Producer's Hints At WT?

So, lets cut straight to the chase! HERE is this months Producers Letter!

And take a big glance at these AWESOME pictures that were released with it!

Woah. I take it this is the entrance to one of the areas, and is a huge Mammoth Skull? Then again, this one has 1 horn, like a Rhinoceros or Unicorn (Unicorns can't be that beast though :P) and no Trunk?

Maybe its something mythical (epic Sabretooth?). We'll see!

Now this takes me straight to something like Narnia or Bone or..something?! Winter Maple Forest? Maybe here a boss will drop the GH/WT Tent item? (I've always secretly dreamed of that :)) But it looks very dreamy, I hope we can walk through that forest. Now lets go into some important excerpts from Ruben's (aka Falmea) letter!

"...finally meet Grandmother Raven. She should be a great aid to you" - Now this disproves the theory that Raven is evil/will be cursed at the beginning. I figured so :).

Ruben further proves new school pets will be in the game, and we should have a tough boss to fight them out for like our 58 spells! "They won’t be easy to obtain.."

"..able to “upgrade” one existing spell and will get something new. Your Wizard must be level 58 to get these quests." - Upgrade?! Cool! So, maybe we get a 8/9-pip Earthquake type or Frog, etc. Maybe we'll have to choose.

"Balance Wizards, we found some ancient and powerful magic to provide you a new, shiny, and more powerful healing over time spell! Storm Wizards, you’ll find some awesome damage at your disposal, but with great capability comes great danger." - So, she hints Balance will get a powered-up Helping Hands and Storm will get something "awesome", but with great danger. Does this mean they have an uber-hard quest, but more likely, a spell that can backfire, like Immolate? Or another kind of Wild Bolt which, when it does the highest damage, can inflict more pain upon your wizard, thus being VERY unpredictable? So many possibilites!

"... a new area with the toughest combat yet, but the spoils will most certainly befit the difficulty. These challenges will be presented to our most powerful Wizards. If you fall into that category, let me just say… I hope you’re up for the challenge!" - Do I hear another Warehouse/BBT, but in a non-dungeon? And I sure hope the "spoils" are some sweet pets (Midget Bear? Grendling? Wolf?). Since WT will quite likely be a side-world + no level cap, I don't want to hear "TOO HARD!" complaints ;) I'm stoked for these "challenges", and hoping it isn't a dungeon.

"You won’t have to wait too long to find out, get ready to explore our newly expanded Crab Alley! It will be right up your alley if your Wizard is around level 10-15." - You won't have to wait too long to find out. This should mean Crab Alley will be here before WT, and maybe even this month or May! It also says "..if your Wizard is around level 10-15." but also "It will be right up your alley" so the difficulty level should be Initiate, and open to anyone or LvL 10+.

".. a huge list of changes coming out with this next release, and there’s a lot more to come out in the months to come. My next letter should be full of juicy gossip!" - Lets hope for more, as I like to call them, miscellaneous but awesome updates. Pretty sure all the PvPers in the Spiral will hear Earthquake won't take Stun Blocks anymore, as I've heard a lot about that. Plus more annoying bugs, etc. wiped out. And "months to come.." can mean several things, will WT come out as long as it took CL, or will we have even more side-updates (e.g, Advanced Pets last year) after and/or before WT? And they've had a bit of releases lately, usually coming at the end/beginning of a month, so I predict the "huge list of changes coming out with this next release" will be at the turn of April/May. And, by "THIS NEXT release", does THIS mean WT, since that was the subject of much of the letter? Wintertusk coming as soon as after Easter?? I don't want to rush them, but *SQUEE* I hope so! And that wraps up the Producer's Letter, giving us more theorycrafting to think about ;).

Q & A plus advice follows, so remember to check out the whole newsletter!

IRL, I took a ton of pics I hope to figure out how to upload and went for 5 hours yesterday to the Cherry Blossom Festival! Tidal Basin was a-w-e-s-o-m-e. Although the McDonalds was cheap and my hands smelled terrible, it was great. The Washington Monument was very delicate at the break of nighttime, with a cool purple-ish sky and such. Was SO sore after all that walking too. A little nippy w/a short-sleeve shirt, but it was worth it :). Next up, I found some more interesting bits from Norse Mythology correlating to GH, so I'll post that soon.

