tangar wrote:
ster wrote:
Earthen Missiles is only good if you aren't using staves since they aren't procs
What do you mean? If I attack with staff in melee - it wouldn't proc spell?
Let me try to turn that comment into something actually informative...
ster is distinguishing her between the Arcane Combat effect of triggering a spell and things like "do 17 light damage with every melee attack". The former, in ToME parlance, is not technically a 'proc'.
This is relevant because staves give a +% damage bonus to procs for every point that your accuracy is greater than the target's defense. So one way to get lots of damage output is to run staves, do lots of proc damage, and then boost accuracy
way up.
...but given how ridiculously powerful Arcane Combat is with Earthen Missiles, that's not very exciting for an Arcane Blade. Note that they still do bonus plenty from other things a staff can give you, including but not limited to: +% physical damage, physical damage resistance penetration, mana on crit, spellpower.