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'''Magic Weapon''' is a [[Wizard skill]] unlocked at [[clvl|level]] 7, making her weapon [[magic]]al and increasing damage. | '''Magic Weapon''' is a [[Wizard skill]] unlocked at [[clvl|level]] 7, making her weapon [[magic]]al and increasing damage. | ||
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Revision as of 00:38, 27 August 2011
Magic Weapon is a Wizard skill unlocked at level 7, making her weapon magical and increasing damage.
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| Diablo III Active Skill [e] | |
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| Magic Weapon | |
| Used by: | Wizard |
| Enabled at: | Clvl 7 |
| Imbue your weapon with magical energy granting it increased damage. | |
| Type: | Self buff |
| Resource Use: | Costs Arcane Power |
| Alabaster rune: | Unknown |
| Crimson rune: | Unknown |
| Golden rune: | Unknown |
| Indigo rune: | Unknown |
| Obsidian rune: | Unknown |
When the need for physical combat arrives, the Wizard is well prepared, fusing her weapon with magical energies, cutting deeper into her foes even when using such a mundane thing as a physical weapon.
Skill Design
This skill is clearly designed to enable a Wizard to play in the Battle-mage style, going melee combat for better or worse. The Wizard isn't really designed for that approach, but by pairing the melee damage with excellent equipment/weapon, and some intelligent spell use, it may be a viable build.
This direction would've been useful in Diablo II, what with all the "unique" builds, including the melee Sorceress. The question is if that kind of diversity will exist in Diablo III, or else this skill seems useless.
Skill Rank Table
- Rank 1: Adds 25-35 damage for 120 seconds.
Synergies
- No synergies with any of the passive skills are yet known.
Skill Rune Effects
- No rune effects for Magic Weapon are known.
Development
Magic Weapon was first shown at BlizzCon 2008, when the Wizard debuted. Back then, it was a Tier V skill in the Conjuring Skill Tree. Together with spells like the VERY similar Weapon Mastery (gone), Damage Resistance (gone) and Spectral Blade (still in), it gave a hint of seeing the Wizard getting the capability of going melee.
Magic Weapon was also shown at BlizzCon 2009, but was unfortunately too high level to try out by the fans. There were, however, still doubts about the viability of a melee build, as Flux elucidated:[1]
One of the odder Wizard skills, seemingly designed for a melee fighting Wizard. We don’t know enough about weapon damage in general to have any idea if this is a big bonus or not. Nor do we know if this damage is boosted by attributes and +magical damage item modifiers. If so it’s possible that some Wizard builds could deal very good weapon damage. On the other hand, there are enough limits on which classes can use which weapons that Wizards might be limited in their melee damage no matter what they tried.
Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Magic Weapon became a level 7 skill.
Previous Versions
See the Wizard skill archive for more details on previous versions of Magic Weapon and other Wizard skills.
Or see Magic Weapon (BlizzCon 2008) for the original version of this skill.
Media
Magic Weapon can be seen in action on video here:
- No videos yet.
You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:
References
- BlizzCon 2009 Full Wizard Skill Trees
- JudgeHype.com July 2011 Press Event Coverage - The Wizard (Translated by Zediono)
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