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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonathon Robinson" data-source="post: 7408428" data-attributes="member: 6950524">You're right, I got carried away with hyperbole. It's more like the character can act like a level 9 wizard with 7 free 3rd level slots for fireball. Which compared to a level 5 wizard is very powerful.It is true that most players will keep that last slot free even though there's only a 5% chance of the wand breaking. I call it the hail mary slot.Wand of fireballs requires attunement. The players will always know how many slots they have available if you follow RAW. I agree it is 4.5 times per day, or 6-7 if you're new to the dungeon (assuming you include travel time).Yes and no. Supposing you have free access to magic items, or magic items are common in your campaign, yes it has to be compared to other items requiring attunement. If magic items are rare and rolled on a chart, then attunement is less important and Magic Item Table G has both the wand of fireballs and necklace of fireballs. The Necklace of fireballs is basically the wand without recharges (1d6+3 beads averages to 6.5). There has been talk about converting the wand to a consumable so then you would have to compare it to other consumable items. By rarity I meant compared to other items in it's category (common, uncommon, rare, very rare, legendary). The frequency of the item coming up on a table has no bearing on its power. All rare items have equal opportunity on that table with a few exceptions. If the DM decides to follow the charts in the DMG and allow the PCs to buy rare items for 5,000 gp starting at level 5, the distribution table leaves the picture.Is this really true? Is wand of fireballs as powerful relatively speaking to other rare items? What I'm hearing from people is that wand of fireballs is very powerful for a rare item. Now the question about whether something should be done about it is dependent on the group. If magic items are rare and wonderful then don't touch its power level. If magic items can be bought at a store, perhaps it should have less charges or be a consumable.</blockquote>

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