Notable Events
A log of events within the game and community. This will be filled gradually and likely stop at 2015/14 - may be expanded when mostly complete. Bored? Listen to this page with a screen reader! WIP.
Welcome
Welcome to Notable Events, a log of various events/news within the Wizard101 and KI community, with the purpose of making events easy to refer to in the future. In the next paragraph, you can learn how to get the most out of this page.
Tags Infobox
Please see the infobox below for information on tags found on this page. A quick note that this page will appear somewhat half incomplete whilst the improvement project is in the works.
Test realm timing information will be logged in GMT+1.
Tags Infobox
Tags will be divided into three categories, generic, test realm / patch & year specific.
Generic tags are reserved for recurring yearly events, such as Wizard101's birthday or known figures, such as KI/Wizard101Devs. These tags are split into subcategories.
Test Realm / Patch tags are reserved for events relating to test realm, whether that's information or the opening/closure of. Live patches will also be found in this tag.
Year specific tags, are, well, year specific. They apply to a specific year, and have only occurred in that year. These tags are found in the tabs above (for now).
Critical Events will be indicated with [CEV]
Just a note that the colours shown will not apply in this infobox but will apply to events.
Generic tags & subcategories
Generic:
KingsIsle will be indicated with [KI]
Pirate101 will be indicated with [P101]
W101Devs will be indicated with [WD] or [WD/Important]
Information about a New World is indicated with [NewWorld]
KingsIsle Live will be indicated with [KILive]
KI leave/join will be indicated with [KIEmployees]
Bugs will be indicated with [Bugs], [MajorBugs], [PartOffline] & [Offline] [1]
Roundtable event will be indicated with [Roundtable]
Loyalty Store refresh will be indicated with [LoyaltyStoreRefresh]
[1] Tag used is dependent on severity.
Holiday & Sales:
Wizard101's Birthday will be indicated with [BDAY]
60 for 60 sales will be indicated with [60for60]
Pack sales will be indicated with [PackSale]
Events: [FriendshipFestival] & [SoF], [CIJ]
Crowns/Timed Rewards indicated with [CrownsRewards] or [TimedRewards]
12 Days of the Spiral will be indicated with [12Days]
Elixir sales will be indicated with [ElixirSale]
Gameplay (Green for Gameplay):
Character slot expansions will be indicated with [MaxChar]
PvP Changes will be indicated with [PvP]
PvE changes will be indicated with [PvE] or/and [5thAge].
Story / Lore will be indicated with [Storythread]
Free WC/Krok will be indicated with [FreeWCKT]
Free membership will be indicated with [FreeMembership]
Loyalty store refresh will be indicated with [LoyaltyStoreRefresh]
New Packs will be indicated with [NewPacks]
New bundles will be indicated with [NewBundles]
Test / Patch (Purple for Patch)
Test Realm information will be indicated with [TR]
Test Realm teasers will be indicated with [TRTease]
Test Realm release will be indicated with [TR-UP]
Test Realm live will be indicated with [TR-DOWN]
Live patches will be indicated with [LP]
Test patches will be indicated with [TP]
Formatting example - (BOLD) Fri, Jan 7th: [Generic/Gameplay Tag] Event, links.
2022 (Novus)
Year Overview - 2022
Bundles this Year
Unforgiven Dead Gauntlet Bundle - AV Gauntlet $39 (Apr 28, 2022)
Peppergrass Glen Bundle - KR Bundle $39 (Jun 1st, 2022 & Leaked)
Arcane Express Bundle - Bundle $29 (Unreleased - On GameStop).
Catmandu Sanctuary Bundle - NV Bundle $39 (Unreleased - Available at GS)
Packs this Year
Heroes of Lemuria Pack (Jan 26, 2022)
Aquila Hoard Pack - AQ Pack (Mar 8, 2022)
Unforgiven Dead Gauntlet - AV Pack (Apr 28, 2022)
Spiral Villains Hoard Pack - WC Pack (July 27th 2022)
Malistaire Saga Spellemental Pack (Aug, 16th 2022)
Cerberus Master Pack - Halloween 2022 (October 11, 2022)
TBD ???
Updates this Year
Spring TR (Tue, April 12th 2022 at 22:57 GMT+1, Cantrips / 5th Age / Loyalty Prog)
Summer TR (Wed, July 20th 2022 at 20:53 GMT+1, Guilds / Raids / Lore Key Bosses)
Fall test realm (Novus: Oct/Nov 2022)
November 2022 (TR!)
Fri, November 4th 2022 (ii): [KI] Quite a packed day, with another 2-in-1 deal for teasers! So, let's try something experimental. Read on!
Friday, November 4th 2022:
Event 1: School Pips HUD Teaser (#16)
[TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser16] Ratbeard drops a teaser on his stream today, showing an updated view of the School Pips UI. Notably, this has changed from our 12th Teaser on October 25th, where the School Pips were just colored after their school.
Event 2: Novus Cart Bundles (!!)
[Novus] [NovusBundles] "Novus Bundles" are released today! These are various "Bundles" that are available in the Online Cart, featuring new "Conatus Wall Hangings" + Memberships & Crowns. These are their most expensive Online Cart bundles to date - and as expected, opinions were mixed - just have a look at the announcement! Some of the main concerns were being sold an unfinished product - as the paintings were not in the game. Here's a note from KI about the unfinished paintings, which will be corrected next week. Right now they have incorrect art & names.
3 & 4: Community Spiral Cup Winners & Teaser #17 (TikTok).
[Events] [SpiralCup2022] The conclusion of the Spiral Cup is here! Goomers win the Wizard101 Competition, earning a custom mount & trophy (in 2023). Meanwhile, DemonAxe win the Pirate101 Competition.
[TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser17] The 17th Total Teaser & 7th Novus Teaser is released on IslePlay, and later on to TikTok with the Caption: "Wizard... join me..." - The teaser itself is super interesting, showing one of our new zones, several "World Doors" [1] & the Divine Paradox, with the code "IAMWAITING".
Thu, November 3rd (i): [LoyaltyStoreRefresh] The Loyalty Store is refreshed for November 2022! This refresh brings out the long awaited Moon Elegant... hat. The Ghulture's Hoard is also added.
Tue, November 1st 2022 (i): [FreeWCKT] [LongFreeWC2022] Month of the test realm! Free Wizard City is announced for the rest of the year! (until January 1st, 2023.) That's two months!
[Charity] [SemperFi-Fundraiser2022] Not only that, but KingsIsle team up with "Semper Fi Fund" to raise money for Veterans Day, with the proceeds from the new "Charity Parade Truck" ($10) going to them. Here's the page!
[CatmanduSanctuaryLeak] The "Catmandu Sanctuary Bundle" is being sold and activated at Gamestop today, despite no official announcement & Novus not even being on test!!
[AmazonCards] The sought-after Flourshing Opal is available with November!
October 2022
Fri, October 27th (i): [TRTease] The TikTok Teaser shown on KI Live yesterday is published to TikTok with the tag "Wizard... speak to me..."
Thursday, October 27th (i): [KILive] KI Live for October 2022 takes place! We all saw teasers coming, but no one was prepared for what we actually got! Notes below..
[TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser14] The 14th (wow, we're actually in the double digits) teaser for the Fall 2022 Test Realm drops on KI Live! It's some Novus Concept?? It seems to depict distraught colonists having created something awful.
[TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser15] The next one is an early drop of the next TikTok Teaser! This teaser seems to be focused on spells, and there are quite a few sneaky secrets in this one.
KI Live - October 2022 (Summary)———
💡 You can see an image summary here & fact check this information with the recording here.
Section 1 - State of the Games (W101 / P101)📁Pirate101's 10th Birthday! Kicked off celebrations with Birthday quest, new eyepatch, new items (dandy gear, trusty trunk, etc), along with new plushies (Bonnie Anne & Ninja Pig).
📁Pirate101 is going on Steam, and they are starting new user acquisition campaigns - partnering with streamers and ramping up advertising. More people playing means more people working on Pirate
📁Updates to Pirate101 yesterday added "Realm Clustering" - when you log into Pirate, you'll automatically be directed to the most crowded realm - important for new players!
Section 2 - Questions
Expanding into other regions for Merch - the Merle Vinyl Figure was launched as part of that goal. There are a few new things in the pipeline - they can't spill beans but think you will like it.
Favorite new mob added to Novus: There is one that when she (Falmea) first saw the concept for it, it haunts her nightmares. It's just "long" and "creepy". Its definitely one of the more memorable ones, but not one that was teased.
Not immediately planning to add activities to the Commons BUT they have various games you can play with friends using Cantrips, and some in your home.
Moving in another direction for dual schooling rather than Mastery - you may have seen that teased on Ratbeard's stream. You can now manifest school-specific pips that let you use Mastery without the Amulet, or you can run the Amulet and a Tertiary school.
Design gear to encourage certain types of behavior (i.e dual school). The risk with "gimmick" gear is that if its too good, it becomes meta gear. They do experiment, such as with the Arcane Express gear (one stat)..
Favorite moment in P101 History: Falmea: As a player: Trojan Horse encounter, As a dev: Fixing the Hydra bug! Sparck: First time he got with the community in a Nautical XP fight! Joel: Added the Prawns to the Game, and made all the jokes about them being shrimp. Mythdust: Being apart of putting the game on Steam! Excited that its finally happening
P101 on Steam will work just like Wizard101 on Steam. New accounts can join on Steam, but nothing will change for existing accounts.
There are technical limitations to expanding the friends list. The way its setup would mean - at least on pirate - that the friends system would need reworking & the friends UI would need to be redone.
The Pips System is meant to be smart, it will spend the cheapest pips first & wont spend school pips until it needs to. However, it will spend school pips if it needs them. It is pretty "edge-casey" to select pip priority, so its alright for now.
They never announce when test is (editor note: except that time before Karamelle that they did), its ready when it is but they are in final preparations.
Section 3 - Stats with Joel (PowerPoint!)
Compared to other worlds: Novus has more than 1.5k Audio Files & Over 500 Monsters and NPC Files.
Tuesday, October 25th 2022 (i): [KI] Wow! A 2-in-1 deal today for teasers! School Pips!!
[TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser12] Ratbeard drops the mother of all teasers - School Pips! They work like both regular Pips & Mastery and can be changed mid-combat! Read here for notes.
[TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser13] Oh, and we get a look at the "Pins", presumably used to unlock the slots?
Sun, October 23rd (i): [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser11] [CamBeastmoonTeaseFall2022-5] Beastmoon teasers going out with a bang! Here's our fifth and final Beastmoon teaser - Myth Colossus! This is our 11th Teaser for the Fall 2022 TR.
Fri, October 21st (i): [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser10] Surprise! Ratbeard drops a teaser (Stream) for the new Dual-School jewel slots we saw on October 6th - known as pins.
[Controversy] [CerberusMasterPackControversy] KingsIsle U-Turn on their decision to restrict the Grim Ferryman Pack gear in the new pack to <Level 150, and issue 10 Grim Ferryman Packs as compensation to those who purchased the pack prior to October 19th.
Thu, October 20th (i): [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser9] [CamBeastmoonTeaseFall2022-4] Here comes the Death Wolf Warrior with some pretty unique spells! Teased on Cam's stream and later tweeted, it's our ninth teaser!
Wed, October 19th 2022 (i): [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser8] The fourth Novus Teaser (8th total) - this time focusing on the colonial aspect of Novus, showing a Marleybonian dog and a flag planted in a new Novus zone!
[ExtraLife] 2022's Extra Life charity campaign is announced! Uniquely, the "Catmandu Sanctuary Bundle" is revealed in the extra-life reward graphic (usually being a mystery).
[Roundtables] [AzothKeyBossesRoundtable] The Azoth and Skeleton Key Bosses Roundtable takes place today!
Tue, October 18th 2022 (i): [KI] A quite busy day, so please read on!
[TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser7] [CamBeastmoonTeaseFall2022-3] The 7th Teaser (3rd Beastmoon Teaser) drops on Cam's Stream - it's the Fire Rat Thief!
[Roundtables] [AzothKeyBossesRoundtable] The Azoth and Skeleton Key Bosses Roundtable is announced for October 19th at 5pm CT!
[CreepyFairgrounds] [HouseInOnlineCart] Quite uniquely, the Creepy Fairgrounds house is released to the online cart! This is for $25.00 and includes 5,000 Crowns.
https://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1582475304957661184 AZOTGH RT https://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1582427041781415936 CREEPYFAIREGROUNDS
Mon, October 17th (i): [CrownsRewards] [MaxChar] The "Halloween Crowns Rewards Event" arrives! Notably, this features the 16th Possible Character at 66,000 Crowns. The Chopper mount is also unique, but is it worth 50k?
[Controversy] [CerberusMasterPackControversy] A rather unpopular move restricting the Grim Ferryman Pack gear (in the Cerberus Master Pack) to Level 140 meets a lot of criticism.
Sun, October 16th (i): [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser6] [CamBeastmoonTeaseFall2022-2] Well, now we're getting into it, with our 6th Teaser (total) and 2nd BM Teaser showing the Ice Draconian!
Thu, October 14th 2022 (i): [Plushies] [BonnieAnnePlushie] [NinjaPigPlushie] The Bonnie Anne Plushie (Annc. 7th October) and Ninja Pig Plushie (Annc. 11th October) are released together!`
[CatmanduSanctuaryLeak] The "Catmandu Sanctuary Bundle" is leaked presumably by GameStop workers who got it early - that's both of them done!
Wed, October 13th 2022 (i): [P101] [Steam] [P101OnSteam] Okay so totally unexpected but, Pirate101 is announced for Steam! This announcement was subject to both a lot of support and a lot of criticism.
[VinylFigures] [MerleVinylFigure] The "Merle Ambrose Vinyl Figure" is released, a first for both KingsIsle and Makeship. This is *seemingly* available until November 4th, 2022.
[FallTR2022-Teaser5] [CamBeastmoonTeaseFall2022-1] Icing on the cake, Cam drops a teaser for the upcoming Balance Minotaur! This is our 5th Teaser.
Tue, October 11th 2022 (i): [LP] Files update for V_r725847.Wizard_1_490 - a very unexpected patch that weren't even announced. From a files perspective, eh, but Raids are back! Here are the notes.
[NewPack] The "Cerberus Master Pack" is released after Loyalty Store exclusivity since October 4th. Here's the announcement, or you can check out our entry on it!
[ArcaneExpressLeak] The "Arcane Express Bundle" is leaked by GameStop, by them literally putting it up on their website. No clue when exactly, though.
[Plushies] [NinjaPigPlushie] The "Ninja Pig Plushie" is announced for Pirate101 today, also slated for October 14th along with the Bonnie Anne Plush.
Mon, October 10th (i): [Plushies] [MerleVinylFigure] The "Merle Vinyl Figure" is teased by Makeship!
Fri, October 7th (i): [P101] [Plushies] [BonnieAnnePlushie] Bonnie Anne Plushie is announced for 10/14 on the P101 Twitter!! This is the first ever Pirate101 Plushie.
Thu, October 6th 2022 (i): [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser4] Didn't even get time to relax before they dropped the 4th Teaser! This one is from Wizard101Devs, and appears to show some sort of combat icons?
Wed, October 5th 2022 (i): [KI] An equally sad and happy day... Please do read on.
[KI] Dell Aldrich, the voice actor of Grandmother Raven, passes away at 96. Rest in Peace.
[TR] [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser3] In slightly happier news, we get our 3rd Teaser for the Fall Test Realm. Unsurprisingly, it's on TikTok. It appears to show fish singing to a nursery rhyme in a glacial zone. [Code: IAMFISH]
Tue, October 4th: [LoyaltyStoreRefresh] [Bugs] The "Loyalty Store" is refreshed for October 2022! But... something is wrong... so they revert it... and then it returns later.
September 2022
Check the tab to the right for a summary.
Thu, September 29th 2022 (i): Quite a busy day, with P101 getting an update & KI Live!
[P101] [MajorBugs] [Offline] Pirate101 gets an update (yay) but the quest's bugged and they have to take the servers down for four hours to fix it lol (archive).
[KILive] KI Live for September 2022 takes place! As with all KI Lives that are close to the next World, this one was super interesting, read on or check out the image summary (soon)!
KI Live – September 2022 (Summary)🌐 You can fact check the contents of this summary here. You can find an image summary here.
Section 1 - State of the Games (W101/P101)📁 Actively working on returning Raids to the game - sooner than later. Novus was also announced - more TikTok teasers are on the way. 📁Want the EU Servers to catch up to the US Servers - excited to have brought Karamelle and already working on the next update. As winter gets closer, they'll let you know. They’re also working with Gamigo to spin up some user acquisition campaigns. 📁Their first outing to a gaming convention is not the last - they’ll let you know where they end up next. New steam trailer made by Trailerfarm, which they’ll continue working with. More videos from them soon! 📁 Re; broadcast breach: No other systems or data were accessed or compromised. 2FA has been discussed (before and after the breach), but it has a significant technical investment. 2FA wouldn’t have made a difference in this situation as no accounts were compromised. 📁 Rough start this morning for Pirate101, but it's back online now. Thanks for your patience. Keep on the lookout for exciting news about Pirate updates that they can’t say anything about yet.
Section 2 - Questions
Giving away Seafarer's Gear in the Fishing Content, they are thinking to do this contest frequently so that there is a way to acquire this gear if you don’t already have it.
As for Guilds Trading - they cannot break the player economy as that would weaken the mission of the Bazaar. It would be desirable to improve the Bazaar - more people selling and buying - so that they can enable more things to flow through.. Mini Section 2.1 - Novus & World Design
The idea of Novus came up at the end of Empyrea (~2018). The world was considered “a little weird”. In terms of the surrealist art theme, it was the Art Director’s (Karl) idea.
As for the name, that was harder. The original name was “Slate” [as in clean slate] but it didn’t feel right. Eventually “Novus” came thanks to Latin. This world is both new to the Spiral & Player, so it fits!
The “Novus Trailer” is about 5% of what’s going on. Hoping with Kayly's help they can release a mega-trailer like the Steam one!
A world takes about a year to make, and every department is involved. As soon as the current world is out, they start "hammering on" the next one. They’ll have an outline with rough art, which becomes through-line for the plot, then quest outlines & finally an asset list that Art will have by the end of Spring. By the end of Summer, VO is Recorded so that sound have enough time.
The longest World was Empyrea, which was split. "Each half is 65% of a world” to compensate for the fact the player waits. Not promising but 2023’s World may be more conventional.
Lady Stonegaze / Drowned Dan were Cam's favorite key bosses to design, specifically Drowned Dan. That idea started from the desire to have players use more spells than they usually do.
As for Harvest All, the dev command tends to break things (as so much happens at once), so a spell may not be the best idea.
