what about the soothe spell and all the other school equivalents, and what about mass infection? is that good? i have a death and i don't pvp so i don't know.
Water Elemental is pretty useful in PvE tbh, as he has high health, uses taunts to get enemies to attack him instead of you, and heals himself so he doesn't die. His purpose is really just to buy you some time while adding blades and traps.
asparagoose true. Storm is a very squishy school that dies easily so having a minion with high health who is essentially there to take hits fits perfectly with the school.
Also, Water Elemental saved my @$$ against some forced solo battles because it doesn't attack, so you never have to worry about losing all your traps to a Lightning Bats. In fact, it can help by rarely using Storm Trap! I admit it needs to be more user-friendly with its Sprite and Shields (it is so greedy and keeps protecting itself) but I'd say the most useless spell is Insane Bolt because it's a 70% chance to always one-shot you. :(
Christian Groff It uses taunt often. I believe the main use for the storm elemental is to taunt the enemies in PvE, so that it takes the attacks instead of the wizard, which explains why it heals and shields itself so often, instead of the caster.
Bruh that minion is awesome. It use sprite to get rdy for tanking. Also, it doesn't have hits because the storm wizard IS the hitter and if it has hits then it would mess up traps. Good thing the taunt spells are not on the list because its very very useful, its just people don't know how to use it. Ahem ice and people that say they're "tanking", but they just stand their with low threat and let the others take hits.
Yes thank you, you see my point. Also, instead of healing everyone, the life can pack satyr to heal the ice only. Another thing is they can make a good use of the x pip absorbs because I've heard people saying those shields r useless.
Well, ice doesn't need a complete triage or a shift; They're OP enough as it is. I know you say the card just shouldn't exist at all, but it does have uses. But now, I have to COMPLETELY disagree with your #1 one pick; Sure storm's minion is far from being the best minion, but it is an incredibly useful minion; Take note that you get this card at level 18.. Yeah, It would be nice if the Water Elemental was able to hit & do damage, but that's not what a storm needs in questing. (A storm is strong enough). Wizard101 gave storm wizards their other half by giving them the Water Elemental. Storms are glass cannons, the minion is a tank; It's main card is to taunt, it draws all the attention to itself, so bosses/minions are more likely to hit it and leave you unharmed. I can go more in depth with that explanation, but I shouldn't need to & I've already typed a lot. XD So... good video, great concepts, but imo Detonate would be #1 & Storm Elemental wouldn't be on the list at all.
Keira Dark I actually completely agree. as a storm if you are fighting against an elemental boss it is super helpful. it shields itself, heals and then taunts and repeats. gives the storm wizard enough time to set up a hit without worrying about their health.
I'm not sure it applies in higher levels, but I find this minion quite useful at lower levels when fighting a boss. They can't attack, though they can cast Sprite, Spirit Armor, Storm Trap, Taunt, and Elemental Shield.
Yesterday, my minion tanked over 2 thousand damage for me since it used taunt. It took care of itself by using Spirit Armor and Sprite, while I only used sprite on it once to keep it alive. I was fighting 3 enemies, one of which was a boss with more than double my health. If the minion wasn't there, I would've lost :)
+Black Beard oddly my minion keeps shielding itself and using Sprite on itself without using taunt at all while I'm dying in the corner. It's just the experience for certain people.
but storm has the same thing instantly, fire has to use 2 spells on 1 person to do extra damage...which will probably get halved by tower shield. (also you can't use heckhound and then detonate...in 2v2 that is a X + 4 pip waste)
I arrive at the Pendragon with a Fire and Myth in my party. "Eternal" DoT: cast Shift: cast Detonate: cast I AM FORCIBLY MADE VICTORIOUS AGAINST THE PENDRAGON
My idea to fix detonate would be to get rid of all overtimes and deal 130% damage. Also maybe lower the pip cost. I also could see the effect being added to a loremaster fire spell.
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but with the water elemental summon, you can reduce the threat on you after summoning the minion to stall for time and since the minion heals itself so much then it'll give you even more time to build up pips or find a certain card in your deck.
For the ice spell, cooldown, it's extremely useful, it helps in pvp and pve, removing 1 tick of damage for all DoT spells for everyone on ur team, it's a defensive spell, it's purpose is to support other players, say someone criticals on a rain of fire, you remove one tick of that, that's 1/3 of it's attack GONE, to EVERYONE
Water Elemental is actually useful because it's meant to tank, the reason why it heals and wards itself is so that once it casts taunt all enemies that target it can't kill it immediately. The whole point of this minion is to take the damage off of you so you can defend yourself and prepare for a strong attack it's actually very helpful early on (I'm not sure about Celestia But I have used it up to dragonspyre). The actual strategy with using this minion is to make sure you cast it first turn or as soon as possible and don't damage the enemies (you can damage them but don’t do it too much or attack on the turn of taunt is being cast otherwise they ignore the first taunt) once taunt is cast you try to stockpile as many Pips as possible by using any non attacking 0 pip spells to unleash a devastating attack attack like Tempest or stormzilla Or a barrage of low level spells. Very useful for solo storm play.
