Are wands considered melee, magic, or neither?

Are they their own category when it comes to the passive tree? Do the melee, or magic damage nodes affect wand damage?

The wands are physical and projectile damage afaik.

Wands are a physical 1-handed ranged projectile weapon.

They can be dual-wielded and benefit from dual-wield passives and bonuses.

They can benefit from passives that augment "ranged attacks" such as Iron Grip and Point Blank.

They benefit from Projectile damage bonuses and effects.

Like all weapons they can have elemental damage added to their attack through auras, support gems, and item mods.

Thanks for the answer.

Does anyone know if it's been discussed about adding some more wand specific skill gems? Or have ranged skill gems affected wands in the past, but were deemed too overpowered?

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jvp wrote:

Thanks for the answer.

Does anyone know if it's been discussed about adding some more wand specific skill gems? Or have ranged skill gems affected wands in the past, but were deemed too overpowered?

I'm not sure on whether or not more wand specific spells are being added. As it stands wands can do damage with elemental and phys damage buffs on power siphon. Could a dev clarify if anything is in the works?

and if i spec into "wand elemental damage"

Will that damage translate into my spells? or only a % of the physical damage i do?

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Lootfool wrote:

and if i spec into "wand elemental damage"

Will that damage translate into my spells?

No.

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Lootfool wrote:

and if i spec into "wand elemental damage"

Will that damage translate into my spells? or only a % of the physical damage i do?

Wand elemental damage will only work with wand based attacks (at this stage the only spell is power siphon) and basic attacks with wands.

Wand elemental damage will also work with elemental hit.

What I don't get is that there are a ton of wand only nodes on the skill tree, yet there is only one-boring-skill gem specifically made for wands. Some skills go as far as saying works with all weapons EXCEPT wands? What up with that yo?

Elemental Hit works, but for all intents and purposes, it look exactly like Power Siphon when being used. Why not let some of the bow skill gems work with wands? What about Dual Strike and Double Strike?

If it's not considered OP, why not rename all the xxx Arrow skill gems to xxx Projectile gems? We're still in closed beta, I think it would be a good time to test something like this. If there are other, even more closed servers-which I think there are-have them test out using arrow skills with wands to see how it works.