And I mean wands in a ranged slot for casters. Also, I don’t mean as a stat stick. It’s just to give the game a bit more of an RPG vibe for casters by allowing casters to do average damage with wands again.
It’s just a cool side thing that could be part of crafting or questing again. Have them be statless with damage types for fun. Like the Holy wand from the instance near molten core.
Wands still exsist it’s just as main hand off hand, the DMG is awful, but it’s there, makes more sense anyway, a mage wouldn’t really go from…using their staff, to suddenly, go through their pocket to bolt attack, Wands are still in Classic though
I wanna see a big BG with all casters having path of exile wands.
Kinetic blast, greater volley, chain, just PHHHHRRRRRAAAAAAABBBBBABBBABBABABABAB brrrrrr shotgunning the entire enemy team 500 yards away.
Wands were only “strong” in Classic, and even then, mostly because for their value to do manaless damage (for healers in raids) and for lowbie priests but only because their spells were much weaker than the other casters’ till 40.
After that, even they didn’t use it, except to finish enemies off.
And that was an era when our characters were very weak. There’s no way we’ll get to use them in Retail for actual effect