yay i got maelstrom lightning staff! :D

IWinWithPewPew · April 2019

It's better to use lightning than inferno on magsorc tho? cause of the concussion thing?

gapps · April 2019

Nope, sry.

templesus · April 2019

No

IWinWithPewPew · April 2019

*** uuuuuu

still better than 2x mother's sorrow i guess.

Runefang · April 2019

IWinWithPewPew wrote: »

*** uuuuuu still better than 2x mother's sorrow i guess.

Much much better. It'll still help a lot, and in 4-man content its still pretty good if nobody else is providing off-balance.

Tannus15 · April 2019

mag sorc heavy attack pet build is all lightning staffs. You can go down that path.

therift · April 2019

Congrats!

Dojohoda · April 2019

Grats!

MakeMeUhSamich · April 2019

Congratulations!

I use double lightning staves on my MagSorc and hit 50k+ completely solo with only 20 in Spell Erosion. Depending on what your goal is, Lightning Staves are fine. :-)

WrathOfInnos · April 2019

It depends on your build. Fire and lightning are about the same for solo content. Lightning pulls ahead if you have 75 points in Thaumaturge to gain 10% damage against off-balance, but I think most sorcerer builds are moving away from this DoT-heavy CP setup. In group content it only takes one person with a lightning wall to keep close to the maximum off-balance uptime, and this will usually be a healer or a tank (so that all the DPS can run inferno). Inferno becomes better in optimized groups because fire will deal 10% more damage from the Engulfing Flames debuff. Also burning uptime will be higher in a group with multiple DPS which makes the fire wall hit harder.

Edit: Another consideration is your monster set. If you use Ilambris you'll probably want a fire wall to help proc the fire side. The lightning side of Ilambris will be covered by your liquid lightning. With Slimecraw or Zaan your staff element doesn't matter.