Okay all these spells have a very good thing about them they make us appreciate spells better because by comparison they don't feel nearly as dumbed down..
To be fair, berserks damage is justified by saying if you stacked it with a feint it would be busted if it wasn't how it was now and thats kinda the idea for it. The power play spell was actually a huge thing for lower level balance because all they had was judgment back when 50 was capped so made sense then. cooldown as your right not very practical but if youre squad is struggling with bosses that cast spells that leave a dot first turn it would be useful as a ice you are normal support tank to your group anyways. Detonate was useful, just like the past ones at the time it was released, cause fire has a lot of dot spells and if you are say duoing you can have you boost use the volcano spell (forget the name) then have your friend say feint or if you doubled up then poped it, it would turn the dot damage ( which added up is more than most spells) and pop for one huge hit saving both time, and potentially your life. the storm minion i have absolutly nothing to say about as it is completely useless and was put in just cause the other elemental schools got minions.
Detonate is as he said a nearly useless card unless worked with by a teammate. I think what they should do is drop the cost from 4 to 2, or like he said an Enchant would be just as good and it activates on the DoT after its second activation, just incase you get stunned or something happens. Btw, there is a reason for the storm elemental. This game works like most MMORPG's, when you heal you draw agro, in a duel we have to deal damage equal to or grater than the healers pip cost x 2 in order to sway a heal target. The elemental is making itself a target because storm isn't supposed to have a lot of life, which makes the elemental both useful and useless. And your spell choices, I completely agree.
I paused the video to check if anyone had pointed that out - yep, he just reinvented dampen magic. Sadly it is retired though and no trade so if you haven't got any, you literally can't get them now :( It would be fun to see it brought back though :)
The water minion isn't supposed to be good, he's supposed to act as a 700 health distraction to tank a hit or two, which is why he uses taunts, heals, and shields.
The purpose of the storm minion is to draw attention to it's self in Battle, if you use it enough you'll see that it uses taunt, then shields in heals it's self
As a fellow ice player, when overtimes were being used quite often, such as snow angel, fire dragon, or any of the other DOTs in a 4v4, I have used cooldown and have saved a teammate or two. Maybe, that's just me. But I have used it. It is situational and has come in handy. I don't carry it now (I don't think) but with no life players, if multiple players did use it, you could almost get rid of a DOT first turn. Lol
Top 10 Useless Spells 10. Samoorai (Balance) -Savage Paw, Judge, and Mana Burn make this spell useless 9. Precision (Balance) -Are you fucking kidding me? Balance already has good accuracy. 8. Dimension Shift (Myth) -Besides going against Juju, which is rare now, this spell is useless and very situational. 7. Guidance (Life) -Same thing as Precision, but this time it costs pips. 6. Animate (Death) -This minion costs you your entire pips. Has around same health as Myth's Talos but without the usefulness. 5. Cool down (Ice) -Besides being used against a Rampage, this is the poor man's version of Triage. 4. Spear Blades (All Schools) -I don't even have to explain. 3. Detonate (Fire) - Too many pips, doesn't detonate the entire over time, and honestly- the overtime is better anyways. 2. Accuracy Enchants - These are ONLY good if they have the pierce part which you can just buy in TC form. These are absolute garbage and are made obscure by damage enchants. 1. Taunts (Ice) - Subdues are alright because it stops enemies from attacking you, serving as a distraction to heal and such, but Taunt gets enemies to attack you. WTF!!! I can't see this being useful unless you're a jade but Ice is rarely ever a jade!
Taunt isn't useless people just don't know how to use them. Even though taunt is useless for be pvp, taunt is really useful for pve such Darkmoor and regardless if the Ice is a jade or not they have the most resist and health in the game so they can tank hits easier than any other school.
ProDEEDgious That's why I said it depends on when and how you use but I do agree that it's a situational spell. Still, Taunt is useful and there are plenty of other spells definitely deserve to be number 1 on being useless, I just don't think taunt is one of them
Berserk isn't usless, you can easily use it in mob fights as like a balance or so, since it gives you more dmg % than your strongest blade at that point. Also the incoming doesnt matter at all in those mob fights. So I kinda feel like Amplify is even worse than Berserk.
The spells you've shown as useless actually are usable provided the person knows how to use them. The water elemental, for instance, is designed as a decoy that can suck damage and heal itself. Storm wizards are notoriously bad at taking damage. I used it a ton with mine.
