03-30-2005, 04:31 AM
The wand cooldown seems to be 1 second with an added fraction of a second that scales depending on the speed of the wand.
You can equip a very fast speed dagger with a very slow wand and such get swings out of your dagger between each wand cast. Because wand damage ignores armor, the higher the armor of the target the more actual damage the wand is doing relative to a staff. Such passive defenses as parry also do not affect wand attacks.
With a staff you can get a high damage first hit from melee range (depending on speed). You will need to use multiple wand attacks (or with a fast main hand weapon) for the damage to match (and/or surpass) over time.
You can equip a very fast speed dagger with a very slow wand and such get swings out of your dagger between each wand cast. Because wand damage ignores armor, the higher the armor of the target the more actual damage the wand is doing relative to a staff. Such passive defenses as parry also do not affect wand attacks.
With a staff you can get a high damage first hit from melee range (depending on speed). You will need to use multiple wand attacks (or with a fast main hand weapon) for the damage to match (and/or surpass) over time.