How Each School Does When Soloing in Wizard101 

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Death is super solid only downside though is when you get into groups and people are screeching about death being a support class (which obviously if someone is more geared i will support) but i cant count how many times i got into a big farm dungeon and someone with no gear is like "uh actually im storm so i hit" and they just waste my feints on something awful

As someone who soloed myth and used minions a few times I wanna say a few things. During the early game, using the living puppet minion is so useful because it required no pips and you had someone else to do some damage. Since you don’t need any fancy traps during the early game it helps a lot, not to mention since they attack every round, enemies will focus on them leaving you unharmed for the most part.

As someone who has soloed balance, you can get through most of the third arc with nested fury even with the new shadow pip system. So I think it improves ( like Ice) around level 100-110. Second arc particularly level 70-100 might be the toughest to solo of any school just for lack of damage ( I actually needed some Tartarus gear.) With the exception of a few cheating bosses in Karamelle, 4th arc hasn't been too bad ( haven't done Lemuria yet.)

7:23 this one really nails it. Me and my friend have been playing since wiz was new but we play VERY differently when it comes to deck setup. He leans more towards a large deck prepared for any possibility while i'm very minimalist with it. Whenever we hang and see each other's decks we're just dumbfounded with each other. I honestly can't fathom how he manages to accomplish anything with his massive decks and he doesn't understand how i can survive using the starter deck up to level 50/60 😂

damn i remember when lvl 60 was max lvl, time sure does fly

arc 1 ranking: 1. death - survivability is almost never an issue, even w/o ship o fools 2. fire - hits hard and quickly, gets meteor at 22, fire kookaburra has a 100% acc meteor if u want that, link and power link can heal u 3. life - u might take a long time, but surviving will never be a problem, ur accuracy is the most reliable, and kookaburra is such a big help 4. myth - frog is a great cheap aoe like meteor, but u hit less hard than fire overall, yet barely have more hp or resist 5. ice - goes up this ranking a lot if you can get TCs like iceblades, feints and monstrous to rly help ur damage 6. storm - level 1 to 27 (pre-tempest) will suck, you def need accuracy tcs 7. balance - good 4 pip aoe but balance foes will be very problematic (they can tri-shield against off-school like spectral blast)

As a player who has had each school at some point or another, I agree. I often refer to Storms as the glass cannons of the spiral because until you know what you're doing it is so freaking hard to stay alive. When I first created my storm (after having mained a Balance of all things) it took me about a week to work out the kinks. To handle accuracy troubles in early game, I used the sun school accuracy tcs that I bought on my main and added those to my spells. Other than that, it's like you said. deck set up is key. I generally, unless I'm looking to go after a big health boss, will only have 10-20 cards in my deck at any given time, as well as a reshuffle or two, depending on how worried I am by the wiki page I read. I'm sure there would be other things I could be doing to improve, but I find soloing pretty easy for the most part. Just get used to cringing and squeaking "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!" I also feel I should mention I don't gear farm. I just shop in the Bazaar every five levels or so to see if anything has better stats than what I currently have. If I find something, I buy it, but that's it.

My most advanced wizard in the game is my ice wizard. I found it easy to solo because Ice is a tank. Their whole purpose is defense, and not just for themselves. The win by outlasting the enemy.

I actually started my first playthrough on this game all those years ago in the old ages of 2009. As the dumb little child I was, I got lucky and picked fire "because cool". Now getting back into the game 8 years after falling out of it, I'm glad I picked that school because I can actually understand stuff now.

My first wiz was a death, and soloing wasn't too hard, but I was still learning the game. Storm was my second, and it was a breeze because I had a lot of experience. My third wiz I soloed was balance, and it was a struggle.

Your explanation on the storm school was honestly perfect. When I was younger I would die so much but when I play now, I have like 2-3 blades and 1 attack, enchant for blades/attack and a reshuffle in my deck.

as a life i usually has the most damage going into darkmoor with people which was weird

I learned Death is the best to solo. I realized first when it came to the 4 ravens in Grizzleheim. Basically, blade, blade & scarecrow. Being able to heal when you damage is great. I've soloed Tarsus many times. And had defeated the 4 Morganthes. I'm usually the player that does not die, while my friends port in and out after they are killed. I highly recommend choosing death as your first wizard. You learn the game better. Then go on to harder schools.

