0.20 Wand Spellpower & Wand of Clouds

[MainiacJoe]

I know it was buffed. What are the new numbers, please?

Related: what are the Evocs breakpoints for cloud types with wand of clouds? Knowledge bot says simply, "low, medium, high" and wiki has no entry for the item.

[MainiacJoe]

Found the spellpower commit. I literally did't think to search commits until just now

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... ed0e7b4d77

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Make wand power scale better with Evocations skill

From 15 + Evo * 2.5 to 15 + Evo * 3.5, slightly higher than rod evocations
scaling used to be.

Maxes out at 110 now instead of 83.

[njvack]

All I can say is wand of clouds with 20 evo is baller as hell

[amaril]

All I can say is wand of clouds with 20 evo is baller as hell

...and with 15 evo...and 10...5...0 (although it's basically cloudcone meph at that point). It's true tho that corrosive clouds are nuts, as are negative energy/thunderstorm against enemies that can't resist them.

[MainiacJoe]

If the underlying Cloud Cone spell didn't change its spellpower breakpoints, by converting the former rod spellpower formula of 5+3Evo into the new wand spellpower formula of 15+7Evo/2 we get these new Evo breakpoints:

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CloudType   OldMinEvo  OldMaxEvo  NewMinEvo  NewMaxEvo
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Mist            0          15      Removed from wand
Rain            0          15      Removed from wand         
Noxious         0          15        0         10
Fire            0          27        0         27
Freezing        0          27        0         27
Poison          0          27        0         27
Negative        4.3        27        5.9       27 
Lightning       7.2        27        8.4       27
Acidic          7.2        27        8.4       27

So it looks like this wand rewards modest Evo investment very well.