In my opinion, detonate could be useful against some bosses, like pendragon with his infinite fire dragon dot, use the myth shift spell to throw it back at him, then use detonate to finish him off.
actually, there was a spell called dampen that stopped pips from going higher than 4 pips. it was taken out of the game but they somewhat brought it back with one of the mirage bosses
Cool down is so underrated. It has great uses especially in darkmoor. It’s even a great counter to fires burning rampage card. Nightbringer cooldown into a regular cooldown or nightbringer into a shift so they can’t triage it. Boom end of DoT
First off, the water elemental is not useless it actually has a point. The minions point is to heal and shield itself so that when it uses a taunt it makes the enemies turn on it instead of you, so as it has its shields and heals it is staying alive to keep taunting the enemies and help you. :) it is actually a useful minion
The storm minion is good against myth wizards at lower level pvp tiers, as it turns any minion they cast irrelevant without the need to do 750+ damage to it. That being said its a meta call minion and much less useful overall than any other minion except in that case. Though it can be used to stop other minions at low levels as well, most others can be killed by a shark anyway , so it depends on how many minions the opponent is casting
Water elemental is actually good. It has saved me so much. The buffed it so he does a new attack. 125 per pip attack. That's good! Also the point for it is to set up and taunt the enemies so they attack him and not you!
that minion Is really useful! it will heal you, taunt all enemies, absorb shield, elemental shield, storm trap, disarm, and more. if I missed any other spells tell me
the 2 fire wiz strategy could be good. let's say first wiz casts a full power heck hound and second wiz use detonate in same round. that would have insane dmg
When you suggested power play should make the player have limited pips. I may be wrong but wasn't that one of he bubbles that got removed from the game?
Yo, I just wanted to shine some light on detonate. Used correctly it is OP in PvP. Look at this scenario, say you had an ice and a fire engaging in some jolly cooperation (i have used this strategy on multiple occasions,) and the ice does some blade stacking and uses a snow angel. The fire times detonate whereas to right when the first hit of the angel does damage and breaks shields, it detonated the entire damage stack and BOOM, instant kill.
Hey um can I just say that maybe Cool Down isn't as bad as you might think saying ""life has our backs"" um in darkmoor yes but if you quest and it's without a life but with an ice Yeah Cool down will be awesome the storm Water Elemental is actually not a useless minion it's actually meant for storms since They Generate allot of Agro from mobs with their high damage the Storm minion what he does is take away that Agro and put it on himself yeah I hear what you're thinking "that makes him even more useless" well if you're a storm questing without a healer and just another hitter school maybe not or if it's a solo boss he can help Slightly he's not completely useless yeah he heals himself ALL the time but that's only because he's meant to take Agro away from the wizard & I agree with you on power play being useless at a higher lvl & berserk is mainly for the tank schools that do low damage but have insane Resist Aka Ice/life/balance (Yes balance/Life has less resist then ice but stay with me for a moment) mainly because balance and life can heal it back Ice can resist most of the damage done either way now if a fire is questing with a myth or another Fire yeah I agree with you Detonate would be useful but alone not worth it
The elemental isn't even THAT bad. He helped me do Malistaire's dungeon. Sure at first he heals himself but he keeps taunting wich focuses the attacks on him. So that let me blade up
detonate could be a trap that destroys the damage over time and does the damage in one round. Like you use fire dragon and when the damage over time thing comes up and then it pops. and make it like two pips at the least.
Detonate would be cool if it did it to all enemy ticks. Especially since it costs 4 pips. So that way i could have a team mate use fire dragon or something then the turn right after i use detonate. It'd be pretty lit.
I have to agree with the storm minion all it does is shield itself and heal itself and once in a blue moon it will heal or shield you and on even more rare occasions it will hit with a kraken that it most likely will fizzle =T
In regards to the storm minion, it's been known to really help in teams at low levels. Why? Minion tank. That's why it heals and shields itself a bit, then mass taunts the enemy. It was never intended to be ultra useful. It's made to help buy time. In my personal experience, it actually healed and shielded me more than it did on itself. Don't get me wrong, it's not the most useful spell, especially since it only helps out in low-level PvE. However, it honestly isn't as bad as you make it sound. Detonate, in my humble opinion, shouldn't even be on this list. It's a very powerful and useful spell if used correctly. For example: Say you're on a full team. A myth as your hitter with max blades uses basilisk. Second wizard places a potent feint, third wizard uses a regular feint. The fire wizard at this point would use detonate. Now, Depending on the boss, instant one-shot. This is especially true at low levels, even on teams of 2 people. (The Myth and Fire is the best example for this.) I was able to get one-shot kills up 'til Avalon or Azteca. Again, depending on the boss. And in the end, you have to look at it by what you're play style. Me? I like doing a ton of damage in an instant, and detonate is one of the best ways, at least in my case, to do it. Thanks for this video, and stay awesome!