They wanted P101’s villains to seem faceless and monolithic, so that you wouldn’t sympathize with them. They talked about bugs, undead, and eventually “Mechanical People”, an episode of Doctor Who serving as inspiration.
During the creation of Skull Island, they had the idea that Crew Members talk to you. It made sense to have them “narrate”. While it was one of the coolest decisions they made, they had to go back and insert companion dialogue into the whole of Cool Ranch in two weeks!
Section 3 - Stats with Joel (PowerPoint!)Azoth TC: 3,666,939 Azoth TC have been created.
Refined Azoth: 41,863 Elemental, 41,997 Spiritual & 49,301 Harmonic. <2k for the rest.
Guilds: 377 Guilds have been Created so far. PPT Slides: Azoth & Refined... Guilds
Fri, September 23rd (i): [SpiralCup2022] The winners of the last category (housing decoration) are announced on IslePlay! This is alongside details of the next one - item-collection challenge from September 23rd.
Thu, September 22nd (i): [LP] Files update for September's 3rd patch (V_r724231.Wizard_1_490). Both public changes and leaks are actually pretty awesome in this update!
Wed, September 21st (i/TR): [TR] [TRTease] [FallTR2022-Teaser2] The second teaser for Novus arrives... on TikTok... appearing to show the Arcanum void with dancing Irk "mobs"?
Tue, September 20th 2022 (i/ME): [WizBroadcastHack2022] [FreeMembership] [AllBenefits] KI respond to the broadcast system breach, announcing the mother of all compensations - free member for everyone + all benefits on through September! (NA + EU)
Friday, September 16th 2022 (i/ME): [Bugs] [MajorBugs] [Offline] [WizBroadcastHack2022] The game suffers from a major hack in what is one of the most insane days yet. Surely a first!
Someone broadcasted inappropriate server messages (likely from a compromised dev account). A lot of these messages contained inappropriate content and expletives.. This was around the hours of 9pm CT.
The server was shut down an hour later. The downtime tweet attracted a lot of comments, so if you wish to... peruse... through all the broadcasts, here you go. The game was offline for about four hours, with KI claiming to have put in a temporary fix.
Here are the various reactions (BlazeLifeHammer, AwesomeTheSauce, faeriequeens, Central) Continued: This was so bad that even cr1tikal (popular youtuber) made a video on this! (Sep 18). The game went semi-viral after this. With even PC Gamer & Kotaku creating an article on the situation.
Tue, September 13th (i): [Bugs] It is announced that Raids have been disabled following an issue with the gates.
Fri, September 10th (i): [Plushies] [DiegoPlushie] [GobblerKingPlushie] The campaign for both of these plushies comes to an end. The campaign began on August 12th and ended today, 29 Days later. Uniquely, the Gobbler King plushie costed $35.99 due to its size.
These plushies combined outperformed the Piggle Plushie (June 2022).
Fri, September 9th (i): [LP] [ConsecutivePatch] Files update for V_r723464.Wizard_1_490. And, well, there isn't much. They just fixed the Raid gates and modified the Pet Peeve pet again. files update. This patch is one day after the last...
[60for60] Another 60-for-60 sale is here!! This one runs through September 12th 2022. The last one started on June 21st 2022.
[SpiralCup2022] The first challenge of the Spiral Cup (Themed Decoration) kicks off on IslePlay! Unfortunately, the stream's gone now. For Pirate101, houses will be Tavern themed. For Wizard101, they will be Magical Library themed. We *strongly* encourage a wide interpretation of the themes and taking a unique approach to decorating your house.
Thu, 8th September 2022 (i/ME): [LP] Files update for live patch (V_r723320.Wizard_1_490). Here are the Patch Notes! (archive). Most notably, they've increased loot from Raids, but we also get so many cool things in the files!!
[Bugs] [MajorBugs] [PartOffline] Later in the day, a lot of the CS Bundles are unintentionally available for Gold, bringing down the entire Crowns Shop for a few hours!
Wed, 7th September: [Newsletter] The September 2022 newsletter is released. Not much to talk bout.
Tue, 6th September 2022 (i/EX): [SleepyAgentBundle] The bundle that people are divided over is here - the Sleepy Agent Bundle. This is THE most expensive CS Bundle to date. It is likely intentionally not announced.
Continued: This bundle would be removed from the shop on September 14th.
[Hack] [BlazeLH-Hacked] BlazeLifeHammer's channel is hacked, posting videos linking to malware before they were deleted.
Fri, 2nd September 2022 (i/ME): [NewWorld] [NovusAnnouncement] [Novus] Happy actual 14th! Novus is announced! This announcement comes from a blog post following Gamescom! These beans include really cool concept art & a video! Heck, the world even has its own logo!
[LoyaltyStoreRefresh] [12pts] The store is refreshed for September 2022, adding the Sun Elegant boots (skipping over robe). The 12 token mount is also replaced.
[BDAY] The actual birthday is here, and with it come birthday items! These new "book" mounts cost 3,750 Crowns each. While the "BookMobile" can be purchased by anybody, others are restricted to joining date, the "Story Lorry" being 5 Years, "Roaming Tome" being 10+ Years.
[Bugs] A post is sent on the Message Boards with a list of known bugs (archive), including with the SOF, Assignments & Raids badges (Dance Dance Revolution).
Thu, 1st September 2022 (i/ME): [BDAY] [FreeWCKT] Happy 14th Birthday to Wizard101! Well, it's actually tomorrow, but they start doing things today. One of those things include making Wizard City and Krokotopia free through 9/11!
[CrownsRewards] The "Wizards Birthday 2022 Crowns Reward Event" (bruh) arrives! The top reward is a School Specific Arcane Casting emote, at 50,000 Crowns!
[SoF] The Fall SOF (September 2022) is announced today. Funnily enough, it actually started while the Summer SOF was running (August 30th). See the official announcement!
[Gamescom2022] [Novus] Following KI's presence at Gamescom, a French game news website brings Novus (and its themes) to light for the first time!
August 2022
Check the tab to the right for a summary.
Wed, August 31st 2022 (i/ME): [W101EU] [Important] [KaramelleEU] At long last, Karamelle (2020) arrives to the EU Servers, two days after it was first announced, and 107 days since EU Servers went live! Ending August on a banger!
[WD/Important] Wizard101Devs (specifically Cam), tweets that he will respond to as many Design questions about the summer update in the next hour! Interesting responses follow.
Mon, August 29th (i): [W101EU] [KaramelleAnnounced2022EU] Karamelle is announced for the EU Servers in two days time. At long last!
[SummerSweepstakes2022] The Summer Spellcasting Sweepstakes come to an end. This event started on August 16th and was very unique, being the first official Sweepstakes.
Fri, August 26th (i): [WD] [MethodsForKeys] Wizard101Devs list all the ways to get Skeleton Keys, following a lot of controversy. Four were added with yesterday's patch.
Thu, August 25th (i): [LP] The files update for live patch: V_r722680.Wizard_1_490. We all saw this coming as they gave us notes in advance! (forum post). Aside from what's public, the Halloween pack gear was added to the files!! KI Live also takes place.
[KILive] [KILiveLite] Finally, KI Live (Lite) takes place for August 2022! A lot of the questions were (unsurprisingly) focused on Skeleton Keys. However, still a cool one!
KI Live – August 2022 (Summary)🌐 You can fact check the contents of this summary here. You can find an image summary here.
Generic InformationImportant Information
Falmea, Vanessa & Joel are at Gamescom. Not revealing what they’re revealing but will be out soon-ish.
Planning another fishing event for Wizard101’s 14th Birthday (Sep 2nd). Based on feedback, they will try to align this with Zero Energy Fishing weekend.
Things will be happening for Pirate101 and Wizard101’s birthdays. CSC Signups end on Sep 9th.
Section 2 - Questions
Talked about the option to change guild names, considering things to polish and expand the guild system overall, and it’s on the list.
Name change has been looked into - requires R&D from tech. They can change stuff internally, but have no control over it. It messes up a lot of things in general, so they need to ensure that from the player side the change doesn’t mess with anything important.
Common gear that drops from Mobs will follow the new templates. Though, it will have less stats, and the stats found on it will be lower. If the level of the gear is lower, i.e: 152, it would scale that way.
In terms of partnerships with content creators, they do roundtables, and give out codes. Things on the scale of the Selena Gomez partnership are likely not happening.
Boys wearing pink! It’s on the list | Snack Attack model was based off a dev, Jeff Toney to be specific.
They will be looking at the Monstrology system in the future (similar to fishing), looking at the original intent, comparing how successful that was, and how it can be improved upon. They did add a Monstrology spell to the raid gate key recipe, though.
Bric-A-Brac Elixir does not work with the Guild House. Space will increase (interior & exterior) with each unlocked island. There are ponds at the Guild Island in-case they want to add fishing, but nothing concrete.
KI hasn’t got a new game in the works. Update is coming to Pirate101 this year
Know that they can’t just push people to dual school, without providing tools they need to do it. They have plans in-general for supporting dual-school.
Section 3 - Skeleton Key Questions
Decided to increase the amount and value that come from a Key. The intent of the system was to encourage exploration and social gameplay.
It was felt that the experience could be enhanced by making Keys appear less frequently, making for an impactful experience - i.e “I got a key! Let me DM my friends and run smth”
Because they were going to increase the value of a key, they needed to re-evaluate its sources for consistency, and to encourage its original purpose. As for drops, the value of the key was so high, it would virtually never drop, and would become frustrating and worse than not dropping.
They felt that the grind for the key, to then grind the boss was redundant. They started with original key sources, expanded on them with the last patch, and more sources will come as they move forward.
Instead of an unfun “kill mob 1000 times to maybe get a gold key” experience, they went with this. Not every activity can drop every type of reward, so they have to limit what each source drops to improve rates.
In the case of keys, you know where drops are, so you have influence on what you get when farming.
Stay tuned for reasons why the Stone and Wooden keys are still dropping.
Sources of Keys are now: Beastmoon, Deckathalon, Key Bosses, Raids, PvP Battle Pass, PvP Crafting, Spiral Showcase, Spiral Scene & Daily Assignments (Day 15).
Krampus dungeon will work as the rest of the key bosses, same amount of loot and Spellements.
Key boss will spawn based on the lowest level. Anyone outside the level band for a Skeleton Boss will get the participation trophy to signal to the participant to find players around their level.
Wed, August 24th (i): [Gamescom2022] KingsIsle announce that they are at Gamescom, as announced on August 16th by MMOBomb.
Tue, August 23rd (i): [Roundtable] [GearRoundtable] The first ever "Gear Roundtable" takes place, going over gear templates, school identity, bonuses, and sneaky but very warranted coverage of Skeleton Key controversy! Summary below!
In short, they explained a lot of their decisions, and especially the rationale behind Keys was cool!
Mon, August 22nd 2022 (i/NT): [Important] [New2022Trailer] A new trailer for Wizard101 is announced, the 2022 Trailer! This is much much improved over the old trailer.
[DeluxeSpellemental] The "Deluxe Spellemental Pack" is updated! It now drops Lore spellements and Steal Pip Spellements ONLY.
Fri, August 19th (i): [PvP] [LP] Following a downtime to finally resolve Skeleton Key issues, files update for (V_r722353.Wizard_1_490). Little changed except for the Pet Peeve (pet). Surprise! PvP Season 3 changes! (announcement). The resist intersection/limit is modified.
[DiegoPlushie] [GobblerKingPlushie] KI announce that both of these plushies have been funded.
[DevDiary2022] [GearRoundtable2022] The "Gear Roundtable" is announced with Ferric on August 23rd at 4pm CDT. Shortly after, a "gear rework" (Cam) developer diary is released!
Thu, August 18th (i): [Competitions] [SpiralCup2022] Following some teasing on IslePlay, the "Spiral Cup" event is announced, with the details being available today! Most notably, this event features the unique ultimate prize - a custom Panther mount!
Wed, August 17th (i): [Bugs] Remember the Emberwing pet? This was the pet that was found on the August 2nd Beastmoon event, which wasn't even in the game yet! KI is giving the pet to everyone as a result.
In addition, as a result of Skeleton Key Bosses not appearing, two keys are given out. (forum post)
Tue, August 16th (i): [TR-DOWN] [SummerTest2022] The Summer Test Realm has gone live! As a result, this test realm lasted 27 Days & five updates from July 20th. Rather packed day, with the files updating for this release.
Tuesday, August 16th 2022This section is intended to provide a summary of today, because it was far too busy, about five different events happened today.
Live patch | V_r722136.Wizard_1_490
[LP] Not only does test realm go live, the files also update (V_r722136.Wizard_1_490)! Mostly raids related, with the complete Nullity Set (glass cannon), new Void Set and the Null Dragon Pets, all dropping from "The Nullity"
(!) MMOBomb (Gamescom attendance announcement)
[KIGamescomAnnouncement] [KIGamescom] MMOBomb puts out an article, announcing that KingsIsle is going to Gamescom and will be announcing something there!
This starts the speculation mill as to what will be announced, with some speculating a console release, new game, etc.
Malistaire Saga Spellement Pack
[NewPack] [SpellementsPack] The "Malistaire Saga Spellement Pack" is released, dropping Spellements from the 1st Arc! It costs 199 Crowns. This pack was first revealed on May 2022's KI Live Lite!
Sweepstakes & Guild Roundtable 2
[SummerSweepstakes2022] A very unique "Summer Spellcasting Sweepstakes" takes place, using Gleam to provide the Sweepstakes. Unfortunately open to U.S Citizens only, so I can't really get a picture.
[GuildsRoundtable2] The Second Guilds Roundtable takes place today!
Mon, August 15th (i): [Bugs] [MajorBugs] [Offline] Following very major connection issues last week and into the weekend (server crash, unable to switch zones), a maintenance is announced.
[Downtime] [SummerTR2022] [TR] At the end of the same day, it's also announced that test realm is going live tomorrow!! This means that test lasted 27 Days, starting on July 20 and ending August 16th.
If you are calculating from the time that test closed down (Aug 12), then 23 Days would have elapsed since test was opened. This is the latest that a Summer Test Realm has opened and ended since 2016.
Fri, August 12th (i): [Plushies] [DiegoPlushie] [GobblerKingPlushie] The Diego and Gobbler King Plushies are released! This is the 3rd and 4th Plushie after the Piggle Plushie (2nd).
Thu, August 11th (i): [Roundtable] [GuildsRoundtable2] A second Guilds Roundtable is announced, building on-top of the first! This one is on August 16th at 4pm CT.
Wed, August 10th (i): [WD] Wizard101Devs announce that yesterday's patch has made Raids harder.
[IslePlay] The first "IslePlay Highlights" appears as part of a new series of TikToks?
Tue, August 9th (i/TR): [TP] [SummerTR2022] Files update for the 5th update to Test Realm ( V_r721865.WizardDev). We get the name of a Novus zone - "Stone of Heaven", and much more!! No notes. Please read below.
Fri, August 5th (i): [TR] [SummerTR2022] [SaturdayTR2022] The first ever (?) Saturday test realm is announced! This is so that people are able to test out Raids! Pretty unique.
[Plushies] Following the announcement, a giveaway is announced for the two new plushies - "Gobbler King Plushie" and "Diego Plushie" .
Thu, August 4th (i): [TP] [SummerTR2022] Files update for the 4th patch to the Summer 2022 Test Realm (V_r721707.WizardDev). No notes. However, this was a pretty major patch, with new raid gear, mystery Novus quest, and more!
[CrownsRewards] The "Summer Friends Crowns Rewards" event is here. The final reward "Ray of Sunshine" requires 20,000 Crowns!
Wed, August 3rd (i/34): [Plushies] [DiegoPlushie] [GobblerKingPlushie] The "Diego Plushie" and "Gobbler King" plushie are announced for August 12th with the conclusion of the TikTok saga!
Tue, August 2nd (i/MB): [TP] [SummerTest2022] The third update to the Summer 2022 TR arrives! (V_r721464.WizardDev), again, no notes. However, the Novus pre-quest is finally in the files! This update would also be the start of a long series of unicorns in updates.
[LoyaltyStoreRefresh] The store is refreshed for August 2022, bringing out the Sun Elegant and the Malistaire Saga Spellemental Pack!
[Bugs] It is discovered that incorrect rewards are showing for the Beastmoon event, offering the "Emberwing" pet, which didn't exist yet. As a result, the pet will be given out to everyone when available. Here is the forum post.
Mon, August 1st: [KI] A simple tweet praising top scores on Minigames takes a turn as people flock to point out the hacked scores.
The new TikTok is promoted (first time since release) with a food theft mystery saga!
July 2022
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Fri, July 29th (i): [SummerTest2022] [FirstRaidWin] Ferric ('s team) becomes the first to beat Raids, describing it as "the most fun he's had in 12 years of playin]#g this game".
[MemberBenefit/GDN] Double Gardening returns through 8/2! Last one was in January.
Thu, July 28th (i): [KILive] [TikTokAnnouncement] KingsIsle Live takes place for July 2022, as expected, a lot of questions to do with Test Realm, but also announcement of their new TikTok!
KI Live – July 2022 (Summary)You can fact check the contents of this summary here. You can find an image summary here.
State of the GamesPirate101: Working on an update ‘for more fun things for Pirates of all levels to do’, birthday surprises, “things for Decius’ team”, backend fixes (to make it easier to produce future content). Expect to see another update before 10th Birthday.
Hint: “A few of us will not be able to attend the next KI Live, for really good reason that they will share around the end of next Month.
Wizard101: Summer test realm! Devs will be jumping into Raids, but one rule is that developers will not help nor lead the raid, as part of the “necessary feedback” is watching people do Raids and seeing what happens.
As for EU, Karamelle is coming, likely not before the next KI Live but the one after that will likely provide more information. Working on other quality of life fixes such as chat changes & purchasing improvements.
Section 2 - Questions
Azoth is integral to how you do things in the guild. It‘s the core reagent for Guilds. Alchemy Station is the developer name for a crafting page where all the recipes can be crafted from the vendor, not related to lore.
There will “absolutely” be more guild name options. Looking at different options that guilds can identify themselves in a way that reflects them.
Definitely planning to add more islands to the Guilds House.
Amount of reagents required to unlock Guilds House areas is “set where they want them to be”. This is designed to be unlocked overtime as a shared goal. Nerf unlikely.
Wizard101 has announced their TikTok, starting with a pizza theft mystery, but planning other things in the future.
Re-evaluating key sources, some old sources will no longer exist and into the next milestone they will evaluate what sort of activities they want you to engage in to get keys. They will keep you posted on info.
Bug fixes for Monstrology announced soon. They have a list of categories and take them on as they have time to do so. No category within the next update.
Pirate101: Maybe an additional character slot, but they need to prioritize development time. There will be something else, but 'probably not in the next update or two'
Pirate101: More crown shop bundles coming out over the next few months & making more as they go along, working with the tools they have to find out what players want to buy and how they want to buy it.
