CE worth the $20

[JillianNekonia]

As far as $20.00 value goes:

In most games with Mounts and Cash Shops:
Mounts ~$15-25
Pets (Minions) ~$10-20
Helms ~$5
Gear Sets ~$10-20

The Barding is a set of 3 pieces, hence listing it as a gear set. So if you were to price-out each item separately you'd be spending around $40.00-70.00 for the items. Don't forget that you get these items on each and every one of the characters you create, thus if you redeem them multiple times, you save yourself even more.

I don't frequent cash shops in any "free" game so this is a surprise to me, man 10-15 bucks for a pet that does nothing but follow you? And here I was finding it hard to spend 2k gil to get one lol

[Johnist]

I don't frequent cash shops in any "free" game so this is a surprise to me, man 10-15 bucks for a pet that does nothing but follow you? And here I was finding it hard to spend 2k gil to get one lol

I played Wizard101 for 2 years... until they released the Pet Pavilion expansion a year and a half ago, yes, people were spending up to $20.00 for some of the rarest pets that you could farm from a High-level, Low Drop-Rate boss. And all these things would give you access to was maybe 1 spell card / duel added into your deck... With the Pet Pavilion expansion, they made it so you could 'level' your pets up and the pets could give you bonuses like extra health, the pet may interrupt the battle and cast something, give you higher resist or damage, etc.

Wizard101 is a F2P/B2P/P2P hybrid game, where you can either play with your default 'free' zones, buy more areas with an In-game currency bought for real money (Crowns), or pay a subscription to have access to the entirety of the game during your subscription window.