Admittedly, it’s never made sense to me how you can drain more than the enemy’s health as a death. This combined with the fact that they have basically every utility in existence makes them extremely busted in every respect.
I think it should come down to two things. Total damage and remaining health damage. Total damage would just be a THIS IS HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT DID number and remaining health damage would be the "killing hit" damage. Death should heal based off of the "killing blow" damage. If an enemy has 8k health and you do 10k damage; then you should heal 4k (half of the total killing damage dealt). If an enemy has 8k health total; 2k health remaining, and you deal 10k damage; you should only heal 1k. Hell, I might even argue to nerf the heal% on aoe heal spells. I think you should only heal a quarter% hp from Scarecrow and such.
Death is definitely broken and a lot of its utility goes outside of its school identity. Looking at the main important stats in wiz and where Death ranks: Damage: 3rd of 7 after fire and storm Support: 2nd of 7 after balance Healing: 3rd of 7 after life and balance Survivability: 1st of 7 This is undeniably broken, and if any school is going to be a jack of all trades it should be balance not death.
was thinking the same thing, they have more universal traps. they may not have as many universal blades where they can buff the entire team, but in the current meta buffing the hitter is the main goal and with a sharpen on sacrifice they basically match balance, they have a heal like balance, they have way more debuffs than balance easily allowing them to way better mitigate damage. overall they have a little of everything when it comes to utility that they out do balance.
@Michael Daley I completely disagree that death is better than balance. You dont need blades for entire team? The last boss of lemuria would say otherwise. What can death do besides dark pact? Which balance can do much more simply with one 0 pip blade and take no damage. I've seen many deaths die to a dark pact lol. And the debuffs? You'd be wrong to debuff in pve. Pve is about killing fast. Your wasting time if your debuffing. Only on very rare occasions would you ever need to juju and that's what tcs are for. And balance does still have weakness. You could literally never weakness and be fine. But you always need blades. And hold up cuz I'm not done. Donate power. It can literally save you entire rounds. Your hitter can now scion on round 3, followed by a 7 pip on round 5. I've done that to 5 round omen every single time. With a death that would take 8 rounds.
death is a jack of all trades, balance is a jack of all supports, i think the biggest problem is that death has juju and plague and balance has nothing similar, so if you want to focus on balance you need to give them something to compete
@@asdf66981 Well death is undoubtedly better than balance. No other school could solo the entire game as easy as death wizards can. They have drains and they have better school blades. Their utilities closely rivaling that of balance is just the cherry on top. And the best part is, death gets all that WITHOUT even sacrificing their effectiveness at soloing. Some people would be smashing their screens trying to solo a double boss fight in Azteca, but you don't have that problem with death wizards.
True, at least they can’t team heal with as much healing or utility healing spells. But they can get close and that makes them too good in too many roles.
Death and Fire are my top 2 schools since I was a kid. I'm leaning more toward death lately for that versatility and power in all aspects of the game. The drain spells are just so fun, and make soloing super easy. I'm always a fan of draining and doing damage while also staying healthy, and outlasting your opponents is very strong and satisfying. I'll also say that from a story perspective, it's really interesting to play from a death studen'ts perspective, taking on the old death professor and all of the thoughts that come with it.
I agree that death should have some kind of nerf and reducing the heal back is a fair way to do it. If I could make more changes, I'd also change the fact that death has both the best and second best damage reduction spells of any school (bad juju and virulent plague) by giving a new damage reduction spell to ice or life Right now Death does Balence's role better than Balance and does Ice's role better than Ice (95% of the time) which takes something away from those classes even if you don't care about being as optimized as possible
Yo Noah I would love to see you do another wizard101 lets play walkthrough with a brand new life wizard. Maybe just the first arc if you didnt want to fully commit to the whole game but id love to see it and it could be a very cool series
My experience from maxing my death wizard (also my first wiz) is that its a strong school, especially solo. I think that part is good because you can get through stuff on your own fairly easily (especially if you have no friends). But I think other schools can be easy to solo on as well because their utility is different. The drain spells do make for a smooth experience with hp, but most of the time its just nice to not need wisps after a battle. I played where I setup a big hit on the bosses, very rarely needing to use a plague or use multiple hits because I could feint twice and hit. The base damage is lower on all the spells so you may need to wait another round to hit but now that I am working on my storm, I can spend 1-2 turns less being able to kill something. I wish we had more fun spells that were hit all but not a drain so I might play more supportively, but the game is also easy enough not to. In boss fights, its easy enough in a team to feint twice and the hitter hits. I still haven't trained juju and I just about never plague or reduce enemy healing. Other schools also have interesting mechanics that I think could also be really strong, but they just are not noticed with how easy the game can feel. Storm can stun enemies and do damage, but usually you one-shot them or the enemy is stun resistant so its not noticed. Or accuracy is reduced but that doesn't matter if you can kill them within 2-4 turns. Ice/Life can heal and absorb damage which can be helpful, but still isn't always needed. Its easy enough to finish fights fast enough to not even need school identity in most fights, nor should fights require a certain school because that makes solo a pain if no one is in teamup. I don't think death is OP because compared to other schools, its still a similar enough questing experience with the difficulty of the game imo.
