The Ghastly Conspiracy Raid

It was a cold night in Heap, the kind of night that freezes your breath in mid-air, where even the crooks and the crime bosses stay tucked in bed, the kind of night that makes Death itself say: “Brr, nope, not goin’ out.” But some things don’t care about the cold, because their blood runs colder than any night could ever be. Some things are just that… ghastly. But what things? And why? And what could they do in the shadows where Death is too chilly to walk? Figuring that out is a job for Dog Tracy... and the Shadoe… and about 8 Wizards. Together, they must brave the Heap and unravel “The Ghastly Conspiracy.”

Assemble your Guild for the first 8-player raid! This raid will require heavy communication and coordination between raiders through a series of difficult challenges and combats as they pursue the new rewards and titles. This will test even the most experienced of level 170 wizards. Good luck!

Speak to Gwyn Fellwarden in Dun Dara, Avalon to begin The Ghastly Conspiracy Raid!

Aquila Chronicle Content

New Boss

Do you even push bro? Aquila has a new enemy to face that's been pumping ferrous for a few centuries! Fight Sisyphus during a brand-new quest given by Athena Battle Sight in the Garden of Hesperides. You can fight him in Standard mode or try your hand at Challenge mode for greater rewards.

New Spells

The Aquila Immortals have become new spells! One for each school. These Spellements are dropped by Sisyphus, and once you defeat him, you will also see the Spellements show up in the main 3 dungeons of Aquila as well.

Challenge Mode

Face the Immortal Games in their ultimate form. This includes Mount Olympus, Atlantea, and Tartarus. With new cheats and new rewards, these dungeons present a new challenge while staying true to their original mechanics. As with all Challenge Modes, you will get scaled down to the level of the dungeon and your decks will be adjusted to exclude any spells not suited for the level or for Advanced Combat in general. The full dungeons including all secret bosses are included. If you defeat them enough times, you unlock the new Oracle gear set.

Note: Challenge mode health numbers have not been fully balanced yet.

More Gear and Rewards

• Aquila dungeons now allow you to craft the gear from Khalkos Coppersmith.
• The Aquilla chronicle update will include a brand-new template of gear and new pets as well!

New Events

Fantastic Fight Fest

During the entire month of August 2025, Manfred Mander will be visiting the Spiral. He needs your help mapping the Spiral's many dangerous creatures. Rally your friends, team up, and show the Spiral what you’ve got!

How it works:

• Each day, a different world is featured.
• Use the Team Up Kiosk or the Join Team button in the event UI to help out in that world.
• You can earn points for one fight via the kiosk, and two fights via the Join button. Every point helps push the community forward.

Community Progress Waves:

• The event features 4 Community Waves, with a new wave unlocking each week.
• Waves unlock progressively. Once the current wave is complete and enough time has passed, the next one will open.
• All unlocked waves will remain open through the end of the event, so you can still jump in late and earn unique rewards.
• While the event has a bit of built-in flexibility, completing the full progress track will take consistent effort. Log in regularly to stay on track and earn those exclusive rewards!
• Invite your friends to log in and help out as well! This is a community challenge - the more the merrier!

Requirements and Notes:

• You must be level 30+ to use the Join Team button.
• If you haven't unlocked the instance, you will be scaled up. You will not earn XP, loot, or badges, but you will receive credit for the event.

Don’t miss your chance to unlock these exclusive rewards! These exclusive items are among the many rewards available for purchase from Manfred the Mander with your points:

• Fantastic Fight Fez Hat (cosmetic)
• Fantastic Fight Fest 2025 t-shirt
• Scarab Chariot Mount

This event is a team effort, the more wizards who join in, the faster the community can push through each wave and unlock the best rewards. Rally your friends, spread the word, and take on these challenges together.

Raid Island Quests

We finally had the time to go and provide Gwyn Fellwarden with a proper introduction. Head over to Lewellyn Prideheart in your guild and you’ll be able to begin a new quest featuring Gwyn in Dun Dara. There you’ll face the terrors of the Charnel House to prove yourselves worthy of the challenges to come in Raid Island.

Note: You need 4 wizards to complete this quest.

