The Loss of a team... (The Spoilers team)

I would like to take this time to talk about the Spoilers team. Its sad to see Ben & his Team to leave their years of work but it was because of the game creator company of Wizard101,Kingsisle, decided to place in a Cease & Desist towards the main 2 leaders of the team.  I understand on Kingsisle's part why they had to do that which is to ensure that no new content is released but without these early releases, we wouldn't get the build up hype which boosts profits for the company. So why is KI killing off the Spoilers team when really they actually boosted KI's sales for Wizard101 memberships & Crowns. Think about it, they created a bot that determines whether or not test realm is coming soon and I can tell the majority of wizard101 players (AND FANSITE OWNERS) have used Spoilers and/or their applications at least in one point. I personally loved all the posts and content they displayed, its almost as though its like hype juice for me. Now that they removed the only source of hype, I'm not sure if I were to pay attention to any source of media for wizard101 except KI themselves. The Launcher by Spoilers was certainly an amazing launcher since it takes you directly to the game. Its also nice to see any Scrapped content or old content that wiz didn't use to be shown via Twitter. I would like to take this time to Wish @BenTheSorcerer & his team the best of luck playing wiz regularly or moving on to another community.

RIP WIZARD101 SPOILERS

2011-2016

Wizard101 Spoilers(Outside sources) in General

2011-20XX

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) 

Streaming & Other Things IRL.

Since Streaming by definition is a method to develop a fanbase for you and your produced content and well fortunately for some like my friend Ryan also known as TheTechBoy on twitch, he is able to be more professional like and give out more than just a regular plain stream. In fact, he can branch out into multiple games without having too many issues. As for me, I'm not really that professional like in the sense because I don't have all the fancy equipment that's used for livestreams including one of the most essential items, the microphone. Of course, I still stream even without all those but never gets noticed in the community simply because I don't have a voice. However, I still have enjoyment recording and streaming for fun and producing decent content. I would try to get equipment for streams but the fact is that within a week of this post, i'll be packing my items to a new home which means I can't get the support to get anything for my streams which also means No Internet or Streaming for a few days.I also have to think about college and paying tuitions/fees so don't expect me to stream a lot when my college is starting.Anyways, this post is gonna be my final one until I move into my new home so with that in mind guys, I wish you a great day and stay amazing.

Twitter:

www.twitter.com/connorcameo99

Twitch:

www.twitch.tv/connorthecameowizard

Jason Summerwielder's Summer Ward Giveaway

Hello everyone, its been awhile since i've done a giveaway however since I feel people have been looking for ward pets recently(At least that's what you told me guys) I'm gonna put all my ward pets up for this giveaway. The reason why i'm doing this giveaway is not for $,more of a generosity to gift towards the community if anything. Think about it, how many friends that you have added don't have ward pets because A. No one would hatch with them a ward pet or B. Their pet doesn't meet the requirements for the other person with ward. I want to make everyone who doesn't really have the best pets to have a amazing pet that people will look up to.

How many winners will there be for this giveaway?

- 6 winners

When does it end?

Thursday, July 7th at around 7:00pm Pacific Time

Can we see the ward pets for this giveaway?

Yea, here it is:

The Guide to Great Clock Gauntlet

As you will see on this post, it will contain some spoilers for the newest dungeon for wizard101 so please read at your own risk.

Hello everyone, recently we've seen Valencia part II got released on pirate but now Valencia has arrived in Wizard101 in the form of a mini Gauntlet. 

(Thanks to @BenTheSorcerer for the dungeon)

Now it starts you off in Valencia talking to Bernardo Dondi telling what's the function of the Great Clock but tells us that all of a sudden that the time on the clock is going very fast and he wants us to investigate with him what was the cause behind this.

Once we head into the tower, we will be greeted by 2 Clockworks who are both balance.

Once we defeat these 2 workers, we move on a floor to where we see a grey clockworker talking to our main boss of the dungeon, Lucia. Then after she leaves, the elite clockworker and one other clockworker faces you on.

Surprisingly so far, there was no cheats to be founded during the first two battles. But once we step onto to the next room, things just got real. We get to face Lugs a ice elite. 

Cheats:

"Better Keep my Guard Up!"

Gives lugs a -99% Tower Shield

Triggers to recast this: Single Targetted Spells

Once we finish off Lugs, we move on to the climax and the near ending to this dungeon. We move up a step to see Lucia once more but this time, it is determined to give us a show by battling her.

Cheats:

"Lets Even the Odds!"

Summons in a Clockwork Minion (Balance)

Triggers: Whenever Lucia is Alone for 3 or more turns

"Time to Even the score a bit!"

Removes all debuffs on self

Triggers:Whenever a Debuff(Weakness,Dispel,Mantle) is casted to Lucia

"This is my Show! Mine!"

Steal Charms & Steal Wards all buffs from player

Triggers: Casted every 4 turns

Once you finish with Lucia, the dungeon ends off with Bernardo with Lucia telling us that we did a great job.

Some Easter eggs that I found:

Louis (The Musketeer companion from Pirate101) Makes a cameo appearance as a painting.

Drops:

From Clockwork Spanner:

(Thanks to @DanielSunSword for picture)

From Lugs:

From Lucia:

If you find any drops that are in this dungeon and you want it to be featured on The Burning Spiral, then please message me on twitter (@connorcameo99).

The state of KI, The "Dark Age"

How did it happen?:

The "Dark Age" era :

It all supposedly began when J. Todd Coleman, the former Computer game designer of KI left the wiz community to pursue new passions which for him led to the formation of Artcraft Entertainment. I can atest why this would be considered a downturn however, you still had people at that time such as Gary Scott Smith the senior software engineer of KI, and Josef T. Hall the creator of Wizard101 & Co-Creator of Pirate101.

