All the weapons have advantages at different parts of the game... the Wizard's wand may be great in the beginning, but the Warrior's upgrades are better, whereas the Cleric doesn't shine until assembling Wraithverge or whatever
not sure what you mean. the vanilla wand by itself is basically better than all of the fighter's weapons. (I guess you could say that the wand annihilates anything at long-range, wheras the fighter annihilates anything at close-range.)
the cleric's serpent staff is insanely good, doing very high ranged damage for low mana, and having a vampiric (healing) close-range attack.
I might as well list the changes I make to the game:
Enemies:
Ettins: made more deadly but easier to kill (IMO this is the game's biggest flaw; Ettins are so numerous but not dangerous and just time-consuming to kill. they should be slightly dangerous but easy to kill. whoever designed their stats made it so that they wait over a third of a second from the start of their attack before doing any damage *and* also gave them an overly-sized radius so that they start their attack standing super far away from you, so if you move even slightly away in that third of a second, they miss. meanwhile they have 175hp.)
Chaos Serpents: more HP (and I give the brown ones a bit more than the green)
Dark Bishop: buffed in every way (faster, faster attacks, no stagger, more HP, more damage, more death splash)
Centaurs: reduce blue bolt damage slightly
Weapons:
Wand (mage): half damage (and even then still kind of OPd)
Frost Shards (mage): double damage (could be a little more, but I think it has to be an integer, and the change is from 1 per projectile to 2. 3 per projectile is too much.)
Serpent Staff (cleric): reduce damage to 3 per shot instead of 5 (same melee damage)
Axe and Hammer (fighter): each cost 1 more mana per attack (otherwise you almost never run out of mana as fighter, even when using both of these constantly. I don't think I ever tried this change though.)
(these aren't necessarily perfect changes and could still probably use some tweaking. been a while since I played through the game like this.)
(oh and I never use the 4th weapons, but they could all definitely benefit from changes too).
