Wands Uber on Test Server

[Rinnhart]

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).
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Here's a question: why do casters need wands in the first place? Making a secondary, wholely elemental damage source for the classes that already do 99% elemental damage seems counterproductive given the existing talent and skill focus on physical defense.