Question: Is using two wands or a wand and a spirit shield better?

Question's up there. Alternatively, another route could be duel wielding spirit sheilds but I doubt that would be very effective aside from not getting hit half the time. Might be decent if those shields had some mana regen or max mana increase mods on them so that you could keep casting spells since you wouldn't be able to auto attack or whatever it's called. lol

Anyway, if someone could answer that for me that'd be great. I'm going for a witch of flames, so I'm trying to decide between two wands or a wand and a shield or as I explained above a shield and another shield.

Spirit shields, mind you. Assume they are of about the same level/stats. So not like legendary shield over normal wand. : P

Thanks! <3

Wands could give you additional chit chance but using a shield would make you sturdier.

I am using a wand and a Archon Kite Shield in HC
and a wand and a spirit shield in softporn.

In most cases, damage isn't the problem, and I have never seen the need for the extra few points of crit or spell damage.
The defenses are more important to me.

But then again, I am a big sissy, lots of people PWN softcore with dual wielding wands.



I think, though, that dual wielding lets you kill faster
- but the more you progress, the more enemies you will find that you can't simply one-shot because they have so much HP and resistances. And then you might need the extra points in resistance, ES or HP that a shield gives you. And dying in the ultra-lategame, even in softcore, costs you dearly.