Might decrease raid timer, reasons including that they feel players can beat it quicker, and that raids are designed to be difficult and the hardest content. Holding the fort on not nerfing them.
Artie did the zone design for the first Arc, and originally Dragonspyre was the last world and was to support Raid content, so all zones were made with that in mind. It made sense to use the zone as it was built for that type of thing.
There will be an update to raids, and they’re working in the way they would expect a highly coordinated team of players to work. Will make changes, test them, see what players think, and then keep going until they are alright with it.
Section 3 – Data with Decius
Most popular wish list item is packs, most gifted being the Pet Breadcrumb Pack, then the Celestian Spellemental & Primeval, then packs all the way down. Scepter of Tribute is all the way down at ~#80.
It is difficult to find the percentage of received wish-list items, as these are removed/added often.
Wed, July 27th (i): [KI] A very very packed day! Read on!
[TP] [SummerTest2022] [Raids] Test realm updates! Quite an important one too! This is our second update so far (V_r721182.WizardDev) and brings Raids to TR! It's also the only update we'd get some semblance of notes for...
[NewPack] The long awaited "Spiral Villains Hoard Pack" is released into the Crown Shop! This is 56 Days after it was added to the Loyalty Store in June. This pack is notable for some awesome cosmetics! See video below.
[W101ToxicityPost2022] More unexpected things! KI create a forum post, detailing that they've had to sanction players who 'were repeatedly exploiting features in the game in order to “grief” or harass other players.'
--- While we wouldn't be aware originally, this was to address bans due to "stalling" in PvP. As expected, this was received quite controversially.
Fri, July 22nd (i): [TP] [SummerTest2022] [SleepyAgentBundle] The first update to the Summer 2022 Test Realm arrives (V_r720935.WizardDev). Aside from descriptions being added to the new Sigil Support Cantrips TC, and the birth of the infamous Sleepy Agent Bundle, not much!
Thu, July 21st (i): [KI] [Summer2022TR] [GuildsTeasersCompiled] KingsIsle compile all of their teasers into one video! This doesn't include the Beastmoon teasers.
[WD] Wizard101Devs ask a question relating to decorating themes in the Guilds House.
Wed, July 20th (i/TR): [TR-UP] [SummerTest2022] The Summer Test Realm is finally here! This test realm falls on the exact day the Summer 2016 TR did, considerably later than usual for the Summer TR. Anyway, notes!
This test realm brings the most teased feature, and, well, most criticized feature, Guilds!
V_r720843.WizardDev (Summer 2022 TR - Guilds, Lore Key bosses, Beastforms, Novus!)
V_r720843.WizardDev (Summer 2022)Summer 2022 [SummerTest2022Launch] - TR Notes (8:53pm GMT+1)
After much fanfare about Guilds and... well, okay, mostly just fanfare about Guilds, the Summer Test Realm arrives! As usual, this test realm is, well, later than usual, and curiously coincides with the 2016 Summer TR Date!
A long awaited change leads to an unpopular change... New key bosses were added, one for each Lore pack! As a result, Gold Keys were made more valuable, and drop sources were removed - leading to a rather massive controversy that lasted into live.
Public information / Read notes
Noteworthy: Azoth! The treasure card that can do about 20 different things! No-PvP.
Guilds & Guild House
Guilds arrives to test realm! This functionality allows you to create a permament group!
Guilds allow you to access the Guilds House, a mutual space to decorate & unlock areas!
That's really it, oh, and Sigil Support Cantrips was introduced via Guilds Crafting!
PvE & Beastmoon (Lore key bosses!)
New key bosses were added for Lore spells, moving them off Loremaster! These key bosses are located in the World relevant to their Pack.
Wood and Stone keys were retired for new bosses in favour of level scaling.
Life Cyclops, Storm Ninja pig & Myth Fairy beastforms arrive!
New will-casts that ADD a specific Scion ramp to your hand!
Professor's Hoard Pack update to L150, mirroring Merciless with cool ICs!
FootnotesNo new spellements this time around.
Spoilers & Leaks (Novus!)Plenty to be excited about this time, including our new world, Novus!
Our upcoming world, Novus! This is revealed with the "Catmandu House"
New equipment icons!
Lots of really awesome mounts, like this Zheng mount!
Fall Scroll of Fortune! This one seems to be "Imp" themed!
Terrifying "Creepy Fairegrounds" house for the next bundle, with a rideable rollercoaster!
New furnitureJust kidding, there wasn't a lot this time.Let's not forget the pets too!
Sneaky Novus mobs!
**This is not an all inclusive list - please see @W101Spoilers or Patch Notes
Tue, July 19th (i/MUE): [TR] [Summer2022TR] [SummerTR2022-Teaser5] More teasers! Following the test patcher being put up (at around 4am GMT+1, with no file update) and subsequently taken down, we get our eighth total teaser!
[WD] [Data] Wizard101Devs tweet out some PvP Data, highlighting that Since S2 PvP, >90% of all matches end in a clear winner and loser. Most players have a >95 "clean match" rate.
Mon, July 18th (i/CIJ): [CIJ] The "Christmas in July" event arrives through July 25th!
Sat, July 16th (i/TR): [TRTease] [CamBeastmoonTeaseSummer2022-3] Not this week being nothing but test realm teasers! Cam drops the final teaser for the Life Cyclops (Beastmoon) on stream, and bringing the seventh total teaser to fruition.
Fri, July 15th (i/TR): [TRTease] [SummerTR2022-Teaser4] The second teaser showing the Guilds House is released! This is initially dropped on IslePlay but is later tweeted. This teaser shows the house (or should I say houses) in more detail! Welcome our sixth teaser!
Wed, July 13th (i/TR): [TRTease] [SummerTR2022-Teaser3] A pretty cool teaser drops for the upcoming Summer 2022 TR - It shows some of the Guilds interface. This is our 5th total teaser! You can see the teaser posted below!
[EUTransition] KI announce a sort of "EU Producer's Letter" focusing on what comes next for EU Wizard101, addressing concerns of chat filter, payment methods & content (or lack thereof).
Tue, July 12th: [Downtime] A very unimpressive maintenance, with US login and website down. Uniquely, the EU Game Servers are also down for maintenance with this one!
Sat, July 9th (i): [TRTease] [CamBeastmoonTeaseSummer2022-2] Cam teases an upcoming beastform on stream for the Summer 2022 Update - Myth Fairy. This is our 2nd teaser from Cam this Summer, and 4th overall.
Fri, July 8th (i): [LP] [KI] Following the patch today, it is announced that the bug where SoF Points are not being awarded for Beastmoon has been fixed in a follow-up to the issue thread. (archive)
Thu, July 7th (i): [Downtime] A game server patch is announced to patch the Beastmoon scroll points bug! The resulting V_r720238.Wizard_1_480 is nothing too impressive, with pretty much the game executable changing. Double SoF is enabled as compensation.
Mon, July 5th (i): [Bugs] A bug is discovered, Beastmoon points are not counting towards the SoF!
Sat, July 2nd (i/2): [PigglePlushie] Piggle plushie closes at 2,606 sales, 2,566 units less than the Gamma Plushie! This one costed $27.99, without the production design.
Fri, July 1st (i): [LoyaltyStoreRefresh] Welcome to July, month of the test realm. The loyalty store is refreshed for the month of July, completing the Shadow elegant 'Chaos Wizard' set with the availability of the boots! Wizard101 EU also announces a month-long free WC event!
June 2022
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Thu, June 30th (i): [KI] A major day with both Pirate101 and Wizard101 receiving long awaited updates! KI Live also takes place, where we get a test realm teaser!
[LP] Files update for live patch (V_r719994.Wizard_1_480), mostly comprising of some pre-announced PvP Season 2 Changes, including mutate bans, Rhoshambo changes & so on. However, we did get a few surprises, including a new headless path!
[P101] Pirate101 receives its long-awaited update, featuring a new events system!
[KILive] [SummerTR2022-Teaser2] KI Live for June 2022 takes place, and while the show is always interesting, this time we get a teaser! Read below for notes. You can find the image summary here.
KI Live – June 2022 (Summary)You can fact check the contents of this summary here.
State of the Games:Both games received updates today!
Wizard101: An update dropped today, focusing on PvP Changes, finally fixing the broken beastmoon anvil, and so on. They’ve been talking about guilds for around 10 years but had nothing beyond the idea stage.
Pirate101: They are introducing weekly events in Pirate101, which give quests that drop keys - unlocking some new content. More information can be found in the patch notes.
Section 1 – Misc:
[KIEmployees] New people were introduced: Diego (Character Art intern), Okidenshi (Animation intern) & Illana (Narrative intern)
Planning to do eight plushies this year! There were seven but one more was added to the schedule. Something is coming that will not be a plushie.
New crown shop tech coming with the summer update will show the free items, discounts & items contributing towards the crowns cost with bundles to increase transparency and tackle the issue of “people feeling like they’re not getting a good deal.” (cool)
“Coolest looking house” they’ve done coming in November with the World bundle.
Recognise that not everyone wants to play PvP for Arena Tickets. If there is something simple locked behind Arena Tickets it will probably be given out via another way to not compromise the purpose of tickets attracting PvP Players
Hard at work on the first update for EU Wizard101. Working on a few things on the website, things that will “go in before the first big update”, but also working on Karamelle. Getting closer - long list of languages to translate.
Section 2 – Questions:
End-game Wizard universe is definitely after Pirate. Scholars are debating the rest. (yoooo)
They’ve not forgotten the flooring & wall for the Skatepark set but the Guilds housing stuff took priority. Gary is working on it and it will be done at some point.
Loyalty Store: There is a plan to change the mount once a quarter to every six months to give people an opportunity to purchase it. Member elixirs will probably be every month, packs month - every other month. Bigger things you need to save for will not change out as often.
Player Guide on the website will be updated soon with information on Battle Pass, Cantrips & PvP.
Discussed adding bots for PvP newbies, but that requires better AI, which requires Hard Mode. PvP is an end-game activity, and PvE should prepare you PvP. There is gap to close to make mobs smarter - but players may see some better mob behaviour soon.
Wed, June 29th (i): [P101] The update notes for the upcoming Pirate101 update are published in advance of the update, informing players of a new event system!
Tue, June 28th (i): [KI] Quite a day today, featuring another P101 Teaser! Please read on!
[UkraineCharity] It is announced that the Ukraine Charity bundle will be removed from the online shop on July 1st, concluding the Charity campaign that began on March 10th, and therefore lasted 113 Days.
[PrideMonth2022] In addition, the Rainbow Roller will be removed from the Crown Shop on the same day..
[P101] Another teaser drops! The fourth one so far showing a new NPC, Reginald P. Jowlsley.
Mon, June 27th (i): [P101] Yet another teaser - the third for an upcoming update, showing some new skeleton keys.
Sat, June 25th (i/TR): [TRTease] [CamBeastmoonTeaseSummer2022-1] Cam is back with Beastmoon teasers! This time it's the Storm Ninja Pig for the summer 2022 test realm!
Fri, June 24th (i): [P101] Another teaser drops for an upcoming update, showing off what appear to be new combats!
Thu, June 23rd (i): [TR] [Roundtable] [GuildsRoundtable] The guilds roundtable takes place, and we get so much information about guilds that this may as well be our second teaser! Ha.
Please read below for a summary of the guilds information we got!
Wed, June 22nd (i): [PvP] [Bugs] It is announced that the PvP Carryover Rating did not work as expected and that all ranks have been reset to Recruit (1500). It is now anticipated that Carryover Rating will apply with Season 3.
Tue, June 21st (i/60): [KI] Quite a busy day owing to the various holidays that took place.
[60for60] Another 60 for 60 sale! This one will
last until 6/23, Last one was on March 4th, 2022. (Continued: This sale is extended until 6/26 to accommodate Friday pay.)[CrownsRewards] [MaxChar] Today introduces the "Spring Finale 2022" crowns rewards, with the 15th possible character slot!
[P101] New gear is teased on the Pirate101 Twitter, likely for the oft-mentioned update.
Sun, June 19th (i/DareDrops): [KI] It seems that KingsIsle has been partnering with streamers to advertise Wizard101 via Dare Drops? Confused as well.
Fri, June 17th (i/S2): [PvP] [5thAge] Changes with the next Season of 5th Age (S2) are announced! The linked forum post (archive) details on this, with some much anticipated news like carryover rating! A summary is included below.
The benefit for this week is Zero Energy Fishing, which isn't only rare, but also applies to all players as Free Member is running until the 20th!
Thu, June 16th(i/TR): [TRTease] [SummerTR2022-Teaser1] [GuildsRoundtable]The first teaser for the Summer 2022 Test Realm is here! Guilds has been confirmed! A forum post explores the feature further (archive) & an accompanying guilds roundtable is announced on June 23rd at 4pm CT.
Wed, June 15th (i): [Bugs] A very irregular maintenance schedule, with two downtimes in one day?
Mon, June 13th (i): [KI] [FreeMembership] An unexpected free membership appears (outside of 12 Days). This one is running until June 20th (seven days).
Sat, June 11th (i): [KI] [PrideMonth2022] KI raise $1,200 from their Pride Charity stream, funds of which will be benefitting "OutRight Action International."
Fri, June 10th (i/GC): [AmazonCards] The $30 Amazon Cards are officially announced! Uniquely, these cards offer the options of 15,000 Crowns or 3 Months Membership. Unfortunately, the Pegasus/pets card were bugged as all orders were unintentionally cancelled. Fixed later.
[PvP] The first PvP Warlord of 5th Age is "Stephen"
Fri, June 3rd (i): [PigglePlushie] The "Piggle Plushie" campaign goes live & is funded within the same day. Here's the announcement. Surprisingly, there is a 10% off the next plushie purchase offer, and an option for a production design.
One thing to note is that this costs $27.99, whereas the Gamma Plushie costed $25.99.
Wed, June 1st (i) [KI] Many events today, most significantly Pride Month - so please read on!
[PrideMonth2022] KI expand on perhaps the most involved Pride Month in a blog post, working with "OutRight Action International" - to whom "all proceeds" will be donated. Logos are changed (Pirate101, Wizard101, KingsIsle) and an announcement is made.
[SoF] The Summer SOF (June 2022) is released today. Airplane themed! You can check out our entry on it or see the official announcement!
[LoyaltyStoreRefresh] The "Loyalty Store" is refreshed for the month of June, featuring the upcoming Spiral Villains Hoard & the Shadow elegant robe!
[NewBundles] Finally, the "Peppergrass Glen Bundle" is (officially) released for $29. Here's the official announcement.
May 2022
Check the tab to the right for a summary!
Tue, May 31st: [Bugs] A bug surfaces with the beastmoon event - the crafting anvil has no recipes! This is acknowleged on the forums (archive) by the W101 Community Manager.
Sun, May 29th: [Bugs] The "Scroll of Fortune" ends earlier than expected, though this isn't anything new.
Fri, May 27th: [KI] [SpringDecoratingContest] Further on to the announcement on KI Live, the winners of the contest are also announced on Twitter, in the form of an artistically questionable graphic.
[PigglePlushie] A giveaway for the upcoming Piggle Plushie is announced on Twitter!
[KIEmployees] A new Game Designer, "Greg Miller" is introduced.
Thu, May 26th (i): [KILive] The first KI Live Lite takes place! Lots of interesting things, including the Piggle Plushie (now confirmed) being teased on stream. Read on!
[PigglePlushie] The "Piggle Plushie" is officially announced following the stream, and includes all the details, such as the fact that pre-orders open on June 3rd!
KI Live Lite – May 2022 (Summary)You can fact check the contents of this summary here.
State of the Games:Wizard101: Brought EU players home from Gameforge and actively working on rolling out Karamelle. Retiring 4th Age tickets - vendor kept until Summer update. Will find new use for trophies in a future update.
Pirate101: There was a roundtable recently, announced that there will be a small update next month with bug fixes, new things & loot to chase. Second update looks like it will be before the 10th Birthday.
Section 1 – News/Info:Code includes the new “Malistaire Saga Spellemental Pack” - one only though! It was also hinted that there are plans for a Wizard101 Discord but we all knew this asdfgshsjvg.
IslePlay is announced, a “community stream” where Kyle & Hawkules play W101/P101. Every Friday, except the KI Live week. First one is on June 3rd from 3:30pm CT to 5pm CT.
Pride Month: Charity mount will benefit “Outright Action International”, a charity advocating for the LGBTQ+ community and rights. All money raised will be donated.
Creating merch with the rainbow logo, and the money will benefit the charity mentioned above.
Kyle & Chris (Hawkules) will host a Pride Charity livestream on June 11th at 12pm CT. Money raised will benefit charity above.
Piggle Plushie is announced and shown on stream, following the teaser prior. Two will be given away later. Pirate101 will be getting two (Pirate101) plushies, no details yet!
Section 2 – Questions:
Maybe there will be even-faster combat animations for Pirate!
Ratbeard: Favorite housing item is the Garden Gnome, Arcade items also up there.
Interested in bringing back tournaments, but it needs to be reworked to be used as intended, for players to compete rather than farm tickets or AFK.
They don’t want low-level players getting into PvP, more of an end-game activity. Not a good play experience, with little spells & diversity. Another reason is that this ends up creating a specific strategy at certain levels (ie. Level 10). Level up if you don’t meet a league.
Various 8ball answers from Ratbeard in chat
Wed, May 25th (i): [LP] Files update for the live realm patch (V_r718174.Wizard_1_480) that finally introduces Boss Rematches, the combat option for Spellements! We also get quite the drop for leaks too! Here are the notes!
Tue, May 24th (i): [EarlyUpdateNotes2022] In what is probably not a first but nonethless unique event, the update notes are published prior to the update tomorrow! Welcome to Raquel and boss rematches!
Mon, May 23rd (i): [CrownsRewards] [MaxChar] The "Spring Crowns Rewards Event" takes place until May 29th! Notably, this features the 14th Character Slot if all previous events were completed! Here's the announcement.
Fri, May 20th (i): [PigglePlushie] KI drop a teaser for the next Plushie, highly speculated to be the Piggle Plushie, which would be confirmed later on!
Mon, May 16th (i/CEV): [EUTransition] [EULaunch] Following the announcement that the transition process has begun, Wizard101 Europe finally arrives in the late hours of today! Most notably, the website looks very familiar to the existing one!
Wizard101 Europe arrivesFun fact: The EU revision is ahead of the US one, but the version is behind.
Unfortunately the EU servers are still lacking Karamelle, but the Wings & Dragon transition items are here! However, a lot of people complained at the lack of local pricing, chat filter, lack of paysafecard, etc.
Though, they did keep their promise & you are able to transition, keeping all the crowns and progress. Funnily enough, the first things post-launch were sales. The first sale is actually really good, I mean not as good as 575k crowns for $50 but hey, that's in the past now. Finally, the transition page (archive) & NA landing page were updated. (archive) What an eventful day.
