Chetari Wardstaff  

 

Sladaru, I was thinking about getting this item for similar reasons, most people who say "Enchanters above 20 never melee!" have never played one to 50+. When color chaining on raids, or in small groups on casters, there's no reason not to melee, as you're already in melee range as it stands.

The problem with this staff is really the proc. Yeah, it's a lot of fun... I played around with a friend of mine's and sent all manner of crap flying around everywhere, including him.

The problem with this is the proc itself in a realistic situation. If you're on a raid you've got 10-30 meleers all situated around a mob, primary tank is just in front, secondaries all behind, with rogues all crowding the buttocks of said mob. As it stands it's a very precarious situation as most high end raiders will use a primary tank and situate all melees beyond that to reduce hate.

In essence, the late game balance of who's where in a melee situation is a precarious line. This staff takes that and blows it all to hell. A mob gets knocked back in regular melee from a bash and suddenly the rogues are too close and are taking hits... But this item, jesus. You can hit a mob with this and all the sudden he's flown into the casters and now that wizard who just let off his first nuke has his hate raised so much more by proximity.

In small group situations you have a similar balance, and it's just as pronounced. If you're in Karnor's for example, the towers are constant influx of caster mobs and most enchanters tend to color flux up there directly along the center of the walkways. One proc from this item and suddenly that spectral curate has gone flying off of the castle, into the moat, and is gathering up a bunch of dogs and callers to come chew your hide.

As such, the proc on this item really erases it's effectiveness when color chaining. Tserrina's staff is much more appropriate.

Still a burly ol' item as far as stats and saves go, particularly for an enchanter.

Not a really good item ? really ? bah, stats are just excellent, good ratio dmg/delay, wis, save magic fire cold poison des, int if you a caster and some other stats less usefull but still good, that is not a twink item since you have all that SV stats and good wis or int, personnaly,i like to have a weapon and as a druid i m not getting many hits so i don t care about AC, all i need is Wis,mana and save, especially SV magic, so unless i ll can get my Epic quest weapon, that one will be next on my weapon list to replace my fungy staff.
Of course it have many shields really nice, especially Velious shield, but depend on how you re playing, personnaly don t thing that staff will stop to be auctionned in EC or i should say don t thing someone will auction that kind of item for a while.