Wands

[savaughn]

I would disagree that there's anything tedious about using a wand. I'm in the process of playing (yet another) priest through on the Azgalor server since I have some friends I'd like to play with over there. She's level 14 and just found a wand that pops for over 10dps - well above what I'd expect to get off of a staff or 1H mace at that level. She simply swaps out her staff attacks for wand attacks and does does far more damage. In looking at the available wands I've noticed that wand damage at a given level should continue to progress at about this same rate. MOST caster classes expect to push a button every 1.5s or so. The fact that it's a wand instead of something else isn't really that big a deal - especially when you remember that wand damage skips armor reduction, hitting all the harder.

At the top end, a level 60 can expect to pick up a wand hitting for over 62dps. If you swing that stick you're carrying, consider wanding instead.