Crafting Rush

So I had a little rush of inspiration this evening and decided to finish up my Myth's Grandmaster Artisan quest, using the joint efforts of..well..all of my wizards that can get into the Portico.

KI stated a while ago that they were "slightly upping the drop rate of Golden Pearls." Did anybody else know that meant "adding Black Pearl Drops making Golden Pearls virtually nonexistant"? ;)
Just teasing.

And, because I was still on my Crafting Rush (that's what I'm going to call it from now on :P), I decided to get my Balance's Seals of Seraphim done and started on collecting for his Possibility Dirks.

Looks like I might actually make 3 Grandmaster Artisans this year! ;P

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Aaah, Fooey!

Don't get me wrong, I really love this game, but sometimes it can be so infuriating!

This is my current pet project. The parents were, of course, my Ice Wyvern (Ice-Giver at Teen, IceBlade at Adult) and one of my Sea Dragons (honestly can't remember..). Now everything was looking good for this pet--great Strength and Agility, high Power--and then.. Tower Shield.

I don't need to tell you, but this Ice Wyvern is on my Ice wizard. Tower Shield, though I'm sure useful for many others, is really a pointless Talent for Quinn. What frustrates me is that neither Sea Dragon has that Talent manifested. And I know unmanifested Talents transfer and appear, but why always the ones that I don't want?

:P

In other Pet news, both my Judgement and Scarecrow manifested Mana Gift. Maybe I should take up gardening for little while..

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Celestial Observatory

So I don't think I posted the video of my Celestial Observatory when I first made it, so to start things off, here's the first video of the house:

When I made this video, I didn't have the Moon or Star levels of the house completed, and I hadn't put in a gardening set-up (using the methods I posted about once upon a time ago). It took me a while, but I finally got the final levels decorated, giving us this video:

(Quinn's sporting a new look, if you didn't notice. Fits the Ice in him, doesn't it?)
There you can see the added Moon and Star levels and the little gardening set-up--the Dirt Pile allows me to see down on my Garden, which really helps with aiming the spells.

Not much else for me to say that isn't said in the videos. Talk to ya later!

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Summer Vacation

Yes--it's that time of year.

The Holy Grail of laziness. The Cornucopia of "I don't care, I'm going back to bed".
Summer. Vacation.

And I won't lie. I neeeeed it.

Oh Wizard101 Blog-O-Sphere, how I have missed you! And there's SO MUCH we need to catch up on. I won't state the obvious (coughWintertuskWaterworksNewPetsNewSpellsNewMegaBundleNewGiftCardPetscough), but I will say that I have a lot to talk about--but not all in one post. Let me say that this is more or less an introduction to the Summer Editions of the Midmorning Owl--Bringing you breaking news from across the Spiral*!
*Mainly having to do with its author, me.

I have a ton of projects I need to accomplish this year and I hope you'll stick around and hear me drone on all about them. Let me first tell you that I finally--yes, after...a very long time (I forgot to count..)..I have finally finished my Celestial Observatory--and it only took me 5 minutes. Whew! You can expect a video sometime this weekend/next week.

I also finally got around to leveling my Death wizard (something I've been shoving behind me), and I have a video with both--yes, both--of his Level 58 quests. It's kinda long and I kinda need to upload it still, so you can expect that later as well!

So I hope I didn't lose you all over my hiatus, and I hope to bring you another post soon! 
 

Wild Blog Post Appeared!

Boogah boogah!

Haven't spoken in a while, have I? Hope you weren't worrying about me or anything. I just haven't had much to blog about lately! Both Wizard school and Earth school are slamming on the brakes, so my life has been painfully dull (if that's possible). That seems to be remedied by the release of Wintertusk onto the Test Realm. The Blog-o-Sphere and just about everything else has been going nuts about it.

I'm not so sure if I want to do Test or surprise myself when it gets to Live. I only signed in to update all those files and when I tried to get my (I think) level 35 spell but it seems that Ice wizards are bugged, maybe? I don't know.

