USA test realm is open!!! I am so excited, so cool things wait there!

New Pet Level! Jewel Collars and Ultra Pets! It’s time to bring the bling (to your pets)! Pets level Ancient and above now have access to a Jewel Collar that gives them a Jewel Socket. Customize your pet by socketing a Jewel that gives you the bonus or Pet Talent that you desire! Are you ready to take your pet to the next level? Pets can now be trained to the next level of Ultra. At the Ultra level, you will be able to socket your pet’s Jewel Collar with an Ultra Level Jewel. Ultra Jewels provide more powerful bonuses and Pet Talents. There are even some exciting new talents only available on Jewels! Also, when your pet reaches Ultra level, you will receive a random Jewel as a reward, so you can socket your pet right away if you wish. You can tell which pets have a Jewel affixed because they will have a Jewel icon next to their name. Jewel Collars only use new Star shaped Jewels that come with a variety of boosts including Pet Stats, Combat Talents and Derby Talents. Star Jewels can be obtained as rewards from battle, purchased from Lowe Springfield or crafted using the recipes that he has for sale. They can also now be found within the Purreau’s Plentiful Pet Provisions pack! Socketing your pet’s Jewel Collar works just like socketing your Amulets, Rings, Athames and Decks. For more information on the basics of Jewel Socketing, read the April 2015 Update Notes. Open your Backpack, navigate to your pet and click the “Affix Jewels” button at the bottom of the screen. To remove a currently socketed Jewel, you will need to “Shatter” the Jewel which will destroy it. Each pet only has one Jewel Socket. You cannot affix a Jewel to your Pet that gives a duplicate of a talent the pet already has. The pet section of your Journal has a new appearance, showing the Jewel you have affixed as well as your pet’s talents. Unlocked talents are now represented at the bottom of the screen. The five circles represent the five rarity levels of talents, from left to right: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Ultra-Rare and Epic. The numbers inside of the circles represent the quantity of this rarity of talent that your pet may potentially unlock. If you prefer the “old” way of viewing your pet’s talents, you can view that screen in the Hatching menu (available to pets Adult and higher only).

Face Off Against Familiar Foes Challenging Ultra Dungeons It’s time for a rematch! Some of the most notorious bosses of the Spiral are back and ready for a rumble in new Ultra Dungeons. Face familiar foes including Rattlebones, Krokopatra, Meowiarty and Zeus in new powerful forms for Master, Archmage or Exalted levels. Ultra Dungeons are one-shot gauntlets that can only be used one time. You can receive Ultra Dungeons as rewards from battling bosses or purchase them in the Crown Shop. These new adventures give a chance for you and three others to get unique gear, new versions of familiar pets, Ultra Seeds, valuable crafting reagents or even a chance at a mount! The sigil on these housing items only activates once, and only when the owner starts the adventure. You may use dungeon recall if needed, but make sure to allow yourself time to finish the adventure as the sigil is only usable once. When the adventure is over, you will be left with a trophy to commemorate your victory!

3rd Age PvP Welcome to the New Age A new age of PVP is upon us, Wizards! All current PVP rankings will be reset. Everyone who competed in the 2nd Age of PVP will receive a badge based upon their current rank (at the time of the game update). Visit Diego and Brandon Mistborn for new rewards including new pets and level 100 gear for Exalted Wizards. For fans of practice PVP in their homes, a new combat music player is also available for arena tickets. This new music player allows you to select the music played during PVP in your home. Any music scroll can be placed in the combat music player, but it will only play during a PVP battle.

Gardening Goes Ultra Shiny New Ultra Seeds Some familiar garden favorites are getting a shiny new version called Ultra Seeds! For select plants, when you harvest the Elder for the final time, there is a chance that you will receive a new Ultra version of that plant’s seed. When you plant the Ultra seed version, they will grow into a new version that is both easier to care for (with fewer needs and no pests) and gives better rewards, such as rare Treasure Cards and reagents, housing items, Jewels and even pets! Plants grown from Ultra Seeds will have a shiny glow so you can tell them apart from your regular versions.

Storage for Seeds Gardening Store seeds in your home with the new Seed Vault housing item! Seed Vaults can be purchased from the Crown Shop or crafted from a recipe available at Toshio in Mooshu. Place the Seed Vault in your house and click on the “Open Seed Vault” button while in the “Place Object” screen. This works similar to music players and aquariums. You can then move seeds from your Backpack to the Seed Vault. The Seed Vault holds up to 100 seeds. You may only place two Seed Vaults in each of your houses, one inside and one outside. In the Gardening window, multiples of the same type of seed will stack, represented by a number in the bottom right corner. Please note that seeds do not stack in your backpack. Roger the Shrubber in Avalon has new Plow All and Plant all spells for Wizards with Gardening Rank 15 and above to train. Gardening Treasure Cards can now be bought and sold at the Bazaar. The Sword Fern now provides additional types of treasure cards, including the Dragonsblade, as a possible reward.

