Leveling a priest and just realized how good this is. The +25% wand damage talent for priests multiplies on top of the wizard oil. At level 19 with a greater magic wand, the +8 wizard oil on my staff adds 10 damage (7 dps) to the wand, a 40% increase to wand dps. Crazy good.
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I thought wands didn’t benefit from spell power?
They don’t. OP doesn’t know what they’re talking about. I don’t think Wizard oil is even in the game yet. Unless talking about Era. Probably a bot post.
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Literally shows right on the ranged damage tooltip when I apply the oil.
Playing on westfall / classic only, not anniversary/sod.
You might want to actually test it, not just look at the character sheet. If its actually boosting damage, it’s likely a bug as nothing really should boost wand damage, outside of the priest talent, this includes anything that adds spellpower, and is one of the reasons wands have higher DPS then melee weapons.
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I’ll test, it could just be a tooltip/character sheet bug
I have tested my dagger and mace with and without minor wizard oil. They are both uncommon green weapons. Their damage remains the same. The wand damage doesn’t increase either, but wizard oil cannot be applied to wands. The only advantage I’ve seen so far is that I gain enchanting skill when I make wizard oil.
Do you get increased wand damage when you apply the oil to your weapon, e.g., your mace? Or does your mace cause increased damage. I don’t see either happening when I use the oil on my weapon.
TESTING THIS NOW on Classic Era.
On my mage now… my mage has bad gear Wand damage is 44 to 77 no buffs and testing in Stocks, its most certainly doing the 44 to 77 damage.
Now I am applying Brillliant Wizard oil… this adds 36 spell damage and 1% crft… If my want does more than 77 damage I will be surprised.
ZERO change was made… Something else has given you a damage bonus, perhaps a talent you selected? The wand spec is powerful, that is likely the source.
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This game is over 20 years old and people still don’t know how wands work. Spell power and spell crit do literally nothing for wands. The wand dmg displayed on your character sheet is bugged.
However agility DOES increase ranged crit which DOES apply to wands.
Opie probably did as well back in January and that’s why they forgot to come back to report.
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oh my god, they got me… normally I notice dates like that… RIP me,.
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There is another thing that increases wand damage and that is increases to the damage source, for example shadow vulnerability increases shadow damage from wands. That’s why levelling priests will sometimes buy the level 40 common quality wand from wand vendors, its a strong shadow damage wand at that level, combined with shadow form, the wand does a sizeable amount of damage for the level.
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I could also imagine the imp scorch doing so for fire damage wands.
wish I learnt this eons ago
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No tears, Cezar.
Thanking Teacher Cezar (and others) for the lesson.
Thankful to be here for it.
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Thought wizard oil was something I missed from the Diddy trial but I guess not…