I have a total of 54 additional shadow damage through gear, and I’m using a shadow wand. But despite the character info screen showing I should be doing more damage with the wand, I am not. The damage is the same as if I had no shadow damage gear.
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Wands in vanilla/classic scale off ranged attack power, not spell power.
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God could you imagine if these machine gun wands could benefit from +54 dmg at level 24?!
Then why does the character info screen say it does?
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Thank you! I’ve been wondering where to look for an answer to this.
I have +95 fire in gear and according to the char stats, it increases my wand damage when equipping a fire attack-based wand. The damage boost listed disappears when equipping a non-fire wand. However, when in use, the fire-based wand still acts as though it isn’t boosted, with an output of base damage/dps.
If it doesn’t actually boost wand damage, then why does the character info say it does?
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I’ve been seeing this too. I was super excited to see my wand damage so high in the Character window until I actually hit a mob and didn’t see any added bonus damage. Hopefully they fix this visual bug!
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I actually submitted this as a bug in game…
I have the skycaller. 21.6 dps
Priest wand talent for +25% damage
Then +37 via arcane damage gear
CharacterMenu states wand damage is boosted. Shows GREEN damage, of 76-103. Highlighting it states 55.9 DPS…
Yet, recount shows me doing 35 DPS all day long, which is about HALF what tanks/DPS are doing for my level. if the wand boost WORKED like it should (in my mind) then I would be right up there DPS wise. granted, the downside would be pulling threat. HOWEVER, silent resolve can fix that with 5 ranks for 20%, thus you become a healing dps combo, LIKE I DID IN CLASSIC.
I specifically remember in classic being a wand priest, not shadow, but arcane damage, and it used to boost back then. So either they changed it and forgot to fix the character menu, or the character menu is right and the game is simply broken. i refuse to play my priest until i get a definitive answer from blizzard…
TAKE OFF ALL GEAR for bonus to arcane… and now it states 3-57 GREY and DPS is stated to be 27… which with 25% wand damage talent, that’s about 34 DPS which is EXACTLY what i get (35 generally).
As far as being “overpowering” that’s the point of having GEAR to help boost damage… That’s like saying its WRONG for a warrior to have +str gear because it gives them too much extra melee damage. its absolutely ridiculous. Or being wrong for a rogue to have agility to boost critical… you wouldn’t complain for those classes now would you… its like people don’t want priests to be viable for damage, “heal only” attitude like those private server paladins…
Which reminds me of paladin on private servers. The owners of those servers HATED that in classic wow, classes generally were NOT balanced, and the paladin was the all time bad mofo… I lived it, I know. So all these kids coming from private servers who never played classic or sucked at classic, didn’t know paladins were the OG in real classic. TBC changed that meme of course. But that’s how classic was, unbalanced.
blizzard, fix wands. do it right. don’t be a _____
Can confirm, ranged damage shows 113-148 (52-87 + 61) and only hits within the range of 52-87. This is using the shadow damage Gravestone Scepter and +61 spell power increase.
Looked through the “Not a bug” post and the “Known issues” post and saw no mention of this topic, so hopefully a fix will come soon (even if it says, “Not going to happen”).
Wand damage was not affected by spellpower in vanilla. It is affected by attack speed. Try wearing a quiver.
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Whether it was or it wasn’t, the tooltip in the character stats when hovering over the ranged damage is incorrect. The bug is that spell power isn’t properly augmenting wand damage or that the tooltip is incorrectly displaying augmented damage from spell power.
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attack speed doesn’t matter. what is quoted in the character menu should be seen in the raw game itself. if it says 55.9 dps with my wand, i should see that damage but i only get 35. if a warrior had 60dps and the game only gave them 30 people would lose their !@#$ing minds. wands are BROKEN. I don’t care what people say “was in classic” because as it currently stands, in classic, the page clearly shows +damage gear for magic effects wands.
so either they need to fix the character menu which is wrong, or the menu is right and they need to fix wands…
side note quiver does work with wands. 1.5 second wand, 10 attacks would be 15 seconds. with quiver i got 14 seconds. which is 10% faster. so yes, quivers work, but a quiver will not make me get anywhere near close to 55.9 DPS from the 35 i actually get… broken is broken.
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Attack speed does matter. Test it out before posting false information please. Spell damage does not affect wands in vanilla. If it shows in the tooltip, that is a tooltip bug. I played back in 2004, I remember this. Sorry but you aren’t going to get spellpower with your wand damage.
Moonwillow is correct. Spell damage definitely does not affect wands. However, if your character screen is showing that spell damage increases your wand damage, then that part is indeed a bug.
bruh, i literally said its a bug either way, learn to !@#$ing read.
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I’m correct.
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Can we get a Blue post to clarify this issue?
I submitted it as a bug. My character sheet shows my + shadow damage gear modifying my Wand damage (Gravestone Scepter). Either the character sheet or the damage is bugged.
If it is the character sheet, it needs to be fixed or noted as a bug, as it is very misleading. I spent a couple gold on +Shadow damage gear believing it would enhance all of my attacks, whereas it seems only to improve 50% of my damage.
Separate question, does Agility modify critical hit chance for Wands? Or is that Intellect?
Thanking Blizzard in advance for a Blue post to answer the above two question.
agility can still effect wand critical. this from what ive seen still works as it should
Okay so I just want to update to say blizzard doesn’t care… I have submitted 4 in game bug reports about the wand and we have heard nothing. So I contacted my servers GM and according to the GM, NO ONE HAS SUBMITTED WAND BUGS… NO ONE. Which to me tells me that either blizzards saw it, didn’t care and deleted them, or bug reporting doesn’t actually do anything. Either way,
BLIZZARD DOESN’T CARE
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Having the same issue. Can Blizzard confirm this is a bug or just a #nochange thing?
The character info showing you increased damage is the bug. I think it did that in vanilla too, though. Wands never got bonus from spell damage.
They will get buffed by something like curse of shadows/elements on the target, though.