Why does Garbok's Cane req Dom?

May seem like a stupid question, or maybe previously discussed, but why is it that a Inspiration Wand has Domination magic as the req?..

Same can be said about Wroth's Holy Rod, 20/20% Prot but requires Smite..

Bug? Intentional? Fixed and i been looking at outdated green stat page?

While I don't much like the Rod...(will sell if anyone wants to buy or trade)

I believe that the best prot monks out there run with Smite/Prot so the req is good IMHO.

its normal. its how the game works.

compare with the pvpv items: http://www.guildwiki.org/wiki/PvP_Item

No mesmer weapon uses Inspiration magic, but you can improve inspiration magic with weapons that need domination magic or illusion magic.

similar to monk items: All Monk PvP weapons need Divine Favor or Smiting Prayers.

other classes items are more intuitive.

Makes me wonder a little bit though, who made the decision of which attributes will have items associated and which ones won't? Why?

It Just Characterises it, you never see an inspiration mesmer go in for the kill with only inspiration skills, same goes to the healing monk, and so on...

Why does Wroths holy rod req Smiting?

We shall never know.

I seem to remember a Q&A with Anet, they said they try to tie the weapon to a linked damage attribute if it's a weapon (like swords to sword mastery, bows to marksmanship), if there isn't a linked damage attribute, they'll link it to the primary attribute. Still doesn't explain prot rods/staffs going to smite though.

It's the price to pay if you want 40%/40% recharge/cast time. You lose the damage. Unless you have some freak build. At least that's the way I see it.

normally for casters it shouldnt matter what the req is because your never gonna wand an enemy to death, however there is no inspiration requires weapons out there. If you do not meet the requirement of 9 domination magic but you have 16 inspiration build the 20/20 will not be effected, only the amount of damage when you wand an enemy will.

Unless you plan on not using the skills on your bar and wanding an enemy to death only with that weapon, it doesn't matter what it requires. You will still get the energy and other bonuses just by using it. The same goes for wroth's holy rod, a great 20/20 prot offhand and can be particuarly useful for boonprotting sometimes.

If you plan to kill someone with a weapon and not your skills.. Just switch to another one that you actualy meet the requirments for.

There's another Topic the same as this, It's called Inspiration Requirement. You can refer to that if confused...But What I think is why bother when you have more important spells to cast than attacking? you must have a pretty crap build if you don't have anything to do for a while except attack, especially with inspiration, the main source of energy gain (don't doubt me, because you don't see any inspiration move that does damage or can't gain energy from the skill)

Seems rather logical to me.

Similar to how there are no energy storage, healing, soul reaping, or tactics weapons.

So do you still get the benefit of wroth's 20/20% even w/o any smiting prayers? was just planning to get it for my boon prot build.

Yes you still get the full 20/20 bonus. You just don't do any damage if you don't put into smiting.

I think the whole point is smiting is the "damage" line monks have, and the wand deals dmg. if you had a weapon that required healing, you'd expect it to heal, just like a fire req wand will do fire dmg.