Thu, May 12th (i): [P101Roundtable] [P101Discord] The Pirate101 Roundtable takes place, and with that, unexpectedly on stream, the release of the first ever official Pirate101 Discord!
Wed, May 11th (i): [LP] Files update for a very minor update (V_r717146.Wizard_1_480_01_Live) , with mostly game client and server changes. Here are the notes! (archive).
[WD] Wizard101Devs tweet out some interesting data relating to the most popular schools in each League!
Tue, May 10th (i): [KI] In an unexpected tweet, @Wizard101 asks people to reply with their favorite memes! Also... kraken day.
Mon, May 9th (i): [KI] Kyle IceWielder asks the community their opinions on the Loyalty Store, generating a lot of feedback and interesting discussion. The PvP Battle Pass is also announced.
Fri, May 6th (i/CEV): [FreeWCKT] Another free Wizard City and Krokotopia event arrives! This one will last until May 15th. The last event was on January 10th! Most notably, they will be running advertisements during this event to attract new players.
[NewPacks] [WPSpr2022] It would also be around this time that the World packs make landfall in the crown shop, albeit without an official announcement.
Thu, May 5th (i): [SpringDecoratingContest] The spring decorating contest arrives, notably with a generous total prize pool of 800,000 Crowns!
Wed, May 4th (i/CEV): A rather busy day today, with an update to the files to resolve criticism.
[LP] [PvPFreeAgain] The update mentioned last week attempting to resolve various criticisms of the spring update is here! Read below for information on V_r716917.Wizard_1_480 - notes (archive).
[DevDiary2022] Following on from the Spellements drop buff earlier today, the "World Spellement Sources" dev diary is released highlighting various ways to acquire spellements... Plus some plans for future ways including a combat option... (boss rematch)
Mon, May 2nd (i/CEV): [PeppergrassLeak2022] May. It seems that people who managed to buy the "Peppergrass Glen Bundle" back when it was accidentally put up for sale have received codes for the bundle, perhaps early too! This stuff is now in-game. (Credit to "Destiny Rain").
April 2022
Check the tab to the right for a summary!Check the tab to the right for a summary!
Fri, April 29th (i): [WD] Wizard101Devs tweet out a graphic showing where various gear pieces at key parts of player progression can be acquired.
Thu, April 28th (i/CEV): [SpringTest2022] [TR-DOWN] Ahh. Live day. The spring test realm has gone live! Starting on Tue, April 12th, it lasted 16 days. This update introduces Cantrips, Fifth Age, new Spellements & much more. Update notes here!
[WD] [Spring2022Backlash] The community that was unhappy with the update (issues such as Spellement acquisition) only grew unhappier as the update was "rushed" to live realm. In fact, this criticism was so widespread that Wizard101 Devs made a statement.
[NewBundles] / [NewPack] The "Unforgiven Dead Gauntlet" bundle releases! As expected, it's available for purchase at $39, or crafted using reagents from the pack. Here's the Wizard101 page. The pack features seven set.
[KILive] Of course, KI Live drops as well! You can find the image overview here. This KI Live addressed many concerns from the update, and quite curiously we were shown some upcoming P101 companions and a video ad for an upcoming WC+Krok promotion!
KI Live – April 2022 (Summary)This summary uses this video as a timestamp reference.
State of the Games:Wizard101: This one was used to address a lot of criticism of the spring update, so rather long. Making some significant changes in relation to acquisition rate & options for spellements. There will be a combat option for high level players. [0]
In terms of merciless, it was not the plan to make the gear more difficult to obtain - instead a side effect of spreading the gear out. Changes coming next update. [1]
Happy to look into the costs of Cantrips, and future updates may reveal why it costs energy. It shouldn’t be “spammable” and should feel worthwhile. [2]
Long term plans for lore spellements but for now they are back with Loremaster. [3]
The change gating PvP behind Membership or $6 Crowns spend will 100% be reverted. [4]
Pirate101: Working on a small update coming soon, not before the next KI Live but perhaps before the one after that. Working on some new companions - they showed us a Kurgha companion and a Sinbad companion. [5]
Timestamps[0] 04:40 - 07:25 [1] 09:30 - 10:07 [2] 10:10 – 10:34 [3] 10:36 - 10:46 [4] 10:50 – 11:05 [5] 21:55 – 23:58
Section 1 – News/Info:
Leagues allow them to observe the meta and there are tools to tweak the meta (ideally between seasons) but for now they are watching it. [6]
PvP has potential so they are spending time on it despite being not too popular. They want to make it as great as other side activities. [7]
More to come on Cantrips & integration into the game. [8]
Plans to run free WC+Krok and advertise this with targeted advertisements, like the video ad they showed us! May be some ways in the future to “help us grow our games in a way that’s rewarding for ya’ll as well”. [9]
Chris “Hawkules” is introduced as the new Pirate101 CM. The P101 roundtable will be with Spicy, Ratbeard & “Shaun” and will cover many topics such as FTUE. [10]
[KIEmployees] Kevin Alexander is introduced as Lead Producer, a returning dev who was on the team from 2012-2016! [11]
The “Spring Cleaning Decorating Contest” is announced! There are also plans next week for 5th Age PvP competition! [12]
Timestamps[6] 13:57 – 15:30 [7] 16:11 – 16:40 [8] 17:33 – 17:40 [9] 19:35 – 21:55 [10] 24:05 – 28:07 [11] 39:15 – 41:03 [12] 01:11:30 – 01:14:25
Section 2 – Questions:
Many possibilities with the Magic Touch mechanism, including some future ideas. For example, Joel highlighted an idea requiring 100 people to open a present in the commons for a reward! [13]
Working on a developer diary for gear and spellements. Gear chase in W101 is weird, as there's a few places with good gear and then nothing for a while. Gear is being created to fill certain roles (such as DPS) and just because there isn't gear for a certain role or dual school, does not mean it's not coming. [14]
All the planned Cantrips (42) were rolled out with test realm. The Sigil Support cantrips was not planned for the spring update. [15]
Once you’ve unlocked retriever, every self-hatch it will be unlocked again. [16]
Plans to make Cantrips more important. One early idea with Ritual Cantrips was a birthday cake that rewards everyone who lit a candle. Sigil Support is interesting, but it has to be abuse-proof. [17]
Cantrips is universal, but the result of the Cantrip can be impacted by your school. [18]
In terms of Pirate character customization, first priority is to focus on activities. When milestones are planned, they would weigh development and programming time for this against a new feature. [19]
New P101 world isn't happening soon. Development time is far beyond current capabilities. If it were to happen, it would be developed prior to announcement. If smaller development is successful in attracting players, then yes, they want to. [20]
Nothing for Guilds, stay tuned though. No short term plans for FPS Uncapping. [21]
Inspiration for Abner K Doodle came from another character – Abby K Doodle, a play on Abracadoodle. For the Wheelchair mount, they looked into it and it’s tricky, will require more effort than making it into a mount - doing it right is more important. [22]
Timestamps[13] 45:39 – 47:07 [14] 52:40 - 57:49 [15] 01:00:52 01:01:50 [16] 01:04:50 – 01:05:25 [17] 01:08:46 – 01:11:18 [18] 01:11:27 – 01:12:20 [19] 01:21:30 – 01:22:52 [20] 01:22:57 – 01:23:57 [21] 01:25:20 – 01:26:35 [22] 01:26:46 - 01:27:34
Section 3 – Data with Decius(01:07:16 – 01:08:10):
So far in 2022: 1923 Elucidates have been traded, 134 of which have been sold to a vendor & 78 were used in combat. (01:07:26).
So far in 2022: Just under 27,000 Empowers have been traded, 22,000 of those were sold to a vendor, 10,000 have been used in combat so far and only 11 have been crafted.
Oh - and Kyle IceWielder introduces himself as CM - Officially, I suppose.
Wed, April 27th (i/CEV): [WD] Wizard101Devs address growing distaste towards Spellements, by highlighting various ways you can acquire World Spellements under the new system. [TP] [SpringTest2022] [WPSpr2022] Files update for the sixth and last test update before it goes live (V_r716710.WizardDev). Most notably, this includes the PvP Battle Pass & world packs hitting the test crown shop. [PvP-Paid] In addition: Frost Minotaur, Lord Humungofrog & Vengeful Seraph are set No-PvP, and PvP is made a paid activity once again, but this would later be reverted.
Tue, April 26th (i/P101): [P101RoundTable] The first ever Pirate101 roundtable is announced with "Senor Spicy" on Thursday, May 12th at 4pm CST on Twitch.
Mon, April 25th (i): [TP] [SpringTest2022] [RhoshamboTC] Files update for test realm (V_r716602.WizardDev), the 5th update so far. This update brings to life Rhoshambo TC, and includes some more work on Raids! The PvP Battle Pass is also updated. In other news, Vanessa Mythdust announces she was recently promoted to a Manager role. In addition- [Bugs] It seems that there is a bug that removes rental mounts from your bag immediately!
Fri, April 22nd (i): [TR] [SpringTest2022] Membership Loyalty 'Loyalty Program' is turned on for the remainder of test realm, being only known through the update notes prior. Notably, this includes the hat from the "Chaos Wizard" set.
[P101] The P101 Community Manager introduces himself to the Pirate101 subreddit!
Thu, April 21st (i/CEV): [SpringTest2022] [SolarSurgeRemoved] [TP] The files update for TR (V_r716389.WizardDev) and we actually get notes! Notably, we get hard numbers for the Cantrips utility, and 26->30 Monstrology is confirmed!
Wed, April 20th (i/CEV): [KIEmployees] [P101CM] The new Pirate101 Community Manager is revealed as Chris (@YarHarMatey)!
Mon, April 18th (i): [SpringTest2022] [TP] The files update for test realm (V_r716142.WizardDev) and we don't even get notes (rude). However, we did get a lot of new leaks and this tweet confirming an update did take place. A test realm PvP tournament is announced to help fill the queue and test! It would later be cut early, and rewards would be forfeited due to bugs that gave players an advantage.
[EerieAprilCrowns] [MaxChar] Eerie April Crowns Rewards is here, most notably unlocking the 13th Character Slot if previous events were completed!
[WD] Wizard101Devs ask what players would like to see from the upcoming world packs!
Thu, April 14th (i): [SpringTest2022] [TP] Files update for test (V_r715978.WizardDev) and there are no update notes or anything of note. The gauntlet being impossible to craft due to the cost of reagents is fixed.
Wed, April 13th (i/EU): [EUTransition] Starting with the week of May 16th, players will be able to use their transition code to sign up for Europe services under KingsIsle.
Kyle also starts posting on the forums as Community Manager!
Tue, April 12th (i/TRUP): [TR-UP] [SpringTest2022] There's something in the air today! Following the update notes leak around Midnight, test realm finally goes up, albeit at around 11pm (22:57 GMT+1), making this the latest spring test in both date and time since 2016.
V_r715879.WizardDev (Spring 2022 TR - Cantrips, 5th Age, Member Loyalty)
V_r715879.WizardDev (Spring 2022)Spring 2022 [SpringTest2022Launch] - TR Notes
The spring test realm finally arrives - and when I say finally, I mean it. This is the longest wait for the Spring test realm since 2016. It also is the latest a spring test realm has gone up since 2016 (22:57 GMT+1)
This test realm would also be wildly unpopular due to several factors, such as Cantrips requiring energy & Spellements acquisition sources being limited for max level players, with the removal of a farming option.
Public information / Read notes
Noteworthy: Did you know that when test realm launched, it was difficult to progress in Cantrips due to insane (though bugged) xp requirements?
5th Age PvP!
5th Age PvP finally arrives, adding the much anticipated Leagues* & Elo System, along with a new PvP Arena, crafted gear, Blue arena tickets, and so much more.
Level locking! Designed for PvP to prevent players outlevelling their league.
PvE / Beastmoon
Cantrips lands on test realm, as expected! It's a cosmetic feature with some function.
The Heap beastmoon map is added to the map rotation, being leaked since Jan 19th.
Fire Draconian & Death Krokomummy forms are here, following teasers by Cam.
Hella spells got spellwrighting paths for 5th Age and PvE!**
Features / Misc
Membership Loyalty 'Loyalty Program' is (finally) announced, but isn't enabled yet.
The upcoming gauntlet "Unforgiven Dead" was included in the update notes***
Social Kiosk! It allows you to add your Adventure Party to some sort of list.
Footnotes*The Legendary league would later be added. **Some of the paths have since changed - Hydra, Locust Swarm & Seraph. ***The first gauntlet ever since they moved to online to do so. It's available to craft on test!
Spoilers & LeaksAs usual, there were plentiful leaks and spoilers to be excited about!
New icons added to the files as an overview!
Lots of really awesome mounts, like this Rainbow Roller & Boxplane!
Let's not forget the really awesome pets too!
Whitehart gear from the Peppergrass Glen Bundle!
Lots of upcoming packs, whether you like it not.
Open Space house! Super cool for decorators.
**This is not an all inclusive list - please see @W101Spoilers or Patch Notes!
Mon, April 11th (i/CEV): [KI] Such a packed day, mainly involving the company. Please read on!
[KIEmployees] Kyle (Kyle IceWeilder) announces his start with KingsIsle as "Community Manager".
[KIOffices] Various employees of KingsIsle confirm that the move into offices has taken place, and that they will be sharing with Gamigo!
[SpringTR2022-Teaser5] The Cantrips teaser is uploaded to YouTube and is our fifth teaser for the upcoming spring test realm.
Sun, April 10th (i/TT): [CamBeastmoonTeaseSpring2022-2] Cam drops another Beastmoon teaser on stream! This time it's the Fire Draconian!
Fri, April 8th (i/CEV): [KI] [PeppergrassLeak2022] In what can only be described as a massive blunder, the Spring 2022 bundle is accidentally put up for sale by GameStop. Then taken down, ofc. This is before the bundle's contents are even in the files! Needless to say, this is a major leak.
[MrLincolnReturn] Mr Lincoln returns to the forums following a ten year hiatus, likely not the original Mr Lincoln but still awesome.
Wed, April 6th (i/TT): [SpringTR2022-Teaser4] Ratbeard teases "Marco Artigiano", the PvP crafting vendor, and @Wizard101 retweets this, making it our fourth official teaser.
Mon, April 4th (i): [Bugs] [AmazonCardsBug] [AmazonCards] The Amazon cards are finally, albeit quietly, added to Amazon... then taken down due to issues with the price and description rip. Some did manage to grab the Jewels card, though. The cards would later resurface.
We learn that these cards feature options of 15k Crowns or 3 Months, along with the item, for $30. A first! In other news, wizheads got together and made something for Reddit's r/place and Fansite Festival is announced.
Sun, April 3rd (i/TT): [CamBeastmoonTeaseSpring2022-1] Cam drops a teaser for the upcoming Death Krokomummy beast form on stream! This marks our 9th total teaser.
Fri, April 1st (i/TT): [AprilFools] Quite a busy day for test realm teasers! Oh, and April Fools 2022!
[RBTeasersSpring2022-4] Ratbeard teases an interesting upgrade for Evil Snowman! Note that the shield applied will be the opposite of your opponents school. Seventh teaser.
[RBTeasersSpring2022-5] Remember when I described the Wraith path teaser as the "mother of all teasers"? I stand corrected. Ratbeard drops the path for Hydra that revitalizes the spell! Total teasers are eight now.
March 2022
See the tab to the right if you want a summary.
Thu, Mar 31st: (i): [KILive] KI Live for March 2022 drops, and as expected we get some teasers... What those teasers were of, however, was unexpected. Cantrips confirmed! Check the video below for both teasers!
[SpringTR2022-Teaser2] The first teaser we get shows off some new PvP gear! It also *possibly* confirms the Overlord rank.
[SpringTR2022-Teaser3] [CantripsConfirmed] We get two new teasers, with the second one finally confirming Cantrips. Cantrips is described as "Magic outside of Combat" and allows you to cast various effects as shown in the teaser, but also has some combat use! We now have 3 official teasers.
*If you prefer the text summary, here you go: https://pastebin.com/marjcJ6p
Wed, Mar 30th (i): [TRTease] [RBTeasersSpring2022-3] Ratbeard drops the mother of all teasers on stream, teasing an entire spellement path for Wraith. He also dropped a teaser for a spell in a spellement path for Centaur.
Tue, Mar 29th (i): [ElixirSale] An elixir sale is announced, which isn't significant if not for the fact that the last one was a while back and this is the first direct elixir sale, according to my research. (excluding Lv50 Elixir).
Fri, Mar 25th (i): [TRTease] [RBTeasersSpring2022-2] Another teaser from Ratbeard! This time it's Dark Sprite at its final upgrade on a presumably new path.
Thu, Mar 24th (i/RT): [Roundtable] [PvPRoundtable2] [SpringTR2022-Teaser1] [TRTease] The PvP Roundtable takes place (again) and we get our first teaser of the Spring update! A new cast animation reminiscient of the commercial casting animations. Have a look!
In other news, Fifth Age is confirmed for the Spring (Leagues, Elo, Currency, etc) through this stream, along with possible new zones & arenas!
Mon, Mar 21st (i): [RoundtableAnnouncement] The PvP Roundtable with AwesomeTheSauce is announced for March 24th at 4pm CST!
Fri, Mar 18th (i): [MacOSBugs] An update to MacOS Monterey (12.3) discontinuing Python 2 breaks Wizard101's mac "port", a year after Big Sur broke Wizard101's mac port. Here's the discussion on the forums.
Thu, Mar 17th (i): [KI] [TimedRewards] "Monthly Bucket of Crowns" returns, $60 for 5k crowns every 30 days. Requirement of an existing 12 month Membership. That aside, quite a packed day today, the files update & the Ratbeard teases.
[LP] [FirstBannedSpells] Files update for the expected update (V_r713909.Wizard_1_470), bringing expected nerfs to Hephaestus & not so expected taken-out-of-the-game changes to blade gambits, creating the first spells to be disallowed in both PvP and PvE.
Blackberry Jellyfish spawn rates from the Aero Village & Sky City Estates are nerfed.
Tue, Mar 15th (i/CEV): [KI] [EUTransition] [EUTransitionWebpage] The EU transition is in full bloom, with KI announcing that transition codes are being sent by Gameforge. A new blog post is created along with a new transition-specific webpage [eu.wizard101.com] (archive).
[DevDiary2022] Ratbeard drops a "State of the Meta" dev diary, addressing some common concerns about PvP and (briefly) talking about future plans.
Finally, players coming from Gameforge will receive some new items that were shown!
Thu, Mar 10th (i/CEV): [KI] A very packed day, with surprises! Please read below!
[UkraineCharity] KI take a stance on the Ukraine conflict "We stand with Ukraine" in the form of a $5 Charity bundle, where 100% of net-earnings go to charity (archive). The bundle contains new Ukraine-themed gear (added to files the same day). Here's the announcement.
