Change "X Arrow" skill gems to "X Shot" to allow use with wands

I love wands and I was pretty dissapointed that there wern't any(?) AoE attacks that work with them. I'm not including multiple projectiles here, since that's not a true AoE.

What I'd really like to see would be the Arrow type skill gems (e.g. Poison, Explosive, Fire, Lightning) to become Shot skill gems, so that they work with wands as well as bows.

Just a simple change really, but one which would make wands a more interesting weapon to use.

Yeah would also love to see more wand skills.

Let's all hope for a bunch of new skills in 0.9.12!

On my wish list is:

Lightningbeam from Act2 boss or something like that
Ice Arrow (comming)
More Wand skills
More Dual Wield skills
more minions!

arrows and spells do not behave the same way mechanically, this is why you need to have accuracy to shoot a bow and you don't to shoot a fireball. You can see a more in depth explanation in the mechanics thread, but suffice to say, your suggestion wouldn't work.

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Wittgenstein wrote:

arrows and spells do not behave the same way mechanically, this is why you need to have accuracy to shoot a bow and you don't to shoot a fireball.

True, but wands are not spells, and also use accuracy.(..right?)

That being said, I disagree with OP because, wand users generally have high INT, in order to use those wands. High INT users have access to a lot of spells they can use, while using said wands. However, bow users don't really have any such synergy, so the bow skills are kind of their corner's advantage.

But then again, I'm an avid bow user, so maybe I'm a little biased. =)

I have a character that just uses a wand to attack. It's been working alright so far, into merciless, but the lack of skill options makes it rather boring when compared to the bow. There is only ONE wand-specific attack skill, which happens to be pretty good... but some versatility would help.

Generic Elemental Hit and Frenzy are the only other skills that can work with wands (I think...), but you need to spend in dexterity to upgrade them, which is only natural, I suppose, to get more accuracy.

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Wittgenstein wrote:

arrows and spells do not behave the same way mechanically, this is why you need to have accuracy to shoot a bow and you don't to shoot a fireball.

He's not talking about spells, but attacking with wands. That requires accuracy.

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ac429 wrote:

That being said, I disagree with OP because, wand users generally have high INT, in order to use those wands. High INT users have access to a lot of spells they can use, while using said wands. However, bow users don't really have any such synergy, so the bow skills are kind of their corner's advantage.

But then again, I'm an avid bow user, so maybe I'm a little biased. =)

Not all wand users are spell users though. With the number of wand nodes on the passive tree, you can get quite powerful with them. There's just a lack of utility with skill gems.

my mistake!

Considering the 3 socket limit on wands, this would be interesting to see in action. I love my bows, but a poison or lightning shot wand could be fun to play around with.

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ac429 wrote:

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Wittgenstein wrote:

arrows and spells do not behave the same way mechanically, this is why you need to have accuracy to shoot a bow and you don't to shoot a fireball.

True, but wands are not spells, and also use accuracy.(..right?)

That being said, I disagree with OP because, wand users generally have high INT, in order to use those wands. High INT users have access to a lot of spells they can use, while using said wands. However, bow users don't really have any such synergy, so the bow skills are kind of their corner's advantage.

But then again, I'm an avid bow user, so maybe I'm a little biased. =)

My dual wand Shadow doesn't use any spells though :( I love how I can dual wield wands and do pretty well with the single target attacks, I'd just love to see some AoE options with the wand attacks as well and making "arrow" attacks into "shot" attacks was the simplest way I could think of it being achieved :)

Suggestions: Rain of energy projectiles, Poison energy projectile, Burning energy projectile, Split energy projectile, Explosive energy projectile, Lightning energy projectile.

There you go, easy!