Does anyone still use the Frost Staff ever?

esp1992 · March 2018

I love the Warden. I also love Cryomancy along with Green Nature and Beast Magic.
So... my weapon of choice for the Warden is the Frost Staff.
Frost Destruction + Warden Frost Skills = Immersive as ***!
Don’t Like the new Tri-Focus Passive? Just avoid it! Simplicity Itself.

Although I see waaaay more people use an Inferno or Lightning Staff alot more than they use the Frost Staff.
Inferno/Lightning Destruction + Warden Frost Skills = Makes No Sense Whatsoever!

I woder if anyone still uses the Frost Staff at all, especially when they play as the Warden?

klowdy1 · March 2018

Mag warden tanking.

boombazookajd · March 2018

what's a "frost staff"?

Come to think of it, I've never even seen one used in game, personally.

cabbageub17_ESO · March 2018

Tanking with a Warden but that’s about it. They should make a poison and disease staff.

runagate · March 2018

I sure do, all the time. Then again I have 15 characters so I can afford to have builds simply to amuse myself.

It's an integral part of at least 2 of my PvP builds as well, including for a Health (rather than stam or mag) Warden.

This absolutely does not mean that I approve of the current state of frost staff.

esp1992 · March 2018

runagate wrote: »

I sure do, all the time. Then again I have 15 characters so I can afford to have builds simply to amuse myself.

It's an integral part of at least 2 of my PvP builds as well, including for a Health (rather than stam or mag) Warden.

This absolutely does not mean that I approve of the current state of frost staff.

I don’t approve of it’s current state either...
BUT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE FROST STAFF!
They really need to just scrap the Taunt ability and just make a stronger Damage Shield.

phileunderx2 · March 2018

I will use mine on solo overland and in pvp. In group lighting.

AcadianPaladin · March 2018

My tank sometimes sees squishies with ice staves committing 'suicide by taunting boss away from tank'.

ArchMikem · March 2018

Either for PvP or PvE Magic Tanking. It's useless otherwise.

Tryxus · March 2018

PvP

It's actually rather strong and a lot of fun there

Bbsample197 · March 2018

frost what now?

JamieAubrey · March 2018

I use it for my front Warden, great in PvP for semi crowd control, all my ice skills just make people stop dead and with a good group behind me they drop like flies

MinarasLaure · March 2018

I do in pvp as a magden.
To be fair...i only use it as I have the perfected asylum ice staff...

VaranisArano · March 2018

Yep. 4 types of players.
A. Good tanks who use frost staff tanking as an effective magicka option
B. PVP players who like the crowd control option of the Frost damage and passive
C. Players who really want to role play a cryomancer despite it being less efficient at DPS or main bar tanking.
AND
D. Noobs who don't realize that the Trifocus passive makes the ice staff heavy attack into a taunt and then wonder why the boss is chasing them.

Maura_Neysa · March 2018

It is always on my Tank. Use it in all content, PvP, vDSA, Trials as main or of.
I also back bar on my Mag Warden DPS. I do the same 22k DPS weather I use Frost or Lighting there
Its also my preferred Healer back bar, as it gives me all the tankiness of S&B while still allowing magicka return.

On my tank and Healer I don't take the Tri Focus. On my DPS I simply don't HA on the frost. Casting Shalk's every 3 seconds means I'm pretty safe from the "wrong bar" HA

NyassaV · March 2018

As an end game player, very rarely. There are a few uses for it. The most use you'll get out of it is in PvP

Lynx7386 · March 2018

Best back bar weapon for a warden tank.

Also awesome in PvP combined with knight slayer 5pc and tremorscale 2pc

dodgehopper_ESO · March 2018

esp1992 wrote: »

runagate wrote: »

I sure do, all the time. Then again I have 15 characters so I can afford to have builds simply to amuse myself.

It's an integral part of at least 2 of my PvP builds as well, including for a Health (rather than stam or mag) Warden.

This absolutely does not mean that I approve of the current state of frost staff.

I don’t approve of it’s current state either...
BUT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE FROST STAFF!
They really need to just scrap the Taunt ability and just make a stronger Damage Shield.

Some folks will disagree.

Silver_Strider · March 2018

At this point, I spend more time on my Frost Staff for my Warden Tank than I do my SnB that I'd call my SnB my back bar instead.

I can't go back to SnB tanking anymore.

Morgul667 · March 2018

MagWarden PVP

But yeah the skill line is almost useless

SilverIce58 · March 2018

Oddly enough, I've only ever seen people using them on Vvardenfell. Outside of there, no matter if it's CWC, Orsinium, Craglorn, or any base game zone, I've never seen someone actually use a frost staff. I wish there were more people who would tho. Maybe it's their backbar weapon?

ccfeeling · March 2018

Stupid design ever

SydneyGrey · March 2018

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

My tank sometimes sees squishies with ice staves committing 'suicide by taunting boss away from tank'.

You have to love people who put points into passives without reading them first.

MarrazzMist · March 2018

I use it for ranged taunt on my tank, who doesn’t have undaunted skills yet.

Jade1986 · March 2018

Use it for both bars on my orc warden magicka ice tank. Works great. Could def be improved tho

phaneub17_ESO · March 2018

It works best with Magicka Wardens because they have that 200% bonus to chill and immobilize to 3 of their own skills, stack that on top of Ice Staff 100% chance increase for Blockade, and if you want to throw in Charged to top it off. Keeping a large crowd of mobs frozen at a distance is pretty funny without extra skills to do it.

fred4 · March 2018

VaranisArano wrote: »

Yep. 4 types of players.
A. Good tanks who use frost staff tanking as an effective magicka option
B. PVP players who like the crowd control option of the Frost damage and passive
C. Players who really want to role play a cryomancer despite it being less efficient at DPS or main bar tanking.
AND
D. Noobs who don't realize that the Trifocus passive makes the ice staff heavy attack into a taunt and then wonder why the boss is chasing them.

E. Tanks who don't take the Trifocus passive. I think Deltia had a build out that seemed fairly nifty.

Checkmath · March 2018

also use a perfected asylum frost staff in magden in pvp, its pretty nice to have a hard cc with shalks, a soft cc with frost reach and a good spammable with force pulse (especially with the asylum perfected one)
i killed a lot of reds pouring to my ressource like that, alsways root, shalks and force pulse spam till they drop dead, which is pretty fast with shalks hitiing hard af and necropotence as damage set. sadly winterborn doesnt synergize well, since i have zero stamina using that setup....so shacklebreaker to go

Ch4mpTW · March 2018

My MagDen uses a Frost Staff when solo. To be specific, she uses a Maelstrom’s Frost Staff in sharpened. Not nearly as goood as the inferno or lightning variant, but still can get the job(s) done.

pauli133 · March 2018

I would love to use an ice destro staff, and I would love to magicka tank. right now, though, those roles are conflated into something I just can't use.

I think this is getting fixed in the next big update.

Vanthras79 · March 2018

I think frost damage should drain stamina. Perhaps lightning damage should sap magicka too.