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Originally Posted by Mithreinmaethor

Even staves, wands and orbs add this critical damage. There is no reason a weapon used as an implement should not.

i agree, the description of magical staffs (240 & 241 of the PHB) says that they apply to both melee attacks and powers that use the staff as an implement. by that logic, a longsword used as an implement should apply all the benefits that it would get on a melee attack (happy day, swordmagi!)