I've never found soloing to be particularly difficult on any school, but you can grade them differently for different situations. Some of these being: how quickly they can solo quest the entire game, how well they perform in soloing difficult dungeons, and how easy they are for beginners. Now in my experience, death comes out on top in all 3 of those categories, however some schools have WAY bigger differences between the categories. For example, storm is around the middle of the pack for beginners, one of the best for speed questing, and dead last for difficult dungeons. The almost complete opposite of storm being balance, really hard for beginners, and pretty bad for speed questing, but much better for difficult dungeons, due to their much higher health, resist and healing capability.

I started playing when I was 8 years old, right after the game came out (March, 2009) so I have been playing for a looooong time. My very first school I ever chose was death, and let me tell you, in the early stages of the game, trying to play death school while also being a literal child, it was ROUGH. Now, however, I have no doubt in my mind that my child brain chose correctly, because death is absolutely THE MOST solid school in the whole game. Everything has their perks - storm has dmg, life has healing, etc, but death has ALL OF THEM combined. If played right, you can be seriously badass as a death character

I find Balance to be much easier to solo then Ice. You have like 30% more damage from gear than ice does. Plus, you have power nova, judgement and nested fury which are absolute powerhouses while ice's spells hit like a feather.

arc 4 ranking: 1. death - would you be surprised? 2. life - rises up so much, because surviving is more difficult in arc 4 than in arc 3 (that's why subsequent schools drop in positions) 3. ice - rises back up, because again, in arc 4, the focus becomes surviving before u can kill, not just killing rapidly 4. balance - the only fights in arc 4 u can't reliably solo are gobbsmack, aberrant and the (spoiler-less) lemuria end fight 5. fire - u could try still playing aggro, since u have more hp than storm, but since your resist can be as low as 27%, u need to be super careful 6. myth - myth isn't that bad, unlike what this ranking might show, but your aoes do drop off in power compared to fire and storm to an extent 7. storm - the sad thing is that it no longer matters how skilled of a player u are, bosses now have much more utility cards (weaknesses, shields, stuns, beguile, etc) to slow u down enough that they can sometimes win before u can even get a hit off

Myth is great because of the utility spells. Minions can be super helpful if you know how to use them properly! Especially if you lean more towrds blades (as opposed to traps). I like to use minions at the beginning of certain boss fights because even if they're not casting good support spells, they can still do some base damage & take a couple blows while I stack up on blades & astral spells.

Myth getting early 100% accuracy from Waterworks Gear is pretty huge

the only thing I disagree with is what you said about ice soloing late game vs early game. On my ice account I had really no problem soloing most worlds with the exceptions being the final bosses, and didn't really have to start thinking about damage until around level 100. That being said, I think ice is extremely dependent on the player themselves and much less the school. I think people often underestimate ice's hitting ability, as ice is a fairly strong hitting school under the right circumstances. I think the only full worlds I really struggled on are Celestia and Dragonspyre, and that was just due to me being underleveled going into the worlds. Also, a little side note and not to brag ;) I have 149 ice damage and 10,750 health, so for all the people saying that ice cant have good damage and super high health at the same time, suck it :)

As a balance/myth main, balance really is a pain to solo as, but it's absolutely the most fun school to play in a team setting due to feeling so useful doing everything from buffing to enemy disruption, survival and neutral utility and always being appreciated by others for having just what they need on demand. Pretty much the opposite is myth, which has been a breeze to solo as (actually a little easier than fire in my opinion due to slightly better defense and being able to ignore shields), but has more than once caused me to be treated like dead weight in dungeons from the get go due to being overshadowed as a hitter by fire and storm and as a support by balance, death and ice. Luckily, some of the best low pip spells of the last 3 are easy to find as treasure cards, so I've started packing a lot of Legion Shield, Plague/Virulent Plague and Smoke Screen in the side deck with Blinding Light and Shatter in main to keep enemies locked down when I can't play the hitter role, while still having enough blades and hits to attack if necessary. It's actually quite an interesting and creative way to play if you can deal with people's occasional bias :D.

