Friday, December 21, 2012

FAQ

In this post I would like to address the most frequently asked questions I see in the discussion forums. Feel free to submit yours.

1. How do I change my name/character to either raven haired, broken wand or bookworm?
1. a. There was a glitch when I started and I couldn't choose a character or a name, what do I do?

No more switching characters for free by uninstalling/reinstalling the application. Apparently the the code was tweaked. Now you have to go to "The Headmaster" and shell out 200 hall passes to pick a new name and you need anywhere between 200 to 4000 hall passes to switch between characters.

As of today, October 16th, 2009, all you have to do is go to the application home page and click on remove application (or you just remove it any way that you know how). Then go back and install it again. You'll be prompted to choose one of the three main character and your name. Your old stats will still be there, as well as the gold in your bank.


There's a faster way to switch characters as Graceunderautism was so kind to share with us all - just look for the link in this comments section.


2. How come there are players with 20, 30 Castles (insert-property-you-saw)  when I can't purchase more than 10?

It's because the developer modified the game. Before October 4th or 5th, there was no limit on the amount of properties one could have. In fact, the slide would let you buy up to 100 properties at once. But not anymore. So if you come across someone with lots of properties, report it to the developer so he can fix it.


3. I saw some people with bronze, silver and gold (robes, map, textbook, sword, hat, hippogriff, 3-headed dog, centaur, unicorn), but I can't find it anywhere to buy one.

They are rewards given by the headmaster when you master all lessons in a year, and therefore cannot be purchased. They serve as an incentive for people to master all the lessons instead of just doing lessons that have high payouts. You can only have one of each. If you come across another player with more than one, please report it to the developer.


4. I was attacked 10 times in one second and lost 500,000 in gold. What do I do?

Always bank your gold as it is the only thing you can loose when you are defeated in a duel. Learn how duels work and decide whether or not it's worth your time to keep people from dueling you.



5. How duels work?

There are two posts for that. The first one explains why people attack you. The second one explains how duels work and what you can do to improve your chances in a duel.


6. I'm on level 20, but my max energy is still 5. When will it increase?

To increase your max energy level you must put your skill points (those 5 points you get every time you level up) into it. Don't waste them with Attack or Defense. When you have skill points available, just click on "Profile" and choose the second option - Energy.

7. What is upkeep? How do I get upkeep?

In School of Wizardry, upkeep used to be a maintenance cost for owning creatures. Upkeep used to be deducted from your rent income every hour (or 80 minutes, or 40 minutes depending on your character). Currently there is no upkeep in the game, so you get to keep all your income from rentals.

8. I've been leveling up but no new lessons are showing up, what do I do?

Have you clicked on the tab to navigate between different tiers of lessons? Read more about lessons here.

9. If I "upgrade character" will my stats change or do they stay the same?

Your stats won't change. The only thing that will change is the regeneration time for your stats.

10. How do I get an Ice Broom/Pensive?

You can't anymore. They were a weekly limited edition gift given out back in October and November. Click here to see the complete list of past limited edition gifts.

11. How do I get a Lightsaber Wand?

You can't anymore. They were a weekly limited edition item sold for 500 hall passes between 10/04 to 10/11. Click here to see the complete list of past limited edition items.

 12. Can I delete friends once from FB once they are in my order? How do I grow my order?

 No you can't delete them. To add new members to your order, all you have to do is add them as your friends on Facebook. After a few minutes they'll be automatically added to your SoW order. There's also no need for your friends that are already playing the game to click on your "direct link". That link is actually just the link to the game. Because if the person you're recruiting hasn't installed the game yet, all they have to do is to install it and they'll automatically be added to your order after a few minutes. No manually adding is required at this moment. That is why if you remove them from you FB friends list, they'll be gone from your SoW order too.

80 comments:

  1. how do you duel out of your level?

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  2. That's more like a cheat. You can ask people in your order who are in higher levels than you to send you a link from their duel list.

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  3. how to duel with people lower level?

