With Arch Mastery starting at level 50, you can now cast any school spell using power pips. You can even get a jewel at level 50 from the shopping district that gives you just enough arch mastery to start getting school pips. This makes mastery amulets near useless and also makes questing for tank schools that don't get early AOEs really easy(just train meteor strike lol).
Correction: you can equip the jewel at level 15, and you get more than enough gold naturally to get it at that level. Just buy a random amulet with the correct slot type and you'll be ready to cast any spell you want.
@@ReaperSagami36 Yep, I made that correction. It's super good for life and death that can now just train meteor strike and get fire damage gear from bazaar until they can get better gear from malistaire.
I still don't think it's worth it as the best gear you can get for level sets (30, 60, 100, 130 etc) are all heavily class specific and you can't get nearly enough balanced stats to make casting other school spells worth it
At some point, I feel it may get an anime/cartoon, and then it will be at it's best especially as it's becoming likely that membership will likely go away as requirement
@@WeyardWiz I think before they make it fully free to play they would have to over hall the crown shop to turn a profit. As it stands right now crown items are just not worth it and if they where going to make it free to play fully they would have to make the crown shop more appealing. But I do hope one day they do make it fully free to play or at least the first ark free to play.
Steam charts are wrong. 90% of the playerbase doesn't play on steam because we already had accounts on the normal launcher and data doesn't transfer to steam version
As a balance main, soloing really isn’t as bad as most people make it out to be. Especially once you get super nova. The only problem I have is with balance bosses which are really annoying but easy to take care of with chimera. Just makes the fights a bit longer. Currently in Polaris and I’ve soloed most everything with little to no problem
Yea same, i am Balance main and i feel very comfortable ,i even defeated many high lvl bosses alone ,you just have to know how to use shields,blades etc properly
I spent crowns on a snappy gryphon pet, get a balance blade, feint, and 7 pip are hydra so soloing is no problem , breeze through any fight solo now, especially those balance mobs and bosses
If you're starting out as a Life Wizard, the best thing you can do with your money first is to GET A KOOKABURRA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The Leaf Storm AoE it gives you (as well as a life blade item card) will make soloing so much more bearable. Even in group play it's quite well rounded with the Regenerate item card it gets.
OR try to sponge of other players and make friends until you unlock your AoE by being really nice, helpful, funny etc so they want to duo with you so you can duo rush through the first arc's DaC quests. I used a may cast spam Enchanted Armament because the ability to use an extra, buffed, life blade I found was hugely helpful in one hitting bosses (and the may cast spam impressed new players into wanting to duo with me)
Yeah life you get good buff and healing spells. But unfortunately you don’t get good hits until you do the forest lord spell quest, darkmoor, and Karamelle. Also that squirrel spell with the giant acorn is a decent AoE for life too.
1. Death: best utility, best in soloing and it is not bad in hitting as well. Very diverse 2. Fire: really fun to play, enough health for soloing and one of the best in hitting 3. Myth: cool spells, enough health for soloing and really good in hitting 4. Storm: best hitter, can be painful in questing, based on luck, I personally use storm just only as a farm charakter, because the gameplay is really boring by spamming tempust. 5. Life: you barely need to heal in wiz, so the utility is kind of worthless. Cool spells, slow in questing. 6. Ice: everything, what an ice can do, can a other school better, but at least it is easy, but boring and slow as well to quest. 7. Balance: everyone wants a balance, however its such a pain to level the balance up. The blade thing is quite ok, but in most cases elemental and spirit blades are enough.
Hey! Myth wizard player here, and I want to say that you should check out Monstrology! In areas where Myth Wizards can struggle in soloability, you can gather monstrology summons, of which any summons cost only two myth pips to cast (so one power pip) and you can summon a full three creatures into the battlefield. Now, sure you can't control them, but if you pack heals, blades, etc., you can cause some crazy chaos in boss fights. In regards to mastery amulets, you can farm the Tower of the Helephant to get a chance at Mastery Amulets. There is almost always people queuing to farm the TotH, even today. Im fairly certain every one of my mastery amulets has come from TotH. Additionally, you don't need packs to collect spells like Grendels Amends, as you can either a) have the (admittedly low) chance of getting them as drops from the Loremaster or b) craft a good portion of them as you go throughout the game. Crafting can be tedious, but I mean, what's an MMO without a little gear and item grinding lol. Otherwise, pretty good video! Enjoyable to watch. Some personal recommendations from a long time W101 player though: Small, precise decks with one or two reshuffles make battles way easier than larger bloated decks. Survivability for most schools only becomes a problem if you dont hit on the third or fourth turn (at the latest). I run a deck with two AOEs, two blades, a sharpened blade from my Enchanted Armament pet, two sun school boosts, and one reshuffle, and I put two (stackable) feints in to take on bosses. That's it, and honestly, its the deck thats been getting me to where I am now. With so few cards, I can guarantee myself getting the spells I need within a couple turns at most, and my normal strat going solo in PVE is blade blade hit for mobs and feint feint blade blade hit for bosses. For some cheating bosses, I switch up the strategy to fit the cheats, but I otherwise rarely alter my deck setup. If you took the time to read this, thank you! Again, loved the video, have a great day!
I’m ngl, I think I’m gonna give Myth a shot because of this message. It’s been my least favorite class for so long but I love the idea of Monstrology giving Myth back it’s class identity. Feels like a bit of extra work but I kinda like chasing after powerful enemies to use them as your allies and that really feels akin to quest spells for Myth but you can do them at your leisure (if you have the money for Monstrology spells, goddamn they get expensive lol).
I'm a 130 myth but I've never used monstrology even in soloing. I still use my minions for boss fights and I know how to maximize their usefulness without hurting my chance at winning a fight. I just wish bosses were not all stun immune. I haven't used Medusa (or any other stun spell) in like 6 years.
the hack for balance is to get an enchanted armament pet, so instead of getting only 2 blades you get 4, with a blade amulet and the maycast you get up to 6 blades, this really helped me solo all the way until i learned the enchanted armament spell, which then i switched to the snappy gryphon pet . Cheers!
the best part is, once you get the sharpened blade spell at 86. you can still keep the enchanted armament around for utility for those hard fights where someone else is hitting. Pet sharpen and regular sharpen are two different spells, meaning each blade turns into 3 different blades you can cast. this really utilizes balances strong points, combine that with feint, potent feint, amulet feint, mass feint hat, tc feint and blades and you can become the ultimate utility balance, as well as let level 1s get the one in a million badge.
When i picked up w101 again, i luckily hatched a grim sqeaker around level 20-something. So my death wizard had access to deer knight early game, but when I got scarecrow, EVVVERYTHING CHANGED! When death gets its aoes, its amazing!
Yeah, I did the same thing on my life with the Kookaburra, having an aoe early game is so good! I had my aoe in wizard city when other schools didn't get theirs until halfway through krok, so it felt really nice and made arc 1 so easy. I'm about to get forest lord so that's gonna be even more busted
I think death is perfect, particularly because the second arc is so long and has pacing problems. Death really gives the first and second arcs more balance than other schools.
You 100% do NOT need to spend real cash on gear for Storms. Instead, get to lvl 30 with regular gear, then farm Mt. Olympus for a full set. That gear lasts until lvl 60, then farm Waterworks gear, which lasts all the way to lvl 100. At 100 farm Darkmoor, etc. Storm is only difficult on some quest bosses on occasions, where you'll want to queue for a party. On the main questline, you'll probably need to queue for help about a dozen times. Otherwise, Storm is normally AoE 1-shotting every single battle as long as you're an average casual like myself. I personally finished all content as a storm without buying any gear (however, my only playthrough on Wizard101 was with a Storm).
I second all of this. I'm literally ass at Wiz but have always played Storm with minimal difficulty. People just like to give up and buy shit when the game gets challenging😭
yeah storm is only hard when it comes to bosses but unless ur bad at the game or something its not that bad my first storm was in empyrea against the 100% resistance to storm boss and 80% to myth it was painful
@Monkey D io i wouldnt say storm is the easiest to play its a bit easy in general because the game is easy but storm i love to solo because of how quick it is to solo as well
Hi, balance main here! Yes, balance can be an absolute nightmare to solo, speaking from experience. But one thing I found that balance does very well is run it with a secondary school. As you stated, they have some wiggle room with training points and they also can buff everyone. So, running them with a secondary honestly isn't that bad. For example, I have 2 balance sets, one pure balance, another balance/ fire. The damage ratios are around 130% balance damage and 125% fire damage. Honestly I personally don't love fire as a whole but running it as a secondary has given me a new appreciation for it. So that noticable change of "having a balance on your team" you can just give yourself. It allows for fun situations where you can cast Nested Fury, triggering your ice blades and balance blades and, if that doesn't finish the job, use fire dragon to use up the fire blades that are still there. That being said, it is very expensive requiring mastery amulets and crown gear for multiple class or universal damage.
