Twist and you know a lot of stuff about CF that we don't - that's why your elf kicked my conjie's butt despite demon at a level where even RBW's were getting wasted by my demons no problem.

I'd still say the point is that haste/resist/DB on a stick is very good for an aging playerbase who can't be bothered prep-ho'ing whereas the wand system and the prep system encourages just about everyone else to be super-conservative and waste time.

Wand or prep gathering/finding is like the CF version of preparing your taxes - at least to me. This painful, annoying thing I have to do that doesn't offer anything to me in terms of making the game fun or interesting. And really it boils down to the fact that I won't play a non-rager warrior or any mage class because of the tedium involved.

If you consider the 'fun' equation part of game balance then ragers are OP in that regards .