Just a note about this item: Even though the slots listed include Secondary, you may NOT equipt it there. I tried . . .
It may only be equipted in primary due to the fact that it has DMG & DELAY stats (much to my chagrin). The exception to this would be classes capable of duel wielding - an ability possessed by none of the classes capable of using the item (clr, druid, shm, necro, wizard, mage, enchanter).
Unless you are going by the graphics on some of them, this isnt really better, id probably take a caster classes epic over this most days, the stats are basically the same and epics usually have effects more useful, if you got this you should already have some kind of ID.
You don't play much EQ either I suppose. If you're gonna be using this item an epic would probably be better in stats and resist. My epic has 100 mana on it and 25int and I don't see any small item like this replacing something like that anytime soon even if it has a few extra hps...
Hmm, i bet I could name a handful of reason to use this over 1.0s easily. This will be from the wizard point of view since that's what i play.
1) After Force Shield, barrier of force on the 1.0 becomes obsolete.
2) 25 useless int points is 25 useless int points. If you can organize a group to complete these events, then you don't really need 25 int all that bad. (I have 489 int on my wizard atm)
3) Anger of Druzzil. Nice little DD focus bonus. Its this wand's saving grace.
Only a druid can tell me this wand is junk, then I would tell them to stop stealing all my DD foci 8o/