con on casters staves!?

[Tzan]

aloha! a little question. does the con of a caster's staff modifys the dmg from dot's dt's etc.?

thanks!

 

[Ballard]

The only attributes of a staff that affect your casting are any imbued bonus (intelligence etc) and the focus bonus. The focus bonus is only associated with the mana cost and has no bearing on damage dealt. The con of the staff may affect your DPS when engaged in melee however, if the DPS of the staff is over the melee DPS cap for your characters level you will only do your levels DPS cap in damage and vice versa

Remember you can cast without a staff albeit at a much higher mana cost.

 

[Holt]

The condition of the staff does indeed affect the mana usage (assuming there is a focus on the staff) It wont affect the actual damage you do (dots, dd's, bolts etc) though. From a very old grab bag on the herald:

http://www.camelotherald.com/more/1036.shtml

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Q: (Insert Focus Staff Question here)

A. Here is the updated explanation behind focus staff use. Bear in mind that it's a complicated piece of code drawing from many different formulas, and I may add something to this next week:


When you are not using any focus staff at all, a spell will cost you 120% of its delved cost to cast, provided it is a spell that uses focus. i.e. Healing classes do not use focus for their spells.

A focus staff will only benefit you if it has focus bonus in the same line as that spell, as modified below. (i.e. A staff with 50 levels in Mana will help Mana spells but not Void spells)


If you are using a focus staff, a spell will cost you between 80-120% of its delved power cost to cast, depending upon several factors.

If the condition of the staff is not 100%, you will not get the full focus bonus, and it will cost more power to cast spells.
If your modified spec level* is below the level of the spell, you will not get the full focus bonus, and it will cost more power to cast the spell.
If the focus level on the staff is below the level of the spell, you will not get the full focus bonus, and it will cost more power to cast the spell.

Note that all three of the above conditions factor into power cost. Thus, To get the the full 80% cost on your spells, you would use a 100% condition staff with a focus bonus greater than the level of the spell you want to cast, and cast a spell that is lower in level than your modified spec level. As each of these factors (condition, spec level, and focus level) gets further away from the optimal condition, the power cost slides from 80% to 120%.

A few examples:

If you have a staff with 50 levels in Mana, are casting a level 50 mana based spell. and your modified spec is 48 (35 spec + 11 in items + 2 for Realm Rank 3) you will get most of the power bonus from using the staff)

If your modified spec was 50 (35 spec +11 in items +4 for Realm Rank 5) then you would get all of the bonus.

If your modified spec was 16 (1 spec +11 in items +4 for Realm Rank 5) then you would get little bonus from the staff.

*Your base spec is the number of points you have put into the line. Your modified spec is that number plus items plus realm rank bonuses.

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[Ballard]

Good post!

Ok i misinterpreted the oringinal posters question By con i thought he was using the shorthand for level that some people use. i.e. an orange con staff is higher level etc than you etc...

 

[Holt]

Good post!

Ok i misinterpreted the oringinal posters question By con i thought he was using the shorthand for level that some people use. i.e. an orange con staff is higher level etc than you etc...

Hmm... perhaps he was, that didn't cross my mind

 

[Daedalus]

I initially thought he was talking about a +con bonus on staves, heh. Thought it was an odd question

 

[Thegreatest]

condition of a staff only affects mana usage and staff damage, if you wanna staff kill that is

 

[Skidlee]

Just thought i would throw in my 2 cents.. i have notice my flat out resist rates go up by ALOT when my staff is at 70% con.. i notice cuz of my 2 lvl50 necros..

Hope that helps..

Deadpet