Maelstrom Staff back bar, non maelstrom front bar. Maelstrom enchantment still work?

Kildayen

Hey folks! If I have my Maelstrom staff on my back bar and I drop wall of elements with it and switch to a non Maelstrom staff on my front bar, will I still get the benefits of the Crushing Wall Enchantment while weaving or must I use a Maelstrom staff for it to work? I haven't been able to get a sharpened lightning Maelstrom staff yet for my front bar so I am using another sharpened lightning staff with weapon damage enchantment and have a sharpened Maelstrom fire staff on back. Thanks for your help!

GilGalad

Yes it stays active, but you have to cast the wall of elements with your Maelstrom staff.

Kildayen

GilGalad wrote: »

Yes it stays active, but you have to cast the wall of elements with your Maelstrom staff.

That's what I thought. Thank you!

IronCrystal

It would actually be higher dps to have IA or moondancer lightning staff on front bar rather than a second vma staff.

Malamar1229

IronCrystal wrote: »

It would actually be higher dps to have IA or moondancer lightning staff on front bar rather than a second vma staff.

What set up? The below "staple" doesn't require a MD staff...

2pc Illambris
5pc Julianos or BSW
3pc Moondancer Jewelry

VMA Inferno Destro
VMA Lightning Destro

IronCrystal

Malamar1229 wrote: »

IronCrystal wrote: »

It would actually be higher dps to have IA or moondancer lightning staff on front bar rather than a second vma staff.

What set up? The below "staple" doesn't require a MD staff...

2pc Illambris
5pc Julianos or BSW
3pc Moondancer Jewelry

VMA Inferno Destro
VMA Lightning Destro

Using that same setup, except no need for vma lightning because you only slot blockade on your inferno staff.

You get more spell damage with a moondancer lightning on front bar with weapon damage enchant ment on it.

pizzaow

GilGalad wrote: »

Yes it stays active, but you have to cast the wall of elements with your Maelstrom staff.

Thanks @GilGalad!

Just to be clear, this means you need to light attack (or heavy/medium) in addition to casting your wall of elements. i.e. just casting WoE isn't good enough. Does it matter if you light attack before or after casting the WoE?

Also, can someone confirm how weapon enchantments work? The best answer I've seen so far states that they proc 100% of the time every 10 seconds and it lasts for 6 seconds. Does this only apply to the cast of WoE?.. i.e. if I proc the enchantment, then cast WoE (within 6 seconds) will the buff continue for the duration of the WoE, or 6 seconds from when the enchantment proc'd?

Lastly, if enchantments only proc every 10 seconds do most rotations let blockade expire for 2 seconds (for full proc up-time), or plan on only getting the bonus 2/3 casts of blockade?

GilGalad

pizzaow wrote: »

GilGalad wrote: »

Yes it stays active, but you have to cast the wall of elements with your Maelstrom staff.

Thanks @GilGalad!

Just to be clear, this means you need to light attack (or heavy/medium) in addition to casting your wall of elements. i.e. just casting WoE isn't good enough. Does it matter if you light attack before or after casting the WoE?

Also, can someone confirm how weapon enchantments work? The best answer I've seen so far states that they proc 100% of the time every 10 seconds and it lasts for 6 seconds. Does this only apply to the cast of WoE?.. i.e. if I proc the enchantment, then cast WoE (within 6 seconds) will the buff continue for the duration of the WoE, or 6 seconds from when the enchantment proc'd?

Lastly, if enchantments only proc every 10 seconds do most rotations let blockade expire for 2 seconds (for full proc up-time), or plan on only getting the bonus 2/3 casts of blockade?

Ok so lets get some basics about weapon enchantment glyphs first:

• Weapon glyphs proc of light attacks and weapon skills (e.g. Force Pulse) as soon as they are off cooldown
• Most dmg glyphs have a cooldown of 4-5s (fire, lightning, prismatic, ...)
• Most buff/debuff glyphs have a cooldown of 10s and last 5s (weapon/spell dmg, crusher, ...)
• There are traits and sets that change the cooldown, power and duration of weapon enchantments (infused weapons, torugs pact set, ...)

In addition to that there are the unique master and vMA weapon enchants. They don't proc of light attacks or weapons skills, but act as a buff to a skill. So if you cast a wall of elements on your vMA bar it will act like a "vMA wall of elements", that makes every enemy standing inside of it take extra dmg from your light and heavy attacks.
Similar to that you can see the vMA bow endless hail, that gets extra dmg with every tick. Or the master destro destructive touch, that costs less and deals more dmg.
All master and vMA enchantments have no cooldown, but end after the duration of the skill they modify (apart from the vMA dual wield enchant, that buffs the next single target DOT within 4 sec). Your wall of elements will increase the dmg of all light and heavy attacks as long as its active and the target hit stands inside of the wall.