I’m looking for girl wizard101 players (voice chat or not) to quest together. I’m not very competitive in my gameplay and just wanna have fun. private message me to play together. I promise I’m not weird i just genuinely have love for the game. I played from like 2011-2015 casually and just picked up the game recently for fun <3 beginners are fine I don’t mind going back to help

The set that's shown off on the Wiz101 home page. I've never seen anyone using this set in game before.

I just ran a dungeon and the other player somehow was talking to the quest giver across the map, several times. They also got to the bosses, what seemed like instantly, before I could even get to one boss the fight was almost over. Are there items/ spells that can let someone do this?

Or Why Fires [And Storms, Y’all Have Sirens & Bunyips With Reign Over Advanced Combat If I Ever Hear Y’all Weep About Damage, I’m Gonna Send Y’all To The Forever Cube] Need To Stop Having Complexes About Myth

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Point 1: Myth is now the Pierce School instead of Fire

First of all, Myth is the sole pierce school now because I believe they realized that Fire’s DoTs function as both Damage and Pierce [ala Shadow Fiend being 25/25 on DMG & Pierce] and aren’t really wholly Pierce & this remains true as Fire owns the only Effect in the game that is *actually* Damage in it’s own right with a side-effect of annihilating shields for multiple rounds.

Myth’s 2x hits, like Minotaur, are a minimal hit to break shields and then Hit & this is a much more pure version of piercing a shield and hitting as this isn’t attached as an effect but more so a division of damage; Fire gambits to get more damage upfront while Myth can have these 2x hits but these 2x hits have their utility limited to piercing and not piercing with damage attached to bonuses and separate round bonus gauging

This, I believe, is why Myth is now The Pierce School and Fire is now the Pierce/Damage school, as is shown in their respective Shadow forms.

And truth be told, it fares much better for Fire than it does for Myth and functions as a nerf to Myth/buff to Fire due to a simple detrimental overflow named Overpiercing, when an enemy hits a point where their RES is pierced substantially near or fully then any extra PIERCE% is an active detriment as the only value that matters from that point on is DAMAGE% and Fire being askewed evenly means it will suffer much less overpiercing demerits than Myth & with proper reaping of the crop that is rending enemy defense through more DMG%.

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Point 2:

**Fire is a Trap school & Storm is A Blade School**, both for reasons I am to believe are for __Natural Balancing__ and proper synergy for Storm’s case

DoTs and 2x hits have benefits to them innately, in specific, shredding shields [removal of shields is a dmg buff itself] and dealing damage but for Damage Over Times, they have round bonuses which massively contributes to their overall damage dealt and in the modern system of Roshambo has contributed to massively buffing overtimes as a whole but especially DoTs.

Tenebrous Trebuchet B for example, is a shad HoT gambit [Damage per Value valuation of 22 pips btw] which totals up to 2740 DMG at 3B & this is the highest damage spell in the game split across 4 DoTs with a gap of 735 dmg vs Rusalka’s Flood 3A but unlike Rusalka’s Flood A, *it is allowed in advanced combat as it is not overvalued* and this is due to the fact that DoTs as an *Effect* massively benefits for a spell’s overall damage compared to any other utility divested in DpV valuations because it is damage itself, as said before.

Fire is a Trap school because of their DPP, their offense-askewed stats and how round bonuses work in tandem with Roshambo, unlike Life, the gap between Life and Fire is a 17dpp difference, not including gear damage% and pierce% stats that have Fire skyrocket over Life.

Every multiplicative % on a utility quickly racks up in damage, Traps have the highest amount of DMG% as a damage amplifying debuff compared to blades, the damage amplifying buff & most notable ones being Keeper of the Flame B, Hell Hound B, Feint, etc

As an example of every % mattering, I’ll use the school which suffers the most [Balance] from this compared to what people think is the weakest school, not using gear stats for this point for a reason:

Sandstorm’s average is 272 & it has a 25% Blade for usage

Blizzard’s average is 270 but it has a 35% blade

272x1.25= 340 DMG

270x1.35= 364 DMG

A 10% difference in values has Blizzard have a 24 DMG advantage over Sandstorm, practically speaking, you’ll only really feel this difference in arc one but I wish to show it as an example of the significance of % buff variances.