I think balance is probably one of the worse schools early game, but once you hit late game with spells like Power Nova and Nested Fury, the game becomes incredibly easy. The only difficult fights were bosses with cheats that took away blades or traps, since balance depends heavily on utility. Other than that, I found balance to be just fine in terms of damage and solo playing (especially since some of the spells late game are super cool)
I have been getting back into the game and I have in fact been soloing with storm, and I actually love how I am forced to change my deck and come at fights with different strategies. It really mixes up the leveling process
I've always liked Fire for its consistency, and if you get Life Mastery you can lay down constant dps on your enemies while also healing yourself with better numbers in both damage and health than speccing into Death. Plus, Fire even has its own roundabout "damage to healing" spell in (Power) Link.
As a life wizard, the saddest thing I have ever seen is people using the basic heal 400 to self spell at the mid to high 60s unironically and while I'm in the party and healing them (This is when the lv cap was 70)
It’s true. As a balance wizard, I love to buff the shit out the hitter. It’s so fun to try and get everything I have on them before they obliterate the enemy. Thanks RUclips algorithm!
Life has always been an underrated school. You can get crazy damage on a life wizard and still be an absolute tank. Playing solo on a life was really easy but was also really fun if you can get past early game.
I got to Lvl 115 with ice snd then switch to Balance. Thats when I realized how much fun I could have with all the versitility this school can do. Plus I was actually doing damage now😂
Definitely one of the hardest parts is if you just refuse to look up drop tables (like me, because I'm lazy) so you don't ever actually grind bosses for the gear you need. Makes Soloing on my Balance a pain in the ass, that's for sure
Ice main here! I just hit 3k max health and level 46 today with my ice wizard that I've been using for over 10 years now (on and off hence being only level 46 lmao) Personally I've found that soloing as an ice wizard is pretty easy in terms of not dying super fast bc ice wizards are apparently built like tanks in terms of health. Attacks are not the strongest, but I've gotten better at utilizing traps to fix that. For my "secondary school" if you will, as a wee child I decided to spend most of my training points on Balance. Not sure why I did, but it's come in handy every now and then. (honestly I probably just thought it looked cool) In terms of healing as an Ice main, I've been trying to work my way up in Life spells to get things like satyr, but MAN does it take a handful of pips for health. Luckily I've got a pet dove that will cast unicorn at random times, so I definitely recommend trying to get a pet that can heal you if you're struggling to heal yourself amidst all the tower shields and ice wyverns you cast. I personally really love Ice, but despite being able to take hits left and right, not being able to efficiently heal is definitely a challenge especially when soloing haha Thanks for reading this if you did, and best of luck on all your quests! o/
Something to mention about Life is that they don't get a lot of damage spells early on. I remember losing as a Life wizard once because I couldn't pull any damage spells and I couldn't save up enough pips to heal myself enough to try to pull a damage spell.
I’ve been playing W101 since not long after it was released, and I have to thank little 9 year old me for selecting the school all the way back then for what I truly now believe is the strongest of the 7, which is Death. In terms of having the capability to solo the game, without outside help, Death is the easiest/strongest class, at least in PvE.
With the new archmastery update ice got the crasiest buff with the ability to make use of death pips pair this with ship of fools and changing to a life pip for the occasional satyr and train up in life school to said spell really removes liability of ice having low income heals
One of the most thorough school guides out there. Also, 🔥 video editing. As a fellow small content creator myself, audience retention is a ceaseless battle.
Thankfully I got the kookaburra on my fire wizard before I made my life wizard, trained it up to adult and traded it over so I had leaf storm right off the bat, and a blade so it made arc 1 ridiculously easy. I was even outhitting schools with a hitting roles a lot of the time since life has surprisingly good damage for a non-hitting schools.
ever since the ortherus update myth is so easy to solo pve and has access to both pierce and earthquake, it's stats are also one of the hardest hitters and its overall just very solid. ortherus is literally just a one and done and blade stacking is so easy, rn its more balance then balance itself, i play both a fire and myth wizard and myth is 100% without a doubt much much easy to pve
yeah i'm currently playing ice and i like it a lot but it sucks damage-wise so i'm thinking of going for a storm atm for quick bursts, then maybe switch up later on
My first wizard was a death wizard because my older brother told me a lie when I was super young saying only they could access the death school. It is by far my favorite school and the only one I’ve gotten above level 100. Such an overpowered school with a lot of personal memories behind it
Coming back to this game after playing as a kid from beta (2009ish?) to around Zafaria's release in 2013. God a lot has changed. *cracks knuckles* Nostalgia time let's rock.
Really sick video my guy! I love the amount of work you put into this! The transitions, the layout;; I completely respect it! Not many wiztubers are able to get this sort of quality!! Keep up the amazing work ♥️
@@heyitsmax_ AWH YES OF COURSE! You got this please keep up the amazing work!! With consistency of content like this whatever you decide to play/record you're definently gonna get some sort of attention you deserve !! ♥️
As an ice wizard main i found it to be fun to be able to solo most dungeons. Most of the time the enemy is easy to read and you can just be prepared with lots of shields for the school that you would go up against. I always found it fun to just look at the enemy and cast a shield before they got for a big hit thus ruining all of their preparations to damage me. Made Pvp a lil fun especially seeing how frustrated the enemy would be after their spell would do next to nothing. Ice is fun to solo if you have the patience and can figure out the enemy strategies. Plus ice is one of the schools to have the useful steal spell when dealing with enemies who cast that annoying 90% damage reductions shield.
Yes the fire school transition got a bit messed up by premiere. No I will not be fixing it. Also feel free to lmk what I got right or what I got wrong in the comments (civilly)!!! A lot of the criticism of my last guide got worked into this one. More Fire Emblem coming early next week :)
Ice is one of my faverites because my first wizard (that i still play on today) is ice, and its kinda nastalgic for me. Also, i feel like storm and late game death is fun.
I found storm to be the **easiest** to solo due to the high damage. As long as you have a high accuracy and high pip chance gear you dont have much trouble killing bosses fast. Though I will say storm was my 3rd school so I did have an advantage with good gear.
@@cole7276 no they meant high pip and high accuracy. theres a bunch of gear that offers a higher chance of getting power pips each round and gear that offers higher accuracy rates. high damage is good and all, but if you can't hit your opponent what's the point? and storm already has the highest damage rate of any school so it's better to put more focus on other stats. storm has the worst accuracy rate so its beneficial to get gear that makes up for that.
Life main! I've been playing this game for many years, have tried every school and honestly I've had so much fun playing this school. Like mentioned in the video: early game can be extremely slow due to having very few effective damage spells, however after getting forest lord or even centaur the game picks up FAST. I would recommend playing with a team early on especially if you don't want to take the time to farm dungeons or do all the side quests, however mid-late game you don't need the team, the team needs you.
As a balance myself, (since they nerfed my Loremaster spell that we used oh so much in pvp) my only other best spells have been chimera, and Hydra for ANY boss, as a level 110, with all of the boss fights in Polaris, this. is. a. PAIN. If the boss is balance I may as well simply team up. My best spell possible, Judgement, is 100% useless in any balance boss fight.
Got farm for Spiritual Tribunal for the balance match up i guess 😂. Im only a lvl 86 Balance but im about to farm that spell just cause of the Balance bosses
BRO.... Never heard of shadow tranform. Get 50% piercing and 10% damage... like I dont get why people don't see that as the way to take down the balance boss. I do it all the time piece of cake.
I am just dropping in to say that I soloed the entire game with life. It’s an easy solo. It’s high health and decent damage. Not as high as ice, of course, but you easily get 9K by Lemuria. I started Lemuria with 9,180. But like I said, you have to know what you’re doing. It takes a while. Until you get lord and enchants, it’s a little rough. However, I suggest getting a kookaburra damage pet. Best way to utilize life at a lower level. Also, heals. Ingoing and outgoing are great stats to keep up, or keep gear sets of. You can’t lose if you’re enemy can’t kill you because you keep on healing.
Actually, funnily enough, since a lot of changes... In terms of Damage, sure Life is low, but for constant DPS, Life can out-damage Ice in terms of effectiveness.
@@chaozgaming8565 yeah, especially if you get that pierce going. Life can really be OP if you know what you’re doing! And maxing out a damage pet? You’re set. IMO even though life doesn’t have as much health as ice, that doesn’t matter. I know some people who are health junkies, but I care a lot about pierce and resistance. Those two stats help A LOT with life.
