Are wands strictly for stat or does the damage type (fire/water/air..etc) really matter?
If I use heavy water damage in my abilities, should I have a water damage wand to enhance my damage is what I'm asking.
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Does the "damage type" of a wand really matter?
Are wands strictly for stat or does the damage type (fire/water/air..etc) really matter?
If I use heavy water damage in my abilities, should I have a water damage wand to enhance my damage is what I'm asking.
Wand damage has no effect on your ability damage. But! It can be nice to have a wand of a type you don't otherwise have in case of resistances. Not that much in Rift has noticeable elemental resists; they pointed out that it's simply not *fun* for players to be unable to use their abilities.
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No, I think it's just for the auto attack, but since caster ranged auto attack is completely broken it doesn't really matter.Originally Posted by Neo Omni
No doubt... three seconds to fire off, ugh.
Wand auto-attack 9000 GO!
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wait for it...
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wait for it...
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42
Well, everyone's auto attack is pretty lame, but I'm pretty sure if you are a catser and turn on ranged auto attack and then cast anything, it will use your main hand for the animation, and then turn off your ranged auto attack so you don't even get the 42...
But... but... how can this be? 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Wands are only for stats at the moment.
Their damage does not affect your spell's damage.
I hope that one day they will actually be useful and not useless.
In WoW they were a good way to do a some dps while conserving mana.
Seeing as Rift is easy-mode and all casters have infinite mana, it doesn't really matter for that.
You guys must not being doing it with raid buffs. I get a solid 80-100 dps from my ranged auto attacks.
I knew I was doing it wrong. Such a complicated rotation, think I'll go roll mm.
Not sure if it's still possible, but fire wands used to proc pyromancer armor.
Try it out, it's funny. :P
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screen or it didn't happen.
Parses or it didn't happen. I've tried and tried, but unless I stop casting anything the auto attack just shuts off and goes back to melee auto-attack.
Guess it was humor
If you macro startrangedattack after all your instant cast spells, and spam them in between GCDs, you will get wand blasts occasionally.
The first issue is it only works after instant or very fast casts, so the DPS won't be the same as just wand spamming raid buffed, however it can be 50 ish dps depending on spec (amount of instants used).
The second issue is, it seams to autotarget and wand stuff, even if smarttarget is turned off, so it can be dangerous.
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