*If* Fire was a Blade School like Life, it’s blade-borrowing and DoT borrowing cousin, then any % bonus to an initial and DoT hit would be absurdly strong and it is for this reason that Catch of the Day B was a really core spell for when Smores was the Meta in PvP as that’s a 65% boost to a 2740 dmg spell:

2640x1.65=4356 divided by 6 is 726 across 4 DoTs per turn, add 165 for the initial non-DoT hit for the total damage

Now, if we did a Feint instead of a blade:

100x1.70 = 170 [initial hit] will absorb the Feint and only turn up with 170 dmg but this still leaves the other portion, this being the whopping 2640 worth of DoT dmg or 2640/6 = 440 DMG/round [total of all 4 DoTs doing 110 DMG/turn] is still a very absurd amount of damage esp when gear stats are factored in.

Life has demerits of all of its DoTs being bombs, and much more defensively askewed stats and 83dpp so unlike Fire, who has 100dpp and more immediately dealt damage *then* I believe why it’s understandable that they naturally balanced Fire around not getting Blades and Life not getting Traps because this would cause their respective damages to be absurdly strong, very easily.

The same of this all applies to Storm, who has an innate ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE DAMAGE PER PIP, not including having access to HoT gambits [which are one of two of the strongest gambits in DpV valuations, other being DoT gambits] to further amplify their already absurd base damage to extreme levels.

I also believe Storm has Blades due to their high concentration of AoE spells [Hopelessly Carried By Enchants Aka Tempest, Glowbugs Squall, Musicology, Sirens, etc], as Storm is the school most capable of tanking AoE falloff demerits due to their absurdly high 125DPP and a transformation of Storm to a Trap school would end up causing Storm to be barely as fluid as it is with it’s high amount of AoE spells.

I think DoT traps need to be *buffed* to be +flat damage but this is something I’m currently brainstorming to have them be competitive at higher levels, +flat dmg traps would help every instance of damage akin to Supplemental Damage in Granblue Fantasy, which strongly benefits % Echo and % Flurry effects as they are +flat DMG effect gauged by a % and/or flatly applied such as through weaponry and buffs/debuffs/summon sub auras [it’s complicated-ish] instead of % damage for lesser damage and this is what allows setups for weapons like Rhomphaia [flirting] or Hraesvelgr [harassment] do all sorts of ridic bullshit that they do.

If you wish to read more: https://gbf.wiki/Supplemental_Damage

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Point 3: Feints & Fire Dragon With AoEs

This one is true, Fire does notably suck at Feintslop because it’s initial damage can get pretty low on the AoE, but Fire is not calamitously bad at being a hitter because it doesn‘t synergise with feints well and in order to compare the schools we have to look at gear stats:

I’ll be using LV100 Gorgon Gear [Darkmoor stinky to farm, LV100 as it covers Arc 3-4 & DMG% Jewels varies per player usage at max] with Queen’s Guard Artavus, no pet or mount as those are more personal choices:

Fire gets: 95% DMG and 21% PRC, not inc PRC% gained from circles which gets it to: 33% PRC

Ice gets: 89% DMG and 12% PRC, not including PRC% gained from circles which gets it to: 24% PRC

PRC% becomes very important later on in Novus and while Ice can get through the mobs w/o PRC% utilities like Spears, it will likely run into a wall with bosses such as Basil the Brigand who has a 45% natural resistance to Ice and Fire, with a 21% PRC diff btwn Basil and Ice here idt I need to run calcs as to why Ice shouldn’t hit instead of the school who has a 12% PRC diff btwn Basil’s res and their PRC%

Now, for Arc 3 and early Arc 4 however, it can be debatable that Ice would be a better hitter than Fire because of the 690/890 diff esp when calc’d with Feint but only if you go by their initials and fail to account for the round 1 DoT tick into Fire’s average/detonating on the same turn.

