The Warehouse and Lego Universe

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Things at the office were rather busy. I had to do some overtime so I needed some time to myself.  Now thing are back to normal.  I need some vacation though...

The Warehouse

Gilroy has conquered the Warehouse!  Thanks to Tavia Starcacher who happened to offer her help to complete our trio (Savannah Griffincloud, Llewella Dragonsond and I).  Tavia had done it before, so she could coach us with the boss fights.  Thanks for the tips Tavia!

I took us a little over 2 hours.  But we managed to get the broken Spiral key.  It was fun, but 2 hours is a long time.

Lego Universe

This week I was selected for the closed beta of Lego Universe.  I tried it this afternoon.  I can't talk too much about it, as I am probably under non disclosure agreement.  First thing, I won't leave Wizard101 soon to Lego Universe.  Second, the subscription is a little high for me.

See you all ITS!

Found my Blue Dragon

My Blue Dragon is back!!

Found him in Marleybone.  He had a small pouch hooked to his saddle with a note and 10K gold in it:

Hello!


Good news!! Your named item(s) have been restored (please check your backpack (or your bank if the backpack was full))! As a thank you for your patience through this, we've applied an additional 10000 gold to your character as well.

Happy questing!

KingsIsle Support

Thank you KI, I knew I could count on you!

See you all ITS!!

Another Update in the Case of the Missing Dragon

Got another email from KI yesterday concerning my missig dragon:

Dear Wizards &/or Parents,


As you know on 7/9, during the restart of the game after a short maintenance window, some items were lost that had been in use or equipped just prior to the shutdown. We sincerely apologize and we promise that all individual claims will be reviewed and addressed.

So that we can quickly get your account back to rights, we request your assistance. Please provide the following information (we know some of you already have, but the succinct reiteration will allow us to quickly target your account):

1. Account Username: (No passwords please!)

2. Character Name: (if you have more than one character with the same name, please add in the school/level)

3. Specific Item(s) Lost: (If you are missing a pet, please provide the talents/level)

4. Specific Item(s) Lost:

5. etc.

A few additional notes:
a. This ticket will NOT automatically close
b. Please respond only to this email for this topic. Opening new tickets will require more time by the support staff to link your tickets together (and thus slowing down our ability to get your items recovered). If you have questions unrelated to this issue, please just open a new ticket/email.

We anticipate the full recovery for all impacted players will take a few days. Your continued patience & understanding is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

KingsIsle Support

I replied with the requested info.  I am confident that KI will resolve The Case of the Missing Dragon!

I just hope they did not request the help of the old Sherlock Bones, he tends to give his tasks to young and unexperienced wizards...

Missing Dragon Update

I just received an email from KI:

Hello,
Thanks for taking the time to submit this report. We're aware of the situation and are working to have it rectified in short order.

Thanks again!

KingsIsle Support

So if any of you are missing an item, KI knows about the problem.  I would still suggest you report it.  See Friendly's excellent post to see how to report a problem to KI.

Missing Blue Dragon

Have you seen this Dragon?

He's missing from Gilroy's inventory. 

I am pretty sure I had my permanent Blue Dragon ride when I first logged on this morning after the update. I had time to be on only a few minutes. When I entered the Storm School, I received a message that the servers were going to close in 5 minutes, so I logged of. When I came back tonight, My wizard was back in the Pet Pavillion like when I first logged on this morning. He should have been in the Storm School. I checked his bank and the shared bank, no trace of the Blue Dragon. My other wizards don't seem to have any missing items.

I tried exiting the game and logging back on, but it was not successful.
 
I contacted Wizard101's support. I hope they can find him.


See you ITS!

Someone tried to reset my password again

Today, I received an email from Faculty@wizard101.com saying that I requested to reset my password.  This is the second time this has happened. Last time was time, it was on March 6th.  So I logged in my account with my real pasword to, like it says in the email, discard the temporary password.

You have requested a new password. To log into Wizard101.com the website or Wizard101 the game, you must first follow the instructions below:
(...)
NOTE: The temporary password will only be valid for 12 hours. Temporary passwords do not work on the game login, only on http://www.wizard101.com/.
(If you did not request a new password, please ignore this message and login with your existing password. The temporary password will be discarded.)

And I also changed my password for an even tougher one to guess.  BTW, since some people seem to be interested in my passwords, here a hint for you: they all have at least 8 characters and include letters, both capital and lower, numbers and special characters.  Yeah, they take time to type, but I feel safer!!

And again, to those people, I hope to defeat you ITS and IRL.

Gizmo is now Epic

Gizmo finally made it to Epic!  I have trained him without ever using crowns to speed up the process.  With a perfect game and the best snacks, he would get 11 experience points. The Sizzle Smack Cereal were a real hit.  Got the recipe from the vendor in Ravenscar.

And the best of all, he now has the ability to cast a fireblade!  I can't wait to see Gizmo in action during a fight!  Now, I just need to learn a few fire spells. LOL  I know, I should have stick to Fire as a second school...

Here's now his full pedigree:

This afternoon, I played my youngest wizard, Valkoor Darkflame (Ice), level 10.  I realized that I am not used to look after my mana.  I went to face the Harvest Lord and I wondered why I could not cast spells higher that level 1. Silly me, I was about to file a bug report when I realized I was out of mana ROFL.

See you ITS!

Gizmo is half way to Epic

Gizmo is well on his way to Epic status.  Last night he passed the half way mark and this morning, he's at 588 experience points:

I hope I can reach the thousand point at the end of next weekend.  This seems possible since today is a national holiday in my province and I took Friday off so I can have a four day weekend (Woohoo!).

Yesterday, we got a little tremor at the office.  The earth shook for a few seconds.  It was funny, almost everybody got out in the corridor and were asking "Is this an earthquake?".  Not me though, I stayed at my desk and tried to "enjoy" it LOL.  We so rarely get earthquakes here. That little baby quake made a lot of commotion.  But I got to feel lucky that I can laugh at our earthquakes.  It's not so funny in some places. My heart goes to the people in Haiti still living in tents.

See you ITS!

Seeing Double

LOL I got two Gizmos!!  Thought I would share this glitch with you.

Don't worry, Gizmo came back to normal as soon as I changed rooms.  Oh look!, we can see my rug brigde.

Gizmo is resuming training

After this week's updates, I have resumed Gizmo's training.  He is slowly on his way to epic status.  He is now at 240 experience points out of 1000.

This week, I am happy to add two bloggers as my in game friends.  Earlier this week I met Malorn Willowsmith (aka The Sorcerer of the Spiral) and this weekend, I met Kestrel Shadowthistle from the Shadowthistle School of Wizardry.

These days, my time in the spiral is spent baking pet snacks, training Gizmo then farming for other pets or just gold to buy reagents for the pet snacks.

See you ITS!