For my own embarrassing moments: deleting my old Selena Gomez portrait and statue and back in 2009ish using all my crowns restitching a crappy hood I got in Krok to every new piece of gear I got between levels 1- 30. I would stitch and unstitch one and then ten minutes later do it again because I changed gear so much. NONE of it was any quality gear at all. I don't want to know how much money I wasted doing that...
My worst mistake was definitely buying a sea dragon pet from the crown shop for 12,500 crowns way back in the day because I thought it looked cool.... 🥲
@@BabyShaq44 OH MY GOSH, I was so close to doing the exact same thing! Barely saved myself the pain - for a while it seemed like everyone had one of those!
I have two mistakes I made as a new player that I am ashamed of. One was buying a Little Siren pet, mind you this was on a life wizard, I just thought she looked so cute. Two was putting all my training points into storm as a secondary school. Both of these happened on the same wizard. Poor naïve Julia Spiritmender.
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 remember as a child I was lucky enough for my grandparents to pay for a membership. I remember I only had 1 month of it but I absolutely loved it. Coming back now is crazy. So many new things, i love it.
I was able to get through all of the main world, and krokotopia because of bday and Christmas gifts. Now I have the membership I would say go for it. It's fun! Even if it is technically a kids game a lot of adults play it
@@misha5570 You are absolutely right it’s not but when you have parents who do nothing but work and your the oldest, cooking and cleaning everyday, not to mention taking care of your 4 brothers and sisters trying to be a parent while not trying to act like a parent… you learn that birthday and Christmas money go to necessities first. 🙏
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
@@connorhanby7108 Same! I just picked up the game again for the first time in ages and have been enjoying it a lot so far! Really starting to feel death school’s lack of an early aoe though, even just a sidequest dungeon in krokotopia came down to the wire as I fizzled a few attacks and got dog piled in a 4v1 where the enemies went first. And that was ice enemies! Guess I’m farming for the gold to get gloomy eye lol
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.
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.
yeah but most crown shop should still be there so KI can make good money. some of us are willing to buy the mounts much later on because it makes the game fresh again.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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?
I'll defend large decks 'til the day I die. 1) Teamup sigils can be unpredictable. There is no telling whether a small deck will synergize with the rest of the team. 2) It's never too late to run out of cards. Reshuffles are slow. Fleeing/resetting is just obnoxious. 3) A deck restricted to Frenzy + Gargantuan + meta AoE is boring. If you're that unimaginative, why are you even playing? I'm not impressed when a wizard shits out a 7k Storm Lord on turn 2. I'm impressed when a wizard brings the tools to adapt when something goes wrong or when the situation calls for something other than a cookie-cutter DPS kit.
@@Princess_Ruto just have multiple decks my guy. I have a general mob deck, a general bossing deck, a support deck with some hits, and a few decks made for specific cheating bosses
@@Princess_Ruto exactly....your playing to REALLY enjoy the game and play around with stuff rather than just grinding for the sake of it. think of it as every kid's childhood fantasy
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...
@@SpartanGyrl08 There are a few on the internet but generally for fighting mobs you just want one of each the essentials in a fight. For me I have : A blade, a Sun spell (Strong, giant etc.) and my AOE (and maybe a reshuffle if needed). For bosses I generally do this but x2 and add feints and a heal. I started using this in celestia because it took me forever (as a life) to get my AOE and my damage high enough.
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.
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.
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! 💖
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
Just finished watching the video! There is still some hope of me covering a few more topics that didn’t make it to the top 10 list 😁 Awesome video, so glad you’re helping out the community ❤️
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.
For sure - I’m just hitting the most obvious big gear upgrades that apply to most schools in this video to give new players a general idea of what to expect. It’s an overview - not a true guide. I plan on at some point doing a gear guide which would be a lot more specific and extensive. It would be crazy to try to fit all that info in here.
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.
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.
I personally have tower shield trained on all my wizards and have found a decent amount of use for it so I think it's more personal preference and how your wizard is built. I found universal shields quite useful especially during the second arc, less so in the third one. Technically one could argue you don't need to use training points at all and just get TC for any extra spells you want to use outside your school, but that seems like a waste of gold honestly. I do see your point about the potential for TC stacking with trained spells though. It's funny because even with training satyr, tower shield, feint, etc., on several wizards, I still have like 20 extra points just sitting around.
