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Ditto’s Video Bloggy Thingy – June 16th, 2011

Hey all, here is my Video Bloggy Thingy for today!  I am at nearly 400 Twitter followers and I’m almost at 200 videos!!  That’s amazing!

Digby has almost made it to Malistaire (I think), that is pretty exciting!  Destiny is doing well, too, I am enjoying that experiment, I hope you are too!

What kinds of things do you do outside The Spiral?  I like hiking and gardening and sometimes even canoeing (as long as my fur doesn’t get wet!)  Maybe I’ll take some video of that to show everyone?  We’ll see…  Anyway, enjoy the video!


Return to Crab Alley, Part 7 – a breakthrough!

Through the use of calm reasoning (and dropping meteors on people) Ditto finally learns where King Thermidor – the REAL King Thermidor – is being held captive!  Now it’s a race against the clock to save him!


Return to Crab alley, Part 6! Into the Breach!

So there I was, minding my own business in Crab alley – sorta – and I see this big hole in the wall, with guards around it.  I wonder if maybe this is where King Thermidor is hanging out?


Return to Crab Alley, Part 5

Well this is taking a lot longer than I had imagined…  I might post these with a little more frequency now, as there are still a bunch of parts still to come!

This was my favorite part so far – we finally reach the throne room in Crab alley to speak to the king, only to find… some big scary looking purple guy saying he’s King Thermidor! Yikes!!!  So now, instead to clearing things up, getting to see the king has only increased the mystery!!


Ditto’s Video Bloggy Thingy, June 1st. Ravenwood Ball!

Yeah, I should use a script for these…   So here is my weekly video bloggy thingy, and the main topic today is the amazing Ravenwood Ball from Diary Of a Wizard!  Parties, prizes, fancy outfits – what’s not to love?!?   I know last year’s ball was amazing, and this year’s promises to be even more awesome!   For more information check out diaryofawizard.com!! 


Return to Crab Alley – Part 4

Ditto continues his adventures in Crab Alley – after all his investigation it seems like the only person who can clear things up is King Thermidor himself – but how Can Ditto get in to see him?  Like most things in Ditto’s life, there will be pastries involved with this one…


Ditto returns to Crab Alley, part 3

As Ditto is investigating the mysterious happenings in Crab Alley, it becomes clear that the only person who can really straighten things out is the king himself – but can Ditto get to see him?


New Video – Ditto’s Return to Crab Alley – Part 2

On this leg of the journey, Ditto must defeat Riverclaw Guards, which look a lot like Lovecraftian Deep Ones, so he can find the key to the White Tower and talk to Thomas Cromshell about the problems in Crab Alley


Quick Blooper Video… just for fun

Even monsters can get tongue-tied…  here’s a blooper Carl caught on film as we were making videos the other day, I thought you might like it…


Ditto returns to Crab Alley – part 1

Ditto gets a summons to the Wizard City storm mill.  It seems strange things are afoot at the Circle K…  Ditto and Madame Jasmine investigate…


Weekly Video Bloggy Thingy 5/17/2011

So here is my video bloggy thingy for this week – it’s been very rainy, and furry monsters do not like rain, I get all wet and soggy…  Anyway, this week I talk a little about the new Wizard 101 commercial, those very unsafe flying carpets (not even a seat belt!!  Gasp!) facebook (speaking of unsafe things) and Carl says ‘thank you’…


Video Bloggy Thingy for 5/11/2011

So here is my video bloggy thingy for May 11th – I missed doing one of these last week, I think because I was writing the Facebook safety article.  Here is this weeks’ video, and don’t forget – Daring Adventures of Ditto celebrates 1 year tonight on Ravenwood Radio!!  Don’t miss it!!


Ditto faces ‘The Crystal of Battle’

Still adventuring deep in Dragonspyre, Ditto needs to face the challenge of ‘the Crystal of Battle’, dueling a 4500 health Life boss (with the name ‘FireWinter’, so she sounds like a fire boss, very tricky’…)

It’s a good fight and goes pretty well for me overall…  I’ve been playing around with enchanting my Helephant spells with ‘Monstrous’, adding a lot more damage to my attacks – I hit for 3381 in this fight, not too bad!


Ditto versus General Greystone…

Once again deep in the heart of Dragonspyre, I need to defeat ‘General Greystone’ and his Irate Banshee minion. Wonder what makes her so irate? Maybe it’s just a Dragonspyre thing…
The duel went well overall – I took out the Irate Banshee first, with a ‘monstrous’ buffed Helephant, and then focused on the General himself. For the general my winning hit was 4201 damage – not bad!
With the higher health levels in Dragonspyre I find that I’m not using Meteor Strike much at all, mostly using helephants and damage buffs against my opponents.
I do want to try to find an ice trap spell, then I can cast ice trap, fire prism, fire trap and increase damage even more.


