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January 28, 2009

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Winged Nazgul

Congrats! Right behind you at 39. The current level cap is 50 so you are almost at it.

I've now reached the point where I have 3 decks for different situations depending on the mob resists. Now it's simply a matter of playing the deck correctly instead of hoping for the right card to show up.

Tipa

I'm wracking my brain -- I THINK there's a group fire trap that traps every member of the enemy encounter? I don't have it, but I'm sure I remember something like that. Once you get these sorts of multipliers going -- and in a group, they can get really high with some teamwork -- almost nothing can stand too long.

As I leveled, I valued shields less and less, reasoning that killing stuff faster would make up for resisting less. Dragonspyre has been an education. Now I love shields again :)

I'm pretty sure the level cap is still 50.

Tipa

Oh yeah -- level 40 is when you can wield swords :) Oyotomi (is that the name?) is the easiest one. Death mob, instant respawn, no trash, contested mob that hardly anyone farms except to get their swords. Drops the life sword. I got it after three or four kills.

Alysianah aka Saylah

@Ronan - Congrats to you too as I'm sure you'll be 40 today or tomorrow. :-) Yes, on the 3 decks. I've been playing three for a long time. All short and for specific types of encounters. I struggle if I try a general long deck now. The only time I use a long deck is big group or PVP.

@Tipa - I'll have to check. There was a trap of sorts after Meteor but it wasn't clear from the card if it was applied to a single target or all. I was confused. But now that you mention it, there was a 4-way arrow on the card so it might have been trap all. However my storm spell that traps all clearly says it does. Since we can re-train I'll have to research it before spending the point. I don't need anymore single target traps. You can only spend but so many rounds trapping.

I so want a sword. And yes, I'm still crying about never having found even a simple staff. Why the weapon gods are against me I don't know. But I'll be happy to take a sword in the meantime. :-)

Capn John

My son has Groostak's Prudent Staff waiting for him to ding 40. Hopefully it will look as cool when he's wielding it, as it does in the picture:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/127/groostaksprudentstaffwu3.jpg

I believe Groostak can be found around Hametsu Village in Moo Shu, so he should be easy enough to farm if you want an interesting looking staff/polearm :)

Alysianah aka Saylah

@Capn - thanks he will be farmed! :-)

Tipa

That followup fire school spell sounds like the one that adds a fire damage buff to the entire encounter -- both sides.

Alysianah aka Saylah

Both sides?? Whoa that's hot! I'll look on the forum and read thru the Fire spells. I have a ways to go before I get another point to spend. Are there new cards in DS or are we just getting more points to spend in other schools? Too many points dilutes people having to specialize which will take some of the flavor out of the game.

Winged Nazgul

Wyldfire - 4 pips
Effect: +25% to all Fire

It's a global enchantment that sticks around and affects both sides. It's one of the spells you can train after Meteor Strike. I know Storm also has a similar spell in

Darkwind - 4 pips
Effect: +25% to all Storm

Alysianah aka Saylah

Thanks! That is awesome and will be my next point spent!

Capn John

I believe Myth also has a spell similar to that because my son has something like it. I wasn't sure whether it affected both sides or not though, but the first time he cast it, it created a rapidly expanding globe which quickly encompassed the entire field of battle, so I figured that meant it affected ALL Myth spells.

Tesh

The level 15 Zeke boots have those "battlefield enchant" cards, if you just want to fiddle around to see if they are useful. There's one for each school... except Balance. (At least as far as I can tell, according to Zeke gear.) Balance gets the Power Pip %up card in that slot.

Quick question for those of you hardy souls further along than I: How much Gold do you have? I'm writing about the economy in W101, and my sense is that there aren't enough gold sinks. I'm wondering if that's true at the higher levels.

Tipa

@Tesh - I hover between 60K and 70K gold. Whenever I think I have too much, I start dying outfits.

Tesh

At least, gold sinks that aren't just Zeke gear, that is. Yes, I can spend 51k gold on a black/black level 15 Zeke Cloak, but if I have Crowns to spare, why bother?

What exactly do people spend gold on?

Khan

Congrats on 40! Glad you're having so much fun with it.

Of course, with that cat costume and your preference for mage-type characters, you'll have to release a photo gallery called "I can haz flamethrower" or something like that. :)

Alysianah aka Saylah

Whoa, I'm poor! I suppose I should stop collecting outfits and dying them. I never have more than 20-22K! But man, my trunk is full of hot lookin' stuff. I could strut the catwalk with the best of 'em. *meow*

I spend gold on Treasure cards. Sometimes I buy a spell that I will be getting so I can try it out in the line-up and decide, especially since we can't respec. For example, I've been using Meteor for a couple of weeks. I wanted to know if it was going to be worth going that far down into a 3rd school. If not, then I'd finish out Storm and get Stormzilla. As it turned out I liked it very much and got it. Unfortunately, I learned that technique AFTER sinking points in Storm that i really wish I hadn't. *sigh*

Other than that I color outfits like I don't have any sense. :-) Oh and wands. I've bought all my wands since the mobs don't wanna give none up for me.

Alysianah aka Saylah

@Khan - Yes, I am having lots of fun. thanks. :-)

Tesh

Hrm... new question, would you convert crowns to gold if you could do it at a better rate than what Zeke offers?

Alysianah aka Saylah

Hmm, only if there were cooler things to do with gold. At present there aren't. Like if we had player housing and I could decorate I'd probably be willing to spend a little real cash to do it. If I could have a mount, additional teleport option, send a messenger to a friend (wouldn't that be cute!), things like that. Since gear isn't a stringent requirement for anything, they'd have to add more unique vanity or convenience items for me to care about having more gold.

Tesh

That's what I've been thinking. Thanks!

JollyFellow

@ Saylah

Headmaster Ambrose (a KI employee) has frequently referenced on the W101 forums that in the future they will be adding an "off-campus housing" feature. Could be what you're looking for :)!

Alysianah aka Saylah

I'd heard that from someone, can't remember who but yes, that would be sweet.

Jaycee27

Hi,

I'm one of the new admins for the Wikia Wizard101 Wiki, and I have been approaching the awesome blogs I have seen in my travels looking at Wizard101 content and comments. We would greatly appreciate it if you would put a link up to the site. Wizard City is now approaching the point where it is well covered and we are moving on to Krokotopia. Any of your readers who could add to later game content would be appreciated as well. Regards and thank you for the entertaining and informative reading!
Love your comments on Marleybone - especially as I am just about to get there myself.
Jaycee27

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