Quicker Quests Quests Defeating Fire Lionesses now applies toward quest goals to defeat Fire Lion Ravagers in quests such as: Fight to Survive, Poisoned Well and Lioness Sleeps Tonight. The quest Free Mouse requires that you have completed the quest Secret Heart. It should now be easier to attain quest items for many of the defeat and collect quests in Avalon and Azteca. Fixed an issue that allowed players to enter battle in the Pagoda Gauntlet before accepting quest goals.

Spell Fixes Spells The Mutate Minotaur Treasure Card now properly shows the Sun magic icon. Multiples of the same dispel from different sources will only be activated one at a time. Damage boosts will apply to the damage over time effect of the spell Burning Rampage. The No Auction restriction has been removed from Shadow-Enhanced spell Treasure Cards.

Share Your Houses Housing By popular request, houses can now be transferred via the Shared Bank! The Shared Bank can only hold one house at a time and each house can only be moved to the Shared Bank once every 90 days. To retrieve the house from the Shared Bank, the Wizard must have a housing slot available and cannot already have a house of that type. Houses are transferred with all of the objects inside of them. Houses can’t be placed in the shared bank if: They have mannequins with no-trade equipment on them They have teleporters that take the player to other houses The house is a teleporter destination from another house They have weapons that are no-trade on the walls They have any no-trade housing items They have pets or mounts placed in them Happy news, housing decorators! The maximum number of items in an area of a house has been increased to 350. You can purchase an additional Bric-a-Brac Elixir to raise the item limit in your house. There is now a tab for Castle Blocks in the Bank. The item Round Stone Column has been renamed to Round Stone Stanchion. Old Man Huehue in Azteca has some stylish new furniture items for sale. Petunia Floribund has some 'out of this world' wallpaper and flooring for sale. The Lady’s Favor housing item has had the “Limit 1” removed. Skeleton Keys can now be removed from the walls of the Sultan’s Palace. Serpentine Escape has been added to the list of housing sign name options. Seeds purchased for Crowns are no longer listed as “unavailable” in the housing Item Identifier. The Wild Wing Axe and Shield will no longer cut into the wall when placed on the wall of a house. Several new phrases have been added to housing signs including: “Museum,” “Library”, “Tapestries This Way” and PVP related phrases. Pets in the House and Backpack tabs of the Attic will now appear alphabetized.

Powerful Pets Pets Newly placed pets in your house now show rank and pedigree below their name. Pets already placed in your house will need to be picked up and placed down again in order to show the rank and pedigree. Storm Elf, Bronze Helephant, Myth Imp and Magma Colossus have had their PVP rank purchase requirements lowered. Begonia Woodworth in Wysteria has some new varieties of pet snacks for sale. Many existing pets can be obtained through new hybrid hatching combinations! Good luck in the hatchery, Wizards. The stats on the Brainy Assistant have been raised.

Celestial Fishing Fishing Fish (including some new varieties) can now be found swimming around the waters of Celestia! Players can now use lures while a Fishing utility spell is active. A Tome of Fishing has been added next to Lucky Hookline in the Wizard City Commons in case you need to refresh your memory of the details in the Fishing Tutorial. Fish in lava now appear red instead of black.

Craft New Mounts Crafting Show your school spirit with an awesome new craftable, school-themed mount! If you’ve completed the quest Into the Clouds, you can visit Khalkos Coppersmith in Aquila for these new recipes. Each recipe requires a Mote of Transport, available only in the new Ultra Dungeons. Cantares Five Flowers, Gearwise, Balthazar Dragonthorn, Torald Wayfinder, Zellozosia the HomeGlider, Eudora TangleTree and Koyate Ghostmane have new teleport tapestry recipes for you to craft. Torald Wayfinder in Grizzleheim has new transmute recipes for you to learn! Balthazar Dragonthorn has a new recipe for a Baddle of the Bands themed music player. Recipe vendors now display all of the recipes that they sell, with the recipes that you already know shown in grey.