Voracious Void Quest

We’ve also had the time to create the introduction quest to the raid in Dragonsypre. Head to Dun Dara and find Gwyn Fellwarden. Gwyn will send you to investigate strange events in Dragonspyre, eventually leading to the Voracious Void raid.

Note: The previous introduction quest to Raid Island is a pre-requisite for this quest.

Spell Changes

Judgement, Poison, and Frostbite have new Spellement paths while the top path has been removed from Advanced Combat. These Spellements can be aquired through Beastmoon and Beastmoon Seeds.

All spells that previously had a condition that looked for Damage Over Time effects on the opponent or Heal Over Time effects on the caster now Gambit those effects for even greater value. Scion of Fire and Scion of Life are two examples.

Due to this change to over-time conditionals, some Advanced Combats have been adjusted to account for the new values.

• Crying Sky Raid – All dual school elite mobs have been re-adjusted to account for the allowed effect types in their fights. High Priest Yetaxa’s health has been reduced to meet the same relative length of the other Priests.
• Cabal’s Revenge Raid – Bat Bots have been adjusted to set up their OT Gambits better in the Personal Daemon fight and the ice ones will replace the Ice shield when hit before the Background Process. No health changes were needed
• Loon Knight – Damage dealt by the ducks across both Standard and Advanced has been reduced, and Drake Lockley’s punch cheat’s damage has been reduced as well.

Beastmoon Updates

New Beastmoon Forms

Storm Draconian

Storm Draconian focuses on dealing damage while weakening his enemies. He uses interactions never seen before including a new type of damage reduction aura and Storm’s first afterlife spell.

Life Wolf Warrior

The Life Wolf Warrior marks the final version of the original 10 Icons, meaning all Beastmoon Forms have variants of all 7 schools for a grand total of 70. This one heals allies like none before, protecting teammates with extra Healing Over Time and Pacify.

Beastmoon Schedule

Above are the expected Pets and Gold Idols for the next few months of Beastmoon events!

Check out the Event Schedule for the exact dates of the events and be sure to keep watch on the Live update notes and the game’s social media channels for any upcoming announcements.

Recycling Bin

Have you ever trashed an item only to later regret it? The Recycling Bin holds your trashed items for a limited time so that you can change your mind and reclaim them.

• Trashed items and released pets can be reclaimed for up to 30 days.
• Your recycling bin has a limited size and if you trash a lot of items, they may be removed from your recycling bin sooner than 30 days.
• It costs 1000 gold to reclaim an item.
• Click the Recycling Bin Button next to the Trash Button on the Backpack page of your spellbook to open your Recycling Bin.

Tournaments

Tournaments can now be scheduled on demand by players! Using the Tournaments Kiosk, a level 50 or higher player can select the “Host” button in the bottom left of the window.



This opens the Create Tournaments window. In the first page you can select from a list of tournament templates. These templates appear on the left, and you can look through all the pages using the arrows at the bottom of the list. When you select a template the rules information will appear on the right.

On the top half you can see the requirements, duration, and Tourney Token cost to enter the tournament. You can also click the rewards button in the top right to preview the rewards for the tournament. In the bottom half you can see each of the rules for the tournament. You can scroll through the rules using the arrow buttons. When you’ve found a selection that you’re happy with, click next.



In the next window you will still be able to see your selected tournament on the right. The left of the panel allows you to set the Tournament Privacy and Tournament Time options. Currently the Friends and Guild options are disabled as they are still in progress, so the only option for Tournament Privacy is Public. Under Tournament Time you can select when you want your tournament to begin. You may not schedule a tournament to start sooner than 15 minutes from now and you may not schedule a tournament more than six days from now. When you’ve set your time, click Purchase and Create Tournament to move on.


Hosted tournaments will cost crowns. Once you have created the tournament it will appear in the Hosted Schedule tab of the Tournaments Kiosk. A tooltip will appear over each tournament with the name of the host to help you find your friend’s tournament.



When you host a tournament, it functions like any other tournament hosted in the Weekly Schedule, except that hosts may join the tournament at any time. Other players may sign up an hour ahead of time. If enough players have signed up when the scheduled time the tournament will begin. If a tournament does not start, the host will be issued a credit, allowing them to host a tournament free of the crowns cost.

In addition to the Hosted Tournaments feature, the rewards of tournaments have been adjusted. Tournaments will now award Blue Arena Tickets and medals, which can be seen on the rewards preview screen.

