Wands Uber on Test Server

[Concillian]

I'm not sure I understand how you get wand DPS is displayed wand DPS/2.  It seems if you were perfectly timing your shoots, it would be somewhat better than that as wand speeds tend to be about 1.5, so wouldn't it be:

(min + max)/(2 * (wand speed + 1.0))
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Wands (and other ranged weapons) would attack at a speed of speed *2. They induced the global cooldown, but the cooldown on the ranged weapon was actually not equal to 1.0 seconds, but the speed of the weapon.

This is how if I used a dagger of speed < wand speed it would ALWAYS attack (automatically) during the cooldown of the wand. If the cooldown of the wand were 1.0 seconds, there would not be enough time for a dagger to attack during the cooldown.

I verified this by using a dagger of 0.1 seconds shorter than wand time and one of 0.1 seconds longer than wand time. The result was that the short speed dagger ALWAYS attacked in the cooldown time, and the longer speed dagger NEVER attacked during the cooldown time.

I'm not sure how the misconception that wand coodown = 1.0 seconds got started, but in the current version (not the version on the test realm) it's definitely not 1.0 seconds. It's even clearer when you use a warrior or roguw and shoot a bow/gun/crossbow with something like a 2.6 second cooldown. You have the global cooldown of 1.0 seconds, but the bow/gun/crossbow is less than halfway through it's own cooldown by the time you can use your other skills. Wands in that version seem to work exactly the same as other ranged weapons.

So all ranged weapons have an actual DPS of displayed DPS / 2. I do not know if they worked differently with hunters (as they have autoshoot), as I never played a hunter. Perhaps autoshoot somehow eliminates a significant portion of the time that other classes have to wait when using a ranged weapon.

No matter what though SOMETHING was bugged, either the displayed DPS, autoshoot, or shoot in general. Maybe this fix still leaves other ranged weapon users (warriors and rogues) with a bug of some sort, as they do not get the listed base DPS on their ranged weapons, it's half that.