Wizard101 Spell Icons Guide - Final Bastion (2024)

Wondering what your new spell does? Well we’ve got all the spell secrets right here! With every new update, Wizard101 has been pushing the limits of what new spells can do. One of those limits is the spell description area. With only 3 lines of text and limited characters, it can be tricky to convey all the details for new spells. With Wizard101’s Spring Update, the devs have added some tools to assist players in understanding the new icons. These new icons and spell keywords will help save room on text and help wizards understand their spells. However, they will only help if you know what the icons mean so let’s dive in!

Icons and Keywords

Below you will find tables depicting each icon, a brief description (if necessary), and one or two spell examples so that you can see these icons in action. Some spell effects can also be protected, which is indicated by a light blue outline on the spell icon.

I. Spell Effect Icons
II. Target Icons
III. Stat Icons
IV. Keywords

Spell Icons

Spell Effect Icon	Definition	Primary Spell Example	Secondary Spell Example
	Damage It can appear in the spell description to indicate the damage value. It will also appear in spell type box.
	Manipulation Manipulation covers lots of different spell effects and can be described as anything that changes a part of the battle. This icon is usually displayed as the spell type.
	Healing May indicate a healing value or be used as the spell type icon. This icon can also represent the health of a minion.
	Drain It represents drain damage which will deal regular damage but will also convert some or all of that damage to health.
	Drain or Damage
	Regular Pip
	Power Pip
	Shadow Pip
	Global
	Positive Charm Includes healing, damage, pierce, accuracy, or convert buffs. Can also be protected.
	Negative Charm Includes healing, damage, and accuracy debuffs as well as dispels. Can also be protected.
	Blade A damage-centric charm. Can also be protected.
	Dispel A dispel prevents a spell from being casted.
	Positive Ward This can include absorbs, shields, and stun blocks. Can also be protected.
	Negative Ward This can include damage traps, converts, heal debuffs, and heal absorbs.
	Trap A damage-centric ward. Can also be protected.
	Absorb A shield that reduces damage by a flat value. Can also be protected.
	Damage Over Time Can also be protected.
	Heal Over Time Can also be protected.
	Deferred Damage Deals damage after a certain number of rounds. Can also be protected.
	Round Indicates the duration of certain effects.
	Stun
	Minion
	Afterlife A hanging effect that is activated upon the death of the target.
	Taunt Forces opponents to target them.
	Positive Aura
	Negative Aura
	Polymorph
	Enchantment A spell that can be combined with another spell to boost its effects.
	Mutation A type of enchant that changes the original spell.
	Shadow Form
	Shadow Creature

Target Icons

Target icons are used to distinguish which effect of the spell is affecting which players. That Self icon is extremely new, and hopefully isn’t as confusing as the last iteration which included a mirror.

Target Icon	Description	Spell Example
	Self
	Friendly Target
	All Friendly Targets
	Enemy
	All Enemy Targets

Stat Icons

Stat icons are fairly simple. But sometimes these icons can look pretty similar to other icons mentioned above so they are included below so you can easily tell the difference between them. No more confusing pierce and negative wards or accuracy and auras!

Stat Icons	Description	Spell Example
	Damage
	Resist
	Pierce
	Accuracy
	Critical
	Block
	Stun resist
	Outgoing Can be paired with any other stat to indicate a buff or debuff to that stat.
	Incoming Can be paired with any other stat to indicate a buff or debuff to that stat.
	Flat Damage A flat amount of damage applied to a spell.
	Flat Resist A set amount to reduce the damage of a spell.

Spell Keywords

Spell Keywords are not covered in the Help pages in-game but they are worth a mention, especially if you haven’t seen them before. Many of these were just added to regular PvE spells via spellement upgrades, but you may have also seen them already in Beastmoon.

Spell Keywords	Definition	Primary Spell Example
Detonate	Trigger the remaining damage on an overtime spell to immediately be used on target.
Activate	Trigger the remaining health on an overtime spell to immediately be used on target.
Clear	Remove hanging effect in exchange for another effect.
Extend	Add an additional round to a current Damage Over Time hanging effect.
Push	Move effect from self to target.
Take	Inflict damage on self
Afterlife	Effect that takes place after the death of the target
Gambit	Sacrifice conditions for extra effect
Remove	Fairly simple but I couldn’t bring myself to leave this one out. Removes hanging effect on indicated target.