Monday, May 13, 2013

Adventures in Marleybone!

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    If ye didn't know yet, Test Realm is up! Kingsisle has released 2 new worlds, Marleybone and Aquila. Today I will be sharing some of my pictures of my adventures here and explain some of the things happening during your visit here! Lets be on our way then, yes?
Before you even get to step foot into Marleybone, you need to get the Yellow Windstone which allows your ship access to the Stormgate that brings you to MB! You find yourself back in Port Royal asking some of the friends you made back when you and catbeard caused some trouble between the Armada and Fort Elena. Next thing you know you are searching the abandoned church!
After searching the church and getting rid of those pesky ghosts, you talk to the shopkeepers and they say that in the sewers of Port Royale, there are catacombs with a commander who has the Yellow Windstone you are looking for locked up in his office. You have multiple battles of Redcoats before making your way to his office. Its locked up in a safe, so as always Ratbeard has the perfect idea how to open it up! ;)
Now that we have the Yellow Windstone from the Commander stationed under Port Royal, we have to head to Mooshu to get permission to use the Storm Gate next to Hammimitsu. We ask the Marleybone attendant in Hamma and she has a favor before allowing us to use the stormgate. She wants us to go get somethings from an evil Yakooza named Sato. There are multiple floors in this tower so best stock up on mojo potions! Each floor has a different set of mobs and of course Monkey King points out the things on the floor THEN the Mob! LOL Once you are on the top floor, you confront Sato. Ok lets just talk about how epic those shades are?! He looks like a boss. ;) The first thing I noticed when starting the battle is his ability "Escape Artist". I then saw the lone space in the corner of the battleboard and thought to myself, hmm he is going to go to that space, so lets beat him to the punch! Being the sneaky Witchdoctor I am, I was lucky enough to have the teleport spell in hand and used to that space. Ha! He did end up using "Escape Artist" each time a Melee unit hit him. But it was all different spots on the board, but not the spot he really wanted haha. I was shooting Aoe's from afar and none of them could touch me. After battle, Sato's second chance chest appeared. This feature is also new to Pirate101! It works similiar to Wizard101's second chance chests. Nathan or as you may know him "Ion" won Sato's epic glasses!!! They give the teleport spell "Shadow Step". How awesome is that?!
After defeating Sato, we head back to Hammamitsu and the Marleybonian advisor gives us permission to use the stormgate granting us access to MB! Time for some new adventures and exploring woot woot! Haha Zeke's new quest is finding the Rolling Stones. His dialouge is also phrased like one of their songs lol.
In town, we go to the tavern and talk to Ned Land. He informs us that Catbeard has indeed been thrown into the royal prison "Glass house". Ned tells you about Swidget, Catbeards laywer! When you visit Swidget in his house and ask him how we can talk to catbeard, he says he will let us, but we have to do him a favor first. His Nephew has been hanging around with a local gang and Swidget wants his nehpew to stop acting up and to come home. He then tells us the location of the gangs hideout. After a couple of different mob battles, you will encounter Nigel, Swidgets nephew, and he will agree to go back home and stop his "gang" ways.
When you return the nephew to Swidget, he will explain to you why Catbeard is in so much trouble. (Remember that time you helped catbeard orchestrate the spark that started the war between the Armada and Marleybone in Port Royale? Kidnapping the Govenors Daughter perhaps? Yes that is why.
What will happen to Catbeard? Will we be able to save him? Stay tuned for the In depth view of Pirate101's Marleybone adventure part 2!

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Pirates de Mayo!

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    Welcome to Pirates de Mayo! All of Cool Ranch is enjoying the next few days celebrating this grand holiday! Join in on the fun! Sales, Contests, a free Novilerro's hat, and a exclusive housing Item! Look below for more details! Enjoy!
 
