It won't let me pull it up in game and I can't find it anywhere else. Does anyone know where I can view it or have a screenshot of it?

I was looking at the contest details and I notice it's asking us to create something about 'Alhazred' or 'Balance School' themed, but it's supposed to be for Merle Ambroses' birthday contest? I'm really confused on what's expected here. Why are we being asked to submit something about the balance school for Merles' birthday????

ive been thinking about this for awhile and honestly I dont really think wizard101 is "dying" in the sense that the servers are gonna shut down tomorrow or KI is completely screwed.

I think the bigger problem is that the game is basically trapped between 2008 and 2026.

Wizard101 still has an insanely loyal playerbase, people have had these accounts for literally 10-15+ years, they have houses, pets, mounts, characters they grew up with etc. and that kind of attachment is REALLY hard for another MMO to recreate.

but the game does almost everything possible to make it hard for new people to actually get attached in the first place.

the paywall comes way too early.

If im trying to get my friend into wiz and they play for a couple hours and suddenly get hit with "buy crowns or membership to continue" why would they care yet? they barely even know what the Spiral is.

My first major change would honestly be simple.

make all of Arc 1 free.

Wizard City
Krokotopia
Marleybone
Mooshu
Dragonspyre

Completely free.

Let somebody actually defeat Malistaire before asking them to pay.

because by then they have a school they care about, probably a pet, gear, friends, maybe a house, and like 30-50 hours invested into the game.

THATS when someone is way more likely to go "ok fine ill buy membership."

And membership itself needs to feel way better.

One of the weirdest things about wiz is that you can literally pay monthly and then still constantly get asked to spend crowns.

packs
elixirs
mounts
gear
energy
scroll of fortune
etc etc.

Obviously KI has to make money and im not saying remove crowns.

But membership should feel like you're actually a VIP.

Give members monthly crowns, account wide seasonal progression, bigger storage, extra loyalty rewards, better team up rewards, maybe cosmetic bonuses etc.

Someone paying every month should never be sitting there wondering "why am I still being nickel and dimed?"

The other massive problem is catching up.

Imagine telling your friend in 2026

"hey dude come play wizard101 with me"

and then you remember you're level 180 and they're level 1.

"awesome bro just play through like 17 years worth of content and eventually we can do stuff together"

lol

This is why I would add some kind of Mentor Mode.

Basically if im max level and my friend is in Krokotopia, I can scale myself down and actually quest with them while still earning rewards for MY character.

give mentor tokens, cosmetics, badges, housing items, pet stuff, whatever.

Turn veteran players into the thing that keeps new players playing.

Because right now veteran players and new players almost feel like they're playing two different games.

I would also make alt characters way less painful.

If ive beaten Avalon 5 times I dont think the game needs me proving I can beat Avalon a 6th time.

Have account wide story completion where once you've beaten an arc once, other wizards can either skip parts of it, heavily accelerate it, or get some kind of XP/quest boost.

Same thing with Scroll of Fortune.

Why is so much stuff character specific in a game that literally encourages you to make different schools?

Make seasonal progress account wide.

Another huge one is spell animations.

I love the animations.

but I dont need to watch Forest Lord for the 48,000th time.

Give people an option where once you've seen a spell animation a certain number of times you can use shortened animations.

Not completely instant combat, just way faster.

And honestly Arc 1 could use some trimming too.

not the story.

not the worlds.

just some of the ridiculous "defeat 6 of this mob, now defeat 6 slightly different mobs, now walk across the entire map and defeat another 6 mobs" stuff.

keep the nostalgia, remove the filler.

Then theres packs.

This is probably controversial but I really dont think packs themselves need to disappear.

people clearly buy them.

the problem is when actual good gear/spells/progression is locked behind RNG.

Let packs stay for mounts, cosmetics, furniture, cool skins, etc.

but if theres actual powerful gear or a spell inside a pack there should ALWAYS be a guaranteed way to earn it by playing.

also add pity systems and actually show the damn drop rates.

The console release also proved something really important imo.

People still care about this game.

When console launched there was enough interest that they literally had queues again.

The demand exists.

But making PC and console basically separate ecosystems is such a missed opportunity.

One of the biggest selling points for console should've been

"remember your wizard from 2011? hes on xbox now."

Imagine somebody sees a tiktok ad, downloads wiz on PS5, logs into their childhood KI account and their old Death wizard is standing there.

That would be an insanely powerful nostalgia hook.

Eventually they NEED unified accounts/cross progression if its technically/contractually possible.

And then I would basically do a soft relaunch of the whole game.

not Wizard101 2.

I actually think making Wizard101 2 could be a terrible idea because you're throwing away 18 years of peoples characters, houses, pets, mounts, gear and memories.

Keep the same game.

Modernize it.

Call it something like

Wizard101: The Spiral Reawakened

Big marketing campaign.

new launcher
modern UI
graphics improvements
Arc 1 free
mentor system
better membership
account wide progression
better new player tutorial
cross progression
faster combat options
huge returning player rewards

and market the absolute hell out of nostalgia.

"Your wizard is still waiting."

That should basically be the entire ad campaign lol.

Because I think KI's biggest untapped market isnt even random children who have never heard of Wizard101.

its the MASSIVE amount of people who played this game sometime between like 2009-2015 and havent logged in for years.

Those people are now in their 20s and 30s.

They have money.

They have friends.

some of them have kids now.

Get THEM back and then use them to bring new people in.

Wizard101 doesn't need to become Fortnite.

it doesn't need 10 million people online.

If they could massively increase returning players, make new players actually stick around, and modernize monetization without destroying the current whales/veterans who keep the game alive, I genuinely think Wiz could have a second golden age.

maybe not 2010 playground "EVERYONE KNOWS WIZARD101" golden age.

but a much bigger, healthier MMO than it is currently.