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  4. Just ask people in your order who are in lower levels than you to send you a link from their duel list.

    If you are resorting to this, it's not worth for you to duel. You should just put your skill points into energy and do lessons.

    Simple math, dueling someone lower than you will give you only 1 exp point. It WILL cost you AT LEAST 1 stamina, 1 health.

    You can get the same 1 exp point with 1 energy if you're still at Year 1. If you are in a higher year, you're getting more than 1 to 1.

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  5. How does the money winning work in dueling? I've read all over how the dueling works and who will win... but how do they determine the monetary winnings. I can duel the same person, one right after the other and first win $1,000 and next win $15,000 then down to $500.

    Have you discovered any pattern to this?

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  6. I can't explain why your numbers fluctuates so much since you didn't post how much your opponent had, but jotted down some attacks I've done.

    I've found out that it is a random percentage approximately between 1% to 4% of your opponent's gold.

    I could be wrong. I don't have many chances to duel for gold at the level that I am. Everyone banks everything FAST.

    So my advice? Save up for Properties.

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  7. Can you delete magic items? or sell?

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  8. No and no. Why would you want to do that anyways? In the future, when your order grows they can be used for dueling.

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  9. except doing tasks and paying how else I can get hall passes?

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  10. I already had a 500+ order. I'm deleting them. But I don't want all the magic items, since I feel like such a rotten cheater. :p
    Plus, I could get good money/hall passes for those 180+ conjunctivitis...

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  11. if you "upgrade character" do your stats stay the same?

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  12. @Anonymous 1 - How to get more hall passes: http://schoolofwizardry.blogspot.com/2009/10/hall-passes.html

    @Anonymous 2 - I understand. At this moment thought, selling magic is not possible.


    @Anonymous 3 - Yes, your stats don't change. The only thing that will change is the regeneration time for your stats.

    Also if you have any UNCOLLECTED rent at the time of the upgrade and you choose a character with High Gold, you will get extra rent because of the way that the current rent script works.

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  13. i would be anonymous 3... that is TOTALLY AWESOME!! (*risks embarrasment for the hopes that someone may have gotten the reference.. AVPM???) ....anywho. thanks

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  14. oh.. actually... you said only the regeneration times change.. what about the "attack" because all the upgrades have like a high or ultra or super attack.. what is that?

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  15. Sorry, don't know what AVPM is. I googled it and found "A Very Potter Musical" which I still don't think is what you mean.

    Ok. When I said yes, I was talking about your 'stats' - by that I meant the 5 stats you improve with skill points (health, stamina, attack, defense and energy).

    Those other upgrades affect your TAP, which is related to duels. Take a look at this page and pay attention to what those modifiers do to the TAP/TDP equation http://schoolofwizardry.blogspot.com/2009/11/calculating-tap-and-tdp.html

    So in the end a character with high attack or defense will have a 10% bonus on their TAP or TDP. Now, I don't know what the bonus is for Ultra Attack, since no one volunteered to share that information with me.

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  16. I began playing a couple days ago so I'm just level 18/year 3, but I've been seeing people with ice brooms everywhere in dueling, even at the lowest levels. Is this a cheat? How are people getting it if it's not sold in the store?

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  17. mmmricemilk........... the ice brooms were a previous weekly gift. every week they have a different gift you can send to your order, if you collect 20 you get an attack bonus for the rest of the week. you didn't miss anything. it was just before you started playing.

    and yes C.Green, A Very Potter Musical was exactly what i was talking about. :) i was just going out on a limb because i started play SOW because im a HP fan and figured other HP fans played SOW too because its clearly based off HP (lesson names, items, creatures, characters) and thought maybe some of them had seen AVPM.. .but... anywho....

    would you say *only from the dueling perspective* that it would be a huge disadvantage to go from

    HIGH ATTACK, HIGH STAMINA, LOW DEFENSE to
    HIGH HEALTH, HIGH STAMINA, SUPER ENERGY

    because i would like to think i always win duels because i always have like 5 times the amount of items as they do and i was just wanting to know if i should be prepared to use more skill points towards attack or be prepared to not always win or whatever.. lol

    because regardless im going to *eventually* upgrade simply for the super energy :)

    thanks!