I’ve soloed most everything as a balance wizard and honestly imo it’s not too bad. Sure fights may last a little longer but it is what it is. The only really annoying thing is having to fight balance mobs or bosses. Although I do wish there was a balance specific blade and/or trap

Trying to solo a storm wizard is suicide mission

well my dad years back did Storm as his first wizard and he hated that he constantly fizzled but i've always thought that as long as you don't fizzle you'd would mostly win any battle

100% agree here as usual.... Ice and Balance were my first and second wizards and I tended to solo until around Krysalis.... so yeah, the pain is real. Great breakdown as usual!

arc 2 ranking: 1. death - crow is gas, he's literally the only thing u need + ur damage is 2nd only to storm, based on death's level 60 gear 2. life - very easy to get by, you can play both very offensively (your damage is 3rd best) and defensively (healing as much as u need) 3. ice - your defense is so good u can take all the time u need to slowly sit back, blade up, and still do >20k damage, not good if you're highly impatient however 4. storm - pretty alright in zafaria and avalon, main peeves will be celestia (pre-ww gear is not good) and azteca (they crit more, set shield, etc.) 5. myth - still good despite being bottom half, due to good 4 pip and 7 pip aoes. however, ur ww gear is actually 2nd-3rd lowest damage, and obv ur defense is not top tier 6. fire - just like myth, ur gear damage is considerably higher than only ice, problem is fire dragon sucks compared to orthrus because damage enchants split to the dot as well, and the dot is less useful 7. balance - u still struggle against multiple balance enemies (best bet is actually infall), but at least u have chimera for bal bosses and power nova for most others

I usually don't like longer videos about this kinda stuff cause it feels drawn out, but this video is great! I expected to click off quickly but you did a great job! Highly appreciate the timestamps too

Sad that fire isn’t the most powerful anymore but makes sense

i think what really boosts death is the 70%+ damage thing that you can cast. like if you have that plus some blades a 500 hit turns into a 2000 hit with only a few rounds

Great video!! My first wizard was a Balance, I love him so much even though I had a few tough times leveling up through 120, which was when I quit. I think it’s pretty accurate what you said and also I’d like to add up that every class is pretty much playable and soloable since we kind of develop a few workarounds on their weaknesses, with Balance that was not different

I started the game in 2010 when i was 6. I chose a death wizard because i thought it was *different* and *edgy* lmao. needless to say, now at 18 i still solo death and it works pretty well!

I've been soloing balance recently (Cause I wanted all 7 max schools for some reason) and... yeah, playing solo balance SUCKS. But if you wanna win at balance, get a snappy gryphon pet. Even a first generation one would carry you through the entire game. It gives a pet balanceblade at baby, a pet feint at adult, AND a pet 7 pip Elemental AoE at ancient. Thise things alone carry your balance, lol

This video was REALLY solid👌

Love the timpestamps and all the work you put into your vids!

Glad to hear positives about myth! I’m enjoying the class a lot personally.

I know this is a year old and people have already said it, but death is such a good starting school. The healing gives you the flexibility to play with blades and deck setups, which makes learning storm SO much easier. Efficient deck set up is SO easy now. And, honestly, going from my death as a first wizard to a myth was refreshing because it was genuinely a little more difficult. I'm planning on bouncing between the stronger and weaker schools to keep interest, since the difference in strategy between easy and hard schools is fun.

As someone who picked myth when i was younger and rocked with it too 140 i can say its not too hard soloing just when we only had earthquake as an aoe it was mcpain

For a long time I went through myth and balance before I finally settled on death as my main wiz which, as you said, is the easiest to solo with. Currently I have life, ice, storm, and balance wizards that I am working on and I'd say that ice is the most difficult right now and the fact that they get their blade so late is such a disadvantage. I found storm a little difficult in the beginning because the only downside is that their health is not as good as other schools early game so you do, in fact, need to kill the enemies before they kill you. I watched your video to see how they all compare and I am glad that life doesn't have a problem soloing either because I thought it'd be a problem since I saw the school as a support school but I've been doing a ton of damage when I have my blades and the kookaburra pet (having leaf storm and that blade WAY early game is so good). I am rambling but overall, I agree with everything you said!

I think what could be very interesting and possibly fix the minion issues especially for Myth is adding spells that don't take up your whole turn to cast, this could be introduced with the new cosmetic Cantrips that are being introduced, they could put all of the minion buff spells as those and you could cast them similarly to how you can cast Sun spells, idk it might would still be bad if they were still in your main deck

Did storm first, and was terrified of battling. Now my death main helps me sweep, unless I fight an ice boss. Tower shield, health in the ten thousands, and shit like that hurts my soul

As a soloing Ice the road up to Celestia was a struggle but once I got midway through Celestia and got Waterworks my performance improved dramatically to the point where I blew through Zafaria with the health and resistance to go easy and the damage to crit and one shot consistently with bosses being 2-3 hits

I love the death school way too much. Every time I play on a new school I just miss playing death. When I get friends to play wiz w me I can’t help but start w a new death wizard even though I know I shouldn’t because I already have a death main- it’s just too good.

