Weapon Damage vs Magic Damage ?

like1tiger

Can someone please quickly explain how weapon damage and spell damage work on different weapons/ skills
I have read they are changing and some people claim that you stack spell damage to make your "spells" better and a lot of builds stack weapon damage even though I would determine them as "casters"
I know is probably been discussed but after many convos with guild mates it seems I'm very confused haha.
as an example
If I'm playing a Dragon Knight with a desto staff which ability's I might typically use are spell and which are biased of weapon?
Impulse, talons, Elemental blockade...
Does this change if I'm playing my sorc? or NB? with staffs?

Thanks in advance

Aeratus

All destro staff and resto staff skills use weapon damage. All class skills use spell damage.

like1tiger

So every class skill for all classes use spell? What happens with weapon crit vs spell crit? Is this the same?

MADshadowman

Destro and Resto also use spell power. Both seems to have influence on the damage/healing output

Aett_Thorn

like1tiger wrote: »

So every class skill for all classes use spell? What happens with weapon crit vs spell crit? Is this the same?

All class skills use spell power.

All weapon abilities use weapon power.

MOST class skills use spell crit, but there are some melee range class attacks (most notably in the Nightblade assassination line) that use weapon crit.

Staff skills use spell crit.

Gyudan

MADshadowman wrote: »

Destro and Resto also use spell power. Both seems to have influence on the damage/healing output

WRONG
Destro/Resto use weapon power at the moment.

like1tiger

ok thanks heaps guys who have replied. I see its going to change in 1.6?
It seems very backward at the moment or at lest against the norm haha.
We have had many discussions about this so thanks for helping me understand it