Hello. On my empath I am training in magic item use so I can use wands. I have a couple of questions if anyone could help answer them.

First question: Is there a npc wand shop anywhere? Even if it's stupid expensive, I'm just curious to know if there's a shop with an endless supply of wands to get if you had the money. Preferably in the Landing would be nice, but if it's elsewhere I'll make the trek to get there. I was searching the web and saw an old post in 2009 of an npc named Krylonna. Is that still around? If so, where?

Second question: I'm only single training in magic item use. Mainly as part of my 8 ranks in magic stuff so I can get a runestaff rank each level for just in case and for the benefit of the magic item use. Anyone know how many ranks in magic item use you need for an empath to use a golden wand almost all the time? My plan is to take my 2x per level spell aiming ranks and make some good use out of wands to help me hunt when I'm older. I've heard mana can be an issue so wands are to help with that too.

Third question: I heard that when defending with a runestaff using a wand in the left hand doesn't count against you. Is that true? Would it be better for me to runestaff and wand stuff to fight at older levels, or would it be better to use a wand and shield combo. I'm trained in both at 1x per level.

Thanks for listening to me. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thank you very much.

>First question: Is there a npc wand shop anywhere? Even if it's stupid expensive, I'm just curious to know if there's a shop with an endless supply of wands to get if you had the money.

The NPC alchemist shops normally include wands in their stock, but it may not be the type you particularly want.
Pawnshops are cheaper, and since most people pawn wands they find in loot, they usually have wands in stock. When you are pawning other loot, buy a wand or three.
Player alchemists may have wands for sale in player shops, including spells that are not normally available by other means. Use something such as https://ps.lichproject.org/items to search for them.

>Second question: I'm only single training in magic item use. Mainly as part of my 8 ranks in magic stuff so I can get a runestaff rank each level for just in case and for the benefit of the magic item use. Anyone know how many ranks in magic item use you need for an empath to use a golden wand almost all the time? My plan is to take my 2x per level spell aiming ranks and make some good use out of wands to help me hunt when I'm older. I've heard mana can be an issue so wands are to help with that too.

Double train until you have enough. Its far more important than a fractional extra point of DS from your runestaff. At low level most of your runestaff DS comes from holding the runestaff.
Its probably around 20 ranks, I reckoned on 30 for everything and blue/crystal are harder. If you want reliable use when laden with loot, you'll need rather more, I actually double trained till I got to 40 ranks to cover for this.

It makes very little difference whether you have 7, or 8 or 9 runestaff ranks, 8 is a tie point in the comparison with THW training, not a key breakpoint. At level 80 you might notice the difference between 560 and 720 ranks, but at level 10 you won't notice the difference between 70 and 90. Get the magic skills you need and your runestaff defense will look after itself.

>Third question: I heard that when defending with a runestaff using a wand in the left hand doesn't count against you. Is that true? Would it be better for me to runestaff and wand stuff to fight at older levels, or would it be better to use a wand and shield combo. I'm trained in both at 1x per level.

Unless you have RP reasons for the shield, you'd be better to untrain it and use the points to double MIU. You can get better DS using a shield, but it costs you a lot of training points that can be put to good use elsewhere. While a wand doesn't get in the way of runestaff defense, it does prevent you using brawl or a weapon skill for defense with your shield (not that important at low level, but eventually having a weapon or brawling does become relevant to getting superior defense from shield)

Mana is tightest at low levels, its now that you want to be making the heaviest use of wands, not something that you want to wait till level 40 to set up.

You can hold scrolls or wands in your left hand and still get full defensive benefit from the runestaff in your right hand.

"look on mag[ic] table" is what I do when I get in there.

Since my Bard is a heavy user of Unravel, I stay on the lookout for blue and crystal wands all the time; most of the ones that get sold have never been used--they will cost around 2k for blue, and around 2.4k for crystal--which means that a friendly Mage can use Duplicate/918 on them, and I wind up with TWO wands.
If you find blue & crystal wands only costing about 700 or 1000 silvers, those have been used before and/or Duplicated, so that's why they cost less. You will get fewer waves out of them, and if you try to Duplicate an already-Duped one, the one that you have will 'poof' and you wind up with nothing.

When my wizard was starting out, I highlighted the wands I wanted to keep, had aliases for use with lich and ;go2 setup to go to each pawnshop sales room, and a script that would check the contents of the tables.



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