Fixes Galore Miscellaneous The maximum number of Treasure Cards that you can have has been increased to 999 from 500! Previously, Critical Hit and Critical Block percentages were calculated on a per item basis. Now they are calculated from your total rating. This fixes a rounding error in the display. In some cases, your Critical Hit or Critical Block will display slightly differently than it was before, but this should not change your effectiveness in the game. The Tear shape Socket of the Level 70+ version of the Duelist’s Fatal Razor is now automatically unlocked, to be in line with the other Level versions of the same item. Youkai and Akuji now have Second Chance Chests. The Locket of Equality athame has been renamed to Lancet of Equality. Teleporters in Celestia are now labeled with their location. Creatures in Winterbane Hall will have descriptions on their natural attacks. “Darkmoor” has been added to the list of possible Deck names. Second Chance Chests have been added to Tanglewood Terror and Baddle of the Bands gauntlets. The Model Watch Tower will display a crafted icon. If you have either the appearance or stats item equipped when you go to stitch them, the item will remain equipped after stitching. The Jewel named Dream Shield Onyx will give a Dream Shield card instead of a Death Shield. Additional Disloyal Knights will no longer appear in the Tomb of the Nameless after you have defeated them. Additional pet hatching and Jewel Socketing phrases have been added to Menu Chat. Some items, including several pets, skeleton keys, furniture items and treasure cards have had their Gold sell value raised from zero. Pitch Black Licorice and Wolfsbane Tea are can no longer be sold at the Bazaar. Various spelling errors throughout the Spiral have been corrected.

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UK Exclusive interview with UK Community Manager piink

Hello,

I would like to introduce you the UK Community Manager piink. She was so nice to find time for interview specially for the readers on this blog.

Thank you piink!

• Will you tell us more about you? What is your hobby? Do you have pet? What do you do in your free time?

Well, more about me: I am Spanish, from a southern city called Malaga ( and the thing I miss the most is the beach since I live in Germany). I like reading books which is something here in Germany I do more cause of the weather, I love crafting (painting, polymer clay, but I challenge myself every month with something new). When it's sunny I love to spend hours at the park with my dog. She is an adorable Shih Tzu (I'll attach a picture so you all can die in love with her). And besides all this I of course like to go for coffee or shopping with friends and socialize a bit.

• What is your favorite school? Why?

When I first player Wizard101 I got Ice school assigned. I then tried Storm and Death schools as well but I always go back to Ice. I don't know what makes it so special for me but the fact that I am able to survive in dungeons longer than the people playing with me cause my amount of life and my defenses are higher could be one of the points. I also love the Ice spells, the designs and the animations are really attractive to me so it is hard for me to play with a different school.

• What is your favorite world? Why?

Before we started with big worlds updates my favorite world was Marleybone. I love the British theme and the characters, how they talk to you with their particular accents and the darkness of the world. It was not as aggressive as Dragonspyre to my eyes as it had the "cute" part but at the same time the music made me want to fight all the time wherever I was going. Right now, I could say that Zafaria is attracting me more but not because of the game itself but because of the culture behind this themed world.

• Do you have favorite spell?

Even though I said Ice school spells are my favorites, I have to say that the last Life school spell from the 4 Dungeons Update is my all times favorite now. You don't expect this ugly bug popping up from the cutest animation ever which is what made me laugh non stop for minutes the first time I saw it.

• What is your favorite wizard activity?

I don't have a favorite activity but it goes with time for me. There are months that I am in the mood for gardening, then I get sick of it and start crafting and when I cannot stand it anymore it's fishing. I hate training pets, that I can tell you it's the part that sometimes makes me get really mad. I hatch my pets always with people that have talents I want or I see worth to have ( common sense) but when I reach the point I don't get what I wanted to I cannot stand it anymore and forget about the pets for ages. I do have to completely forget the fail before I try again.

• How long do you play the game?

I started playing when we opened the Spanish community which was my first Wizard101 community so this September will be my 4th year.

• Do you have favorite dungeon?

Mmmm, not really. I have favorite people to play with but not dungeons .

• What do you think about the game?

This is a very general question really hard to reply. Of course in my opinion this is a game that has all aspects a game needs to be cool, it gives you many options, if you don't like pets, you might like gardening. If you don't, you might like fishing. If you like crafting you have many choices to gather reagents so it does not force you to make just one thing. If you just finished with the content, you probably don't have the best gear so all this makes this game be one of those where it is worth to spend time in. It is never done, this is not a match you finish, close and it's over and this is something I really love from Wizard101. There is nothing bad I can say about this game nor explain with better words.

• Do you prepare summer surprises for the players?

I am the one preparing special gifts, yes BUT I cannot tell you if there will be summer surprises or any other surprises because they are surprises

• Can you please tell us a bit more what can we expect to happen to the end of the year?

For sure a bunch of events are ready and scheduled, this part of the content plan is what I mostly try to get ready sorting out school weeks, Lost pages, Five boxes and another fishing event that will come soon . Also the anniversary will be celebrated in September for all the EU communities and I am already working on cool stuff to have fun with.For the updates, there is already a new version in US with the jewels system ( who did not check the patch notes can do it in their website where they put the info about the last test realm) that we will do out best to bring it here before the end of the year. If there is more to come I cannot tell .

• What do you want advice the players?

For me the most important thing is the respect. As long as we all respect each other and express our opinion being honest and fair nothing else matters. I personally do accept critics as long as they do not contain insults and I use them to improve myself. Each players space is also important for me. I really hate when the privacy or the freedom of a player is damaged so my request for everybody here would be to please try to keep the community in a nice enviroment as we do have already a bunch of politic and economic wars around the world, there is no need to spread madness and rage where people come to enjoy their time.Let's keep the place where we come to have fun a fun place.