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  18. okay.. i went and *think* i deciphered your dueling page with all the TDP IAP PDA (lol) stuff....... so let me ask if this is accurate... if *I* have enough items of my own for my whole order to use and my opponent doesn't, im likely to win (with variances due to IAP/IDP and the character's dueling modifers)..... BUT i should win regardless (if they don't have enough items to supply their order.. but another question im not clear on... does your order only use *your items* or do they use their items... cause i'm a tad confused on that :)

    thanks! lol sorry if im bugging you :)

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  19. @mmmricemilk - I updated the post with the answer to your question. It's #10.

    @Kathryn - Is there a link to this AVPM? Now I'm curious :P

    If you're winning duels due to the fact that you have 5x more items than your opponent then no, those 10% won't affect you so much that you're gonna regret it.

    It's only when your opponent and you are neck to neck that it would give you some advantage although Bookworm is low on defense, so switching to a character that does not loose 10% on the defense should make you indifferent between those characters modifiers from the dueling POV.

    Now Black-Haired Woman generates health faster than Bookworm, and that alone will allow you to duel more often. Throw in 1:20 regen for energy, and it sweetens the whole deal, if you like to do lessons.

    But if you're building a large order (3000+) gold is pretty much essential, have you ever considered a high gold character upgrade?

    It's long-long term planning, because once you finish all the lessons, the marginal utility for energy does go down quite a bit... just something for you to think about.

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  20. *Your* order uses only *your* items/creatures/magic and that's it.

    It doesn't matter what your order members (other players) have. It doesn't matter what level your order members are (if they're level 400 or level 1 - doesn't matter).

    All that matters to you is the headcount. You have to equip your own order. Did you see the link to check your own TAP/TDP?

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  21. And I forgot to mention - when you finish all the lessons, you'll have to start 'wasting' energy on already mastered lessons to get more spells (at least Avada Kedavra) to better equip your order.

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  22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmwM_AKeMCk

    if your a HP fan with a sense of humor. you will absolutely love it! (it also helps to be a fan of musicals... i, uh, burnt the soundtrack to cd lol) *BUT* its like 2 hours long just to let you know...

    i did check the link.. i feel pretty secure about my duel skills now lol

    i probably won't be growing my order (unless it becomes a problem).. i have 75-77 order members. it fluctuates. lol. i think ppl just keep coming and going. but i duel and beat people with bigger orders alot (evidently because they dont have enought items)

    but i did think about needing so much gold later in the game but i will probably be able to manage, im on level 72 and have the first three years done all three times and i am working on my fourth year but i have all of the items bought for fifth year and owl exams already, and i make it a priority to spend my gold on properties the second they make themselves available... soo hopefully i will be able to stay ahead goldwise

    because of the way i play SOW, upgrading to Black-Haired Woman will work fantastic for me because i do like to do the lessons (my first priority) but i also like to duel for the EXP (and gold when i can). i also tend to duel absentmindely while i am doing something else on the computer so once i hit zero i just wait til it goes up one and then duel once and since with that character the health and stamina will regenerate at the same time, i won't constantly have extra stamina and won't ever have to visit the nurse .. (not to mention the energy! !!!!!!!!! right now it regenerates every 3 stinking minutes lol)

    and thanks i was always very curious about how the order affected you. thats awesome that its just headcount because i worried about having order members that didn't play much and were on lower levels and such

    and i saw on your needed items lists how many spells you need the higher it gets. that irks me. haha. it wouldn't be so bad if you got them as often in the later lessons as you did the beggining.

    i hope you enjoy AVPM!!! :) lol. thanks again!!