Water Elemental healing itself the first round? I guess it was fixed in a recent update because when I use Water Elemental his first 2 turns are taunting, which is definitely better than healing itself, ngl. He's definitely more effective against elemental enemies(fire, ice, storm) because of those shields though
go to agree with you're no.1. used it for the first time on my storm the other day and it's sooooooo bad, i mean even storms sap power is a waste of a pip when you get it, cause of how many pips the elemental costs
The storm minion is not useless. It's only okayish. My first wizard was a storm and that spell saved me so many times. I agree with Detonate being awful though.
Life minions are worse. they'll heal themselves three times after being summoned before even being hit while you're near dead. and THEEE MOST USELESS spell is Taunt!!😡😡
They must have changed the AI of the storm minion because mine would be the reason I survived krokotopia. I would summon him and he would taunt so all the attention was on him he kept himself alive and even once put spirit armor on me. He's definitely stepped up his game
i think the most useless spell in wiz is taunt because it only works in pve and barely does anything it just makes enemys hit you and why would you want enemies to hit you
Did they change water elemental? I found him really awesome. But I used him many years ago when the game was still new and my storm couldn't survive in early Krok solo playing. The water elemental was essential to get me through Krok until I got tempest. He would shield himself and taunt the enemy allowing me time to get spells off (mainly storm shark or bats) when accuracy was so poor at the low levels.
bruh i got storm minoin and its amazing. Sure it is a bit bad but its attacks are good as they are. It does sprite and sheilds wich can be really handy in combat
Taunt is actually surprisingly useful in pve ya'll! Maybe a future video idea?
what about the soothe spell and all the other school equivalents, and what about mass infection? is that good? i have a death and i don't pvp so i don't know.
AwesomeTheSauce HOW O_O
AwesomeTheSauce your high af
AwesomeTheSauce luv ur vids ma man's keep em up let's go
cooldown can be used for rampage and triage is rare without plants
I think detonate should be an enchant.
Blargh - good idea actually
Would be op
Yes!
@@latoshawashington9982 It would be an enchant for utility, so you'd use it instead of Aegis.
they just made it cheaper. they want the effect. but they will make it cheaper to use.
Surprised the taunt spell wasnt in here
Wait, taunt? Taunt can save life in team play! When you fighting powerfull boss, you just use tanut, shield yourself and take damage for your team
The set of spells that Taunt is part of could all be used to make a video on its own.
just taunt over and over, absorbing all the damage, while your team is just blading it up safe from harms way
Taunt is an ice spell and since ice is a tank then they can take all the damage for the team.
Cwiss T what is the taunt spell
Water Elemental is pretty useful in PvE tbh, as he has high health, uses taunts to get enemies to attack him instead of you, and heals himself so he doesn't die. His purpose is really just to buy you some time while adding blades and traps.
Yeah!
KI should change its first move to taunt then heal then shield
asparagoose true. Storm is a very squishy school that dies easily so having a minion with high health who is essentially there to take hits fits perfectly with the school.
yeah but we are talking about pve at let's say level 60 because at level 130, 700 health is nothing
@@edweisai doesnt that apply to most minions?
I'm probably the only one who likes Thomas' jokes. They are actually decent.
AwesomeTheSauce I love how much you say mans
Well this comment is random
I used Berserk on my Storm, it's pretty decent if you have good resist because it's not a trap, but I can see where you are coming from.
Also, Water Elemental saved my @$$ against some forced solo battles because it doesn't attack, so you never have to worry about losing all your traps to a Lightning Bats. In fact, it can help by rarely using Storm Trap! I admit it needs to be more user-friendly with its Sprite and Shields (it is so greedy and keeps protecting itself) but I'd say the most useless spell is Insane Bolt because it's a 70% chance to always one-shot you. :(
Altho' I do agree that it's not great for PvP.
Finally someone who sees my point of view!
Christian Groff It uses taunt often. I believe the main use for the storm elemental is to taunt the enemies in PvE, so that it takes the attacks instead of the wizard, which explains why it heals and shields itself so often, instead of the caster.
me too lol, it's basically another blade for us as storm, and with a resist pet you can get it to balance out when you have 40% resist
Bruh that minion is awesome. It use sprite to get rdy for tanking. Also, it doesn't have hits because the storm wizard IS the hitter and if it has hits then it would mess up traps.
Good thing the taunt spells are not on the list because its very very useful, its just people don't know how to use it. Ahem ice and people that say they're "tanking", but they just stand their with low threat and let the others take hits.
Yes thank you, you see my point. Also, instead of healing everyone, the life can pack satyr to heal the ice only. Another thing is they can make a good use of the x pip absorbs because I've heard people saying those shields r useless.
All the minion does is heal and shield itself. Never in my 6 years of playing this game have I seen it do anything useful.
I don't get the ice thing? I'm an ice and I usually tank by using the shadow spell and several shields
Well, ice doesn't need a complete triage or a shift; They're OP enough as it is. I know you say the card just shouldn't exist at all, but it does have uses.
