Mage spells in 3.3.2

[Derakon]

Potions of Speed are certainly more valuable than Wands of Wonder. It can be worth trying the wand a few times; if you get a powerful effect like a fireball then the fight's basically over right there. But you need to have an escape lined up in case your target gets hasted...or cloned.

[Timo Pietilä]

Potions of Speed are certainly more valuable than Wands of Wonder. It can be worth trying the wand a few times; if you get a powerful effect like a fireball then the fight's basically over right there. But you need to have an escape lined up in case your target gets hasted...or cloned.

Uniques cannot be cloned, so only really bad effect against uniques from Wonder is haste.

Usually though just the inventory slot for carrying wand of wonder is more valuable than it even early into game, so good bow and couple of phase door usually works better.

[EDIT] cloning doesn't work, but cloning side-effect does, IE. unique gets hasted. So two bad effects.

[Philip]

Actually, there's heal monster, and cloning monsters speeds up and fully heals the monster being cloned, so clone monster can really screw up your day.