Wizard101’s 14th birthday has come to a close, and October brings the spooky season to the Spiral! Now through Monday, October 31st, we’re celebrating the spooky occasion by bringing back your frightening favorites, decorating Wizard City in haunting fashion just in time for Spooky Bob, and returning the 3 special Halloween fish back to the Spiral’s waters. Who knows, maybe we’re also leaving room for a scary surprise or two along the way!
Also, Your favorite spooky Halloween packs will be making a return throughout the month of October! Not only will you be seeing older packs return, but we also updated and renamed The Grim Ferryman Pack! Take on the task of taming the almighty Cerberus with the new masterful items in the Cerberus Master Pack!
Keep checking back to find out when more frightful packs have been added back into the Crown Shop.
HALLOWEEN CONTEST BEGINS
Happy Halloween month community! We have some fun activities running all throughout the month, including a new Halloween costume contest for both Wizard101 and Pirate101. Winners of the contest will be announced on this month’s KI Live show (along with other goodies you will not want to miss)!
After the submission deadline, we will approve the community selected winners and runner-ups and award the Grand Ghoul a Spooky Carnival Bundle and 20,000 Crowns! Also, we will be awarding 3 Scary Skeletons a Scare-iot Mount and 10,000 Crowns for Wizard101!
Keep updated on the latest news for next month on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, including special announcements from community fansites! Read on for more fun happenings with the community and their Spiral activities.
KI LIVE: BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
On this show, we discussed Guilds and Raids for Wizard101! Guilds are the focus of this update, and Raids are a new challenging addition to the game that will take lots of teamwork from your new Guildmates to complete. Good luck!
Missed the show? No worries! You can watch the recording on YouTube:
It's always a blast hanging out with the community, so let us know what you most like about KI Lives so we can continue to make them even more fun to watch.
For those who didn't get a chance to redeem the KI Live giveaway code yet, we opened it up again FALLSNACKPACKS922 for another 500 redemptions to get the KI Live Snack Pack in both Wizard101 and Pirate101!
The race is on to win the Ultimate Prize! Communities around the Spiral have been farming for different gear drops for over a week. Many farmers have accumulated enough gear to arm a Battalion! Here is the Wizard101 Community Spiral Cup leaderboard as of the start of challenge 2.
Adam Roush is our Senior Concept Artist here at KingsIsle Entertainment. Sometimes Adam will create a series of concept art for a particular scene or character and post them on his social media. Here are a few concepts of his most recent pieces this month:
“Here's the Crafting Master NPC, which was a fun character to design.” - Adam Roush
"Here's the Drake Hatchling Mount from the Spiral Villains Hoard pack." - Adam Roush
"Here's the Morganthe Gear available in the Spiral Villains Hoard Pack." - Adam Roush
ART SPOTLIGHT
For this month’s art spotlight, we are showcasing John DragoBlood, Trix, and Phelia!
“Thank you Grandmother raven for being with us on our journeys though the spiral. Rest in peace Dell Fife Aldrich, we are all gonna miss you.” - John DragoBlood
“Some Concepts on how I imagine Novus will look, while keeping in mind the surrealistic theming but with a slight cosmic twist.” - Trix
We would love to see more screenshots and art from the community for next month’s newsletter. Do you have something amazing to share? Send it to us in an email to community@kingsisle.com! We’re always interested in showing off more fan art, gameplay guides, videos, and other content.
Thanks, Wizards!
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
Community art by: Swordroll
Video Spotlight
In this section we wanted to highlight some recent, entertaining videos for the month! If you’d like to be featured in this section, start a new walkthrough, create a review on something new, or do something completely creative!
“Hello folks, this time I'm showing you my Teleporter Hub, a house made for the purpose of granting access to all my other projects. I made a model solar system and a tele-pad as visually pleasing elements to accompany its purpose. Additionally, you can find cool and techy crafting and tapestry.” - Valkoor DrakeRider
Don’t stop there... here are some more great videos created this month!
Blaze LifeHammer made an incredible video discussing the new world drop called Novus! See what he has to say about our newest upcoming world.
Goomay created a hilarious, yet relatable meme for the Community Spiral Cup bonus points submission! Check this out, we promise it’ll make you laugh if you are training pets as much as we do!
Heyitsmax_ has started a fun series of videos where he cannot die once while playing through the entire game! In this video he is in Marleybone, let’s see how he does!
If you need a GREAT guide, this is the place for you! Most of these guides will be up to date and are made by the community! We can’t thank you enough for creating such informative guides. We see and read everything!
Ever wanted to get into Raids but are too afraid to ask questions? Look no further! Taylor XFlame has created a basic guide for anyone to jump into Raids and get the gist of what you should be doing with your guild!
Wizard101 Spellements can be very useful in both PVE and PVP, however, A LOT is needed to level up a spell to the next tier. Wizard101 Folio’s guide will show you the various ways to obtain Spellements so you can quickly level up your spells to the max tier!
If you didn’t yet read our article on online safety, please take a moment to stop by our KingsIsle Blog and read the post titled Account Security Best Practices. There’s important information in the article to manage and protect your entire family’s accounts.
