Wizard101| Top 10 Biggest Mistakes New Wizards Make 

What are the most embarrassing mistakes you've made while playing Wizard101? I want to hear the stories!

I’ve been playing since 2012 and when I say playing I mean I never had the money to go past the triton avenue and cyclops lane quests. It’s amazing to see how in depth this game really is now that I’m an adult and wanna play seriously.

I really wish they could make the MOON SCHOOL SPELLS actually viable in PVE and PvP. The Moon animation for casting is so beautiful. Moon spells don't need to be just polymorphs? Maybe you can make a video about spell ideas, or Moon stuff if you feel like it.

Wow this was really informative, I’ve been on Wizard since the beginning but not a hardcore player so I made so many of these mistakes and am now trying to repair them. Thanks for all the information

This should legit be the first video that comes up when anyone googles how to play wizard101 and crowns wizard101. Your absolutely right buying crown packs and items 90% of the time is not worth it. KI loves to take as much as they can from there community while giving very little back. Sadly they are a awful company who doesn't care about there consumers.

The “secondary school” point is something I found out on my own recently at level 48 lol. To be perfectly honest, you can get away with not really tactfully choosing optimal spells up until around dragonspyre just fine. Once you’re there though, you’ll quickly find out that you no longer have the time required to use spells like stormzilla that take 5 pips and that only do like 1000 damage MAX if you have a trap and some stats for storm as a pyromancer. She mentioned the best spells to shoot for already, but seriously the three cards you should spend skill points on are: tower shield, feint, and saytr. You only really need any combination of two of those, but I chose saytr and tower shield for that sweet survivability and to support team mates in between attacks.

11:55 something to note about Ferric's pet copying guide, its a tad bit outdated nowadays as we do not really advocate for using blood bats. He has stated he is going to release an updated guide but just a rule of thumb do not use a blood bat they are way too sticky.

Fun fact from a vet of 10+ years, the gold section is actually not a scam, it is just outdated. Up to 2012ish pets were offered in the bazaar and could cost up to 60-70K gold. Back then the gold cap was somewhere around 130K. People who bought gold skipped the grind. That is why the option is still there

Im recently getting back into the game since i used to played as a kid and couldn’t but any areas, i just truly love that so many other people still play and have a passion for this game, im still super early in the game but i love that theres so many videos like this giving guidance and that so many people still play this game it makes me feel whole that i can fully enjoy a game from my childhood

Hard disagree on cheats though - as an old-school mmo head there’s way more metatext on these games than ever before and it’s completely shifted the expectations for the skill (really knowledge) floor. Whether as a matter of taste or accessibility, it bears considering how much information outside of the game it’s fair to as a community require other players to access, understand and reference. Just as you mentioned not wanting story spoilers, some feel the exact way about the battling system itself. Just checking cheats would still completely undermine the intuitive learning of experimenting with battle - it would be a spoiler. I think all mmo players need to get better at communicating preferred play-style and adapting to their present team (not meta). The solution for a battle interested player isn’t to undermine their enjoyment of the game because it makes your grind life easier. It’s to communicate their interests and goals to find a team that fits, and for players to have the flexibility for that to be possible. It’s a strategy game, not a cookbook after all.

Found this vid pretty late lol but it’s really good, everything you covered is essential knowledge for someone starting out in wiz. You should have maybe mentioned gardening when talking about pet training since gardening is the easiest and cheapest source for mega snacks especially if you take advantage of the double gardening member benefit.

Some notes: Training points can be redeemed for free regardless of membership now You can earn 100 crowns daily for free via trivia quizzes

Haven't played in like 8 years and looking to get back in. Thanks for the information

Life wizard dabbling in storm magic was the exact mistake I made back in 2009 when I first started playing 😂. I had to buy crowns to reset my training points(this was before they ever introduced a free buyback promotion).

