Wizard101 Hovering to See What Blades and Traps a Player Has

Sometimes in battle with friends, you get distracted and don't know which blades have already been cast on your hammer (player designated to hit). You have a Sharpened Blade spell and a regular Elemental Blade in your hand, and you can see that your target already has one Elemental Blade cast on them. You can chat and ask. That works. But sometimes, chatting can take too long and the turn might end before you get the answer with enough time to cast.

Some players already know this, but not everyone... You can check yourself! If you take your wand cursor and move it over the left side of their nameplates (where the symbol in the diamond is), a box with stats will appear. Programmers call that a tooltip. As long as your wand cursor is hovering over that spot, the tooltip will stay up. As soon as you move it, the tooltip will go away. The part of your wand cursor that needs to hover over the diamond symbol is the star atop the wand. It can be picky, so you will want to move the star of your wand completely inside the diamond area.

I took some screenshots to help visualize this. I can't show the wand cursor in my screenshots, because the cursor always disappears from the screenshot. You won't see the wand in any of the following pictures.



You can see the sun from the starting position on the combat circle. I highlighted the area where you want the star part of your wand to hover over. You can hover over any other player's diamond symbol, as well as the symbols of the enemies.



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Let's take a look at what traps and shields look like in the tooltip.



I placed a regular Fire Trap and a Potent Fire Trap on this hall servant. On the tooltip, you will see the Wards symbols at the top (one Positive which designates shields and one Negative which designates traps). Traps will show up as a positive number, because you will be boosting your damage when you hit them. In this case, any fire spell this enemy is hit with will get a boost of +25% and then +35%. Note that the +35% is shown in purple, since it is a spell that has been modified with an enchantment.



This is what it looks like on the tooltip for an enemy with a pair of Fire Shields. The number is negative, since any fire spell that hits this hall servant will be reduced in power by 80%. The reduction will not stack, and that is depicted with the (x2) symbol.

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Blades show up in the Charms section. The top line shows the symbols for positive charms (blades) and negative charms (weaknesses). Here I have a couple of Fireblades on myself. They are Sharpened Fireblades; and since they are enchanted, they show in the tooltip as purple. So why don't they show as (x2)? This is because the source of the enchants. One Sharpened Blade is my trained spell, and one is an item card from my amulet. Since the same spell from different sources stack (usually), they show up on the tooltip on separate lines.



In the above picture, you can see I have all sorts of blades cast upon myself. The top blade in the tooltip is a Fireblade from a pet card. Pet card blades show up in blue. Next, the tooltip shows two Sharpened Fireblades. I chose the wrong Sharpened Blade card, so they didn't stack. That's one downside of the system... you can't tell the source of the enchantment. This is why it's a good idea when playing with others to call out what your casting if it's from an unusual source. It helps players keep straight what's been cast. The one that looks like there is no symbol for damage type is actually a Shadow Blade. The shadow symbol is there but very faint. Finally, I have three regular Fireblades cast upon myself, all duplicates, so none of them stack. The very top blade in the picture is a Fireblade protected with Aegis. It will show up on the actual blade graphic surrounded with a light blue highlight, but that will not show up in the tooltip. It will just count as another regular Fireblade in the tooltip to determine what stacks and doesn't stack.

One final picture... what does it look like when hovering over a player or enemy that doesn't have any wards or charms on it?



There you go. A shark in Celestia in a fresh battle.

There are other effects that are represented in the toolip that I didn't get screenshots of. One big one is from global circle effects.

So the next time you're playing, move your wand cursor around the battlefield to discover what everyone's tooltips look like during play. It's a good thing to know for those times you need to make a decision on what to cast. It can also be useful if you didn't notice a shield up on an enemy or a weakness on yourself, and you need to know how bad it is.