• Do you want tell something to the players?

Thank you very much to all of you who make this a fantastic community to work with. I love your feedback, your dedication to the game and I appreciate the time you spend making this a great place to be part of. You guys rock!

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USA: New summer fish and fishing tournament

Hello there, Wizards! Lucky Hookline here with a fun event happening right here in Wizard101! We’re havin’ ourselves a Summer fishin’ tournament and everyone’s invited!

Here’s what ya need ta’ do. On June 18, 2015 (National Go Fishing Day) from 9:00 am to 11:59 pm US Central, Log on to Wizard101 and try to catch our new “Basking in the Sun” Shark. Every “Basking in the Sun” Shark you catch will act as an entry into a big giveaway for Crowns Prizes! One random winner will take home 60,000 Crowns and we’ll be giving away 10 more prizes of 10,000 Crowns.

Get your box and tackle ready, you’ll only be able ta’ catch the new fish startin’ at 9:00am US Central on June 18.

1. We’ll be tracking all the Summer Fish received by our players on June 18, 2015.
2. We’ll total up the numbers here at KingsIsle, and enter players into a random drawing. On June 19, 2015, we’ll give out the awards and announce our winners on the KingsIsle Blog.
3. Prizes will be applied directly to the winners' accounts on June 19, 2015.
4. Only Summer Fish that are successfully acquired by players from 9:00 am to 11:59pm US Central on June 18, 2015 will count as entries.
5. This contest is open to all (not just members) – just catch the Summer Fish on June 18, 2015 to enter.
6. You may sell your fish after you acquire them.
7. Fish are counted per account.

Please email community@wizard101.com if you have additional questions.

The fish is fire school rank 1 and can be found at  The Commons, The Oasis, Jade Palace, Northguard

Good luck to all at USA server!

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USA Fishing in Celestia?

Hello,

Few hours ago KingsIsle realized a new short video which shows fishes in Celestia. Probably this will be the next update which the company plans.


Link to the video:https://vine.co/v/ee0qnIeaM0F

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USA- New Summer Crown Shop Items

KI realized the newest crown shop with new summer items.

For more information:

Enjoy decoration your houses!

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UK - Life school celebration 9-16.06.2015

The Life School is celebrating their big school fête from the 9th to the 16th June – join in on the fun! Just in time for the fête: loads of Life pets and numerous equipment items for the healers amongst you! Also on offer: Life Battle Elixir, Life Mastery Amulet, Life House and all Life Henchmen!

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New Pack - Terror's Hoard Pack [US]

The Terror's Hoard Pack provides many Darkmoor themed items and one new pet.

The new pet is Brainy Assistant, death school, 65 pedigree and gives 1 colossafrog card at baby.

The pack costs 399 crowns.


It seems the pack contain great looking gear, mount (Terror Dog Mount) and wands

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New USA bundle - Grand Tourney Gauntlet Bundle!

KingsIsle are realizing two new bundles in very short period. The newest bundle is Grand Tourney Gauntlet Bundle.  

The bundle contains:
 1. Grand Tourney Arena
 2. Squirerel pet
 3. Viliant Jouster's Attire
 4. Viliant Jouster's Lance
 5. Jousting Destrier - this is a mount

 The outfit, the pet and the mount can be dye. The wand will appear in the mount;s color.

I have to say again that the pet and the mount are amazing.

Here is video about the bundle:

For know we know that in the dungeon you can get rare reagents. We still do not know if there is drop gear or pet or anything else.

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USA new bungle - Aztecan Builder's Bundle

This thread is for introducing the new USA bungle called Aztecan Builder;s Bundle. The bundle is similar to Arcane Builder's bundle.

The bundle contains:
1.Build-a-castle plot and pieces (The second house is hider behind the waterfall)
2. Feathered raptor mount
3. Toucan't pet
4. Wild wind outfit
5. Wild wing shield and axe
6. 1 month membership for UK players. USA can select between 1 month membership or 5000 crowns.

Here you can get information about the gear and wand stats.


I would like to share with you my thoughts  about this bundle.


The pet looks so cute. It is one of the cutest pets in this game.The pet animation is so cool.

I am not big fen of mounts but I love the bundle mount.

Here is video in which you can see the bundle:

What do you think about the bundle? I would like to get your opinions. Feel free to leave comments.

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Introduction

Hello young Wizards,

I do not know why but I have wanted always to say it. I am the new person.. I play Wizard101 few years at UK server. I love this game and I think it is time to do a bit more for it. I hope we will enjoy together the game. I will try to keep you updated with all news from USA server and KingsIsle, also I will post news from UK server and Gameforge.

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