him in his duties by responding to all your pitiful e-mails...   The sooner we get this over, the sooner I may commence dusting the books...

Katie from New York Asks...

"The problem is my quest helper turned off all of a sudden and I have like no idea how to turn it on. Can you help me plz?"

Silly mortal! I laugh at thy pitiful question for it is no problem for a great and powerful warlock, such as I, to answer!

Jinx!

Right... Anyways, the answer to your question is quite simple. Open your spellbook however it is you do or simply press (Esc) and go to your options menu. At the top should be a lot of buttons with pictures on them. Click on the one with a joystick picture with should say "Game Options" Once there you should see that your Quest Helper is most likely in the off position. Simply switch it back to the on position and close your book. Now wasn't that easy?

Marvin from California Asks...

"I don't get something, are we supposed to finish Grizzleheim first or go on with the real storyline? I'm trying to decide what to do."

Well Marvin, the answer to your question is that it depends entirely on you. Grizzleheim is a parallel world to the game, meaning that as you level up in the main storyline more quests are unlocked in Grizzleheim. I suppose the true answer to your question would be to do both... When you reach the milestone for a new part of Grizzleheim I wouldn't hesitate to do it as you may obtain some very useful clothing that could help you even further in the storyline. If I were you however I would travel to Clemexia where my loyal guards have something special in store...

And finally...

David from California Asks...

"Ugh! I keep trying but I can't get Mallistaire robes! What the heck am I doing wrong?!"

That's not a very good question mortal... That's more of a rage or flame... However since it does have a question mark in it I'll answer it... You should keep trying, Mallistaire robes are a tricky thing, like the rest of the game getting the thing you want as a drop is very chancy at most. Some people get their Mallistaire robes the first time around, where as other people get it on their 50th time... It all depends... There is however a new feature... You can now pay a few coins for a second chance at any boss chest's rewards... However as that other blumbering oaf The Friendly Necromancer said, this gets really expensive... If you're not getting it by the time you hit 500 crowns then you need to just redo the instance and try the old fashioned way...

Now I've wasted enough time here... I have to go dust the books now... Sigh, I hate my life...

Alright then?...


Thanks to all the people who sent in questions, if your question didn't get answered here don't fret, I'll make Jinx answer them next time around... Thank you for joining us on our first ever "Ask Jinx!" edition! Be sure to send in your e-mails to Spidercliff@live.com and I'll pick them up and forward them to Jinx!

Catch ya in the Spiral, and Happy Writing!

Two Days of Epicness!

Ah the sweet feeling of the wind blowing in your hair as your ride through the Spiral on a brand new horse!


The release has been live and I've been enjoying every single bit of it!


My first order of business was to get my mount... I originally had planned to get the Black Stallion mount as you can all tell. But Chase Silverbane is the most generous of my Wizards and he offered to buy the Chestnut Horse rather than the Stallion. This works out great in 2 ways!


The first way is that the Chestnut Pony is only 50,000 gold which I happened to have!


And the second way...


Is that the second oldest brother, Oran DawnWielder is a Balance Wizard decked out all in Brown! Now you tell me that Brown Horse with Brown Clothing doesn't match!


Following my mount purchase I decided to try it out by heading for MooShu and Marleybone to activate the teleport stones there! 


After that was finished I was little disappointed to realize that to stitch my clothing was crown only and the same with henchmen... I really wouldn't mind if they multiplied the crown cost into gold because henchmen are really useful when soloing and stitching my clothes would have solved my problem with the Death and Balance Malliastaire robes... But life's life and since I have no crowns at all I'll have to settle for the good ol' fashioned way I'm used to! Taking the easy way reaps no rewards you know...


I remember once in DragonSpyre where there was a tower I had to complete to get my Drake Egg... And I have pretty much soloed the entire game up to then... So I went in confident as ever and began fighting my way through hordes of monsters... There was a point where I had 1 health point left and I narrowly won. 


After about 20 floors I thought I made it to the boss and started to cry from all my hard work... And then when the minions started loading I saw they were a group of 3 in total... I went in because I was hoping that only 2 of them would go in but I was wrong... And that was my first ever 3 on 1 match! So as always good logic deems that you should get rid of the minions first since the more damage you're taking the worse... So I poisoned the minions until they died and then I was left with this boss of over a thousand health, probably over 2 thousand... And me having probably half my health left... But what can all Death wizards do that other schools envy?


DRAIN!


So I began to lay my traps and charms and weave my little web of pain until at last I was ready to attack... I had about 250 health left I attacked first and the boss had 5 pips. If I didn't make the shot I most likely lost unless she fizzled which was highly doubtful... So I crossed my fingers and attacked and wouldn't you know it, the attack didn't fizzle! And I smiled at the sight of my Wraith swallowing up her soul in one single gulp of 10,000 health, thereby fully healing me. I'm not sure if there were more monsters after that but one thing I know for a fact, is that I made it out of there alive and went on with the rest of my adventures...


So what has this painfully long story taught you? A hint I would probably be the poem by Robert Frost:


"Two roads diverged in the woods, and I
I took the one less traveled by.
And that has made all the difference..."


