Keeping your Wizard101 Account Safe!

I've been wanting to make this post about Account Security for awhile and I know Kingsisle has made quite a few posts on their site about Account Safety so I decided to make a post also. Why do I need to make a blog post about account safety? Well.. I think its important that everyone knows how to keep their account safe from password takers (aka- hackers). If you give away your password for crowns, memberships or whatever someone asks for, all you're doing is giving away your account and your account will be banned. Kingsisle gives you an account password for a reason and they tell everyone every time they log onto Wizard101 to never give away their password. I've been on Wizard101 well over 1000 times and I read that I should never give away my password 1000 times so that means I won't ever give away my account. What ways can you keep your account safe without losing your wizard? I have a few Q&A's below that I think will help you if you want to keep your Wizard.

Question: What should I do when someone tells me they'll give me crowns or a membership if I give them my account information?

Answer: Tell them you're not giving away your password because Kingsisle says so every time you log on the game. The only thing you're going to do is lose your wizard forever. Don't give away your account to someone that won't gift you. Your account might/will be banned if you do.

Question: If someone claiming to be Kingsisle is asking for my account password should I give it to them?

Answer: NO! I've had trouble with people pretending to be me and say they work at Kingsisle. They're pretending so they can get your account information. The only thing they are going to do is ban your account. The only way you should ask for their badge is on the game itself if they say they're, and Kingsisle will NEVER ask for your password. Don't give your password to anyone. You need to keep your password safe and please don't give it up for anything!

Question: I really do want crowns or crown items, are there ways I could get free crowns without worrying about my account security?

Answer: You can view all of the official fansites for contests. If one of your friends says they'll give you a free membership card code/crown code such as ones from gamestop that would seem okay. Don't accept if they say they'll redeem it themselves by logging onto your account. Please keep your password safe and in your hands. 

Question: Should I trust any websites/blogs that hack Kingsisle to give me free crowns/ sites that ask for my password?

Answer: NO! You will be banned if you trust any sites that hack. You'll also be banned if you give away your password to someone. Kingsisle warns you everyday not to give away your password and you should know that. If there's a site you'd like to report, send link of the website to Kingsisle, support@wizard101.com

Question: Where exactly does Kingsisle warn us not to give away our account password?

Answer: There are so many places that Kingsisle warns us about account safety. One place is right when you log in with the log in screen of Wizard101. You'll see right above before you log in that you shouldn't give away your account (click on image below).

As you can see, if you don't give away your password you'll get to keep your wizard.. well, as long as you don't use bad language, bully or anything that goes against Wizard101's Terms of Use. Please keep your account safe. I've made many posts about this and Kingsisle has also warned everyone so there's no way you could say you haven't read that you shouldn't share your password with anyone. I know I said this was only going to be a post about Account Safety but I think I should include links to great online safety posts and links to posts from Kingsisle about account security. I'll label all of the links so you'll know exactly where you're going and what you're reading. If you were wondering before you if should share your password or not with anyone, this post should tell you that you shouldn't. I'm not speaking for Kingsisle by saying this but I think close family that plays Wizard101 with you counts as okay to share your password with. If it's "friends" or a stranger you shouldn't share your password with them or you'll have a chance of being banned if they take your account! Here's the links of great posts from Kingsisle and online safety posts from bloggers that I think you should read. Please try to click on all of the links I'm going to list below, they might help you and save your wizard.

Kingsisle's Blog Post (Chat, Fake KI employees)

Merle's post about Account Security (official Wizard101 Website)

Lydia's Reply on Fake Kingsisle Employees that ask for Passwords

Wizard101 UK's Account Security Post

My Online Safety Page

Ditto's Online Safety Page

Wizard101 World Online Safety Page

Update: I decided to make this online safety post fun and see who can view the online safety post most, Wizards or Pirates? I gave Wizards a day head start so whoever has the most views on the online safety posts by next Friday at 2:00 P.M. CST will become the winners of this badge:

Wizard Masterminds of Online Safety

Pirate Masterminds of Online Safety

They are fake badges just for fun. I'm hoping somehow both pirates and wizards will win. We'll have to see though, I'm counting on all of you to read this entire post though not just click on the post over and over again. Thank you for reading this online safety post and good luck!

Dworgyn's Mistake (Spoilers)

Hello Wizards,

A few hours ago we all found out that Dworgyn made a mistake and gave us information about an upcoming quest/area/gardening thing? Well... We have to agree we all made mistakes right? So don't worry Dworgyn, know that everyone makes mistakes.. This mistake though... is.. EPIC! I was very excited to learn more information about the cave by Nightshade's Tower. This post may not include a lot of spoilers like what exactly is behind that gate but I do believe Dworgyn told us a lot of things. Here's a few pictures I have taken since this mistake was announced..

