lightning staff?

PancakeHead

Any ideas what the best lightning staff is nowadays? I've been using shacklebreaker.

Also, out of curiosity, if I hold down the R2 using a lightning staff, is that considered a direct damage attack under champion points?

CompM4s

Individually the maelstrom staff is best, but otherwise depends on set and build ran. Holding down R2 is a damage over time attack (dot)

PancakeHead

Thanks so much!

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

@CancerNuts (god, what a name) the lightning staff heavy attacks are three ticks of damage over time and one tick of direct damage, the final "lightning pulse" is considered direct damage. Not sure about the aoe from the heavy but I would think that was direct damage since it is based on the damage of the damage over time ticks of the main heavy attack.

Banana

Great name

PancakeHead

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

@CancerNuts (god, what a name) the lightning staff heavy attacks are three ticks of damage over time and one tick of direct damage, the final "lightning pulse" is considered direct damage. Not sure about the aoe from the heavy but I would think that was direct damage since it is based on the damage of the damage over time ticks of the main heavy attack.

Lol...name is just an old, really bad joke. Thanks for the information. I changed my build and felt like I was weaker after taking points off direct attack.