New Duelling Wand is Absolutely Broken (OSRS) 

nevermind they completely changed it

They need to pick one. It either needs to be elemental so it benefits from the tome they're adding OR it needs to be a comparable spell to un-elemental ones like powered staves/Iban's. Making it do both eliminates the whole point of project rebalance

This update proposal made me realize just how undertuned warped septre actually is lol

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I don't think it will be less annoying than Iban's assuming it eats up pages from the tome to give the 10% bonus.

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Forgot to mention this weapon is going to have a 10 TILE attack range, which also can affect DPS positively too

Scrap the Earth spell. With a name like "dueling wand" it should be able to cast any elemental spells at 3 ticks with reduced max hits and range. Make it sit between standard casts and the Harm nm staff for dps. Harm staff is a HUGE jump in DPS, rarity and price. There's space to be filled there.

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when are those weaknesses coming anyway?

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I don't think it is broken. It is only stronger than ibans/warped when using pages and/or against monsters weak to that element. Will something like trident of the seas also count as elemental (water), giving it the edge in some cases? At that point it just depends on the monster. Toxic trident is better at any highish magic level. The two great things about this wand though are the fast speed as you point out (hit many low-health enemies) and long attack range.

That's.. kind of a crazy mid game wand. It functions like a 3-Tick powered staff that's boosted by the tome of earth AND has a 30% chance to not consume runes. That seems pretty overtuned for a mid game wand no? *Unless Kodai is getting changed the dueling wand has a higher chance to not consume runes than it does.

Do the dps calc at each level. They were very selective about which levels they chose so it’s misleading. Check at levels where trident and warped sceptre gain max hits instead of their chosen ones and you might see those points of more/less damage go to a few levels lower

You can't use thralls with it, for anyone with 76+ Magic that's 0.625 dps that powered staves get that this doesn't get. Even against monsters with Earth weaknesses, this is worse than Earth Surge from a Smoke Battlestaff or Staff of the Dead or Kodai Wand, not to mention the Harm Staff. It's only better than Iban Blast if you have a Tome of Earth, so I'm not even sure if it's worth it at Barrows since you have to give up your Ghommal's Hilt. So this weapon's niche is... slayer tasks you should skip, but only for low levels? It seems unreal that a group boss drop would get outclassed by items that cost less than 3 million coins.

You overlooked that the earth spells in the standard spell book will scale up to the fire spells damage

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The amount of runes you save is based on the following infinite sum: Sum of N = 0 to infinity of (1/3)^N. This sum gives the probability of saving a death rune for N consecutive times. The sum converges to 0.5, which means for every death rune you save half a death rune. I also want to add that the charts confuse me greatly. Why does the warped sceptre and Iban Blast break even in their dps AFTER 85 magic when warped sceptre has a max hit of 20 at 81-85 magic, making it equal in power with the iban blast at those levels when you take difference of ticks into account. That's just one of many weird inconsistencies in the dps chart.

“Until 85 magic” is nothing though, considering this combo is a pair of rare drops from a boss. You’ll be lucky to get it by 75 magic and use it for a week. It’ll be fun when the next league starts in varlamore I guess.

i really don't see it being on arceus spellbook, it seems like the whole point of the elemental damage thing was to breathe some life back into standards, but this wand really doesnt compete very well with charged staves. sure its better damage than a warped sceptre until 95, but i think most accounts will have a trident before that point. the key thing is not being able to benefit from smelling salts, or overloads since spells dont have the scaling max hit powered staves do. at 75 magic using an overload you get 18 levels, boosting you to 93 magic so your dps is better already, and smelling salts have an even bigger boost of 23 putting you at 98. this guts the dueling wands dps in cox and toa, and the places you mage outside of that matter a lot less. the earth attribute could be useful if we knew more mobs that are going to be weak to it, but as of right now all we know are metal drags, waterfiends, and wyrms. 2 of these are skips for a majority of players, and the other one is a mid tier slayer mob.

I hope the wand is useful. Most everything I've read online is people saying it is way too niche.

Pretty sure they said in Project Rebalance powered staves don’t benefit from the elemental weakness system. Nothing in this blog to say this weapon would be any different. Ibans is not fire This won’t be earth

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Warped scepter using Chaos runes still gives it a solid niche. Will still be recommended for stuff like Barrows and safe spotting Rex.

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Realistically it really depends on rate of pages. I can't see myself constantly going to restock pages on a boss that I feasibly can't solo to use it constantly.

so now i gotta cram a mage cape into my smage role at tob and the runes to cast it. i suppose i can use mist runes and then earth tome

I can only get behind this if Jagex confirms that Tome of Wrath is in the pipeline. The Tome of wrath must have a 200% magic damage boost to surge spells and it must have a 99% chance of saving runes in the process. It also needs only 1 page to fully charge it permanently.

Honestly, I think the weapon on its own is fine. Especially if it can only be used on the standard spellbook, that seems fine! It only seems overtuned when compared to the warped scepter. The scepter just came out and is already outclassed, that is a PROBLEM.

Can't speak for mains but I think it'll probably be fairly niche at least for us irons. Based on what they've said about the boss's intended difficulty it looks like you'll still have to rely on iban's staff/warped sceptre for awhile before you can even do the boss. Once you have the wand it would obviously be better than those for something with an earth weakness, but beyond that I think you're still going to have to pick and choose what you use it on because it being a 3t, low max hit spell will absolutely rip through tome charges. Assuming muddy pages add 20 charges like other pages do then casting the spell continuously would use over a page and a half a minute

man this game is changing fast

What you didn't consider is the 1 tick delay when attacking after moving. Trident doesn't have that since it's not a spell. (Unless this was changed without my knowledge)

I don’t think it’s overpowered at all, just seems kinda almost useless. By the time you could probably relatively kill this boss, you would probably have much better mage gear, the people that would be farming this boss this is a useless item, and the low levels that this benefit probably won’t be killing this boss I assume. This is just for them to push the elemental weakness and tome rebalances

Feel like this entirely depends on whether it's worth to grind from a time perspective - like, if it's actually a lengthy grind i dont see this being worth doing .

Depending on the required spellbook, I might be using this at Nylos in ToB. Although after reading the comments, I do agree that a powered staff shouldn't be benefiting from elemental weaknesses. It completely undermines the system before it's even released.

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duelling wand sound like its two hands weapon based on name

Everything broken to you lol

This is basically a blowpipe for magic

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I'm not so sure this will shake up the iron meta. You slay only to 69 slayer for MM2 to unlock the training spot for chins, then it's straight to CG for you. This won't make that much of a difference over such a short time. After CG, well, how good/fast are metal dragon tasks? I think they'll definitely be faster with the wand! I don't think it will be worth spending hours killing this worm to speed up steel, adamant, and rune dragon tasks. Bronze and iron dragons are awful tasks because they're slow, sure, but also because they have no drops except bones. It is very common for youtubers to make breathless claims about "this will shake up the ironman meta!" while talking only about players who aren't rushing skilling, aren't rushing CG, aren't delaying slayer, are doing waste of time content like barrows and moons, and at that point... What meta are you even talking about? It's totally fine to say "This could be an account-defining drop for the folks who need it", which is true! This has the potential to be the RCB of the magic world. But if you're going to say "definitely going to shake up midgame ironman meta" please show your calcs and how this compares to the existing meta. At best this is well-meaning sensationalism that is an unfortunately common evil on youtube. At worst this is a lie because you know you don't have the numbers to back up this claim. Please speak with more care in the future. Love your videos even if I don't always agree with them, looking forward to more.

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