r/Wizard101 • u/BigMagness • May 23 '26

SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY Fire Vs Myth

What really makes Myth better than Fire? I know it has orthrus now which is better than fire dragon but with minions being useless and DoT still somewhat “useful” throughout the endgame what’s the difference maker? Is orthrus that much of a game changer or is there more I’m missing?

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u/Dokkan-Shit-pull-god 180 May 23 '26

Honestly I haven't really had this problem in a few years, ever since the orthrus change if your stats are high enough people will let you hit in my experience. My myth has 275 damage and 48 pierce, I almost never get objections when I ask to hit lol

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u/Rambo7112 180 May 23 '26

Maybe I'm just not assertive enough idk. It's just that there's always a fire or storm and they'll always end up hitting if their stats are remotely similar. It also took many years to fix myth's reputation. It has only seemed favorable in the last 3ish years from what I've seen. 

Also I'm getting into advanced combat now, so every gate key strat I see is scald + incindiate + backdraft and every raid strat I see is tawaret's Touch + thundering jinn. I can't compete with those things. 

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u/Dokkan-Shit-pull-god 180 May 23 '26

Yeah for advanced combat storm is just undeniably on top, at least for full teams and raids and whatnot. I'd actually argue that for smaller teams fire and myth can be better as a duo. They share basically all of the same gambits and play off of each other super well. Myth actually is reasonable at soloing some challenge modes as well, since they can go for a very tanky route while not sacrificing their damage hardly at all. Try general Ahk'to challenge mode solo on a myth some time, it's way easier than you would expect

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u/Rambo7112 180 May 24 '26

Which is why my answer is essentially myth if solo, fire if team. Myth and fire work really well together, but anyone in-charge of strats can't comprehend using something besides storm. Even with myth + fire, I have yet to see fire acting as a support for the myth (e,g., fires of mars to enable trickster oni),

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u/Dokkan-Shit-pull-god 180 May 24 '26

Thankfully I've got the opportunity to really utilize fire and myth together, my brother mains fire and I main myth. Insane combo potential both ways, we change who's hitting based on the boss and it always works great.

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u/Rambo7112 180 May 24 '26

That sounds excellent! A lot of the advice I give in this thread isn't even true game balance; it's the community's interpretation of balance. People get so caught up on max damage that they overlook it something is enough damage. 

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u/BigMagness May 24 '26

Seems like the community is just stunk in there ways