A Guide to Mages comment thread

[playingtokrush]

As a priest, I keep my wand skill up pretty high, because it's my primary damage dealer when in instance parties.  That and the occational SW:Pain when mana isn't too big of an issue.  My parties understandably want me to use my mana to heal them, so having a mana-free ranged attack is quite helpful.

Try leveling up the resist stick as a mage. Unless you're constantly in parties who don't mind you spewing resists and piddly damage at mobs, wands are very much garbage for mages.

On a side note, the same thing goes for shadow spec'd priests who solo often and warlocks who do more in combat than DoT and wand spam while the voidwalker tanks.

The damage bonus on Wand Specialization is too small to make it worth the investment, though.

There's no contention here. It's also important to note that you have to waste 10% of your talent points to max Wand Specialization, which makes it one of the worst talents in the game.