Sales

Save up to 30% OFF these items

Froggo Villa Companion*
Goronado Companion*
Crazy Monquistador Companion*
Mustang Gaucho Companion*
Martin Valvida Companion*
Moresco de Valvida Companion*
De Bonzo Skiff
Goronado Figurehead
Armor Fuerte Ship Armor
Prancing Pony Mount (Fast)
Prancing Pony Mount (Very Fast)
 
Need to purchase some Crowns?
Party in Style!
Party in style with your own Novilerro's hat!
Contest Time!
A big thanks to One-eyed Jack and Pirate101 for letting Pirates of the Spiral give away some of these awesome Pinata's filled with crowns!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Pirate101 Test Realm!

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    Its a fine day today pirates! Pirate101 had opened up Test Realm and posted the update notes! After a few minutes, Kingsisle had to take it back down for maintenance for some bugs that were not allowing people to progress to the new questline. Others also had problems entering the new Auction House. This post is just to show you all what is to be expected in this Test Realm and possible Live realm when we finish testing it! Cheers!
  • -All characters who have finished "The Great and Powerful Turtle" in Mooshu will need to visit Captain Avery in his office to continue their journey!
  • -Players will now get to level their pirates to level 65 (char and NXP) with this content update! Wow!
  • -Make sure to go visit your Class Trainer before heading off on your new adventures! They will have a variety of new talents you can learn when you level up!
  • -Tons of new gear and weapons are available as drops in both of the new worlds! The Gold cap has been increased to 200,000 gold! Woot!
  • Tons of new Companions are waiting to join your crew pirates!
  • Many of your Old Companions will have new powers and talents!
  • Some Companions can even be promoted!
  • Prepare yourself to battle with and against a host of new faces: Kurghas, Grenadiers, Anarchists, War Golems, Vultures, Manticores, Ophidians, Eagle Centurions, Ettins, Trolls, Sirens, Minotaurs, Krakens, Crokagators, and Gorgons await you!
  • Zeke is back with new exploration quests!
    Make sure you check out the new Bazaar that opened up in Skull Island!
Harvey Deuce is the keeper and will let you sell loot and buy loot! Like they say, one man's garbage may be another mans treasure! He resembles One-eyed Jack, hmm is he playing another trick on us trying to roll in the loot? ;)
    Tired of sailing back and forth between worlds and stormgates? Problem solved! Visit one of the Bey family members in each world and they will have an ancient Krokotopian Portal that will take you to any world that you have visited before by ship! Subscribers to Pirate101 will only have to pay Gold to use them. Others will have to use a small amount of crowns to use the transportation device!
 
New Class Trainer Powers! 
  •     Look at all of those amazing new talents and powers! Wow! Some of them are total game changers in Pvp! The Witchdoctors can learn a new talent called "Purge Magic" which allows them to remove ALL buffs off a target!
  •     Buccaneers "Reckless Frenzy" allows them to keep attacking until they miss! The catch is that they will lose -5% per swing! Life or death kinda thing I guess! Go out strong!
  •     Swashbucklers get a new "Black Fog" talent which hides them and lets them attack even stronger when revealing themselves!
  •     Musketeers can learn the "Power Monkeys Palaside" which allows them to place a powder keg on an empty battleboard space. Wonder what happens when they shoot it? ;)
    If you would like to read ALL of the update notes in Depth, please go check them out on the Main site here. I just want to give one last shout out to Kingsisle and Pirate101! This update is epic! We want to thank you for all of the hard work you guys and gals put into the game and the community!
*Cheers
 
Johnny

New Aquila Concepts!



MMORPG Exclusive Pirate101 News!

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    Today MMORPG has released the Full article about the new expansions in Pirate101! Below you can read what is in store for each new chapter! Happy reading!
 