A few people crowding by the gate trying to get in (not an active quest)

As I said above in the picture this quest is not active but I believe later it will be. I believe Kingsisle is going to remove it before too many people find out but when bloggers find out a lot more people find out. :D I have to tell everyone since I am a blogger and I blog about news and spoilers when released.. I believe the next update to do with this has to do with gardening plus another new area in Wizard City. Call me crazy but it seems like it would be crazy just to add a gardener back in that cave after many years of everyone wondering what exactly is behind that gate. I believe its a huge area and we'll get to quest through there. What makes me think that? Well the quest gives experience and the other quests with the gardeners didn't give quests... Why would they start now, why not in the beginning? Well.. There's a lot of questions to be asked but I'm not going to say much until Kingsisle releases it. I can't wait to see what they have planned for us. Wizard101 has announced they'll have more on this soon. So watch their social networks and website. Here's a few interesting pictures of dialog from the game.

Edward Donnely

Ahoy Pirates!

A few days ago I created a new pirate, a privateer. I named him Edward Donnely! I wanted to create a new pirate so I could level on my own time and enjoy leveling through Pirate101 again without any worry. :D I like introducing my new pirates to you though so you know more about my in game experience. I won't blog about this character after this but I'll give you a few small updates on my other posts but not one main blog post about him since I'm far too busy blogging about my character Edward Cringle. Anyways.. here's a few pictures of him going through the Pirate101 tutorial.

Edward Donnely hitting a critical on a battle angel.

Do you see that fire Skull? :O No I didn't make this. Not good at graphics!

Lol yeah just wanted to add a few random photos to the post to make it a little more interesting. You know I love adding lots of pictures to every post. Well.. I don't know much about the Privateer school other than healing but I'm hoping it'll be easy to quest on a privateer. I'll give you a few small updates on how I'm doing throughout each world. Wish me luck and see y'all around the Spiral!

Santo Pollo's Strongbox

Howdy Pirates!

On my last Edward Cringle blog post, Serena or Selena, Don Oscar Gutierrez sent me on a quest to rescue a bride named Serena that was kidnapped by the banditoads. I defeated a few Banditoads and one of them, Lumpy Varga, said that a guy named Froggo Villa abducted Serena on her wedding day. I had to go to the Banditoad Trail to a cave where Froggo Villa was keeping Serena. Froggo had a lot of enemies protecting him, I had no problem defeating them. After I defeated Froggo he actually wanted to join my crew! After rescuing Serena I ran back to Don and he told me that he is worried all of Santo Pollo is in mortal danger...

If you read my last post you'll remember that Froggo told me that El Guapo was in charge of abducting Serena. I'm beginning to think this was all set up so they could steal the Strongbox that's full of Santo Pollo's money while everyone was trying to find Serena. Hmm.. Well I think we'll have to teach them a El Guapo a lesson.

Looks like we have a lot of guard towers to destroy before we teach El Guapo a lesson!

I love this crab. He's epic!

Froggo Villa attacking one of his partner in crime LOL.. well kinda?

That looks painful!

I'm not going to post all of the pictures of the guard tower fights but you should know I didn't die once. Although.. on the last picture above all of my companions died and I was the last one alive. I was worried I wouldn't make it and that'd make this blog post... awkward? I didn't die though which is great!

Getting ready to go in to fight El Guapo!

:O El Toro, you look familiar! Hmm.. I'm glad you're finally helping!

I love damage protection!

El Toro hitting one of the enemies with a Critical!

Another El Toro Critical. He's epic!

That was a fun day of questing and wow El Toro looks familiar doesn't he? :D I'm upset El Guapo got away but he should know we'll defeat him again like we did this time. No one gets away from us! x evil laugh x I mean... Well I hope we defeat him next time and he's not powerful. We'll have to wait until next time to see what El Toro says. I think he has a lot of explaining to do having us do all of his work. Hmm.. Well I guess everyone does deserve a day off right? Until next time, I'll see y'all around the Spiral!

Arrrgust: #lefthandersday

Ahoy Pirates!

Have you heard? Pirate101 announced the Arrrgust Week of August 12th and that today is Left-Handers' Day! What does that mean for us pirates? Well it means they're giving us a cool Captain's Hook level 10 Slashy Weapon that replaces our character's hand with a pirate hook! This week is going to be a lot of fun and I can't wait to see so many pirates showing off their new weapon just for this week. :D If you'd like to redeem your code for the weapon use this code "lefty" and get your new Captain's Hook. If you'd like to learn more about Arrrgust or just about this new gift click on the picture to the right for more information.