Whyuse a staff for +7 skills if you can use a wand and shield for +7 skills
Plus you get a shit ton of defense and more offensive stats than a 2h staff.. besides the skill it comes with but I can just weapon swap …
You don’t. Staffs aren’t balanced very well right now so it Is always better to run wand+focus/shield. The best use case for staffs now is putting a chiming staff in your offhand for the free spell it gives
Corrupt for the +6 Wand like a boss, I was told. Definitely won’t brick, no no no!
I did that last League with my sorceress. It was a huge boost.
I tried it with my huntress that uses a spear and scepter the other day and it wouldn’t let me equip it and I met the requirements.
Can I not use it in this situation or was I doing something wrong?
A lot of times when I’m fighting bosses I just go in a circle around them and spam lightning rod so if I could use sigil of power it would be a boost for sure.
Did you have the stats that you needed on either the Scepter or the Spear? That’s my best guess as to why you couldn’t equip in the second weapon set.
I thought I did but I’m new to Path of Exile in general and I do have about 400 hours but I’m still learning and some of the weapon swap second weapon set stuff trips me up.
On my huntress I have 210 dexterity, 213 intelligence, and 88 strength.
The reason I’m not all dexterity is because I’m using a scepter.
I’m using tangletongue and it only requires 20 strength and 48 dexterity. The scepter I’m using requires 50 strength and 128 intelligence. So I’m good there.
Now the staff with sigil of power requires level 78 and 178 intelligence which I have. It just won’t let me slot it.
Are you saying that I need the 128 intelligence the scepter needs and the 178 intelligence the staff needs? That’s 306 and there’s no way I can do it.
All good, being new and learning is nice!
What I asked was if you maybe have Intelligence on the Scepter or the Spear? You don’t get the Attributes unless they’re currently wielded. So if you have Intelligence on either or both, when you swap you might not reach it?
Okay I know what you mean, I think. Lol.
Thanks for taking the time to help me.
I know I probably need to watch a few more videos or stuff like that but I just want to play.
You’re doing fine, all good! Play while you want, you can watch videos later if you don’t have a second monitor.
Fun > All!
Yeah there’s definitely 128 intelligence on my scepter and also 101 intelligence on my helm. I’m using pure es helm so I can use subterfuge mask.
They aren’t talking about requirements. They are asking if you have intelligence as a mod on the scepter because that doesn’t count towards equipping your other weapon set. Tangletongue already has 15-25 intelligence which means you don’t actually have 213 intelligence when trying to equip the staff.
Yeah there’s + 30 INT on my scepter so I guess I would have to change 30 more dexterity to intelligence on my passive and then that would take me to low to ise some of my skills so I guess this is where I stand for now.
Thank you so much.
Sigil of power increases spell damage for mana spent not going to increase damage of lightning rod or any spear skill
They are severely undertuned. Same thing for quarter staff vs spear now. The two handed weapons need a significant buff to be worth the trade off of not having an off hand.
I’m a fan of the 2 handed weapons having 2 more stats. 1 affix 1 suffix. Makes sense to me.
Bigger stats definitely better imo especially with the c7rrent pool of mods. You’ll either run out of stuff you really care about or just never realistically actually get an item with all those mods.
2 affixes don’t cut it, an off-hand means 6 more affixes. they should have just bigger mods.
Yeah but you have the issue of nodes that allow two 2 handed weapons and all you need is a couple new nodes that make 2 handed weapons better. If u had double stats then it would be broken. 2 extra stats allows for a couple bad stats on items still during the campaign and into the beginning of maps before you get best In slot items. Would give it the boost it needs early.
At least for Staff vs Wand I don’t know that this would solve the problem. IMO two big issues is the offensive power from staff is too low relative to wand. Better baseline +spell level and higher upper ranges is one thing, but probably staves need to be able to roll +spirit as well.
At one point the devs said 1 hander+shield need to be better because you have to get 2 good items instead of 1. I’d rather they both have their own strengths.
İmho the trafe off should be you do more damage with a 2 hander and you have better defences with 1+1
Yeah, focus gives HUGE ES and shield gives block, that’s already enough of an advantage
Chiming staff before boss pop sigil of power. Swap back. You’re done
This is the way. Sigil on alt hand is meta.
Does it matter the stats on the off hand , and passives , or is it purely to get the level whatever sigil of power?
Doesn’t really matter. Just higher levels is better, so finding one with + spell skills or something similar for higher levels of sigil is helpful.
The second you use your main skill stuff it switches back so the other stats don’t really matter. I got a +4 for like 1 ex
It’s 2025, ARPGs still haven’t figured out how to make melee keep up with mages, and make caster staves worth equipping
Maybe we’ll get it right in another 20 years?
Poe1 kinda has the same problem. Even though Wand/shield goes up to +3 and staff up to +5, everyone uses wand/shield. To be fair, the ES offhand in poe 1 actually gives block.
Edit: you can also dual wield wands in poe 1 for +4, which many people also do. Essentially sacrifice +1 for a bunch of extra other stats
I use a staff, and its kind of worth it actually. Its all about the price. If you have mirror tier items wand is always better, but a good staff is better then 2 mediocre wand + focus (where you have to buy/find 2 items)
Also: you need the best +level mods on both items to get +7, and increases and cast speed are at 66%, so its only better if you can double it too. And with sockets, you have +1 offensive socket on the staff. Defensive stats are a bit bait on focus when you have sigil weapon swap, it sucks when you lose your res/es whenever you throw a curse or sigil.
At the end of it however its supply / demand. If they were equal price, you would prob never buy a staff.
This is correct. I use staff for this reason alone. You can find some absurd deals this way.
can’t use living bomb or iceshards with wand :E