Book 13: The Dogs of War (Marleybone)
The pirate's quest for the pieces of the Map to El Dorado takes them to Marleybone, where they must track down their old friend Catbeard. Wizard101 players adventured on the streets and rooftops of Marleybone’s capital city, but in Pirate101 we open up a whole new realm of adventure! Pirates take to the midnight skies of Westminster Skyway, where they find a war zone and come face to face with the consequences of their former actions. Marleybone is at war with the evil Clockwork Armada - a war your Pirate started, and a war Marleybone is losing! To get the next piece of the Map, player Pirates must join the Royal Navy and help turn the tide of the war. Their quest will take Pirates to the Isle of Dogs, a bustling hub of industry and shipbuilding with a criminal underworld lurking in the sewers beneath; the isle of Fetch, a vacation resort now abandoned and waiting for the imminent Armada invasion, and Beachhead, an armored battle station with enough firepower to destroy every city in Marleybone. Along the way they'll meet a rich cast of characters including Admiral Nelson, Ebenezer Scrooge, a spy named Smiley, and a special guest star from Wizard101. A host of dire enemies also wait for them: Cat criminal mastermind Captain Swing, the dreaded anarchist Guy Fox, and not one but two elite clockworks - the mysterious Bishop and Rooke, Supreme General of the Armada!
 
New Companions, new enemies, new equipment, and new promotion quests for Bonnie Anne and Ratbeard await. The level cap rises, giving Pirates access to new epic talents and powers. Come ready for battle, and beware - this is not your Wizard's Marleybone!
 
Book 14: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cyclops (Aquila)
After the dark skies of Marleybone, the Pirate journeys to the sunny skies of the Achean Way, in the ancient realm of Aquila. Based around Classical Mythology, Aquila is a realm of legendary heroes, terrible monsters, and truly epic quests. To find Argos the Cyclops, keeper of the next piece of the Map to El Dorado, the Pirate must first help the Imperial Eagles win the Trojan War against the evil Snakes if Illios, rescue the hero Theseus, and follow Ulysses home on his odyssey. This is the longest single Book yet created for Pirate101, and it is truly epic. Pirates will fight beside legendary heroes like Eagilles, Hawkules, and Zeena, queen of the Amazons.  Guided by mysterious prophecies from the Oracle of Delphos and the Immortals of Olympus, Pirates will journey to many exotic locations, including the streets of Troy, the Isle of the Sirens, ruined Knossos, and the shining city of Nova Aquila, center of the glorious Eagle Empire. New monsters stand in their way, including Manticores, Ettins, Centaurs, Cyclopses, and some of the toughest bosses Pirate101 has ever seen: Talos the Colossus, Medusa the Gorgon, the invincible Minotaur, the Hydra, and Scylla and Charybdis!
 
As with Marleybone, this new Book raises the level cap even higher, to level 65. Tame a Pegasus mount, win the Golden Egg in battle, promote the members of the Magnificent Seven, win fabulous treasures, brave the depths of the Labyrinth, and win the favor of Athena and Ares. This is Pirate101 at its most fantastic, full of mythic adventure and humor.

 
Woot! So exciting! Cant wait! Please open Test Realm KI!!!
You can read the entire article on MMORPG here.


Monday, April 29, 2013

New Adventures ahead!

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    Word has gotten around Skull Island that pictures of Marleybone and Aquila have been spotted on MMORPG! The exact quote from the site is the following;
 
Adventures await you in the highly anticipated Books 13 and 14 of Pirate101! With the introduction of both the war-torn skyway of Marleybone and the legendary beauty and danger found throughout Aquila, high-level Pirates can now continue their journey against the evil Armada! This is the largest expansion to date for this family online game by KingsIsle Entertainment where young Pirates rebel against the evil Armada who are bent on destroying the Spiral. These worlds and much more are coming to the Members Only Test Realm, and will available to the Live Game soon.
 
    Check out some of the Cool Concept Art and screenshots of Marleybone and Aquila in Pirate101!
 
 
 
 
 
 
See you guys in the test skyways soon!
 
Johnny

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Pirate101 Load Screens

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    How are all ye landlubbers doing this fine Sunday afternoon? I am guessing you are all excited about the new pictures that were released last week and are refreshing test realm hundreds of times hoping it will let you log in? Yes I thought so. =D
 
    Nikolaus Overdiek is a Concept Artist over at Kingsisle and has created tons of artwork for both Wizard101 and Pirate101! He released some of the other loading screens that weren't used in the game on his Blog! When you get the time, go check out his work here, its brilliant! There are a bunch of other cool things on their from Azteca, to Avalon, and much much more. Love the graphics on them so much. Epic job!
 
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