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  23. I'm sorry if I missed this or wrong place to ask but recruit via direct link isn't working. Is it not implemented yet or bug?

    this one -> http://apps.facebook.com/wizard_/linkinvite

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  24. @ John I updated the FAQ with what I believe it is the answer to your question. Let me know if it isn't.

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  25. Silly question for you... how you do stop feeling guilty when taking advantage of someone that obviously hasn't read this blog and doesn't bank? One of the peeps on my duel list leaving like $85,000 available to steal. I can't resist it, but I sure feel guilty as hell. lol

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  26. Is there some kind of known glitch that items disappear? I have bronze-level mastery in year one and so clearly had all the required items... but now I've gone back and it says that I don't have certain items any more. Has this happened to anyone else?

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  27. is there a maximum level you can be on School Of Wizardry because if there is I need to know straight away so I can make sure I get what I what done before I become the max level. If there isn't then whew, im safe

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  28. I read a post about max level on the facebook forum for Wizard app. You'll have a link on your Wizard homepage somewhere to 'become a fan'. Then click on the 'Discussions' tab. There's loads to read on there.

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  29. Ok. So I have earned the incendio spell more than five times and each time I earn it is says I do, but the next time I get on the spell is gone! I have three again. I'm stuck doing the same lesson over an over trying to get it again. Am I doing something wrong? Why are my spells vanishing?

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  30. @ Lesley - Don't feel guilty, since this is just a game and the gold isn't real. This is a big part of the game and you either get attacked or you attack someone else. I think you would prefer to attack -- it's more fun for you that way :P

    @ dominicajoanne - There's been a problem with the servers and we're not out of the woods yet according to the post the Developer left on the application wall. I would personally postpone any purchase at this moment be it properties or items until the situation is completely solved. I would rather just save up the money, but I don't know if the bank is being affected too. I can't tell 'cause I'm really not keeping track of it. I'm just dueling, repeating old lessons and banking the gold.

    @ Stephen - There's not maximum level you can reach.. currently the player ranked number 1 is level 407.

    @ DetectiveCJB - It could be the server rolling back your items quantity. I would just do whatever lessons I can and bank the gold. I wouldn't make any purchases until the Developer says the game is safe again.

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  31. I started yesterday- got through all of first level and started on second- logged in today and found I was back at the very beginning- what happened

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  32. hi,
    i started a new account via facebook and i play quite a lot thet evening, but the day after when i returne the items are shown like i'm new it soden´r update the lessons and so on. so i'm not able to play any further.
    I already refreshed my account & tried to enter some time past but nothing happened :(
    Can anyone help me please

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  33. Ok, is anyone else sick of losing gold, levels, items, rent, order members, spells etc.? Am I the only one losing my mind over this???

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  34. hello... I am new at this game and I have a problem. I have purchased all the goods needed for 1st year, earn some magic for the second year and went to sleep... the second day, I had 0 items!! no one attacked me or anything... Do you you know why? Thank you

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  35. Hi there, I used to be able to purchase Magic items with hall passes from the magic store, but I can't find them anywhere now and I want to buy some so I can complete more lessons. Where do I buy them from?

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  36. Why is the money in my bank disappearing? I had 5 million now it's at 2 million.

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  37. what is the maximum energy, health, stamina? in that order.

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  38. @brujaoscura, Ruth, Trevor, Alexandra Popescu, daggered - There's been a problem with the servers and we're not out of the woods yet according to the post the Developer left on the application wall. I would personally postpone any purchase at this moment be it properties or items until the situation is completely solved.

    @oceans-secret - Just go applications settings on facebook and click on the "X" corresponding to the School of Wizardry

    @fielder08 - That feature was removed from the game - according to the developer people rarely purchased them, so he removed it.

    @Sally - There's no maximum. Every time you level up you receive 5 skill points that can be allocated in any of those five stats - Read the post about skill points if you have the chance.

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  39. Hi again, if it has been removed from the game, how do I complete the rest of the lessons when I require those magic items to complete them? It's so annoying as I spent ages doing one of those stupid offers to gain hall passes and now I have them I can't purchase the magic. Great game, but so many stuff-ups.