But now, I have to COMPLETELY disagree with your #1 one pick; Sure storm's minion is far from being the best minion, but it is an incredibly useful minion; Take note that you get this card at level 18.. Yeah, It would be nice if the Water Elemental was able to hit & do damage, but that's not what a storm needs in questing. (A storm is strong enough). Wizard101 gave storm wizards their other half by giving them the Water Elemental. Storms are glass cannons, the minion is a tank; It's main card is to taunt, it draws all the attention to itself, so bosses/minions are more likely to hit it and leave you unharmed.
I can go more in depth with that explanation, but I shouldn't need to & I've already typed a lot. XD
So... good video, great concepts, but imo Detonate would be #1 & Storm Elemental wouldn't be on the list at all.
Keira Dark I actually completely agree. as a storm if you are fighting against an elemental boss it is super helpful. it shields itself, heals and then taunts and repeats. gives the storm wizard enough time to set up a hit without worrying about their health.
He has a pvp mentality
I'm not sure it applies in higher levels, but I find this minion quite useful at lower levels when fighting a boss. They can't attack, though they can cast Sprite, Spirit Armor, Storm Trap, Taunt, and Elemental Shield.
Yesterday, my minion tanked over 2 thousand damage for me since it used taunt. It took care of itself by using Spirit Armor and Sprite, while I only used sprite on it once to keep it alive. I was fighting 3 enemies, one of which was a boss with more than double my health. If the minion wasn't there, I would've lost :)
+Black Beard oddly my minion keeps shielding itself and using Sprite on itself without using taunt at all while I'm dying in the corner. It's just the experience for certain people.
Make detonate 250-300%
Triage exist so it won't be that op anyways.
but storm has the same thing instantly, fire has to use 2 spells on 1 person to do extra damage...which will probably get halved by tower shield. (also you can't use heckhound and then detonate...in 2v2 that is a X + 4 pip waste)
Kana Fukakami in a 2v2 you have your friend go second and he detonates
to kill 1 person at the cost of 2 turns.
Kana Fukakami You see triage wouldn't make that balanced.
Kana Fukakami if that was to be seriously implemented you could kill Pendragon in one turn, that's insane.
There was a tc in the game that actually limited everyone's pips but it got retired and is now one of the rarest tc in game.
MrEpicWind990 Yeah along with storm hound and elucidate. Which I have a character dedicated to just tc ;-) Mad empowers too so I never go broke
The TC I'm talking about was called "Dampen Magic"
I remember elucidate too
How many voice cracks can you have in one sentence?
15:38 "he's misproving my point"I'm dead 😂😂
that limit pip bubble was in the game and taken out
Gaming oD I remember that spell 0:
When was it added and taken out?
Dill pickle in the first year of the game idk when taken out
Holy f*** just saw it. Would love to try that spell out. Make pvp fight more fair.
For cooldown I think it should convert the dot into a heal over time healing the same amount the damage should be
I arrive at the Pendragon with a Fire and Myth in my party.
"Eternal" DoT: cast
Shift: cast
Detonate: cast
I AM FORCIBLY MADE VICTORIOUS AGAINST THE PENDRAGON
* gets stressed because he is nOT picking up that wooden chest *
My idea to fix detonate would be to get rid of all overtimes and deal 130% damage. Also maybe lower the pip cost. I also could see the effect being added to a loremaster fire spell.
5:39 "It's not just about about PvP" OH MY LORD. RELATABLE QUOTE OF TEH YEAR.
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but with the water elemental summon, you can reduce the threat on you after summoning the minion to stall for time and since the minion heals itself so much then it'll give you even more time to build up pips or find a certain card in your deck.
I feel like Berserk could find a home in a very tanky Ice build
For the ice spell, cooldown, it's extremely useful, it helps in pvp and pve, removing 1 tick of damage for all DoT spells for everyone on ur team, it's a defensive spell, it's purpose is to support other players, say someone criticals on a rain of fire, you remove one tick of that, that's 1/3 of it's attack GONE, to EVERYONE
Water Elemental is actually useful because it's meant to tank, the reason why it heals and wards itself is so that once it casts taunt all enemies that target it can't kill it immediately. The whole point of this minion is to take the damage off of you so you can defend yourself and prepare for a strong attack it's actually very helpful early on (I'm not sure about Celestia But I have used it up to dragonspyre).
The actual strategy with using this minion is to make sure you cast it first turn or as soon as possible and don't damage the enemies (you can damage them but don’t do it too much or attack on the turn of taunt is being cast otherwise they ignore the first taunt) once taunt is cast you try to stockpile as many Pips as possible by using any non attacking 0 pip spells to unleash a devastating attack attack like Tempest or stormzilla Or a barrage of low level spells. Very useful for solo storm play.
Okay all these spells have a very good thing about them they make us appreciate spells better because by comparison they don't feel nearly as dumbed down..