@@chaozgaming8565 but at the same time, ice usually has much higher block and resist if I remember correctly. So it’s much more difficult to damage an ice. Because of that, I would actually say that ice and life are even. Life has the disadvantage of slightly less health and less block/res, but has OP heals. And ice has the disadvantage of less heals, but OP health and amazing block/res. Two peas in a pod.
Yeah i started a death wizard knowing i wouldnt have any AOE's for a while, so i trained up a scarecrow pet early on and gave it to her. Having an 8 pip scarecrow in early game with accessible critical stat, makes it even more easy to get through. Its kind of ridiculous actually.
As someone who came back to Wizard 101, what you said about there Storm school is so right that I feel almost glad. The amount of times I died and had to worry 24/7 about my spells just fizzling. Especially going solo oh my- the amount of times I died and end up quitting the game for the day. It’s fun, but I suffer so much going solo
some constructive criticisms, your voice audio sounds like it's behind me and to the left and it feels a bit uncomfy. also slight fuzziness to your voice, almost like it's reverberating INSIDE the plastic of the mic, as well as peaking the mic input a little. my advice would be to make a mini ghetto voiceover booth by putting a pillow behind your mic/use one of those "mic isolation shields" that are like, $30-40. this is also though balanced headphones so through a gaming headset it might sound fine, I wouldn't know.
Hey bro I’m thinking of playing wiz again, last time I played was back in 2009 lol I’m stuck between fire or ice? What school should I use? What’s the most op between the 2? Or is there other options
OK, so balance DOES kinda have a prism, but it's through Old One's Endgame. A spell you don't get till Lemuria. It's just to a random school, so it's still OK, but it's hard locked and kinda bad.
I agree with the ratings when taking these classes on their own, but I feel most of them are better when you supplement them with spells from other schools, either by pushing their strengths further or covering their weaknesses, except for Myth, I agree that they need stronger summons, maybe give the summons customizable decks so they can complement your own deck.
I was bored one night and found this video, and I LOVEDDD IT~! I honestly laughed a lot watching this video, and as a veteran player, I really appreciate you going in depth and giving an honest telling of the pros and cons of each school for beginners! I also appreciate your recognition of how the current meta affects gameplay as compared to say, back in 2010 for example. Really funny video, absolutely lost it when you mentioned how DISGUSTING death is bc of their amazing utility (they do slap, they do fr), and super informative! Love it, well doneee~! ☺️✨🔥
As someone who started with storm, I will say life as a secondary school is a must, and I highly encourage a life mastery amulet. Also, I wouldn't call storm the "gambling school". Yes, you'll struggle with fizzles for the first 30 levels, but once you get Olympus gear, you will have a base of 87% accuracy, and you can improve that to 99% at level 35 with craftable triangle jewels and over 100% with pet accuracy (at level 35). On top of that, later gear gives you 100% storm accuracy. The fizzling can be bothersome at first, but the school is very rewarding if you stick with it. ** Also, Storm has the spell Lightning Strike which is attainable after finishing Unicorn Way and gives 25% storm accuracy to your next storm spell **
I am a Solo Player. I recently started playing for the first time in over 10 years. I decided to go for a challenge and chose Storm, which was frustrating as hell and took me a week to get to 12th lvl. I then played Myth, and tore thru the first few chapters like wildfire, getting to 12th lvl in under 2 days. I originally played Fire, and though I don't remember the particulars, I enjoyed the game enough to return after 10 years. Everyone has always hated the "Fizzle", and in a Card Game it is *way* out of place, a Mute Spell would have been a *much* better dynamic. But even with it, it wouldn't be so bad if the Success Rate was what was displayed and supposed to be - a 70% success rate Storm Spell, has a 5% accuracy bonus from a Storm Wizard, and I use a Wand that has a 5% Accuracy Bonus to every School, this gives a total Successful Casting Rate of 80%, minus any negative modifiers. I have kept a tally, and it is 40-50% success rate, at best, and no amount of arguing with the Devs and Customer Service will change it.
I've been soloing storm since wiz first came out and although I'm slow at leveling it's still really fun and I always love seeing how much damage I can do in one hit lol.
Balance is the school for if you have tons of friends, or can find enough randoms to carry you through. - my highest level is a balance wizard in her 130s
Myth could do a heel turn and be one of the best schools for solo if you could control what your minions do. Imagine casting 3 minioins, you'd get to cast 4x a turn.
My first ever school was death in 2008 however the first school I actually quested up was ice in 2010. Because my Mom wouldn't let me play back in 2008 since the game was 10 and up.
Death main here and honestly you got death down to a tea. Even though it's slow when starting, working hard for the class gives a very satisfying gameplay down the line. (Also as a kid I believed in the lore to explain why the class is the way it is but that's another topic😂😂😂) Also died laughing with your storm description cause I did try to have storm as second main precisely because of their VERY OP SPELLS, yet I ended up curling up into a ball and crying more than getting anything done as a storm wizard. Fizzles weren't just the spell not spelling, but rather just God not loving the fact that you stole his thunder....literally Q^Q Content is top tier and I'm glad to have had this vid show in my recomended :D
As someone who solo’d as Life in the past, it really is a bit of a struggle. Especially when you don’t have Forest Lord, Acorn Spin, Hungry Caterpillar, or the new Karamelle life spell. And you only get those spells through crafting, pets, or quest towards the middle of the game. However, I heard Death is objectively a good school for soloing due to a good majority of their spells being ones that drain health from other mobs and giving it to them. Fire and storm are good for heavy hits, balance, death, and Life are good for healing and buffs, and myth and ice I guess make good damage sponges and support. The only thing I dislike about storm is the really low accuracy.
Soloing with storm is pretty bad until about the end of Zafaria. With the right gear you don’t have to worry about pips, accuracy, or health around that area. Up until then, you’ll have to rely on teaming a lot. Also around that level, Tempest and Storm Lord becomes your best friend, especially when soloing since most enemies will die before they can lower your health down to concerning levels.
Life was the school I ended up maining when I FINALLY got my parents to give me membership back when I was younger. I used to be a very nervous player with life since while I loved it I got so much anixety from getting killed due to the spells not being the best in terms of DPS. But as time pasts and I got older Life became a much better school to main for me and I'm glad I got past Dragon Spire (somehow) with my Life Wizard. Just wish it wasn't so looked past and called weak, without Life Wizards most people wouldn't be able to do difficult dungeon's!
A thing I didn't see you talk about is resists/boosts. Which is more important in the first arc than later but still something to note cause it is the one big drawback to playing as death. SO MANY ENEMIES RESIST DEATH. This is also a pro for life schools, since there's pretty much a damage boost on everything early on. This can be a bit of a double edge sword tho, cause I was SO reliant on my life boost that I got stuck on wisteria (where all the enemies and bosses are life).
Another thing, being a balance wizard. Is probably the reason why I play Red Mage or Scholar/Summoner on Ffxiv. Not a traditional mage I solo with balance through the game till this day. Never felt it was a grind. However, to each there own. I like group play, but also like Solo play. Being a balance wizard is all about being a strategist. If you don’t like research, your not going to like balance
As an ice main I didn’t agree with your sustainability comment saying since it can’t heal it’s at a severe disadvantage.. Because it has so much health, it can constantly shield and still have a good amount of health to attack or heal.. tower shield protects from all types of magic and you’ll get 4 out of 6 of the shields when getting feint. if you’re enemy has a lot of pips for instance, use a shield because you know they’re going to attack. Blades or traps after they attack because the worst they can do is “minor” damage and then hit.. if anything this can make it a lengthy fight, but using heal spells as the excuse to give it that score undermines the purpose of Ice altogether. It’s buffy with insane amount of shields in its arsenal,
I agree ice need a better heal man. It would help tanks a bit like a spell give 300 hp for three rounds overtime heal and give all friends 30 shield and make it no pvp
I hate how people always talk trash about fires dmg overtime, imo I actually prefer it because even if your enemy shields you can remove it and still do the bulk of your damage also typically if you add up the total damage it will actually be more than storm, also you can use fuel regardless and then it’s even better. And finally fire gives you both hard hitters and dot, maybe the hard hitters are a bit weaker than storm but that’s a trade off.
What an amazing overview of all the schools!! Really appreciated all of your points here. Two quick things based on my experience as a maxed Myth and level 110 Life Once you get to Dragoon gear, I use Myth with a bit higher resistance gear and like to be a tank/utility if I’m with a team. Earthquake can be incredibly useful and very annoying for any enemy team in pvp or pve 😉 Also I would absolutely love Grendel’s Amends, is the best way through the spellement pack?
