Theorycrafting in Wizard101

by Brooke Pilley Feb 24th 2009 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Game mechanics, Guides, Free-to-play, Kids, Wizard101

Apparently theorycrafting isn't just for hardcore RPGers anymore. Tipa of the West Karana blog put together an interesting primer on the hidden numbers behind kid-friendly (and adult too - don't be shy) MMO, Wizard101. Want to know what damage, accuracy or power pips are and which is better? Want to know what your ideal secondary magic school might be? Want to know how important mana or health is when choosing gear? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Tipa's "need to know" guide. You can even leave a question in her comment section if you don't find what you were looking for.

And we're sure there will be a lot of questions since Wizard101 recently hit the one million player mark. Perhaps theorycrafting has become a bit more important in this casual-friendly game since they recently added the player arena, where wizards can engage in a fierce magical duels against each other. Competition usually encourages more strategic thinking and planning if you want to win, and this combat primer might help as well.

Tags: card-based, card-battle, dragonspyre, duel, kingsisle-entertainment, turn-based, wizard101

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kaamos said on 10:15PM 2-24-2009

I am a HUGE fan of gameplay mechanics and class interaction. Simply put, if you can find time interested in just figuring out your character, by customizing it over a period of time, you'll find endless extra hours playing that character hundreds of different ways in your other gameplay.

I found Anarchy Onlines twinking system to be the best for this, its based around buffing with spells and gear, you can equip some reeeeaaaalllly high level gear by simply stacking buffs and stat buffing gear, but instead of just doing that, you can put on other gear that buffs stats, effectively climbing the stat ladder. Ive done this for hours/days tweaking a character, specifically to either own a dungeon or to level insanely fast/solo.

Now that I play World of Warcraft, I basically know my classes best spec's for their jobs and, its not nearly as interesting allocating points/customizing my character, glyphs are the same way. The only real customization is through the acquisition of gear.