To be fair, berserks damage is justified by saying if you stacked it with a feint it would be busted if it wasn't how it was now and thats kinda the idea for it. The power play spell was actually a huge thing for lower level balance because all they had was judgment back when 50 was capped so made sense then. cooldown as your right not very practical but if youre squad is struggling with bosses that cast spells that leave a dot first turn it would be useful as a ice you are normal support tank to your group anyways. Detonate was useful, just like the past ones at the time it was released, cause fire has a lot of dot spells and if you are say duoing you can have you boost use the volcano spell (forget the name) then have your friend say feint or if you doubled up then poped it, it would turn the dot damage ( which added up is more than most spells) and pop for one huge hit saving both time, and potentially your life. the storm minion i have absolutly nothing to say about as it is completely useless and was put in just cause the other elemental schools got minions.
Detonate is as he said a nearly useless card unless worked with by a teammate. I think what they should do is drop the cost from 4 to 2, or like he said an Enchant would be just as good and it activates on the DoT after its second activation, just incase you get stunned or something happens. Btw, there is a reason for the storm elemental. This game works like most MMORPG's, when you heal you draw agro, in a duel we have to deal damage equal to or grater than the healers pip cost x 2 in order to sway a heal target. The elemental is making itself a target because storm isn't supposed to have a lot of life, which makes the elemental both useful and useless. And your spell choices, I completely agree.
Have you heard of the treasure card "Dampen Magic?" I heard about it in a Dakota Earthhorn video, and it's exactly what you were talking about at 4:47
Also that Water Elemental saved my ass many times in early Krok
I paused the video to check if anyone had pointed that out - yep, he just reinvented dampen magic. Sadly it is retired though and no trade so if you haven't got any, you literally can't get them now :( It would be fun to see it brought back though :)
The water minion isn't supposed to be good, he's supposed to act as a 700 health distraction to tank a hit or two, which is why he uses taunts, heals, and shields.
The purpose of the storm minion is to draw attention to it's self in Battle, if you use it enough you'll see that it uses taunt, then shields in heals it's self
As a fellow ice player, when overtimes were being used quite often, such as snow angel, fire dragon, or any of the other DOTs in a 4v4, I have used cooldown and have saved a teammate or two. Maybe, that's just me. But I have used it. It is situational and has come in handy. I don't carry it now (I don't think) but with no life players, if multiple players did use it, you could almost get rid of a DOT first turn. Lol
Top 10 Useless Spells
10. Samoorai (Balance)
-Savage Paw, Judge, and Mana Burn make this spell useless
9. Precision (Balance)
-Are you fucking kidding me? Balance already has good accuracy.
8. Dimension Shift (Myth)
-Besides going against Juju, which is rare now, this spell is useless and very situational.
7. Guidance (Life)
-Same thing as Precision, but this time it costs pips.
6. Animate (Death)
-This minion costs you your entire pips. Has around same health as Myth's Talos but without the usefulness.
5. Cool down (Ice)
-Besides being used against a Rampage, this is the poor man's version of Triage.
4. Spear Blades (All Schools)
-I don't even have to explain.
3. Detonate (Fire)
- Too many pips, doesn't detonate the entire over time, and honestly- the overtime is better anyways.
2. Accuracy Enchants
- These are ONLY good if they have the pierce part which you can just buy in TC form. These are absolute garbage and are made obscure by damage enchants.
1. Taunts (Ice)
- Subdues are alright because it stops enemies from attacking you, serving as a distraction to heal and such, but Taunt gets enemies to attack you. WTF!!! I can't see this being useful unless you're a jade but Ice is rarely ever a jade!
ProDEEDgious someone went off lol
ProDEEDgious Taunt isn't useless...
explain
Taunt isn't useless people just don't know how to use them. Even though taunt is useless for be pvp, taunt is really useful for pve such Darkmoor and regardless if the Ice is a jade or not they have the most resist and health in the game so they can tank hits easier than any other school.
ProDEEDgious That's why I said it depends on when and how you use but I do agree that it's a situational spell. Still, Taunt is useful and there are plenty of other spells definitely deserve to be number 1 on being useless, I just don't think taunt is one of them
Berserk isn't usless, you can easily use it in mob fights as like a balance or so, since it gives you more dmg % than your strongest blade at that point. Also the incoming doesnt matter at all in those mob fights. So I kinda feel like Amplify is even worse than Berserk.
The spells you've shown as useless actually are usable provided the person knows how to use them. The water elemental, for instance, is designed as a decoy that can suck damage and heal itself. Storm wizards are notoriously bad at taking damage. I used it a ton with mine.
I use the cooldown a lot actually when I’m soloing or when I’m with friends questing .. it helps a lot
In my opinion, detonate could be useful against some bosses, like pendragon with his infinite fire dragon dot, use the myth shift spell to throw it back at him, then use detonate to finish him off.
