How do I farm a Burnt wood staff?

[enjchanter]

You will be disappointed by this item

[Vexenu]

It's quite good in certain applications. 24 DPS mana-free is nothing to sneeze at. You aren't going to be able to maintain that with normal nukes, even with C2. If you're the primary DPS in a duo/trio or solo farming things like like Ice Giants or Seafuries, you can get a lot of mileage out of it. When solo, that extra damage can often allow you to stretch a single pet out over a mob that might normally require an extra summon, which massively increases your efficiency over time.

Just think of it as the Mage equivalent of mashing Backstab or Flying Kick.

[enjchanter]

I'm excited to see the post where he finally gets one and is so underwhelmed by it he quits p99

Inb4

[Toxigen]

Nobody buys / farms it because Boots of Bladecalling exist.

[long.liam]

Originally Posted by Toxigen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nobody buys / farms it because Boots of Bladecalling exist.

I'm not currently in a guild that can get FTE on Velketor. I would also need to compete with the million other Riot mages that want the boots.

[Snaggles]

Originally Posted by long.liam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not currently in a guild that can get FTE on Velketor. I would also need to compete with the million other Riot mages that want the boots.

^ this.

Get the staff if you want it for fun or use at 60. I just picked up a summoner dagger which is less reliable dps but if grouping its also fun (and cheap). It also has stats and looks like a tunare dagger.

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Snaggles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^ this.

Get the staff if you want it for fun or use at 60. I just picked up a summoner dagger which is less reliable dps but if grouping its also fun (and cheap). It also has stats and looks like a tunare dagger.

Assuming you had 255 dex (you won’t ever on a mage) you’re looking at 590 damage a minute average. Less than 10 dps and about 1/3 of burnt wood staff dps. You’d actually just do more damage meditating without any clarity and nuking.

[Snaggles]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Assuming you had 255 dex (you won’t ever on a mage) you’re looking at 590 damage a minute average. Less than 10 dps and about 1/3 of burnt wood staff dps. You’d actually just do more damage meditating without any clarity and nuking.

The dagger isn’t equiv. Even a fesh staff is a fun meme. But the dagger is more readily available, cheap, and fun if bored. I paid 1.5k for mine. I have a BWS I never use either so they are almost the same benefit.

[Snaggles]

That said…

Any melee slot proc item with stats is notable to keep equipped over one that takes two slots and gives no stats. I lose about 150 mana with the burnt wood staff. The Fesh has amazing stats pushing that principle further.

Also if one chooses to tryhard they can swing once and sit between med ticks which literally allows you to gamble-dps and not give up anything in return. Or you can swing once before casting and swing once after casting too, so literally just throwing extra dice. Assuming a PC is tanking the mob.

My vote is getting both. More toys = more fun.

[Freakish]

If you're not dueling a shaman to get slowed and med tick swinging to get a proc between casts are you really trying?