Just got a wand, but it doesn't shoot

Level 58 Undead Demonology Warlock here, just picked up Gorewrought Wand as a quest reward, but for some reason it doesn’t shoot. Tried auto attack, tried the Shoot button, nothing works. Anybody any idea why? (Before anyone asks, NO, I haven’t just dragged the wand itself to the taskbar, it’s definitely the Shoot button I’m using.)

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Hate to ask this, but, have you actually equipped it, or are you trying to use it from your bags?

It needs to be equipped in a weapon slot.

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Yes, it’s equipped. It’s showing in my hand as I walk around. It just doesn’t fire.

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Okay, I have no idea then, sorry :frowning:

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Ah well, cheers anyway. :slight_smile:

Retail ain’t like Classic, it’s a stat stick, not for shooting.

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Seriously? So it doesn’t actually do anything any more? There’s a Shoot button that doesn’t do anything, by design? It’s a weapon that you can’t fight with? That’s pretty bloody stupid.

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No kidding it does pitiful damage. I mean 11dps?

11dps is bad enough, but this thing isn’t doing ANYTHING. It’s no more use than the thing in my offhand.

I don’t have a wand so I can’t test it but they are like staves now.

At least you can melee with staves. A wand is meant to be a ranged weapon, but this is literally just a stick.

Silly question but is it transmogged?

You can’t shoot a wand when it’s transmogged into something else.

No, I never bother transmogging. I just got it as a quest reward yesterday and equipped it straight away.

does the chat command /cast shoot or /cast !shoot work?

Good question. Not sure. Will go try it now…

Make sure you target something first.

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Thanks for that pointer. I’ve been playing WoW since Burning Crusade came out the first time round, so I’ve just about got the hang of that side of it… :wink:

EDIT: No, neither of the /cast things work.

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Sadly I just got rid of my wand on my mage so I cant test it, but we did have 2 mages in our raid group in BfA whom we nicknamed “The Wanderers” as they were notorious for accidentally right clicking a boss before pull and shooting their wands… so it was working then…

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Same problem. Shoot does NOTHING. It’s not about the damage, I wouldn’t use it for rotational dps anyway. But it’s a function that is not working. At all.

Neither shoot nor auto attack. Yes it’s equipped. No it’s not transmogged.

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Sad when your wand shoots blanks.

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