I love Wands of Fire

Tad_Has_A_Cold_Olive

So, I started out my Fighter/Illusionist run in a kind of hoardy fashion. Now that I'm towards the end of the game, I've been a little more liberal with using items, especially wands.

And holy crap, making explosions on command is pretty awesome. I've basically exploded my way through the Candlekeep Tunnels and Durlag's Tower. It turns out getting a checkmate is pretty easy when you can toast the enemy king from across the room.

So, yeah. Just thought I'd share how much I love these things.

Heindrich

lol Yeah fireballs are awesome.

It took me ages to realise you can also use the wands as a Agannazar's Scorcher for when a little more accuracy and finesse is required. But most of the time it's fun to just blow stuff up.

elminster

Plus the fact that the charges for each spell/ability (scorcher and fireball) are counted separately is pretty sweet.

mumumomo

All wands in general and the wand of fire specifically are very strong in BGEE.

The wand of fire is the ultimate damage dealing item and is very easy to get. With it, memorizing damage dealing spells on your arcane casters is a waste.

The scorcher is actually much stronger than the fireball since it does better damage (and it does it twice) and has much better precision.

kcwise

There's nothing more satisfying than blowing away an entire army of attackers with one or two good fireballs!

lunar

Wand of paralysation is very lethal, as well. It is very hard to resist, even in bg2 it remains useful.

Sceptenar

Here's a fun fact, an explosions ability to solve problems is directly proportional to it's size.
Fireballs and science is fun!

Musigny

Paralysation, Fire, Lightning, you name it. These are my favourite lollipops.

mumumomo

Don't forget the wand of sleep : cheap and godly for all bg early game.

Awong124

Yeah, there are enough of those wands in the game to never have to memorize Fireball.

GamingFreak

I was sad when I found out my monk couldn't use wands of fire in my solo run. And then I found The One Gift Lost which was an amulet that did the same thing. But yeah, Wands of Cheese are good in BG1.

BelgarathMTH

From Rich Burlew's "Order of the Stick", #970:

CaptRory

Now to Wizard's Glue them all together, change their activation phrases to the same thing, and go nuts

AstroBryGuy

Musigny said:

Paralysation, Fire, Lightning, you name it. These are my favourite lollipops.

Wand of Lightning - great, but not to be used in cramped spaces.

CaptRory

AstroBryGuy said:

Musigny said:

Paralysation, Fire, Lightning, you name it. These are my favourite lollipops.

Wand of Lightning - great, but not to be used in cramped spaces.

That's what Absorption potions are for =-)