@@Zaepha I think if wizards aren’t bothered to do the zeke quests which honestly for me took a long time even with the cheats cause I keep bashing onto walls on the map 😂 then I’d just advise people to train for feint (which you will eventually need to play support for dragoon farming so you can’t rely on tc version) and that’s it. Only keep towers in tc in case you ever need them but honestly you can get pretty far in questing without them. Use your training points on enchants and if you’re pvping, will need to train brace which require you to train fortify first, and also the pierce enchants for pvp which you’ll need 5 training points for :) I had to go do the zeke quests cuz I wasted my points on main tower shields and feints and trying to train for pheonix to mutate for pvp which I didn’t have enough points for and had no points for pierce enchants. You also can train for green oak and mutates useful for pvp 👌 Only doing pvp cuz I reached end game content 😂
@@TntosionOfficial I put my brace in side so ion gotta train it for peev, but you on point w it I can’t lie. Ion NEVER do zekes quest. I just like movin fast asf
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”
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.
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)
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🤦♂️🤣😂🤣😂
Lol, I considered that once but never went through with it since they gave you that one wand with all the level 1s in it XD I still do make all my accounts focus on one second school though
Lol yeah I pretty much run life as my second school for satyr on all my wizards now. Life to satyr, death to fient, ice to tower shield then the other odds and ends like star school enchants and such
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.
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!
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
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.
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 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?
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 :)
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
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 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 🤣😭😭
I remember when i first started playing i would put a training point into every single school, I also didnt know anything about gear stats or anything. Lol
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.
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
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.
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
The reason why people like me always ask the cheats due to the fact that it's too much to read that the wording is complicated to understand...just state things like don't blade
@@emoimo4171 If I can't read I wouldn't be able to reply to comments like this. It's just the way the wording is very weird to me, maybe it could be dyslexic or something
When i made my death wizard i did waste points on some fire spells, but it was only so i could get meteor and have an early game AOE without having to grind or spend crowns. Rest of my points were saved for utility.
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
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
I wish I had this video when I first started to play wiz! Such important information! When I first started playing I had no idea what I was doing. My gear was trash at level 50 I never knew to train elemental blade or any type of blade or enchant. I knew nothing about pets or farming. I had no idea about CRAFTING. Make sure you start your crafting at the beginning and also Zeke quest for training points. I finally found some friends that showed me the way now I am a seasoned player that knows so much about the game. Listen to this video if you want to play wiz. It's a very fun game you might run into some toxic players but don't let that bother you from making friends just be nice and make sure you ask a player before joining a fight. 😁 Have fun wizards and witches
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
I've been playing since the game came out. Stopped because I lost my old email, remembered my password randomly and tried and got back in years later. Now I'm playing again and am having a blast. Also yes I never realized these things until I got to a higher level.
I want to play wizard101 so bad but I feel so overwhelmed💀 I havent played in months cause my membership ran out. But to keep paying for something i know nothing about and got no wizard friends💀💀💀 idk, I'm just uncultured is all. I love the world but man, the money and time. Be nice to have someone in the room who knows their stuff, yk? This video made me even more nervous lmaoo. Dammnnitt
What are the most embarrassing mistakes you've made while playing Wizard101? I want to hear the stories!
For my own embarrassing moments: deleting my old Selena Gomez portrait and statue and back in 2009ish using all my crowns restitching a crappy hood I got in Krok to every new piece of gear I got between levels 1- 30. I would stitch and unstitch one and then ten minutes later do it again because I changed gear so much. NONE of it was any quality gear at all. I don't want to know how much money I wasted doing that...
My worst mistake was definitely buying a sea dragon pet from the crown shop for 12,500 crowns way back in the day because I thought it looked cool.... 🥲
@@BabyShaq44 OH MY GOSH, I was so close to doing the exact same thing! Barely saved myself the pain - for a while it seemed like everyone had one of those!
