Problems in the Spiral ~~ Gardening Treasure Bug Fixed?

Hey wizards!  It's been a while since I've blogged.  How is everyone?  Anyway, wizards are very angry about what KI has done in this morning's update.  The only way to get a mega snack/mastery amulet now is to finish the full WaterWorks instance or Tower of the Helephant.  Luska Charmbeak no longer drops either of these.  In the update notes, it said that they would fix the Luska respawn glitch, however they did the opposite.  Instead of fixing the glitch, they kept the glitch in game but removed mega snacks from Luska!  What kind of thing is that?? KI made a bad move.  Also, wizards are thinking that they lowered the mega snack drop rate from plants.  Just a theory.

Another thing that occurred this evening which ticked some wizards was that KI did a "quick server restart" without ANY warning whatsoever.  Apparently, the downtime had to do with housing.  Wizards thought that the downtime was to add new houses, but most thought this sounded obscure.  Someone on Wizard101 Central posted that when they logged back on, they checked their treasure cards and they had seen feints.  Before they went down, there has been a bug with gardening treasure cards received from plants, mostly feints.  Evil Magma Peas would drop tons of feints but they would be invisible!  However, it looks like this was fixed.  Woohoo!

LINKS:
KingsIsle : Y U NO reward your most avid players? (Katherine Light; Luska Mega Issue)
Emergency Feint Fix (Birdie; Gardening Treasure Bug)

Dampen Magic Update/Luska Glitch NOT Ban-able!

Well.. It is official.  Lifebane just swooped Dampen Magic out of 1st place.  During last nights maintenance,  instead of removing the duplicates, they made it so all Dampen Magics were No PvP/No Trade/No Auction, making this card totally worthless (well, not really, but if you have one you can't do anything with it except use it in a normal PvE battle).  What do you think about this update?  Do you think it is fair to the people who would maybe once want to sell their actual Dampen Magic for Forum Gold or something else on Wizard101 Central?  I don't think so.  I think it would have been easier to refund gold and remove the cards if possible.  This isn't fair to the people who had their Dampen Magic card(s) before the hacker made duplicates of it.  There is a discussion going on Wizard101 Central, you can follow up on it or state your thoughts.
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201356
You can also comment below with your opinion.

Professor Greyrose has made an announcement (click to see) on one of the Luska Charmbeak threads about the glitch stating that no one has or WILL get banned for have doing this glitch.  They will most likely be patching it soon, but she had made it clear that no one has or will get in trouble for doing this shortcut to skipping the first 2 mob battles of Luska for fast farming.  If you are interested before they patch the glitch, here is how to do it;
1.  Find a group!  It's way fast to have a Storm or Fire be the hammer for killing Luska each time, another random school, and a Life for healing.
2.  Make a group chat with all 4 people.  Then, decide and pick one person who will go back to Commons, run back to the sigils, and switch realms.
3.  Do the first two battles, and the clams.  Then defeat Luska.
4.  Do NOT pull the lever.  Have the person chosen go back to the commons, run back to the sigils, switch realms, and then tell everyone to port to him in the Group Chat.
5.  Now, every time, you will just have to do the clams, Luska, repeat.  Clams, Luska, repeat.  You can't go to the same realm you have been at already.  However, after 30 minutes pass, I think you can start going back to the other realms you've been at, if you feel like going even longer.  If it doesn't work, then you can all quit, but you'd have to do the mob battles again (I think.  The most runs I've ever done is 16 Luska runs, and I never had to do this.  There were enough realms available.)
It is easy to do this late at night because no one is jumping on with you.  :)  Have fun while it lasts!!

Last week to win!

Happy Birthday Wizard101 Central!  This is the last week of August to win prizes such as crowns, mounts, bundles, pets, wands, and more!
Here are links to the Contests

ALL WIKI CONTESTS
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188440

EVERYDAY 5,000 CROWN RAFFLE
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/raffles.php 

ART CONTEST (HAND DRAWN)
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200785

CAPTION THIS! CONTEST
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200980

GFX CONTEST
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200841

HIDE AND GO SEEK CONTESTS
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188508

HOUSE GLITCHING CONTEST
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200888

MUSIC VIDEO CONTEST
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200864

POETRY CONTEST
 http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200851

Good luck!!

