Got a sharp Spinnerrs lighting staff

MartinDeShade · March 2017

So I see I randomly got a sharp Spinners Light staff, while doing quests for the xp. I thought at first, great I could work with that, but then I realized if I was going Spinners what is the point of going Sharp? You already get the 5k from light armor passive, so anything more than Spinners is wasted penetration.

It is the only set I can think of that you don't want Sharp on. I guess you could make a pvp set out of it. There you won't run into over penetrating much.

dpencil · March 2017

I guess the kind of content you intend to do makes a difference. And it could free up points from Spell Erosion if you have any in there. vMA or 4 man dungeons could probably see the full benefit. I doubt you'd want to take Spinner's into a trial in any case. And yeah, for PvP there's still plenty of heavy armor dks and templars running around that you couldn't over-penetrate, though the set won't be much use against sorcs.

Brrrofski · March 2017

You still want sharpened.

Otherwise you have 4k from spinners and losing just over 5k from dropping sharpened. Why use a 5 piece for the less pen you get from a sharpened weapons.

In pve everything has 18k resist. You want to strip as much as that as possible.

In PvP, over half the people are running heavy armor. 18-25k resist on most builds. Again, stacking pen negates a lot of that armor.

So yes, you still want sharpened.

Masel · March 2017

Spinners in PvP: Sharpened is good against heavy armor builds.

Spinners in PvE group content: sharpened is too much. Everything in veteran content has 18200 Spell and Physical Resistance: 100 Base + 5160 Sharpened + 4884 LA Passive + 5280 Major Breach+4000 Sharpened = 19424.

Then add a crusher enchant: 1944 in infused, alkosh debuff 3000 and you're way over the top.

Spinner staffs actually work very good with charged and a shock enchant to use the exploiter passive and get 40% more damage from heavy lightning attacks 8% from concussion and 10% from the exploiter passive.

Biro123 · March 2017

My view with spinners has always been 'Why lose a 5-piece bonus just to make up for a missing sharpened trait?, when you could just craft, say Julianos with a sharpened staff instead, have around the same penetration but get more spell-dmg from the Julianos 5-piece?

zaria · March 2017

Very good anti armor in pvp,
With elemental drain and the tank debuff you would over penetrate a lot on bosses.
Soloing dungoens on the other hand would be very effective.

most important very high dps against dummy

Pretty specialized set.

You could also sell it for 200k or more.

fred4 · March 2017

They sell for 100K+ on PC EU. That should tell you something. Definitely not wasted in PvP, not wasted soloing, and probably not wasted in random small groups.

acw37162 · March 2017

Brrrofski wrote: »

You still want sharpened.

Otherwise you have 4k from spinners and losing just over 5k from dropping sharpened. Why use a 5 piece for the less pen you get from a sharpened weapons.

In pve everything has 18k resist. You want to strip as much as that as possible.

In PvP, over half the people are running heavy armor. 18-25k resist on most builds. Again, stacking pen negates a lot of that armor.

So yes, you still want sharpened.

Almost true, Most VMA bosses topmout at 9K resistances with two at 11K, so If your running VMA with a spinners weapons setup Defending may be your best option.

SirDopey · March 2017

You can use it on a Heavy Armour Build where you don't have concentration? Not great for group content but can be good for solo stuff like vMA???

Xsorus · March 2017

I bought a sharpened blue spinner fire staff for 4K off a guild merchant, gold prices for 300k