Apologizing in advance, during some small parts of the video the music is missing due to copyright. And also thank you RUclips for poopooing my audio. :( Other Noted Mistakes: 32:20 Spells such as spectral blast or chimera scale off of your balance damage. You wouldn't need universal gear. Traps and blades stack multiplicatively, not additive.
I legit have no idea how I beat this dungeon as a child, lmao. I was dumb as hell as a kid. But I know I did it cause I barely remember it and I have the gear. All I remember from that era is barely Darkmoor and Call of Khrulhu literally taking 50 years to finish its animation.
@@PlayerN101 That may have very well been whom it was back then. The name sounds about right. They didn’t have any video voice, it was just music I think and sped up game play with their typing in game showing. I watched the solo several times, admiring the time it must have taken to organize and accomplish such a task as a low health lvl 90 storm. Others have since done it, but this was done fairly early on when it was much bigger of a deal. Thanx for the info!
32:20 This is not how damage works. The damage of a spell is not scaled by the damage it deals but the school of the card. Balance damage scales up the damage of all balance cards. You do not need Fire, Ice or Storm damage to increase the damage of Hydra - as a matter of tact those damage types have 0 impact.
I LOVED this game as a kid, but I kinda forgot about it after I reached the end of the Free to Play parts, and all I could really do was farm the Kraken boss. I had NO idea that the game got THIS complicated. It kinda makes me want to go back and play the game again, but I honestly don't think I want to do something like this by myself. Playing through the entire game with a friend sounds like it would be a LOT of fund tbh.
It gets A LOT more complex than this. It's rough in the most recent worlds. The newest dungeon "the nightmare" is by FAR the hardest in the game I think.
I remember years ago grinding Darkmoor (the dungeon in this video) for HOURS each day with friends, good times :-') I loved Wizard101 as a kid but I definitely feel after level 100 the game feels very, VERY repetitive (plus its so insanely expensive to play for a kids MMO game). So trust me, you don't miss too much I promise haha
I keep finding myself playing it again ad again whenever the mood strikes me - it gets complicated and cool, but it can be torture to figure out what cards to use when you have so may options ;-; Maybe that's just me not understanding the mechanics well though
I'm currently doing a run with a friend, he never played but I played it on release and came back from time to time, and it's been a lot of fun. It's also fun seeing him get hyped about a card he got 😂 Although it had been about 4 or so years since I last played so seeing all these new spells was nice for quality of life. Although I don't like the blade nerf since I've also noticed Bosses don't have blade nerfs but I do
Little correction, traps and blades stack multiplicatively, not additive. The 5 feint example you give is 1.7x1.7x1.7x1.8x1.8, or a bit over an 11x multiplier.
I love the explanation of cards and combat at the beginning of this video. It's the most complete explanation of how combat works that I've seen. It would make a really great standalone video because that's the hardest part of getting people into this game. I try to teach people the combat but it's hard to explain it as concisely and completely as you have.
I was 14 when darkmoor came out and i remember how incredibly satisfying it was to finish for the first time, especially with the ending to the Malistaire story
I just took my dad through Darkmoor a couple weeks ago. I've been playing since 2011 and this is his first wiz to get out of Wizard city. We (level 100 Death + level 100 ice), with some effort, managed to duo the entire thing. I think the fight that took the longest was Shane II, with Malistare being one of the easiest fights. I knew about the Doom & Gloom cheese. Of course, we used it. But what made it even better for us was that my dad had used Dr. Von's Monster on Malistare as a hit, and the infection from Von *didn't* get removed by his cheat, so by the time his shadow form spawned in, dude was looking mighty anemic with only like 14k health *max.* Don't remember what he actually spawned in with. But man, that was great.
@@theshadowlordsadvisor1233 You can't full set in Celestia and Azteca. Jade gear doesn't give enough resist to achieve 100% universal resist at that point. There's also the problem of bosses dual schooling and using Infallible. If you watch Waynevanilla, you'd see how difficult it actually is.
