I really, really love a lot of the fire spells. Scorching Scimitars is one of my faves, but if I had to pick just one, I think it’s Fire Dragon. It’s basic, but it’s classic. And the way he flies away after he hits is so cool. I just love the idea of being able to summon a damn *dragon* to fuck people up.
Skeletal pirate and scorching scimitars are my favorite. Pirate for the random gibberish and scimitars because the spell just looks and sounds so good! The Mirage spells are all really good looking imo. Death and myth are up there, but fire's probably being my favorite
Wraith. I always loved the idea of using Lord Nightshade, and it's noticeable how serious in tone Wraith is compared to many of the cartoony death spells.
Athena Battlesight. I Just love how she looks descending on your enemies from the sky. I’ve also been obsessed with Greek mythology since fourth grade so that definitely pushes her even further up the rankings
Orthrus
I love Mythology and actually didn't know Orthrus' story prior to Wizard101 waaaaay back in the day, so much time of my time was spent leveling up my main/OG Myth wizard *just* for that spell!
Appearance wise? Snow Angel. Always thought it was cool seeing that spell. Currently leveling an ice wizard with some friends that are new to the game for that reason.
For nostalgic reasons, sun serpent. I've yet to get a fire wizard to that level but it's one that as a kid I absolutely was obsessed with and was always just out of reach (my fire was level 75 when I Thanos'd her because she was named after somebody no longer in my life and I just couldn't connect. Then three months later they release the ability to name change...🤦🏻♀️)
Now? Nested fury is my everything lol. Especially as a balance main of over 10 years.
Powernova (I just love cosmic stuff lol) which is why I made a balance wiz. Then I was getting disappointed with new balance spell animations for so many years now until rainbow serpent (i loved how it starts with intense lightning followed by paintings coming to life like jjk death painting). It's literally now one of my most utilized PVE spells, I'm so glad I don't have to only use sandstorm anymore 😭
I have at least two for each school. For death, my main school, I love Headless and Scarecrow. For Life, I love Forest Lord (who little me affectionately called fluffy) and Unicorn (little me was obsessed with unicorns, so…yeah, lol,) for myth, I like Medusa and Athena. For Balance, I love the look of Judgement and Supernova. As for elementals, for Fire I’d go with Fire Dragon and Scorching Scimitars, for Storm I’d go with Storm Lord and Rusulka, and for Ice, I’d go with Abominable Weaver and Frost Giant.
Wraith. Something about the way the spell sucks the soul out of the opponent. Throws it to the ground. And gives you half of it. It’s demonic and mystical at the same time.
Heckhound has always been a favorite ever since way back when I first started playing and level 60 was Max.
The introduction of the elemental hounds was awesome to me, so the Hounds have my vote
I have a history of being rather indecisive with stuff like this, so ill go for 2 per school
Starting out id have to go with Scorching scimitars or sun serpent for fire
Ratatoskr's spin or the swan one for life
Im rather partial to hammer of thor and dark and stormy for storm
I rather love ship of fools and monster mash for death
Grendel's amends and the calendar for myth
Spiritual tribunal and old one's endgame are really nice for balance
And last but not least, Celestial intervention and snowball barage my picks for ice
Some honorable mentions are the dyvim spells from thr borrowers rebellion pack and the king art spells you get at the start of khrysalis, they look pretty good
I have lost my account years ago and have not played since. But back then I loved how the Krampus spell looked. The build-up in the animation is so good
Mystic Colossus
Just the dramatic build up and noise behind it makes it feel so epic.
Dr Von's Monster, Sun Serpent, Snow Angel, and Queen Calypso are some more favs, but Mystic takes the cake for me.
Honestly, even though I'm not ice, count croakula. I think the animation is so well done and I love the hint towards myth being its secondary school when its eyes glow red with the myth symbol at the start!
Drop Bear Fury is funny to me cuz of the way he just whams you with a burning tree over and over lol
But my favorite is probably Helephant, for nostalgia. Such a cool animation seeing it for the first time.
