Wand Mechanics

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Description says that Wands are Ranged weapons, therefore I wonder whether to focus at physical, spell or both to improve wand output.

Which ones apply?

Physical:

  • Agility increase damage and critical
  • Attack power increases damage
  • Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%.
  • Increases ranged attack speed by 15%.
  • Permanently enchant gloves to grant a +1% attack speed bonus.
  • +20 Attack Power.

Spell:

  • Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 33.
  • Increases damage done by Shadow spells and effects by up to 30.
  • Improves your chance to get a critical strike with spells by 1%.

My understanding and a bit of testing shows that Agility increases attack power and critical, however all wands have spell damage and I cannot see talents like Shadow Focus (Priest) are not applied the output as they should.

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Agility is the worse stat alongside strength on wands ever.
Bonus spellpower is always better .

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Of course it sounds ridiculous to make mage geared in strength gear. My question is what actually applies to wands :slight_smile:

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Seeing as they do school spell damage (fire, nature, etc) it might be spellpower.

Although I don’t recall spell power increasing wand damage.

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Alight, how about

  • Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%
    or
  • Improves your chance to get a critical strike with spells by 1%

Shadow Focus talent clearly does’t apply. Shadow spells are fine, rarely resist where shadow damage wand… resist, resist, resist… or is it just a bug?

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They do spell damage not physical damage.

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I noticed increased critical while stacking up agility.

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