Wands

[malphigian]

Be careful with those numbers.  For one thing, there's a one second delay after shooting a wand before you can do anything else, so really that 1.5 second attack speed wand has an effective attack speed of 2.5 seconds.  Second, staff attacks get bonuses from your strength and Inner Fire attack power bonuses.  My level 60 priestess definitely gets more dps from staff attacks than wand attacks.  Of course, wands are nice when you don't want to stand next to a mob.
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This is as good a place as any to ask I question I had. Someone over on the Basin forums posted a "trick", and I've been trying to figure out if it makes sense or not.

If you are melee and watch the combat log, you'll notice the hit/miss messages come up *before* your weapon swing. You can initiate your wand during this time and it will interrupt the weapon swing animation, you will then proceed to swing again after the wand fires. (it helps to set your hit/miss messages to some garish color).

What I have not done is clocked my DPS to see if this is actually increasing it -- that is, if I'm managing to overlap the wand cooldown and weapon delay.

Anyone tried this?