Magic Weapon is a Tier 6 skill unlocked for the Wizard at level 20, making your weapon magical and increasing damage.
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Background
| Diablo III Skill [e] | |
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| Magic Weapon Active, 5 ranks | |
| Used by: | Wizard |
| Imbue your weapon with magical energy granting it increased damage. Damage: X-Y. Duration: 120 seconds. | |
| Type: | Self buff |
| Quantity: | 25-35 damage |
| Effect: | Self |
| School: | Unknown |
| Mana cost: | 10 |
| Cast time: | Instant |
| Duration: | 120 sec |
| Cooldown: | 1.5 sec |
| Synergies: | None |
| Requires: | Stone Skin |
| Prereq of: | N/A |
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 2, what with all the "unique" builds, including the melee Sorceress. The question is if that kind of diversity will exist in Diablo 3, or else this skill seems useless.
Skill Rank Table
- Rank 1: 25-35 damage for 120 seconds.
Only Rank 1 is currently known.
Synergies
Maxing out the Weapon Master trait is essential for any Wizard using this skill and playing as a Battle-mage.
Runestone Effects
No known runestone effects for this skill.
Development
Magic Weapon was first shown at BlizzCon 2008. 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.
While the BlizzCon 2008 skills had several melee-related skills, most of those disappeared with the new BlizzCon 2009 build.
Magic Weapon was also shown at BlizzCon 2009, but was unfortunately too high level to try out by the fans. The skill is assumed to still be available in Blizzard's internal game build today.
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