I’m so glad I could revert my training points free with member benefit day for only getting satyr, tower shield and then saving the rest of points for Sun and star school spells. And thanks for remembering, pls make a few videos about importante side quests and where to get them like a complete guide. Even the ones they give you better gear like the Celestina staff from the Stormriven hall.

I've been playing Wiz since launch but I just discovered your channel and you are very informative and funny! Keep making videos!

EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!! These are all such commonly made mistakes and you've explained it all so clearly. Every new wizard would benefit from seeing this, great job! 💖

this guide is AMAZING! I watched another recently that was much lower quality, and this one just made me happy. Thank you!

The 2 mistakes I made, the most, while playing wiz was buying packs at like level 30 (over 70k crowns worth) and until like level 60 I had a deck of >10 cards when I was mobbing...

You are so informative! Thank you for all the tips I’ve Ben playing for awhile but still find ur tips to very helpful.. have fun adventuring and thanks

I'm ashamed of how many of these mistakes I made when I first started playing 10 years ago lmao. My question is how can there STILL be clueless people now at lvl 130+. I just came back to the game after a pretty long break so I was farming for the dragoon's gear and also the Merciless gear. I do not understand how some people still have large decks (boy carrying infection in the Hall of Heroes?), using a baby pet or a pet with only may casts as a storm, oh and a death wizard wanting to be the main hitter when the rest of the team are all elemental schools with top tier stats and then gets mad because "we don't know how to support", no sorry we didn't train that juicy spirit blade, but hey at least we triple feinted (we were nice and said sure you can hit if you want, btw, we were prepared to sit there for one or two extra rounds and follow up if he didn't kill, but his reaction after we didn't blade him sounded incredible to me). Not shaming the one with a bad pets or using a large deck. If they are polite and nice and I would definitely help (or just wait a few more rounds... even if it's not the most efficient) when I encounter them. I'm just surprised how some people still haven't learned by now. Some don't have the best gear and pet but they have the brains and looked up cheats in advance/ know exactly what they're doing, awesome. But those of the last kind, I just flee once they start talking like that. Oh and now with the friendly players system, I can't tell you how many times I've been messaged by random low-level players asking me for "help on a dungeon". If I'm not doing anything immediately I don't mind going, but then what they really wanted was me to follow them all the way, even saying "port", or now, "tp" whenever they're at a new sigil, like rude? I just port away after one boss fight and remove if they don't stop asking. What makes you think I logged on to help you quest through the entire DS?

Another reason to do the crafting quests is because of the wand recipes in the arcanum. They may not have weapons cast, but they're one of the best wands that you can get that doesn't involve gambling. I don't know if there are wand in Karamelle or Lemuria, or any in the dragoon gear sets. But it still shows how important crafting is. I made the secondary school mistake and ignoring pet training myself when I started playing. But the biggest mistake I made was not only forgeting to change my gear every so often, but stupid middle school me focused on defense stats and support (mostly critical block) and not getting some of the most important spells like the elemental blades. I don't know why, but I had no idea how stacking worked, nor did I realize how useless critical block became. This mistake hurts even more for me because I'm a storm wizard (like I said, middle school me wasn't that bright), and didn't even realize that I should be focusing my stats more on damage and crit until the third dungeon of Darkmoor, which is when I finally started fixing all these errors I made for years without realizing it. Heck, even now crit has lost a decent amount of its value.

Ah this video reminds me of my noobness back in the day. Here I am years later and agreeing to every point you pointes out here lmaoo

found you a few weeks ago and then binged watched all your vids lol. They're so entertaining

This video has such a good, rich quality full of real information. Great job!!!

Great video, tried to get into the game a couple times and the third or so try yesterday has got me hooked! Very helpful.

Omg girl I was gonna make this same topic of a video 😭 I haven’t watched it yet but you’re real good at covering ALL the supporting reasons to your titles aha

I started playing this game again. I played when I was a kid more than 10 years ago but I didn't have a membership so i was stuck in the beginning. it's so nostalgic coming back. I wonder if its adults like me that are playing this game now

I like your edit! Thanks this will help me as i get started. I will make sure to pull exodia on those bosses!

