Wands Uber on Test Server

[Raelynn]

So, against an evenly matched druid or priest, if the RNG is rolling evenly, we'll both hit oom with a 1/4 or so of our hitpoints left (that's referencing a dozen duels and attempted ganks). Now, assuming they don't regen enough mana for a heal or nuke (what usually happens to end the fight), I have a shot at winning. Add in a wand doing 60dps nature damage (stormrager) at the end there when all they have is a staff or dagger normally. Add 60dps all that shiny armor does jack to protect against, and I will lose every fight, because oom, I do 90dps. 90. And they still get to mitigate some of that.
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Priests armor might get slightly higher, but the average I've seen for cloth casters with buffs is about 20% damage reduction. That would change 90 DPS to about 72 DPS. This is still higher than the 60DPS for the wand. Apparently the max for priests is about 30% requiring a deep discipline talent and a 3 minute spell (which may run out depending on the encounter), so that would bring you paladin down to 63 DPS, still slightly higher. Granted there is the range problem, but priests don't have a snare that doesn't require them to stand still and wands require them to stand still, so it's not as big a deal in this situation.

It's somewhat close, but wand dps doesn't seem like it'll ever trump melee dps at all. Cloth wearers just don't have enough means to mitigate the damage from the melee weapons and those will increase in damage most likely much faster than wand and spell damage (but that's for another discussion).