The Tale of Tomar and Kimerith, a Happy Reunion

The grand finale of the tale of Tomar the dragonrider and his old friend Kimerith.  After a bit of a blooper (Ditto did not pay attention to the quest details, oops…) Kimerith the Dragon is reunited with his old crazy shut-in friend Tomar.  It’s really a touching scene… I feel all happy now 🙂


The Tale of Tomar and Kimerith – When it Reigns it Pours

I’m still happily helping Tomar and his dragon friend Kimerith in Dragonspyre.  Kimerith wants his old reigns, I guess for old time’s sake, but of course, they have been taken by a nasty bad guy and furry little Ditto has to lend a hand.

Am I the only person disappointed by ‘The Hoarder’? I was hoping for a tower full of piles of junk, old broken wands, and stacks of old books from wall to wall, maybe a bunch of small dragons hiding in the corners or sleeping on top of stacks of stuff?  A simple landscape boss was a little underwhelming – though a great fight…


Video Bloggy Thingy – April 27, 2011

Here’s my weekly video bloggy thingy for this week!  I talk about Twitter, and Youtube, and Test Realm, and all kinds of stuff…  Oh, and please be careful for the new Facebook virus that’s going around, sending ‘Hack Facebook’ events to people.  Don’t click on them!


A rare find! A happy quest in Dragonspyre!!

That’s right, I have come across the rarest of finds, a happy, feel-good quest in Dragonspyre!  I assume the designer was on loan from the Mooshu team while this quest was written.

The story of the great dragon rider Tomar and his faithful companion Kimerith Windhammer is a nice, friendly story of long lost friends re-united, interrupted by only one giant terrifying boss battle.  It’s a nice story and I felt like it would be nice to share.

Here are the first two videos, where I meet Tomar and Kimerith, as well as do a little Dragonspyre sightseeing…


Ditto Versus Ivan Soulsinger!

Deep in the heart of Dragonspyre, I have to go in and face Ivan Soulsinger, a very naughty wizard who has trapped a bunch of Drakes….

It was a pretty standard fight, Ivan had over 4000 health (the bosses are getting tougher and tougher out here)  – I took out the fire minion first, then just blasted Ivan as much as I could and finally took him out.  I needed a few pixies to keep my health up and finally took my own advice and didn’t get too risky with the ‘just one more hit’ mentality, healing before I desperately needed it (I always lose when I wait too long…)


OK, here’s Carl…

So after a lot of begging and several bribes of pastry, I am going to post a video of Carl the camera-bear telling a joke.  Carl would love to make this a weekly event, but I’m not sure, so I’m going to let YOU my readers decide the fate of my camera-bear’s future in comedy.  If I get enough positive feedback, I’ll make Carl a weekly feature here – simple as that.

So here are two Carl jokes, just to get you started…  Remember to vote in the poll!


Ditto’s Video Bloggy Thingy – April 20, 2011

It was a slow news week for Ditto, and I didn’t even get in game too much, but there are a few things to talk about – though there is an announcement from KingsIsle about choosing a fan video of the week from subscribers to their YouTube channel, so that’s pretty fun, right?


Ditto faces Avalanche!

Deep within Dragonspyre, Ditto must face the boss Avalanche, for some reason that I can’t really remember now.  The battle went really well, textbook Pyromancer action taking out both the boss and his minion, though it got a little dicey towards the end.  There was a minor Phillip attack in the middle of the duel, but I was still unscathed…


Ditto’s Video Bloggy Thingy – April 12, 2011

This week, I get to the bottom of ‘Mount-A-Palooza’ and talk about my current in-game status for Wizard 101, plus test realm and other general stuff.  I’ve got some cool news coming very soon, but it wasn’t quite ready for announcing today, sorry.  Well, I guess I do give a hint – I will be doing videos of a new game soon, but there’s something else too, so stay tuned!!


Ditto’s Weekly Video Bloggy Thingy 4/5/2011

Hi everybody! Here’s my video bloggy thingy for this week, yay! I talk about my weekly twitter report, April fools, and of course CONTESTS!!

And speaking of contests, here is the link to the official list of participating fan sites, so make sure you’re visiting all of them and entering for your chance to win a great mount this week!!

https://www.wizard101.com/game/community/contests