Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?


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Post Tuesday, 21st June 2016, 23:03

Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

This is I'm sure a simple question, but I'm just not seeing it. If I'm a melee dude and I can spend some of the MP I'm not using for anything else to get an evocables enhancer, what's not to like? And if I'm a caster, I'm probably not using wands much anyway?
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Post Tuesday, 21st June 2016, 23:06

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

Because in an emergency you cant zap all the AoE wands you have. And later in the game you cant zap tele/heal/hasting if you ran out of mana.

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Post Tuesday, 21st June 2016, 23:08

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

If you're a worshiper of Pakellas it's especially bad.
If you're a DD worshiper of Pakellas...he died.

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Post Tuesday, 21st June 2016, 23:12

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

If it only affected the wands where the power increase does something it might be good, but it doesn't so it's bad.

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Post Tuesday, 21st June 2016, 23:18

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

Okay, those explanations make sense. Thanks.
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Post Wednesday, 11th January 2017, 21:59

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

crate wrote:If it only affected the wands where the power increase does something it might be good, but it doesn't so it's bad.

Now that the yellow wands have been removed, is this mutation more useful nowadays, or still always bad?
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Post Wednesday, 11th January 2017, 22:01

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

It's probably not bad now that there is no wand that you want to zap repeatedly to survive.
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Post Thursday, 12th January 2017, 00:27

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

It's probably still awful for casters.

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Post Thursday, 12th January 2017, 17:42

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

Since casters tend to fall back on wands when out of MP, it is terrible for them.

Otherwise (when you don't have spirit shield) quite good
I'm with tasonir on this one.

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Post Friday, 13th January 2017, 17:18

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

It's basically irrelevant for everyone, including casters as they favor backing up instead of zapping wands.

Dedicated evocations users probably enjoy the firepower boost.
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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 07:23

Re: Why is MP Powered Wands Bad?

Rast wrote:It's probably still awful for casters.


It's still shitty if you wear guardian spirit and you want to fall back on a wand after fighting in melee for a while.

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