[LP] Files update for perhaps the most boring update of 2022 (V_r713621.Wizard_1_470), fixing the unintentional stun resist(s) on the "Gorgon Hunter's Helm", adding the Ukraine charity gear & most notably new equipment icons!
Tue, Mar 8th (i): [NewPacks] [Bugs] [90StunResist] The "Aquila Hoard Pack" is released! Check out our entry on it for info, or see the official announcement! In other news, a typo in the new gear leads to the first 90% Stun Resist gear ever, fixed later.
Fri, Mar 4th (i): [60for60] A wild 60-for-60 sale appears! This one is running until the 6th.
Tue, Mar 1st (i): [SoF] The Spring SOF (March 2022) is released today. Seems to be fairy themed. You can check out our entry on it or see the official announcement. Along with this, several things return for me lucky charms month.
February 2022
See the tab to the right if you want a summary.
Thu, Feb 24th (i): [KILive] KI Live for February 2022 arrives, no teasers compared to last year but there's still a lot of interesting things from this one! Trying a new format, including a new image format I hope to bring here once refined.
The show: Section 1 - VOs & VA Data:
Fun-fact: Mike was supposed to voice Fitzhume but someone else did it better. (~37:35)
VO of Minotaur “Joey” also voices Buck Gordon in W101 and Dead Mike in P101. [1]
VO of Fitzhume “Chris Griesmer” is also voice of Mandar and does many other voices. [1]
VO of Old One “Mike McCray” is also the voice of Bartleby. The VA of Malistaire is also the VA of Cyrus [2/3]
Finally, “Mike Sears” (writer) voices Gandry, Milo, Sparck, Quizzler & probs many more. [4]
[1] 37:06 - 38:49 / [2/3] ~01:17:17 / [4] (Gandry) 28:50 (Milo) 01:09:10 (Sparck) 01:12:10 / (Quizzler) 01:02:43
Section 2 - Questions:
Spellements to be categorized by source. “World Spellements” will be level-banded and you must be the appropriate level to obtain. Can’t farm low-level bosses for spellements, however there will be other acquisition sources. [1]
No plans to add a new Valentines set. Will try to hit holidays with refreshed content. New “thing” coming soon that’s four player interactive (cough knight’s table) [2]
Advanced Movement can’t be used on Wands due to the “backing plaque” that is automatically applied, which doesn’t play nice with the feature. Possible in the future though. [3]
Need to address PvP Rankings showing in Beastmoon. Inspiration for Beastmoon sigils from combat sigils. “Needful Things” from “Death Draconian" form gives enemy a heal , though it blocks their hand and isn’t really good, it can also be countered by the form. [4] [5] [6]
Not done adding categories for Monstrology, currently working on a new category but cannot say when it will be released. [7]
[1] 44:53 - 46:10 [2] ~42:12 - 44:11 [3] ~01:02:55 [4] 50:12 - 50:23 (PvPRank) [5] 46:22 (Sigils) [6] 48:30 - 49:15 [7] 01:05:17
Section 3 - Miscellaneous:
Fun fact: You can’t hatch an Auspicious Tiger with a Sabertooth Bunny and get a Red Auspicious Bunny (~01:03:40)
Next gauntlet has some Scottish / Irish dialogue as teased by Mike Sears (Writer/VA) as one we haven’t heard yet. [1]
[NP] [KIEmployees] New people! Mercedes moves up to Associate Designer, Cam joins from last month’s hirings and Ryan joins as a “Product Designer” for Pirate101. Rand is a “Pirate Product Designer”. [2]
Mike Sears “Narrative Designer” is introduced after 21 minutes of silence. Works outside of sto ry such as adding music to Lemuria and writing the dreadful Karamelle theme song. He started as an intern for P101 as Gandry / Milo. [3]
[1] 32:48 - 33:25 [2] 07:20 - 08:00 [3] 21:19 - 23:43 & 28:50
Section 4 - Data with Decius (P101 CS): 51:40:
Most purchased: Gear-set: Dashing Robe, Gear, Spats & Hat. Wand: “Boarding Knives” Companion: “Lucy Sterling” Least purchased: “Large Snowy Maple Tree”, twice since start of P101 CS.
Wizard101: In terms of W101 Europe, they are setting up EU servers to move accounts. EU accounts cannot be merged with US accounts. Planning more roundtables in the Spring. Dev diaries are also in the works, some relating to upcoming things. March is when hints are usually dropped about Test. Some spoilers between this KI Live and the next one. (04:35 ~ 07:05)
Pirate101: Small update went out yesterday, with bug fixes and new items scheduled for the “Crown Shop” in the future. Not all that is planned but need to “get further in the process” before sharing what’s next. More next month. (04:00 ~ 04:27)
Wed, Feb 23rd (i): [KI] [Gameforge] An update on the services transition is provided by Gameforge (archive). Accounts can't be moved to the US / a server they were not created in and KI will create new EU Servers to transition. Blog post is updated. (archive)
Wed, Feb 16th (i): [LP] Wizard101 files update for the expected February live patch. The revision is now V_r712625.Wizard_1_470. You can read below some notable changes. Official notes can be found here.
Tue, Feb 15th (i/ME): [KI / Gameforge] A busy day, with the Gameforge contract cut and the Spellements roundtable announced. We also get a Spellements dev-diary prior to the roundtable. Read below!
[EUTransition] [GameforgeContractCut] In a move that practically everyone saw coming, KingsIsle acquires publishing rights for EU Wizard101. Announcement + blog post (archive), outlining the transition starting from 2022 Q2. Crowns & progress maintained. Gameforge announcement (archive)
[Roundtable] [DevDiary2022] Spellements roundtable is announced with Ferric on February 17th @ 4pm CT. We also get a Spellements developer diary, highlighting the current failures of the system and future plans. Here's a summary.
Fri, Feb 11th (i): [CrownsRewards] The "Friendship Festival Crowns Rewards" arrives. You can see an overview below, running until Valentines Day. As usual, many are unhappy with the value for money. The top reward is 20,000 Crowns for "Hearts" TP Effect.
Thu, Feb 10th (i): [Bugs] [MandolinBlunder] Throwback Weekend, not just any throwback weekend because the Mandolins in this one are accidentally available for Gold! This would last from ~17:00 GMT to ~22:00 GMT, after which they probably noticed, pulling the items and event.
Thu, Feb 3rd: [FriendshipFestival] The friendship festival is here, with the usual, Valentina HeartSong, etc. Some new things are planned as we can see from the files. Continued: Aside from the release of some new valentines bundles, business as usual. The "Teeter Totter" would be released on February 8th, and the "Rose Bouquet" on February 11th.
Tue, Feb 1st: [KI] Month of that day on the 14th. The Auspicious Tiger pet is released in time for the Lunar New Year.
January 2022
See the tab to the right if you want a summary.
Mon, Jan 31st (i): [BonusBestBuyGC] An interesting promotion is announced, offering an $5 "Best Buy" gift card with the purchase of a $20 Wizard101 card from "Best Buy" through Feb 6th.
Thu, Jan 27th (i): [KILive] The first KI Live of 2022 arrives, and whilst it's too early for teasers, it was still an interesting one, especially with the data that we got from this one. Notes below!
The show:
Gamma was chosen for the plushie as he is a mascot for the game, appearing in tutorial tips, etc. Also, new/old players would recognise him from the Tutorial.
Some positions are open, more open later this year. Integral to 2022 goals to maintain Wizard101 and starting Pirate development and “a few other things that they’re not ready to talk about yet.”
One thing that you could poof into P101? An events system like Wizard. Something unique weekly for Players to do.
The hardest thing to work on? Production / Art: Celestia in terms of the number of assets. It was a lot to do at once and the biggest single release, way too ambitious and they’ve scaled down. Writing: Catacombs. They were trying for a specific story (i.e flashbacks) and it was a headache for Design to implement. Marketing: RazerCon trailer, the first video was scrapped and it was a lot harder as Lemuria did not have a theme as Karamelle did.
“Dasein” is german for “being there”, as a result of someone who works there with a Philosophy major. It was the first name for "The Nothing"
How is the script formatted? Two big phases, first, the quest documents with the goals and dialogue, pages of quest goals, then the dialogue is filtered out for the next phase.
CL Spellements, 470 (Lemuria) started small things, such as integrating the Spellements in the SOF. They’re going to expand on this and feed this into a long-term plan. Dev diary soon.
[Data with Decius /CS Stats mostly]
~5000 players gifted Scepters of Tribute in 2021, ~400 less than 2020.
“New Fangle” is the most bought mount, whilst the “Yellow Candy Cane” is the least bought mount.
Most popular henchman: L50 Life, Least popular: L110 Balance (~20 in 2021)
Confectioner's Staff was bought 1 time in 2021.
0.01% of all sales were the Khrysalis Furniture Set #2, sold twice in 2021.
1-3% of players have their Lemuria spell maxed out.
Wizard101: Developing the next update. A few surprises that are “more social and narrative” in nature. As to rumors of declining population, trends are predictable, with some exceptions. A lower population is expected around these times and picks up later. Stay tuned for Wizard news coming soon from Gamigo. Pirate101: Still in the Hiring phase, and will be for a while. Looking into ideas that didn’t make the cut, and a few successes from Wizard they would love to take to Pirate101. Side activities may not be ported directly from Wiz as the codebase is different. It might be quicker to redo the feature in Pirate, not always though as porting the inventory lock was easy. Roundtable being announced soon-ish.
Wed, Jan 26th (i): [NewPacks] [NewEnergyGear] The "Heroes of Lemuria" pack is released to the crown shop. More info about this pack on its page. Notable things about this pack - cool hat aesthetics and the new best energy hat, giving +30 energy.
Wed, Jan 19th (i): The files are updated and PvP is hit with a rather drastic change! Read below.
[PvP] / [NoPvPForMuted]: Wizard101 gets the first update of 2022, with a pretty drastic controversial change, that being muted people can no longer play PvP. As a result, Ratbeard's stream of the day is pretty much focused on one topic.
[LP] The files update for the first of 2022. The revision is now V_r711496.Wizard_1_470. Official notes here (image backup), or you can check out Patch Notes for more spoilers. Highlights: Lemuria pack is in the files now, A new beastmoon map is found in the files & we're getting early indications of an Aquila pack.
Thu, Jan 13th: KI Live for January 2021, the first of 2022, is announced.
Mon, Jan 10th (i): [FreeWCKT] Wizard City and Krokotopia are free until January 23rd. Here's the announcement, prompting a lot of people asking for this to become permanent. The last time this event occured was during the Birthday on Sep 2nd, so this seems to be a recurring thing now. Also, plushie tweet.
Fri, Jan 7th: [Storythread] The Lemuria story thread from "The Curator" (Sam Johnson) is finally out on the forums, focusing on discussion about Lemuria lore. Here's the official announcement and the thread on the Wizard101 forums. 39 Days after release to Live.
Continued: As of the 10th, responses are coming in from The Curator to various questions. Here are some interesting ones.
Thu, Jan 6th: [KIEmployees] Mattnetic (Matthew / Design) announces his departure from KI on Twitter, just a day after Renee's, sparking rumor/rumour of doomsday at KI. These rumors/rumours would be dispelled.
Continued: Mattnetic would later (Jan 10th) announce the move onto EA to work on The Sims.
Wed, Jan 5th: [KIEmployees] Renee (Associate Producer) announces their departure from KI on the forums, having worked there since 2013. Reaction is mixed. Double gardening is also activated today until 9th January.
Continued: It would later be revealed that they have moved onto Zynga, working on mobile games.
2021 (Lemuria)
Year Overview - 2021
Bundles this Year
Great Sky Train Robbery Gauntlet Bundle - CR Bundle $39 (Apr 21, 2021)
Blacksmith's Fjord Bundle - GH Bundle $39 (Jun 18, 2021)
Even Creepier Carnival Bundle - DM/Halloween Bundle $29 (Oct 15, 2021)
Sky City Bundle - LM Bundle $29 (Early: Oct 28, 2021 / Official: Nov 5th, 2021)
Packs this Year
Karamelle Souvenirs Pack - KM Pack (Jan 20, 2021)
Astrologer's Hoard Pack - CL Pack (Mar 4, 2021)
Great Sky Train Robbery Pack - CR Pack(Apr 21, 2021)
Marleybone Motorist Hoard - MB Pack (May 24, 2021)
Ravenwood Rangers Lore - WC Pack (Jul 27, 2021)
Grim Ferryman Pack - AQ/Halloween Pack (Oct 12, 2021)
Yuletide Mornings Pack 2021 - Yule 2021 (Dec 10, 2021 / 2020 Sequel)
Updates this Year
Spring TR (Mon, April 5th 2021 - Lemuria Pre / AOE Truncation / x64 / Social System)
Summer TR (Tue, July 6th 2021 - Lemuria Pre Pt.2 / Adventure Parties / FTUE Finish)
Fall TR (Mon, November 8th 2021 - Lemuria World, Quest Org, Rhoshambo, etc).
Disclaimer: This was written, to date, in this year. As such, events were recorded as they happened. This means that as you go down this page, things may become less detailed or informative.
As this year is over, this is considered archived, though improvements to this page will still be applied.
December 2021
See the tab to the right if you want a summary.
Tue, Dec 21st (i): [TimedRewards] A new Timed Rewards "Monthly Bucket of Crowns" is announced, offering 5k Crowns pcm for a year at $60. Essentially a long-term 60 for 60 sale. The catch? This is intended for people with an ongoing 12m Membership, else this would cost ~$140 including the 12m Membership ($79.95). That aside, this lasts till January 2nd.
Mon, Dec 20th: [12Days] - Day 12: [PackSale] For the 12th and final day, Yuletide packs are discounted 50% for two days. Here's the announcement. That concludes 2021's 12 Days. Oddly - the last day is usually reserved for crowns.
[KI] Falmea releases a "state of the games" talking about plans in 2022.
Sun, Dec 19 (i): [12Days] - Day 11: [FREECROWNS] It’s here! The yearly 250. Today’s code FREECROWNSPLEASE gives you (they say) 250 to 60,000 Crowns. This code is good until Tuesday 21st. As usual, a lot of unhappy people on social media. One thing to note is that this is on Day 11 instead of Day 12, hmm.
Sat, Dec 18 (i): [12Days] - Day 10: Two days to go! Today’s 10/12 days includes a “thank you” message from the KI Team, and some pet snacks. (W101: Aztecan Hot Chocolate, Chili Peppermint & Feliz Romeritos / P101: Toast Soldiers, Tinfoil Stars & The Twelve Flavors of Hawkules)
Fri, Dec 17: [12Days] - Day 9: A random housing item is given away for today’s twelve days. [KI] The newsletter for December 2021 is also released
Thu, Dec 16 (i): [12Days] - Day 8; [60for60] The long awaited 60 for 60 sale is here for the 8th Day. This sale was for today only (Thursday), leading to many unhappy people who get paid on Friday missing out and taking to social media. [RRC] Also, Round Rock council announces a new deal with KI, finally giving them a HQ in exchange for creating jobs and whatnot.
Wed, Dec 15 (i): [12Days] - Day 7; The seventh day brings another giveaway - this time for the new "Yuletide Mornings Pack 2021". See below! Also, more packs are added to the Shop. [LP] The files also update (V_r710543.Wizard_1_470_01_Live), making a lot of Healing TC No-PvP. Here are the update notes.
Tue, Dec 14 (i): [12Days] - Day 6; The "Krampus Runner" mount is released to the Crown Shop for 8000 Crowns on the sixth day.
Mon, Dec 13 (i): [12Days] - Day 5; [BundleSale] A bundle sale comes with the fifth day! A few bundles are discounted for 50%, meaning $39 -> $19.50 along with $29 -> $14.50. This will be running until Sunday 19th.
Sun, Dec 12 (i): [12Days] - Day 4; For the fourth day, a simple packs giveaway, GINGARRRPACKS for 1x Gingerbread Pack (W101) & 1x Pirate Nightmare Pack (P101)
Sat, Dec 11 (i): [12Days] - Day 3; For the third day, the Winter Wonderland 2021 art contest is here. Entrants must draw a Wizard101 Lemuria Hero or a Pirate101 companion in a winter setting this time. Closes on January 3rd.
Fri, Dec 10 (i): [12Days] - Day 2; The "Yuletide Mornings Pack 2021" is released to the CS for the second day of 12 days. This pack contains all the fancy tuxedo/dress gear shown throughout November. Oddly, it looks like both the dress and tux drop from the pack for both males and females. The mystery discount is also included with today's reveal.
Thu, Dec 9 (i): [12Days] [FreeMembership] The twelve days of the Spiral is here, and with that comes Free Membership, both for W101 and P101 this time, till the 21st. [MaxChar] In other news, through the "Seize the Season" crowns event, the 12th Character on a single account is now possible, filling two pages. Oh, and the Charity Hippogriff is released for the first day.
Wed, Dec 8 (i): [CharityStream2k21] A charity stream is announced on Friday (Dec 10) running from 4pm CT to 9pm CT, including prizes such as a "PERM Snow Owl", only previously released as 30 Days in the SOF, going to the highest donor and a raffle winner.
Mon, Dec 6 (i): Various "yuletide" packs return, starting with the Winterland Pack and Winter Wonder Pack.
Thu, Dec 2: [LP] The files update to resolve an issue with progressing on the final quest (lol) but we also get some Lemuria themed furniture icons & a cool interactable table in the files. [P101][P101DevelopmentResumed] [KI] KI Live also took place, and we learn that Pirate101 development is finally being resumed. Oh, and Membership will be free during the 12 Days for P101 and W101.
