Can someone explain this as im still learning classic aspects. What benefit is a wand used for?
Does lots of damage and doesn’t require mana.
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Conserves mana and actually does mad dps while leveling
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Wands only work through the shoot command right? Mh weapons dont cost anything either?
Wands typically do more DPS than a melee weapon for casters. While they don’t scale with any of your stats, a melee weapon scales with your stats but your melee stats are terrible.
Basically speaking, while a melee weapon might say “9 DPS”, getting the full value out of that requires you to have good attack power, which comes from strength.
Wands deal their full damage regardless of your stats (and they’re ranged), so you can confidently wand away without worrying about the fact that the 9 DPS mace is actually doing very little in your strengthless hands.
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MH weapons deal damage based on your Strength, which is terrible. Wands do better damage because they are not based on your strength.
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Yes, wands are the shoot ability in your spellbook. I got 5s and ran to Org, bought a lesser magic wand and it does about twice the damage my spells do. I dot, then wand.
So wands shoot are considered a spell instead of an auto attack? Or do wands only do damage based on the given wand your using?
Wands only deal damage based on the wands damage. This means your stats don’t make it better.
It’s just that melee weapons do deal damage based on your stats, and since you have very low melee oriented stats they’ll actually scale “down” compared to a melee character and deal almost no relevant damage.
Example at level 20:
Heavy Bronze Mace deals 12.86 DPS
Dusk Wand deals 17.65 DPS
If you had melee stats, the mace would actually deal significantly more than it’s listed damage, because it’s damage would be calculated alongside your strength/attack power (plus melee abilities).
Since you don’t have melee stats, it’s only going to do what it says at best, while the wand is going to deal almost 50% more DPS.
Ranged, reasonable damage for no mana, ignores armor.
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Wands are an attack, so spellpower doesn’t affect it. But they cost no mana and ignore armor.
Im at work, does shoot have a cd? Or is it spammable?
Thanks for the help all!
You activate shoot and it auto attacks. You have to stand still while shooting.
Wands autoshoot at the speed listed on the wand.
I believe several, mostly at high gear levels also function as a stat stick.
Gotta tap that judgement of wisdom for manaback
Expanding on this, you’ll find that as you get past level 10 or so that downtime is a real thing. You’ll run out of mana and need to drink after a few kills. If you can sub in a few wand attacks in place of another frostbolt, you’ll find that you can be more efficient with your uptime.
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Early on wands can do more dps than your main dps spells while costing no mana.
Adding wand attacks into your rotation reduced downtime to regain mana, and being efficient over a long period of time is better than killing a few mobs quickly and stopping to drink.
Once you go wands, you never go back.
Saves you tons of mana. Way more efficient for leveling. Get one as early as possible.