My Initiate Death Wizards Pet has May Cast Berserk. Sometimes I off myself with sacrifice to get rid of it during PVP :/
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actually, there was a spell called dampen that stopped pips from going higher than 4 pips. it was taken out of the game but they somewhat brought it back with one of the mirage bosses
Cool down is so underrated. It has great uses especially in darkmoor. It’s even a great counter to fires burning rampage card. Nightbringer cooldown into a regular cooldown or nightbringer into a shift so they can’t triage it.
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First off, the water elemental is not useless it actually has a point. The minions point is to heal and shield itself so that when it uses a taunt it makes the enemies turn on it instead of you, so as it has its shields and heals it is staying alive to keep taunting the enemies and help you. :) it is actually a useful minion
The storm minion is good against myth wizards at lower level pvp tiers, as it turns any minion they cast irrelevant without the need to do 750+ damage to it. That being said its a meta call minion and much less useful overall than any other minion except in that case. Though it can be used to stop other minions at low levels as well, most others can be killed by a shark anyway , so it depends on how many minions the opponent is casting
Water elemental is actually good. It has saved me so much. The buffed it so he does a new attack. 125 per pip attack. That's good! Also the point for it is to set up and taunt the enemies so they attack him and not you!
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"Only an idiot would add this to their deck and that is why i have it" tbh same lmaO
Your suggestion for power play was already a spell, it's retired now
it was called "dampen magic"
that minion Is really useful! it will heal you, taunt all enemies, absorb shield, elemental shield, storm trap, disarm, and more.
if I missed any other spells tell me
Berserk is designed for tank schools that can take the 40% incoming, and they made a new one that switches the numbers.
But for tank schools that 30 is going to do nothing.
Berserk is for healing, not damage. A life wizard's best friend for healing support.
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Might be outdated, but Detonate feels very strong with Thunderstorm.
the 2 fire wiz strategy could be good. let's say first wiz casts a full power heck hound and second wiz use detonate in same round. that would have insane dmg
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Berserk is for mainly life PvP wizards in a 2v2. It's quite helpful.
Detonate can be used to kill the pendragon very quickly with shift.
How about if detonate was named differently. Maybe fan the flames, and it REFRESHES the entire dot with a lower accuracy rate than 75%
Shift and Detonate is *extremely* useful against Pendragon.
When you suggested power play should make the player have limited pips. I may be wrong but wasn't that one of he bubbles that got removed from the game?
dampen magic limit was well below my 7 pip proposal
dampen magic was 5 pip limit I think
nvm it was 3
Yo, I just wanted to shine some light on detonate. Used correctly it is OP in PvP. Look at this scenario, say you had an ice and a fire engaging in some jolly cooperation (i have used this strategy on multiple occasions,) and the ice does some blade stacking and uses a snow angel. The fire times detonate whereas to right when the first hit of the angel does damage and breaks shields, it detonated the entire damage stack and BOOM, instant kill.
Hey um can I just say that maybe Cool Down isn't as bad as you might think saying ""life has our backs"" um in darkmoor yes but if you quest and it's without a life but with an ice Yeah Cool down will be awesome the storm Water Elemental is actually not a useless minion it's actually meant for storms since They Generate allot of Agro from mobs with their high damage the Storm minion what he does is take away that Agro and put it on himself yeah I hear what you're thinking "that makes him even more useless" well if you're a storm questing without a healer and just another hitter school maybe not or if it's a solo boss he can help Slightly he's not completely useless yeah he heals himself ALL the time but that's only because he's meant to take Agro away from the wizard & I agree with you on power play being useless at a higher lvl & berserk is mainly for the tank schools that do low damage but have insane Resist Aka Ice/life/balance (Yes balance/Life has less resist then ice but stay with me for a moment) mainly because balance and life can heal it back Ice can resist most of the damage done either way now if a fire is questing with a myth or another Fire yeah I agree with you Detonate would be useful but alone not worth it
Beserk is pretty much useless unless you attack next round and the enemy has about no pips
The elemental isn't even THAT bad. He helped me do Malistaire's dungeon. Sure at first he heals himself but he keeps taunting wich focuses the attacks on him. So that let me blade up
They could change the "Detonate" to some kind of Trap that you put on your Enemy, it will proc when you put your next DOT on it.
detonate could be a trap that destroys the damage over time and does the damage in one round. Like you use fire dragon and when the damage over time thing comes up and then it pops. and make it like two pips at the least.
with detonate you need 2 fire's and one backdraft with heckhound
and yea its broken
i feel like detonate should be a maycast that would be cool. like if you agree
xxnightmarexx your wish has come true farm omen and you'll get a maycast detonate wand
Cool down can be useful for hades, darkmoor graveyard frostbite cheat, but nothing else
As a person who has a decent Smith pet,I use cool down quite frequently
I enjoy the water elemental, but I can see your point, and I am pretty low level.
they should make cool down where it turns the ticks into tower shields. That way it wont be useless.