User Journey Optimization

Updated Quests on Unicorn way so that optional quests (side-quests) are offered at the end, and not necessarily during the standard Unicorn Way quest chain.

• There is one side-quest that is still offered in its normal place, that is the Pesky Pirates side quest, since it takes place simultaneously with the Skeleton Crew quest.
• Players now get the Pixie/Fairy spell from the Fairies themselves.
• Players also now get the 1-day Broom Mount prior to having to cross the map to find Lady Oriel
• Rattlebones now has a proper boss mob notation on the map.

Bug Fixes/Enhancements

• Updates to spell text of some early utility spells.
• Some early utility spells now correctly categorized as Harmful Charms or Harmful Wards.
• Resolved an issue where Enchanted Treasure Cards did not appear in the sideboard.
• Auras on Shadow Enhanced Spells fixed and restored paths to Nested Fury, Call of Khrulhu, Winged Sorrow, Lamassu, Rusalka's Wrath, and Iron Sultan.
• Fixed detonate to detonate over 100% on bomb DOTs when applicable.
• Karamelle and Lemuria bosses properly drop all the spellements expected.
• Banned all remaining damage over time item card spells that were not Life, Myth, or Fire.
• Fixed Thoth and Taweret bottom spellement paths to cost 6 pips.
• Chameleon Clash Fusion Spells now have the proper 85% accuracy.
• Fixed undefined loot reward from the Devourer.
• Fixed Heqet aura hanging text.

July 31, 2025 Patch Notes

Larger Changes

• Adjusted Loot from all of Aquila to grant more spellements in the place of jewels and treasure cards
• Moved the Enchanted Armament Pet drop from Gladiator Dimachaerus to Lady Stonegaze
• Added Second Chance Chests to Cabal’s Revenge Raid and end of content bosses in Aquila
• Added XP to Arc 1 Quests, getting players up to level 50 by the end of Dragonspyre, even when completing only mainline quests.
• Added new “Earn all" Badges for Voracious Void, Crying Sky, and Cabal's Revenge Raids
• Added Raid Boss Housing Guests to Badge Rewards
• Beastmoon Pets are now both tradeable across characters and sellable through vendors/quick sell
• Judgement, Poison, and Frostbite have been added to the Event Spellement Pack

Bug Fixes

Spells

• Fixed Frostbite’s bottom path to properly clear when the enemy has 4 or more helpful charms
• Fixed Death Scion Top Path so it will not hit twice
• Allowed Pet Banshee spell to be used in Fusion
• Banned Alhazred’s Swarm from Advanced Combat
• Banned Monstrology Enchants from Advanced Combat
• Fixed Pet Rain of Fire bottom path to match trained version
• Fixed text error with Frost Giant’s bottom path spells
• Fixed card art on Call Dragon Thrall Beastmoon Spell
• Fixed card art corners of Ember Attenuate, Caldera Trap, and Hail Trap
• Ankle-Biter Pet Talent now provides an Advanced-Allowed version of Shatter

Combats - Raid

• Reduced potency of infections from the Feline Thief in the Ghastly Conspiracy Raid
• Moved Hacked Automaton’s “Maximum Capacity” cheat in Ghastly Conspiracy Raid to trigger at the end of his action rather than at the end of the round.
• Swapping blades and traps no longer circumvents the zone-wide cheats

Combats - Liches & Legends

• Dying to Damage Over Time in the Liches & Legends Gauntlet no longer causes a full heal from the enemies.
• Fixed Adrenaline Surge Spell Text in Liches & Legends Gauntlet
• Fixed Tale of Woe spell targeting in the Cake Mimic fight

Combats - Aquila

• Added missing loot from Carthaginian Elephant Warrior in Mount Olympus
• Stheno in Challenge Mode will no longer apply a Shield to the Wizard
• Swapped Natural Attack from Poseidon in Tartarus Challenge Mode to match the Atlantea version
• Fixed Sand Squid Tentacles to properly add minions to the combat in Challenge Mode

Combats - Arc 3 Rematches

• Grandfather Spider & Shadowwock will no longer react to self-hits
• Shadowbones Health in Challenge Mode reduced: 9000 >> 8000
• The Rat's Titan laser damage reduced: 555 >> 450