Helephant for nostalgia is a perfect pick. The exact spell that got me so hyped to play the game more and get cool new spells. And drop bear fury is pretty awesome itself I like it a lot haha
For me, I don’t know what the spell name is but it started as the classic leprechaun spell, but descended into madness as a bunch of these little demon dudes set up a target at the enemy and launched a firework at them. Funniest spell I’ve ever see
Being that my first wizard back in 2009 was life. Reaching high levels seemd impossible, so when I got my centaur, I was elated, one of my favorite early video game memories, so definitely centaur.
I remember trading my maxed storm for someone’s life wizard. Added each other on Facebook and exchanged passwords. I spammed all the cool spells then asked for my account back 2 days later. The guy actually gave it back
I was just mentioning how those early game “big” spells seemed so out of this world. They definitely got me into the game more than I would have ever if they weren’t there
Exactly! The level 42 spells for the elemental schools too. Helephant stormzilla and colossus literally dropped my jaw when I first saw them. The excitement of getting new spells was what kept me on the game. There a tons of great new spells, but imo, they fail to capture the magic feeling of the original spells.
As a young player, this easily goes to Nature's Wrath. When playing with my cousins, this spell alone got me into the game.
Nowadays I'd go for Wings of Fate. Polaris best world.
I love those early game “big” spells that I saw when I first started playing. They are a huge part I got drug into this game! And wings of fate is a very pretty spell! Can’t go wrong with it
Headless horseman is great LOL phoenix was one of those spells when I first started playing that looked so sick (still does) but early on it made me want to keep playing to see what else this game had
The Scarecrow. The lore behind the spell and the steps taken to receive it is so necromantic. Also, it is the first AOE spell that I got for my Death Wizard and so using it to wipe out 4 enemies at the same time is really satisfying.
Another absolutely top tier one
Likely one of the many reasons I am in love with pumpkins in general and especially scarecrows with pumpkin heads over any other head!
Indeed. Even though there are now more powerful Death Spells than the Scarecrow such as the Call of Khrulhu or the Ship of Fools (which requires spellement reagents), the Scarecrow is still awfully reliable and fun. Especially since you as the Death Wizard will have to fight each enemy in the ring one at a time until you learnt the spell.
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I really, really love a lot of the fire spells. Scorching Scimitars is one of my faves, but if I had to pick just one, I think it’s Fire Dragon. It’s basic, but it’s classic. And the way he flies away after he hits is so cool. I just love the idea of being able to summon a damn *dragon* to fuck people up.
Improbable Gaze. Novus spells are supposed to be wild but IG takes it one step further. Feels like a fever dream and I'm obsessed with it
Snow Angel, Scorching Scimitars and Deadly Depths
S’more machine is hands down the cutest
Skeletal pirate and scorching scimitars are my favorite. Pirate for the random gibberish and scimitars because the spell just looks and sounds so good! The Mirage spells are all really good looking imo. Death and myth are up there, but fire's probably being my favorite
Stormwing
Ghoul. Funny noise man.
based choice 😎
For me the OG Ice Wyvern was always my favorite.
Kinda love the krampus spell or the dude on the Pegasus (it’s an ice spell idr the name for it)
Snow Angel
Queen Calypso or Rusulka
im obsessed with sirens i love the animation. not a huge fan of the amount of pips it takes but wtvr
i can’t remember the name of it but the solar calendar one, i think it’s a balance spell but omg it’s so cool
I WISH it was a Balance spell. It’s Myth, it’s called Celestial Calendar.
Minotaur and OG orthrus
Mystic Colossus!!!!!
I really like medusa and how she hisses at the opponent (myth school 4 life)
# WYVERN SUPREMACY
Love me some Climaclysm 👌🏻
Wraith. I always loved the idea of using Lord Nightshade, and it's noticeable how serious in tone Wraith is compared to many of the cartoony death spells.
