Weapon Speed

[Pharcyde]

Oh so it's second per shot? ok thx gotta tell my lil brother XD

Yeah so if a wand has 0.7 as speed. That means the wand takes a little over half a second to cool down. If a staff has a speed of 1.5 then it means it takes one and one half of a second to cool down.

Low speed/high damage is better than high speed/low damage, since you're really not depending on your weapon for most of your damage, but your weapon's damage does influence the amount of damage your skills do.

Also weapon damage partially gets converted into your spells. So higher weapon damage = more powerful spells.

Only place I see weapon damage/speed being important is in PvP. That one blast most people usually get off in pvp can easily be enough to offset a kill. But if the battle doesn't end right away, the second blast can be enough to save your butt.