Found My Go-To Staff

I think I may have found my go-to staff for damage dealing in expeditions.

With the Frost Staff, the goal is to slow or freeze the bad guys and then damage them with ice.  The Fire Staff is just the opposite.  The whole idea here is to just burn them to the ground.

The main spell is Fire Bolt and it does some nice damage.  The initial hit does 193 magical damage and then it causes a 28 dps burn for 3 seconds adding to the damage.

It works pretty well against single targets but when faced with a bunch of baddies, I’ve been using File Bomb.

This thing has a AOE radius that causes 124 damage and the cast time is pretty quick.  I haven’t figured out it it’s faster to use the bolt or bomb, but I tend to swap between them depending on the situation.  For the most part, I run around with Fire Bomb until I know there’s a boss type mob and then I switch to Fire Bolt to burn him down quicker.

Pyroblast is the heavy hitter for this staff that does 512 damage in one burst.  It works well to get the party started and then it even adds a burn of it’s own of 19 eps for 4 seconds.  I still haven’t figured out if all these burns stack, but I hope so.  I’ll have to go back through my expedition footage to see if the add together.

Finally, Ignite gives an instant blast of damage followed by a DOT.  I hit this whenever it’s off CD for a quick burst of damage…too bad it take 10 seconds for this to come back up.

So far in my gameplay, this is the staff I’ve begun using as my go-to for quick expeditions.  It does good damage and seems to get me through things quick enough that I don’t have to worry that the bad guys will cause me too much damage.  With this staff and the goal of dodging out of any spells the mobs throw at me, I think I should be able to finally try to tackle a Tier 4 Expedition…we’ll see.