I remember trying to do Darkmoor with a 3 man team and when we got to the final boss, and we kept dying so at some point we had this cycle where we would just keep dying and coming back while the others were hanging on. It was a WILD ride but we did it in the end. That was probably the most fun I ever had with the game too
I remember I did darkmoor a year after it's release literally it was a damn nightmare let me tell you on the year 2015 the bosses were hard as hell and to this very day the bosses in darkmoor aren't a joke because darkmoor was literally the only three dungeons that actually exceeded everybody's expectations on the term challenge and even a decade later it's still a challenge to do literally my personal opinion on the bosses it's not a matter of when it's a matter of if you can defeat said boss because the first boss in graveyard literally is what you call an elite boss he never plays around the battle is like you play on his terms not yours and if you do one misstep you're screwed and the whole team pays for it unfortunately the zombie is by far the hardest and to this day even after a decade later he is still the hardest boss ever to exist he does not mess around when dealing with wizards the very moment you enter the dual circle it's a matter of if you can defeat him if you try a solo or with a team because he don't play you can convince me that yergeny wasn't an a******because he literally was an a******and he still is to this day
it's so sad how non threatening the lvl 50 og malistare is now. it's essentially jade oni they should really make it have atleast 15k hp and bring back its meteor scarecrow fire dragon(I forgot which ones it was?) cheats when you blade shield trap heal just lessen the damage or make it have a 50% chance to cast when you do
I remember how hard it was to do this dungeon series. It was a real trial and I couldn't do it solo. I''m impressed at this video and it might bring me back to Wizard101, especially since they announced it was going to be going onto Playstation 5 in the future! ^_^
Oh yeah darkmoore! First time I did it I was the only one on my team without shadow magic as I was such a high level from doing literally every side quest. I came back after playing when I was way younger, and everyone had these minmax strats while they just handheld me as a tempest spammed
Bright side to all the bosses being mostly astral schools is that you kind of get a grasp at how the Astral schools work. Moon: Ice Death Myth Sun: Life Myth Fire Star: Storm Life Death I’ve seen people and wiki pages recommend resist gear and rings that come with resist for those specific schools.
21:18 The difference isn't obvious because they didnt update the card icon since it isn't player available, but the 8 pip frostbite is an AOE vs the 5 pip single target.
Imagine never having played wizard, and you see a video like this explaining all these cheats and stuff, like I myself have grinded darkmoor to dust several times on several wizards, and even then I could hardly remember any of this stuff and was almost confused at some points, like wow. Then again its been about 2-3 years since Ive actually gotten to that point
32:15 you dont need universal damage stats to deal damage with elemental/spirit damage the school of the card counts for defining damage not the school of the damage
I spent 400$ just for a new laptop to play this game again so I could get my nephew started on this masterpiece I spent all my childhood allowance on to reach lvl 50 in one summer
I have not played wizard101 in quite some time, and I still remember how much of a pain the graveyard was, but the rewards were great. Edit: Storm wizards can use steal charm on the Supercharge from Von Shane to get a big boost in damage.
Haha thank you so much for this vid... I played during the peak of this dungeon and this unlocked so many memories.. so much trauma LOLL grinding shane von shane when glowbugs wasn't nerfed 😭 But I met most of my friends farming yevgeny and the secret boss. People used to hang out and chat infront of the entrance to the graveyard.. good times haha
I thought you had to do the entirety of darkmoor as a run and I’m talking I did everything not beginning from graveyard. I did that for 4 runs until someone saw me and called me out on it
As a poor kid, i was devastated by my DREAM game being locked behind a paywall. I never got to play it, and now that i have my own kid, I won't have time to play it (or even pay for it, kids are expensive!) So I think its really cool to unwind by watching people like you get really excited about the game I missed out on. Keep up the great videos!! ❤🎉
Let’s all be honest being a kid back in the 2000s was vastly different because everyone wasn’t offended by everything like today that’s why the darker themes don’t bother the older community 😂😂😂
*Brother sorry but it's not the hardest challenge in wizard101 by far. I respect the grind and this challenge though. The hardest challenge in the game is being beaten by Waynevanilla right now which is completing wizard101's every world without taking any damage* :) nice vid though
Apologizing in advance, during some small parts of the video the music is missing due to copyright. And also thank you RUclips for poopooing my audio. :(
Other Noted Mistakes:
32:20 Spells such as spectral blast or chimera scale off of your balance damage. You wouldn't need universal gear.
Traps and blades stack multiplicatively, not additive.