Happy Theorycrafting!

P.S. Pet Rock is about to leave, already, just FYI. Its still not really worth it.. I'll hatch for it when I want it for a House or something :)

Ponies & Blossoms (Girly Title Much?)

No pictures here, I think. Just an update!

ITS - Yesterday, RR did the Sunshine pony hide-and-seek contest! Their twitter feed will tell you where they were hiding and the spot hints! Icy's was the easiest for me, I got the right realm, but I started off in the Haunted Cave (they could be in ANY free area) and she was found immediately... in Unicorn Way. The others were found quickly as well, while Kevin took a LONG time to be found, but his clue was so hard, I never would have found him. Later on, RR did a second hide-and-seek for a smaller prize where the crew hid across the whole Spiral on the Wraith realm. Since the previous one was in Wizard City, I decided to start in Krokotopia. When the starting horn blew, I looked around the Spiral Chamber quickly, went outside, and on my chat box I see "I have 934/934 health" from someone named Rowan. :O Isn't that Icy?? I pinpointed her in a large tent by Zeke, said the codephrase: "I like your pet" and I won 2500 Crowns! Teehee :). I only had 205 at the time, so I'm saving this stock for second-chance chests, etc. I then did my OWN hide-and-seek, with the same rules as RRs 2nd, but I made the area I was in as a jumble. I was standing over a fence by the sidewalk, in an area I talked about before, the ultimate DS glitchy! Jordan Seadreamer didn't take long to find me for a prize of 5 Elucidates :P. Otherwise, I've been farming Do-Daga and others for MS Furniture, getting just 1 Paper Lantern Stand and 1 Paper Lantern. Do-Daga has only given 1 in 3+ hours of trying -_-. I reported a couple icky Commons gobblers, and thats pretty much it. Do-Daga, Mount Week & other MS Bosses are on this weeks list!

IRL - I'm about (I don't know what I pressed, but the rest of this text is going to be underlined for some reason) to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival via Metro, so that should be great, my first! :D I love those trees. Good for Japan too, who donated them 100 years ago!

Omigosh, they're so pretty!!! The only thing I like in pink, at all xD. I just hope it won't be too crowded. Lots of playing/watching Basketball (VCY & KY lost :/) too, computer, and... thats mostly my weekend. Got drenched in a short downpour yesterday after Church Work Day, which was cool. Got help with maintenance on my bike so I'll probably be back on that soon. Just over 2 months till Summer Vacation :P

Happy Farming!

"I Got A Chocolate Bar! I Got 3 Cookies! I Got A Package Of Gum! ... I Got A Rock"

... To be honest, I'm kind of underwhelmed, I'd rather have the cookies :P. (complete credit to Steven for reminding me of that quote. And yes, getting a rock is a completely different meaning now.)

Getting to the last post, the new mounts are the Moonlight (not -shine? Oh wait..), Starlight, and Sunshine Ponies. You gotta find the pictures yourself ;). Info for a big hide-and-seek for the Sunshine Ponies from RR is on their Forum or Spiritcallings (I FINALLY LEARNED HOW TO LINK A WORDY!!!). So many contests! I just wish they wouldn't have "first entered, first served", because, well, some of us were at school and work when a couple blogs did that -

_-. But, on to the REAL news...

Well, technically not...

OK, I'll stop! Really. Oh btw, did you hear I got an Atomic Lepreclaw pet? APRIL - Oh, you were expecting that? Never mind...

I am NOT buying one, lol. If we see a talent that gives Critical to every spell, maybe, but no. One new one is 'Taunt', which, surprise, may cast Taunt. Like THATs going to be good in PvP. I don't like the going-through of the Cannon Game, but this is not the way to combat that, Kingsisle :P. Anyways, its Friday, there's a party at our house, so its a good day nonetheless. Remember MOUNT WEEK! Too lazy to make a parody of a Shark. Heck with it ---

Happy Confuzzling?