Only thing that I think makes sense for them to nerf for death is putting a drain cap. Like no matter how much you overkill an enemy you should only get back their total hp
Balance and Death spells really needed those buffs I remember Scarecrow used to be weaker and Sandstorm and Nova got buffed which I love RA Also changed but I prefer Nova
In my opinion, Death doesn't do that much damage. They do as much as balance and their heal backs offset that loss of damage to be on the same level as fire, storm and myth. In short, their lower damage balances out that they have heal backs
I think heal backs should be closer to their old damage but enchants should still work like every other school and perhaps up the damage taken to self on things like juju.
The thing about death is while i agree with you on the damage being equal to balance its their survivability that makes it better. Yea your not going to do a lot of damage until late game but you at least get health back from almost every spell allowing you to survive longer than a school like ice
The reason I don't play my death is, it's mad easy. *Although I don't think they should change it at this point...though 50% to 25% would be the most logical nerf. I think they need to start making bosses that accounts for Deaths, more directly.
I think 30% is better than 25% but I agree they need a nerf. I think scarecrow should be nerfed too, if they're going to keep the enchant buff on death. Scarecrow should do Wraith damage, not even more than that.
25% is basically gutting death there’s already no enchants in pvp and drain hits have a lower damage per pip than raw no drain death hits, honestly pve isn’t even that big of a gripe I don’t get why people gripe either because ofc your gonna get back to full if you blade a million times I think other schools need a survivability buff that doesn’t require master.
I really don't think it should be nerfed just because A: I really don't think its insanely broken and B: most all the nerfs you suggested would put it at a massive disadvantage in pvp besides the enchant one since you can't use damage enchants in pvp anymore
I don't think death is broken because I do pvp and it is barely usable school and the other thing is I think they need to do a slight damage buff to call of Cthulhu. I also started with this school so I maybe a little biased but my friend that plays with me agrees with me .
Balance and Death are my two favorite schools and my mains but tbh sometimes Death is more of a "Balance" in most situations a sit can do everything solo questing is definitely more possible
Death was my very first school I ever choose when I started wizard101 its my roots to the gave I have the most love for death school and it holds such a fond place in my heart. Shout out to all my fellow death wizards
Death is my favorite school and I’m currently working on it in Mirage I got a great pet which is the ghulture since it gives a feint and blade and I got good damage from it. My friend is also on his myth wizard so we are questing together
Honestly I kinda agree. Balance can be a big hitter, especially with spells such as judgement, spectral blast or nested fury. Balance can play support, basically the best support school without any doubt. Balance can play tank, cause their gear is more of a tank than life or Death or exemple.
That's kind of the point of Balance. They're the "Jack of all Trades, master of none" school. They're capable of filling any role in the game. HOWEVER, they're masters of none, meaning yes, they got utility, but they'll never be as good at any ONE thing as another school. They lack the resist traits Ice have, They focus on the high damage of a fire/storm, And they wont heal as good as a life. HOWEVER, Death's issue is, as they are now, they're jack of all trades, AND have very few weaknesses. Infact, they're probably capable of supporting better than a balance as of now. Balance does have things like elemental/spirit blades or bladestorm, but Death has Dark Pact. Balance has availing hands, which is a slow heal over time, but Death gets sacrifice, which heals significantly more, even almost passing Life's satyr. And Death has no need for wards, since they can use Bad Juju, effectively better than ANY ward out there. Plus, a Death's Health and Resist is nothing to laugh at either. It's... A balancing problem when you look at it.
You can make videos about the other schools but you can make them more memey to make it more interesting or just about the experience of questing and pvp as those schools.
