Hey all. I have these 2 staves here and im trying to decide on which one to use. Id like yall’s opinions please. Cant post pic, so ill give stats.
1st staff 3739 dps, 66 all stats, 156 int, 63% crit strike dam, 180% overpwr dam
2nd staff 3946 dps, 78 all stats, 135 int, 48% mastery damage, 22.5% damage to burning
Well Firewall does not Crit but damage would be useful for Burning Instinct, but I think the second one is better.
In S1 a PvP firewall staff would have been Crit Vuln Mastery and Int, vulnerable should be now replaceable
Burning Instinct i believe is multiplicative now. Its got the X on it.
Soo you got 6.3% damage from burning instinct with the crit.
Overpower is bad unless you use the new Amulet on sorc but its only core skills.
The 2nd staff is definitively better. Not min max but better. I would say the best you could get would be mastery/vulnerability/int/crit damage. Dont quote me on this i dont know the math to a T. With everything additive you just go for the biggest numbers thats consistently giving you the condition. However crit damage and int i think trumps all because of burning instinct multiplicative aspect.
I was running Firewall in pvp last season, I am going to switch back to it soon, I still don’t get if the new burning instinct is better or worst
Burning instinct sucks and was severely nerfed.
their only benefit is tu increase the burning damage, and that is not useful at all.
what You need is fire damage, piromancy skill damage and damage to burning enemies.
As long as an enemy is burning you will trigger synergies.
just make sure to get flamescar to have 20k critical hits on everny emeber hittin the enemy.
this combined with firewall is LETHAL
Mmmh is it time to update the old paragon that was getting 1000% fire damage then? I might give it shot
Thanks for the help everyone. Ill be switching.
Your comment is just not good.
Burning Instinct is still BiS for Firewall builds. Burning Damage is what his build is scaling so it is not useless.
You dodged his question and just stated to use Flamescar instead like thats a solution. Where incinerate specs completely different.
Stacking Fire damage is also not a good idea for firewall builds since there are higher damaging affixes specifically for DoT damage on various armor pieces (gloves/ring DoT affixes). You will want DR affixes instead to give survivability since you don’t get Incinerate DR passive or vamp passive (talking about chest affixes that have fire/pyro when you want triple DR/HP).
You gotta tell people how to better there specific build. You don’t tell a chain lightning guy to slot ball lightning build as a solution you know what im sayin.
2nd staff will be better.
1 more question. I keep getting different takes. Purple gems or blue gems in weapon? Are they =?
I’m interested to see your Burn based Sorc’s build. How does it perform in NM 100 in S2 without the Burning Instinct?
I have not reached level 100 yet.
but as far as I Go with my incinerate build, I don’t miss it.