Master both? or one? Clubs (wands) or Staves?

[Lavi]

I wanted to ask the high level Blm's which weapon class has the more godly weapon later in the game? Or should I just not worry about it and pick up a good stave when i see one in the auction and pick up a wand if i see a better one in the auction?

Benefit of a wand is that you can get good mods on the wand AND you get a shield that may have decent mods as well ( I remember that is the reason why a good sorc needed wand and shield in Diablo II ). But anyways want to put some input fellas? Thank you.

[Zenyx]

I haven't seen any shields that a black mage can use.

Generally you use wands in groups, and staffs when solo'ing. The reason is wands tend to have things like +int on them and other stats, and staffs tend to be better for hitting things with (which you probably won't be doing in a party).

That said I haven't used a staff since about level 12-13. I generally don't solo, and if I do solo it's on something that I'm not going to get close enough to hit with a staff (ie worms).

I've not seen many mages besides red mages trying to hit stuff in general in parties either. I think the main reason is that you want to be away from the monster when it does area attacks/spells or if you get aggro it gives the tank longer to provoke before it hits you.

Around level 20-25+ if your fighting incredibly tough things you can possibly get killed in 1 hit, so you really don't want to get hit.