Hey man. I’m a new fan and I’ve been watching a lot of your videos. Please keep going with this channel bro all my support going out to you🔥 I just started playing wiz again and your videos have given me so much information I didn’t know!!
i would love to see an ice video at some point. playing through ice rn, i feel like there is a lot of potential in it and that it requires a different playstyle than a lot of other schools
As a Death main i do have to agree. Ive out supported a balance as i carry elemental blades along with dark pact and feints. Ive outlived ice wizards and in many fights im the last one standing while people flee and comeback. And in some rare cases ive out damaged a fire. The only thing death really cant do well is heal others without a life mastery. And soloing is the easiest as a death ive soloed about 95% of the game with the exception of darkmoor and big dungeons alike. Death is better at utilizing feints than any other school due to having mass feint. I dont think death needs a huge nerf but i dont think it should be a better support class than balance
i do agree with you so much because when they get to be too powerful some people get a sense of entitlement of always being the hitter id like to see them nerf some of the spells in all schools to make a more balanced game play and also to where people dont feel intimidated by someone who will come in and just kill and people are saying why even try
Altho death is the most versatile, it isn’t the best anything in team play. It can do everything, but if there’s a storm/fire/myth they’ll likely be hitting instead, if there’s a life or balance around they’ll be buffing and healing….etc. I’d def agree it’s the best solo class no doubt, but that’s not as great as it sounds really. You aren’t gonna solo much end game gear farming content, at least not to be efficient. The debuff spells are cool and that’s their schools utility identity, thematically it makes sense. Altho there’s def an argument that it’s the best PvE school, there’s also plenty of valid reasons for someone to pick something else. I’m an ice main btw, so it’s not as if I’m trying to protect my main, I just thought it would be a good idea to bring up some counter points. I have a level 90 death and often scarecrow is just as much if not a better and more reliable option then ship of fools, it’s really annoying how often it won’t crit one of the mobs, and the battle takes even longer then if I just bladed and used scarecrow. I’d imagine this is even more so the case once you start with 5 pips, altho maybe the higher damage and crit from darkmoor gear and beyond makes it more reliable. I also have the weakest tier but realistically, how many people have it maxed out? At max damage it’s only 30 more flat damage then the front hit of dear knight. I have around 116 damage on my death rn btw. Don’t get me wrong I’d say it’s a good defensive option for sure especially to kill a boss minion and set up for the next thing. Yet I don’t think it’s so OP that there’s no reason to use other spells. Especially since w/ 5 pip start dear knight is gonna hit a lot harder. So all in all I’d say it’s the most convenient school of magic, but I don’t think it’s so OP that it requires a potent nerf really. At most perhaps infections could effect the heal back.
@@ogreload1445 fair, but they still can do everything. They have 4th highest damage, access to cards like juju that can be very useful in bossfights, have access to gear that gives good damage and good defensive stats, you can just kinda be whatever your team needs. Even if others do it better.
Overpowered is mostly used to refer to the schools that dominate pvp like fire. Getting drains in pve isn't why people complain that a school is overpowered. If you get a drain good for you I guess? But if you use roshambo to put 2 overtimes on me and then x2 dmg jinn that's just broken.
as a death main, I must say the game is in easy mode. I soloed 99% of the game with no problem and the big boss fights I just filled whatever the team needed. Death is so easy to play because you almost always start every fight at max hp from drains
Just buff other schools and buff the enemies too. Sure that's a lot of work but would be better overall. I'm sure they'll just put a bandaid on it someday and not really fix anything
@@ogreload1445 they do the second most damage since they are an offensive school. They have the strongest DOT since they are the DOT school. Their health and defence is less than other schools but greater than storm because that's how their stats are supposed to be.
Death 100% does not need a nerf cause in the long run you simply will not be that efficient with roles such as blading, supporting, hitting etc. What makes death good is simply just the heal back but thats not gonna help jack in team play let alone the low damage it does either when compared to fire or myth, death is what I call the last pick option for team play or bottom of the barrel "jack of all trades" you simply cannot think death is overpowered besides it being made in the one role it was made for (solo play) but let me tell you this, its ASS in endgame dungeons cause everyone can simply just be better then death on certain terms. therefore the only thing making death viable is simply just scarecrow and lulu and if the heal backs get gutted then death will be nearly unplayable cause of the damage it offers in the long run making your heals get like 120 on anything early game if lucky.
Did you watch the video? Or better yet play the game? Death is an incredibly powerful support school arguably only beaten out by Balance. In team play a death can be super useful. They can also play healer or damage if they need to. You must have never played death.
@@KaiserNoah Death can not out support balance, death can not out power fire, storm etc. Death can not out tank ice, what Death is is a main solo play class with utility, yea sure you can take it to team play but lemme ask you this, what would you rather have? A Death Blading you? Or a balance blading you or a life healing you? Or a Death healing you, people would just pick the classes that excel in that demographic. Clearly you don't understand
I respect your opinion as a fan, but imho I don't see the death school as overpowered. I've always seen either storm or balance to be overpowered for pve. People are sleeping on the amounts of damage and healing balance is able to put out. People are saying death is a better balance? Like what? death still can't put out as much damage even when they run high damage gear as high damage balance gear. Especially since every school can learn feint and also just use tc versions of dark pact. I also don't see the 50% drain as broken because with my death, I have to use all of my feints and blades to get a ridiculous heal back amount, but it's to be expected when I'm literally using everything I have for it to be a ridiculous heal back amount.