Combats - Other

• Fixed Damage enchants on Selected Target and Multi-DOT spells to be properly applied
• Fixed Detonating for over 100% on bomb DOT spells
• Set big hit spells to No Discard in Khonsu fight
• Fixed text of Seraph from Live Weaving’s Herswione Grazer

Badges

• Fixed Carthaginian Elephant Warior in Challenge Mode and Teles in Standard Mode so they complete their respective badges upon defeat.
• Cleaned up requirements of Polaris badges to match their descriptions
• Hatred of Emus now counts as an Emu Rider for the Wallaru Badges
• Fixed display requirement for Voracious Void Raid Quest Badge and Spirit of Ignorance Badge
• Fixed Syntax error with Fellspawn Badge

Quests & Zones

• Fixed Karamelle Side Quests to award spellements properly
• Multiple quests that incorrectly said “Place the Ghostlight” have been corrected
• Fixed a rare issue where players could be blocked when failing to teleport during the Selenopolis Myth Spell Quest (Thoth to Beat)
• “Poseidon Adventure!” & "Sisyphus is Unhappy” Quests are now properly marked as side quests
• “Crypt of Ages” during the “Sisyphus is Unhappy” Quest should now properly allow 4 players into the instance
• Sisyphus’ Chamber no longer has underwater sound effects
• 20-Ton Rock now has an interact portrait during the “Sisyphus is Unhappy” quest
• Tartarus Urn Puzzle Pieces will no longer disappear when re-entering the room

Other

• Added Event Spellement Recipes to Beastmoon Seeds
• Emote Wheel can now be accessed during Raids
• The Quintessence reagent no longer doubles during double reagents
• Fixed Imagitaur Pet to give pet version of Minotaur rather than the Treasure Card version
• Spellement Reset during Free Training Point Buyback will no longer throw an error

August 7th, 2025 Patch Notes

Fantastic Fight Fest

• Fantastic Fight Fest should now appear on the first page of the Events tab.
• Fight Fest now properly level scales players up
• Corrected the name of some Fight Fest recipes that mismatched with their respective Item names
• Fixed an issue where multiple Fight Fest interiors would say “Are you sure you want to leave?” after Boss Death
• Resolved some issues where bosses would disappear if someone in the group had already completed certain side quests.
• Fantastic Fight Fest Equipment sold by Manfred Mander is now tradeable across characters
• Fixed an issue where Fight Fest would award points for teaming up in a non-featured world
• Fight Fest progress goals should now have clearer requirements
• Temporarily disabled the “Arc 1 Protection” from the Spring 2021 update that favored players questing in Arc 1 for those Team Ups
• Fixed an issue where Team Up Kiosk would “stick,” showing Team Ups for a world that is not currently selected

Aquila Chronicle Content

• Corrected the price on the Aquila Second Chance Chests
• After reviewing player feedback and data, we’ve decided to reduce the prices of the Aquila Second Chance Chests to make them more appropriately balanced
• We understand that some players may have already purchased Second Chance Chests before this adjustment. To show our appreciation, we’re enabling the Free Second Chance Chest Roll Member Benefit through August 13th, 2025

Misc. Bug Fixes

• Fixed a quest blocking issue where Old One's Office during the "Arcanum101" Quest was inaccessible
• Resolved an issue where Personal Daemon in the Cabal’s Revenge Raid would spawn Divine Cabalist’s chest instead of his own
• Grizzleheim Tooltip should no longer spam the player with notifications after using a Level 50 Elixir
• Fixed an issue where Novus' Scales of Knowledge would disappear too early
• Niles the Balance Tree is no longer invisible in Classic Mode

Known Issues

Spellements and Scion Spells

• In some cases, when players attempt to upgrade Scion spells, the spell may appear to reset or become unlearned. This can make it look like Spellements were lost.
• These paths will be "frozen", meaning players will no longer be able to use spellements or refund them.
• This temporary measure is being implemented to prevent further issues while we continue to work toward a solution to this problem.

Other

• Fiery Skelewarrior hatching has been fixed
• Note: Some other hatching routes are still not behaving as intended.

We kindly ask all players to report any bugs or feedback to The Official Wizard101 Discord server.