Stats Priority.

What are the stats priorities for weapons? Im a bit confused, got a new wand which was 8 lvls higher, but wasent a dps upgrade. So can anyone explain to me what i should go for when looking at weapons?

And i side question to all witches 40+ what weapons do you use? dual wands, wand and spirit shield or something third?

+spell damage %

For a standard witch build you probably want +spell damage% or +elemental damage%.

The main decision for a caster would be whether to use 2 wands or a wand and a shield. The 2 wands will give you a much greater ability to obtain offensive affixes like spell damage% while the shield will probably give you much more energyshield or armour/evasion and also block chance.

Both are viable choices, just depends on how you build the witch.

Okay, thanks :)
Seems like ive been doing it right then

spells do not use weapon damage.

If you want to build a wand attack build. powersiphon, etc, then wand damage matters.
Otherwise, its just the crit, spell damage, elemental damage, etc.

Wands, daggers, scepters. For a caster witch, these are your three prime choices. theres not much reason to use anything else. (bare in mind, summoner, melee, bow, wand attack, etc witches would have reasons for others)
Wands will have +spell damage.
Daggers +crit chance
scepters +elemental damage.

In most cases spell damage and elemental damage will be the same.
there are a couple places this is not true however. Added chaos damage support. is not elemental. Ethereal knives is not elemental. (its physical)

Daggers of course are crit.


Spirit shields offer +spell damage if you want that as well. I don't know of any reason to actually run 2 wands realistically.


Even more realistically, build defensive. There are tons of +damage on supports, and passives.
You want block, ES, and chaos/elem resist on your shield.
+15% spell damage on your shield is trifling into your +400 spell damage total.
+30 chaos resist is not trifling ever.


On your weapon.
I do kindof like daggers,(+80% global) with my crit multiplier build. But thats not absolute.

I think, I would place the on weapon order of importance as:

Faster cast
+crit chance
+spell damage
Mana regen.