This is awesome! Fantastic info and wonderful editing :)

Thank you. The info about training points was very useful 😊

Excellent tips, but I have 2 more. 1. For crafting, you can get away with just having one wizard be the crafter at max craft wizard. Then craft the gear on the max craft wizard and transfer the gear over via shared bank to your other wizard that will use it. However, if you want to craft a spell, then you will have to get the wizard you want the spell on to the necessary craft level, which will most likely be legendary crafter for the Avalon spells. 2. It can be helpful to not only have your main account, but make a second account that only has one wizard on it and is just a level 1 wiz with no membership on the second account. This second account will be helpful for transferring tc's to a different character on your main account. Of course if you have a friend you trust, you can always do it that way, but if you do not know anyone personally in real life that plays the game then I recommend you make a second account solely for this purpose because lets say your farming lore master on your fire wiz but you get pigie tc, well now you can transfer that pigie tc to your life wizard where it is useful to craft the spell.

I hope you do a video on the wands you can fish from Elephant Graveyard. Way too many people spend hours not knowing how to accurately boost their odds to get these awesome looking wands. And some don’t even know it exists until they see someone walk by with it.

Wow. Returned after roughly 10 years and try to find my way in Wizard101 again and stumbled over this video. What can I say. Great information. A very pleasant voice and pitch. Great Memes. Think I need to subscribe :)

Suuuuper useful! Thanks for all the tips, honestly had no idea about half of this.

You just made solo questing soooo much easier ❤️🙏🏻

I feel like looking up the cheats take away the enjoyment from the game since you already know what is going to happen instead of going “oh wow, interesting”

This is actually so nice and despite having played this game for awhile I still learned about certain side quests that give additional training points which I didn't ever know before, Thank You :) Also do you think it is worth it to train the regular version of weakness as a good use of training points ever since they changed it to be 100% accuracy or to just stick with using tc weaknesses since it gives the extra 5% debuff?

3:00 I would even say not to train tower shield. It's like the same with satyr, just buy some tcs of it. I almost wanna say the same for feint, but that's a bit different. You can stack it with tc feint to deal big damage fast. No need to use two different towers. Also I completely agree with number 6.

Well I'm quite late... but wow! This is completely accurate and presented in a kind and funny way! Amazing guide 10/10 :)

meowiarty archmage is huge for people trying to run a myth. It’s almost vital for a good play through imo

Love all of it. Hoping those might be castle blocks someday! The logo is very cool!!

Great video! I'll for sure come back to watch this as I level

This a truly old school helpful guide. I miss this from you tube players these days. I know being a long time player. I hate seeing (current year) players videos, not being a good helpful person.

I will say that pack gear is an amazing investment for some packs (some give better than others!). Pack gear lasted me a very long time when I was at a lower level. Note that this comes with picking the right pack for your wizard! And one that'll actually drop stuff. I will say, Dragoon gear is good and all, but Darkmoor will last you just fine until level 160. For filling your deck people, I understand you. Azteca really got me rough, and getting stuck on a boss for a week because of running out of cards really made me start filling my deck. If you can't get out of the habit, my advice is to fill the deck with more of the cards you actually need straight away than ones you don't. Limit it by rows and take your time. One of the most important things to note is that you must play for what YOU WANT. If you are here for the story? Don't bother putting all your effort into making top-notch stuff. If you want top-notch stuff, go for it! This is a GREAT video with some very helpful tips, but remember that you can make it through without using all of them!

Oh my god when she said “so don’t worry if you got a little too excited and trained all the moon school spells at once.” 3:25 I DID THAT 😭😭😭

I literally cannot explain how much of an eye opened this was. Ty for educating us children :)

Omg I was that person who would sell all the reagents bc I didnt like crafting, and now years later I look back and hate myself for it 😂😭

Biggest mistake I did was doing pvp thinking I was going to go up against other people with bazaar gear and teen pets.

