Originally Posted by
falmear:1333397
The proc of +10 mana regen is pretty sad. Samael is better for mana regen. If you can afford to own an arcane staff, you can afford to own Samael. +60 INT is nice its about 8.5% damage increase. There is supposedly a push back chance on a non-charged attack. I have to admit I have never seen it happen myself. But I talked to someone else who confirmed it.
As for the charged attack, this is completely useless. I don't use it myself, and never seen it used by anyone with arcane staff. I have also talked to others who have the arcane staff and they don't use a charged attack. Based on my testing its also no where close to the damage of a charged fireball as stated in the announcement thread and produces less damage then a normal attack. Waiting the duration to charge this weapon isn't worth it in my opinion. There is no way you can stand there mid combat and use it. At best you could use it at the beginning of combat. But based on the damage and "chance" to reduce crit and/or 30% snare. Its not worth it in my opinion. To hit something with the shadowflare you have to get very close. I am not gonna get stunned, combo'd, etc by getting that close.
I posted a bug in the technical issues forum, but no response was given about this.
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