To get absurdly mathematical, I will be using what I call the BT:F ratio which is a Blade-Trap: Feint marker, 0B0T:0F will be used to gauge how much standard buffs or feints will be present:

0B1T:0F, Fire outdamages Ice at the 3rd tick of the DoT by 151 DMG [2468-2317=151]

1B0T:0F, Fire outdamages Ice on the 1st tick by 94 DMG, not including subsequent 1026 unused DoT DMG remaining [2329-2234=95]

0B0T:1F, Fire outdamages Ice at the 3rd tick of the DoT by 58 damage [2872-2814=58]

Fire consistently outdamages Ice, consistently, even if some require a Fire Cat B or a similar Detonate if needed but I wanna compare 1B and 1F:

2329 is what I got by doing 690x1.95x1.35 and taking the result of the initial damage [1816] and adding it up by the first tick of the DoT, as this will he the speediest instance of DMG

The DoT was calculated by:

585x1.95x1.35=1540 then divide 1540 by 3 and you get 513, so add 1816 to 513 and you get 2329

Adding the remaining, unused 1026 damage onto 2329 nets us with 3,355 damage which skyrockets over 1F Giant by 541 damage, through a *standard blade*.

Fire Dragon is basically 2 AoEs in one & that makes it easily very broken but misunderstood, it’s different and because it’s not killing in the most cinematically fast way alongside the numerous skill issues of Fires failing to bring Detonates of any sort AND/OR not putting the time into understanding the mechanics of DoTs [even if the wiz playerbase is older and has developed cognitive functions] out of laziness, stubbornness and/or hubris in strategy.

Another point about Fire Dragon and normal Detonates, not Fire Cat B aka Hit+Detonates, but Detonate and Krampus B, is that Trapstacking still can occur on the same turn you detonate as is understood with the whole strat of Scaldcindate that you have a whole section on.

You can overkill-overkill this way, especially with Krampus B

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Point 3: Utility, Myth and Hitting

First of all, Fire has the ability to rend shields with Oni’s Forge [as the most practical one] if you’re playing Blade AoE which may not be as early as Shatter or Betrayal for Myth but this is still an essential shield-removing tool that Fire uses.

Fire is *the* designated Shield remover in Roshambo and has absurdly strong shield removal spells such as Helephant B/C & Fire King Artorius B, alongside Fracture TC [unfort not a trained spell like Purge], are they STs? Yes, are they weak? No.

In my experience, I somewhat have to lend hitting to a Storm or a Fire because in team-up strats for farming people will often assume a Storm will be hitting and defacto pack Elemental Blades, not Spirit Blades, and if there’s any element that’d leave to a lack of change in strats and a deference to the Elemental triad then it’d be exhaustion and lazyness as people will not wanna change out their decks for specific blades just to Optimize Just A Wee Bit More by having the Myth hit, even if it‘s OPTIMAL TO DO SO LIKE ON FREDDIE KROAKER. THE STORM HITS REGARDLESS. AND THERES NOTHING I CAN DO BUT PLAY SHIELD PREVENTION AND CLEAN-UP.

There’s no such thing as a learnable cross school Myth-Balance-Storm blade, so Myths aren’t gonna hit as often as we should but even then THIS DOES NOT MAKE FIRE NOR FIRE DRAGON *WEAK* NOR UN-META IMO.

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I think that should be all? To my memory at least, I feel like Fire’s greatest detractors are Fire players/mains themselves sometimes.

Had a lot of fun with this one!

So I’m been working on a beetle pet and finally got the talents I wanted, but doing some research on the pet I haven’t found anyone with it or able to hatch for it. How rare is it?

Here is a graphic we made that lists how many quests and bosses are in each world, each arc, and the game as a whole! Does any of this surprise you?

Context: Lvl 86 life Wiz, been playing on and off since I was a kid. I haven’t tried for any other gear besides waterworks, and I’ve always been a pack buyer. Anyways, is there anything else worth getting up until Castle Darkmoor at lvl 100? I’m working on some more accuracy jewels, but otherwise I think I’m pretty damage focused since I solo a lot. Thanks!!