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  40. Just repeat the lesson that gives you the magic you're looking for until you find as many as you need. This way you'll also earn more gold and experience as you hunt for the spell. Save your hall passes for better things such as skill points or premium characters.

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  41. I think it's an average of 7% that you get from winning duels...

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  42. I've got a couple of questions. I've leveled up really fast (44 or 45 now), but I'm in a very small order (3), so dueling is out of the question for me. Can I make myself available to join a different Order? Can you belong to more than one?
    Also, for newbies, what's the fastest way to collect money? (other than doing one of the offers)
    Finally, when dueling, does each person throw their strongest magic, or does the magic used in a duel come from whoever has the strongest stuff?

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  43. Ahh, one more question. Can one play gift another player an item like a Sorting Hat that doesn't appear on the "gift" list?

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  44. Okay, one more. Could you please explain how "buying" Order members works? Are they just a head-count that uses the magic you already have when dueling, or do you have to level them up? Do you actually do anything with them other than count them as an advantage so you attack other Orders or discourage others from attacking you?

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  45. whsnow...... the "order" is simply how many of your facebook friends are using SOW...(go to the discussions, there are big long lists of ppl who you can add) and when dueling, each member of your order uses one of *YOUR* items, one creature, and one magic.

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  46. Kathryn, thanks, I knew the part about who my Order members are (now just two of us), but thanks for clarifying about whose items get used. Maybe I'm blind, but to what discussions are you referring? I've been all over this blog and haven't found list of ppl to add. Also, I take it there's no gifting from one person to another other than those the game designates?

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  47. @whsnow: I think Kathryn is referring the discussions on facebook (like this one: http://www.facebook.com/#/apps/application.php?v=wall&ref=ts&id=4014809927)
    And I don't think that you can gift something else than those things listed in "gifts"

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  48. Well, not sure what happened, but pasted that link in my browser and it just took me to my FB homepage.

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  49. Try this link: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4014809927&v=app_2373072738

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  50. you've probably answered this, but I can't find it. Can you be attacked if you aren't in the dueling area? Can you be attacked whenever your'e logged in to the game?

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  51. Every time I go to invite friends in the last week, I haven't been able to. The page itself loads, but the tool to see your friends and invite them doesn't. What really sucks about this, is that there are occasional messages that say if you invite 60 friends, you will get 60 hall passes or one use energy refill. However, I haven't been able to use this, because I can't invite friends, not to mention not being able to invite friends and having the benifit of having a larger order. Please help!!

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  52. why do my status updates say i recieved a energy or other boost, but when i go to accept, i only can see the weekly gift.

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  53. How do you find out who are in your order? I don't know who has joined and who hasn't. I've stopped asking people because I don't know who I have already asked.

    Thanks!

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  54. how can i upgrade my energy from 5 to 6 or more than 6 will changing character can help me?

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  55. How come I can only duel people at Level 1 when I am at Level 15??

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  57. When i go to duel i have a choice of 9 people to fight, all at level 1. I am now at level 8. How do i find more people to fight and especially people at higher levels?

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  58. I just talked to my friend and she said all the lessons are divided in first year, second year and so on. but mine are divided in "portsville", "beginners" etc. Why?

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  59. Another question, the same as Christopher and pascrewbie. I'm level 13, but i still duel with people level 1. why?

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  60. Why does my attack and defense always say 10 on my profile even though I am on level 70 and buy at the magic store every chance I get?

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  61. I just sold an item in the Magic Shop and I haven't received any gold for it, but the item is not on my list anymore?

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  62. Is there an incentive to accumulate items from the Magic store - for example if purchasing 1 basic Robe gives you 1 Attack and 1 Defense, does having 10 basic Robes give you 10 Attack and 10 Defense ?

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  63. I keep seeing people who have a Magic Bus that has an attack and defense power of 100 each. Where do people get this item?

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  64. How do you earn gold when you can't afford the item to do a lesson?

