The mechanics of Damage in Wizard101 adjust dramatically according to the magic school that you play. Storm belongs to the type of glass canon. It reaches the highest ceiling of Damage in the whole game, but you pay by means of almost no skill for survival.

Ice entirely flips the cause. Here you have a school based on tanking, that puts health and defences before pure raw force. The force of Ice leans on its tools for defence.

How Damage Works in Wizard101

Spells that stop enemies slow them and protect your team by means of shields. That makes Ice especially good in PvP, because control the speed of opponents and limit their Damage can entirely change the result of a match. If you grind alone with Ice, you must push through extra rounds with some attack that builds over time.

In team fights, Ice naturally takes the role of support.

The other schools find their own niches quite effectively. Life works as typical healer for the team (low Damage), but it offers reliable cure for companions. Death does support otherwise, stealing health from enemies and laying strong effects, that drain your own health as price.

Play with myth involves summons and has some wierd impacts, where certain skills repeat often. Fire stresses Damage through time and control of crowds. At the finish, each of these schools serves a particular task…

Doing massive Damage, absorbing blows or helping all stay alive.

The system of Damage has both a soft ceiling and a hard ceiling built in. Around 150 Damage marks the spot, where everything starts falling apart, after that soft ceiling, you receive less then one percentage for every extra spot. The hard ceiling areas start at 200, what means, that anything more than that becomes entirely useless.

Well, almost, in some cases the hard ceiling slides until 250 or 255, and adding extra 35 Damage from here changes the math. Balance is a weird case here. According to what the in-game interface shows, it seems 183 more than the commonly mentioned 170.

When you use all round jewels for Damage, you reach exactly 240, so trading one jewel of Damage for penetrate actually is a genuinely clever step.

There are websites with calculators special for checking these figures. They help to show, what a spell does if you enter your values of Damage, resistance and penetration. Especially during experiments, having fast access to such math genuinely is useful.

The update of Wallaru had to bring a 255 percent hard ceiling for Damage, but whoever coded it wrong moved the decimal point. Instead of 255 percentages, it worked as 25 500 percentages. That was a mistake that one does not forget.

Stats of pets absolutely affect your Damage also. Force, will and power are the three main ones. The talent Mighty especially boosts force by 65 spots, what pushes the Damage of pet even more.

Your gear matters also a lot. The splits appear in two lines on your gear; percent Damage is up withflat Damage below. Some strips at level 30 give 10 flat Damage plus pip of power, and honestly, that quite well carries you until the middle of the 100th levels.