The show:
Superfan gear is in the Pirate101 game, though cannot be redeemed till next year. (~05:00)
In order to get zones that fit the story, they opted for strategic reuse. The base geometry was reused, though they redid the textures. The decision wasn't taken lightly. Lore-wise things needed to feel like they were bought in from other worlds. Telos is brand new, Sky City was almost brand new - inspired by Mid-Century modern and Brasilia. They wanted to make sure that every hero had a place that they belonged. Reuse allowed them to do that. (~26:12 - 29:00)
Now they have the capabilities for duel circles like these, "don't expect this is the only place you'll ever see it." With the Catacombs they came close with the final bosses in the Leyline Prison, though it didn't come together. This time they had 8 enemies and it lined up. (~40:00 / ~42:23)
Favourite boss to design, excluding the end boss? It's the Shark side boss that eats players! It's not like the Devourer Devour, it's a much more toned down Devour. (~44:12 / ~45:50)
Membership rerun confirmed during twelve days for both Wizard101 and Pirate101 (🎉), including new and existing accounts. (~54:20)
Kroger cards will be coming to GameStop in 2022. They are given X pegs to put the cards on, and are swapping the W101 $10 & $20 cards from GameStop. (~56:00 - 58:40 & discussing with Makeship for 2022 plans, more plushies will be on the way next year. They also wish to crack down on the "black market" (~01:34:25)
Halfang is the 2nd most killed boss, dropping things that sell for a lot of gold, "for now". (01:38:49)
Data with Decius:
56 characters have the "Deckathlon Champion" badge. (~1:13:41)
9 characters have the "Deckathelite" badge. (~1:13:50)
11,941 Empowers were sold to vendors for Gold during the last x2 Pet XP. (~1:14:38)
9,940 characters that have at least 1 max tier spell. (~1:15:15)
State of the Games:
Wizard101: Lemuria - the second WFH World and the first under Gamigo. Other things with the fall test realm include the PvP changes, quest organization, castle magic/adventure parties, etc. There is a dev diary planned to talk "high level direction". Job board "exploded", in a good way, and this means a few things. (08:00 ~ 10:00)
Pirate101: Officially resuming Pirate101 updates in 2022 after approval by MGI. A few expectations: A lot of pre-production work is required (no one at KI has ever made ships/skyways - those people have moved on, etc). If they were to "switch over to Pirate full throttle", it would start to impact Wizard101 updates next year. Focus of updates is daily/weekly activities, polishing the beginning of the game for new players, which they will make an effort to acquire. A pirate development roundtable is planned. (~10:20 - 12:00)
Wed, Dec 1: [WINTER2021SOF] Welcome to December! Month of that important day on the 25th. Can you believe that we've almost documented a whole year? That flew by fast. If you are reading this, thank you. Anyway, The "Winter 2021 Scroll of Fortune" is released! (with that super cool outfit) - here's an overview from W101Spoilers. The usual Yuletide events kick off, and the countdown to 12 Days begins.
November 2021
Tue, Nov 30 (i): [TR-LIVE] Ahh. Live day. Lemuria has gone live - along with everything else in the Fall 2021 test realm, including the PvP Rhoshambo, the new quest journal stuff & pack preview, among others. That brings November to a conclusion. I should also note that Lemuria is the most expensive world crowns-wise. No KI Live due to Thanksgiving.
Mon, Nov 29 (i): [TR-DOWN] It is announced that test realm has concluded and that Lemuria will be going live! This is followed with an announcement of maintenance to bring Lemuria. Test realm lasted for 21 days, launching on November 8th, and going Live on November 29th, 22 if including Live day.
Sun, Nov 28 (i): A tweet is sent out wishing players "Happy Hanukkah" - a first in celebrating other religious holidays, so I thought to include it here.
Thu, Nov 25 (i): [KI] [LaborOfLoveSteam] KingsIsle ask their playerbase to vote for Wizard101 in the steam awards "Labor of Love" category, leading to some interesting replies on social media. The DragonSpyre art book is also released.
Wed, Nov 24: [TR] Test realm is taken down for the Thanksgiving break. [KI] Also, 25% off coupon in people's mailboxes.
Mon, Nov 22 (i): [TR] Test realm updates with the third patch to the files for this test realm. Notably, new PvP Mastery amulets are added to the PvP vendor "Brandon Mistborn" on test. This test realm is to be cut short on Wednesday at 4pm CT due to Thanksgiving.
Fri, Nov 19 (i): [KI] The last KI Live of 2021 is announced for December 2nd, skipping November's KI Live probably due to Thanksgiving.
Thu, Nov 18 (i): [DevDiary2021] A long awaited PvE dev diary, acknowledging the lack of important choices and addressing the faults of PvE and systems assosciated, such as Spellements and Gear. The dev diary also acknowledges that some people actually like PvE as-is, and introduces the concept of Smart Monsters - an optional difficulty increase. Unfortunately, this is pretty much the only thing we got. [KI] For those not into that, the Kroger jewels were expanded to more non-Kroger places under Albertsons Companies.
Tue, Nov 16: Codes for the Gamma Plushie housing item are being sent out.
Mon, Nov 15 (i): [TR] The second test realm update, mostly small additions such as the Wand for the NYE Set, and the Sun and Moon elegant stitches being added to the files as gear. Mattnetic also teases updates to the hanging effect blades models. The Yuletide Mornings Pack 2021 is also cemented into the files. [KI] The PvE roundtable is announced.
Wed, Nov 10 (i): [TR] The first test realm update, most importantly adding the Rhoshambo spells to the game! From a spoilers perspective, a new tuxedo/dress attire is added to the files along with various stitches (including the Sun and Moon elegant stitches). These stitches are projected as part of a new Membership Loyalty feature. Crafting recipes for gear is also added along with art for the CL & WY concept art books. [KI] The Veterans Day item for this year is out. They also released some rather odd if not unique bundles featuring the new food housing items.
Mon, Nov 8(i): [TR-UP] Test realm for Lemuria goes online! This is around 4:00pm GMT on Monday. We get the "new" world of Lemuria, various Quest journal improvements (some organization, finally) and as usual, a heck ton of spoilers. [W101] The code "BEAHERO" is released for the Spiral Geographic Magazine.
The final boss fight in particular would lead to issues later on due to an exploit used to access it & involving innocent players in the process of defeating them. Other than that, a pretty unique final boss fight. These bans would later be reduced to three month suspensions.
Fri, Nov 5 (i): The "Lemuria" Sky City bundle is officially released, prior to test even being up! Ha. Whether the release was intentional or not, Mythdust's comments in response to a question about the expected early release for Extra Life hints that the bundle was released early by GameStop.
Thu, Nov 4: Ratbeard releases a dev diary going over the Rhoshambo, chess clock replacements to Diego & a PvE roundtable/dev diary on the horizon. At this point, we are close to our final teasers of these spells. [WD] Players are asked via a Twitter poll whether they would prefer stats or cosmetics focused crowns gear.
Wed, Nov 3 (i): [TR] Welcome to November! Month of the test realm, the first since Mirage. Speaking of test realm, we get the last Spiral Geographic Magazine teaser & the seventh Paper Pulp to craft the standee. Towards the end, we get something quite interesting - "check back next week, for one last, special announcement." - with the code expiring on 11/10 and test realm on the horizon, it's probably a safe bet what this "special announcement" is.
Tue, Nov 2 (i): [GrubGuardian] It is announced that there are no plans for Grub Guardian development after it was taken down earlier this year. RIP.
Mon, Nov 1 (i): Welcome to November! Not much news today - Wizard City and Krokotopia are free until November 14th. Hmm, looks like this is being ran as an event now.
October 2021
Thu, Oct 28th (i): [KI] Whooh. A busy day. Looks like October is ending without any test realm, as would be confirmed on KI Live! We are told that test is not next week, but shortly after. We also got a Lemuria content teaser! In other news, the "Sky City" bundle is put up for sale on GameStop's website, peculiarly before Lemuria test is even up. Anyway, onto the notes.
[The Show]
Happy with the succses of the Gamma Plushie, in talks with multiple companies to produce some more merch. Nothing to announce, things are moving though.
Trying some new combat-related stuff in Lemuria (in relation of different ways to engage in quests such as Play-As-Your-Pet). In other news, new "Castle Magic" spells and item confirmed. Extract cats is in the works but NOT in the next major Monstrology update.
Workload for gear audit is going to take time, more than expected, so it's pushed further down the schedule.
They gave away the Superfan boots with the code KILiveSuperBoots.
Wizard101:
Test realm is not next week, but soon after that, finishing touches on Lemuria.
“Interesting things on the horizon” and need more “humans than they have right now” so they are recruiting via KI Live (or, more accurately, asked people to keep an eye on their job postings if interested)
Pirate101:
No news to be publicly announced
Wed, Oct 27th: Mattnetic confirms that the gear audit has been moved down the schedule as the effort involved far exceeded estimates and Lemuria took precedent.
Mon, Oct 25th (i): [GAMMAPLUSHIE] Gamma Plushie sales close in at 4,763 plushies sold. That's a lot of dough.
Thu, Oct 21st (i): [TR] [LMRazerCon] A surprise teaser is dropped for Lemuria at RazerCon, in the form of a minute video that covers about what would usually be 5-6 weeks of teasers. Here's the announcement. A lot of the community notes the presence of reused areas, though this would make sense in a "world made of other worlds."
Wed, Oct 20th (i): [TR] [LemuriaIG] The fifth (presumably out of seven required to craft the standee) teaser drops on Instagram. You can see it, along with a description below. Also, the Gamma Plushie reaches 4000 sales, as seen in a horn-tooting tweet linked.
Tue, Oct 19th (i): [RBTease] Ever since the 5th of October, Ratbeard has been showing upcoming PvP oriented spells. These are not confirmed to be coming with test realm. These spells are quite interesting as they convert hanging effects and "ramp" you up for a gambit hit. It all seems to tie in pretty well. These are shown on stream.
Fri, Oct 15th (i): The "Even Creepier Carnival Bundle" is released officially, after being spotted in stores since October 9th. The bundle is $29.
Wed, Oct 13th (i): [TR] [LemuriaIG] The fourth (presumably out of seven required to craft the standee) teaser drops on Instagram. You can see it, along with a description below. [LP] The files also update, adding roughly a dozen holiday/thanksgiving related food housing items. The forum colour/color tag issue is also resolved.
Tue, Oct 12th (i): The "Grim Ferryman Pack" is released, along with a rather unique "Grim Crowns" rewards event that offers the "Tartarus Ferry" mount at 40,000 Crowns. Please check the archived page for more information on this pack.
Sat, Oct 9: The "Even Creepier Carnival Bundle" is found at various GameStops, but there is no announcement. It is confirmed that this is not an accidental early release by Mythdust. In other words, this is intentionally out.
Thu, Oct 7th: The 2021 "Extra Life" campaign for KI begins, offering the usual upcoming bundle.
Wed, Oct 6th (i): [TR] [LemuriaIG] The third (presumably out of seven required to craft the standee) teaser drops on Instagram. You can see it, along with a description below. Yes, I'm fully aware of the irony of citing NubHub in NubHub.
Fri, Oct 1st: The 'Spiral Stitch' contest is released, as mentioned on yesterday's KI Live. Players will be able to judge entries, though there's the very odd requirement that the gear has to actually be stitched.
September 2021
Thu, Sep 30th (i): [LP] Quite a busy day. In the morning, the files update to "V_r706503.Wizard_1_460" and introduce some pretty cool things to the files. Later on the Gamigogames pre stream with Kinsiel/Mobi (from gamigo) and the Wizard team kicks off at 4:15pm EDT, which talked a lot about Wizard101. Following with the KI Live show (with guests from gamigo), which talked a lot about Gamigo's games (to the discontent of many in chat lol). Regardless, here are the notes.
They gave away the Superfan Outfit... headphones. You could only get the headphones through the code "KISuperHeadphones" but the robe was more exclusive, given randomly away to 10 in chat & those who has their questions answered, with the boots coming on the next KI Live.
In terms of the Gamma plush, they would "love" to "do more" but it's not expected to be in the same capacity. If there was any more, it would be online and limited time in the same capacity.
Lemuria: Level increase to 150. End of world fight will be "very new and exciting" & one of the new zones was described as "one of the coolest in any world ever". 30-50 new housing items so far and hopefully close to 80 by release.
Stitch contest planned starting Tomorrow for W101/P101. (1st Oct). Players will be able to select winners.
No new plans to add an additional talent slot to pets or going above Ultra, the system would need to be changed to alleviate pet failure and avoid "another chance on failing your pet".
Data with Decius:
[DATA] Least rare badges increasing in rarity ("New Pet Owner" -> Hero of Unicorn Way" -> Wizard City Protector")
[DATA] Rarest badges increasing in rarity ("Magnanimous Pet Lender" -> "Master of Mayhem" [0 players]
[DATA] Most/least equipped badges at Level 140. (Most: "One in a Million" | Least: "Expert Angler" [1 player])
[DATA] Most Tier 5 Beastforms unlocked? [2] accounts have [6] Tier 5 Beastforms. Only one has [8] unlocked.
Wizard101: Free WC+Krok "hit pretty well this time". They want to "do this" but and make sure that it's going to be good for the game. In terms of Lemuria, not ready to do anything super significant or tease anything too much yet. Instagram for now. Expect hints to be dropping on socials and maybe elsewhere. By the next KI Live there will be more info. Finally, they are aware of the situation with Gameforge and Wizard101 EU but have nothing to share. Writers teaser: "Lemuria is familiar but different, completely new (and?) returned to form. Full of lemurs but also not that"
Pirate101: No public news yet. Doesn't mean nothing is going on behind the scenes but excited for the game's potential beyond the 10th Birthday.
Wed, Sep 29th(i): [LemuriaIG] The second teaser for Lemuria via Instagram drops, detailing Quartermane's search for the Lemurs. Another code is provided for the seven paper pulps needed to craft the Standee. [KI] We are also informed that there will be a pre-show with Gamigo on the "gamigogames" twitch channel at 4:15pm EDT.
Fri, Sep 24th (i): [GAMMAPLUSHIE] Makeship "Gamma plush" campaign goes public and is funded, reaching the required 200 sales for production within 30 minutes of release after 12am GMT. At 9am BST this plushie was closing in on 900 sales.
Wed, Sep 22nd: "Fall into Fall" crowns rewards event is introduced with the topmost reward being the Abra KaDABra
emote at 50,000 Crowns.
Tue, Sep 21st: [LemuriaIG] The first Instagram teaser for Lemuria drops.
Mon, Sep 20th: [KI] KingsIsle Live is announced for September 2021.
Wed, Sep 15th (i): It is announced that teasers detailing Quartermane's adventures (Lemuria teasers) will be published to Instagram. I wonder if these will be similar to the Polaroids. We are yet to see our first teaser, however.
Mon, Sep 13th (i): Following the world's cheekiest marketing campaign, the Wizard101 Twitter account is reverted - however, they now use an older icon and have changed the description.
Fri, Sep 10th (i): [GAMMAPLUSHIE] If you didn't expect the transformation to Gamma, wait until you hear why they did it! (Spoiler: Plushie marketing) Well, you probably know from the tag (that I just made up). Yep, they announced a Gamma Plushie campaign in collaboration with Makeship, prompting both excitement and the opposite of excitement. The plushie will be limited time, will cost $25.99, and includes a Gamma plushie housing item. Thu, Sep 9th (i): [BDAY] Free WC + Krok is extended to 12th September (possibly due to the mounting pressure to make this permanent.)
Wed, Sep 8th: The files update and the Candle wands are marked "No Gift", six days after release.
Tue, Sep 7th: Today the back to school items (the ravenwood themed items) are released. Only the "School Locker" can be bought with 7500 Gold.
Mon, Sep 6th (i): [BDAY] In a move that no one saw coming, the Wizard101 twitter account is rebranded to Gamma and is introduced with this tweet (curiously mentioning "Earth") and would then tweet out silly "Gamma Tips" about life on earth. Quite amusing, lol. This is set to last a week according to the bio.
Fri, Sep 3rd (i): Double Gardening and Double Pet XP are running simultaneously until the sixth!
Thu, Sep 2nd (i): [BDAY] The *actual* birthday kicks in - surprises a-plenty, Wizard City & Krok were made free temporarily until 08/09 or 09/08 to attract newer players - prompting calls for this to become permanent. This coincides with $5 membership. Sneaky. Account age items were added - candle wands for 100 crowns with the topmost reward requiring a ten year account. If you did not qualify, you would not see the item in your shop. However, in an oversight that would be resolved, these could be gifted to players, diminishing their exclusivity. The Birthday Box is also released.
Wed, Sep 1st: [BDAY] Welcome to September! The birthday month & teaser month. As expected, the 13th birthday celebrations roll out, with member benefits, a code & the announcement of a fishing contest running through September 10 to September 12. Double gardening is this week's benefit with daily assignment rewards bonus running through the birthday. One thing of note is that Wizard101's birthday isn't actually till tomorrow.
August 2021
Tue, Aug 31 (i): [WizAliveDrama2021] Popular W101 YouTuber "faeriequeens" releases a twitter poll asking players to vote whether Wizard101 is dead or not, creating the great "wiz is dead" / "wiz is alive" split of 2021.
Mon, Aug 30: The Fall 2021 SOF is released! Notably, this includes the upcoming Grim Ferryman Pack at 655 points and a 7-day Tartarus Ferry earlier on in the scroll. These are both upcoming.
Thu, Aug 26 (i): [KI] KingsIsle Live for August 2021! A lot of interesting stuff in this one, including a segment from QA that includes a PowerPoint of their role and several behind-the-scenes systems such as Kobol & smoke testing. We also learn that there will be birthday rewards based on when you created your account!
[DATA] Interestingly, 15 players have the Night-Knight event scooter (the $700 one) but one was deleted so only 14 exist.
Birthday: New things are coming out for the birthday which are both paid and giveaways... some of those things will depend on when you created your account. A fishing tournament will also be active during Wizard101 13th's Birthday.
Opening up Wizard City for free actually caused a decline in engagement, so they are not looking to run that again. According to them, people went less deeper into the paywall. They're figuring out where to put the paywalls so that players can get through a decent chunk of content and stay engaged.
Something is coming to the Zazzle (merch) store that is described as a 'Hoot'.
Retired gear can be returned as newer gear with existing stitch models but retired gear will remain retired as to not inconvenience those who prefer it that way.
Leagues were brought up, a designation of different types of PvP, such as =<Level 50. Details are hazy but from what's understood, Leagues would be similar to Brackets in Tournaments.
Adding comments to the Team-Up Kiosk is interesting but will require further discussion with Gary.
Fast combat similar to Pirate? The combat systems vary so that isn't the solution - truncating the summon animation wasn't well received so they are back to the drawing board.
1. Aware that Sharpen is visually broken and working on a fix. 2. In terms of reporting, they are looking into methods of differentiating real players from throwaways. 3. Adding comments to the Team-Up Kiosk is interesting but will require further discussion with Gary.
Wizard101: Lemuria is 'really exciting' and PvP/Socialization initiatives continue. A unique fight is planned for Lemuria (possibly the most unique since Medulla). They also hinted to follow Instagram if you don't as some clues may appear.
Pirate101: Nothing much, though players may be interested in the press conference.
Wed, Aug 25: The files updated yet again, but this update does not contain official patch notes. From the files, retailers in quick-chat are revised - and includes Amazon, an upcoming retailer. That aside, two new Crown Shop bundles are added to the files and the Immortals Lore Pack is updated to 140. A dev diary is also released for the reporting system.
Wed, Aug 18 (i): The files updated with small public fixes but a plethora of spoilers content, including a Shadow "Chaos Wizard" elegant stitch set. The "Wysteria Spellemental Pack" model is added to the files, indicating a release soon. Please visit W101Spoilers or Upcoming Content for spoilers content regarding this patch.
Sun, Aug 15: An instakill exploit is disclosed to the Wizard101 community. As of yet, this is not patched. EDIT: This is considered patched as of the update on the 18th of August 2021.
