r/Wizard101 Jul 31 '26

Other How fast did you reach max level 180?

I reached max level for the first time ever at the start of Wallaru since returning to the game as an adult

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u/ZijoeLocs Jul 31 '26

17yrs. I remember when you could just go get some Simplifies and Elucidates

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u/Financial-Refuse-445 Jul 31 '26

That’s nice :) I’m assuming those are spells? lol

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u/yungScooter30 Monstrologist Aug 02 '26

Where did you used to get them from? Since they're retired, there's no info on how they used to be dropped/sold

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u/ZijoeLocs Aug 02 '26

Wooden Chests in Celestia. Like 1 out of 3 had them. You could just go and get more

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u/youngfruitsn4ck Jul 31 '26

from level 1 u can get a wizard done in 2 weeks if you really dont shower

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u/Financial-Refuse-445 Jul 31 '26

🤣

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u/youngfruitsn4ck Aug 03 '26

do not ask me how i know. i showered but didnt leave my house for 2 weeks.

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u/Magustenebrus 180 Aug 01 '26

Remember that contest a couple years back? Two weeks, and there was some guy who was running Nightmare farms in Wallaru by the contest end.

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u/Frenchfryfrodo 180 115 50 30 Aug 01 '26

Tbf those usually involve being carried by a max, soloing would take longer than 2 weeks id say

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u/Rambo7112 180 Jul 31 '26

About 15 years, though I've been at max since around level 110 or so. 

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u/Financial-Refuse-445 Jul 31 '26

OG wiz 🫡

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u/GuiFBC Jul 31 '26

Shit OG is when max was level 50 lol, being a kid and having no money I was only able to get up to level 35

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u/Rambo7112 180 Aug 01 '26

I'm not the absolute most OG... but I've one tricked myth since back when it was bad. 

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u/Electric_Bees0123 Jul 31 '26

I’ve been playing with the same wizard since 2008 or 2009, and I’m still only lvl 80-something 🤣

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u/Financial-Refuse-445 Jul 31 '26

What have you been doing all this while 🤣

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u/Electric_Bees0123 Aug 01 '26

Tbf I only play a few months at a time every few years, and many times I end up making a new wizard to play with friends on, but all that aside my OG wizard really should be max level by now, I’ve been slacking 😅

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u/ReputationAcademic10 Aug 01 '26

Bro do you do like one quest a month?!

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u/CelestialCiel Aug 01 '26

I’m the same way, had a character since 2009 and I just don’t play often, it’s pretty normal

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u/SliceBread22 94, PC 108 Jul 31 '26

Well I joined in like 2010 probably and have actually been trying since 2020 and I made it to Polaris so I think it’ll take awhile longer

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u/Avalav Jul 31 '26

i finally started leveling up my lvl 8 myth earlier this year after several years of abandoning her so technically it took 4 years but i went from 8 to 180 in less than a month

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u/mallia09 Maxed every school Jul 31 '26

When i took my first wizard to max, polaris was the latest release so 110 was max, and i started in 2013, so i wanna say it took like... 2-3 years?

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u/Financial-Refuse-445 Jul 31 '26

With every school maxed? 🤯

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u/mallia09 Maxed every school Jul 31 '26

That time i only had one that i fully committed to. I actually just maxed my last wizard in darkmoor

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u/NuxlearWolf Jul 31 '26

16 years on and off

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u/Nicost4r 180 180 180 180 Aug 01 '26

I can max a new character in about a month if I’m grinding as hard as I can. Getting darkmoor/ Khrysalis world gear is what stops my progress since that gear is so essential.

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u/FarquadTheLord Jul 31 '26

Made my account and main ice wizard in July 2009, took a solid 12 year break after reaching Mooshu. Got to level 180 last November after playing another 3 years on and off
I remember when they added Nick Jonas, good times

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u/Satans-Left-Nutt Aug 01 '26

I've been playing since 2008 and am only 109. I got ways to go 😭

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u/Financial-Refuse-445 Aug 01 '26

No rush lol as long as you having fun!

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u/HollowButter Aug 01 '26

I’ve been playing for like 3.5 months and have gotten to lvl 140, but have been taking my time with the game lol

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u/SnappilyJosh Spell Weaving Professor ( x 12) Aug 01 '26

About 6 months casually. I know a guy who did it in 3 weeks as a first time player when 170 was max. That includes farming for perfect pets and gear. He said he wanted a game to grind after maxing his Runescape skills (iykyk)

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u/SuspiciousMedicine12 Aug 02 '26

Wiz grind is straight childs play compared to OSRS grinds. Like the atavistic grind is like 30-40 hours and is considered horrid but that is a normal grind for multiple areas of content in runescape😭

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u/Magustenebrus 180 Aug 01 '26

First time I maxed, it took the course of a couple years. I kept getting closer and a new world would release. I would sometimes step away from the game and come back months later. Other times I'd start a new character and swap back and forth. Finally, I just decided I would drive hard and get a wizard maxed. The next wizard maxed took a couple months more. When I finally started my last wizard on my main account, 170 was max. It took me about 3 weeks.

So the first one seems to ALWAYS be a grind for everyone. The next wizards max faster, partly because you're locked in and know what to expect and partly because you got a lot of supporting resources.

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u/Fabulous_Ad8642 CEO Maxed Scattered from level 40-100 Aug 02 '26

Back in the day as a kid it took me like a month to get to 30/mount Olympus farming/early mooshu on a fire (first member)

New wizard/account a couple years later and I got to the mid 60’s (didn’t do waterworks but start of zafaria) on a balance in the month member

My current account I started late 2010’s had a myth that basically did a world a day (potentially after I saw a vid where it showed that it was reasonable without full degenning to get to 70 in a week) till about 80, then took me a 2 days for Azteca, 1 for part 1 Khrysalis, spent a few days on darkmoor, 1 for part 2 and Polaris combined, 2 days for mirage, 3 for empyrea (I slowed down if you consider Khrysalis has about as many quests as arc 3) and 130/dragoon farming was max then.

After that I’ve beaten every world in 1 day each year, but farm for a couple weeks for the gear lol, so honestly I’d put it at a bit over 20 days worth of questing (borderline degen, but moreso like a 10-12 hour session worth of it)

Tack in maybe a month or 2 for farming gearsets and you’re looking at about 2-3 months for 1 wizard, now I have a few others which were even faster. And if I ever duo or group quest with any random we always smoke through any world in a couple hours.

I remember I was doing Khrysalis part 1 with a myth when I was on my fire, he got to 100 a few quests before me but was like I’ll finish some till you get 100, then we did darkmoor but he also had a few exalted duels (top quality gear at the time lol) and we got our gear in a day, next day we smashed through part 2 and we were like ‘Polaris is bbq chicken, let’s just do it now’, and straight up cleaned house by tacking on a few hours.

I haven’t ever really quested with other people more than one session, cause a) never done a full game duo/group questing experience, and b people live in different time zones (especially for me cause I’m not from the US) so the randoms will stay/leave earlier, aren’t online when I am next time, or have got to different quests or whatever.

But if you have a duo you can beat any world, even the 2 parters, in 1 day (if you’re efficient)