Wand Focus Shock

Made from a crystalline lattice made from quartz crystals, both charged with Aer vis, and of neutral charge, all imbued with an effective conducting agent.

The Wand Focus: Shock has seen increased usage as thaumaturgy is increasingly blended with or come into contact with electrical components. Though initially made for combat, this focus is also used to convert vis power (albeit rather inefficiently) into electrical energy. The shock focus remained niche for a long time, but recent encounters with electronic equipped foes has caused rethinking of its employment in battle and further exploration into its utility. Its conductive effects can wreck havoc on electronic components or against foes wearing heavier metal armor. Specially trained Mage-lances, or Phonetix musketeer-sappers will employ this focus against armored targets, vehicles, or emplacements to devastating effect.

-The Wand Focus: Frost can be enhanced down two primary paths, focusing the rather meek short burst of electricity it would normally produce, that in itself is not very powerful (but very painful) into more dangerous bursts or sustained damage.

-Chain: The first step down this path imbues bolts with extra perditio, losing the lightning's accuracy, but resulting in a more chaotic sparking effect between different nearby targets. This can easily cause groups, cavalry, or those inside vehicles to turn to painful disorganized messes that are much easier for allies to deal with, though there have been numerous reports of improperly calibrated foci or improper spacing to chain back into their own lines or even striking themselves.

-Lightning Bolt: Further developments into the shock focus have lead to a balancing agent being added to the crystal matrices to allow for ordo to flow through the focus as well to great effect. Not only does it stabilize the electrical flow of the bolt structure, but also increases its range significantly to even compare to Wand Focus: Frost in its capabilities. Though, this has also significantly decreased its rate of fire, increased vis cost, and has had the side effect of being near deafening for users and those nearby.

-Channel: On the other end of the spectrum, a different line of thinking led to the development of the 'Channel' infusion, which generates an extreme electrical field around the user, to where nearly anything passing into the field threatens to be struck with continuous fire from the foci. Its usage is fairly uncommon due to risk of friendly fire and making it's user an obvious target, though for skirmishes or lone mages it serves as an effective means of dissuading melee combatants or being surrounded.
-Lightning Ball: What prevented the viability of the Channel enhancement as that it required a largely stationary user, and close proximity to it's opponents. This led to the development of Lightning Ball, where a healthy dose of Ordo vis to stabilize the process allows for this orb orb of electrical potential to be released and sent down range (albeit slowly) to strike at anything it comes in contact with until expending its vis reserves or having its center colliding (which would unleash any remaining energy directly into the object it collides with). This enhancement has seen limited testing on the battlefield, and while it pales in comparison to Lightning Bolt's pinpoint usability, is generally liked as a crowd control measure and is light on wand wear and tear compared to other foci enhancements.

Other enhancements include
-Potency, which increases the electrical potential of its focus and therefore deadliness at increasing vis costs per level of potency applied.
-Efficiency, which increases the flow-rate and channeling abilities of the foci allowing it to attack with less vis consumption, and slightly lower cooldowns per level of potency applied.
-Enlarge, which will either further destabilize a chain lightning enhancement's bolt (allowing for it to flow more freely and strike more targets), or increase the radius of the electrical field of the Channel enhancement.