Velium Great Staff  

 

We are talking about a Velium Greatstaff here. Not any other itme. It begins to cast Shards of Velium when you are in your 25th Season. There is no debate needed. There are lots of Velium items in the world(s). This is only one of them. It is heavy, slow, and if you are a caster who's season is high enough to make this item proc, you have no buisness using a 2 handed melee weapon.
It is nice if you want to train 2 hand blunt. I recomend finding a high level hunting group and asking them if you can whack on something that they are fighting while not being a member of their group. Make sure it has a red aura to you. ** You never know when you'll be out of mana and have forgotten your Primary and Secondary items, and just happen to have a two handed staff. Then when you are attacked by something, you could pummel it into jelly....*** It could happen.... It could.... Be safe... or die well.

FYI - This dropped off a Ry'Gorr Centurion for me in Eastern Wastes.

Aarrgh!

How many times have I seen this debate??

All ordinary Velium weapons (not Coldain) proc at level 25. Not before and no ammount of clicking will change it.

Although one does wonder why you have to wait to level 25 to get a 12 damage effect.

This staff I great for lvls 20 and below. Just like the Ruined Great staff. But several things need to be set straight, before you go searching for it. This staff like many of the staffs and now that I think of it, many of the equipment that casters get, are more like tweaking items. Tweaking items you say? Yep, that right. What I mean is, casters get the short end of the stick, so to speak. This item bought from a merchant is about 82 plat. The problem is, if you look at the stats, by the time most caster get that kind of cash flow, it would be time to upgrade to a better weapon. The second problem is getting it for free. And like most things casters get, are obsolete by the time you get it; one comes to mind, is the Eye of the Observer Staff, you have to be in your mid 20 just to be able to get through the quest. And this staff that we are talking about, you have to be in your mid 20's just to be in The Great Divide (Velious), and higher to get it.
On the other hand, I mentioned tweaking, and like all caster stuff, it's a little off scue from your chr. lvl. But if you have a high lvl. chr., and you plain on starting a new chr., this is the way to go. My Mage comes to mind; I took my lvl. 60 SK to Velious and got some stuff there, and took my high lvl shammy, and did some questes, to get some better robes.
My whole point in telling you all this is, casters, especially Pure Casters, really get the short end of the stick. You either have to be outragously rich, especially at lower lvl, to get stuff like this, or you have to cheat, by tweaking. A shammy is paying about 13 plat a pop for a spell at lvl 24. A pure caster is paying around that much, when he/she is 12 or 16; and to come up with extra cash....oh lets say for this staff, about 42 ave. or 82 pl. from a vendor, well, you figuare it out. Over all, the lvl that you can obtain stuff, wheither dropped, bought, or through a quest, are off by the stats. This is a very great staff for my lvl 11 Mage. And he can continue to use all the way up to about his 20's, but after that, then it's time to upgrade.
Some of you might be thinking, well I'm a pure caster, and so melee isn't my thing. Well then, when you stroll on into the Plan of Hate, tell me that again. Nothing is more scarer than being a tank, and seeing "oom" scrolling accoss your screen. Melee is a natural skill that everyone gets, and for casters to hold there own, just long enough for tanks and secondary tanks to get to you, helps alot, plus it saves your mana, because your not going to be able to get a spell off and your just wasting mana; when you decide to .....oh let's say....heal one of your groupmates and Cazic Thule and his goons didn't like your decision and come over to change your mind. There is a good reason why I ways telling you this story(not so much about the melee part), and it goes along with this staff and everything else that I was saying. You need to be two steps a head in this game being a caster. You need to obtain gear that you may not be able to get to until later in life, and you will have to keep your skills totally maxed out. Gear like this staff for example, is either a dream for a young caster, or a waste of time and effort for higher lvl. And tank chr. depend on casters; more than we let on. And not having that great gear could mean, your group lives or dies. And there's no doubt in my mind that, Pure Casters are paying some kind of Lvl to stat penalty in gear, for being one. And having read stat. pages like this one, people all over, saying the same things that I'm saying. It sucks....IT's great......blah, blah, blah. All-in-all, pure casters, need to be tweaked. Think about it this way, your making up for a penalty, that should be fixed!

I think you guys are crazy you would pay 10-150pp
for this mess up item, which only does
9 damg 36 delay

man you guys are nuts

Mogol Mcgoggle
lvl 47 iksar monk

I got mine for 10pp

And I payed 123pp, the seller wanted from me 150pp, i got no price check
:(
Wahii from Karana

Help, I just paid 20pp for this and it does no more DMG then the Great Staff I had. Please tell me how to use this item. DMG out put is 13 tops. I am level 7 High Elf mage.

I'm a level 32 Shaman and I've fought with this weapon for 2 houres without a proc, so I'm dumping it.

These things sell to vendors for the pp of FineSteal And Dont have that great of stats only good thing u can hit magic with it and it looks cool

Proc'd for me at 25. Not when I was 24 though. Does a 12pt DD. Proc's alot though.