JiffyPopTart
Bree-Yark
I made a beast-form focused druid and went with the Staff of the Serpent. An extra 1d6 poison damage on all my attacks is way too sweet to pass up.
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Thanks for all the advice gang. Earthfall totem is obviously the way to go given my build; now I just have to be patient until 7th level.
Earthfall totem I think falls quite a bit short of the staff of ruin. At +2, the totem does extra 1d6 on a subset of your powers, a staff of ruin will do extra 2 damage on all your powers. At +3, the totem is still doing only 1d6, but the staff is doing +3. At +4 is when the Earthfall totem might become better depending on you power selections by that time.
And since it seems like you are looking for extra damage after all, weapon focus staff will help you along that path.
Earthfall totem I think falls quite a bit short of the staff of ruin. At +2, the totem does extra 1d6 on a subset of your powers, a staff of ruin will do extra 2 damage on all your powers. At +3, the totem is still doing only 1d6, but the staff is doing +3. At +4 is when the Earthfall totem might become better depending on you power selections by that time.
And since it seems like you are looking for extra damage after all, weapon focus staff will help you along that path.
This has probably been discussed a million times, but do we know for a fact (i.e., official ruling somewhere) that Weapon Focus works on an implement that is also a weapon when it is being used as an implement and NOT a weapon?
Yes, it's been that way since the Swordmage came out. Weapon Focus doesn't mention weapon attacks anywhere. It only mentions a type of weapon you pick for it.
It's in the faq and has been forever.
1d6 is an average of 3.5 damage.
3.5 > 3.