Im interested in both gold wands and wands that can be shopped.

Obviously +2 skill is a start, but what additional skills are realistic.
Can it spawn with +2sk 3sk mastery / 3raise skeleton?
Or is the chance super, super low? (like with +holy shield on scepters)

What can be shopped?

Please halp.

Only blue wands can be shopped, that is magic wands with only 1 prefix and/or 1 suffix.
You can expect +2 to necromancer skills and +20 fcr.
As for the staffmods, probably something like +3 to Clay golem, +3 to Summon res and +3 to Bone spear, the last being useful to raise your first skeletons.

For a rare wand that you would drop, you can take the same and add 2 random prefixes and 2 random suffixes.
Random prefixes : 40 fire res, 40 light res, 40 cold res ...
Random suffixes : nothing useful to be honest, maybe a bit more energy ?

Now if you try to roll (with p.skulls, or with p.skulls and SoJ), you can produce rare +2 wands with different staffmods, like +3 Raise skeleton, +3 Skeleton mastery.
Those 2 staffmods only spawn on iLvl 1-24 wands, that's why you won't see them on shopped or dropped wands, once iLvl is high enough to allow +2 class skill.

>Now if you try to roll (with p.skulls, or with p.skulls and SoJ), you can produce rare +2 wands with different staffmods, like +3 Raise skeleton, +3 Skeleton mastery.
Those 2 staffmods only spawn on iLvl 1-24 wands, that's why you won't see them on shopped or dropped wands, once iLvl is high enough to allow +2 class skill.

Thanks for your reply.
Do you have a list which skills can be found / shopped / cubed?

It seems that Skeleton Mastery / Raise Skeleton are the best, since they simply increase skeleton damage.
Obviously resists are good too, but this is PvM.

This post was edited by dropship on Jul 19 2016 08:41am

2/3ce/3spear most useful imo

heres the staff mod tiers

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=67041534&f=87

Useful link above. Read careful Quorra's post, to know what combination is possible or not.

I think RS and SM are more useful than CE.
Spear is easiest to find (common pvp item) and can be equiped only to do the first 2 or 3 kills.
Then switch to Skeleton wand, and raise an invincible army.
If you want, you can then switch to a third wand, with CE (Spear and CE can spawn together, as well as Spear and RS/SM, but don't expect to roll a +3/+3/+3 in your desired skills, not gonna happen in a lifetime).