25% heal back seems perfectly reasonable to me that is a great idea. After watching ferric do his budget walkthrough on death in the past it makes you realize how broken it is.
I think death would be balanced if devs nerfed the heal-back to 30-35% for single hit spells and 15-20% on AOEs. But yeah, as of right now death is dummy easy and I'd argue it has the most braindead playstyle of all the school once you get Ship of fools. Even more braindead than storm with Tempest spam.
@@KaiserNoah The drain is good but I feel the death school lacks a solid AOE that hits purely for damage. There are only pet and dragoon cards which isn't enchantable.
Yeah? I’ve said quite a few times that I don’t really care about min maxing in wiz, especially since the game is easy enough that i could have 10 less damage and resist and still be more than fine.
Hey Noah, I love your videos but I wanted to warn you against advising people to spend crowns on a pack to get a specific item. I know you are against ship of fools only being in packs and if you convince more people to buy packs that have exclusive items and spells in them then KI has more of an incentive to keep making those.
What I say has absolutely no value to KI and their pack policy, and their pack policy isn't going to change anytime soon. If I have a helpful tip to my audience, I'm going to share it, not just ignore it.
@@KaiserNoah I know it can feel pointless since they are just gonna do whatever makes money, I'm just saying better to be part of the solution than part of the problem in my book. Mass feint is wicked good though, I was so hype when I first saw someone cast it and then sad when I found out on the wiki it was only from packs.
@@hueningbahibitch I mean, again, there hasn't been too many nerfs to many schools recently. If you look at them compared to even 3-5 years ago many of them feel better than they did back then. I just don't think that arguing death is overpowered is a bad thing, especially for the state of the game.
I always love that thing that people do, when they see something is popular / good they just judge it as overrated and brush it off. I didn't even say anything in this video that was incorrect and literally said to nerf the school. Completely biased opinion in this comment "laughing crying emoji."
@@ortheyan1230 You know, its funny, my friend and I were talking about your comment (because it was stupid) and we were talking about how there's 3 types of people who use the laughing crying emoji. People who are 12, people who are extremely old, and the people who are like "aahaha ur mad gonna cry?" and i'm happy that I discovered which one you are without even having to ask. Also i literally make opinion pieces of course my opinion is bias.
Bro look at you getting all mad you cry baby imagine if you make it big one day you let the fist negative comments hurt your feelings you have a long way to go. My advise go outside lol your Wiz babes aren’t going anywhere.
Admittedly, it’s never made sense to me how you can drain more than the enemy’s health as a death. This combined with the fact that they have basically every utility in existence makes them extremely busted in every respect.
yeah that broken bc we cant heal beyond our own health
I think it should come down to two things. Total damage and remaining health damage. Total damage would just be a THIS IS HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT DID number and remaining health damage would be the "killing hit" damage. Death should heal based off of the "killing blow" damage. If an enemy has 8k health and you do 10k damage; then you should heal 4k (half of the total killing damage dealt). If an enemy has 8k health total; 2k health remaining, and you deal 10k damage; you should only heal 1k.
Hell, I might even argue to nerf the heal% on aoe heal spells. I think you should only heal a quarter% hp from Scarecrow and such.
Death is definitely broken and a lot of its utility goes outside of its school identity. Looking at the main important stats in wiz and where Death ranks:
Damage: 3rd of 7 after fire and storm
Support: 2nd of 7 after balance
Healing: 3rd of 7 after life and balance
Survivability: 1st of 7
This is undeniably broken, and if any school is going to be a jack of all trades it should be balance not death.
myth has more damage than death
Death being a Jack of all trades is a problem in itself. That is literally Balance's identity, and it's doing it best AND some.
was thinking the same thing, they have more universal traps. they may not have as many universal blades where they can buff the entire team, but in the current meta buffing the hitter is the main goal and with a sharpen on sacrifice they basically match balance, they have a heal like balance, they have way more debuffs than balance easily allowing them to way better mitigate damage. overall they have a little of everything when it comes to utility that they out do balance.
