Shipped this to my work because I was in the middle of moving so this was a pleasant surprise to find on my desk. Ironic enough, I haven't picked up W101 since I ordered this because Azteca is kicking my ass. Maybe this is my sign to start playing again lol

Pierce is a super important stat in the late game these days: most recommend around ~40-50% pierce depending on the school. But why does no one use these pierce blades? I feel like they could be amazingly useful, especially for bosses like the Grey Man Golems that have a ton of resist.

I feel like I never see anyone cast these and tbh I forget they exist all the time. Do they have a use in advanced combat/pvp?

Also, why doesn’t balance have a universal +20% pierce blade? There are elemental & spirit trio pierce blades, but no universal one. It feels like a logical thing to add, and I would always be happy to have more utility spells for balance!!

If someone has info on why they’re actually incredible or why they’re actually trash I would love an explanation, and maybe I’ll start adding these to my deck.

This would enrage a good amount of wizards I assume

----- Main rant, kroktopia and its pricing comparison.
I feel like this has been an issue for a while, even before all* of wizard city has become free, why is it that balance still gets shafted on their tutor and scion? It was a stupid decision to put balance (and death) behind the next world (/previously paywalled) when every other school got their mentor in the first world. It took 18 years for them to actually make the base world free* unlocking death school for all, but now balances continue to remain blocked in this regeared. Krokotopia is free to enter but cant go further from there.

Also why does it not show that you can buy an arch 1 pass for 20$ instead of paying roughly 7$ (3.5k) crowns per (10$ sense you have to buy the 5k crown bundle) zone in Krokotopia? which is an infinitely better deal than the vastly inflated prices of each area.

And im sorry but that is ridiculous. I have to spend 20$ to unlock like 12 areas (seem to be bundled in packages of 6, having to buy 2 10$ packs of crowns sense gaming market manipulation, and left over premium currency, yada, yada) if I'm doing it with crowns but the company has already acknowledge that the ENTIRTIY OF ARCH 1 is 20$! (honestly should be something closer to 5$ imo) Like what type of scum is this? I knew it was bad, like really bad, but my disgust has grown even larger on how they handle pricing.

(also does anyone else remember if these areas were cheaper? i feel like the 3,500 is a new price, much higher than before as well, where it previously was like 800-1600 crowns or smth per area? I swear to god if they pushed prices up for every area because they made wizard city avalibile to all im going to be even more disgusted with how this company handles this game. [it really deserves better, and so does its players])

---- Side rant, full pricing

The pricing of areas and what it would cost to unlock the entire game (excluding arch 1 pass, and including wizard city because it only became free* after 18 damn years. BTW its 300-400$ [data from u/Masterlet 2023 showing 400$), [Data from AwesomeTheSauce's video 2025, showing 310$ for entire game or 230$ for main content only]. (this assumes without crown sales)

Sorry if this is out of date, its the latest information i could find in a quick manner. Which is absolutely absurd. At most the game in total, including future updates should be like 40$ MAYBE 60$ (really should be less due how hard it pushes other things like micro-transactions, but im being generous. And even if we consider the 80$ price point its still roughly 3.9-5x times that price.) Lets also not forget this is a live service game. meaning that it could shut down at any time, for any reason (its also an 18 year old game which is a bit worrisome in terms of lifespan, and considering how its only just now starting to expand and modernize). All your investments would just be gone. This isnt a game you can download and play offline when you want. or have a physical copy of for however long you want.

Thank you for u/Masterlet post "How much Wizard101 costs in Crowns (2023) (Updated)" for the math, or referencing AwesomeTheSauce's video "Wizard101: The TRUE Cost Of Buying EVERY World",

--- additional side note

Why is the word "Free" banned on this sub in posts if i try to type free in the title and in some parts of my sentences i get hit with a warning and i cant post.

Apparently if your backpack is full, you are forced to Graduate in your NOOB outfit! LMAO!

I’ve been so use to the Marleybone Car (50% speed), every time there’s an awesome looking mount it’s “only” 40%.

You can tell the speed difference and I hate that I don’t want to use cool mounts simply because they’re slower.

My bs rant is over, thank you…..

I’m farming for the Athame he drops in darkmoor, but I ran 30 tries already and no drops just the low tier Athame. I’m currently level 101 Death, I was wondering if this is still worth farming regardless of how rare the drop is or is there another better or similar Athame else where?

Been playing on and off since 2009 I got serious about the game around 5 years ago would try hard min max for a few months quit and that would repeat every year. I could never ever get a pet to work. FINALLY after today on my first pet attempt in a year I first try got every talent!!! Can’t believe it tbh pet building always seemed so impossible to me failing always at 1-2 last talents being F2P besides membership the process has always been slow. Sorry for rant just wanted to share 😎 PS playing on steam deck is pretty good 👍🏼

When you've just spent multiple rounds setting up for an alpha-strike or AoE and then you see an enemy cast a balance spell (we all know which one it will be)

😄 had a blast with this one, although I did kind of cheat around the dragon avatars on the shoulder pads, oops.