People like me playing death wizards, early game, as early as level 25, all you need is a deer knight gem in order to breeze through with a death aoe, the recipe is in Marleybone and the only real issue for some would have to be collecting the iron, but from there you get one spell added to your deck and it can really come through for you if your deck has a good setup
it's interesting watching newer videos on wizard 101 class rankings, especially hearing my main school (Death) be spoken so highly off, considering back when I played it seemed that many people hated it and considered it "just ok" at soloing- I'm so happy they buffed the colossal cards to fully buff scarecrow lol
Also... Have to disagree on Balance having accessibility of 4.5/5 Halfway through arc 1, you start to feel the detrimental effects of how weak balance can get. The lack of a prism REALLY hurts early game too. And then once you hit arc 2, your buffs are nowhere near as good as the other schools, and your resistance also drops to possibly 3rd or second weakest (If you're not paying for premium gear). Soloing is incredibly painful as a balance, ESPECIALLY in second arc. Balance has the issue of "Jack of all trades, master of none" while it sounds cool on paper, in practice it's pretty debilitating.
Yeah balance is so, so bad for soloing. Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t been playing the game enough. I’ve died more times on my balance wizard than I have on my storm wizard, and that’s saying something.
my first char was storm, i am now max level after 2 months of doing everything besides pvp because i would need to pay money for it wich i really dont like, i can say Yes its hard but if you socialize with othre people you can easly find not only people to play with to help you or help them you find good friends as well cause wiz got one of the best communaties i have ever seen in more then 15 years of gaming experience
as a myth main who solod a lot early game it was tuff trying to figure out how to use minions it was weird and a waste tbh i couldve saved turns making good hits or using little heals, but i didnt know anything, like about training pets or what they can do to give me more damage and spells so after learning everything and a lil help here and there id say myth soloing gets easier later in game and can definitely get good hits in, plus i feel like the myth school teacher is like one of the greatest things about the school and makes me feel excited what snarky remarks he has to say anytime i go to see him ALSO DONT YOU DARE DISS ORTH HE IS A GOOD TWO HEADED DOG, AND WITH AN EPIC HAS TAKEN OUT THOUSANDS OF BOSSES WITH EASE *mic drop* thank you for coming to my TEDxTalk
I will say tho, I’m enjoying my life wizard a lot. If you get rat spin early it’s very good and sometimes i find myself hitting for a team. Life seems, to me , one of the best schools in the game.
I may only be lvl.29, but I picked Ice as my school, but suplement it with Storm spells to boost my offense. What do you think about multi-schooling and does doing Ice/Storm as I do help cancel out each school weaknesses?
Myth is my favorite school purely because it is unique to wizard101. I have not really seem anything like it in other games. It's my current highest school at almost level 150
I haven't had a problem soloing as a balance ngl , I have built mine to do a lil more damage and I do have a triple double pet , but I don't think it's crazy hard
The only problem that I found wrong was Storm's average rating is off. Storm's Average Rating is actually 3.125/5 NOT 3.25/5, because 3 + 1.5 + 4 + 4 = 12.5, then divide by 4 = 3.125. I am not entirely sure if you caught that right now looking back or not I just wanted to let you know. 6th Place is Storm with 3.125 and is NOT tied with Ice. Other than Storm's Average Rating mishap, I think you did a fabulous job explaining each school and gave a good rating system for each of the 4 criteria that you created. I also made an ice as my first wizard and I do treasure that guy with all my heart. I won't make a Death or Life Wizard until I get Ship of Fools and Rat Spin on them so that way my death and life wizards will have an easier time questing. In my personal opinion, I NEVER like to solo the game, because I think having my friends, people on team up, or anyone is way much better than being alone. In addition to, the help of some people speeds up your questing time tremendously than soloing (depending on the player) along with getting Monstrous TC & Critical + Damage Pet early game can get your questing done through the early worlds a lot quicker.
@@salazar5382 Yes they are. However, like I said in my comment, I was referring to critical on pets early game like Wizard City, Krokotopia, Marleybone, etc so you are able to blow through enemies/bosses and get the world(s) completed at a faster rate. Then, you can hatch a new better pet with full damage or damage and resist (up to player in hindsight) when you get to the critical gear aspect part of the game.
@@terrybarnes8386 Waste of time, might as well just do a damage pet. First arc is extremely easy and I dont get how people need to rely on critical lmao
@@salazar5382 Its not really a waste of time because getting 20+ critical on a level 0 -1 wizard is pretty good. I'm not excusing your point of getting a damage pet for low wizards either cause getting 20+ damage for a level 0-1 wizard is awesome too. Arc 1 is pretty easy from experience but that's not always the case if the person is new to Wizard101 and aren't knowledgeable about the game like experts/veterans of the game are. I don't think people are relying on critical too much, I think it's to make questing faster by doubling your damage to enemies like mobs or bosses in early game.
I think playing as any school all the way from early game to close to end game is boring if a storm wizard joins your battle. Because most of the time you won’t even get to do anything. No hitting and your support is pointless since the match will end in 5 rounds or less.
I love myth, it was my first class and I leveled it solo, went through all the pain of having no good hit all spell until level 100 and I loved every minute of that painful grind. Every other school after that never felt the same and felt like the game was in easy mode! Became the strongest Myth Character on the german servers and always thought it would be cool if you could control your minions and if they were strong enough to replace 1 player, but unfortunately they aren't even strong enough that you can afford wasting the pips for it.
Something people don't mention about fire is the fizzling. Oh god the fizzling. I am playing Wizard101 with a friend and I went with life. I am so glad I did because her attacks fizzle almost as much as storm attacks so she needs all the healing she can get to make up for when she wastes huge attacks and the enemy ends up living way longer than it should because of that lol Not to mention the fact they are, you know, not good defensively... yeah she needs my healing
I love death, it was my first wizard and I’m still going strong with her 13 years later. It’s so versatile since I can switch between buffing people/tanking (just hit 10k hp) or just go all out hitting (I’m 160 with a 180 damage buff lol) and all the gear and spells are the coolest imo.
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With Arch Mastery starting at level 50, you can now cast any school spell using power pips. You can even get a jewel at level 50 from the shopping district that gives you just enough arch mastery to start getting school pips.
This makes mastery amulets near useless and also makes questing for tank schools that don't get early AOEs really easy(just train meteor strike lol).
Correction: you can equip the jewel at level 15, and you get more than enough gold naturally to get it at that level. Just buy a random amulet with the correct slot type and you'll be ready to cast any spell you want.
you can get a jewel before 50 maybe around 10-15 for a plus 1 to arch which is all you need in pve making most of the schools kinda broken honestly
@@ReaperSagami36 Yep, I made that correction. It's super good for life and death that can now just train meteor strike and get fire damage gear from bazaar until they can get better gear from malistaire.
I still don't think it's worth it as the best gear you can get for level sets (30, 60, 100, 130 etc) are all heavily class specific and you can't get nearly enough balanced stats to make casting other school spells worth it
For me with my literally crazy way of training spells this is one of the best things Wiz has done 😂
Covid really saved this game. it went from averaging less than 150 people online to over 300 and somehow is still growing.
At some point, I feel it may get an anime/cartoon, and then it will be at it's best especially as it's becoming likely that membership will likely go away as requirement
@@WeyardWiz I think before they make it fully free to play they would have to over hall the crown shop to turn a profit. As it stands right now crown items are just not worth it and if they where going to make it free to play fully they would have to make the crown shop more appealing. But I do hope one day they do make it fully free to play or at least the first ark free to play.
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I think they released a stat last year showing that crownshop only accounts for 30% or something of their profits
Steam charts are wrong. 90% of the playerbase doesn't play on steam because we already had accounts on the normal launcher and data doesn't transfer to steam version
@@newlife5168 Not true your account is your account no matter if its launched on steam or not
Found this from TikTok. It’s amazing to see a game that I played back in 4th grade is still alive. Keep up the good work!
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@@stephios2732 people are still playing it so it’s alive, it’s dead when it has no one playing, stop being a bitch
It is and playing makes so much more sense now😂 there’s so much about it I didn’t know
As a balance main, soloing really isn’t as bad as most people make it out to be. Especially once you get super nova. The only problem I have is with balance bosses which are really annoying but easy to take care of with chimera. Just makes the fights a bit longer. Currently in Polaris and I’ve soloed most everything with little to no problem
Just shadow transform for 50% pierce. Piece of cake. Use any balance card it will pierce their resistance.