Death and Balance are connected
@Michael Daley I completely disagree that death is better than balance. You dont need blades for entire team? The last boss of lemuria would say otherwise. What can death do besides dark pact? Which balance can do much more simply with one 0 pip blade and take no damage. I've seen many deaths die to a dark pact lol. And the debuffs? You'd be wrong to debuff in pve. Pve is about killing fast. Your wasting time if your debuffing. Only on very rare occasions would you ever need to juju and that's what tcs are for. And balance does still have weakness. You could literally never weakness and be fine. But you always need blades. And hold up cuz I'm not done. Donate power. It can literally save you entire rounds. Your hitter can now scion on round 3, followed by a 7 pip on round 5. I've done that to 5 round omen every single time. With a death that would take 8 rounds.
death is a jack of all trades, balance is a jack of all supports, i think the biggest problem is that death has juju and plague and balance has nothing similar, so if you want to focus on balance you need to give them something to compete
@@asdf66981 Well death is undoubtedly better than balance. No other school could solo the entire game as easy as death wizards can. They have drains and they have better school blades. Their utilities closely rivaling that of balance is just the cherry on top. And the best part is, death gets all that WITHOUT even sacrificing their effectiveness at soloing. Some people would be smashing their screens trying to solo a double boss fight in Azteca, but you don't have that problem with death wizards.
the fact that death heals more than life itself is just too op
True, at least they can’t team heal with as much healing or utility healing spells. But they can get close and that makes them too good in too many roles.
Make it a series please, no need to make separate commentary on each school, you can combine some school videos together
Death and Fire are my top 2 schools since I was a kid. I'm leaning more toward death lately for that versatility and power in all aspects of the game. The drain spells are just so fun, and make soloing super easy. I'm always a fan of draining and doing damage while also staying healthy, and outlasting your opponents is very strong and satisfying.
I'll also say that from a story perspective, it's really interesting to play from a death studen'ts perspective, taking on the old death professor and all of the thoughts that come with it.
when death can solo tartarus at lvl 90... thats how u know its broken.
I agree that death should have some kind of nerf and reducing the heal back is a fair way to do it. If I could make more changes, I'd also change the fact that death has both the best and second best damage reduction spells of any school (bad juju and virulent plague) by giving a new damage reduction spell to ice or life Right now Death does Balence's role better than Balance and does Ice's role better than Ice (95% of the time) which takes something away from those classes even if you don't care about being as optimized as possible
Yo Noah I would love to see you do another wizard101 lets play walkthrough with a brand new life wizard. Maybe just the first arc if you didnt want to fully commit to the whole game but id love to see it and it could be a very cool series
please if love this
with side quests maybe !!!
My experience from maxing my death wizard (also my first wiz) is that its a strong school, especially solo. I think that part is good because you can get through stuff on your own fairly easily (especially if you have no friends). But I think other schools can be easy to solo on as well because their utility is different. The drain spells do make for a smooth experience with hp, but most of the time its just nice to not need wisps after a battle. I played where I setup a big hit on the bosses, very rarely needing to use a plague or use multiple hits because I could feint twice and hit. The base damage is lower on all the spells so you may need to wait another round to hit but now that I am working on my storm, I can spend 1-2 turns less being able to kill something. I wish we had more fun spells that were hit all but not a drain so I might play more supportively, but the game is also easy enough not to. In boss fights, its easy enough in a team to feint twice and the hitter hits. I still haven't trained juju and I just about never plague or reduce enemy healing.
Other schools also have interesting mechanics that I think could also be really strong, but they just are not noticed with how easy the game can feel. Storm can stun enemies and do damage, but usually you one-shot them or the enemy is stun resistant so its not noticed. Or accuracy is reduced but that doesn't matter if you can kill them within 2-4 turns. Ice/Life can heal and absorb damage which can be helpful, but still isn't always needed. Its easy enough to finish fights fast enough to not even need school identity in most fights, nor should fights require a certain school because that makes solo a pain if no one is in teamup. I don't think death is OP because compared to other schools, its still a similar enough questing experience with the difficulty of the game imo.
Only thing that I think makes sense for them to nerf for death is putting a drain cap. Like no matter how much you overkill an enemy you should only get back their total hp
Balance and Death spells really needed those buffs I remember Scarecrow used to be weaker and Sandstorm and Nova got buffed which I love RA Also changed but I prefer Nova
I’m doing a death play though and so far I’m having so much fun, probably more then when I quested on my ice
Fun fact btw, if you manage to get 2 million damage with a death heal back spell, the 1 million health give back also gives you elixar vitae.
In my opinion, Death doesn't do that much damage. They do as much as balance and their heal backs offset that loss of damage to be on the same level as fire, storm and myth. In short, their lower damage balances out that they have heal backs
Death is similar to balance, similar health and damage but one has heal backs and one has more utility spells
I think heal backs should be closer to their old damage but enchants should still work like every other school and perhaps up the damage taken to self on things like juju.
The thing about death is while i agree with you on the damage being equal to balance its their survivability that makes it better. Yea your not going to do a lot of damage until late game but you at least get health back from almost every spell allowing you to survive longer than a school like ice
The reason I don't play my death is, it's mad easy.
*Although I don't think they should change it at this point...though 50% to 25% would be the most logical nerf. I think they need to start making bosses that accounts for Deaths, more directly.
