What staves are in "the set"

[luthien]

Right now I'm farming and leveling my sub (yeah, so low ><). I want to start saving up for that staff set you guys have talked about in certain threads at 51, since they are so very expensive...but I don't know which staves they are! I was looking at Allakhazam and there are a BUNCH of staves at level 51.

Sooo, which are they?

[riceburner4540]

dark (+10 mp recovery while healing) and ice (+10 elemental skill). feel free to get whatever else you want if you have enough money. each staff has a hidden effect of an additional +10% (15% for HQ) damage with the corresponding element, but also -10% (again, -15% with HQ) with weak elements. for example, ice staff adds 10% to blizzard spell damage but lowers aero spell damage by 10%.

i've also heard that elemental staves boost accuracy of spells of corresponding elements as well, so an ice staff would be good for paralyze as well as blizzard spells.

[AtraposBLM]

The 4 main staves a blm should have are:
Ice Staff - 10% boost to blizzard, +10 elemental magic skill (so it decreases resist rate of other spells as well)

Dark Staff - +10 mp recovered while healing. For the first 25-30 ticks of resting (more than you should ever need to rest in an exp party), it increases the MP you get by 50%. Amazing.

Thunder Staff - Thunder is your strongest element, and is usually the element whatever you're exping on is weak to. From 51-75, aside from bones, there are only 2 things strong to it.

Fire Staff - Great staff to skill up with, fire is your next strongest element, and it's great against bones.

After these, I'd rank them as Wind Staff > Water Staff > Earth Staff. Ideally you'll have them all...but that's not neccessary at lv51. I only have 3 of the main 4 at lv70 and that's usually 1-3 more than other blm's.

[Crowzukin]

Originally posted by riceburner4540
i've also heard that elemental staves boost accuracy of spells of corresponding elements as well, so an ice staff would be good for paralyze as well as blizzard spells.

I've suspected this as well. A lv 70+ RDM friend of mine also told me that she won her Maat battle easily because was able to Sleep him using her Dark Staff.

But then again, yesterday I was lv 65 BLM leveling in a Boyahda PT when we got a Processionaire link and I used a Dark Staff + Sleepga2 (enfeeble skill capped) and got resisted. /shrug

[irecinius]

Get the Ice staff ASAP!

Dark staff should be your next one, but buy if you feel the need, that you can't keep your mp up.. something like that, with my pt i didn't really need it until no @70

Then you should buy the others, but still @51-69 you pretty much only using ice, except when you hit 62-64 and go lv on toramas god i hate that place! That would be Earth based monsters... tho ice still good damage^^

So, Get ice, then dark if you need to (you going to need someday) then the others elemental as the spells you like to use more etc..

[Yuanlung]

I'd say get dark staff first. Of all the staffs I have, the Pluto Staff makes the most difference. The +10MP regen is just too good.

The Ice Staff is very nice too, with the +Elemental Skill. Plus everything we fight around this level is weak to ice. Get this ASAP right after dark staff.

Then I got my Thunder Staff. It does make a difference, but not as much as the other 2 do. Melees around this level kinda stick to distortion, and seldom do you get a chance to burst with lightning. I guess I will still get the full set eventually, but I will reprioritize my wish list and get other more useful things first.

[Tibiam]

i think the Ice staff first then the Dark staff, thats wat i am planning to do =)

[AtraposBLM]

Originally posted by Yuanlung
I'd say get dark staff first. Of all the staffs I have, the Pluto Staff makes the most difference. The +10MP regen is just too good.

The Ice Staff is very nice too, with the +Elemental Skill. Plus everything we fight around this level is weak to ice. Get this ASAP right after dark staff.

Then I got my Thunder Staff. It does make a difference, but not as much as the other 2 do. Melees around this level kinda stick to distortion, and seldom do you get a chance to burst with lightning. I guess I will still get the full set eventually, but I will reprioritize my wish list and get other more useful things first.

It's not just about bursts - trying just using your regular thunder spells against the crabs you're leveling on. See if you get any resists...you rarely will.

Not only that, once you get to 65+, your element choice opens up very widely. You go from only having 1-2 viable options to having multitudes (3 regular spells, 3 -ga spells). That's why it's not really important to have all the staves until you're much higher level and can actually utilize some of the burst potential the staves grant.

[riceburner4540]

except when you hit 62-64 and go lv on toramas god i hate that place!

i agree...toramas are the devil! thats why i only stayed there for like 5k exp . it was always overcrowded anyway...

i just hit 65...before 65, we did distortion skillchain. after 65, we're doing distortion and darkness skillchain. it seems like the only two elements i ever burst with are water and blizzard. stone spells are weak compared to the other stuff i have and nothing has a weakness to it (except toramas...) and there are no good damage-dealing, dark elemental spells.

[Viev]

I agree with Atrapos. ^^b

[AtraposBLM]

heh, /wave Viev