Tue, Aug 10 (i): The "summer celebrations" crowns rewards event is introduced. Most notably, This event will reward you with an Additional Character Elixir at 70,000 Crowns, unlocking the 11th character slot if previous crowns rewards events with the elixir have been completed. Also, unrelated, but I found it funny that the reward for 50k crowns is literally chairs.
Mon, Aug 9: The next roundtable "Social Roundtable" was announced with KI and MysticTiger93 to chat about social systems - like Adventure Parties. This will take place on Aug 12 at 4pm CT.
Thu, Aug 5 (i): [LP] The live game receives an update that replaces instances of "[%]" in the game with "%" as they were originally, thus fixing spells, jewels, etc. More notably, emojis are restricted to accounts that have at least a Level 20 or above character. An issue accessing Mount Olympus (introduced with FTUE) was also fixed - notes are below. Here is the spoiler-specific patch content.
Tue, Aug 3: The Marleybone Art Book is released after introduction to the files in the summer test realm. Adam Roush also shares some unused Vanguard gear concepts - commenting that the final design was a mix of concept four and concept six.
July 2021
Fri, Jul 30 (i): [KI] Two important things - both from the forums. As confirmed in yesterday's KI Live, Sparck reiterates on the forums that ranks are broken and it may be a while before they are fixed. They were not removed. [NP] Maceryn also introduces herself on the forums as a new forum moderator / CRM (following her introduction on KI Live yesterday).
Thu, Jul 29 (i): [KI] [NP] KingsIsle Live in July arrives and as expected of a KI Live in July, there's not much to write home about - a few things here and there that are interesting but otherwise a very normal KI Live... With the exception of them accidentally showing the script for KI Live & introduction of Maceryn, the new CRM for KingsIsle who will be working on the forums, marketing & social media.
[DATA] Let's start with perhaps the most interesting bit of information this KI Live - according to stats from this year, >50% (~55%) of all players are under 18. This has varied, at launch the majority were <18, Mid-2010s this shifted to the majority being >18 and the recent years have again shifted to the younger demographic. Keep in mind that data from users <13 cannot be collected and that the average user may be >18 but the majority is <18.
[NP] Mesa (Maceryn) is introduced in the stream. She is the new CRM for KingsIsle (having streamed on Twitch for a while). CRM basically means she will be involved with forum moderation & social media. She's also mentions that she hopes to make the Instagram account more interactive for everybody. Speaking of the forums, the ranks stopped working and it's being looked into and fixed.
New emojis were result of a brainstorm on how to represent diversity/inclusion but also avoid opportunities for harassment and keep the game a safe space. They are hoping to provide higher quality emojis for fan-sites and communities to use in the future.
KI use Jira to organise tasks/tickets and assign those tickets to specific departments - then hand it over to QA for testing. They have to be aware of dependencies - such as Emojis (which require art) and implementation (which is design/programming). If a specific feature is waiting on an asset, they attempt to work on other requirements of the feature, such as a Wireframe if a model isn't available.
Funnily enough the things people like most about the summer update relates to their job! Sparck's was Adventure Parties (socialisation), Vanessa's was FTUE (Marketing) & Joel's was CS multi-buy / Wishlist - Ha, found that funny. Quick fire questions:
1. Item finder may be added to Bazaar and your own homes as it doesn't sound too difficult to do. 2. Looking into expanding the housing limit (as minimum requirements were higher) but it will require testing on older systems. 3. New arenas for PvP Not likely to happen this year. The artists involved focus on the new world instead. 4. Brackets around percentages is a bug. It's an interesting bug that's complicated. The game added them on its own (hah!) A fix is planned for the 800 instances where this happened. 5. Sinbad Gauntlet is not likely to have its level bands updated as it's akin to creating another dungeon. 6. Changing key bindings is on the shortlist but probably not this year. The ticket is there and there is some discussion but it's not a priority. 7. Level 150 elixir? If it's feasible as the Level 50 elixir was challenging to put together and creates issues when quests are changed. 8. Actively working on dyeing behind the scenes. Tech is taking a while and it wouldn't make everything available.
Wizard101: FTUE is done (Vanessa made her VA debut in the FTUE questline.) so the goal is to attract players with the polished content. They are pushing on further social initiatives and looking to do a social roundtable soon, with a lot more to come with the socialization initiative.
Pirate101: Working with Gamigo on Pirate101. Things are slow but progress is being made, with improvements to the backend metrics reporting for Pirate101. Speaking of, they're encouraged by the metrics of Pirate101 and are doing small-scale user acquisition efforts to expand the player-base. They're interested in expanding things that work well in Wizard101 to Pirate.
Wed, Jul 28 (i): Test went down and the summer update was pushed to the live servers. A minor display issue occurred that replaced "%" with "[%]" on Wizard101 content, such as spells. (thus breaking some descriptions). Personally I think this works really well on some spells. The 'Ravenwood Rangers Lore' pack is released on the same day, adding 'Splashsquatch', 'Beary Surprise' & 'Camp Bandit' spells & spellements to the live game.
Tue, Jul 27: [TR-DOWN] It is announced that test realm will be going live! This means that test for summer ran for 20/21 days.
Mon, Jul 26: [TR] Test realm updates introduce the quest set in the 'Dead Archive' - and also a bug that replaces "%" with "[%]" on any instances of percent in the game, notably spells and jewels.
Thu, Jul 22 (i): The forum ranks are entirely removed ('Administrator', 'Community Leader', etc.) This change is unique as forum ranks have been present for a long while.
Wed, Jul 21: [TR] A fix is implemented allowing MacOS users to be able to have both the live game and test realm installed at the same time - which, I'm not sure how is an issue to begin with, but eh. [TR] The files update and we receive indications of the next Lemuria quests, a Lemuria zone known as 'Telos', (adding onto the other three we know of) and the "LM SkyCity Combat" theme, among other spoilers.
Mon, Jul 19 (i): [KI] The pride logos (Pirate101, Wizard101, KingsIsle) come down and are replaced with the originals on social media. This ran for a total of 50 days. The 'Raven Wings' mount is also released, marking the release of all the mounts added in the Spring TR.
Fri, Jul 16: [TR] To finish this week off, Mattnetic posts about changes to the path of Celestial Intervention - notably increasing its healing and modifying the second path to sacrifice up to six shields from T3B and on. Feedback Friday is also posted relating to the new Adventure Parties feature.
Thu, Jul 15: The first beastmoon hunt roundtable is hosted with 'Gladrocker' - and we learn of some interesting things, such as the consideration for a Karamelle beastmoon map and several processes associated with Beastmoon. July 2021's KI Live is also announced. [TR] Mattnetic posts about upcoming changes to the card text of the 'Camp Bandit' spell - fitting in the effects of the spell in the card text box.
Wed, Jul 14 (i): [TR] Mattnetic posts upcoming changes to the new lore pack spells (Ravenwood Rangers) spellemental paths - mostly increasing the damage output (per the lore spells DPP) - we also receive a test realm update today and learn of two Lemuria zones from the files - "Night Forest" & "Ursai Village". In addition, the spellemental path for Angry Snowpig is finally added in & the chat filter is updated with possible ways to abuse the new emojis. [WD] Wizard101Devs asks what players think of the friends UI on test.
Mon, Jul 12: [TR] The first update since release is out - and features some new emojis in varying skin tones and some pride emotes. This update creates a lot of controversy (as expected) but also some support. The 'Ravenwood Rangers Lore' spellements are also available from the test vendor in order to test the spells. The upcoming halloween pack has a set bonus added to it as well.
Fri, Jul 9: [TR] Test realm goes down for its first week, and we learn that due to testing purposes, characters on Test Realm will be reset to when test was first opened. We also receive a teaser for an upcoming test realm update relating to new emojis - notably the introduction of skin-tone emojis. Also, a 60 for 60 crowns sale today.
Wed, Jul 7: [TR] We are informed that the lack of change in player health is a bug.
Tue, Jul 6(i): [TR-UP] The patcher and files for the upcoming test realm are put up ~00:00 BST or 18:00 CT. This was on an unexpected Tuesday. Test would not be announced and login opened until later on in the day, specifically at 18:41 BST. Just to note, this is the first Summer Test Realm on Tuesday since 2015. This test realm features the Lemuria Pre-quest Pt. 2, where we learn of Adventure Parties, FTUE Completion & trainable mob spells. In terms of datamined content, notably - we receive the new Lemuria house, two new packs (incl. 'Ravenwood Rangers Lore') & two new bundles along with some mounts and pets. Please check "Upcoming Content"
Fri, Jul 2: [TR] Welcome to July! No test yet. We receive the fifth teaser for the upcoming summer test realm relating to FTUE. In addition, the newsletter is put up early - and with that we learn about a new Beastmoon Hunt map and beastforms. The newsletter also mentions that this content is "Currently on Test Realm", so we can expect that by the time the newsletter is announced, test will be up. This newsletter is taken down a few hours later, further indicating an unintentional release. Newsletters have been announced no later than the 7th of every month as of the last three months.
June 2021
Mon, Jun 28: [WD] Wizard101Devs informs players of an issue with photomancy and the friendly player flag - and to turn off friendly players if images are not saving as a temporary workaround. A tweet also comes out with the producer's letter released on KI Live.
Fri, Jun 25: After KI Live, false rumours start to surface of a collaboration with an artist named 'Lizzo' following the teaser of Lizzo FireSpitter. This rumour lead to both some support and concerns about aspects of body shaming. This is later disproven in the forum post, which is later edited to remove any mention of this - whilst the producers letter is edited with a clarification, copied below. (Clarification: Pop culture reference, not in collaboration with any real-life person or celebrity)!
Thu, Jun 24 (i): [TR] KI Live for June 2021 arrives and with that we get a few interesting things. We learn that Renee will be taking over producers letter as Falmea is now Game Director (though Falmea will still be writing dev diaries) - and we get a producer's letter released during KI Live. This producer's letter teases the finalization of FTUE (new quest content) and the continuation of the Lemuria prequest. The producer's letter also mentions new emojis coming.
If you wish for a full summary, I post them in my server or you can just DM me and ask.
On the actual show, we get an in-depth look at the 'Adventure Parties' [guilds-lite] mentioned by Falmea on June 21st. Adventure Parties requires a full group (that uses the new Friendly System UI), following which the button becomes active and you can select from a list of group names. You are now the owner of the party. These parties will persist even offline.
You can be in three parties at once and the UI will indicate date created and online members. Members can then create events "i.e Dungeon Appointment" to meet someplace at sometime to farm or whatever. These events are pre-selected - then the adventure party members can choose whether to go or not. You will set your time and the time of these events will be converted to your time.
Wizard101: Focusing on the present (Summer TR / Meta) and the future (next world) - and some rehashing of changes. Summer update will continue on socialization. Lemuria is the next world. Art is producing characters and zones. Design is currently deciding what the new spells will be.
Pirate101: Pirate101 development resumed - Pirate101 is performing better than expected in 2020 Q1 and people are sticking around with the game - the effect of "RevivePirate101" is noticeable. They will update every month for transparency.
Wed, Jun 23 (i/ED): [KI] A *very* packed day, so let's get into it. Read on!
[LP] [PvPGoesF2P] The game receives an update focused on PvP, notably temporarily making PvP free to play for players >= Level 20 to improve matchmaking.
[DevDiary2022] A few hours later, we also receive a dev diary from Ratbeard, highlighting future changes in Summer TR and Beyond. For the near future (TR), we learn of changes to Maycasts in PvP, Level-gating TC in PvP, New taunt/pacify in older spells, etc. For 'still to come', we learn of an Elo System and plans for PvP Events/Currency/Rewards to incentivize participation. That aside, we finally get test realm information.
Mon, Jun 21 (i): [DevDiary2021] Players receive a dev diary from Falmea, "Socialization 101", which focuses on plans for the social system in Wizard101. A quick summary can be found below.
Future plans/ideas include rewarding full groups, joining combat during planning phase & Adventure Parties!
Continued: All of this and much more would come to fruition in the summer update.
Fri, Jun 18 (i): [NewBundles] [StarIron] The 'Blacksmith's Fjord Bundle' is announced officially and released today, later than the usual release of previous bundles. This bundle is notable for a few things, listed below.
Good (best?) universal damage boots at 140.
New reagent "Star Iron" finally released, obtained from the interactable Forge.
Very cool Fjord Dragon mount!
Thu, Jun 17: The 'Blacksmith's Fjord Bundle' becomes available online on GameStop, and is not officially announced until tomorrow.
Thu, Jun 10 (i): [P101] [NewSinbadAdventure] The update notes for Pirate101's 'New Sinbad Adventure' update are published, with the last update being in October 2019.
Wed, Jun 9 (i): [LP] [CloakNoPvP] The files update with some changes, but notably Cloak is set to No-PvP temporarily to sort out issues it causes with spells such as Athena.
[P101] Pirate101 also receives its bug fix update, with some new content.
Thu, Jun 3 (i): [KI] KingsIsle make this tweet - linking to a diversity blog post where employees of KingsIsle talk about diversity. In the last section, Falmea responds to criticism that KI aren't doing enough to support LGBT in-game.
Tue, Jun 1 (i/CEV): [PrideMonthNewLogos] Pride month kicks in - and for the first time, KingsIsle change their logos for the occasion (Pirate101, Wizard101, KingsIsle) and make this tweet later on. As always, reaction is mixed. [SoF] The Summer 2021 SOF also starts today.
May 2021
Sun, May 30: [Bugs] [x2PetXPSunday] The Spring SOF ends earlier than May 31 due to the system ending the event early - leading KingsIsle to activate (possibly the first ever) double pet XP on Sunday in compensation.
Thu, May 27: [KILive] KI Live comes and with that we receive the winners of the spell contest - but more importantly - receive confirmation that Pirate101 will be receiving a small bug fix update in the next Month. A summer update hint for Wizard101 is teased, relating to rabbits.
The regular show.
Will not be returning to the office this year, maybe next year - will be looking for a new office to move into possibly. Not moving to Canada.
W101 on other devices? Nothing to say, probably not this year. Requires a lot of work + Any plans to go to conventions? No... obviously.
Character that was cut from the game and re-introduced? Mattnetic: "It was the 'Fellspawn' mob - which was re-purposed from an abandoned boss battle." (nubby note: p sure he's on about the great ka boo boo boss fight)
They showed us the winners of the spell contest, here are a few. + no update to derby in a while (from chat).
Data with Decius [DATA]
Before the Beastmoon Seed - 12% of people would garden. After Beastmoon, it went up to 19%.
How often is the Seamstress used? This year is an anomaly. Stitches this year (so far) are almost the entirety of 2019 - 700,000 items stitched so far.
How many finish the SoF? Average person who hasn't purchased the Scroll of Fortune at 167, with whoever has purchased closer to 800s.
Pet promenade event is the most popular.
[State of the Games] Wizard101: Working on the summer update. Likely no test by next KI Live. A summer hint from the Writers: "You will meet someone new, and look at people you knew in another way. Beware the Rabbit." - Simultaneously working on the new world.
Pirate101: Final stage of Bug fixes. (Small update for Pirate101 next month - June 2021) - New max level boss and side story content / 9th Birthday. Exploring idea of expanding team.
Mon, May 24: [NewPack] The Marleybone Motorist Hoard Pack is released after introduction to the game in the spring test realm. The pack features most notably a small four player mount that decreases player size.
Continued: The mounts would later be renamed to include "Mini" to reflect this.
Thu, May 20: [HackScare2k21] Following the compromise of three or so Wizard101 accounts, (including one well known user in the community) by 'religion', the community goes ape, leading KingsIsle to make an announcement on account security and many discord servers to temporarily close.
Continued: This persisted for three or so days but began on the 20th, with many believing Wizard101 had been compromised, and the user "religion" putting out some very edgy videos trashing hacked accounts and fearmongering, things that never materialised. The videos are lost to time.
April 2021
Thu, April 29: [KILive] KI Live for April 2021 arrives and it's a pretty interesting one, a lot of information this time around, so let's get into the notes!
[The show]
Reasons for upgrading to 64-bit were many but include maintaining the game for the future and making use of internal tools easier. They also reported 50% less crashes + also had to do it sooner or later. Exploring idea of uncapping FPS for 144hz monitors.
Game soundtrack on Spotify has been discussed and they want to revisit it but there are hoops to jump through for something like that.
All the key bosses will have spellements & they will be added to drops throughout the game in future updates. Best way to get them is the SK bosses & packs. Mattnetic showed off some new insignia gear.
Logic behind damage limitation is that linear progression wasn't sustainable long-term and it started breaking the game.
Professor's Hoard was heavily weighted to your school. The original intent for off-school drops was to sell them for gold, though you can also put them in Shared bank. At some point maybe they can audit all the gear and see if they sell for right amounts of gold.
AoE critical will be changed to be faster and cleaner in the future. As on live, When you cast an AoE and critical, it will give every mob a chance to block rather than crit on all. They will be chipping away at the worst offenders in spell animation time depending on the time available in Art/Design.
Community SoF is possible, something where players work together to gather points. Looking into Guilds but it would come at the very end of the social system initiative. They're exploring improving existing social systems first.
Name changing update? They really wanna do it. They wanna tackle it but seeing when they can fit the team together to do that & More FTUE coming up.
Time played for Wizard101? Something they can add but it would not be retroactive and not something they'll probably do.
Krok revamp? Not to the level of WC. They might make on it looking a little bit better and improve quest flow. They're interested in just finishing WC revamp and letting them do something else.
Falmea did voice some things early game, Banshee scream, Renee, Queen calypso & Kroks.
Offline mode for PvE? It's an online game bugger off. Unlikely to happen. World is often released in fall and they're trying to tease the next world a bit earlier.
[State of the Games]
Wizard101: Lemuria pre-quest progression in the future.
Pirate101: Small part of the team is working on a bugfix update (and possibly more) now that W101 has had its update. Larger updates will require a dedicated team.
Tue, April 27: [MacOSCompensation] [MacOS] A fix is implemented for the MacOS issues and players are granted a one month membership for free as compensation.
Wed, April 21(i): [TR-DOWN] Spring update goes live, introducing Wizard101 64-bit and some other content such as key bosses and social system. Continued: This update would not be announced until April 28th due to MacOS access issues.
[MacOS] However, this update (when it went to live) caused many MacOS users to be unable to access the game, resulting in a lot of concern.
[NewPack] This also includes the release of the gauntlet and pack. (Great Sky Train Robbery Gauntlet)
Fri, April 16: [TR] The cool ranch gauntlet ('Great Sky Train Robbery') is added to the test realm with the reagents available from the test realm crown shop.
Thu, April 14: [TR] Test realm files update with version V_r701821.WizardDev, the third patch. This update brings some more spell adjustments, notably making Donate Power really good by reducing its cost to 1 Pip.