I just recently realized as a balance wizard in Azteca that I don't need a large deck to do boss battles. 15 cards will do lol

Just saw this now. Great vid. Totally agree.

With Storm the hardest part of the game is when bosses get a second minion. Thats a third spell coming your way per turn, making it so you can't normally get the tempest/storm lord set up fast enough to win.

Finally an in depth analysis of each class's relative power throughout the game

I soloed my balance until the end of AZ! I can't wait to further her. I have a 94 Storm, 96 Balance, 131 Life. I definitely, didn't like soloing my life character until forest lord, but it's great now!

The beauty of W101 is if you know what you are doing, you can solo with anything. Every school has its "downtimes" throughout the story, which are just times where they just feel super weak. Storm has low health and accuracy early, life never gets a mass without Rat Spin until DS, myth doesnt have a heavy single hitter for a while, balance has a weird learning curve with hydra and chimera, etc. That said, the mechanics arent hard to learn and if it works, it aint stupid

on my storm i had actual god tier gear and pet so up to avalon was a breeze but soloing bosses got insanely difficult and I had to do wacky stuff like packing a minion just to advance to khrysalis

Good video. Subbed!

As a lvl 99 Life wizard, my minions saved my life & helped me successfully solo through most of the game.

15:06 Death does have Colossafrog from the Gloomy Eye pet for a four pip aoe, and while it is on the low end for damage per pip, it is good for a laugh, as the camera zooms so far back during the animation, it can clip through walls. imo, though, the king of awkward camera angles is Forest Lord’s new animation, specifically during the final boss of Khrysalis. I’ll be blunt, it’s a super zoomed in shot of Spider Morganthe’s arse, which I bust out into laughter every time I see. Like, how did that get past QA without raising eyebrows?

Ryzen 9 5900x, 2070 super and I also lag in commons. Side note: videos are looking a lot smoother and well thought out/spoken. Keep up the good work

Honestly i started off with a Storm character and it was really difficult to stay alive at first but when i got the water minion spell it helped a lot because i pm setup defenses while loading pips and then wipe out the enemies with the big wave. I soloed all of the first arc using that strategy.