Awesome video! Thank you for saving me money!

I have no idea how many times I’ve trashed high level robes for one school before but now I feel very dumb lmao

I always just look first to see if the crown shop items you can get by farming bosses. Like the lvl 5 universal gears you can get from nightshade. The Heartsteel and all that good stuff.

Just started yesterday so thank you.

Lmao my most embarrassing mistake was 12 years ago on my first wizard I saw I could learn spells in every school. Sooooo I blew through my training points learning the level one spell of every school🤦‍♂️🤣😂🤣😂

Thanks for this awesome guide ! :D

To make the fights more challenging is that I avoid using treasure cards unless the fight is very tough especially when it comes to soloing. Spamming tc shields makes the game very easy and you can pull it on demand and numerous rather than hoping for deck rng for the several shields versus 20 in side deck. Same deal with heals and sanctuary. In the second arc and a little bit in the third arc, life mastery makes the game way to easy especally with some solid resistance and may cast healing pet. So I avoid life mastery in that arc unless the fight is really tough. But in the third arc soloing the enemies have peirce and solid resistance is less effective and the best gear tends to give less incoming healing so it is more important to have a pet that gives damage or critical to kill the enemies fast. Unless you want to use jade gear for the storm titan. Simply put, I spend training points eventually all the two school shields, feint, satyr, tower, sun enchants, some star spells, blades from niles, and reshuffle. If I used tc I would not need all of these shields in most boss battles.

Man I wish I had this guide through my journey through the game

My biggest mistake was either how long I played the game without knowing that you could cycle through your deck by deleting cards, or the amount of areas I bought with crowns, rather than getting a membership (I bought all the way up to floating lands in celestia)

What a helpful vid, thank you :)

This video was awesome love the edits and also really helpful for me since im just gettibg back into wizard101 again the last time I played it I was like 11 now im 20 lol

5:00 i used to do that all the time back when i was like 13 years old and had no membership lmaoo

The biggest mistake I made when I first began back in 2010 was trying out EVERY school as a secondary to my death with no sense of what spells I should be getting and shouldn’t be getting. As a result I never got stuff like spirit blade or tower shield, and at the time I thought it was a great idea since I would have an attack for everything, I soon found myself in Marleybone using skeletal pirate while all other spells were rank 2 at most.

This video is so damn helpful. Thank you!

around 10-12 years ago when I started playing, I was dual learning fire. as an ice wiz

Amazing video once again!

This makes me want to play W101 again. I might stack up a few thousand more crowns to unlock new areas before starting again

i bought the red barn farm with crowns by mistake 😩😩

really love this editing style

OMG YOU’RE BACK!

Number 6 had me dead in my tracks. It's true, i do have 4 ice wyverns as a pyromancer. But they look soooo cool!

wow that a lot information, thanks

ugh i love you😩❤️

When you get to a high enough level and get power pips fairly often. Other school spells are a waste of time, even with the mastery amulets. I have the master amulets for both Storm and Ice. But I don't use the Kraken or Colossus. I do however use powerful Storm and Ice treasure cards so they aren't wasted

my fav wiztuber finally uploads again

Stay away from all the beggars who friend you in the commons that ask you to gift them packs and other random stuff from the crown shop.

idk why this came up on my feed i haven't played this game in like 4 years but one thing i used to do was craft one one lvl and would send the gear to my other wizards. the other wizards cant craft cards but did make questing easier at times

Gotta say, I've played since 2012, I stopped a year later after my account got randomly deleted while in Avalon and even today I'll still forget to make my decks smaller or simple things like that. One thing I always forget is white/black meaning when you're fighting the final boss in ww. Always a pain to get agro on you just cause you bladed instead of trapped without realizing the timer is up

Mistake number eleven. Having more than one wizard. With six wizards, it's more work than fun. Just stick with one wizard.

Amazing video!

