Staff or wand on my sorcerer?

[Erdrick]

Which is better?

[wulfster42]

Maybe they mean in different weapon slots.

You can't have 2 staves or wands equiped at once in a weapon slot even with giants blood.

You CAN have a 2 handed mace or a 1 handed mace and a sceptre (2 handed with giants blood).

You can have a wand + sceptre or a wand + foci as well

You sadly can't have a staff + anything at all no matter what you do (so sad).

Best bet is to have a staff in 1 weapon slot and a wand/whatever in the other one.

[prusswan]

Originally posted by Drake:

I see people talk about 2 wands, but I can't dual wand. It's either wand/scepter or wand/focus.

Are people mistaking it with poe 1 ?

I use both Siphon and Chaos Bolt on my minions build. Staff should be usable assuming you have other defence options. You are losing out on mods coming from one slot rather than two so it has to be a really good staff (e.g. really high dps)

[Drandok]

Originally posted by Drake:

I see people talk about 2 wands, but I can't dual wand. It's either wand/scepter or wand/focus.

Are people mistaking it with poe 1 ?

I'm referring to weapon swaps, I should've made that more clear. Focuses are different, though. I still find myself doing leagues more damage with a good wand + focus over a staff, especially since you can add resist to the focus to free up affixes for jewelry that will overall majorly boost dps or farming speed (more item rarity on equipment over a resist since it's on the focus instead).