I have been playing this game for quite some time and I can say i've gotten each school to max in one cap. I feel like I have enough experience to say stuff for each school. when i did do questing it was before the spell audits and such but Ill change according to the HP nerfs and spell changes. ------------------------------------------------ #1 Death. I do think death obviously is number one, I did also think that deer knight was kinda a needed spell for normal ads when scarecrow just didnt do enough damage. Now that scarecrow is buffed to 590 base damage and gets the full effect of an enchant I see no doubt that death is the easiest solo school. ---#2 Life. I honestly think life was a cakewalk. early game is slow as you have no 4 pip (ratatoskr is craftable now) other than the pack spell, you had to wait until 58 for an aoe. when I maxed my life as SOON as you get forest lord, and I mean as SOON, you will bulldoze through the game like its nothing, and now with the lord BUFFS, i think it'll just be insanely faster, you already are tanky and you can heal if its really that bad but half the time the enemies are beyond dead before they can do damage to you. ----#3 Myth. I think now with the myth changes to othrus being the strongest 7 pip in the game, 700 base damage is such a strong spell, and myth naturally being a strong hitter orthrus is gonna be doing a buttload of damage no matter what, when i maxed my myth I spammed frog because thats all myth had and I still had rarely ever a problem, so its just good, but now you have a 7 pip aoe. ----#4 Storm. I think storms early game is shit and everyone knows why, you have 400 health with a 50% chance to fizzle it seems. tempest can carry you a little bit once you get it at 28 and by then you just temp spam until you hit max basically. its the same thing as life where as soon as you get a special level it begins to become a lot easier, once you get to level 60 and gain waterworks, you'll just bulldoze just like life, and now with the HP nerfs to all the mobs you'll kill far quicker than normal. Once you climb outta that early game it becomes real easy to quest solo, for the most part. ----#5 Ice. Ice honestly has no downsides, maybe for ad fights you need to spend an extra round buffing but again, 3-4 feints with a few blades for any school will wipe bosses, and again, the HP nerfs for bosses really helps when you dont need to do 21k constantly, you can safely do 15k+ can still kill. and feint spamming on ice is the best since you are a mountain of defense when those storm bosses spam hard hitting spells rounds 1-4 and you are still at 70%+ hp. its really for people playing slower than normal but theres really no risk to buffing one more time as ice. -----#6 fire. I think early game is way more forgivable than late game, schools like storm that struggle early game but shine mid game+ is way way better than being good early game then struggle late game. fire through most of the worlds is kinda just hard. the fire bosses, are in plentiful supply, your health isnt anything to crazy just on par with myth, your main aoe being dragon is split into 2 attacks, fire honestly not an easy school until 108. I think once you hit waterworks it becomes much easier for some time, but once you hit Avalon-Khrysalis part 1, fire dragon does not do enough damage. using feints like normal, and blades like normal dragon only does like 12k maximum. which for a school with the lower end of health you kinda just die. I will say half way through azteca sharpen blade and potent does help a ton, but its still such a low amount of damage. but it is manageable when you get sharpen and potent, but that is a long ways away. and why the fuck are there so many fire enemies -_-. #7 Balance. Other than the obvious reason of no trainable convert. if you are using chimera and hydra on boss fights in the higher worlds you are doing it wrong. to solo a balance you literally need 1/3 pets. The Snappy Gryphon, therizino, or a harpy. It is literally the only way. You either get Lerneaen Hydra, which is stronger, or Lycian Chimera, which is slightly weaker, its a 7 PIP AOE hydra or 7 PIP Chimera. It is the only way to quest until 108 for nested. Only problem now is balance bosses kinda spam elemental shield AND spirit shield and you only get one card so make it count. And dont forget the RA change so now you'll get a -40% plague which you gotta cleanse because that will ruin your 1 card hit. obviously you can bring a spectral blast to finish them off or something but thats just too many steps for a balance to solo. but thats vs balance bosses and thankfully there isnt that many, normal bosses? honestly with your buttcheek blades I just feinted 4 times then Nova'd and honestly it does a lot. if you take the balance boss out of the factor you honestly should be fine playing balance, nova doing nearly as much as storm lord you do a lot of damage. but thats only stopped by balance mobs. I don't think balance is THAT hard, but without one of three pets, I would say it'd be a ton harder. ------------------------------ thats my complete opinion on which schools are easier to solo, any school can do massive amounts of damage now. so soloing is much easier for each school.

It’s really good to know that my 2 favorite classes are the best at soloing. I thought death would be more mid-tier but it’s like just that fact that I don’t have my AOE yet

Yo, I don’t know if you notice or not but your channel is growing hella fast and your one of the only wiz channels I watch so keep up the awesome work 👍

I’m a lvl 52 storm wizard with hp just under 2000, nana 145 and I have issues soloing certain bosses. I’m currently in stormriven and just beat the storm shards boss soloing. Took me a few tries. What I like to do is set traps first, gain my pips and use spells that go after all enemies at once as soon as I know I’ll hit critical. I tend to win faster that way.

I've played life school since 2010, currently lvl 96. I found it easy enough to solo 1-50, then 50-60 was a nightmare (I didn't have forest lord then and played celestia when it first came out). Celestia was my least favorite world because of that. Zafaria and avalon were also hard because the battles took so long even though I had waterworks gear. However at some point I think I got the avalon crafted gear in the level 80s, and after that it has been soo much better. The crafted gear gives a high critical rating so critical heals and attacks nearly every round, with high damage, makes questing very comfortable. I don't recommend the waterworks gear after level 80 (unless they changed it, but from what I remember it was lacking in critical/block. also don't know if they nerfed zafaria/avalon)

1. Death 2. Fire 3. Storm 4. Life 5. Myth 6. Ice 7. Balance

I feel like a big downside to soloing as a balance is there isn't any converts for them meaning they are limited to spells against balance bosses

I played wizard101 back in like 2008-9 as a fire and got back into it because i watched zenmasterblues myth walkthrough and it not only got me back in the game but want to play myth. Imo myth is very good for a good long time (as a player who knows how to play but isnt a max level master) but whether its because there is additional mechanics and/or a difficulty curve but myth starts getting challenging (at least how i was playing) about halfway through arc 2. All of wizard city through dragonspyre save for a few places meant to be played my a group like a dungeon, key boss, or a gauntlet like malitaires area. Celestia is where the criticals and astral spells start but only a few bosses i needed help on. Once i got to zafaria i needed help on a good bit of stuff. I got as far as avalon and everything is impossible and i just had to sit and wait for someone to help on everything not trash related. Seems to me that unless you are an expert at the game at a certain point you WILL need help from others. (It is an mmo after all lol)