I miss my balance days havent played this game in 10 yrs
Honestly I don't mind balance bosses that much, I just wish balance had an aoe elemental or spiritual hit before Polaris
Yea same, i am Balance main and i feel very comfortable ,i even defeated many high lvl bosses alone ,you just have to know how to use shields,blades etc properly
I spent crowns on a snappy gryphon pet, get a balance blade, feint, and 7 pip are hydra so soloing is no problem , breeze through any fight solo now, especially those balance mobs and bosses
If you're starting out as a Life Wizard, the best thing you can do with your money first is to GET A KOOKABURRA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The Leaf Storm AoE it gives you (as well as a life blade item card) will make soloing so much more bearable. Even in group play it's quite well rounded with the Regenerate item card it gets.
Loll I just used spellements to get rat spin
OR try to sponge of other players and make friends until you unlock your AoE by being really nice, helpful, funny etc so they want to duo with you so you can duo rush through the first arc's DaC quests. I used a may cast spam Enchanted Armament because the ability to use an extra, buffed, life blade I found was hugely helpful in one hitting bosses (and the may cast spam impressed new players into wanting to duo with me)
I got the pet and rat spin, really helpful 100%
Yeah life you get good buff and healing spells. But unfortunately you don’t get good hits until you do the forest lord spell quest, darkmoor, and Karamelle. Also that squirrel spell with the giant acorn is a decent AoE for life too.
Kookaburra looks nice so I'm saving up so I can hatch my pet with one in the hatching Kiosk
1. Death: best utility, best in soloing and it is not bad in hitting as well.
Very diverse
2. Fire: really fun to play, enough health for soloing and one of the best in hitting
3. Myth: cool spells, enough health for soloing and really good in hitting
4. Storm: best hitter, can be painful in questing, based on luck, I personally use storm just only as a farm charakter, because the gameplay is really boring by spamming tempust.
5. Life: you barely need to heal in wiz, so the utility is kind of worthless. Cool spells, slow in questing.
6. Ice: everything, what an ice can do, can a other school better, but at least it is easy, but boring and slow as well to quest.
7. Balance: everyone wants a balance, however its such a pain to level the balance up. The blade thing is quite ok, but in most cases elemental and spirit blades are enough.
This is far and away a much better list than the video creator's.
Better ranking then the video
Hey! Myth wizard player here, and I want to say that you should check out Monstrology! In areas where Myth Wizards can struggle in soloability, you can gather monstrology summons, of which any summons cost only two myth pips to cast (so one power pip) and you can summon a full three creatures into the battlefield. Now, sure you can't control them, but if you pack heals, blades, etc., you can cause some crazy chaos in boss fights.
In regards to mastery amulets, you can farm the Tower of the Helephant to get a chance at Mastery Amulets. There is almost always people queuing to farm the TotH, even today. Im fairly certain every one of my mastery amulets has come from TotH. Additionally, you don't need packs to collect spells like Grendels Amends, as you can either a) have the (admittedly low) chance of getting them as drops from the Loremaster or b) craft a good portion of them as you go throughout the game. Crafting can be tedious, but I mean, what's an MMO without a little gear and item grinding lol.
Otherwise, pretty good video! Enjoyable to watch. Some personal recommendations from a long time W101 player though: Small, precise decks with one or two reshuffles make battles way easier than larger bloated decks. Survivability for most schools only becomes a problem if you dont hit on the third or fourth turn (at the latest). I run a deck with two AOEs, two blades, a sharpened blade from my Enchanted Armament pet, two sun school boosts, and one reshuffle, and I put two (stackable) feints in to take on bosses. That's it, and honestly, its the deck thats been getting me to where I am now. With so few cards, I can guarantee myself getting the spells I need within a couple turns at most, and my normal strat going solo in PVE is blade blade hit for mobs and feint feint blade blade hit for bosses. For some cheating bosses, I switch up the strategy to fit the cheats, but I otherwise rarely alter my deck setup.
If you took the time to read this, thank you! Again, loved the video, have a great day!
Ain’t NOBODY farming Tower of Helephant lol
@FScorpion678 12 yr old me💀 lol im glad i did now but back then just wow
I’m ngl, I think I’m gonna give Myth a shot because of this message. It’s been my least favorite class for so long but I love the idea of Monstrology giving Myth back it’s class identity. Feels like a bit of extra work but I kinda like chasing after powerful enemies to use them as your allies and that really feels akin to quest spells for Myth but you can do them at your leisure (if you have the money for Monstrology spells, goddamn they get expensive lol).
I'm a 130 myth but I've never used monstrology even in soloing. I still use my minions for boss fights and I know how to maximize their usefulness without hurting my chance at winning a fight. I just wish bosses were not all stun immune. I haven't used Medusa (or any other stun spell) in like 6 years.
@@codysmall6826 Myth is the easiest school to solo with
I've been playing this game for over 10 years it never gets old glad to see people still playing
I agree.
the hack for balance is to get an enchanted armament pet, so instead of getting only 2 blades you get 4, with a blade amulet and the maycast you get up to 6 blades, this really helped me solo all the way until i learned the enchanted armament spell, which then i switched to the snappy gryphon pet . Cheers!
the best part is, once you get the sharpened blade spell at 86. you can still keep the enchanted armament around for utility for those hard fights where someone else is hitting. Pet sharpen and regular sharpen are two different spells, meaning each blade turns into 3 different blades you can cast. this really utilizes balances strong points, combine that with feint, potent feint, amulet feint, mass feint hat, tc feint and blades and you can become the ultimate utility balance, as well as let level 1s get the one in a million badge.
When i picked up w101 again, i luckily hatched a grim sqeaker around level 20-something. So my death wizard had access to deer knight early game, but when I got scarecrow, EVVVERYTHING CHANGED! When death gets its aoes, its amazing!
I was farming for the deer knight jewel to give it to my death, that spell has helped me so much starting
Yeah, I did the same thing on my life with the Kookaburra, having an aoe early game is so good! I had my aoe in wizard city when other schools didn't get theirs until halfway through krok, so it felt really nice and made arc 1 so easy. I'm about to get forest lord so that's gonna be even more busted
I think death is perfect, particularly because the second arc is so long and has pacing problems. Death really gives the first and second arcs more balance than other schools.
You 100% do NOT need to spend real cash on gear for Storms. Instead, get to lvl 30 with regular gear, then farm Mt. Olympus for a full set. That gear lasts until lvl 60, then farm Waterworks gear, which lasts all the way to lvl 100. At 100 farm Darkmoor, etc. Storm is only difficult on some quest bosses on occasions, where you'll want to queue for a party. On the main questline, you'll probably need to queue for help about a dozen times. Otherwise, Storm is normally AoE 1-shotting every single battle as long as you're an average casual like myself. I personally finished all content as a storm without buying any gear (however, my only playthrough on Wizard101 was with a Storm).
Glad to see someone with an actual working brain
I second all of this. I'm literally ass at Wiz but have always played Storm with minimal difficulty. People just like to give up and buy shit when the game gets challenging😭
yeah storm is only hard when it comes to bosses but unless ur bad at the game or something its not that bad my first storm was in empyrea against the 100% resistance to storm boss and 80% to myth it was painful
@Monkey D io i wouldnt say storm is the easiest to play its a bit easy in general because the game is easy but storm i love to solo because of how quick it is to solo as well
Wait, is lvl 60 Waterworks gear better than the lvl 90 gear in Aquila?
Grew up starting off as a Necro. Honestly such an easy process. Easier school to solo.
Hi, balance main here! Yes, balance can be an absolute nightmare to solo, speaking from experience. But one thing I found that balance does very well is run it with a secondary school. As you stated, they have some wiggle room with training points and they also can buff everyone. So, running them with a secondary honestly isn't that bad. For example, I have 2 balance sets, one pure balance, another balance/ fire. The damage ratios are around 130% balance damage and 125% fire damage. Honestly I personally don't love fire as a whole but running it as a secondary has given me a new appreciation for it. So that noticable change of "having a balance on your team" you can just give yourself. It allows for fun situations where you can cast Nested Fury, triggering your ice blades and balance blades and, if that doesn't finish the job, use fire dragon to use up the fire blades that are still there. That being said, it is very expensive requiring mastery amulets and crown gear for multiple class or universal damage.
Last time I played this game I was 11 years old, I'm 22 now, literally doubled in age and about to start playing again, I seriously can't wait!
I think balance is probably one of the worse schools early game, but once you hit late game with spells like Power Nova and Nested Fury, the game becomes incredibly easy. The only difficult fights were bosses with cheats that took away blades or traps, since balance depends heavily on utility. Other than that, I found balance to be just fine in terms of damage and solo playing (especially since some of the spells late game are super cool)
I have been getting back into the game and I have in fact been soloing with storm, and I actually love how I am forced to change my deck and come at fights with different strategies. It really mixes up the leveling process
Here is little newbie player in Taiwan, thanks for making this awesome video for wizard101!
