Double Reagents and Unlimited Crafting

I’ve been dealing with a loved one in the hospital so am kind of behind, but you still have a day (and into Monday morning when KI starts up again at 9 a.m. central.  Unlimited crafting and double reagents–which includes as drops from battles or gardening and picking them up where they spawn.

Crafting Benefit

 

 

Through Sunday, Unlimited Crafting and Double Reagents for members.

Also for an unspecified amount of time:

Unlimited Crafting and Double Reagents next up

This benefit will be going through Sunday, September 8, 2019. The double reagents works if you pick one up on a sidewalk, harvest some in gardening or get one dropped at the end of a battle.

Spiral Showcase

KI recently introduced the Spiral Showcase.  I missed the beginning and it only has a couple of days left but I gather it will periodically reappear.

While it’s happening you collect special event points for feeding a snack to a pet. catching fish, crafting an item, completing a daily assignment quest and/or joining a team at the kiosk from the highest world you have achieved.

The points are given for what you do each day.  The points themselves add up but you re-start on the activities each day.

For me the team-up one worked out strangely as I was trying it out with a lower level character.  She’d gotten the key to Krokotopia but hadn’t done any quests yet, which meant she had no access to any of the bosses.  At the kiosk that means none of the bosses show up.  I tried doing a WC boss quest from the kiosk but no points.

I ran her through the first couple of quests and then the Biti Nirini fight.  Since she was already in Krok I just took her to the sigil and clicked team up there.  No credit since it wasn’t the kiosk.

Seems like an odd restriction to me since (a) you’re teaming up either way and (b) in order for a team to get started and show up in the kiosk somebody has to choose team up at the actual sigil.  And the “highest world” ought to be the highest one at which you have access to a boss. But only a kiosk team-up works and if you’ve gotten the key to the next world, that has to be the one where you team up.

I was disappointed they started something that gives points for activities other than fighting but left gardening completely out.  Between the lack of double garden events and now this I’m beginning to think KI wishes we wouldn’t garden.

Another little odd thing.  The prizes you can buy for points you’ve achieved are lined up above the chart.  The ones you don’t have enough points for allow you to click on them to see what you would get.  I was looking through those and accidentally clicked on one I DID have enough points for.  Instead of showing me the prize or asking me to confirm I wanted this one, it just took the points and gave me the prize, which wasn’t one I wanted.

It’s a nice little addition for being able to earn some stuff for activities you might participate in anyway.

Crafting and double reagents

I’m a day late mentioning there’s unlimited crafting this weekend and you get double reagents.  The reagents double from every source, from gardening to picking up “on the street” to battle drops.  Ends Sunday, April 28, 2019 (usually actually stays up till the following morning, 8 or so Central time).

If you need to stock up, this is a good time to (1) farm an area with a particular reagent you need (i.e. Pegasus Place for Black Lotus) or (2) harvest plants that drop it in your garden or (3) battle a boss who drops the one you need.

Unlimited Crafting and Double Reagents

The latest in the round of member benefits for the 10th anniversary celebration is unlimited crafting and double reagents.  You can craft as many items as you wish without any wait for timers.  And you’ll receive double reagents from garden drops, collecting those that “spawn” around the spiral, from fishing chests, and battle drops.

I’ve collected some sonic springs on a few wizards, since my main crafting interest is to make the many recipes I’ve bought in the Professor’s B.O.X.E.S. and each recipe requires a sonic spring.  You can only get these springs as drops in the B.O.X.E.S. and they don’t drop that often, so it takes some determined — and very boring — repetition of one or more of the B.O.X. instances to get them.  I burned through a chunk of them to craft several things.

You can see most of it in the above photo:  the picture, couch, bookshelf, books and candelabra.  i gathered them for the photo but they’re now scattered between Morgan’s Red Barn Farm and Acropolis  And the large lit pagoda shrine, which I’ve placed outside Morgan’s Tranquil Cottage:

This event continues through September 9, 2018, so you have time to plant gardens with an eye to reagent drops (for instance check out the drops for Pink Dandelions and Evil Magma Peas in light of some frequently-needed reagents for crafting) and rake in double.  If you plant today, Evil Magma Peas should reach elder before Sunday and the Pink Dandelions have a good shot at getting there by the end of the event.