That or infections effect heal back
Bruh no stop ruining the school for others
I think 30% is better than 25% but I agree they need a nerf. I think scarecrow should be nerfed too, if they're going to keep the enchant buff on death. Scarecrow should do Wraith damage, not even more than that.
tell me you hate death without telling me you hate death
25% is basically gutting death there’s already no enchants in pvp and drain hits have a lower damage per pip than raw no drain death hits, honestly pve isn’t even that big of a gripe I don’t get why people gripe either because ofc your gonna get back to full if you blade a million times I think other schools need a survivability buff that doesn’t require master.
I really don't think it should be nerfed just because A: I really don't think its insanely broken and B: most all the nerfs you suggested would put it at a massive disadvantage in pvp besides the enchant one since you can't use damage enchants in pvp anymore
I don't think death is broken because I do pvp and it is barely usable school and the other thing is I think they need to do a slight damage buff to call of Cthulhu. I also started with this school so I maybe a little biased but my friend that plays with me agrees with me .
It would be funny if you did a video titled: MOON SCHOOL IS UNDERPOWERED after this 🌙
Balance and Death are my two favorite schools and my mains but tbh sometimes Death is more of a "Balance" in most situations a sit can do everything solo questing is definitely more possible
As of now, Death is essentially a better Balance. They can be a jack of all trades WHILE having no real weaknesses like a balance.
Death was my very first school I ever choose when I started wizard101 its my roots to the gave I have the most love for death school and it holds such a fond place in my heart. Shout out to all my fellow death wizards
Death is my favorite school and I’m currently working on it in Mirage I got a great pet which is the ghulture since it gives a feint and blade and I got good damage from it. My friend is also on his myth wizard so we are questing together
Death is perfect how it is….make death even better🤣
1:42 In my opinion (Speaking as a Main Balance) Balance can play any role in game. (In some cases that is)
Honestly I kinda agree.
Balance can be a big hitter, especially with spells such as judgement, spectral blast or nested fury.
Balance can play support, basically the best support school without any doubt.
Balance can play tank, cause their gear is more of a tank than life or Death or exemple.
That's kind of the point of Balance. They're the "Jack of all Trades, master of none" school. They're capable of filling any role in the game. HOWEVER, they're masters of none, meaning yes, they got utility, but they'll never be as good at any ONE thing as another school.
They lack the resist traits Ice have, They focus on the high damage of a fire/storm, And they wont heal as good as a life.
HOWEVER, Death's issue is, as they are now, they're jack of all trades, AND have very few weaknesses. Infact, they're probably capable of supporting better than a balance as of now.
Balance does have things like elemental/spirit blades or bladestorm, but Death has Dark Pact.
Balance has availing hands, which is a slow heal over time, but Death gets sacrifice, which heals significantly more, even almost passing Life's satyr.
And Death has no need for wards, since they can use Bad Juju, effectively better than ANY ward out there.
Plus, a Death's Health and Resist is nothing to laugh at either. It's... A balancing problem when you look at it.
Sort of, not so much for hitting
My death just hit 2 million damage at level 118 yesterday so its great to get the badge for 1 million.
You can make videos about the other schools but you can make them more memey to make it more interesting or just about the experience of questing and pvp as those schools.
Hey man. I’m a new fan and I’ve been watching a lot of your videos. Please keep going with this channel bro all my support going out to you🔥 I just started playing wiz again and your videos have given me so much information I didn’t know!!
i would love to see an ice video at some point. playing through ice rn, i feel like there is a lot of potential in it and that it requires a different playstyle than a lot of other schools
Couldn’t agree more. Nice vid brother!
As a Death main i do have to agree. Ive out supported a balance as i carry elemental blades along with dark pact and feints. Ive outlived ice wizards and in many fights im the last one standing while people flee and comeback. And in some rare cases ive out damaged a fire. The only thing death really cant do well is heal others without a life mastery. And soloing is the easiest as a death ive soloed about 95% of the game with the exception of darkmoor and big dungeons alike. Death is better at utilizing feints than any other school due to having mass feint. I dont think death needs a huge nerf but i dont think it should be a better support class than balance
The first Wizard I made back in 2010 was a death and I'm still a death main to this day.
