The Wizard is one of the Tier 3 upgrades from Hexer. The Wizard features a singular Cannon mounted on the front to fire bullets just like its predecessor. The Wizard also features heightened body stats that make it bulkier and gives it a greater ramming capacity. What differentiates the Wizard from the Hexer is that the Wizard is able to infect Squares and make them controllable, similar to Necromancer's ability. The Wizard may further upgrade into the Necromancer and the Collider. This tank was created by Toriellabella.
Design[]
The Wizard features a square body as a base, with the flat side facing forward. Mounted upon the front is a singular Cannon that's the same size as Tank's cannon.
From Hexer[]
Upon upgrading into the Wizard, your body shape is changed from a hexagon to a square.
Technical[]
The Wizard features a singular Cannon mounted at the front which fires at the same rate as Tank's Cannon and has the exact same stats. The Wizard also features higher body damage and max health, along with lower movement speed. The Wizard introduces a specialized ability that's only shared with its upgrade, the Necromancer; The ability to "resurrect" dead squares and use them as drones.
These types of drones are shaped like squares; In Team modes, they are colored the same way as your team color, but in modes without teams they have a darker and more pale shade of the yellow that Squares have. For Wizard, all of these drones are not controllable. Usually, they circle around the player. If an enemy is nearby, however, these drones will quickly dart towards them.
There are two methods of obtaining these drones. The first, which is shared with Necromancer, is by ramming into Squares. These Squares will become "infected" and will join you as a drone; You will take damage when colliding as the Wizard hasn't mastered the art of necromancy. The second method of obtaining these drones requires your Cannon. You fire at a square and, if the bullet collides with it, the square will become a drone. The Wizard can have a maximum of 12 drones at once, and this value cannot be affected by reload, unlike Necromancer.
Strategy[]
- Strong Against: Destroyer, Assassin, distracted tanks
- Weak Against: Higher level rammers, high rate of fire tanks, Trapper branch tanks, tanks with Auto Turrets
As the Wizard[]
- As a Wizard, your main goal will be to keep as many squares with you as possible. This will be difficult for you, as you can't directly control them. Your best bet will be to gain squares during battle.
- For example, if you see a lone Hybrid, your best bet will be to shoot behind them and make sure your bullet hits Squares that are behind the Hybrid, so that they will instantly try to attack the Hybrid. This strategy works for other classes, such as Assassin and its upgrades.
- One issue that can easily crop up is your square supply depleting. You can still shoot normally with your regular gun, however. While it is only a bit harder to kill enemies with just a singular gun, it's very rewarding to kill an enemy in a pinch.
- If your barrel is failing you, or you're choosing to go with a ramming style, this can still be beneficial, especially when you upgrade into Collider. Your best bet will be to ram into distracted tanks.
Against the Wizard[]
- If you're a tank such as Mega Smasher or Booster, you can offensively deal with a Wizard if they're depleted of drones. Just be sure to be careful if the Wizard has a ramming build, as they can easily utilize that to defeat you due to their likely superior stats if you're not a Smasher branch tank.
- Tanks such as Triplet, Penta Shot, and Overspammer can utilize their high fire rates to easily shred through a Wizard's set of revived drones and then gun down the enemy Wizard.
- Tanks such as Tri-Trapper can deal with Wizard quite easily. While an offensive attack won't work too well, it's still easy to create a minefield around yourself so that none of their squares will hit you.
- If you've got an Auto Turret, you can let your turrets aim at nearby Squares before the Wizard can take them as drones, leaving the Wizard defenseless. If you're an Auto Gunner, you can use this to your advantage and easily wipe the floor with an enemy Wizard
Trivia[]
- Wizard is the first Tier 3 tank I made that upgrades from a Tier 2 tank that I also made.
- There used to be an upgrade called Warlock, which could turn invisible. It was removed because it looked similar to Factory; A redesign might be in the works real soon.
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