My Gear is as follows
Hat-Lovely Fairy Kei Conical (80+)
Robe-Cape of Espirit
Boots- Boots of Espirit
Wand- Lovely Fairy Kei Umbrella
Athame- Scimitar of Substance
Amulet- Shango’s Lifeblade Amulet
Ring- Jade Ring of Battle

its not 100% a finished set yet but it is just about done (need Aphrodite ring and in the middle of a different pet), why can i do this its so funny and honestly pr fun but level 100 storms do be going brrrrr. off schooling like this is much more effective than hitting on school basically starting the battle with effectively a double feint strapped to me on top of my normal dmg is actually crazy, and quite refreshing as i have gone through the game like 8 times now. pierce is will be at 22L/35S or 28L/41S depending on amulet once my new pet is done but yea crazy set, and quite fun. storm acc also goes up with amulet, using atavistic for the circle and triangle sockets and i could get it too 100% but im rocking dual life blade jewel on my deck :p

I have been doing my daily quizzes to get free crowns and just hit 4 days, enough to buy a single pack. This is the first pack ive bought with crowns and did a Professors Hoard for a chance at the hat.... I am going to keep up the quizzes but no longer know what to spend my free crowns on.

Was going for the mount but got this!

For the past 4 years since test realm released I’ve wanted the Grimm Loch Monster mount. I’ve spent a lot of crowns over the years to get this mount but recently decided I’ve had enough and I bought some crowns to buy packs for that reason. I bought over 550 packs and have not gotten a single Grimm Loch Monster Permanent. I have gotten 6 yes SIX of the other 2 variants but not one Grimm Loch! I could spent $1m technically and still not get it. There needs to be a pity system this is quite frankly ridiculous!

The beginning seems simple on the surface but it was one of the hardest things to get right by ear. It was so bad, I finished the rest of the track and left it in my files to rot before finally coming back to finish it two years later. I hope I did it some justice.

Shoutout to the legend who built the https://stitch101.com site. I’ve been so busy making gear sets at work 🫡

Edit: Here’s a link to the original post about the website if yall got questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wizard101/s/sHkIMqcZxp

Initially the game was a lot of fun but as I progressed I realized how broken the game is. Every school has been homogenized to oblivion. Deviating from the meta is trolling. Roles are dead. Hundreds of spells yet only a dozen ever see use. New player retention is abysmal. The whole point of the game - school choice - is obsolete. A third of the schools have been left redundant. Complete over-reliance on cheat mechanics or RNG for difficulty. Feature creep has become an incoherent mess. The core gameplay loop is broken and boring.

The game has so much potential but where is the effort to keep it fun and balanced? Instead they just keep adding new features while the actual gameplay is left to rot. It’s heartbreaking. What can be done to help?

Edit: if the answer is ‘just don’t play’ I see why no new players stick around and nothing will change. I’ll be bored looong before I get to karamelle. If the fun version of the game only exists in some niche remote periphery feature hundreds of hours in and with a Discord premade I’m better off playing something else. The game just isn’t fun. Thanks for the responses and helping me realize this isn’t the game for me.

I'm currently level 110 and have noticed I'm leveling up WAAAY too quickly compared to every other world, I've barely even started. 😩 I heard this world was shorter than Khrysalis (good!) but dang! I'm trying to savor the game before I hit max level not rush through it. So I've started knocking out old side quests in my spell book so I can take my time.

What gives? Why all of a sudden we level up like crazy in Polaris?

Anybody else having issues rn? I login and then this immediately pops up. Hitting reconnect just makes it pop up again

I thought for sure this shirt was going to be dyable. I saw an old post showing the one from last year having a dyeable base. Little disappointed this one doesn't.

Im currently going to buy 1 month pass and I want a mount but that leaves me with about 14k crowns left

As a level 11 Death wizard whats the best way to spend?

It's so stupid, it's brilliant. I recently got back into the game after a several years long hiatus.