Charged became the second best solo trait now

Masel · February 2017

I did some Testing with a simple rotation (Liquid Lightning/Blockade/Bar Swap/3x(Fully Charged Heavy Inferno Attack followed by Force Pulse)and repeat), and voilà, CHARGED Out-DPSes Precise, Nirnhoned and Infused now by Quite a Margin due to the New Concussion in Solo/4-Man content. So if you dont have a Sharpened Staff, go for charged in Solo Play/4 Man content. Still have to test how it performs compared to sharpened, but i miss a sharpened infallible aether inferno staff to have an exact substitute for charged/infused. With concussion, you contribute to the Group DPS, so it might be worth runnign in Group Content.

I used 2 Illambris/5 Necropotence/4 Infallible Aether (Charged and Infused Inferno, respectively) and a Sharpened vMA Lightning Staff.

This applies only to Builds using a certain amount of Lightning Damage and Force Pulse/Crushing Shock and only if the Concussion uptime isn't good. Each Force Pulse has a 42% Chance to Apply Concussion, Burning and Chilled, respectively. The shock enchant has an 84% chance. So using the Exploiter Passive and a Blockade Of Storms has a strong effect on your deeps with a charged staff.

I'd like to see further testing on this

Charged with Shock damage Enchant:

Infused with Legendary Spell Damage Enchant:

STEVIL · February 2017

Hmmmm... tons of charged staves out there for sale going cheap.
Lightning status now a multi-user debuff of pen.
makes sense if you aren't getting the debuff from other source which makes sense solo.

Masel · February 2017

STEVIL wrote: »

Hmmmm... tons of charged staves out there for sale going cheap.
Lightning status now a multi-user debuff of pen.
makes sense if you aren't getting the debuff from other source which makes sense solo.

You have a pretty much 100% Uptime on concussion with charged, as long as you use weapon attacks to proc the shock enchant and use force pulse often enough. Plus you apply the chilled snare, the burning effect. BSW for example procs from burning as it is fire damage so this would probably increase the uptime on it too.