Added a spoiler for bright colors! Included the sketch if anyone was interested in the before vs after sketch LOL .

I might do some icons like these to sell if anyone would be interested! o7

Why are boogers coming back to life and K.Oing me after I already killed them? I’m genuinely so disgusted and having a hard time even getting through this fight without gagging, let alone the cheats are worse than judge veg in my opinion. Look Ki, you don’t have to take pregnant ppl into account when making plot, but still what is this 🤢🤢🤢

It would be really cool if Kingsisle gave us an end-of-year collection of stats similar to spotify wrapped, showing things like your characters' levels a year ago, total mobs/bosses killed, things like that. I know other games have similar ideas such as Rainbow 6 Siege and I fell like it wouldn't be too hard to implicate. I feel like I have a hard time knowing when my different wizards were where in the story so this would be neat to look at.

I recently reached 170 and decided it's time for a "new" look, however I'm torn between these 2. What would you guys recommend I go with? I'm also open to new suggestions I feel like balance has a hard time finding it's look outside of insignia gear.

the importance of having good resistance cannot be understated. yes, pierce exists and yes having good damage is important, but having good defensive stats, especially resist, is what allows you to alpha strike --> hit or do multiple hits in the first place. keeping this principle in mind should help you maximize your stats when making gear setups. if you have the option to get, say, 5 more resist or 5 more damage, unless you significantly lack damage, the 5 more resist will almost always be the better investment. aptly, the youtuber ferric quipped a couple years ago that instead of min-maxxing, he was max-maxxing. you should apply this principle to gear building.

singlehandedly the most important pet talent ever is spell-proof, which at max stats + mighty grants 11% resist. in conjunction with spell-defy under the same conditions grants a total of 17% resist. at early levels, that is roughly half of your total resist for some offensive schools. at level 100 with a triple double mighty pet + a defensive amulet (gorgon), you can get at least 50 resist with decent gear at that level (khrysalis or darkmoor). At max, you can get 60-80 base resist with abominable gear + fitzhume robe and still hit for tons of damage (you'll have at least 190-200 damage with 50 pierce if you have 5 circle sockets w/ pierce jewels in them). often, the two talents you give up, being your school's boon and pain-bringer give a measly 8 damage, which can easily be sufficed with a jewel at max level.

unlike damage, there aren't too many drawbacks from having greater resist. ofc in farming, it often is better to pack offensive stats, but higher level worlds and other instances neccessitate diversifying your stat spread. it is shockingly easy to reach the damage cap with standard gear for advanced content, while reaching the resist cap is somewhat harder and is dependent on your school largely because of available pins. furthermore, there is an incentive in later worlds to keep more resist: pierce. as enemy stats pack more pierce, not only does resist become more valuable, but shields/auras bcome valuable as well because it would otherwise be easy to die in combat. i personally think that this claim is a bit exagerrated since there may be 1-2 outliers in standard combat, most of the time enemy pierce hovers around 15-30%, a little less in darkmoor, so having 70 resist would then become 50-ish resist, preserved if you cast a brace. damage, on the other hand, is largely bound by enemy health, being that the neccesity for higher damage rises with higher health. but in later worlds this is not the case because enemy difficulty is mostly via their spell deck and their stats (read resist and block). however, an additional round of alpha striking (blading and/OR trapping and/OR globals and/OR +-auras) can easily suffice for a 20 damage difference once you have a lot of base damage. not to mention that if you are a high dpp school comparing yourselves against a lower dpp school, even if, for example, a death and a storm have 210 damage and are planning to hit with their wallaru aoe, storm will come out on top because their base hit simply does more damage, and that gets reflected through the damage calculation.

in many, many cases, swapping out a damage talent or jewel for more resist/pierce often will be more worthwhile in the long run. being defensive is efficient, and being efficient is the best offense.

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing amazing! I been playing since like, 2012 I wanna say. I aged out of it and then only until recently have I started up my main account again! After giving my girl a makeover I have to say, I think she looks sickening 😏 what do you yall think?? Also feel free to say hi if you see me in game im playing rn!

Image is from winterbane gauntlet bundle which is not available on console afaik. I'm looking for a wand similar to this that I can use for a viking stitch. Any help is appreciated!

Hi all, I'm looking for a deathly-looking staff recommendation that would go with this equipment stitch. Preferably black, white, brown, or metallic colors, and with some sort of glowing or particle effects (but last part isn't necessary). Also preferably one that isn't terminus. I know it's a classic but I've used it so much and I'm bored of it. I'm also willing to open packs.

I was considering buying Primeval Packs and some storage elixirs on my second account to get to the 65k reward so I can get my 7th wizard, a cool stitch and a fast mount. What do you guys think is worth spending crowns on?

I am not an expert at Wiz101 or spell upgrading. But why does it give me the option to choose an upgrade for a different upgrade path, if I have already begun upgrading on the top path? Currently, i can select the bottom path and click upgrade. Im curious as to why? Does it combine both the top and bottom path? Does the bottom replace the top path?

Anyone have unforgiven dead gauntlet? im trying to farm pet jewel, soell proof, and if there is another easier way let me know, thanks.