Double Reagents, Unlimited Crafting

This week’s member benefit is Double Reagents and Unlimited Crafting.  Whether you pick up reagents where they spawn, get them as battle drops or receive them in garden harvests, you will receive double  The crafting timers are turned off so you can craft as many items as you wish without having to wait for a “cooldown”.

Unlike the gardening double rewards, where you can get twice as many drops but not necessarily doubles of all the items (exception being any guaranteed final harvest drops; those you get double), the double reagents are literally two of each one you get.

Since my coffers are low after much unsuccessful hatching last week (see post). I harvested some gardens I’ve had waiting for an elder harvest and raked in a bunch of gold selling extra reagents.

I’m sure I’m not the only one selling, so if you’re in the market for hard-to-get reagents, this is probably a good weekend to hang out at the Bazaar.  For instance, I grow a lot of Evil Magma Peas (as do many gardeners) and they drop Scrap Iron, Sandstone, Black Lotus, Aether, Aquamarine, Sunstone…  I have plenty of supplies of all of them so I sell every reagent drop I get from harvests and I won’t be the only one.  Take advantage!

Unlimited Crafting and Double Reagents

Through Sunday, July 1, 2018, KI is running an event in which members can craft as much as they want without any wait for timers.  You also receive double reagents anywhere you can get them:  plant harvests, collecting on “ground”, battle drops…

It’s a fairly good moment for picking up reagents at the Bazaar as some of us gardeners who are not using all those doubles for crafting are instead selling them

The main crafting projects I want to do involve the recipes from the B.O.X.E.S., all of which require sonic springs.  You can only get the sonic springs during the B.O.X.E.S. events and they drop so seldom even then that it’s a slog, so I don’t have enough nor the patience to keep farming during the events.  So I’m not really crafting and am selling all the reagents I’m getting from lots of gardening.  You’re welcome 🙂

My guide has the basics

After examining the fall 2017 updates and the recent ones from spring 2018, I’ve concluded the next updated and revised version of the book can wait for another update.  The latest one has all the info a new or kinda new wizard needs to learn how to win at Wizard101.

Since this guide is for wizards level 50 and below, the only major change that really affects this book is the hatchmaking kiosk and the info on pets in the book still stands whether you hatch at the kiosk or in the hatchery.

Other updates mainly affect higher level wizards — like the new world you can’t even see unless you’re something like level 120.  The next book revision will probably arrive in summer of 2019  In the meantime, check out my guide and learn all about questing, gardening, crafting, pets and more.  And it’s only $2.99!

Double Garden: good days to go to the Bazaar

Even if you don’t have anything to do with gardening in Wizard101, you can benefit at the Bazaar from Double Garden events. Those of us who DO garden are busily harvesting double reagents, double pet snacks, double housing items — most of which are “likes” for plants — and double Treasure Cards.  And any of us who’ve been doing large scale gardening very long don’t need most of those things, so we’re also selling all our extra stuff at the Bazaar.

For instance, Evil Magma Peas drop Djembe Drums and Egg Baskets (both likes for Evil Magma Peas), Tower Shield and Feint TC’s (and more), and Scrap Iron, Black Lotus, Aether, Aquamarine, Sandstone, Sunstone, Pearls and Golden Pearls.  I have the likes for all my gardens, have giant stockpiles of the TC’s and my banks and shared banks have huge stores of the reagents.  So I sell almost everything I get in the harvests.

Couch Potatoes drop a bunch of pet snacks at every level of harvest, plus Empower and lots of Star TC’s and their own “likes”, Litter and Sandwich Stations.  Again I’ve collected all I need and, if anything needs replenishing, these events refill my stores and still leave me with lots to sell.

Sword Ferns drop so many blades of almost every sort that I sell tons of those, and they drop their own likes plus some other housing items as well.

You get the idea.  those of us who garden have to stop once or twice in the midst of harvesting to sell things in the Bazaar so our backpacks and shared banks have room to collect the rest.  It means there are not only lots of often-hard-to-get items available in big numbers, but because there are so many the prices are often down.

What you can’t get easily during these events are the gardening tc’s.  Since all the gardeners are frantically buying up these cards to use while they wring the max out of the event, the gardening tc’s are harder to come by.

If you need some rare reagents for crafting or want to pluck up a bunch of pet snacks while available and cheaper or you’re ready to start gardening and need some likes for your chosen plants, it’s worth watching out for Double Garden events and hanging out at the Bazaar.  These events happen way less often than most of the other member benefits so take advantage while you can.