r/Wizard101

So I've played with a few different wizards, but I've never gotten past Arc Two on any of them. I feel like I just hit a brick wall getting through some of those worlds. I will admit it is partially because by this point I am running all meta gear and decks, with blades and 7-pip AOEs as essentially the only spells in my deck at this point. I have so far beaten Arc One with Myth, Life, Fire, and Balance. Any tips, or is the game past Arc One just not for me anymore? Is there a point where the combat gets more interesting?

Is he really a boss only defeat-able by lvl 90+ wizards? When I first went to Olympus at lvl 30 I did some exploring and NPC chatting and the gladiator quest has officially been stuck on my quest list since. I’ll probably want help anyway but I’m a lvl 87 death so surely I can defeat him w/ help at this point?

I specifically mean the hat robe and boots, rather then farming Darkmoore is just crafting the gorgon set good enough?

Seriously, nothing in this game is that challenging anymore. They keep messing with fights that are supposed to challenge you and keep you on your toes. The recent examples of this are the Arcane Toad fights in Wallaru. For the first one he no longer mantles you and recasts the mark, so you just heal round one and boom the cheats are over. Second fight you just don't trap either Toad, just blade up and win, and you don't deal with any cheats at all. And did they nerf Dream Freddie/Confusion too? Confusion's spells no longer deal 10% max health according to the Wiki, is this true?

It's annoying me because I soloed all this on Storm and it made for an interesting challenge. Now i'm doing an Ice and it frustrates me because every time I get to something challenging I find they messed with it. I'm sorry but am i really the only one who finds challenges to be fun in this game? Why do some people have to complain about how hard everything is​ and get rewarded with the nerfs? Almost every fight in this game can be teamed up for, and if they wanted to make Dream Freddie/Confusion easier as a solo fight, just make it so Confusion's spells deal 5% of your health instead of 10%. Maybe i'm in the minority but it makes the game boring when all the difficult stuff you need to use your brain for ends up getting watered down. 99% of the game is already blade and AOE anyway, can't we preserve the fights that make you do something different?

For those who have played both the switch and pc versions, is the switch version worth it? I noticed that its around $10 for all of arc 1. What about after that? Does it still require you to pay for a subscription? I am mainly asking because I'm wondering if its worth starting over on the switch version for the benefit of having it be portable?

On my pc account I don't have much aside from some spellements and mounts.

Got back into the game a few weeks ago, been mainly diving straight through the main story doing some side quests along the way as well as working on the energy consuming tasks, I'm about LVL47(Death Wizard) and decided to take a break on the main line world's (Krok, Marley, Dragonspyre and start working on Wysteria and Grizzleheim a bit more while casually doing a Dragonspyre quest here and there, I just got up to Jotun and did the side dungeons but MAN are they tedious as a solo, I'm not complaining but I'm curious to know if anyone else has shared the same feeling, maybe it's just cause I keep getting bad RMG with the death shields but this is ironically the toughest section I've been through so far, and it doesn't feel like I'm under leveled or anything, I just really gotta play my card right, literally