Welcome to wiz! Hope you enjoy your stay
It makes me happy to see my childhood game pop up on my recommended...
I've always liked Fire for its consistency, and if you get Life Mastery you can lay down constant dps on your enemies while also healing yourself with better numbers in both damage and health than speccing into Death. Plus, Fire even has its own roundabout "damage to healing" spell in (Power) Link.
As a life wizard, the saddest thing I have ever seen is people using the basic heal 400 to self spell at the mid to high 60s unironically and while I'm in the party and healing them
(This is when the lv cap was 70)
It’s true. As a balance wizard, I love to buff the shit out the hitter. It’s so fun to try and get everything I have on them before they obliterate the enemy. Thanks RUclips algorithm!
Life has always been an underrated school. You can get crazy damage on a life wizard and still be an absolute tank. Playing solo on a life was really easy but was also really fun if you can get past early game.
Haven't touched this game since my childhood, think I'm gonna pick it up again
wow well done. mad props for this very long and detailed video. very entertaining too
i personally love balance
I got to Lvl 115 with ice snd then switch to Balance. Thats when I realized how much fun I could have with all the versitility this school can do. Plus I was actually doing damage now😂
Definitely one of the hardest parts is if you just refuse to look up drop tables (like me, because I'm lazy) so you don't ever actually grind bosses for the gear you need. Makes Soloing on my Balance a pain in the ass, that's for sure
Ice main here! I just hit 3k max health and level 46 today with my ice wizard that I've been using for over 10 years now (on and off hence being only level 46 lmao)
Personally I've found that soloing as an ice wizard is pretty easy in terms of not dying super fast bc ice wizards are apparently built like tanks in terms of health. Attacks are not the strongest, but I've gotten better at utilizing traps to fix that. For my "secondary school" if you will, as a wee child I decided to spend most of my training points on Balance. Not sure why I did, but it's come in handy every now and then. (honestly I probably just thought it looked cool)
In terms of healing as an Ice main, I've been trying to work my way up in Life spells to get things like satyr, but MAN does it take a handful of pips for health. Luckily I've got a pet dove that will cast unicorn at random times, so I definitely recommend trying to get a pet that can heal you if you're struggling to heal yourself amidst all the tower shields and ice wyverns you cast.
I personally really love Ice, but despite being able to take hits left and right, not being able to efficiently heal is definitely a challenge especially when soloing haha
Thanks for reading this if you did, and best of luck on all your quests! o/
Something to mention about Life is that they don't get a lot of damage spells early on. I remember losing as a Life wizard once because I couldn't pull any damage spells and I couldn't save up enough pips to heal myself enough to try to pull a damage spell.
I’ve been playing W101 since not long after it was released, and I have to thank little 9 year old me for selecting the school all the way back then for what I truly now believe is the strongest of the 7, which is Death. In terms of having the capability to solo the game, without outside help, Death is the easiest/strongest class, at least in PvE.
With the new archmastery update ice got the crasiest buff with the ability to make use of death pips
pair this with ship of fools and changing to a life pip for the occasional satyr and train up in life school to said spell really removes liability of ice having low income heals
The easiest way to solo(for the new players)(all schools are easy to solo you just need the monstrous tc)(having those will get you far)
Been playing for 10 years this game will always be amazing
One of the most thorough school guides out there. Also, 🔥 video editing. As a fellow small content creator myself, audience retention is a ceaseless battle.
Thankfully I got the kookaburra on my fire wizard before I made my life wizard, trained it up to adult and traded it over so I had leaf storm right off the bat, and a blade so it made arc 1 ridiculously easy. I was even outhitting schools with a hitting roles a lot of the time since life has surprisingly good damage for a non-hitting schools.
Finally. A ranking that gives the life school justice.
ever since the ortherus update myth is so easy to solo pve and has access to both pierce and earthquake, it's stats are also one of the hardest hitters and its overall just very solid. ortherus is literally just a one and done and blade stacking is so easy, rn its more balance then balance itself, i play both a fire and myth wizard and myth is 100% without a doubt much much easy to pve
Myth is the best school for questing and the easiest one. The bro who talked in the video doesn't know what he's talking about
Honestly made it to dragonspire pretty easily solo as a storm. I either 1 shot the boss or I die it’s so fun xD
yeah i'm currently playing ice and i like it a lot but it sucks damage-wise so i'm thinking of going for a storm atm for quick bursts, then maybe switch up later on
My first wizard was a death wizard because my older brother told me a lie when I was super young saying only they could access the death school. It is by far my favorite school and the only one I’ve gotten above level 100. Such an overpowered school with a lot of personal memories behind it
Coming back to this game after playing as a kid from beta (2009ish?) to around Zafaria's release in 2013.
God a lot has changed. *cracks knuckles* Nostalgia time let's rock.
Really sick video my guy! I love the amount of work you put into this! The transitions, the layout;; I completely respect it! Not many wiztubers are able to get this sort of quality!! Keep up the amazing work ♥️
Now this is a make your day kinda comment right here LMAO really appreciate it
@@heyitsmax_ AWH YES OF COURSE! You got this please keep up the amazing work!! With consistency of content like this whatever you decide to play/record you're definently gonna get some sort of attention you deserve !! ♥️
As an ice wizard main i found it to be fun to be able to solo most dungeons. Most of the time the enemy is easy to read and you can just be prepared with lots of shields for the school that you would go up against. I always found it fun to just look at the enemy and cast a shield before they got for a big hit thus ruining all of their preparations to damage me. Made Pvp a lil fun especially seeing how frustrated the enemy would be after their spell would do next to nothing. Ice is fun to solo if you have the patience and can figure out the enemy strategies. Plus ice is one of the schools to have the useful steal spell when dealing with enemies who cast that annoying 90% damage reductions shield.
Yes the fire school transition got a bit messed up by premiere. No I will not be fixing it. Also feel free to lmk what I got right or what I got wrong in the comments (civilly)!!! A lot of the criticism of my last guide got worked into this one. More Fire Emblem coming early next week :)
Kinda looks like Magicka. Still prefer fire emblem, but magic is fun still (fire is always better, regardless of the situation, remember this)
What about the ice blades
Ice is one of my faverites because my first wizard (that i still play on today) is ice, and its kinda nastalgic for me.
Also, i feel like storm and late game death is fun.
i love finding new wiz youtubers to watch, so happy i found you man
I found storm to be the **easiest** to solo due to the high damage. As long as you have a high accuracy and high pip chance gear you dont have much trouble killing bosses fast. Though I will say storm was my 3rd school so I did have an advantage with good gear.
Lol high pip high accuracy
You mean high damage high crit
@@cole7276 no they meant high pip and high accuracy. theres a bunch of gear that offers a higher chance of getting power pips each round and gear that offers higher accuracy rates. high damage is good and all, but if you can't hit your opponent what's the point? and storm already has the highest damage rate of any school so it's better to put more focus on other stats. storm has the worst accuracy rate so its beneficial to get gear that makes up for that.
“with death you don’t die ever” me dying to the puzzle piece monster over and over again for a year
Life main! I've been playing this game for many years, have tried every school and honestly I've had so much fun playing this school. Like mentioned in the video: early game can be extremely slow due to having very few effective damage spells, however after getting forest lord or even centaur the game picks up FAST. I would recommend playing with a team early on especially if you don't want to take the time to farm dungeons or do all the side quests, however mid-late game you don't need the team, the team needs you.
I remember when I was a kid, my primary school was fire, and my side school was death the good ole days.
As a balance myself, (since they nerfed my Loremaster spell that we used oh so much in pvp) my only other best spells have been chimera, and Hydra for ANY boss, as a level 110, with all of the boss fights in Polaris, this. is. a. PAIN. If the boss is balance I may as well simply team up. My best spell possible, Judgement, is 100% useless in any balance boss fight.
Got farm for Spiritual Tribunal for the balance match up i guess 😂. Im only a lvl 86 Balance but im about to farm that spell just cause of the Balance bosses
BRO.... Never heard of shadow tranform. Get 50% piercing and 10% damage... like I dont get why people don't see that as the way to take down the balance boss. I do it all the time piece of cake.
nested fury (lvl 108) spell is helpful for balance boss encounters but requires shad
Nested fury is better because it's an AOE and you can use faints better.
I am just dropping in to say that I soloed the entire game with life. It’s an easy solo. It’s high health and decent damage. Not as high as ice, of course, but you easily get 9K by Lemuria. I started Lemuria with 9,180. But like I said, you have to know what you’re doing. It takes a while. Until you get lord and enchants, it’s a little rough. However, I suggest getting a kookaburra damage pet. Best way to utilize life at a lower level.