I legit have no idea how I beat this dungeon as a child, lmao. I was dumb as hell as a kid. But I know I did it cause I barely remember it and I have the gear. All I remember from that era is barely Darkmoor and Call of Khrulhu literally taking 50 years to finish its animation.
I’m trying to remember the name of the storm soloist that soloed Tartarus as a level 90… They were amazing as well.
@@goodlucking244 Michael Stormwraith did it, though that video is no longer public.
@@PlayerN101 That may have very well been whom it was back then. The name sounds about right. They didn’t have any video voice, it was just music I think and sped up game play with their typing in game showing. I watched the solo several times, admiring the time it must have taken to organize and accomplish such a task as a low health lvl 90 storm. Others have since done it, but this was done fairly early on when it was much bigger of a deal. Thanx for the info!
@@goodlucking244 Sounds just like him. His YT name is TheGamersOfficial, if that rings a bell.
I'm loving how much you're hyping up how hard Darkmoor is now, because I played it at launch, and it was brutal. Trying to solo was just masochism.
Darkmoor at launch was insane. ^
doing it some justice because it really was crazy difficult
grinded all my storms darkmoor gear for a month, just for them to make it 3 run possible now lol...
Kane took the balance thing personally, he soloed Darkmoor on a lvl 100 Balance soon after this was uploaded 😭
32:20 This is not how damage works. The damage of a spell is not scaled by the damage it deals but the school of the card.
Balance damage scales up the damage of all balance cards. You do not need Fire, Ice or Storm damage to increase the damage of Hydra - as a matter of tact those damage types have 0 impact.
hey that's me!
congrats on the accomplishment!
nice job my glorious king
W Kane
Congratulations man.
The legend
I LOVED this game as a kid, but I kinda forgot about it after I reached the end of the Free to Play parts, and all I could really do was farm the Kraken boss. I had NO idea that the game got THIS complicated. It kinda makes me want to go back and play the game again, but I honestly don't think I want to do something like this by myself. Playing through the entire game with a friend sounds like it would be a LOT of fund tbh.
It gets A LOT more complex than this. It's rough in the most recent worlds. The newest dungeon "the nightmare" is by FAR the hardest in the game I think.
I remember years ago grinding Darkmoor (the dungeon in this video) for HOURS each day with friends, good times :-') I loved Wizard101 as a kid but I definitely feel after level 100 the game feels very, VERY repetitive (plus its so insanely expensive to play for a kids MMO game). So trust me, you don't miss too much I promise haha
I keep finding myself playing it again ad again whenever the mood strikes me - it gets complicated and cool, but it can be torture to figure out what cards to use when you have so may options ;-;
Maybe that's just me not understanding the mechanics well though
Just team up bro
I'm currently doing a run with a friend, he never played but I played it on release and came back from time to time, and it's been a lot of fun. It's also fun seeing him get hyped about a card he got 😂
Although it had been about 4 or so years since I last played so seeing all these new spells was nice for quality of life. Although I don't like the blade nerf since I've also noticed Bosses don't have blade nerfs but I do
Little correction, traps and blades stack multiplicatively, not additive. The 5 feint example you give is 1.7x1.7x1.7x1.8x1.8, or a bit over an 11x multiplier.
Yeah thats my bad. i was going off my little kid brain as i always thought they just added up like normal addition
how does that work for gear stats then? is that also like card damage times 2 if you have 100 damage in stats?
@@oriharaizaya612yes
I love the explanation of cards and combat at the beginning of this video. It's the most complete explanation of how combat works that I've seen. It would make a really great standalone video because that's the hardest part of getting people into this game. I try to teach people the combat but it's hard to explain it as concisely and completely as you have.
I was 14 when darkmoor came out and i remember how incredibly satisfying it was to finish for the first time, especially with the ending to the Malistaire story
I just took my dad through Darkmoor a couple weeks ago. I've been playing since 2011 and this is his first wiz to get out of Wizard city. We (level 100 Death + level 100 ice), with some effort, managed to duo the entire thing. I think the fight that took the longest was Shane II, with Malistare being one of the easiest fights. I knew about the Doom & Gloom cheese. Of course, we used it. But what made it even better for us was that my dad had used Dr. Von's Monster on Malistare as a hit, and the infection from Von *didn't* get removed by his cheat, so by the time his shadow form spawned in, dude was looking mighty anemic with only like 14k health *max.* Don't remember what he actually spawned in with. But man, that was great.
