My wand fired fast-moving black holes and I can't figure out why.

[Ambassador of Benevolence]

At thirty hours, I feel I have a pretty solid grasp of the game, have watched YouTube videos, read the wiki, etc.

But I recently found a wand with several slots filled with the black hole spell, only the black holes moved really fast, as if with a speed boost, going maybe 5x the distance. I couldn't figure out why though. I quadruple checked that there wasn't an always cast on the wand, I quadruple checked my perks, quadruple checked the spell slots --- and I just couldn't find anything I knew of that would cause that.

Does anyone know what I have missed that could cause this? Are there hidden stats to wands? The only exceptional thing to the wand was very low accuracy.

[crigcrag]

Do you have the repulsion field perk?

[Ambassador of Benevolence]

Originally posted by CrigCrag:

Do you have the repulsion field perk?

Yes! Thank you, I didn't know that.

From the Wiki for Projectile Repulsion Field:

You take 26% more damage from projectiles.
Projectile spells you cast fly faster / further as they are repelled from the field, such as Black Holes now going 3x+ the distance. However, this also causes a very slight variation in their flight pattern from your body, i.e. you'll point straight and it will go slightly up or down