i do agree with you so much because when they get to be too powerful some people get a sense of entitlement of always being the hitter id like to see them nerf some of the spells in all schools to make a more balanced game play and also to where people dont feel intimidated by someone who will come in and just kill and people are saying why even try
Im just waiting for the day the gear audit comes, I need some variety in gear
Altho death is the most versatile, it isn’t the best anything in team play. It can do everything, but if there’s a storm/fire/myth they’ll likely be hitting instead, if there’s a life or balance around they’ll be buffing and healing….etc. I’d def agree it’s the best solo class no doubt, but that’s not as great as it sounds really. You aren’t gonna solo much end game gear farming content, at least not to be efficient. The debuff spells are cool and that’s their schools utility identity, thematically it makes sense. Altho there’s def an argument that it’s the best PvE school, there’s also plenty of valid reasons for someone to pick something else. I’m an ice main btw, so it’s not as if I’m trying to protect my main, I just thought it would be a good idea to bring up some counter points. I have a level 90 death and often scarecrow is just as much if not a better and more reliable option then ship of fools, it’s really annoying how often it won’t crit one of the mobs, and the battle takes even longer then if I just bladed and used scarecrow. I’d imagine this is even more so the case once you start with 5 pips, altho maybe the higher damage and crit from darkmoor gear and beyond makes it more reliable. I also have the weakest tier but realistically, how many people have it maxed out? At max damage it’s only 30 more flat damage then the front hit of dear knight. I have around 116 damage on my death rn btw. Don’t get me wrong I’d say it’s a good defensive option for sure especially to kill a boss minion and set up for the next thing. Yet I don’t think it’s so OP that there’s no reason to use other spells. Especially since w/ 5 pip start dear knight is gonna hit a lot harder. So all in all I’d say it’s the most convenient school of magic, but I don’t think it’s so OP that it requires a potent nerf really. At most perhaps infections could effect the heal back.
that's the thing though, no matter what a death has a use in dungeons.
@@Mickey-id6rs death is bottom barrel jack of all trades they don't really have a identity outside of healing back after an attack
@@ogreload1445 fair, but they still can do everything. They have 4th highest damage, access to cards like juju that can be very useful in bossfights, have access to gear that gives good damage and good defensive stats, you can just kinda be whatever your team needs. Even if others do it better.
@@Mickey-id6rs I mean true but why sacrifice a spot for death instead of just getting the class you need?
Can't argue with u there.
i play as a death mainly but i dont feel over powered as you said. but thats probably i am not good in fights 😅😅
Since hitting 48lvl death becomes monster
And on the mass feint hat literally all schools can do that if duo questing but death still is a good school no doubt
As I mentioned, it’s good because the hat will give you stars that effect your school when you’re a death.
Death is my main and I love it
Overpowered is mostly used to refer to the schools that dominate pvp like fire. Getting drains in pve isn't why people complain that a school is overpowered. If you get a drain good for you I guess? But if you use roshambo to put 2 overtimes on me and then x2 dmg jinn that's just broken.
The fourth character I made was death and it was literal actual easy mode
As a death main i approve
as a death main, I must say the game is in easy mode. I soloed 99% of the game with no problem and the big boss fights I just filled whatever the team needed. Death is so easy to play because you almost always start every fight at max hp from drains
If we’re talking strictly PvE yes death is but overall as in both PvE and PvP is a no
i don’t count PvP
what's the best class PVP?
Just buff other schools and buff the enemies too. Sure that's a lot of work but would be better overall. I'm sure they'll just put a bandaid on it someday and not really fix anything
That’s a weird way to spell “Fire”
They aren't overpowered. They are balanced
@@hueningbahibitch lmao they are anything but balanced
@@ogreload1445 yes they are balanced.
@@hueningbahibitch explain
@@ogreload1445 they do the second most damage since they are an offensive school. They have the strongest DOT since they are the DOT school. Their health and defence is less than other schools but greater than storm because that's how their stats are supposed to be.
i think ki dont need change the death school maybe only the ship of fool a little but not the oter spells (my favorite is death to)
Death 100% does not need a nerf cause in the long run you simply will not be that efficient with roles such as blading, supporting, hitting etc. What makes death good is simply just the heal back but thats not gonna help jack in team play let alone the low damage it does either when compared to fire or myth, death is what I call the last pick option for team play or bottom of the barrel "jack of all trades" you simply cannot think death is overpowered besides it being made in the one role it was made for (solo play) but let me tell you this, its ASS in endgame dungeons cause everyone can simply just be better then death on certain terms. therefore the only thing making death viable is simply just scarecrow and lulu and if the heal backs get gutted then death will be nearly unplayable cause of the damage it offers in the long run making your heals get like 120 on anything early game if lucky.
Did you watch the video? Or better yet play the game? Death is an incredibly powerful support school arguably only beaten out by Balance. In team play a death can be super useful. They can also play healer or damage if they need to. You must have never played death.
@@KaiserNoah Death can not out support balance, death can not out power fire, storm etc. Death can not out tank ice, what Death is is a main solo play class with utility, yea sure you can take it to team play but lemme ask you this, what would you rather have? A Death Blading you? Or a balance blading you or a life healing you? Or a Death healing you, people would just pick the classes that excel in that demographic. Clearly you don't understand
Death is op soloing and I do not mind at all lol. I hope they dont change it lol.
