Lightning staff or flame staff for a sorc

LuminaLilly · March 2017

Having trouble deciding, which is better pvp wise?

Vanzeii · March 2017

I use flame for that 8% single target damage

budrow · March 2017

I've used both staves sharpened. Lightning heavy attack has a very nice AOE splash, flame is better for single target. While solo i run flame, when I group with guildmates, I pull out the lightning for the AOE damage. Flame staff is easiest to weave in, but lightning exposes the night blades while the heavy attack is channeled on them.

dpencil · March 2017

Fire front, lightning back. More single target dmg when attacking normally with the option to heavy lightning attack to regen or deal with perma dodgers

geonsocal · March 2017

geonsocal wrote: »

Okay, so yeah imagine playing this game in somewhat of a vacuum for the first 10 months or so and it’s easy to see how different folks might come up with different solutions on gameplay right? (yes, I’m hedging a bit on my comments)…

My weapon of choice (primarily for PvP) is the good old lightening staff…what a marvel it is...
1. It reaches out for like forever – so you’re running someone down and there’s a few folks ahead of you getting ready to send an enemy player somewhere else on the map, no worries, real easy to reach out and touch someone from a long way away
2. It doesn’t care about your silly dodge roll move – once it hits it sticks
3. Enchant it with a nice dose of disease or poison and it’s the gift that keeps on giving
4. It stays attached through rocks and trees – go ahead and try to hide
5. It’s fast – so, your inside defending a tower along with about 10 other people (whom you’re not grouped with) waiting for folks to come in the door, no worries about getting in on the kill – cuz your handy dandy lightening staff gets to folks real quick like
6. Cut down your heavy attack time and you can thump folks with a little lick of lightning over and over again. What a joy to stand on top a keep or outpost and zap someone below who thinks that silly lightening stuff won’t do nothing…oooops you’re dead

Alright, stat folks – I understand there’s probably a million different reasons why some other weapon is more effective (someone mentioned “scalable instances” in a recent discussion and my head started spinning – seriously wtf - is that even real )…

I hate math…nothing made me happier in school then when I took my last math class in my junior year (as luck would have it – fast forward to the next year and I found myself in another academic environment where math was essential, for you old field artillery folks – that’s charts and darts baby, charts and darts all day long )

So tell me – how is the lightening staff not the most awesome weapon in tamriel (at least cyrodiil and IC)…except for those stupid good vma weapons – which I may never see in my own inventory (rotten bind on pickup rule)...

i wrote that eight months ago without really knowing a whole bunch about anything eso related...i use fire and frost staves also now - but, without question - my fave was and still is the lightening staff...

catalyst10e · March 2017

Fire really is good for single taget and weaving, But a little while back i swapped it for a lightning, and while the damage output is a noticeable decrease, I am able to keep pressure more easily with the lightning. So many dodge rolling, shuffle spamming, and wing flapping make it harder to land attacks and weave, but with the lightning heavy it stays on them longer (and is undodgeable) while they waste resources trying to not get hit with anything else. So personally I suggest lightning.

Emmagoldman · March 2017

As people said, its build depending, are you burst or aoe? Im an aoe build with lich, thunderbug and skoria. Lighting hits as aoe, so weaving it, with my abilities, keeps skoria procing non stop.

I feel there are more options now, so think how it fits into your build.