I can't seem to play Wizards for too long. My Laptop is having a midlife crisis, perhaps, because it doesn't ever want to do things for an extended amount of time. Most times I can sign in, tend my Garden, and it's already whirring more than I feel comfortable with. Sigh.. So I've been stuck using the desktop, which can play Wizards, but at a much, much lower quality.

So maybe I'll see you on the Test Realm. Maybe not. We'll see what the weekend brings. Hope you all had a great Easter! I expect Eggbert will be packing up soon and maybe he'll take all of this rainy weather with him.

Roaming Mounts!

Roaming Mounts--that's neat!

But not the reason I'm posting! This is more or less just me saying "Check out those pets!"
Perhaps the new Legendary Pets? Or maybe some completely random ones? Who knows!

All I know is I want a Humungofrog, and I want one now!

PS - Did I mention the Test Realm's open? Yeah! You can test some amulets that let you use your Power Pips for your secondary school(s).

Pets and Plants and Producer's Letters

To start this post off, let's hear it for a great April Producer's Letter. Most of the time the letters are kinda vague and don't rile up much of my interest, but this month's is packed with things I can't wait to find out about (and maybe it having something to do with my favorite world changes things..). You can read the letter here.

Secondly, I have gotten back into getting some of those "Dream Pets" on my Wizards. Now that I have two Sea Dragons, it's pretty easy to get started--definitely recommend that you all spend some time farming Astreaus. Anywho! When I last left off I had gotten my Balance's Dream Krok--and I might just mention that now the Blade/Trap Card giving Talents stack with their base forms when used; woot for Hexter! Bosses of the Spiral, fear my Judgment!

But I've picked up on my Storm and Life wizards. I'll talk about my Life first, as his needs were relatively easy. All I wanted was a Brown Spider (it's Innate card gives a spell that will put up a Life Damage bubble) with Spritely. Now, I changed my mind on the Spritely part--why? Because it was so annoying when my Turtle would use up my Guiding Light cards (right before I was about to Overheal somebody, mind you. I like big numbers..), so I gave up trying for that talent and instead began looking for Lifeblade and Blade of Life (both of which manifested on a Turtle I got from Tempus Stormfist--another great farming spot!). Now I'm not a big attacker when I'm in groups, and when I'm alone I tend to go for big one hit kills with either Centaur or Wookie--I mean Forest Lord, so the May Cast Lifeblade talent probably wouldn't be all that beneficial to me. So I settled with Blade of Life...and...well...I got it. So that pet's done right? Probably. I'm not hard to please with Pets, being as unpredictable as they are. In the future I may go through again and try to get some other talents on it, but for now, I'll take it!

Now my Storm's pet was rather difficult to come up with. I posted quite some time ago that I was trying for a Stormman, and I've changed that. I figured I've got so many Thunder Colossus sitting around, I might as well make them useful. So I hatched my TColossus with a Sea Dragon and was amazed; a jump in pedigree from 57 to 65! It's one of my favorite pets now, as it got a Talent that hadn't even manifested on it's Parent Dragon. I'm aiming for Spritely, which hasn't shown up yet, but I'm hopeful.

And to wrap up, I'll give you a picture of my Silver Trumpet Vines. I really don't like gardening, but I wanted some Balance Blades and Cleanse Charms and Pierces, so I figured I might as well use what I have. They wouldn't be so bad if they didn't insist on randomly wilting. Darn bugs (err--the glitch kind..) in the system!

And a picture of my new Starlight Pony! Lucky you!

That looks to be about it for this post (it's kinda long, isn't it?). Just wanted to plant a seed and say that I plan on going a bit "bigger" with posts in the future. Not that I don't love talking about myself (just kidding; I don't.. I don't think..), but I like to write more about mechanics and speculation than day to day things. Perhaps my first project will be to dig into what I think Wintertusk will be like. Time will tell!

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