My Thoughts on Test Realm (July)

Hello everyone, reporting from my new location IRL and so far the house is completely finished so I have a bit more time exploring and what better way to do it with a new test realm that was released by the KI team once again. Anyways, this update is supposedly the Summer Update but I think this is nothing more but a major fix update along with some new content such as the astral teacher and  3 NEW spells that is trainable for wizards everywhere.

Astral School Aracum:

List of new Astral Spells:

Epic- 300+ to next damage spell

Radical- 150+ heal to next heal spell

Aegis- Protects Positive Charm or  Shield from 1 removal

Indemnity- Protects Negative Charm or Negative trap from 1 removal

Adapt- Gains 1 Power Pip for every 6 pip and above spell casted to user

Brace- -20% to all damage for 4 rounds

Magnify- +20% to all damage for 4 rounds

Flawless- 20% accuracy + 15% pierce for 4 rounds

Renew- 25% outgoing healing for 4 rounds

List of New Spells:

    

-Athena 75% accuracy,520 myth damage + -35% to next spell

-Queen Calypso 65% accuracy, 20% storm trap to all enemies + 445-505 storm damage to single target

-Hephaestus: 70% accuracy, 425-475 fire damage + 25% fire bubble 

New Changes to the Arena:

Members now get to join tourneys with gold which in my opinion helps squeeze out the gameplay for wizard101 endgame. 

Critical now is 2x for PvP, but hasn't changed for PvE. 

New Fishing Trainer!

There's now a new fishing trainer in Mooshu that gives 2 quests for fishing but make sure you fish up on those fishing quests now before you talk to Ryoshi. He gives 2 new fishing spells which are rank 6 that are designed to get rid of certain ranked fish.

Changes in Friends List GUI:

-Now it displays multiple friends and their wizard faces

-Tells how many friends you've added and how much space you have left

-Now you can sort friends by emotes

Brandon Make A Wish Quest:

-New Quest, "Trial by Dragon's fire" will be given to the player after finishing the quest "Into the Bleaks"
-Once you finish "Trial by Dragon's fire", you will be given a Brandon Gem that summons a minion of himself
-Quest is based around the Dragons(Which I really love, but could had at least mentioned the coldfire dragon ;) but hey its your own quest Brandon)

Final Thoughts & Verdict:

- I love the PvP & Friend aspect of this update, it really helps KI with updating their game by a lot.

- The new Astral Spells aren't really that impressive besides Aegis,Indemnity,Radical, and Adapt since most of the spells are just trained versions of tcs of the first astral star school set(Fortify, Amplify, Infallible, etc..)

-Nice to see fishing have more spells to mess around with, especially if those spells get rid of a certain rank

-I personally kinda want Brandon to be a trainable minion spell, not just a gem

Verdict: I would say this is one of the short but great updates for wizard101. It helps improving the game since it gives members now tourneys for GOLD instead of crowns(Thank goodness) and the new friend GUI is amazing(Sorry to those who loved the old friends list) not to mention that we get some new fishing techniques and more fish questing. So with that in mind guys, I give this update a rating of............. Like it!(7.5/10)