Are wands considered melee, magic, or neither?

Kinda makes me want to make a Dualist with wands... tri-stat allocation!

The Frenzy skill gem works with wands too. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yep, Frenzy with wand can be fun. :)

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Ryjeon wrote:

The Frenzy skill gem works with wands too. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It works.

The problem is, it's still just the same wand animation and projectile; it's still just used to augment the same two available primary gems, albeit slightly faster.

I counted the number of wand specific passives on the tree, and I think the number was twenty six. For a weapon type that only has two primary attack gems available from what I can see (Power Siphon and Elemental Hit), one of which is an all purpose skill, that ratio seems a little skewed in the negative direction.

I will say this: wands are weak and very low on accuracy.

If anyone can come up with a viable wand witch that isn't just a spellcaster spamming spells all day, I'd love to see it.

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Islidox wrote:

I will say this: wands are weak and very low on accuracy.

If anyone can come up with a viable wand witch that isn't just a spellcaster spamming spells all day, I'd love to see it.

you can get 3x damage multiplier off wands with the wand specific skills alone, hell there's even a single skill that grants 50% increased phys damage :p

Then comes all the dual-wield skills, projectile damage skills, increased weapon elemental damage.

Wands are viable if you're creative :)

*Edit*

Made a witch and went for wands, currently level 17 and got barely 130 dps on the tooltip for my wand, also just reached Act II and haven't died yet.

Usually 1hit normal monsters, Firestorm takes care of groups.

Seems solid, albeit a bit slow compared to my marauder.