I respect your opinion as a fan, but imho I don't see the death school as overpowered. I've always seen either storm or balance to be overpowered for pve. People are sleeping on the amounts of damage and healing balance is able to put out. People are saying death is a better balance? Like what? death still can't put out as much damage even when they run high damage gear as high damage balance gear. Especially since every school can learn feint and also just use tc versions of dark pact. I also don't see the 50% drain as broken because with my death, I have to use all of my feints and blades to get a ridiculous heal back amount, but it's to be expected when I'm literally using everything I have for it to be a ridiculous heal back amount.
Love your videos though 👍 you be putting out some banger content, on the daily.
I just reread my comment and felt like it sounded a little more aggro than I intended 🤣
In pve, death is the easiest school for one reason
Scarecrow
25% heal back seems perfectly reasonable to me that is a great idea. After watching ferric do his budget walkthrough on death in the past it makes you realize how broken it is.
Don’t say too much too we might get nerfed lol
I think death would be balanced if devs nerfed the heal-back to 30-35% for single hit spells and 15-20% on AOEs. But yeah, as of right now death is dummy easy and I'd argue it has the most braindead playstyle of all the school once you get Ship of fools. Even more braindead than storm with Tempest spam.
We need a solid AOE that is not a drain
Why? That seems kinda pointless since the drain is just overwhelmingly good.
@@KaiserNoah The drain is good but I feel the death school lacks a solid AOE that hits purely for damage. There are only pet and dragoon cards which isn't enchantable.
@@djkang9222 I guess..? Idk
@@djkang9222 you have deer knight.
bro you only like the myth school the lamest
Your stats are kinda bad tho..as a max death at least you should be rocking 160 damage with 50 res
Yeah? I’ve said quite a few times that I don’t really care about min maxing in wiz, especially since the game is easy enough that i could have 10 less damage and resist and still be more than fine.
Hey Noah, I love your videos but I wanted to warn you against advising people to spend crowns on a pack to get a specific item. I know you are against ship of fools only being in packs and if you convince more people to buy packs that have exclusive items and spells in them then KI has more of an incentive to keep making those.
What I say has absolutely no value to KI and their pack policy, and their pack policy isn't going to change anytime soon. If I have a helpful tip to my audience, I'm going to share it, not just ignore it.
@@KaiserNoah I know it can feel pointless since they are just gonna do whatever makes money, I'm just saying better to be part of the solution than part of the problem in my book. Mass feint is wicked good though, I was so hype when I first saw someone cast it and then sad when I found out on the wiki it was only from packs.
Please don't make these videos. You are gonna make these schools get nerfed and ruin the experience of many players who play casually.
hm, no i don’t think so.
@@KaiserNoah but we do not need more nerfs
@@hueningbahibitch you say more like Death has gotten a nerf in the last 10 years.
@@KaiserNoah we don't need more nerfs in general.
@@hueningbahibitch I mean, again, there hasn't been too many nerfs to many schools recently. If you look at them compared to even 3-5 years ago many of them feel better than they did back then. I just don't think that arguing death is overpowered is a bad thing, especially for the state of the game.
Wasn't crow 490?
it was just a flat 400!
@@KaiserNoah that's why I waited to make my death 😅
I think 35% heal back would be fair. They can test it and see if it needs to be nerfer even further.
restore the nerf to enchanting heal back
Death is a brain dead school. You can have a bot play it perfectly.
So what do you think is NOT a brain dead school?
@@ogreload1445 ice and myth
@@twilightsyugiohcustoms8870 I agree on ice but not myth
@@ogreload1445 balance
Overrated school 🤷♂️ completely biased opinions on this channel 😂
I always love that thing that people do, when they see something is popular / good they just judge it as overrated and brush it off. I didn't even say anything in this video that was incorrect and literally said to nerf the school. Completely biased opinion in this comment "laughing crying emoji."
You were stating facts I’ll give you that but you still are completely biased just my opinion you gonna cry about it ?
@@ortheyan1230 You know, its funny, my friend and I were talking about your comment (because it was stupid) and we were talking about how there's 3 types of people who use the laughing crying emoji. People who are 12, people who are extremely old, and the people who are like "aahaha ur mad gonna cry?" and i'm happy that I discovered which one you are without even having to ask. Also i literally make opinion pieces of course my opinion is bias.
Bro look at you getting all mad you cry baby imagine if you make it big one day you let the fist negative comments hurt your feelings you have a long way to go. My advise go outside lol your Wiz babes aren’t going anywhere.
@@ortheyan1230 L + Ratio