Boots, Boots and Boots. What do I choose? (Fire Edition)

Hello everyone, it has really been a while since I've written a post based upon wizard101 or its other games but I am back with a in depth analysis for the 125+ Boots that are obtainable in Part 1 of empyrea.

Cabalist Cleansing Stompers                            Fierce Alphoi Boots

Obtainable from the following Bosses                         Obtainable from Crafting

• Khan                                                       Crafting Recipe Vendor:

                                                                                      Loligo

                                                                                                             

                                                                  Gold Cost: 15000             

                                                                  Recipe:    

                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                       

Items needed to craft: 1 Interstellar Engineer Trekkers, 20 Perfect Ruby, 75 Leather Straps , 25 aethyr dust, 150 kelp, 125 spider silk 

So now the comparison, where do I start?

Cabalist Cleansing Stompers                                         Fierce Alphoi Boots

+ 9 Fire Critical Rating                                                             + 227 more health

+ 1% shadow pip chance                                                                  

The Cabal Cleansing Stompers are more of a offensive build while the Alphoi is built based upon solely on Health Increase. Both give the same damage output, resist, and accuracy though. Personally I would choose the Cabalist Cleansing Stompers over Fierce simply because of the added baggage of offensive stats such as critical and shadow pip chance. 

Future, Future, Future..

Hello Everyone, it's been a LONG while since I did a blog on TheBurningSpiral but I think it's about time to tell you all whats going on as of right now. I am gonna start becoming more busy as the weeks go by, that along with the fact that my part-time job is in the way too is something thats bothersome for me. However, I will try to make my best efforts to keep you guys informed on the updates within BurningSpiral. This doesn't mean I will quit the game or anything of the sorts, its just more of a placed schedule for the week, which means the Weekend really is my only time I could do something of the sorts like livestreaming with you guys or doing another blog on something I wanted to talk about here. For those of you guys who have been sticking with me since the Beginning I really thank you for doing so. Here's to hoping for a Brighter more flexible Future and I'll see you guys next time with Sunday's Livestream of Part II of the Q&A.

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The April Update: Pets

 I really wanted to focus more on the raging bull pet simply because it is the school in which I breathe under so if you were expecting a summary of the April Update, well... 

But anywho what really interests me about the Raging Bull is that even before you get the pet, it provides a story dialogue that actually foreshadows possible story/content for arc 3 like if Empyrean Ore is gonna be used in a crafting recipe? Or perhaps its the new Amber and will be the source to create all new craftable spells. 

*Story Summary Begin*

Anyways, when you talk to Ignus, he tells about a student that was planning to create monsters using this Empyrean ore (Foreshadow to expansions for Fire School) and he wants you to prevent him from doing that.

You face him with this new "Monster" which is actually just a mini raging bull and defeat him. Fortunately/Unfortunately he doesn't have any cheats but I am seeing that perhaps I will be wrong in the future. Once you defeat him, you get the pet back and receive the egg.

* Story Summary End *

Now Story aside, its time to look at the actual meat of this bull, the item card/talent pool.

Please note I got the 1st generation bull to epic so it shows all item cards it gets:

As you may have noticed the pet stats themselves excluding selfish talents really stand out for STR and AGI which is a decent pet to give 10% proof and also that the pet also has a Choke instead of the speculated 7 pip Raging Bull spell (Which as of this point I could be wrong since this pet isn't mega yet). In terms of the 1st generation pet, its a decent one to go off with but I think only if you love using support stalls like smoke screen and choke. However I think this does have some usage if its a Hybrid pet.

For Example: The Fire + Balance Pet

- It gives a balanceblade instead of fireblade which makes it ideal for universal support along with a smoke screen

-It also provides Stall cards like Choke (Though I kinda wish KI would give more better cards for fire pets to use)

Fire + Life Pet:

-Basically, this is a bull that gives lifeblade instead of balance

-If you are life and love stalling, then use this pet instead.

Whats the update on Hiatus?

Hello everyone, I know its been a LONG while since my last post but since Spring Break is here for me, I can finally discuss on why i've been ignoring TheBurningSpiral for the past month or so.

*From here on forth I'm calling TheBurningSpiral (TBS) just so I don't prolong this post.

When I typically am on TBS, I think about the ongoings of wizard101's content. I've really thought about possible ways you can expand upon a 9 year old game but with all games, typically they get forgotten and left into obscurity. Like with World of Warcraft, Wizard101 typically is remembered by many as those as a genre that was defined by WoW, at least Wizard101 was appealing to this genre that was considered to be mature. In fact, you can argue that Wizard101 was the result of WoW since the earliest builds of wiz happened around 2005. Anyways, why did I bring these two games as mentions? Its simply because that both games get constant updates and as a result there would be bigger fanbases. As a result, people remember more of the things that were included.

Now why did I mention all this?  Lets just say if you completed everything(Getting gear, training the right pet,etc..), there really isn't anything exciting or amazing unless you stick to the side hobbies which are 3 things (as of this post), PvPing, Fishing, or Housing Games/Deco.  I really admire Housing Games/Deco simply because of the interaction of players but this really isn't satisfying my gameplay time of Wizard101. This as a result really hinders on my posts for TBS since there isn't really new content and/or anything of the importance. I also have to deal with the fact that college is now my norm and I can't always have the dedicated time to go on Wizard101 anymore like I did during my last 2 High School years. I'm not gonna be a sellout and make this blogsite a ad supported site that redirects you to other Fansites such as Swordroll, Legends of the Spiral, etc. because I want this website to be dedicated to my personal goings for Wiz and Real life.

So for the time being, I'm gonna be a bit more constant on the @BurningSpirals account, however I cannot give everyone the chance that I will constant post more and more on TBS. I really hope you guys can understand that and I thank you all for listening to this update on my hiatus.


-Jason Summerwielder
Creator of The Burning Spiral

What does "Lore" spells mean?

Typically, they are spells that are dropped by the hoard packs that have "Lore" in the name. However, within the last few years, there's always been a change in which people can acquire these spells which change the overall definition of Lore Spells.

Speaking of which, ever since the introduction to Loremaster, lots of people farmed her not only for gold and tc but for the very rare chance to get a new spell. At the time of the patch release, it really was something new for the wizard Community and it was very rare heard of (Unless you were farming the mooshu bosses for spells). Have you ever noticed that the loremaster drops from herself and not from any other lore pack? Well, I based this that you get it from the boss itself which is why spells like these are meant to be op. 

                          

 You can actually argue the same thing for fire's spell, Burning Rampage which is dropped by the Stone key boss in avalon called Lambent Fire. As it stated at the start of battle, "I am a wretched spirit, once long ago a noble knight. I quested to find the Horn of Glory. But I fell, and remained trapped here to flicker like the dying of the day!" This indicates his backstory that he was a knight who encountered this monstrous beast of a firezilla but it fell down to the knight and crushed him into a ghost. So now he is trapped for eternity in the caves, hoping for eternal revenge. As for the minions surrounding him.. I guess its just KI filler. 

                                                                                                                                                                In the sense, you can say that lore spells aren't really meant for packs anymore, they are meant for the keeper of spells, Loremaster. But here's the thing, if it drops newer and newer spells such as Athena Battle Sight then why doesn't she have that added as part of her attack arsenal? I know its asking for more difficulty but in reality, she was meant to be designed that way. Anyways, i've gone on this for too long and I will conclude with this: Lore spells in my definition are that are dropped off bosses based off upon what the design of the spell visually and from a story standpoint (if you get what I mean).

So what are your definitions of lore spells? Post it over on @BurningSpirals