05-13-2005, 03:15 AM
One of many posts about it is here.
I found the change to wands as auto-shot very surprising. This was something that was asked for all beta long and I could SWEAR Blizzard said that there was no way they were going to do it.
What's held wands in check for so long is that:
1) You have to manually fire them each time.
2) They have a "global cooldown" - when you fire a wand you can't use ANY other offensive spell for a whole second.
Take that away, and the whole dynamic is changed for casters. I noted for a long time that my wand DPS typically beat my melee DPS on my Priest, even with Inner Fire. However, sometimes I didn't feel like standing there and clicking for each shot, so I'd do the "lazy man's" offense and turn on Attack to let her beat something down in the slow, slow way that holy Priests do. There's no way I'd bother with that anymore. Wand autoshot would make her uber!
I don't know about that poster's fantastical claim that wand DPS outshines Hunter DPS now (I'd have to see that to believe it), but I'd bet that wand damage needs a good nerf if they slap autoshot on it as they currently have on the test server. Every Priest out there has got to be salivating over this - Priests use wands more than anybody when in groups, as it lets them do moderate damage from a safe distance while not sacrificing precious healing mana.
It will also make the +wand damage talents that some classes have more useful. But HOW useful?
-Bolty
I found the change to wands as auto-shot very surprising. This was something that was asked for all beta long and I could SWEAR Blizzard said that there was no way they were going to do it.
What's held wands in check for so long is that:
1) You have to manually fire them each time.
2) They have a "global cooldown" - when you fire a wand you can't use ANY other offensive spell for a whole second.
Take that away, and the whole dynamic is changed for casters. I noted for a long time that my wand DPS typically beat my melee DPS on my Priest, even with Inner Fire. However, sometimes I didn't feel like standing there and clicking for each shot, so I'd do the "lazy man's" offense and turn on Attack to let her beat something down in the slow, slow way that holy Priests do. There's no way I'd bother with that anymore. Wand autoshot would make her uber!
I don't know about that poster's fantastical claim that wand DPS outshines Hunter DPS now (I'd have to see that to believe it), but I'd bet that wand damage needs a good nerf if they slap autoshot on it as they currently have on the test server. Every Priest out there has got to be salivating over this - Priests use wands more than anybody when in groups, as it lets them do moderate damage from a safe distance while not sacrificing precious healing mana.
It will also make the +wand damage talents that some classes have more useful. But HOW useful?
-Bolty
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