Olympus Update - Wizard101 Guide

Original Aquila Gear Update

The original aquila gear is no longer class specific. This means you can get fire gear on a life wizard. This means that generally getting your desired piece of gear are lower per run because there are more pieces to choose from. However, if you plan to run multiple wizards of different schools anyways, this may be a good change for you.

Sisyphus Questline

To reach Sisyphus, a new boss that comes with the update, you must first have completed all of the previous Mount Olympus content, meaning the Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades dungeons. Once that's done, you may talk to Athena in Mount Olympus nearby the Zeus dungeon to start Sisyphus's questline.

New Boss: Sisyphus

The new boss, Sisyphus is in a sigil room to the right of the Zeus dungeon. He has some important cheats to note. He will put up an irremovable bubble that sets a damage cap restriction on all players. He will periodically do a natural attack on a player, dealing max health damage that increases based on the amount of helpful charms they have on them, then raise the damage cap and give the attacked wizard an attack card. This attack card, Rock Put, will ignore the damage cap. The recommendation for this fight is to pack small, medium, and big hits to chunk Sisyphus down until he is defeated.

Gear Pieces

There are two ways you can get the gear. You can craft it or you can get it via the crowns shop from the Aquila Chronicle Pack. You can get the crafting recipes from Khalkus Coppersmith next to the Sisyphus boss room. He is shown above. Although the crafted and pack-aquired gear pieces have the same stats, the appearance will be different. If you craft the gear, it will only look like previous Aquila gear and will not come with the new look shown above. If you are max level, the robe is the main gear piece to go for. It usually trades critical block for shadow pip rating. At level 60 and 100, especially for ice, some of the new gear is competitive with the best gear available. There is also purely cosmetic oracle gear that you can get from acquiring badges that require you to beat challenge mode versions of Aquila dungeons a certain number of times.

Attaining the Gear

For crafting, you will need to get olympian dust, which comes from standard and challenge mode Mount Olympus dungeons. Sisyphus drops about 5-8 olympian dust in standard mode and 6-9 olympian dust in challenge mode. The Zeus dungeon drops 15-25 in standard and 18-30 in challenge. Atlantia drops about 20 olympian dust per run while Tartarus drops about 45. You can also have a chance to acquire the gear pieces directly as a drop. Sisyphus drops the level 90 gorgon athames. The sand squid drops the level 70 gorgon amulets. Cronus drops level 90 gorgon rings. The Gladiator drops level 30 gorgon decks.

Hybrid Pets

There are hybrid pets that can be made by hatching a faun and a skeleturian together, the faun pets are only available from the Aquila Chronicle Pack while the skeleturian pets can come from any Mount Olympus dungeons in either standard or challenge mode. The hybrid pets are exclusive, meaning you cannot attain the pet body from hatching with others.

New Spells

Getting the New Spells

To get the new spells, you will need to farm spellements. The farming for these spells can take a while. When farming Mount Olympus dungeons for spellements, you MUST use the scales of knowledge to scale down to an appropriate level to get them. The spellements are not guaranteed to be for the spell of your school. Sisyphus drops 2-3 spellements in standard mode and 3-4 in challenge. Zeus drops 7-8 in standard and 7-10 in challenge. Poseidon drops about 13 spellements and Hades drops about 14. Sisyphus challenge mode may be the quickest and easiest farm for spellements because it is only one fight that drops a good amount of spellements and the challenge mode is not much harder than standard mode.