continuing, ive tried here to highlight what im actually looking at when i see the wands in this shop. BASICALLY what im looking for on a wand are:
- NO shuffle: this is the single most important stat on a wand if it is shuffle:yes then you can pretty much ignore the rest of the stats and just look at the spells on it. theres definitely cases where using shuffle wands is fine like when you have a single spell that you want to use then using shuffle doesnt matter because its always gonna be that spell. for example i frequently will put teleport on shuffle wands early on because they are usually pretty fast and the fact that its shuffling doesnt matter
-Mana charge speed: the rate that mana regenerates on the wand. higher is better. for the first shop you want something 50+, second shop 100+ ideally
all these wands you see that have less than like 45 mana charge speed should be ignored, they are practically useless in almost all cases
-recharge time: this is how long it takes the wand to "reload" after its fired all its spells. you want this to be as low as possible, aim for something lower than 0.6, it would be 0 ideally, this will give you nearly 2 shots per second and thats enough to deal with most threats early on given a decent payload of spells
-cast delay: this is the time between spells, lower is better, you want something lower than like 0.2 here, ideally 0
ill continue this thought in the next post