Greater Magic Weapon Wand

[Tanlaus]

Scrolls are capped by CL but you can use higher level scrolls than what you can put on wands, so for classes with UMD it’s still worth the higher investment.

[Blame The Rogue]

Minimal UMD investment.

On BG, wands are meant to be easy to make and easy to use. Because they're easy to make and easy to use, they have correspondingly weaker stats. Same thing with normal potions, which are the easiest of all.

Elixirs are very expensive, so can't be chugged regularly. They also take the most investment of any of these in order to create. That they can "just be chugged by anyone without any skill investment" is irrelevant considering the amount of effort that goes into making them. And that's a misnomer, anyway. It's much easier to get the 11 UMD needed to use every wand in the game (which is why everyone does it) than it is to be rich enough to quaff elixirs in any significant amounts, which is why elixirs are used sparingly.

apologies, but it is relevant. you are focusing on the manufacture of elixirs, rather than the easy use of them

they can be chugged by anyone, without any skill or class investment. show me the skill a pc needs to drink an elixir? there is none

i am referring to UMD investment, and proper reward for such. you want to raise UMD requirement for wand use to reward UMD users properly for their investment? please do, i invest a lot of points in UMD

i remain of the opinion that wand CLs are too low, making them nothing more than dispel fodder for metaknowledge mobs