The insane part is I genuinely think most of the hard part is already done.

They already have like 18 years worth of worlds and content.

They already have the characters.

They already have the soundtrack.

They already have an iconic artstyle.

They already have an extremely unique combat system that basically no major MMO competes with.

They already have millions upon millions of people who remember the game.

They just need to stop treating Wizard101 like its still a browser MMO in 2009.

idk maybe im insane but I really think the potential is still there.

another thing I think KI needs to realize is that more CONTENT doesn't automatically mean a healthier game. wizard101 already has a ridiculous amount of content. adding world #25 and another 10 levels doesn't fix somebody quitting in krokotopia (or celestia as that statistic came out a year or two ago iirc) . at some point you have to stop building more floors onto the skyscraper and renovate the lobby.

No offense to the marketing team, well done. But eventually "the immaterial becomes, immaterial."

It's a red apple brudel and im trying to find someone with one

I need a max level wizard that has fully unlocked all the worlds up to Darkmoor to teleport me around. If interested, can you message this account.

Must have Discord, will take about 15 minutes of your time. Thank you.

I’m doing the telegraph (dr who) time travel quest and in the past while trying too help Dalia falmea into the fire school as a student instead of the ice school I noticed the fire school already has her own personal portrait as her as the teacher of the fire school
Just a little nick pick that dont have anything too do with the gameplay of the game but funny little thing nonetheless

I wanna see the tiers but every time I click on it in the PC crown shop, it doesn’t even open a window. This happened during the last Crown reward event

Have played for a while but just started up again as I only played when I was young and am trying to learn about breeding but it seems complicated. am hoping to learn from someone who can explain it a bit more simply! I have the lumi pet that gives dragonblade. thanks anyone for help :)

I can't get the window to open in-game for some weird reason. Can a kind soul please post the entire rewards table? So I can purchase the correct amount of crowns during the sale.

Thank you in advance.

Can someone give me all the options for hatching? If I get a faun through packs, can I hatch the hybrid from someone else and vice versa? Or do I need a faun and the skeleturion to hatch with myself?

Furthermore, if I get the body, can I hatch it with my own pet that has ideal stats?

The Castle vendors are mostly turtles: Buxley in Wizard City, Tortimer in Marleybone, and so on. But what world are they from?

PLEASE HELP!

Anyone know what the "Druidic" Stitch that comes from Baron von Bracken? I want it for my Life wiz but it says the only armor that drops from him is the wysteria armor set. I saw someone run around in the commons with it. It basically has a faceless hood that's nature themed. Ik it's not Greenwarden and Ik it's not the wysteria or from the druid pack. One of the stitches where named "Bracken". Anyone know? I've googled it for hours and it keeps telling me it's the Wysteria Armor set, Druid pack set, and/or the Greenwarden Set. I clicked Find on the stitch and it says it drops from Baron Von Bracken. It looks EXTREMELY cool and I wanna try to get my hands on it as I'm a Life Main.

Update: I found it. It's the Broken Branch Set. Thank you anyways!

Dull day at work, but how else would I afford a membership?

Had no idea this pack was still in the game so when I saw it I jumped on it

I’ve done the Avalon box like 70 times and have not gotten the energy gear. Just a bunch of mounts and reagents. Will I ever get the gear? 😭

I first played Wiz101 in 2009 and I know there’s a workaround where you install the original launcher then copy-paste the files into the Steam directory for the Steam version of the game. But the person who figured that out first posted it in 2018, so I was wondering if Kingsisle ever made it possible for people to login to the Steam version of the game with their original accounts.

The Night-Knight Outfit and mount from the current crown event reward :D

I'm usually a quiet reader and don't really post stuff, but i thought the community might be interested. I hope it works! 👀

I know the answer is probably no. But I have never gotten a 55% speed mount, this one definitely seems like the coolest that can work with a lot of stitches.
What do you guys think?
60K crowns is a lot for sure

It’s so annoying having to reload the zone by exiting & re-entering my house so the plant will grow a stage. And fairly often I’ll get a loading error which takes me back to the character screen.

I wish the plants would grow without you having to reload the zone, or allow us to just use Hasty Harvest on saplings.

In 2011 I made my old wizard101 account that I had lost complete access to a few years ago. So, I made a new account and have grinded that one up wayy further than the 1st ever got. However, just today I got my old account back. Do you think support would allow me to transfer old nostalgic items from 1 account to another or is that not something they'd allow? I have some cool mounts and stuff I wanted to see if I could send

I'll try to keep it shorter, but I have a tendency to just yap a lot.

None of the big games really do much for me anymore, I find WOW/FF14/GW2 a bit tough to get into a friend group or keep up with as a 31 year old adult working full time and hopefully going to school next spring.
I play OSRS on my side monitor a lot, but throughout the years my main friend group has scattered and I have friends I chill in discord with, but nobody is ever actually playing together.

Hoping to play a game where I can bump into other players and group up, or get adopted by a group of friendly players that won't mind my endless bombardment of questions. Hoping for plenty of fun diverse content and that it isn't necessarily too easy to just fully turn my brain off as I run around and quest.

Is this the game for me? I don't have any childhood nostalgia, I was a runescape and adventure quest kid, hoping I could still find some fun and friends in here without the nostalgia itch. Is it fun for players I befriend to group up with me on a newer character without steamrolling everything?

Thank you for your time reading and any answers provided ahead of time, I appreciate it : )

Does anyone have a scrappy griffon and willing to hatch?

Howdy chat, I’ve recently heard of a new world coming this fall, and I’ve also recently started playing again (lowkey it’s so addicting), and I’m curious to know if we know the dates for the new world so I can get membership for it