Wand

[Ryaca]

Why do mages unequip their wand?

[Humble_M]

Why do mages unequip their wand?

Sometimes to avoid attacking clan guards when clicking on a portal/NPC, sometimes to avoid losing wand when about to die in PvP

[madmaniacal1]

Why do mages unequip their wand?

They do it for a couple reasons.
1. In order to keep spells from extending more than 1 space. This prevents heal blocking most of the time. It doesn't affect spell damage/healing, since those are based on true mana. It still allows them to harm most melee opponents, unless that opponent has a range 2 weapon.
2. They do it to prevent accidentally attacking clan guards and causing auto to be set.

[Ryaca]

Thanks for the explanation. As I play my Archer 90% of the time, I am naive/ignorant about the other classes.

[Khmer]

Why do mages unequip their wand?

They do it for a couple reasons.
1. In order to keep spells from extending more than 1 space. This prevents heal blocking most of the time. It doesn't affect spell damage/healing, since those are based on true mana. It still allows them to harm most melee opponents, unless that opponent has a range 2 weapon.
2. They do it to prevent accidentally attacking clan guards and causing auto to be set.

+1
I realize why you have you position, well done, again!

[ardesia]

Confirming madmaniacal list, and adding: if a character is trying to use a door or a stairs, and has monsters in range, the character automatically stops, fights the monsters, and enters the door/stairs just when they are death (they the monsters, not the door/stairs ).
If you need running to the door/stairs and don't want fighting the monsters chasing you, you have to click the door/stairs when no monsters is in range.
To melee, this is quite easy. To ranged characters, it might otherwise be tricky, due to the weapons range. This is also why archers and mages unequip weapons, as an example when they are in a rush inside a building.

On the contrary, Humble, please note that weapons cannot be drop in pvp, thus that reason you proposed is not fitting

[Ryaca]

Thank you all for the information. I am thankful that weapons can not be lost during pvp.