Like. Please lol. Waiting years. Still waiting. Waiting for them to not suck. For those who don’t know, wand autoattack activates global cooldown every swing of the wand. They’re basically completely useless, even at low levels. No need to pull with them, since ranged spells exist for everyone who can even use wands. It’s like a novelty joke consisting of left over weapons from the old days of wow, and were seemingly only kept in the game for devs to laugh at instead of scrapped for data. Now, having said that, that doesn’t mean I actually want them scrapped for data but I mean. What good are they now. I can’t use them. It’s literally a liability to caster combat if even the attempt to do so is made. And it goes without saying that some of the coolest mogs in the game that are unique to cloth casters only, are wands.
Please let me actually use them again. I mean I feel like I can’t even have them as a decorative stat stick. At least just allow me to transmog swords or daggers into wands, for decorative purposes. Can’t do that either. What they did let you do, for some reason, is transmog a wand into a dagger or sword. But that makes the weapon unusable. Like truly unusable. Not even a messy GCD auto attack issue. No. Just an error message. Telling you that kind of mog cannot be used with that weapon. Sooooooo… What the hell is that lol. Might as well just use an actual dagger or sword, if I wanted to use weapon enchants for whatever reason. Even just for fun on trash level mobs.
Devs, please stop treating wands as an in-studio joke. At the very least, if you’re not willing to rework it, then for the love of all that is holy and just in the world of warcraft, PLEASE REMOVE THE GCD. getting tired of this after what. 6. 8. 10 years? Longer? I get the joke. It’s not funny to some of us players. Please stop. And get some help. Or you know, do your jobs and get US some help. Specifically with this wand issue for us casters. I miss my TBC wand. I don’t think it’s much to ask to have that in retail. Really, really, a low maintenance harmless kind of request.
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Always loved wands 
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Shame their purpose sort of…died. Truth be told almost every held item for casters did.
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Last time I remember using a wand was on my priest during Vanilla, I would use it while regenerating mana. We had two healing teams, A & B. Team A would starting healing while team B would wand attack, when team A was about to go OOM team B would start healing and team A would start wand attacks. I do NOT miss those days.
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Wands as functioning weapons are relics of the past. Now they just look cool and allow for more flexible one-handed mog options.
Yeah. I agree. It’s kinda hilarious. At this rate I’d prefer to just have a “hide weapon” mog so I don’t have some clunky thing I don’t even use taped to my hip or back. like why lol.
But, as it stands now, those weapons do not mess up your GCD rotation. Wands do. And that is just an egregious neglect imo. Especially after so long. I mean like is said it’s not even like I can stat stick it. Its so buggy. Like I swear, whenever I am bored enough to grab a wand outta my bank to play with on a training dummy, I guess to disappoint myself or something, I always get this feeling like the damn things got a mind of its own or something when it GCD locks me by shooting in between a spell here and there without my consent. Like it’s a straight up liability. It’s sad.
I’d at least like to stat stick it cause they’re pretty you know. But given a choice, if it were to not remain as a gcd interruption, I’d just really like a hide weapon mog cause. As a caster, who never uses weapons anyway, I really shouldn’t even have to have it displayed at all if I don’t want to.
Sure. Except for the fact you can’t even do THAT lololol. 
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There’s nothing wrong with being a Sith Lord and shooting force lightning from my finger tips, BUT I agree. It would be nice to use our wands to actually cast magic instead of being a stat stick.
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I had a wand crafted because I can mog it into swords and daggers.
frfr like i have a purple star glittery wand i want to use and the wands from bfa with the pretty crystals FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST LET US TMOG THEM OVER STAFFS AND 1 HS BLIZZ PLZ
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Would be nice if they could make spells come out of wands.
Make a macro for chaos bolt saying avada kadabra
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There’s an idea. I’ve often thought of it myself. Regardless of damage number crunching, it would be only a natural progression from how it is now, as these classes are potentially completely designed to compete with others without the need for auto attack. So a great way to represent the weapons we’re forced to have displayed on our characters, would be to incorporate them into our spell animations.
This is already even done for some classes. Destruction lock’s dimensional rift, for example. Only, as far as my test results have shown so far, wands barely show up in your hand during the animation. Same with daggers and swords actually. More often than not, does not show up. The animation really only works as intended, for staves. The other weapons also may show up in the character model’s hand more when it’s cast without weaving into cast rotation. For staves, this also doesn’t seem to be the case, as it seems to show up regardless of cast circumstances.
And you know that’s fine and all. But still can’t do it with wands. And that’s very disappointing in this case.
Right?? Seems like a no brainer. Why even have wands if they’re gonna be this bad. I would much prefer to actually use them since that’s the fantasy I wanted going into a class that can actually use a wand. Other classes cannot. So why is it useless for classes that can, a right apparently only reserved for characters that are forced to wear stat sticks with no real melee damage. At least give it some cosmetic use, ya know? Like if combat detects your caster using a wand, then like at least a few of your spells should be shootin out of the wand.
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