Best School Starter Pets
Wizard101 Pets
We recently presented our Top 5 Starting pets for those starting on their PvP journey. However, as there are over 400 first generation pets, excluding hybrids, there are many more pets and talents that are available that can be considered.
This time we grouped pets into schools and looked at the combination of talents, cards and statistics that would be beneficial for individual schools. After much research, looking at all 1st generation pets, from vendors, school quests, drops, packs and bundles our top pets for each school have been identified. Some of the pets that had made the list previously have been included in the school list and new ones have been added. Enjoy!
1. Ice Pets
What’s Great About this Pet: The Smith has a great mixture of ice damage, resist and a may cast fortify talent making this first generation a pet for consideration.
Card:Gives one Cooldown at Baby
Egg Name: Enigmatic Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 399 crowns from Purreau’s Plentiful Pet Provisions pack
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Ice school: Ice Dealer, Spell-Defying, May Cast Fearless Fortifier
What’s Great About this Pet: The Polar Bear Cub has a great mixture of ice damage, Ice critical, Stun Resistance and Ice Spells talents
Card:Gives one Wooly Mammoth at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Name: Frost-Shelled Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: $39 from the Winterbane Gauntlet Gift Card
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Ice school: Ice Dealer, Ice Striker, Stun Resistance, Freeze
What’s Great About this Pet: The Starfish is an ideal pet for Icy wizards just starting out. It has ice-giver, may cast ice blade, as well as proof and sprite in their first generation pool.
Card: No card
Egg Name:Frost-Shelled Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, from Queen Calypso (Crustacean Empire, Celestia)
Cost: 10,000 Gold from Wellington Fanshawe (Celestia Base Camp) Or 399 Crowns from the Islander Hoard pack
Hatch Time: 1 day
Best pvp talents for Ice school: IceBlade, Ice-Shot, Ice-Giver, Proof
What’s Great About this Pet: The Frostbound Grimhorn has a balanced mixture of generic and ice specific talents.
Card: Volcanic Shield at baby
Egg Type: Frost-Shelled Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 7,000 Arena Tickets from Sir Nigel Higgenbottom
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Ice school: Fairy, Pain-Giver, Melt and Biting Cold (may cast Balefrost)
2. FIRE Pets
What’s Great About this Pet: This is a great starting pet for anyone who is looking for a mixture of universal, fire and aura talents. It also provides a couple of ice talents for those fiery wizards that have an ice mastery amulet and need a boost to their ice hits.
Card: Gives one Eirikur Axebreaker at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Type:Mysterious Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, Winterbane Hall: Tier 3 (levels 40-59) and Tier 5 (levels 80-95)
Cost: $39 Winterbane Gauntlet Gift Card
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Fire school: Fire-Giver, Dragonblade, May Cast Fireblade, May Cast Incredible Infallible, Armor Pierce
What’s Great About this Pet: The Tiki Kahuna pet has a great mix of fire damage, critical, accuracy and fire spells make this a great starter pet for fire wizards
Card: Gives one Rain of Fire at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Type: Pyromantic Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 399 from the Islander’s Hoard Pack
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Fire school: Fire-Giver, Fire Striker, Critical Striker, Fuel, May Cast Fireblade
What’s Great About this Pet: Fire talents + 3 additional fire spells (2 of which will stack) can make this a pet a fiery wizards dream
Card:Gives one Fire Trap at Baby-Teen, one Fuel from Adult-Ancient, and one Fire Beetle from Epic-Mega.
Egg Type: Radiant Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 399 Skyvern’s Hoard Pack
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Fire school: Fire-dealer, Critical Striker, Fire-Sniper
3. Storm Pets
What’s Great About this Pet: 3 Leviathan cards added to storm damage, storm critical and a storm heal talent makes this pet highly desired by storm wizards
Card:Gives one Leviathan at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Type: Enigmatic Egg
Is it a Drop:No
Cost: $29 Atlantean Bundle Gift Card
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Storm school: Storm Dealer, Storm Striker, Energizing Battery
What’s Great About this Pet: The double damage, double critical talents added to the 3 Siren cards, makes this pet a must have for many storm wizards
Card: Gives one Sirens at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Type:Stormsquall Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, Poseidon Earth Shaker (Atlantea)
Cost: 5000 Crowns from the Crowns Shop
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Storm school: Pain-Giver, Storm-Giver, Storm Critical, Windstorm, Stormblade
What’s Great About this Pet: The Spinyfish has storm-giver, may cast stormblade, as well as proof and sprite in their first generation pool making it a pet for consideration for storm wizards just starting out
Card: No
Egg Type: Stormsquall Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, Cuthalla (The Grotto, Celestia), Yogash (Stormriven, Celestia)
Cost: 6,200 Crowns from the Crowns Shop
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Storm school: Stormblade, Storm-Giver, Proof and Spritely
What’s Great About this Pet: Although a holiday pet only, the Frakenbunny deserves to be on this list as it has damage, critical and a healing talent. The extra healing cards are an extra bonus.
Card: Gives one Healing current at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Type: Stormsquall Egg
Is it a Drop: No. This is a quest reward “Something Rotten in Nightside” (Only available during a Holiday)
Cost: None
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Storm school: Critical Hitter, Energizing Battery, Storm-Giver, Storm Striker
4. Myth Pets
What’s Great About this Pet: The Ram Warrior has a mixture of talents, double damage, critical block and resist, that makes it coveted by Myth wizards.