I have two mistakes I made as a new player that I am ashamed of. One was buying a Little Siren pet, mind you this was on a life wizard, I just thought she looked so cute. Two was putting all my training points into storm as a secondary school. Both of these happened on the same wizard. Poor naïve Julia Spiritmender.
@@ravendyer8895 I too bought the Lil Siren pet (for my storm rather than life) back in the day. The shame...
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.
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I remember as a child I was lucky enough for my grandparents to pay for a membership. I remember I only had 1 month of it but I absolutely loved it. Coming back now is crazy. So many new things, i love it.
I was able to get through all of the main world, and krokotopia because of bday and Christmas gifts. Now I have the membership I would say go for it. It's fun! Even if it is technically a kids game a lot of adults play it
It’s 10.00 a month I’m surprised you never used some birthday money or mowed a Lawn for some cash
@@misha5570 You are absolutely right it’s not but when you have parents who do nothing but work and your the oldest, cooking and cleaning everyday, not to mention taking care of your 4 brothers and sisters trying to be a parent while not trying to act like a parent… you learn that birthday and Christmas money go to necessities first. 🙏
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
Well, one year later, I'm doing the same thing.
@@connorhanby7108 Same! I just picked up the game again for the first time in ages and have been enjoying it a lot so far! Really starting to feel death school’s lack of an early aoe though, even just a sidequest dungeon in krokotopia came down to the wire as I fizzled a few attacks and got dog piled in a 4v1 where the enemies went first. And that was ice enemies! Guess I’m farming for the gold to get gloomy eye lol
@@danno3321 ngl that fight is just terrible in general 😂
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.
They should make polymorphs like wildshape in DND 5e where you get temporary hit points on top of your base health.
shifts are kinda nice, but that’s about it
@@nickg8893 Lets be honest though, shifts aren't great though.
@@mattbalfe2983 no you’re right they’re terrible if they’re not maycast
@@mattbalfe2983 nah they’re pretty goated in pvp, especially the life one; crazy value for 3 pips if you use it at the right time
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.
yeah but most crown shop should still be there so KI can make good money. some of us are willing to buy the mounts much later on because it makes the game fresh again.
@@TheUltimateRare They already make tons of money on memberships alone.
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.
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
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.
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.
Good point - If he does do an updated version I'll try to change the link over to the newer one. Pet hatching can be such a chore lol
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
Some notes:
Training points can be redeemed for free regardless of membership now
You can earn 100 crowns daily for free via trivia quizzes
And they recently reintroduced ads for even more crowns, but it seems like it’s only 4 per day. So 140 per day if you do both
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.
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 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?
I'll defend large decks 'til the day I die.
1) Teamup sigils can be unpredictable. There is no telling whether a small deck will synergize with the rest of the team.
2) It's never too late to run out of cards. Reshuffles are slow. Fleeing/resetting is just obnoxious.
3) A deck restricted to Frenzy + Gargantuan + meta AoE is boring. If you're that unimaginative, why are you even playing?
I'm not impressed when a wizard shits out a 7k Storm Lord on turn 2. I'm impressed when a wizard brings the tools to adapt when something goes wrong or when the situation calls for something other than a cookie-cutter DPS kit.
@@Princess_Ruto just have multiple decks my guy. I have a general mob deck, a general bossing deck, a support deck with some hits, and a few decks made for specific cheating bosses
@@Princess_Ruto exactly....your playing to REALLY enjoy the game and play around with stuff rather than just grinding for the sake of it. think of it as every kid's childhood fantasy
Haven't played in like 8 years and looking to get back in. Thanks for the information
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...
Do you of any guides on building your deck?
@@SpartanGyrl08 There are a few on the internet but generally for fighting mobs you just want one of each the essentials in a fight. For me I have :
A blade,
a Sun spell (Strong, giant etc.)
and my AOE
(and maybe a reshuffle if needed).
For bosses I generally do this but x2 and add feints and a heal.
I started using this in celestia because it took me forever (as a life) to get my AOE and my damage high enough.
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.
Yes, this definitely needs to be it's own lengthy video topic! It's on the list :)
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.
didnt ask
@@hugojohnson6513 didnt need ur premission
@@Croatican permission*
@@hugojohnson6513 now i see why u were bullied in high school….
