Wand attack skill, soonish please

It would be nice to have some kind of special wand attack skill, in the short term, so we can mess with wand builds. Right now all we have is Elemental Hit, which is single target. It doesn't really matter what the skill does as long as it's a viable multi-target or AoE attack. Examples:

- Clone multi-shot, call it Ternion Attack

- Clone Strafe from D2, pew pew pew!

- Guided Arrow style projectile that pieces targets and flies in a twirling pattern

- Basic skill that simply adds AoE radius to wand bolts

Again, it doesn't matter. Just put it in with 0.9.3 so we can make wanders. Thanks

I think people forget frenzy because:

Wand damage is typically bad (beyond early game) unless you spec for wands (which is basically too hard to do with the current passive tree).

Wands are frequently selected based on the buffs they give to other things, not the damage they do (a damage 0, wand attacks are 100% slower, +100% damage to cold spells, cold gems +1 would be an amazing wand).

Wands are used by a class with major aoe and single target damage spells. Unless that class is out of mana, what would be the point? (There are already discussions about how to disable the "attack" option completely so that the left mouse button can be used for an additional skill slot.)

Most people don't pick witch type characters because they want to attack.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Why does everyone forget frenzy when listing skills which work on wands?
Also, both of those can be used with multiple projectiles support for a multi-target attack. There will be more wand skills in future, but you're going to have to be patient.

The reason I asked for it to be put in soon is that wands are really the only weapon type that can't be put to good use right now. Even if you were to throw in something completely slipshod and temporary, players could get to work on a whole new category of characters. It should be done soonish, just to get these characters into the game, and it doesn't seem like much work.

I did forget about Frenzy, but that's still just a single-target skill. It would need to be multi-target without support gems.

What about a support gem called “Bouncing projectile” which causes projectiles (wand only) to bounce off the targeted monster at a random direction.

Skill lasts 6 seconds
Projectiles to 10% less damage each target/wall they hit (up to a maximum of 5 targets)

This would be pretty awesome.

I'm really looking forward to the new Int/Dex class and I'm planning to use a wand with (her?).

I love playing ranged characters, but there is a serious lack of ranged weapon choices in the game.

So even though it looks like the new class is supposed to use claws or daggers, I'm going to try using a wand instead (I just hope one day we get throwing daggers!).

Anyway, I'm going to try building a character that uses the Ranger's Evasion gear (and a shield) and who invests points into Evasion/Critical/and Wand damage.

If wands are going to get some type of AoE attack then that would be just perfect!

Expelliarmus! :p

You can do a lot of magicky stuff with wand projectiles that wouldnt make sense with arrows.

-Boomerang: wand projectile turns into a spinning energy blade that can hit multiple targets, and pierce thru targets in a returning loop path.

-Whip: turns wand attack into a whip of energy, hitting enemies in a 90 degree cone centered around cursor/target.

-Guided missile: this should probably be a bow skill too, though.

-Blinding light: Blinds targets struck by the wand.


I have a lot of other ideas that are probably better off as general spells though (stuff like Black Hole or Deathray (names meant to be descriptive, not suggestive of actual ingame names :p ))

Laser beam !!

hit everything in a line :D

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zriL wrote:

Laser beam !!

hit everything in a line :D

And no one saw that one coming...