Not sure if this has been covered, but are caster classes able to swing their melee weapon in between wand shots, provided each has a weapon speed that allows it (so called wand-weaving that I’m told p-servers had)? Similar to how hunters are able to cast abilities in between auto-shots.
I’ve never heard of such sorcery.
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Casters can swing melee during instant casts. Wand uses the “shoot” ability and triggers a GCD. The reason this is a bad idea is casters are usually threat limited and not damage limited. Being near the boss means your threat cap is 100% rather than 130%. So, nobody does this.
It is hard to do.
/shoot
/stopcasting
/stopcasting
/attact
Two macros.
Casted Spells reset the GCD, it wasnt always like that at the beginning of Vanilla, but they did a AP and combat atttack patch at some point and changed it all.
I remeber there was a Ele/enhance spec you could go, stand in melee, cast lightning bolts and right after your LB finished you would auto swing, sometimes triggerimg WF.
Was great for doing big burst, pilling agro and dieing!!
Was thinking more in terms of leveling rather than group threat management, but sounds like the answer is the same: not possible, or at least not practical.
This is definitely possible, and definitely worth it. The issue mainly resides in the attack speed of the wand and the melee weapon. You see, once you attack, you can cast your wand immediately. However, your melee attack will take a few extra tenths of a second to attack again (exact amounts unknown).
For example, if you have a 2.8 second staff, and a 2.3 weapon wand. You could melee attack, which starts the 2.8 second weapon timer, and then wand instantly after. However, when you click to auto attack again, instead of it being 2.8 seconds, it’ll be like 3.1 for your melee attack.
There is an upside, faster weapons. If you get a dagger with 1.5 weapon speed, and a wand with 1.5 weapon speed, then you can melee and then wand instantly. Then when you melee again, it’ll be about 1.6 seconds.
I found this very good leveling, especially 20-35 range when you can get the BFD quest wand and a fast dagger.
Edit: For example. I have a 1.5 second dagger right now, and a 1.5 second wand. My dagger hits for 40 damage, wand for 50-90. I’m gaining 40 dagger damage for .1 second of melee swing.
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