@@Croatican hahaha i wish g
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
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! 💖
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
Just finished watching the video! There is still some hope of me covering a few more topics that didn’t make it to the top 10 list 😁 Awesome video, so glad you’re helping out the community ❤️
@@TntosionOfficial Yes! Definitely do your own video! Honestly there's so many topics to cover there's no way to do it all in one video. And thank you
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.
I’ll add it to my list of potential videos :)
I've been playing Wiz since launch but I just discovered your channel and you are very informative and funny! Keep making videos!
You just made solo questing soooo much easier ❤️🙏🏻
Biggest mistake I did was doing pvp thinking I was going to go up against other people with bazaar gear and teen pets.
LOL, I bet that never happens in Ranked, but I know it does in Practice sometimes
@@SimsAllAround Yeah I did that way back in 2nd age pvp when I first got into the game.
meowiarty archmage is huge for people trying to run a myth. It’s almost vital for a good play through imo
For sure - I’m just hitting the most obvious big gear upgrades that apply to most schools in this video to give new players a general idea of what to expect. It’s an overview - not a true guide. I plan on at some point doing a gear guide which would be a lot more specific and extensive. It would be crazy to try to fit all that info in here.
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.
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this guide is AMAZING! I watched another recently that was much lower quality, and this one just made me happy. Thank you!
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.
I personally have tower shield trained on all my wizards and have found a decent amount of use for it so I think it's more personal preference and how your wizard is built. I found universal shields quite useful especially during the second arc, less so in the third one. Technically one could argue you don't need to use training points at all and just get TC for any extra spells you want to use outside your school, but that seems like a waste of gold honestly. I do see your point about the potential for TC stacking with trained spells though. It's funny because even with training satyr, tower shield, feint, etc., on several wizards, I still have like 20 extra points just sitting around.
@@Zaepha valid. And you right. I just play hella aggressive on any school so thats prolly why
@@Zaepha I think if wizards aren’t bothered to do the zeke quests which honestly for me took a long time even with the cheats cause I keep bashing onto walls on the map 😂 then I’d just advise people to train for feint (which you will eventually need to play support for dragoon farming so you can’t rely on tc version) and that’s it. Only keep towers in tc in case you ever need them but honestly you can get pretty far in questing without them. Use your training points on enchants and if you’re pvping, will need to train brace which require you to train fortify first, and also the pierce enchants for pvp which you’ll need 5 training points for :) I had to go do the zeke quests cuz I wasted my points on main tower shields and feints and trying to train for pheonix to mutate for pvp which I didn’t have enough points for and had no points for pierce enchants. You also can train for green oak and mutates useful for pvp 👌 Only doing pvp cuz I reached end game content 😂
@@TntosionOfficial I put my brace in side so ion gotta train it for peev, but you on point w it I can’t lie. Ion NEVER do zekes quest. I just like movin fast asf
I imagine you have convulsions when you see someone train Reshuffle then
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”
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.
found you a few weeks ago and then binged watched all your vids lol. They're so entertaining
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 😂😭
I have no idea how many times I’ve trashed high level robes for one school before but now I feel very dumb lmao
This makes me want to play W101 again. I might stack up a few thousand more crowns to unlock new areas before starting again
you could also use their 60 bucks for 60,000 crowns sale if you want. it's the only smart time to get crowns and it's a way better deal than 1 to 500.
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)
thiss. i regret buying areas so much, even though in hindsight just getting a membership saves more and gives you more
Man I wish I had this guide through my journey through the game
This game has changed a lot since i first played in 2009
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🤦♂️🤣😂🤣😂
Lol, I considered that once but never went through with it since they gave you that one wand with all the level 1s in it XD I still do make all my accounts focus on one second school though
Lol yeah I pretty much run life as my second school for satyr on all my wizards now. Life to satyr, death to fient, ice to tower shield then the other odds and ends like star school enchants and such
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.
Sadly game be too meta and illusion of choice no longer exist, we are all drones for slaughter house!
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 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!
i bought the red barn farm with crowns by mistake 😩😩
Oof
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
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.
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.
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.
5:00 i used to do that all the time back when i was like 13 years old and had no membership lmaoo
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?