Also, heals. Ingoing and outgoing are great stats to keep up, or keep gear sets of. You can’t lose if you’re enemy can’t kill you because you keep on healing.
Actually, funnily enough, since a lot of changes... In terms of Damage, sure Life is low, but for constant DPS, Life can out-damage Ice in terms of effectiveness.
im life wiz at lvl 130 with 8.5k health, 48 resist, and 141 dmg. Soloing has been rlly simple. Life is so underrated.
@@chaozgaming8565 yeah, especially if you get that pierce going. Life can really be OP if you know what you’re doing! And maxing out a damage pet? You’re set.
IMO even though life doesn’t have as much health as ice, that doesn’t matter. I know some people who are health junkies, but I care a lot about pierce and resistance. Those two stats help A LOT with life.
@@idiomasentusiasticos7954 Theres also the fact that Life can use a LOT of healing, where Ice cant.
@@chaozgaming8565 but at the same time, ice usually has much higher block and resist if I remember correctly. So it’s much more difficult to damage an ice.
Because of that, I would actually say that ice and life are even. Life has the disadvantage of slightly less health and less block/res, but has OP heals. And ice has the disadvantage of less heals, but OP health and amazing block/res.
Two peas in a pod.
Yeah i started a death wizard knowing i wouldnt have any AOE's for a while, so i trained up a scarecrow pet early on and gave it to her. Having an 8 pip scarecrow in early game with accessible critical stat, makes it even more easy to get through. Its kind of ridiculous actually.
As someone who came back to Wizard 101, what you said about there Storm school is so right that I feel almost glad. The amount of times I died and had to worry 24/7 about my spells just fizzling. Especially going solo oh my- the amount of times I died and end up quitting the game for the day. It’s fun, but I suffer so much going solo
you jus t bad at the game
Im awful at Wiz and Storm really isn't hard. You just have to know what gear to farm
some constructive criticisms, your voice audio sounds like it's behind me and to the left and it feels a bit uncomfy. also slight fuzziness to your voice, almost like it's reverberating INSIDE the plastic of the mic, as well as peaking the mic input a little. my advice would be to make a mini ghetto voiceover booth by putting a pillow behind your mic/use one of those "mic isolation shields" that are like, $30-40. this is also though balanced headphones so through a gaming headset it might sound fine, I wouldn't know.
Good advice, definitely been looking to up my audio!! Thanks for the tips :)
This is such a well done video! Great job!
Hey bro I’m thinking of playing wiz again, last time I played was back in 2009 lol I’m stuck between fire or ice? What school should I use? What’s the most op between the 2? Or is there other options
Getting back into wizard101 and these videos are very enjoyable to watch
OK, so balance DOES kinda have a prism, but it's through Old One's Endgame. A spell you don't get till Lemuria. It's just to a random school, so it's still OK, but it's hard locked and kinda bad.
I agree with the ratings when taking these classes on their own, but I feel most of them are better when you supplement them with spells from other schools, either by pushing their strengths further or covering their weaknesses, except for Myth, I agree that they need stronger summons, maybe give the summons customizable decks so they can complement your own deck.
I was bored one night and found this video, and I LOVEDDD IT~! I honestly laughed a lot watching this video, and as a veteran player, I really appreciate you going in depth and giving an honest telling of the pros and cons of each school for beginners! I also appreciate your recognition of how the current meta affects gameplay as compared to say, back in 2010 for example. Really funny video, absolutely lost it when you mentioned how DISGUSTING death is bc of their amazing utility (they do slap, they do fr), and super informative! Love it, well doneee~! ☺️✨🔥
I love the quote “fire dragon is just a big stick that you can throw at everything”
Just watched the intro. The editing is real good for 300 subs, keep up the good work
I still remember when everyone loved storm and it was praised back in the day. Nowdays everyone craps on storm
Honestly I partly do it for sport 🤣 No school gets angrier than storm wizards when they're low on rankings
As someone who started with storm, I will say life as a secondary school is a must, and I highly encourage a life mastery amulet.
Also, I wouldn't call storm the "gambling school". Yes, you'll struggle with fizzles for the first 30 levels, but once you get Olympus gear, you will have a base of 87% accuracy, and you can improve that to 99% at level 35 with craftable triangle jewels and over 100% with pet accuracy (at level 35). On top of that, later gear gives you 100% storm accuracy. The fizzling can be bothersome at first, but the school is very rewarding if you stick with it.
** Also, Storm has the spell Lightning Strike which is attainable after finishing Unicorn Way and gives 25% storm accuracy to your next storm spell **
I am a Solo Player. I recently started playing for the first time in over 10 years. I decided to go for a challenge and chose Storm, which was frustrating as hell and took me a week to get to 12th lvl. I then played Myth, and tore thru the first few chapters like wildfire, getting to 12th lvl in under 2 days. I originally played Fire, and though I don't remember the particulars, I enjoyed the game enough to return after 10 years.
Everyone has always hated the "Fizzle", and in a Card Game it is *way* out of place, a Mute Spell would have been a *much* better dynamic. But even with it, it wouldn't be so bad if the Success Rate was what was displayed and supposed to be - a 70% success rate Storm Spell, has a 5% accuracy bonus from a Storm Wizard, and I use a Wand that has a 5% Accuracy Bonus to every School, this gives a total Successful Casting Rate of 80%, minus any negative modifiers.
I have kept a tally, and it is 40-50% success rate, at best, and no amount of arguing with the Devs and Customer Service will change it.
great video man i just got back into wizard 101
I've been soloing storm since wiz first came out and although I'm slow at leveling it's still really fun and I always love seeing how much damage I can do in one hit lol.
Idk I usually play a more damage based ice, but still keep my resist at least at 55-60. A good balance for 100 -110 damage.
Balance is the school for if you have tons of friends, or can find enough randoms to carry you through.
- my highest level is a balance wizard in her 130s
138 as of right now today.
All max now I have a second account making new characters to have fun
Myth could do a heel turn and be one of the best schools for solo if you could control what your minions do. Imagine casting 3 minioins, you'd get to cast 4x a turn.
My first ever school was death in 2008 however the first school I actually quested up was ice in 2010. Because my Mom wouldn't let me play back in 2008 since the game was 10 and up.
10/10 video. pls keep making wiz stuff
Thank you!! After the response this video has gotten I'm definitely planning on it 🫡
Death main here and honestly you got death down to a tea. Even though it's slow when starting, working hard for the class gives a very satisfying gameplay down the line. (Also as a kid I believed in the lore to explain why the class is the way it is but that's another topic😂😂😂)
Also died laughing with your storm description cause I did try to have storm as second main precisely because of their VERY OP SPELLS, yet I ended up curling up into a ball and crying more than getting anything done as a storm wizard. Fizzles weren't just the spell not spelling, but rather just God not loving the fact that you stole his thunder....literally Q^Q
Content is top tier and I'm glad to have had this vid show in my recomended :D
As someone who solo’d as Life in the past, it really is a bit of a struggle. Especially when you don’t have Forest Lord, Acorn Spin, Hungry Caterpillar, or the new Karamelle life spell. And you only get those spells through crafting, pets, or quest towards the middle of the game. However, I heard Death is objectively a good school for soloing due to a good majority of their spells being ones that drain health from other mobs and giving it to them. Fire and storm are good for heavy hits, balance, death, and Life are good for healing and buffs, and myth and ice I guess make good damage sponges and support.
The only thing I dislike about storm is the really low accuracy.
Soloing with storm is pretty bad until about the end of Zafaria. With the right gear you don’t have to worry about pips, accuracy, or health around that area. Up until then, you’ll have to rely on teaming a lot. Also around that level, Tempest and Storm Lord becomes your best friend, especially when soloing since most enemies will die before they can lower your health down to concerning levels.
Life was the school I ended up maining when I FINALLY got my parents to give me membership back when I was younger. I used to be a very nervous player with life since while I loved it I got so much anixety from getting killed due to the spells not being the best in terms of DPS. But as time pasts and I got older Life became a much better school to main for me and I'm glad I got past Dragon Spire (somehow) with my Life Wizard. Just wish it wasn't so looked past and called weak, without Life Wizards most people wouldn't be able to do difficult dungeon's!
A thing I didn't see you talk about is resists/boosts. Which is more important in the first arc than later but still something to note cause it is the one big drawback to playing as death. SO MANY ENEMIES RESIST DEATH. This is also a pro for life schools, since there's pretty much a damage boost on everything early on. This can be a bit of a double edge sword tho, cause I was SO reliant on my life boost that I got stuck on wisteria (where all the enemies and bosses are life).