This guy is too good at explaining things
I mean the hardest challenge anyone in this game has attempted is the damageless run
lets go wayne, best to ever do it
just full set to whatever mob / enemy you fight and go immune it’s not too hard besides the major bosses / higher level mobs
@@theshadowlordsadvisor1233 You can't full set in Celestia and Azteca. Jade gear doesn't give enough resist to achieve 100% universal resist at that point. There's also the problem of bosses dual schooling and using Infallible.
If you watch Waynevanilla, you'd see how difficult it actually is.
Love seeing more quality content made for wiz! This video was great man :)
you are so clear with the way you explain things you’re amazing 🤯
Fantastic video. I’d watch these for days!
Kane is undoubtedly one of the greatest to ever do it
I don't even play this game anymore and haven't looked it up. But your intro was solid and hooked me.
I remember trying to do Darkmoor with a 3 man team and when we got to the final boss, and we kept dying so at some point we had this cycle where we would just keep dying and coming back while the others were hanging on. It was a WILD ride but we did it in the end.
That was probably the most fun I ever had with the game too
Unfortunately Kingsisle has never created a dungeon as good as this one to this day.
Nightmare
@@ragnor23 Disagree.
@@The_Azure_Shining_One I know I was trolling lmaoooo
I remember I did darkmoor a year after it's release literally it was a damn nightmare let me tell you on the year 2015 the bosses were hard as hell and to this very day the bosses in darkmoor aren't a joke because darkmoor was literally the only three dungeons that actually exceeded everybody's expectations on the term challenge and even a decade later it's still a challenge to do literally my personal opinion on the bosses it's not a matter of when it's a matter of if you can defeat said boss because the first boss in graveyard literally is what you call an elite boss he never plays around the battle is like you play on his terms not yours and if you do one misstep you're screwed and the whole team pays for it unfortunately the zombie is by far the hardest and to this day even after a decade later he is still the hardest boss ever to exist he does not mess around when dealing with wizards the very moment you enter the dual circle it's a matter of if you can defeat him if you try a solo or with a team because he don't play you can convince me that yergeny wasn't an a******because he literally was an a******and he still is to this day
punctuation
God you are so underrated bro I’ve been watching you on TikTok and I hope you get as popular on here as there.
it's so sad how non threatening the lvl 50 og malistare is now. it's essentially jade oni
they should really make it have atleast 15k hp and bring back its meteor scarecrow fire dragon(I forgot which ones it was?) cheats when you blade shield trap heal just lessen the damage or make it have a 50% chance to cast when you do
field spells are like domain expansions as well
I remember how hard it was to do this dungeon series. It was a real trial and I couldn't do it solo. I''m impressed at this video and it might bring me back to Wizard101, especially since they announced it was going to be going onto Playstation 5 in the future! ^_^
There was a level 100 solo on life by Icehammer as well. If i'm wrong, please correct me on that.
Your correct on that one because I remember watching that video years ago like a decade ago now. That video is still up on RUclips literally
I love that this dungeon has been soloed near level 100 by every single school now.
whata cool in-depth video. entertaining as hell
Hi, you can make sure he does not revive, beat him and 2 minions, then after that kill the 3rd minion
When darkmoor first launch, it was the hardest most time consuming dungeon ever.
Dude Tartarus is harder
Oh yeah darkmoore! First time I did it I was the only one on my team without shadow magic as I was such a high level from doing literally every side quest. I came back after playing when I was way younger, and everyone had these minmax strats while they just handheld me as a tempest spammed
You call pull my full deck from my cold dead hands
Bright side to all the bosses being mostly astral schools is that you kind of get a grasp at how the Astral schools work.
Moon: Ice Death Myth
Sun: Life Myth Fire
Star: Storm Life Death
I’ve seen people and wiki pages recommend resist gear and rings that come with resist for those specific schools.
21:18 The difference isn't obvious because they didnt update the card icon since it isn't player available, but the 8 pip frostbite is an AOE vs the 5 pip single target.
