Off-hand Magical items

Magical Off-hands are items that enhances a mage's spellcasting. There are two types of Magical Off-hand items: Books and Orbs. When wielded alongside a wand, a these books or orbs will increase the user's spellcasting rate from 1 cast per 4 game ticks (2.4 seconds) to 1 cast per 2 game ticks (1.2 seconds). However, spells cast will only deal 75% of their normal maximum damage to compensate for the increased speed. As there are no off-hand wands, books and orbs allow players to effectively, dual-wield Magic Elemental spells, as the attack rate with a wand and a book/orb is the same as with two dual-wielded melee or Ranged weapons of the same speed as a wand (Fastest).

In addition to increasing spellcasting speed, many books and orbs also provide a bonus to Magic accuracy.

Since books and orbs are functionally identical, at some magic levels you will only have the choice of a book, and as other only an orb. Practically, the only difference, besides the ones tied to magic level, is practically cosmetic.

Books
Book (equipment type) are functionally equivalent to orbs, see below. Please note that God books], including the [[Illuminated books, do not count as magical off-hand item, or any other class of off-hand item.

Books and Bonuses
Standard books increase the speed and accuracy of magic spells. They are often used with wands. For equipment levels that don't have books, there is often a corresponding orb instead.
















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Orbs
orbs are functionally equivalent to Book (equipment type), see below.

Orbs and Bonuses











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