Mon, April 12: [TR] The test realm files update, adding the Professor Portraits to the files with V_r701722.WizardDev, the second patch to the Spring 2021 TR. MC Devotion is also added to the files.
Mon, April 5th (i): [TR-UP] Test Realm for the Spring 2021 update goes up at around 5pm GMT. The game goes x64 and we get a hint of possibly our new world - Lemuria, with the prequest being available on Test Realm. [DeluxeSpellemental] On this same day, the Deluxe Spellemental Pack is re-re-released, for the final time.
Spring 2021 TR - Overview: Notes Noteworthy: First 215k health boss as a result of a typo that would be fixed. As usual, a lot in the spoilerverse, including a new pack. Other than that, here are the notes.
- The lemuria pre-quest Part 1 that introduces Lemuria world to us. - AOE Animations are sped up to hit all (as teased in February 2021)
- Key boss: King Borr (Grizzleheim Lore spellements) in GH and Stay-Puffed Marshfellow in KM
- New beastforms: Myth Ninja Pig and Minotaur
- New pretty cool stitch gear for Beastmoon and wands for Deckathalon
- Game goes 64-bit.
- Damage and resist intersection is here, resulting in diminishing returns past the intersection.
- Spell audit concerning the low pip spells, Blades standardised to +35%.
- Friendly players and volunteer system.
Thu, Apr 1: [APRILFOOLS] Glowbug Squall is nerfed down to 1 damage Couch Potato April fools mount is here for 4321 crowns.
March 2021
Wed, Mar 31(i): [TR] At the end of March, It is announced that in the spring update, the game will be moving to 64-bit, meaning that the game will not support operating systems lower than Windows 7 or Big Sur or any x32 systems.
Mon, Mar 29(i): The teaser from KI Live showcasing new skeleton key bosses in Grizzleheim "King Borr" and Karamelle "Stay Puffed Marshfellow" is uploaded to YouTube. This is the fifth teaser. Notably, the KM Key boss has 10,750 health in this Teaser.
Thu, Mar 25: KI Live for March 2021 comes through - an interesting KI Live! We got a teaser!!
[DATA] Average playtime per day in February was three hours. 9 Wizards have the "Ultimate Hands of Fate" - Oh, and the stream died five or so minutes in.
Two skeleton key bosses were teased - the first in Grizzleheim, the other in Karamelle. The GH boss will drop Spellements for the upcoming Ratatoskr's Spin, Hammer of Thor & Grendel's Amends paths. AOE animations will hit all - 17 done so far. There will also be a shadow gauge fullness indicator.
Placeable duel circle? They're large, hard to place. Uhm, they also have enough tech to accomodate only one duelcircle.
Crit, Damage & Block are now shown on enemies when selecting a spell that show your chance to crit and their chance to block.
They've talked about making custom quests with housing guests but not planned for 2021.
Loremaster drops rework? Not this update! (from chat)
Free moving camera for housing is doable. Unlikely for the game because they usually don't create things players can't (normally) see.
Wed, Mar 24(i): [TR] We receive the fourth teaser for the upcoming spring test realm - in the form of concept art "books" housing items with Wizard City and Krokotopia concept art.
Wed, Mar 10: The Empyrean Airship "house" is released for 12,500 crowns in the CS after introduction to the files in December 2020.
Thu, Mar 4(i): The 'Astrologer's Hoard Pack' (CL) is released after introduction to the files in December 2020 and includes the 'Stargazer', 'Cosmographer' & 'Astromancer' sets. The housing roundtable is also announced for March 11th.
Tue, Mar 2(i): The 'Deluxe Spellemental Pack' is re-released after the Membership bug which caused it to be removed. Membership was removed from those who purchased the pack - literally. If you had membership before, buying the pack removed it from you. So - they took it out again (and deleted the tweet). They also released Green and Gold bundles which weren't to everyone's fancy.
Mon, Mar 1(i): Gold in the crowns shop is discounted for me lucky charms month, with the highest denomination (50k gold) dropping from 24k crowns to 2.7k crowns. This attracts a lot of criticism that this gold can easily be farmed from Halfang and Asrik
Though some players were in support of this reduction compared to the previous prices. In other news, the Spring Scroll of Fortune begins today for 2021, with the Floral Raiment gear.
February 2021
Fri, Feb 26 (i): [TR] [SprTeaser3-2021] The video teaser showing truncated AOE animations and polished textures on KI Live yesterday is published to YouTube and is the third teaser for the spring test realm.
Thu, Feb 25 (i): [KILive] [TR] KI Live for February 2021 arrives and is much more interesting than the last one, dropping the 3rd teaser for the spring test realm, introducing a much awaited AOE animations truncation and texture update in the form of a teaser video!
Spring Update teaser shows that AOE animations have been shortened and updated to hit all at once (like SOM) - these spells include: - Fire: Fire Dragon & Rain of Fire - Ice: Frost Giant - Storm: Tempest, Storm Lord - Death: Scarecrow, Deer Knight - Life: Forest Lord - Myth: Humungofrog & Mystic Colossus - Balance: Ra
Scrapped story ideas won't be released because they might use them later on. The next world can be summed up in one word - Heroes. World doors happened a long time ago - pre, there were dangerous ley-lines / paths. Spiral doors are hard to make so they are rare. They're also not done with Merle yet.
Mattnetic has been updating gear to Level 140 with Joel on the efforts too - we will see a handful in the spring update. The ability to flip items upside down probably wont happen because of the way items are designed.
In terms of spells, utilities are desired as damage gets boring. They are hoping to phase out the old taunt and perhaps give boss mechanics to players.
Bundles with MSPs (Mega Snack Packs) are there because they (MSP) are some of the most purchased items in-game and they are always trying to get it out at a better rate. In other news, the crown shop is reaching 1,300 items. In an effort to keep things under 1000, some items will be removed that are not purchased often (last 6mo/yr) - we also learn of a Housing roundtable.
They acknowledged Heroes101's existence... or lack thereof. They also mentioned that adding "night time" to commons will result in having to remake the commons. Name changing will not be happening soon due to some backend that's tied to your name. They touched on the Deluxe Spellement Pack and that it will return next week. Finally, they are exploring a more robust system to dye gear, such as shades of pink instead of pink, though this will be on newer and popular gear. Wizard101: On schedule for the spring update, especially after the weather in Texas. Pirate101: Efforts to revive Pirate are actually helping the game, much appreciated and bringing players in (#RevivePirate101 & other activities). Their first Pirate goal is to have an update that is just bug fixes.
Wed, Feb 24 (i): [TR] [SprTeaser2-2021] W101Devs release the second teaser for the spring test realm (archive) - showing improved bubble icons. (Sanctuary -> Doom and Gloom -> Power Play).
Tue, Feb 23 (i): [DeluxeSpellemental] [Bugs] The 'Deluxe Spellemental Pack' is released at $2/mo (a first) - and then taken out as it's discovered that the pack also grants Membership when it should not.
Tue, Feb 16: [KI] Texas suffers from power losses due to abnormally cold weather - this affects KingsIsle, who extend ongoing promotions and member benefits until further notice. Continued: On the 18th, they would state that conditions are improving for business to resume.
Thu, Feb 11: [TR] [SprTeaser1-2021] The first teaser for the spring test realm drops from @Wizard101Devs - showing Stormwing and a curious new icon in the right corner.
Mon, Feb 8th (i): [KI] [Acquisition] [AcquisitionComplete] The acquisition is complete, with MGI (Gamigo) announcing the closing of the share purchase.
Thu, Feb 4(i): [KI] [Acquisiton] [MobileGamesGone] In a move which many players celebrated, It is announced that all mobile games will be closing on Wed, February 17, 2021. As a result, many who worked on mobile are not with KingsIsle anymore, such as Tom (Dworgyn) who announced a new venture with many others into WIMO Games.
January 2021
Thu, Jan 28: [KILive] KI Live for January 2021 arrives and apart from a few things, there's not much to list here, January KI-Lives are usually empty. The summary can be found below.
No updates on the acquisition, the beginning of the stream was used to re-assure players that not much will change. They also mentioned that they don't have concrete plans for console but think it would be cool.
An engine switch from Gamebryo is not likely due to the amount of time that will involve that can be used on other projects. They also mentioned that rewards for daily quests may be updated if people use it more.
Free membership is planned again but right now they're running through the numbers and seeing if revenue and quality increased as a result. They're thinking of guilds and talked about it but have no idea if it's coming in 2021.
Furthermore, In terms of bringing back older characters, they said they don't want to focus on cameos too much and rather introduce new characters.
They also touched on the poll - highlighting that it was made using player responses, the results might not reflect what happens and if the spells are in anyway broken they will probably get nerfed before being added as trainable. Finally, they mentioned that there are no plans to make the first arc free to play. Data with Decius: 1. The Darkmoor second-chance chest is the most opened, at 460,000 in 2020. 2. 25.7% of all characters that logged in during December 2020 did not complete a single quest. 3. 18.1% of players that logged in during December 2020 did not complete a single daily quest.
Wed, Jan 27: [WD] Wizard101Devs (Mattnetic & Jetsers) puts out a tweet asking players what fight they would like to see as a Wood, Stone & Gold key boss for rewards.
Fri, Jan 22 (i): [KI] A busy day today, the acquisition announcement is updated and Wizard101Devs release a curious poll.
[Acquisition] The acquisition announcement (see Jan 18) is updated to dispel rumors, notably affirming that "Wizard101 will not go free to play for the foreseeable future". They also addressed the discrepancy between their target audience and finally suggested more regular updates to Pirate101.
[WD] Wizard101Devs releases a tweet/poll asking for which spells players want to see trainable based on a list created last year. This generates some friction on whether players would like to see Brown Spider or Leafstorm trainable. Spider won.
Wed, Jan 20: [Bugs] Servers are restarted to fix login issues. [DevDiary2021] First diary of 2021, relating to recent changes in PvP and future plans.
Tue, Jan 19 (i): [KI] [Acquisition] [AcquisitionPressConf] MGI have a press conference relating to the acquisition, where they disclose a lot of information we usually don't get. Highlights below! These highlights are from various sections of the PowerPoint shown.
Mobile games are actually loss-causing, as mentioned in the press release.
Target audience for Wizard101 is 20-35. Pirate101 is a little higher.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of their revenue comes from the US, being 89% of all revenue in 2020 Q1-Q3.
Over 50% of revenue from players is from those who have played over five years.
Also unsurprisingly, the majority of revenue comes from "in-game sales" at 57% in 2020 Q1-Q3.
Plans to go international and expand into console markets.
Mon, Jan 18 (i): [KI] [Acquisition] KingsIsle releases an official statement on the acquisition - focusing on reassuring the players that the team will remain as is.
Fri, Jan 15 (i): [KI] A pretty big day for KingsIsle, probably the biggest. They literally get acquired.
[Acquisition] MGI (Parent company of Gamigo) puts out a press release announcing that an agreement has been reached to acquire KingsIsle Entertainment for USD 126million. This news spreads around like wildfire the following day.
[WD] Wizard101Devs (Decius) asks players which lore pack spells are their favourite and why.
Thu, Jan 14: [MacOSBugs] [BigSurCompatibility] Big Sur compatibility arrives after the game broke following the release of the OS in November 2020. Here's the thread. (archive)
Thu, Jan 7: [Bugs] [EarnCrownsDisabled2021] Earn crowns is disabled to fix a 'related issue' - it is uncertain when it will return and whether it will resolve issues with ad availability. Continued: As of 2022, this has not returned.
Tue, Jan 5th: [WD] Wizard101Devs asks players which packs they would like to see updated to 140 in 2021.
2020 (Karamelle)
Year Overview - 2020
Bundles this Year
Doomsday Krok Gauntlet Bundle - KT Gauntlet $39 (FirstMay / May 11, 2020)
Heavenly Palace Bundle $29 - MS Bundle (May 26, 2020)
Pet Trainer Bundle $29 - WC Bundle (Oct 21, 2020)
Candied Isles Bundle - KM Bundle $39 (Nov 17, 2020)
Packs this Year
Druid Hoard Pack - WC/CC Pack (Jan 2, 2020 / 130 Expansion)
Zafaria Safari Pack - ZF Pack (Mar 10th, 2020)
Doomsday Krok Hoard Pack - KT Pack/Gauntlet (May 11, 2020)
Celestian Spellemental Pack - CL Pack (Jul 22, 2020)
Primeval Hoard Pack - AZ Pack/SetBonus (Sep 22, 2020)
2020 Pirate Nightmare Pack - DM Pack (Oct 20, 2020)
Yuletide Mornings Pack - Yuletide Pack (Dec 15, 2020 - 12D)
Updates this Year
Spring TR (Thu, April 2nd 2020, Fellspawn, Set Bonus, UI Revamp)[0]
Summer TR (Wed, Jul 1st 2020, Char Revamp, Mayhem)
Fall TR (Wed, Oct 28 2020, Karamelle, Crit/Block Revamp, Lending)
Notes on updates
[0] Also notably includes Khrysalis Fishing & Fast Finder.
December 2020
--Fair warning, this section will be rough and tidied up later with proper formatting. Enjoy a look into the work that goes on behind the scenes.
dec22 https://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1341414635891810306 all bundles return 1/5
dec20-12days-12 https://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1340687677952241667 freecrowns
dec19-12days-11 https://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1340316501593776128
dec18-12days-10 https://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1339960001851518981 packsale
dec17-12-days-9 https://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1339597669782581250 dec16-12days-8 http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1339228460867325953
dec15-12days-7 http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1338874236782440448 + timed rewards http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1338882945600397315 + producers letter http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1338951050187976705
dec14-12days-6 http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1338511842616995841
dec13-12-days-5 http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1338142600914735104 dec12 12days-4 http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1337780042861043714 dec11 12 days-3 50%off bundles http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1337428810132754435 dec10 12 days discount http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1337065719918448641
Thu, Dec 9 (i): 'Sleigh the Spiral' crowns rewards event is introduced, with the 'Yuletide Snowped' being the top prize. Notably, this unlocks the 10th Character slot at 61,000 Crowns. + charity candied ram http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1336711285560520704 dec 7 winterland pack http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1335998235836608514
Dec 1 sof starts http://twitter.com/Wizard101/status/1333806499844530176
November 2020
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July 2020
June 2020
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April 2020
Thu, Apr 9 (i): The final and last sleep stitch gear "Weekend Warrior" crowns reward event is out, concluding the set - beginning in Nov 2018. The final reward for this three day event is the Sun Skimmer (55%) at 225,000 crowns or roughly $300. As usual, a lot of criticism, and some relief that these events are over. Notably this event also unlocks the 9th Character Slot (if last event completed) at 200,000 crowns.
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
2019 (Catacombs)
Year Overview - 2019
Bundles this Year
Fantastic Fairytale Bundle - AV Gauntlet $29 (June 5th, 2019)
Sinbad and the Iron Sultan Gauntlet - MR Gauntlet $39 (Sep 12th, 2019)
Creepier Carnival Bundle - DM Bundle $29 (Oct 15th, 2019)
Undersea Enchantment Bundle - CL Bundle $39 (Nov 14, 2019)
Packs this Year
Nimbari Hoard Pack - EM Pack/EM2 (Jan 17th, 2019)
Pandamonium Hoard Pack - MS Pack (April 24, 2019)
Grizzleheim Lore Pack - GH Pack (Aug 2nd, 2019 / Bugged Release)
Sinbad Hoard Pack (Gauntlet) - MR Pack (Sep 12, 2019)
Pirate Nightmare Pack - DM Pack (Oct 14th, 2019)
Yule Logger Pack - Yuletide 2019 (Dec 10th, 2019)
Updates this Year
Spring TR (Wed, April 3rd 2019, Triton Redo, Deckathalon, 7th Slot)
Summer TR (Thu, July 11th 2019, Beastmoon, SOF, FTUE, WC Redo!)
Fall TR (Thu, Oct 24th 2019, Catacombs/Dragoon & Spellwrighting)
December 2019
November 2019
Wed, Nov 13 (i): The 'Sleepy Agent' crowns rewards event is out, six months after the last and the third in the instalment of stitch sleep crowns rewards. The final reward for this event is the Ravenwood Rider (55%) and requires 225,000 crowns or roughly $300 to obtain and as usual attracted a lot of criticism. Notably though, this unlocks the 8th Character Slot and leaves one more event to go.
October 2019
Wed, Oct 9: The membership elixir for Wizard101 is released at 8,000 crowns or $20.
September 2019
August 2019
aug 13 - double gardening stops duplication of snacks
July 2019
3 July - Free wizard city weekend
June 2019
May 2019
Wed, May 22 (i): In another expected yet controversial move, the 'Glorious Morn' crowns rewards event is out, the second in the instalment of stitch sleep crowns rewards, after the first one five months ago. The final reward for this event is the Cyber Scooter (55%) and requires 225,000 crowns or roughly $300 to obtain, down from 550k (within the same three day period), which still attracted some criticism that the cost was too high.
April 2019
apr 12 - the last feedback friday until 2021
March 2019
February 2019
Mon, Feb 11: [KI] It is announced that War Goonz will be shutting down on Mar 14, 2019.
January 2019
2018 (Empyrea P2)
Bundles this Year
Accursed Play Gauntlet
Battlemage Keep bundle
Great Detective Bundle
Aero Plains Bundle
Packs this Year
Alphoi Hoard Pack - EM Pack (Jan 8th, 2018)
Unicorn Hoard Pack - WC Pack (Apr 12th, 2018)
Decaversary Hoard Pack - WC Pack (July 18th, 2018)
Elven Nightmare Pack - DM Pack / Halloween (Oct 1st, 2018)
Gingerbread Pack - Yuletide (Dec 7th, 2018)
Updates this Year
Soon
Soon
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Soon
December 2018
November 2018
Thu, Nov 15 (i): In a very controversial move, KingsIsle release a crowns rewards event with the 'Night Knight' stitch gear where the final reward for this event was a Night Dragon (55%) and required 550,000 crowns to obtain or roughly $700 worth of Crowns, which had to be spent in three days before the event expired. There are three more sets to go.
October 2018
September 2018
6 sep 2018: wiz on steam
August 2018
20 aug 2018: announcement that wiz is coming to steam
July 2018
Fri, Jul 20 (i): [NP] Sparck joins KI as the Community Manager, replacing Dworgyn (Tom) who went on to work with mobile games at KI.
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
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February 2018
January 2018
2017 (Empyrea P1)
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December 2017
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October 2017
September 2017
3 Sep: Game gets DDOS'd (fix formatting)
August 2017
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2016 (Mirage)
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mirage lol
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Thu, May 12(i): [KI] KingsIsle have significant layoffs, letting go of more than fifty employees and leaving many to question the future of the game. Many worked in mobile, however, most notably, Greyrose (Leala) was let go. This was around the time Valencia II was expected for Pirate101.
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2015 (Polaris)
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polaris lol
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