Advanced Pets Hit the Spiral

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Sorry, now I've composed myself enough to compose this post.  Let me give you a DIRECT quote from Kingsisle:

ADVANCED PETS COMES TO THE SPIRAL!

Players can now hatch new pets from millions of combinations, race in the Pet Derby and much more. If you're level 7 or over, visit Merle Ambrose in his office for instructions! Learn more here!

 

So the pets are finally here ^.^  This is HUGE.  Totally logging in right now so I can start farming these amazing pets.  I hope to see you there!

Your [Incredibly Happy] Friend Always,

John Lifeglen

Are Advanced Pets Coming?

This just in from Wizard101 Login screen:

Wizard101 Extended Maintenance

Wizard101 the game will be offline tonight

from 1:00am to 7:00am Central US Time

to prepare the Live game for the Advanced Pets feature.

During this time, players will be unable to log in to the game, and active players will be prompted to log out.

This downtime may be extended without notice.

Could this possibly be the release we have all been anticipating?  Or is this simply preparation for the big day?  It does say TO PREPARE but what does this really mean for us?  Bloggers be ready!

Your [EXCITED] Friend Always,

John Lifeglen

Experiments in Test = FAIL :(

I was able to test the theory from my last post early this morning when test was functioning again.  The results are in and...um...it's not what I expected.  I'd love some feedback from other experimentors as to whether or not this is a common thing.  Here's what happened:

I bred my Spotted Piggle with Dragonblade and pedigree of 58 with Cody's Ice Colossus of pedigree of 54.  After waiting for the 5 minute hatch time to be up, both of us received the gift card pet.  No Ice Colossus for me :(.  Oh well, maybe I just got "lucky" by receiving the higher pedigree pet with a *cough* lower pedigree than before...only 57 on the child.  This was expected as I bred with a lower pedigree, and it only fell by one.  Oh well, now we know that my theory fails. 

Please continue to test it though, it did work with the Danger Hound combo with a Jade Helephant.  Let's get some comments on this with your results please!

Excitement!

My last post that sounded...um, how do I word this delicately...less than astounded *sure we'll go with that* about how the promo pets were breeding.  Things are looking up, however.  An unknown wizard asked me to hatch with her Jade Oni pet yesterday and I used my Danger Hound, Sir Winston, in a small experiment.  What I was astounded to see was that I got a death egg (necromatic) which resulted in my Ghost Hound.

Better news still-I asked my unknown hatching mate what kind of egg she got and she reported necromatic, very happily I might add.  It appears as though KingIsle listened to my "complaint" or at the very least I was wrong.  If the latter is the case, I apologize profusely KI.  I didn't mean to step on any toes.

So what have I learned?  I learned that the appearance of the pet with a lower pedigree is likely the one to manifest...I think.  Well, if was a promo pet so it's special hybrid offspring is what resulted.  This leads me to believe that anyone can get any hybrid so long as they have a friend with a copy of the parent (eg. Pioneer Dragon for Frontier Dragon, Shardtail Dragon for Fragmented Dragon, FOG Unicorn for Grove Unicorn, etc.) and that "anyone" as formerly stated has a pet with a higher pedigree than the promo pet.

Example time!!! I love this part of the program where everything finally starts to make sense.  I'll use a friend of mine in an example.  Angela Dragonflame wants a Ghost Hound, but lacks a Danger Hound.  I'll use Sir Winston (pedigree of 35) with her Jade Oni (pedigree of 53).  The appearance Sir Winston is likely the one to manifest, but because he is *special* he cannot have kids that look like him.  Ghost Hound results for both parties.  YAY!

Example 2.  I want a Frontier Dragon but lack a Pioneer.  My friend Rylee has a Pioneer (Pedigree of 58...)  If Rylee uses her Pioneer with my Crimson Spectre from Pet Derby rewards (Pedigree of 60...maybe...test is full and I can't check atm :( ), the Frontier Dragon is the appearance likely to manifest strictly because it's pedigree is lower. 

This is only a hypothesis at the time being, but I would appreciate feedback all the same! 

Your (Very) Excited Friend Always,
John Lifeglen