As an Ice, I really struggled soloing all the way until the end of Celestia. Once I reached Zafaria I did alright except for the bosses right before Khrysalis, those took FOREVER to do. And now that I'm in Empyrea it's definitely getting better for me

Loved the video, just got back into the game after over 5 years of not playing. Instead I played dark souls, if you know what that game is you know I am a masochist. I think ill have fun soloing as balance, if it gets too boring ill stop using my best spells because who doesn't love a game where the man goal is to die in futile attempts to succeed just rage quit and turn it back on in 30 minutes

As a long time older player...who started playing when my Niece and Nephew wanted to play , to help them out...I have been Death this whole time...over 10 years now on and off...just came back after being done with the first half of Empyrea and before the 2nd half came out...so its been awhile! thinking about playing any other class solo just seems like they wouldn't stand a chance compared to what I do with my Death character...its just being spoiled on that whole heal while damaging dynamic...I really should try another class lol , I have so much gear and unclaimed item sets from Cards over the years...

i have pretty much every class past 50 (149 fire, 130 life, 113 death, 80-something storm, 55 myth, and below 30 ice&balance), and i have to say that storm will always be my favorite class on paper, but with lemuria being out, i can barely even do it with my fully decked out fire lol, so im kind of glad i ditched my storm awhile ago. i dont think kingsisle will ever be able to balance storm in pve properly now that theyre making new worlds so much more difficult, but im hoping one day the class will get a larger buff to help with that :( i would love to max out every class but for now i think storm will probably be the last one i finish

Hey if there are any newer players here then let me give you some very useful info Buy enchantment treasure cards for questing! seriously this can really help you speed up questing tremendiously!! Preferably monsterous You can buy them in the bazaar but if you have a higher lvl wizard then you can get them in basically any librarian from celestia onward (except avalon i believe) if you can't get monsterous then giant works too. (and if you have the resources you can craft them too reciple is sold in celestia)

As a storm wizard I do think they need to do something in regards to either damage or hp as like you said fire is basically upgraded storm

Storm: lots of pain, self hatred, and sadism

I'm soloing as ice currently and i got the low lvl good crown gear (also used for low lvl pvp) and a pet with ice blade and feint - above that i also have the tc blizzard. I can imagine it would take longer for someone who doesn't have acces to that, but if your having fun, that's all that matters :)

As someone who has Solo'ed with Balance here is what I've known with it. I had played a little before so I knew what my plan was when playing balance, so loading up every level I could get I would put a training point into was Life for Satyr because something Balance lacks heavily on early game is healing, so Balance as my Primary and Life my secondary. I can agree but disagree at the same time with the damage because at times it seems lackluster like I should be able to do more but in reality it just cost a few extra cards in my deck or treasure card deck. I leveled up as much as I could with main and sidequests before going to krokotopia because I needed my sandstorm to survive the game, was it a pain when I was fighting without killing the mobs that had slightly more hp than I could damage yes, but then when I got judgement I used that up until I got Power Nova then switched to Ra for awhile and then back to Power Nova, ontop of if I couldn't kill them immediately then I would use reshuffle and kill them in the next two turns. Now as for the struggles with the game as a balance wizard, the toughest bosses I faced were Balance bosses because you couldn't convert your damage to another type, and Ice bosses because they love to spam Tower shield, and until I had my shadow card that pierced through both Balance Boss and Ice boss, I was always waiting to continue later on in the game. Balance is nice because most bosses can't defend against you while on the other hand two different classes of bosses absolutely wreck you moving forward, on top of having really good stats later on and then just the gear in general just keeps the game running smoothly when playing as a balance wizard.

I find the storm part funny cause when I first started the game many years ago, storm was my very first school lol. And I also play the wrong way cause I always had a full deck lol. But I solo the whole game unless i needed help and I did ok with him. Still is my highest wizard lol

For fire at the cost of some base damage it has a little bit better other stats and breakthrough shields with cards like dragon compare to storm

Best storm set up is as few spells as possible if want extra blades us tc.