Imagine never having played wizard, and you see a video like this explaining all these cheats and stuff, like I myself have grinded darkmoor to dust several times on several wizards, and even then I could hardly remember any of this stuff and was almost confused at some points, like wow. Then again its been about 2-3 years since Ive actually gotten to that point
32:15 you dont need universal damage stats to deal damage with elemental/spirit damage the school of the card counts for defining damage not the school of the damage
Wizard101 is still around? When I heard of it I thought it was cool, but didn’t expect it to actually stick around this long!
I remember how hype my friends and I got after getting gear drop. Good times
A hard wizards dungeon…I cannot WAIT
We’re all just living in Waynes world, put some respect on his name.
I spent 400$ just for a new laptop to play this game again so I could get my nephew started on this masterpiece I spent all my childhood allowance on to reach lvl 50 in one summer
If your gonna do this on a different school I suggest farming 7 pip spellments due to they increase the damage
I have not played wizard101 in quite some time, and I still remember how much of a pain the graveyard was, but the rewards were great.
Edit: Storm wizards can use steal charm on the Supercharge from Von Shane to get a big boost in damage.
Why did I as a wizard101 veteran listen to a 7 minute explanation of how the game works? Lol
This honestly would be a lot easier if a death was doing this and using drain AoEs like Scarecrow and Call of Khrulhu
I really like your avatar emotes xD -3-
My boy just beat it on live 🔥🔥
Haha thank you so much for this vid... I played during the peak of this dungeon and this unlocked so many memories.. so much trauma LOLL grinding shane von shane when glowbugs wasn't nerfed 😭
But I met most of my friends farming yevgeny and the secret boss.
People used to hang out and chat infront of the entrance to the graveyard.. good times haha
the actual video starts at 7:50
7:24 for those who already understand the mechanics and need no explanation 👍
Thank you bro, you tryna play wiz ?
Aye bro, you got a voice for this and a nice style. keep it up
29:59 how did he get the robe AND the boots 😭
wait thats actually insane i didnt notice he got both LOL
Stumbled upon this video love the content this takes me back
I thought you had to do the entirety of darkmoor as a run and I’m talking I did everything not beginning from graveyard. I did that for 4 runs until someone saw me and called me out on it
Awesome vid would love more in this vein
Honestly with Nightmare now this dungeon seems easy
This just wasn't possible in 2014
As a poor kid, i was devastated by my DREAM game being locked behind a paywall. I never got to play it, and now that i have my own kid, I won't have time to play it (or even pay for it, kids are expensive!) So I think its really cool to unwind by watching people like you get really excited about the game I missed out on. Keep up the great videos!! ❤🎉
They used to have double HP before I think.
aint no way this game easy like im a solo player still stuck in katmandu its so hard man
I mean, I've done darkmore (graveyard) solo on balance at level 112 (when i got nested fury)
Let’s all be honest being a kid back in the 2000s was vastly different because everyone wasn’t offended by everything like today that’s why the darker themes don’t bother the older community 😂😂😂
is the arc 2 video almost done?
you forgot Aphrodite aswell would like to see that soloed aswell
Didn't Michael StormWraith solo it at 100? Correct me if I'm wrong, his videos are either hidden or deleted.
He soloed the first dungeon, but nothing more
One frostbite is AOE
I soloed it as a death… 😂 was level 115
now do it on a 100 balance lol
I have a level 100 balance still...
love the wiz nerding
Awesome video bro
Game gotten easier cause we got older. Yes they came out with more Op stuff but we are able to strategize easily
The issue with w101 is it gets redundant after a while. I play once a year.
But also it was more than just the music your mic kept getting muffled not just the music which made you kinda hard to hear even at Max volume
Hardest challenge my ass i have soloed this dungeon 150 times
I solo darkmoor and have for years. Alia dragonwalker
uhhhh balance damage works on spells like hydra lmfao. if it didnt balance would literally do 0 damage
arc 2 lore when?
Great vid keep it up
*Brother sorry but it's not the hardest challenge in wizard101 by far. I respect the grind and this challenge though. The hardest challenge in the game is being beaten by Waynevanilla right now which is completing wizard101's every world without taking any damage* :) nice vid though
34:01 😭💀
nice blech dude
4:51 Yugioh
holy shiiiit
W content
Yo😊
First 😤
im gonna be so real, why are you explaining what wizard101 is and what spells do when im trying to see what the hardest challenge was...
i skipped 1/3 of the video til you finally got to the point
Because you need to know how this shit works to know why it's hard