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I found Myth to be a LOT easier than Ice for solo play. It is the only one of my wizards that can solo Tartarus easily. The method of gameplay takes a little getting used to. Using minions a lot more than other schools at low levels. The double attacks are great for getting around shields (but a pain for traps). I look at Myth as very much an offensive school rather than defensive. If you prefer to spend a lot of time shielding and healing yourself, Ice is probably better.

Promethean

Angel Hunter on Apr 7, 2014 wrote:

I have struggled with the lack of spells in Wizard City-Krokotopia...
I have lacked an AoE in Marleybone-Zafaria...
I lacked resist and block in Zafaria-Avalon...
I suffered without criticals in my heals in Azteca...
In Khrysalis, it's my time to reign.

Hello Wizards! As you can see, I've struggled many times throughout Wizard101. Yes, I am a solo player, unless I meet someone on the road with my quests. I began to doubt life, when I was level 48. I was stuck with Centaur, my strongest spell until level 58. I had the healing tree at level 48, and I was like "Come on!" All the other schools get "cool" spells! But not really...

Well, since I went so far, I was basically forced to go with my life. I actually enjoyed it, especially my time in Azteca. People doubt it, because it has no "strong" spells. Well, okay. I agree. But if I can get the job done, nothing is weak to me.

Now that I've kind of caught up to KI, and will have to wait more often PVP'ing, helping, farming, etc, I've decided to create a new wizard, a new generation. I still got one more place to go in Khrysalis Part 1, but I am about 2/3 done. I got my Shadow Magic today. I'm not exactly sure what school I should choose? Not balance, I already had one of those. My opinions are ice, or myth.

Why ice? I love to work defensively. Yeah, people say we are weak in damage, but we are extremely high in resist, and especially in health. By the time I can get to level 80, I would have about 6k max HP, and about 40-50 resist, or more! If I can take hits and not die too fast, I can take my time and blade, trap, feint, etc and use my finishing touch. And I will always train feint, to add that damage in there.

Why myth? Not sure. Never tried this, and I want to see if people say this 'horrible' school is horrible.

So, if you can give me some opinions or suggestions, that'll be great!

PS. Wish me luck on my further adventures with Angel Hunter!

Angel Hunter, 95 Promethean

I have wizards of every school. I solo with all of them. I love all of them and I'd be hard pressed to point to a favorite. I will say that my first wizard was ice and it may be the most intuitive school for me personally. Myth is a bit tricky, frankly, but it has tremendous potential once you get the hang of minions. I think my recommendation would largely be based on how often you solo.

If you solo a lot, I'd recommend myth... but here's the caveat: A LOT of Myth's potential lies in using minions, especially at the beginning of the game. Because of the current minion dynamic, this is dangerous in crowded realms where others can (and do) join your circle. If you have your deck set up for minions and there are no rings to summon them to, it kind of leaves you in a lurch.

As to ice as a solo... this may just be me, but without crowns gear (or hand-me-downs from other wizards) there is no other school with whom I have struggled so much at the beginning. I didn't die very often, but the battles lasted forever and it was always very, very close. A bad string of fizzle would be the end of me. Granted, that was also several years ago and many things have changed since then... just be warned: Ice doesn't gain real offensive power until much later. They don't get the quest for their iceblade, for instance, until level 38. Put in perspective, every school but life gets their blade by level 12. Life gets theirs at the end of the krokophinx (level somewhere in the early 20s typically). The big advantage you will have, however, is familiarity with life. The play styles (especially in the beginning) are very similar.

If you team a lot, I would recommend reversing this. I think that ice is a better team player than myth, especially at the start. You get blizzard early and meaningful resist and health fairly early on. While you can't kill many with blizzard, you can certainly draw fire and tank for the group, making it a great team school. Myth is a little more awkward. It can deal more damage with the humungofrog and a blade, but its still often short of the kill and myth just doesn't have enough health or resist to survive the counter-attacks. Still... its mostly in how you play it. Like I said, I have soloed with all 7 schools so any school can be a good support player depending on how you play them.

In my opinion, Ice is a pretty easy school to solo. My Ice has soloed the entire game and all the side dungeons. I have found a good balance between being offense and defense with my Ice and she's a literal tank in the game. My first wizard was Balance (wrong choice), my second was Ice, and I was blown away with how cool Ice is (pun intended). She's now L95 and the only one that has gone through Khrysalis pt1 (I won't be taking anyone else, because I can't stand that world). Ice needs to buff more than other schools to get a decent hit, but that's one reason they have such good resist and health!

If I want to go more defensive with my Ice, I can leave her resist the way it is (totally awesome), increase my health to almost 6500, reduce crit, reduce damage (to 34), and increase block (200+). If I want to go more on the offensive, I can decrease health (to 5300), increase crit (to 292), decrease block (to 131), decrease pips & healing, decrease block substantially, and increase damage to 57.

My Myth is L74 and is currently in Avalon. I haven't worked on her for a while, but I found Myth is one of my favorite schools. She advanced through levels faster than my Ice did. It takes a bit of finesse to learn Myth and what it can do, but it's a lot of fun! With my Myth, Humungofrog is a main staple, as I can spam it against the enemies with very few blades and it does a decent amount of damage. Personally, I have not used my minions since Celestia, and my Myth does just fine with spells and buffs that she is given.

Although my Myth doesn't have nearly as much health as my Ice, she does have great resist (42 universal), great block, decent critical for her level, good damage (57 or 63 depending on which pet I use), and much better accuracy boosts than my Ice.

Good luck in your choice!

The max most have being ice around level 95 is in the low 5,000's, so you would not hit 6,000 by level 80.