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 :)
This video has such a good, rich quality full of real information. Great job!!!
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.
Is it cropped in or is that a genuine stack
Well I'm quite late... but wow! This is completely accurate and presented in a kind and funny way! Amazing guide 10/10 :)
I used crowns to get gold cause was desperate to keep hatching
I literally cannot explain how much of an eye opened this was. Ty for educating us children :)
if only if you can make the whole area in wizard101 free without paying
I have 6 max wizards but hey I'll watch and like just in case.....
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
Mistake number eleven. Having more than one wizard. With six wizards, it's more work than fun. Just stick with one wizard.
Great video! I'll for sure come back to watch this as I level
nah
Just started yesterday so thank you.
0:05 Merle Ambrose kidnaps you**
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.
Great video, tried to get into the game a couple times and the third or so try yesterday has got me hooked! Very helpful.
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 🤣😭😭
OMG YOU’RE BACK!
You forgot the other Number 1) Never say you have Crowns... Ever.
my fav wiztuber finally uploads again
This video is so damn helpful. Thank you!
I like your edit! Thanks this will help me as i get started. I will make sure to pull exodia on those bosses!
I remember when i first started playing i would put a training point into every single school, I also didnt know anything about gear stats or anything. Lol
13:23 I'm surprised you didn't mention the alternative, just going in blind with friends.
Thank you. The info about training points was very useful 😊
Love all of it. Hoping those might be castle blocks someday! The logo is very cool!!
around 10-12 years ago when I started playing, I was dual learning fire. as an ice wiz
I just started playing again after like 6 years. Having to learn the game again and start from the bottom😭
Suuuuper useful! Thanks for all the tips, honestly had no idea about half of this.
I used to think you could trade gear and pets, so I went around the commons asking for spare stuff. I was lectured by some Paragon dude.
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!
Going dislike video cause of number 9, soul crushing.
I was told to delete my characters cause it and never feel the same.
Just tell them the cheats?…
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.
What a helpful vid, thank you :)
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
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.
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
The reason why people like me always ask the cheats due to the fact that it's too much to read that the wording is complicated to understand...just state things like don't blade
So… you can’t read?
@@emoimo4171 If I can't read I wouldn't be able to reply to comments like this. It's just the way the wording is very weird to me, maybe it could be dyslexic or something
I never knew about the shared bank and refunding my training points, thank you so much!!!
When i made my death wizard i did waste points on some fire spells, but it was only so i could get meteor and have an early game AOE without having to grind or spend crowns. Rest of my points were saved for utility.
Thanks for the video I was so tempted to buy gold with crowns
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
u fr expect us not to think you didn’t dup glitch your amber years ago tho like 999 what????
Ultra King Parsley ftw 😉
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
I wish I had this video when I first started to play wiz! Such important information! When I first started playing I had no idea what I was doing. My gear was trash at level 50 I never knew to train elemental blade or any type of blade or enchant. I knew nothing about pets or farming. I had no idea about CRAFTING. Make sure you start your crafting at the beginning and also Zeke quest for training points. I finally found some friends that showed me the way now I am a seasoned player that knows so much about the game.
Listen to this video if you want to play wiz. It's a very fun game you might run into some toxic players but don't let that bother you from making friends just be nice and make sure you ask a player before joining a fight. 😁 Have fun wizards and witches
We are all kids back then when gaming wasn't all about sweating and min max everything to end game.
Well, I started a bit late so I should have known for a while about all of this. Some people had to show me how to play.@@greenchilistudioz4537
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
Ive been playing for so long but could never afford the membership. But I want to get it again soon
I've been playing since the game came out. Stopped because I lost my old email, remembered my password randomly and tried and got back in years later. Now I'm playing again and am having a blast. Also yes I never realized these things until I got to a higher level.
ugh i love you😩❤️
I want to play wizard101 so bad but I feel so overwhelmed💀 I havent played in months cause my membership ran out. But to keep paying for something i know nothing about and got no wizard friends💀💀💀 idk, I'm just uncultured is all. I love the world but man, the money and time. Be nice to have someone in the room who knows their stuff, yk? This video made me even more nervous lmaoo. Dammnnitt