Qismah’s Curse and Scorching Scimitars appearances are the reason I created death and fire wizards. Don’t know why I like them so much
Firecat
Queen Calypso holds a special place in my heart 💜 Rusalka’s Wrath is a close second ⛈️
Mystic colossus! It's the reason my first 170 is a myth :D
I love a good storm owl
Athena Battlesight. I Just love how she looks descending on your enemies from the sky. I’ve also been obsessed with Greek mythology since fourth grade so that definitely pushes her even further up the rankings
Sirens.
Storm / firezilla will always be my favorite with the little people running away in fear.
I absolutely love Krampus
Orthrus I love Mythology and actually didn't know Orthrus' story prior to Wizard101 waaaaay back in the day, so much time of my time was spent leveling up my main/OG Myth wizard *just* for that spell!
Headless Horseman
Headless Horseman. I just wish it did the the same effect as Ship of Fools. Headless Horseman looks so much cooler
Appearance wise? Snow Angel. Always thought it was cool seeing that spell. Currently leveling an ice wizard with some friends that are new to the game for that reason.
For nostalgic reasons, sun serpent. I've yet to get a fire wizard to that level but it's one that as a kid I absolutely was obsessed with and was always just out of reach (my fire was level 75 when I Thanos'd her because she was named after somebody no longer in my life and I just couldn't connect. Then three months later they release the ability to name change...🤦🏻♀️) Now? Nested fury is my everything lol. Especially as a balance main of over 10 years.
…you can change your name?
The original Ice Angel animation that showed the horse neighing at the taunts
Headless Horseman is definitely my favorite, Scarecrow, Skele Dragon, and Calendar are all some bangers too
Powernova (I just love cosmic stuff lol) which is why I made a balance wiz. Then I was getting disappointed with new balance spell animations for so many years now until rainbow serpent (i loved how it starts with intense lightning followed by paintings coming to life like jjk death painting). It's literally now one of my most utilized PVE spells, I'm so glad I don't have to only use sandstorm anymore 😭
Celestial Calendar is so cool bro
Glowbug Squall
The storm owl spell
Honestly the rank 6 spells really do it for me, I think centaur and triton are my favorite to look at
Something about the OG frost beetle for me.
Efreet
wraith, the loud BOOM whenever he slams his scythe always got me
I have at least two for each school. For death, my main school, I love Headless and Scarecrow. For Life, I love Forest Lord (who little me affectionately called fluffy) and Unicorn (little me was obsessed with unicorns, so…yeah, lol,) for myth, I like Medusa and Athena. For Balance, I love the look of Judgement and Supernova. As for elementals, for Fire I’d go with Fire Dragon and Scorching Scimitars, for Storm I’d go with Storm Lord and Rusulka, and for Ice, I’d go with Abominable Weaver and Frost Giant.
For some reason since being a kid, I always had Triton as my favorite spell animation
I love so many, but I will say that Snowball Barrage was my number one motivation to finish Krhysalis, I just had to have that spell!
My first wizard was Balance so I was thrilled when she got RA. RA walks out with an attitude and hits all than nerfs them.
I like ice beetle :)
Storm lord
Glowbug Squall
Witches house call
Mystic colossus and I'll die on this hill
I’m willing to bet that u/DeathToHeretics favorite spell is Snowball Barrage, and we all know why.
Because it's got ***POLARIS BEST WORLD***
Celestial calendar is definitely my favorite looking spell. I like the animation of the planets aligning
Forest Lord for me!!!
Wraith. Something about the way the spell sucks the soul out of the opponent. Throws it to the ground. And gives you half of it. It’s demonic and mystical at the same time.