As someone who has mostly soloed a majority of this game on nearly every school except ice (only up to 50 when the lvl cap was that back then). Death and life are the easiest, tho inconvenient because of lack of early AOEs. Fire is pretty easy power house, same for myth. But I forgot much of my myth soloing as that character turned into pvp only char at lvl 68. But never remembered having any troubles. Storm is definitely the hardest because of how fragile it is, but that's one of the things that makes it fun. Balance I find to be one of the most fun to solo, because you have to change your playstyle a lot depending on the situation and use a lot more spells.

I started playing again a few days ago on another life and I love it

as a solo storm, it truely becomes a brain-dead task. I literally would blade maybe once, then tempest and move on. It becomes so boring and I only got through because it was my highest wizard and I was bored of the lower worlds.

I didn’t use death until I got ship of fools so good

Ive been soloing as balance with a storm secondary. Im currently in early avalon. School pips have given me a second wind right as things got hard. Balance is hell against other balance enemies when youre not using a spirit school on the side (or spiritual tribunal if youre okay with your ears getting blown out)

Kaiser i finally got my lap top and became a level 36 myth doing every single quest started Marley bone today

I’m running a storm right now with, I run 25 spells and 3 tempest cards. I set up my shields and finally drop the accuracy shield and then tempest does thy work. It’s a new character since I’m coming back after not playing for 13 years, but all I’ve ever played was storm with death trained to feint. I think I want to try a new school, but I have no idea which to choose. Storm spells aside from the OP tempest are what made me like it. Just cool looking animations and my stitched fit is dope. I think I will decide between fire, death, or ice. I can’t decide though. Also I don’t wish to always solo, anyone who wants to play feel free to comment here when your on and we can try and meet up on Humongofrog!

I know people will say death is the best for learning the game, but I gotta say I think it's storm. You'll make some mistakes at first, but it really teaches you how to build your deck so that you can survive and win battles FAST. This is a skill that will transfer to any other school you try and is pretty invaluable. I say this as someone who started with 4 different schools prior to trying storm. I never learned how to properly deck build until my storm wizard!

I'm (mostly) soloing balance, presently at level 99, overall its been okay. The main struggle has been with high-health balance bosses with ice minions (and vice-versa), just with the lack of damage. I think that balance also falls into the same category as storm in that you need to know how to deck-build, and not be afraid of having healing TCs at the ready (doubley useful if you have the life-mastery amulet as I do) (I say mostly soloing because I'll play with my friends if they're online, though so far I've been duoing Khrysalis with my death friend)

Honestly I think Balance is a pretty good school to solo. However, I had an enchanted armament from the beginning with my balance wizard because I got it as a drop on my myth wizard (who I maxed to 130 before starting my balance), which allowed me to blade stack early on. I accidentally made my first two wizards the most “mid” solo schools despite being a solo player, which I think was honestly pretty funny. It’s forced me to be a really good strategist, as I used to choose gear based on ONLY health and jam pack my deck until I started reading player guides.

11:05 this my friends, is why rat spin is my favorite life spell.

this was really interesting to watch especially since I only solo when I have to

Late to the party, but my highest char is storm at level 90, and I didn't really get the concept of "kill it before it kills you" until a few years ago, level ~70ish, so my decks were always massive and I'd always play really slow. Even now I find it hard to break that habit. "What if I need this? How about this?" It's just too much. My mother, usually playing a life wizard, invariably gets terrified when she sees my 7 card deck LOL

As someone that Started out as Balance: based off of the questionaire, I do enjoy it but I also started playing it somewhere around a year prior to Celestia: Soloing was a big thing with me... I actually didn't see too many people through roughly 10-42(i want to say) and it was a fair breeze up until some 'Tower Dungeon' in Dragonspire. Irony I met a few people after like my 3rd time trying to beat it and well... still friends today. A Fire and Myth. Granted I still tried to solo everything even Malistaire dungeon which... I don't recall if I managed it before Celestia... but then came the world where everything went downhill... CL all the way to like 110 I think... like 60-110 in otherwords... massive solo issues... I did solo a fair bit of it but there were those few bosses or dungeons where... I sadly had to waste time on taking anywhere from 30 minutes to even 2 hours on the same boss just chipping away at the boss. I saw another message stating something about Nested Fury and yes... it was a breath of fresh air and did actually make the game feel more 'Balanced' granted I am still not going to turn down dropping in on a group or anyone just to grab an easy battle... but going from like an average of like 30 minute and up to maybe 2 minutes a fight it is nice... but yeah... havent played past Karm so... not sure if it gets better.