Another thing, being a balance wizard. Is probably the reason why I play Red Mage or Scholar/Summoner on Ffxiv. Not a traditional mage
I solo with balance through the game till this day. Never felt it was a grind. However, to each there own. I like group play, but also like Solo play. Being a balance wizard is all about being a strategist. If you don’t like research, your not going to like balance
As an ice main I didn’t agree with your sustainability comment saying since it can’t heal it’s at a severe disadvantage.. Because it has so much health, it can constantly shield and still have a good amount of health to attack or heal.. tower shield protects from all types of magic and you’ll get 4 out of 6 of the shields when getting feint. if you’re enemy has a lot of pips for instance, use a shield because you know they’re going to attack. Blades or traps after they attack because the worst they can do is “minor” damage and then hit.. if anything this can make it a lengthy fight, but using heal spells as the excuse to give it that score undermines the purpose of Ice altogether. It’s buffy with insane amount of shields in its arsenal,
I agree ice need a better heal man. It would help tanks a bit like a spell give 300 hp for three rounds overtime heal and give all friends 30 shield and make it no pvp
As a Fire School, I recommend Storm. I don't recommend my own school because my gear is crap and every Storm wiz I've been with is OP.
I hate how people always talk trash about fires dmg overtime, imo I actually prefer it because even if your enemy shields you can remove it and still do the bulk of your damage also typically if you add up the total damage it will actually be more than storm, also you can use fuel regardless and then it’s even better. And finally fire gives you both hard hitters and dot, maybe the hard hitters are a bit weaker than storm but that’s a trade off.
As someone with 2 storm wizards who also plays Genshin Impact, what you said is 100% accurate. It really is gacha 😂
What an amazing overview of all the schools!! Really appreciated all of your points here.
Two quick things based on my experience as a maxed Myth and level 110 Life
Once you get to Dragoon gear, I use Myth with a bit higher resistance gear and like to be a tank/utility if I’m with a team. Earthquake can be incredibly useful and very annoying for any enemy team in pvp or pve 😉
Also I would absolutely love Grendel’s Amends, is the best way through the spellement pack?
People like me playing death wizards, early game, as early as level 25, all you need is a deer knight gem in order to breeze through with a death aoe, the recipe is in Marleybone and the only real issue for some would have to be collecting the iron, but from there you get one spell added to your deck and it can really come through for you if your deck has a good setup
it's interesting watching newer videos on wizard 101 class rankings, especially hearing my main school (Death) be spoken so highly off, considering back when I played it seemed that many people hated it and considered it "just ok" at soloing- I'm so happy they buffed the colossal cards to fully buff scarecrow lol
Also... Have to disagree on Balance having accessibility of 4.5/5
Halfway through arc 1, you start to feel the detrimental effects of how weak balance can get. The lack of a prism REALLY hurts early game too.
And then once you hit arc 2, your buffs are nowhere near as good as the other schools, and your resistance also drops to possibly 3rd or second weakest (If you're not paying for premium gear).
Soloing is incredibly painful as a balance, ESPECIALLY in second arc. Balance has the issue of "Jack of all trades, master of none" while it sounds cool on paper, in practice it's pretty debilitating.
Yeah balance is so, so bad for soloing. Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t been playing the game enough. I’ve died more times on my balance wizard than I have on my storm wizard, and that’s saying something.
@@GearMasters988 skill issue.
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my first char was storm, i am now max level after 2 months of doing everything besides pvp because i would need to pay money for it wich i really dont like, i can say Yes its hard but if you socialize with othre people you can easly find not only people to play with to help you or help them you find good friends as well cause wiz got one of the best communaties i have ever seen in more then 15 years of gaming experience
as a myth main who solod a lot early game it was tuff trying to figure out how to use minions it was weird and a waste tbh i couldve saved turns making good hits or using little heals, but i didnt know anything, like about training pets or what they can do to give me more damage and spells so after learning everything and a lil help here and there id say myth soloing gets easier later in game and can definitely get good hits in, plus i feel like the myth school teacher is like one of the greatest things about the school and makes me feel excited what snarky remarks he has to say anytime i go to see him
ALSO DONT YOU DARE DISS ORTH HE IS A GOOD TWO HEADED DOG, AND WITH AN EPIC HAS TAKEN OUT THOUSANDS OF BOSSES WITH EASE *mic drop*
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I will say tho, I’m enjoying my life wizard a lot. If you get rat spin early it’s very good and sometimes i find myself hitting for a team. Life seems, to me , one of the best schools in the game.
I may only be lvl.29, but I picked Ice as my school, but suplement it with Storm spells to boost my offense. What do you think about multi-schooling and does doing Ice/Storm as I do help cancel out each school weaknesses?
Myth is my favorite school purely because it is unique to wizard101. I have not really seem anything like it in other games. It's my current highest school at almost level 150
I haven't had a problem soloing as a balance ngl , I have built mine to do a lil more damage and I do have a triple double pet , but I don't think it's crazy hard
I haven’t played in a good 5 years but I’ve been a die hard fire wizard ever since the beginning of this game. I kind of feel like playing it again xD
Love your channel bro
The only problem that I found wrong was Storm's average rating is off. Storm's Average Rating is actually 3.125/5 NOT 3.25/5, because 3 + 1.5 + 4 + 4 = 12.5, then divide by 4 = 3.125. I am not entirely sure if you caught that right now looking back or not I just wanted to let you know. 6th Place is Storm with 3.125 and is NOT tied with Ice.
Other than Storm's Average Rating mishap, I think you did a fabulous job explaining each school and gave a good rating system for each of the 4 criteria that you created. I also made an ice as my first wizard and I do treasure that guy with all my heart. I won't make a Death or Life Wizard until I get Ship of Fools and Rat Spin on them so that way my death and life wizards will have an easier time questing. In my personal opinion, I NEVER like to solo the game, because I think having my friends, people on team up, or anyone is way much better than being alone. In addition to, the help of some people speeds up your questing time tremendously than soloing (depending on the player) along with getting Monstrous TC & Critical + Damage Pet early game can get your questing done through the early worlds a lot quicker.
Lol oops nice save
Critical on pets are automatic fail pets.
@@salazar5382 Yes they are. However, like I said in my comment, I was referring to critical on pets early game like Wizard City, Krokotopia, Marleybone, etc so you are able to blow through enemies/bosses and get the world(s) completed at a faster rate. Then, you can hatch a new better pet with full damage or damage and resist (up to player in hindsight) when you get to the critical gear aspect part of the game.
@@terrybarnes8386 Waste of time, might as well just do a damage pet. First arc is extremely easy and I dont get how people need to rely on critical lmao
@@salazar5382 Its not really a waste of time because getting 20+ critical on a level 0 -1 wizard is pretty good. I'm not excusing your point of getting a damage pet for low wizards either cause getting 20+ damage for a level 0-1 wizard is awesome too. Arc 1 is pretty easy from experience but that's not always the case if the person is new to Wizard101 and aren't knowledgeable about the game like experts/veterans of the game are. I don't think people are relying on critical too much, I think it's to make questing faster by doubling your damage to enemies like mobs or bosses in early game.
I think playing as any school all the way from early game to close to end game is boring if a storm wizard joins your battle. Because most of the time you won’t even get to do anything. No hitting and your support is pointless since the match will end in 5 rounds or less.
I love myth, it was my first class and I leveled it solo, went through all the pain of having no good hit all spell until level 100 and I loved every minute of that painful grind.
Every other school after that never felt the same and felt like the game was in easy mode! Became the strongest Myth Character on the german servers and always thought it would be cool if you could control your minions and if they were strong enough to replace 1 player, but unfortunately they aren't even strong enough that you can afford wasting the pips for it.
the thing about storm is that everybody is gonna be counting on you to hit 24/7 and if you fizzle…. you’ll never hear the end of it. so good luck.
Something people don't mention about fire is the fizzling. Oh god the fizzling. I am playing Wizard101 with a friend and I went with life. I am so glad I did because her attacks fizzle almost as much as storm attacks so she needs all the healing she can get to make up for when she wastes huge attacks and the enemy ends up living way longer than it should because of that lol
Not to mention the fact they are, you know, not good defensively... yeah she needs my healing
I love death, it was my first wizard and I’m still going strong with her 13 years later. It’s so versatile since I can switch between buffing people/tanking (just hit 10k hp) or just go all out hitting (I’m 160 with a 180 damage buff lol) and all the gear and spells are the coolest imo.
Myth is very fun if you have good gear and know what you’re doing. It’s also good in pvp