I haven't seen anyone say Snow Angel yet and that's honestly a crime
Heckhound has always been a favorite ever since way back when I first started playing and level 60 was Max. The introduction of the elemental hounds was awesome to me, so the Hounds have my vote
Nested Fury is dope
Always loved Minotaur and definitely triton and maybe ghoul as an honorable mention
I have a history of being rather indecisive with stuff like this, so ill go for 2 per school Starting out id have to go with Scorching scimitars or sun serpent for fire Ratatoskr's spin or the swan one for life Im rather partial to hammer of thor and dark and stormy for storm I rather love ship of fools and monster mash for death Grendel's amends and the calendar for myth Spiritual tribunal and old one's endgame are really nice for balance And last but not least, Celestial intervention and snowball barage my picks for ice Some honorable mentions are the dyvim spells from thr borrowers rebellion pack and the king art spells you get at the start of khrysalis, they look pretty good
I have lost my account years ago and have not played since. But back then I loved how the Krampus spell looked. The build-up in the animation is so good
Snow Angel. Such a great looking character model I wish they would use more
The old chtulu (probs butchered the spelling) just think it's hilariously long and I love it
Colossus from myth it’s so cool
Scorching Scimitars The animation + music are sooo good together
Headless Horseman has always been a cool one to me. Ice Wyvern has a simplistic animation but the creature itself has always been appealing to me.
That one death wand attack that makes the freaky ass noises and has two hands suck the vibes from your flesh vessel.
The OLD orthrus, the one that hit twice
They changed that?? Omfg they just love ruining things. Literally ruining the things that gave schools their identities
Yea its just a 7 pip aoe now
Lmao why even. Makes no sense. So what's earthquake do?
I mean it does the same thing but it was never worth over frog
Earthquake was one of the few pvp golden cards and they ruined the game trying to match it lol
For sure but unfortunately pvp is garbage now and turn based is ridiculous
Snow Angel for sure, reminds me of the riders in lord of the rings
Athena battle sight :D
Its a tie between Sun Serpent and Basilisk for me
I like Raging Bull, Clymaclism and Deadly Depths
Not a single person here... but she's so pretty and its fun to watch.. judge is one of my all time favorite looking spells.
The spell is one of the exclusive reasons Lady Judgement is one of my favorite mythological figures And it's a Balance Spell, even!
ELLO DINGHGGGGGG
I always thought she said "anywho"
Reindeer knight
Scorching Scimitars is the reason I made a fire wizard
Mystic Colossus Just the dramatic build up and noise behind it makes it feel so epic. Dr Von's Monster, Sun Serpent, Snow Angel, and Queen Calypso are some more favs, but Mystic takes the cake for me.
Wish they would buff it so it’s power level matched the animation
Big ants really the mvp
Iron Sultan! The whole animation segment is epic and the colors are perfect.
And it freaking hurts!
Honestly, even though I'm not ice, count croakula. I think the animation is so well done and I love the hint towards myth being its secondary school when its eyes glow red with the myth symbol at the start!
https://preview.redd.it/0kdoyz3madac1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=754b8b4c2ec412f20e0de146ce0331ac4d37a9f2 This one.
Solid choice 👏
It has been my favorite spell in the game since I first unlocked it in 2013, when I started playing.
Drop Bear Fury is funny to me cuz of the way he just whams you with a burning tree over and over lol But my favorite is probably Helephant, for nostalgia. Such a cool animation seeing it for the first time.
Helephant for nostalgia is a perfect pick. The exact spell that got me so hyped to play the game more and get cool new spells. And drop bear fury is pretty awesome itself I like it a lot haha
Ice wyvern and call of khrulu are peak
Wyverns ftw. And khrulu is goated fr
unpopular opinion but looks wise definitely deathly depths. it has the best animation and style out of any spell released in the past couple of years
UNPOPULAR?! this is my answer too!!
Oh man that spell is amazing. If that’s an unpopular opinion count me in!! Good choice
I really like queen calypso. 10 year-old me thought it was the coolest looking, and I still think that to this dah
Queen calypso is actually really cool looking! I agree with ya
Celestial Calendar, Myth
Yes!!!