Does Pirate101 contribute to the Dark Age?

When pirate101 was first disclosed in closed beta and open beta, I was one of many to test out this new game. I thought personally from my standpoint that it would be an amazing concept. When it was released, I beated the game (Back when it was level 50) within a month and a half and I had fun, but like Wizard101, what were you suppose to do within pirate101? The only thing you can do in pirate101 back when it was in its original state was the side story quests. However, the question still remains, does it contribute to the Dark Age? In my opinion, I would say during the 3 year hiatus yes because since aside from PvP, the addition of the advanced pets and Marleybone/Aquila, there was still nothing else to do even after you complete all that. It wasn't until the introduction of Ranked PvP when things got more interesting. However, there was tons of people who want that Book 15 released and finally in 2016, KI revealed several teasers of images along with vine video of what Valencia part II is gonna be like.

Did the hiatus of Gary Scott Smith's twitter contribute to the Dark Age?

Gary Scott Smith, the senior software engineer of KI was considered by many to be a fan favorite (Next to Tom, also known as the Friendly Necromancer) since he gave insight on how many days until test realm begins, reveals content little by little, and even at one point suggested to KI to add something of his ideals into Wizard101. Everyone admires Gary for being that guy who interacts with the wiz community. But ever since his twitter account, @GaryScottSmith2 stopped posting (With his last post being from October 2015), many have speculated that he left KI just like J.Todd Coleman but in a private way. However this was confirmed to be false, he is indeed still working at KI but I have a little speculation statement here though. What if Gary was signed onto a contract that doesn't allow him to disclose any information with the public until it's shown by the Community Managers? Now, back to the question, did Gary's twitter hiatus contribute anything to the Dark Age? Well for me, it was kind of a hit and miss since on one side, he did interact with the audience/community via twitter which made this community unique but at the same time I feel as though since his hiatus, Belloq (Also known as W101 & P101 Spoilers) has taken over his position of revealing in game content. I just wish that Gary can return to his twitter so he can interact with his community again.

Conclusions:

 Its quite understandable why KI needed to lay off workers(Due to money problems), but how come did you lay off some of your best? KI should had gone with compromises to several average working to extraordinary working employers to keep them and let everyone else be laid off. I know that last statement was a bit harsh to the below average workers of KI but you gotta consider this, at the end of the day, KI is a gaming company that needs revenue to stay afloat and if it needs to lay off some workers, its gonna need to so it can stay stable.

The Status so far:

(5/12/2016) There has been around several workers Laid off by KI along with everyone's beloved turkey, Lealea. Not sure if Tom is also gonna be laid off but I'll update as the rumors continue.

  

The Skeleton,Daily assignments, and Fishing update: My thoughts and review on it

Omen:

Hello everyone, it's been awhile since my last post but I am back and alive. So anyways, ever since my last post about the omen speculations, all my predictions were in fact correct. However, I didn't predict any of their cheats since shadow seems like an unknown for me. I just noticed though, the omen boss actually uses more of SHADOW pips instead of power pips since his PP is actually lower than his SP. Regardless though, that felt like somewhat of an adjustment since he relies heavily on shadow magic.  His drops aren't half bad if you love housing decorations of Greyrose or if you are a fan of his wings or his slightly better deck. But most of the time he drops mounts, which for many non paying hoard pack wizards is a blessing. Aside from that, his gear isn't the best from the one shot dungeons or malistaire.

Fishing:

Now normally, I wouldn't talk about fishing since to be honest I just hate the concept of waiting (I'm a man of action you know) but regardless, when the rumors came around that code wands were in the zafarian area, I was shocked to see code wands as fishing items. So I decided to take a look at one of the most popular places to fish in Zafaria, Elephant Graveyard. It was a struggle at first since I have to deal with the diverse spreading of sentinel fish.

However, I figured out a trick to combat that without using banish sentinel spell. This will involve the "Charm" spell to lure all fish to the location along with a rank 2 or rank 3 lure of your choice. 

How to do it:

1. Charm on the far right(or left if your using the other side of the pond)

2.Charm on the far left(or vise versa)

Typically, the shadow sentinel is much faster in fishing speeds than your regular fish so that's why typically they go faster to the destination than the other fish.

Anyways getting back to the story, I eventually fished out a chest and it had an wand I never heard of called the warpwood wand.

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I never knew what was the warpwood wand in terms of its looks since its one of those code wands I never heard about. But regardless I felt amazed how I can get code wands via fishing. This in my opinion makes fishing more fun and more rewarding. I mean you can get amber of all things within one of these fishing chests. 

Daily Assignment:

To be honest, I really loved daily assignments ever since I was introduced to the free to play mobile games of Game of Dice and many free RPGs. But when I heard it was coming to this game, I was hysterical about getting some free items just for logging in. However, W101's modeling of the Daily Assignment though requires you to actually do something rather than just login and pop in. Its divided into 2 categories(From what I can see), Defeat one enemy or Go to this place. Once you finish your daily assignment, the rewards go from gold to more gold than to arena tickets, than to crowns, and lastly a mysterious chest. I was amazed what items I can get within the mysterious chest, I mean look at what I got as my reward.

 A unique pet gem that so far you can get only via playing the daily assignment. I can tell you now that the chests will most likely drop unique items such as pet gems (Spell Proof, Spell Defy, Pain giver, Pain Bringer, etc...). Side note though: This fire pet will become a trend for years to come #Doublemeup 

My overall summary:

The Final verdict for this update is a 9 out of 10 since most of the content that is within this update is quite amazing, Unique pet gems and items, fishing up code wands and other rare reagents such as amber, and lastly new upgraded decks that is designed only for the omen boss. So what are your thoughts on the update? Comment on this post or use #BurningSpiral on twitter along with your comment.