Card: Gives one Pierce at Baby
Egg Type: Evanescent Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 399 crowns from Purreau’s Plentiful Pet Provisions pack
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Myth school: Pain-Giver, Myth-Giver, Defender, Spell-Defying
What’s Great About this Pet: The Golden Ram has a great mixture of myth damage, myth critical added to 3 copies of the basilisk card
Card: Gives one Basilisk at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Type: Evanescent Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, Poseidon Earth Shaker (Atlantea)
Cost: 6,000 Crowns from the crown shop
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Myth school: Myth Striker, Myth Giver, Mythblade and Armor Piercer
What’s Great About this Pet: The Bronze Golem is great starting myth pet adding damage and critical to myth wizard’s statistics as well as armor piercer.
Card: Gives one Bronze Armor at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Type: Evanescent Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, Sofia Darkside, Eclipse Tower, Khrysalis
Cost: 10,000 Crowns from the Crown Shop
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Myth school: Myth Assailant, Myth-Giver, May Cast Spirit Shield, Armor Breaker
5. Death Pets
What’s Great About this Pet: The Ghost dragon has a great mixture of death and universal talents, but the best quality of this pet is the high statistics, which is beneficial for both the damage and resist talents.
Card: Gives one Animate card at Baby
Egg Name: Otherworldly Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 299 from Nightmare pack Or 3,000 Crowns from Spooky Bob / Crowns Shop (only available at Halloween)
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Death school: Deathblade, Death-Giver, Proof and Spritely
What’s Great About this Pet: The Penumbra Drake has a great mixture of death damage, critical, resistance and aura talents and high statistics, which make this pet highly desired as a starter pet
Card:Gives one Death Trap at Teen, one Death Scarab at Ancient, and one Red Ghost at Mega
Egg Name: Otherworldly Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 299 from Nightmare pack (only available at Halloween)
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Death school: Death Dealer, Critical Striker, Ace Avenger, Dragonblade
What’s Great About this Pet: The Mummy cat hands out plagues and infections to the opposition, then adds additional damage, critical and block to your wizard. If those two factors were not enough, the 3 additional Frankies tip the scales in favor of this cat making it on this list.
Card: Gives one Dr. Von’s Monster at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Name:Onyx Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 399 Crowns, Pharaoh’s Hoard Pack
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Death school: Death Dealer, Death Striker, Blocker, May Cast Plague and May Cast Cure Crusher (Infection)
What’s Great About this Pet: The strut! This pet has a great combination of death and universal talents that make it a useful starter pet for death wizards everywhere. The feint card is an additional bonus that can be stacked with all other feints
Card: Gives one Feint at baby
Egg Name: Otherworldly Egg
Is it a Drop:No
Cost: 399 crowns from Purreau’s Plentiful Pet Provisions pack
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Death school:Death dealer, Pain-Giver, Proof, Dark Knight Rises (Card, Deer Knight), Feint
6. Life Pets
What’s Great About this Pet: The Bumble Bee has a great mixture of life damage, critical and Life spell talents, making this first generation a serious pet for consideration.
Card: Gives one Luminous Weaver at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Name: Lifebloom Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: $39 from Hive Bundle gift pack
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Life school: Life Bringer, Life Assailant, May Cast Life Fuel, May Cast Lifeblade
What’s Great About this Pet: The Sea Turtle provides a mixture of universal and life talents that makes it ideal for life wizards.
Card: No
Egg Name: Jade egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, from Tempus Stormfist (Stormriven Hall Celestia)
Cost: 5,200 crowns from the Crown shop
Hatch Time: 1 hour
Best pvp talents for Life school: Life-Giver, Lifeblade, Spell-Proof and Spritely
What’s Great About this Pet:The Trojan Horse has a number of life and universal talents in its pool. but its the additional 3 Gnomes cards that makes it a pet worth considering by life wizards.
Card:Gives one Gnomes at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Name: Jade egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: $39 Olympian Bundle Gift Card
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Life school: Life Striker, Unicorn, Life Bringer, Armor Piercer
7. Balance Pets
What’s Great About this Pet: The Piranha Hunter has the best combination of of spells, talents and statistics of all balance pets.
Card: Gives one Dragonspear at Baby, one at Ancient and one at Mega (3 in total)
Egg Name:Equilibrium Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, Hisser (Fort Rachias, Khrysalis)
Cost: None
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Balance school: Clean Charm, Ward Wrecker, Critical Striker, Defender, Balance Assailant
What’s Great About this Pet:The Harpy has a resist and damage talent, an additional blade set and 3 different cards on offer, making it a pet that is highly desired by balance wizards
Card: Gives one Spirit Trap at Teen, Spirit Blast at Ancient, and Lycian Chimera at Mega.
Egg Name: Chimerical Egg
Is it a Drop: Yes, from Sand Squid Tentacle
Cost: None
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Balance school: May Cast Spirit Blade, Add Balance, Spell Proof and the Lycian Chimera card
What’s Great About this Pet:The Therizinosaurus has a resist and damage talent, an additional blade set and 3 different cards on offer, making it a pet that is highly desired by balance wizards
Card: Gives one Elemental Trap at Teen, gives one Spectral Blast at Ancient, and gives one Lernaean Hydra at Mega
Egg Name: Equilibrium Egg
Is it a Drop: No
Cost: 9,500 Crowns from the Crown Shop
Hatch Time: 5 minutes
Best pvp talents for Balance school: May Cast Elemental Blade, Add Balance, Spell Defying and the Lernaean Hydra card
Thanks to the Wiki team for information on Pet costs and drops.
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