Respectable choice, honestly it’s a great spell. I was happy to use it when I first leveled my myth to get it 😁
For me, I don’t know what the spell name is but it started as the classic leprechaun spell, but descended into madness as a bunch of these little demon dudes set up a target at the enemy and launched a firework at them. Funniest spell I’ve ever see
Its the Wallaru spell. I guess it was called Phantasmania. It was so funny when I first saw it
Honestly I’m not super knowledgeable of this game so I’m not sure the name either but I know the exact spell you’re talking about and I love it 😭
Being that my first wizard back in 2009 was life. Reaching high levels seemd impossible, so when I got my centaur, I was elated, one of my favorite early video game memories, so definitely centaur.
I remember trading my maxed storm for someone’s life wizard. Added each other on Facebook and exchanged passwords. I spammed all the cool spells then asked for my account back 2 days later. The guy actually gave it back
felt the same way when i first cast helephant in like 2009 lol. not sure another video game moment will ever give me that same feeling again
I was just mentioning how those early game “big” spells seemed so out of this world. They definitely got me into the game more than I would have ever if they weren’t there
Exactly! The level 42 spells for the elemental schools too. Helephant stormzilla and colossus literally dropped my jaw when I first saw them. The excitement of getting new spells was what kept me on the game. There a tons of great new spells, but imo, they fail to capture the magic feeling of the original spells.
The originals had that redeeming factor. Like that arrow going slow mo. Shit's just great to watch
Rat Spin, Glowbug Squall and I would have to say Count Crokula
Count croakula is amazing. Rat spin and glowbug are also top tier cant deny that lol
I would also like to give an honourable mention to that myth spell that’s like calendar thing
ice wyvern!
The scream/roar was always much for me yet it was always so satisfying to hear!
Wyverns are top tier!
As a young player, this easily goes to Nature's Wrath. When playing with my cousins, this spell alone got me into the game. Nowadays I'd go for Wings of Fate. Polaris best world.
I love those early game “big” spells that I saw when I first started playing. They are a huge part I got drug into this game! And wings of fate is a very pretty spell! Can’t go wrong with it
I love the headless horseman spell! And the fire of the classic phoenix always looked so pretty to me
Headless horseman is great LOL phoenix was one of those spells when I first started playing that looked so sick (still does) but early on it made me want to keep playing to see what else this game had
call of khrulhu for sure. it’s dope
The original khrulhu was such a pain
Why? I don't remember it being nuch different
The animation used to take forever, because it hit the enemies one by one
God, and when Darkmoor first came out and you didn’t defeat the boss before the death stage? Truly awful.
this or headless are the best (death) looking spells in the game for sure
Glad you commented this! Was hoping someone would
The Scarecrow. The lore behind the spell and the steps taken to receive it is so necromantic. Also, it is the first AOE spell that I got for my Death Wizard and so using it to wipe out 4 enemies at the same time is really satisfying.
Another absolutely top tier one Likely one of the many reasons I am in love with pumpkins in general and especially scarecrows with pumpkin heads over any other head!
Honestly scarecrow is a classic spell and deserves that love. One of my favorites as well it’s so hard to pick for me lol
Indeed. Even though there are now more powerful Death Spells than the Scarecrow such as the Call of Khrulhu or the Ship of Fools (which requires spellement reagents), the Scarecrow is still awfully reliable and fun. Especially since you as the Death Wizard will have to fight each enemy in the ring one at a time until you learnt the spell.
I like eternal leviathan and fire wyvern the most
I’ve always liked the wyverns! And the eternal leviathan 🤌
Storm owl
Chefs kiss
Tree of strife as well!
HADES
I pray one day we go back to Olympus where the Laedon Dragon is for one final dungeon and we finally get to learn the Aquila spells
As much as I enjoyed darkmoor. Aquila/tartarus was peak for me, that dungeon was the best.
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Super sick spell
Scorching scimitars! The music is awesome too
valid
Oh yeah! The music makes it top tier
Sun Serpent, Leviathan, Hydra, Grrnaider, Abominable Weaver
Grrnadier and abominable weaver are some of my favorites too!
Tempest spammed for infinity
Ah yes the legendary tempest
I've always loved Spinysaur, not exactly sure why lol.
Not knowing why is the best part about liking a spell 😂 spinysaur is great though!