Basically that experience taught me everything I know about dueling today... When and how to place traps and blades... How much damage all my cards do and what how the percentages work... Everything and I mean everything... If I had had help in that tower I probably would have just relied on them to heal me back up when I got low and then what would I have learned? When in danger, wait for help?


Anyways, that my story and I''m sticking to it! Stay tuned as this following week we explore more of the new features and how they've changed from the test versions! Happy Exploring!


P.S. The Houses are coming...

Going to Bed Anxious!

Tomorrow's the big release! Talk to ya in all the chaos!

The Underdog Moves Up!

I was looking through my Facebook and then I saw a message from Wizard 101 saying that they just made it to 3rd place in the Top 10 MMOs!


Congrats KingsIsle you really deserve this, and when I hopefully apply for a job there in a few years, yep that's my career choice, you'll probably the #1 game out there...


You have to remember that KingsIsle isn't like Blizzard, it didn't start out with a ton of cash and support but rather started well off and small like an ordinary business!


I've seen a lot of they're behind the scenes videos and the offices look really moderate, nothing luxurious at all...
At the start probably not many people believed in them but now look at them! One of the TOP TEN...


Here's the official Facebook post!

Wizard101 MMORPG.com lists Wizard101 as #3 in their Top Ten List of MMOs since WoW and the number one kid's game! Check out the article!

The List - Top 10 MMOs Since WoW - MMORPG.com

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Congratulations once more Wizard 101! I'm going to check and see if Wizard 101 has a new fountain The Commons! Happy Ranking!

In further news, scientists and psychologists have just announced that World of Warcraft causes people to lose their grip on reality and virtually speaking go crazy! Parents are advised to keep children away from WoW...

Yay!...

As you may notice on the bottom of the page... The VERY bottom of the page... We have just hit 100+ hits... Thank you all very much for making me happy... Gizmo very recently accidentally swallowed part of my soul so getting it back was a nice gift... Thanks again guys! And stay tuned...


Happy Happynization!

Reason Why People Look At Me Weird...

Whenever I hit a 5,000 shot at my enemies in Wizard 101, I'll always be tempted to say it was a weak shot... Which quite literally it is... To me anyways...

For me a normal shot is one where I try my best and have everything planned out before hand, like a good Death wizard always should...

For example, here's an ordinary hit for me:

Notice the 5 digit number... When you start hitting 5 digit number it kind of means you care about the quality of your work done well... And also, monsters such as Yeva here, feel honored to be defeated at the hands of 5 digit numbers...

So remember Wizards of the Spiral! And start hitting those 5 digit hits!

Happy Overkill!

Overhaul Challenge: Complete!

Ah, the sweet smell of victory... My site's officially been nicely overhauled... Took a bit of work, but what do you know? It looks pretty nice... The header problem was fixed thanks to a nice blog I found letting me know how to get rid of that horrible border problem...

The header itself has been changed...

Music's playing beautifully in the background...

And...

The counter's slowly about to reach 100! Like I said, hitting triple digits makes me feel a bit happier so... Make me feel happy people!

There's still a few tweaks and fixes I can make to give it that homey feel, but for now The Reneverian Hex lives again!

In an undead form that is...?

Ah yes, by the way I read Friendly's post about crowns and here's my friend code too, just in case ya know?

32338-15125-52224-40297

Happy Resurrections!

Overhauling Is Thwarting My Attempts at Another Success!

This overhaul isn't going so well now, I can't get my big computer to use Photoshop, I think I can use it later today though so that's good news...

Anyways...

The night before Melissa was helping me farm for my best Death items... But as soon as she arrived at Kraysys for the battle, father asked me to turn off the computer and go to sleep... Melissa said I should go and then entered the battle, but I thought every battle should count, so I entered the battle too and came up with a plan to finish the battle in less than 3 minutes...

Melissa on her Balance Wizard, Scarlet, was to use Full Judgement on Kraysys, where I would quickly dispose of the minion with a feint, blade, and Gizmo, my Wraith.

After we killed him I expected to find some cheap shoes on the side, but rather I noticed they were death... Thought they were just random death shoes, but then I noticed that they were untradable and so I laxly said to Melissa...

"Got them..."

Now the hunt begins for the rest of my items, I already have my Ring, just got the shoes, and I have the best pet... I need my hat from Yeva, my Robe from Mallistaire, my sword from Ivan, and my athame from Gurtok... Quite a bit to do, and I just realized I never finished killing spider to get to Yeva... Busy, busy, busy....

Happy Collecting!

Overhaul Part II

Well it's 4:09 here and that means it's time to continue with the overhaul of the site...

I've put a tracker on the bottom of the page so it eventually starts filling up, I'll just pretend it isn't there until it hits the triple digits!

I now have music running in the background!

And the next thing I need to work on is... This header... I'm thinking Black and Silver as always... But some oomph too... Nobody seems to get that my header is somebody staring at me through a crystal ball...

So, since my Photoshop skills HAVE improved, I'm going to develop an even better header and it's gonna be pretty big, I'm thinking maybe neon to match the counter... Then again I love blue, so I might make it blue... We'll see, we'll see...

Happy Renovating...