I played this game out whn I was younger I miss my old laptop I was a problem in the early days whn this game was just starting out, game is a gem

Yes agree to most of your assessment. People should never pick storm as their first/starter school. Learning to play other schools first, gives you experience in optimal deck building. Allows you to learn how to make pets, to enhance damage, resist and other important stats. Your other wizards can share stuff, with your new storm wizard, craft for you, even make a storm pet and put in the shared bank. Would advise storm to make a pet to augment their early libilities, Enchanted Armament is a great starter pet for storm, gives blue sharpens (for stacking storm blades you get at level 12), making it a double resist pet. You can borrow that iron hasta that has a starting power pip and damage from your other wizards at level 30, which helps in killing fast. Also the fact you already have a existing wizard you can have them buy the best Bazaar gear for your storm and lend it to you. So in effect the lack of gold is not an issue for your storm. They can also purchase monsterous tc's that helps immensely at lower levels. Until you get to Celestia.

i soloed almost the entire game as a balance. only the really tough bosses and lemuria i didnt solo. i probably couldve soloed lemuria too but i found a quest partner so we flew through it in a day

I found on my ice I did good from level 38-140, in the new world tho it can be pretty hard to do cheat bosses. Being limited to 3 cards and fighting a boss w/ a minion that has 5k health whilst they both crit w/ high damage and pierce was a bit overwhelming, especially with how much the ai seems to favor mantles and stuns

My life wizard is in Azteca and it is pain what can I do to improve stats and make gameplay better. Lvl 88

so my first time playing wizard 101 properly i decided to do a life character now keep in mind this is like my first time in the game. i basically had no idea what i was doing for a while but despite thatg i never really struggled on life. i never finished that character but it was really easy granted tho it was for sure my slowest play throughs

I had a wizard for each school (except balance cause only six lol) as a child. My first wizard was fire, but I eventually mained storm. I remember raging so much as a kid 😂 oh lord, it was something special. Pretty much it's definitely luck based on the accuracy unless you use an accuracy boost. Most of the time playing now as an adult, I just go "if it goes, it goes. If it fizzles, it fizzles." and then work on a back-up plan for my pips. I always solo because I have severe social anxiety and even as a kid, I would play more alone because communicating with others was too difficult (but I'd still have good friends.) Pretty much I can handle most anything. Definitely being an adult that actually knows some things about strategy helps a lot. As a kid, I focused on purely hitting hard instead of focusing on a balance between protecting myself and hitting hard. I mean, as a kid I eventually got through Marleybone and about 90% through Mooshu (aside from side quests) as a solo storm. I picked back up and finally did the main quest (after clearing out my 32 side quests!) and I was literally on the last quest for Mooshu with the Death Oni and Life Oni 💀 I was right there when I stopped playing. Being pretty competent at games now as an adult (Kid me was very special /lh /j), I can handle it far better than I once could. And I'm currently playing as my other characters that either never made it to level 10 or my one fire wizard that was at 14 (which went from 14 to 34 in like a week of playing again.) Learning to play each school is so difficult because I have to change my usual style to fit them. Playing solo for them, you can manage pretty much anything alone. As someone that does it out of a must for my mental health, it's really not that bad. Just play your cards right and especially if you're storm, pray you don't fizzle. It's all about adapting to your school and learning to play it right instead of just going in and using spells willy nilly. Also I'm someone that never understood and still doesn't understand gear packs. I just focus on buying houses and mounts and cute pets I want if I have the crowns. I don't understand half the thing of having good gear, even as an adult, I just go with what aids me and what gives me decent health and find a good mix. Plus if it looks good. I will refuse to wear ugly clothes even if they give me boosts. "Level 38 is midway through Dragonspyre" Me that was stuck in Marleybone at 38 and later in Mooshu at 47 💀 /lh /nsrs

My balance wizard has been a breeze, but only because of money. I have the cool corgi with Orthus, and I just spam shields and and blade until I have my pips

I've solo'd the game with Ice past Wysteria (only because of the paywalls) and Ice isn't nearly as bad as people give it credit for especially considering the Training Points you can spend. With Ice only it was obvious tough to do.

The commons will always lag no matter what

Me that started as a storm since the game came out….I’ll say I don’t even trust myself to solo anything anymore with bosses towards the way later arcs and this is one where I’m at level 127 and still in the area of (forgot the world I think it’s right before the new one. Basically has a lot of pigs?)