Detonate would be cool if it did it to all enemy ticks. Especially since it costs 4 pips. So that way i could have a team mate use fire dragon or something then the turn right after i use detonate. It'd be pretty lit.
They buffed the minion so all it does is taunt, shield, and heal in that order so it’s decent now
I have to agree with the storm minion all it does is shield itself and heal itself and once in a blue moon it will heal or shield you and on even more rare occasions it will hit with a kraken that it most likely will fizzle =T
In regards to the storm minion, it's been known to really help in teams at low levels. Why? Minion tank. That's why it heals and shields itself a bit, then mass taunts the enemy. It was never intended to be ultra useful. It's made to help buy time. In my personal experience, it actually healed and shielded me more than it did on itself. Don't get me wrong, it's not the most useful spell, especially since it only helps out in low-level PvE. However, it honestly isn't as bad as you make it sound.
Detonate, in my humble opinion, shouldn't even be on this list. It's a very powerful and useful spell if used correctly. For example: Say you're on a full team. A myth as your hitter with max blades uses basilisk. Second wizard places a potent feint, third wizard uses a regular feint. The fire wizard at this point would use detonate. Now, Depending on the boss, instant one-shot. This is especially true at low levels, even on teams of 2 people. (The Myth and Fire is the best example for this.) I was able to get one-shot kills up 'til Avalon or Azteca. Again, depending on the boss.
And in the end, you have to look at it by what you're play style. Me? I like doing a ton of damage in an instant, and detonate is one of the best ways, at least in my case, to do it. Thanks for this video, and stay awesome!
Water Elemental healing itself the first round? I guess it was fixed in a recent update because when I use Water Elemental his first 2 turns are taunting, which is definitely better than healing itself, ngl. He's definitely more effective against elemental enemies(fire, ice, storm) because of those shields though
yeah he got updated
Besserk change-
30 outgoing for 3 rounds
30 incoming for 1 round
I guess it's balanced IDK
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go to agree with you're no.1. used it for the first time on my storm the other day and it's sooooooo bad, i mean even storms sap power is a waste of a pip when you get it, cause of how many pips the elemental costs
The storm minion is not useless. It's only okayish. My first wizard was a storm and that spell saved me so many times. I agree with Detonate being awful though.
Ultimately I don't think the storm school even needs a minion so I'd give the elemental a B+.
Thanks to this video I learned that I can take spells out of my side deck. Have a max Ice and just learned that...
dampen magic?
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4:50 dampen magic already exists unless this video was made before it was released
Storm minion taunts and attracts enemy attention then heals itself so they keep attacking it and not you
Pretty good for a storm with low health
The list probably goes like this right? Taunt, that other taunt, that life taunt, that myth taunt and that other taunt.
lol I missed the taunts :(
AwesomeTheSauce don't forget dimensional shift.
Life minions are worse. they'll heal themselves three times after being summoned before even being hit while you're near dead. and THEEE MOST USELESS spell is Taunt!!😡😡
I'm kinda curious to see something about best/worst spells for low level players (i.e. 0-26)
Nice bruh keep up the good wrk
They must have changed the AI of the storm minion because mine would be the reason I survived krokotopia. I would summon him and he would taunt so all the attention was on him he kept himself alive and even once put spirit armor on me. He's definitely stepped up his game
water elemental is actually good at low levels, I've had great luck with them
Water elemental is a very good minion it gives us elemental shield and sprite and spirit armor
They fixed the water elemental so it taunts and shields you
i suprise all the spells for all the schools like Tranquilize was not on the list
Berserk isn't useless but there are better star spells to use
I think the pacify spells are pointless
i think the most useless spell in wiz is taunt because it only works in pve and barely does anything it just makes enemys hit you and why would you want enemies to hit you
Shakil Syed So they won't attack a team mate and mess something up ..
only in that one sitiation
Shakil Syed It's kind of ok for a tank to use so that everyone still has a lot of health/pips and nobody gets a debuff
Did they change water elemental? I found him really awesome. But I used him many years ago when the game was still new and my storm couldn't survive in early Krok solo playing. The water elemental was essential to get me through Krok until I got tempest. He would shield himself and taunt the enemy allowing me time to get spells off (mainly storm shark or bats) when accuracy was so poor at the low levels.
this is why i stopped using the water elemental he did nothing to help me whatsoever
The water elemental was made to tank for storm wizards
15:50 By not allowing you to prove your point was being unhelpful lol
I use the stoem minion cause he has a good attack and he taunts the enemys and takes the agro off me.
you forgot insane bolt wich literally kills you
it’s meant to be a last ditch attempt to win
aw man there are a ton of useless spells😂
now they useful tho
bruh i got storm minoin and its amazing. Sure it is a bit bad but its attacks are good as they are. It does sprite and sheilds wich can be really handy in combat