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  65. hi gin. just letting you know numbers 10 and 11 in the faq might need updating, since ice brooms and pensives (or whatever they are called now) are now giftable from peoples inventory and can also be found in the magic gateways, along with the lightsaber wands.

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  66. so why can you get dueled and take more damage than you have health? i was just dueled 17 times in a row and took 10 damage each time (17x10=170) when my health is only 23. How is that possible? The programming sucks. You shouldn't be able to keep dueling people when they have no health left. oh and I am pretty sure the "damage taken" never deducted from the health.

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  67. I was at level 26 or 27 and i logged on today to see that i am now back to level 1 but i have all the items i have bought or won, except my properties, i am missing many of those as well.
    I didnt have anywhere near enough hall passes to reset my account so it isnt like someone accidentily hit the button, what do i do now?

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  68. All my gold from the bank was deleted. How do I get it back?

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  69. What's the difference between:
    Most Lessons Done
    Most Lessons Mastered
    Most Lesson Tiers Mastered?

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  70. How do I allow sow to publish things without my permission?

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  71. I have finished all the levels and tiers but looking at the leader board it seems that there are other levels and tiers. Where are they????

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  72. How do I delete this program!?! I can't find it anywhere, I need help, it won't quit posting crap on my facebook!! HELP, when I tried to send it from the game, it wouldn't work because I didn't have anything in the drop down to chose for type of questions (it was blank) and I couldn't send it!!

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  73. How do i stop it posting on facebook each time i level up?

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  74. @Maylan...lesson is the individual course, or 'lesson' that you do. Each time you click, you're doing a lesson. When the line is full, it's "done". When you've finished ALL of the lessons on your page, they will clear out again, moving you to the "second" level of the lesson. (look at a lesson, and you will see little marks on them that show which level, 1 2 or 3 you're on) Once you've done each lesson 3 times, you've mastered it. When you've finished or 'mastered' all of the lessons on one tier, or full list you can view, you move on to the next "tier" to master.

    @Brian... yes, there are other tiers. At the top of the tier you're on, you'll see tabs. You must get to a certain point in the levels to open more. If you click on the tab, it will open the next one. When you get to the end of the tabs you see, there are more you can't see.

    @snoopchic...to delete the game, open the game, and go to the very bottom left of the page. There, it will say the name of the game. click this. It will take you to the fan page.
    On the left side, scroll down under the fans and the photos and links. You will see "remove game" click this, and then confirm.
    If you want to keep playing, but don't want it posting to your wall, follow the next set of instructions...

    @info... to stop it from posting on your facebook, you can do it one of two ways. Either you don't want ANY posts at all, or you want to choose which posts...

    To stop ALLLLL posts, go to the top blue bar of facebook,
    and click ACCOUNT.
    Then click APPLICATION SETTINGS
    go to the game name. click EDIT
    in the extended permissions area, you will find a check box that asks if you want to give the game the ability to publish to your wall. uncheck this box. this will require the game to ask you EVERY time you are to post...

    If you want to block all posts from the game, the easiest way is to find a post from the game, and hover over the right corner, just by the ads. the word HIDE will appear. Click this, then click the name of the game when it pops up. This will hide ALL further posts from your view...
    the bad part about this, is you won't see any of you're friends posts either...

    if you just don't want yours posting, the best way is to do the first suggestion, by removing extended permissions, and then when a box comes up, then just click skip each time.

    :)

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  75. How do i find others to duel? Im lvl 8 now and its still only showing me lvl 1 people to duel

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  76. What happens if I choose to reset my account? Will all my gold/stats/character upgrades go back to square-one? Or will I just be able to start completing all of the lessons again?

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  77. I want to get more members I only have 49. I am Greg Williams on Facebook from Nashville Tn please add me as a friend and invite me to your wizadry.

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  78. hi there!

    everytime i want to duel i can only see other persons with lvl 1 but i'm lvl 8. how can i fight against people with my lvl?

    thanks :)

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