Template talk:Wand

The maxcharges data comes from the CHG column in wan1-343.txt. It's marginally useful for telling you how many charges you might expect to get out of your wand. --Jayt 21:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

A Wand of Death is always hexagonal... 24.34.132.29 22:31, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

No it isn't. I just got in a wizard mode game to test some things out, and I got a glass wand for wand of death. 129.97.247.63 22:49, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Max charges

I don't really see the use of this field. Supposedly it's to let the user know how many uses to expect out of the wand, but most wands will have fewer uses than that, so a newbie user expecting to e.g. always get eight zaps out of their wand of teleportation is going to be disappointed (and probably dead). A minimum charges field would be more valuable, since it lets the user know at least how many zaps they're guaranteed, but I think a better idea would just be listing "charges", and specifying the range of values. --Darth l33t (talk) 17:43, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Making it just charges would work, yeah, but I'd think it was of use for people looking to charge their wands frequently (usually via Platinum Yendorian Express Card). --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:34, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps, but that's a relatively small proportion of players (Tourists and PYEC wishers) who are fairly advanced at the game, and so already know the max charges of each type of wand. A much larger group (and more likely to need the wiki) are new players to want to know how often they can expect their unidentified wands to work, and they'd be better served by either the minimum charges or the range of charges. --Darth l33t (talk) 13:48, 25 June 2021 (UTC)