I used crowns to get gold cause was desperate to keep hatching

I have 6 max wizards but hey I'll watch and like just in case.....

The classic 999+ amber. Every time i see you gloss over it I laugh because I know there's gonna be someone out there who would be flabergasted.

best mistake i ever did is with one of the old packs, i dumped my crowns on it on a fresh character and got a staff with a dragonoid moon spell that is usable, while stats are weak the moon spell basically carried all the way to late marly when i got a better spell

Thanks for the video

i will say i never sold regents i just always had bad luck with finding them and when i do find them they get taken right in front if my eyes 🤣😑. like i am so far behind with crafting even tho i am already in dragonspyre i still have the crafting quest in mayrlybone bc i only found 9 iron scraps 🤣😭😭

13:23 I'm surprised you didn't mention the alternative, just going in blind with friends.

One thing that's super frustrating is when you give someone the information about the boss and tell them all they need to know and they snap at you like "I've got time", or "Don't tell me how to play". Stuff like that is so obnoxious and makes team up so painful. It's insane how it's still really common to see players who don't know what they're doing at max level content and refuse to listen and cooperate. They need to add a reputation system where you can downvote players in team up during a dungeon so they'll show up as "uncooperative" with a red outline around their icon or something. It'll save everyone else the time and punish the bad teammates for being ignorant and hostile in boss runs.

Just a brief aside about buying packs for gear. I actually highly recommend it... But when you out level that gear, or you get gear that doesn't benefit your current wizard... SAVE IT IN THE BANK!!! Or gear vault. Let's say you're an ice wizard, at level 30, and you buy a few packs. You get some gear you can use, but you also get a robe that gives some great stats for the Storm School. Don't just feed it to your pet... Stash that thing somewhere, because if you start a Storm Wizard later, you've got an awesome robe ready to be used as soon as you get to level 30. My point is, don't think of buying gear from packs for your current wizard, as a one time investment exclusively for that wizard. Think of it as a potential investment for future wizards, that you may not have even made yet, as well. After you play through the game with your first wizard or two, if you bought a few packs for every ten levels, chances are, you probably at least a piece of gear of two for most schools, at every level stage.

I kind of wish you're able to have a 2nd school. Just because that would fun. As well use all the spells that you gain because you like it, like Cyclop or Stormzilla.

Youre absolutely wrong on secondaries. Especially with the advent of school pips, but even before, a secondary isnt the worst thing you could do. If youre only playing PVE, the difference isnt too severe. Outside of some specific cheating bosses, KI does well to make the game somewhat balanced. Source: i secondaried storm as a balance, mastery amulet and all, and its still my main damage dealer school since balance's hits tend to be as effective as hitting them with a pool noodle, given how little you can buff balance damage

thats me! i never have secondary school except death until feint. otherwise i dont chose any secondary schoo. also can you please make video for new players on mega snacks. like beginning gardening/pet snack guide

I never knew about the shared bank and refunding my training points, thank you so much!!!

overall a good video, well done

when I was on my first day of wizard in 2014, my brother made me spend all my crowns on a transformation elixir in the crown shop and I was so pissed when I realized I needed said crowns to unlock a zone after that

if only if you can make the whole area in wizard101 free without paying

You forgot the other Number 1) Never say you have Crowns... Ever.

Number 1 is the worst one when you're with other players. Some people are arrogant and don't listen to anyone else even though they don't know anything. Like it's not that big of a problem when someone is carrying you, but when you're in a tough dungeon and nobody is carrying you it's detrimental to the team. This mostly happens in darkmoor.

I made lots of mistakes in wizard101 I remember I didn't know how to discord cards back then I justed all my cards I remember training the wrong spells using useless pets from the shopping area I remember using moon spells in mooshu at one point long story I forgot most of the mistakes I did but this is some of them since I started wiz when Azteca was the final world

Thanks for the video I was so tempted to buy gold with crowns

Ive been playing for so long but could never afford the membership. But I want to get it again soon