Luska Charmbeak Glitch.. or Exploit?

Recently, this thread by Katherine_Light has gotten my attention (Link: http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199887).  I do this all the time.  Like right now, my sister and I just did it 15 times and are now finishing the dungeon to see if she can get her robe or boots.  Anyway, this glitch allows you to skip the first two mobs after defeating Luska once.  All you have to do is repeat the clams, and then you can fight Luska again and again.  Some people say this is a glitch, when others are classifying it as an exploit.  What are your views on this?  I think it's fine to do until it is fixed.  Then we go back to the old way of getting megas.  I don't think this is bannable.  We still have to fight Luska to get the drop, whereas before, some of the older exploits like the gardening one let you harvest a plant innumerable times to get drops such as megas, etc.  You can comment or leave a response on the thread.  :)

Wysteria has been Released!

The new side world, Wysteria, has been released this morning.  You must be level 25+ to access Wysteria.  If you are that level or higher, you can speak with Headmaster Ambrose and he will have a side quest for you to enter Wysteria.  After you finish Wysteria, there is a new area called Tower of the Helephant that drops Level 60 Rings and Athames.  Here are pictures of the ring and the athame.

This ring is perfect for any wizard that doesn't plan to heal others, but might have to heal themselves and wants damage as well.  Perfect for my Storm and Death.  I would say for any Myth, Fire, Ice or Balance that this is also perfect.

This is perfect for any Life wizard.  It gives them damage, and outgoing heal boost for their teammates!  :)
These can all be dropped from the Tower of the Helephant, which is for level 60s only, which you can gain access to after finishing Wysteria.
Here is a guide to Tower of the Helephant (ToTH for short) if you are there already;
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189936 by Chase LionHammer
or
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190383 by Katherine_Light

If you need help finding the Wallflowers, which is a quest from Prospector Zeke for Wysteria which gives you an extra training point;
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189960 by Hue

Have fun!

Dampen Magic Exploit, say whaa?

Hi guys!  This is my first actual post sharing something new from around the spiral.
Today, at around midnight EST, 8/19/11, an exploit was released about the treasure card Dampen Magic.  A wizard was selling tons of these cards in the bazaar, and not in a good way, and many people got their hands on this what used to be EXTREMELY rare treasure card, that is not so rare anymore.  It seems to be that over 500 of these cards were leaked.  You can find a thread as to how wizards are trying to burn these cards as people are starting to sell these, and when they sell the card, it loses it's potential value that it once had.
Here is a link to what Atticus is attempting to setup to try to destroy these bad cards from the spiral.
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199082
So here is my question to you,
How do you feel about burning these treasures, if you bought them?  I purchased about 30 of them when this was happening, and they costed over 150k gold in game to buy 30.  Do you think we should attempt to save/hoard them, or destroy them?  This isn't just for me, this is a question that could be answered for everyone who got their hands on this card when this was happening.  This card, Dampen Magic, was the most rare card in the game.  It sold for over 5000 forum gold on Wizard101 Central.  However, now that this occurred, Lifebane is the most rare card in the game unless KI is going to get rid of the Dampen Magics received a few hours ago from the exploit.

If you don't know what Dampen Magic is, here is a picture of the card.

Thanks to the Wizard101 Central Wiki for the image.
Anyhoo, the card when casted is basically a bubble.  It looks just like Power Play.  However, when casted, this card only lets you be able to have 3 pips (6 counting Power Pips).  So, say you are Storm, and you have Triton, you can only use it if you have 3 power pips.  You can't use Storm Lord because you only have 3 pips.  However, if you have another bubble, you can replace it.

My New Blog!

What's up Wizards!  This is my very first blog :)  I hope you enjoy what I have to offer.  Everyday, there is always something new happening in the spiral.  Well, this is my place to sit down and blog about it!  Stay tuned for more posts from me, Cody Soulmender, as I start my new blog, Wizard101 Chronicles!  Check out some of the links found to the right of other awesome blogs and websites.