ragos staff

The Professor

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

alaska

Gra Dilseacht Cairdeas [Gra]

A/E

is there any other green staff like ragos?

Coloneh

Coloneh

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

D/W

staff = badd
spear + offhand = good

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Coloneh
staff = badd
spear + offhand = good
spear + offhand for ele = Bad (one d in that word)
staff (rago's) for ele = awesome fire weapon

Are you kidding? A spear for an ele?

It has been said that there is not another weapon more perfect for fire ele's then rago's. I have one and would not replace it with anything.

Tromador

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Monks Unleashed [MU]

You can squeeze a bit more energy out of a wand/focus combination.

Otherwise Ragos is pretty cool.

tijo

tijo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

Montreal

[CDDR]

R/

Rago's is the only green staff with those stats in the game. But you can make a counterpart, it wont have the skin or the name but there's no difference between using the counterpart or rago's except maybe prestige if you care about such things.

Karalin Taucher

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

UK

Beautiful Oblivion [EON]

E/Mo

Spirit of the Forgotten is an excellent spear for an ele in many situations. You'll get your 20% longer enchants and +5 energy, and still be able to select targets through 'attacking' (eg hitting space/left clicking them), without having to go into melee range, as you would with a Totem Axe for instance.

Obviously you sacrifice attack damage, unless you are /P and have points in spear mastery.

Thomas.knbk

Thomas.knbk

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tromador
You can squeeze a bit more energy out of a wand/focus combination.

Otherwise Ragos is pretty cool.
You can have +60 health AND +17 energy from a spear+focus, or +30 health, +17 energy and 20% enchant.
You lose your 40/40, but it's worth it. You can still have 20/20 if you need to.

Actually, spear+shield is best for a caster.
(tip: it's called weapon swapping)

Skuld

Skuld

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

A/

dual 20/20s is awesome in pve, especially with S-Flames

w00t!

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Sorrow's Furnace Hot Tub

RoS

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Karalin Taucher
Spirit of the Forgotten is an excellent spear for an ele in many situations. You'll get your 20% longer enchants and +5 energy, and still be able to select targets through 'attacking' (eg hitting space/left clicking them), without having to go into melee range, as you would with a Totem Axe for instance.

Obviously you sacrifice attack damage, unless you are /P and have points in spear mastery.
Not that I'm against using a weapon in your primary hand (I use Rajazan's Ferver), but you can easily target an enemy without having to close to melee range. Simply use control-shift-space to announce "I'm targeting Drizzle Flip" or whatever.

Having said that, Rago's is still the Fire Ele's weapon of choice because:
1) It's got good stats
2) It has a nice skin
3) It has "mystique". It was the first and most highly sought-after nuker green. Often duplicated, never matched.

Sir Seifus Halbred

Sir Seifus Halbred

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

It is still one of the only Prophecies greens that hasn't gone down in price much...

Coloneh

Coloneh

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

D/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander Ryker
spear + offhand for ele = Bad (one d in that word)
staff (rago's) for ele = awesome fire weapon

Are you kidding? A spear for an ele?

It has been said that there is not another weapon more perfect for fire ele's then rago's. I have one and would not replace it with anything.
I dont see any reason that you make sense. the only thing a staff had over a spear and offhand is more attack damage. spear + offhand has more energy, can get a prefix and suffix mod, and whatever mods you want on the offhand.

silly

sph0nz

sph0nz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

none.

W/

I don't see why you would choose anything over a staff for an Ele. It's not like they need the extra energy from a wand/weapon+offhand anyway.. At least with a staff, you can now have more cast/recharge mods. Of course, there's still dual HP/Defense mods too.

Masseur

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Southern California

R/Mo

You wouldn't. Staff or wand/offhand is the only way to go, one that you can meet the requirements.