Skills with Charge Levels and Staffs

[Kris Rhodes]

If I have a skill that charges up with successive hits, does it work with only melee weapons or with staffs as well? Bows?

Does it depend on the skill?

-Kris

[Uzael]

Originally Posted by Kris Rhodes

If I have a skill that charges up with successive hits, does it work with only melee weapons or with staffs as well? Bows?

Does it depend on the skill?

-Kris

Depends on skill, most tell you up front of there is limitations. Psionic touch is the only one I know of that works with a staff. Ternion also works with a staff, though it's not a charged skill.

[Matseb2611]

I think Onslaught might be only with melee weapons and Calculated strike too, but not entirely sure.

[I_Raps]

Onslaught and Calculated Strike work with bows - don't depend on them, though. Any bow user without the Marksmanship tree will see his stopping power fall off dramatically by late Epic.

[ffreakk]

@ I_Raps

Or earlier.. I cant even imagine one that wields a bow w/o Marksmanship that go all the way till end Epic.. I ll give him the most to end normal.. While its possible to go further, it just falls WAYY short compared to other options..

[CookieMonster]

Do not forget about Psionic touch....it is +%total damage....so it is stafferific!!!

[Matseb2611]

So Hunting mastery is pretty much a MUST have for a bow character. Now I wonder if it's possible to have a really crazy build for a bow user without the hunting mastery.

[Creslyn]

Could try a -recharge rogue/x i suppose, using LS as your default ranged attack.

[I_Raps]

Originally Posted by Creslyn

Could try a -recharge rogue/x i suppose, using LS as your default ranged attack.

Assuming you could deal with the Energy cost somehow, that still leaves the problem that without PunctureShot/Scattershot/Volley, it's still at least one shot per monster - no area- or multi- effect at all.

[CookieMonster]

I'm presently building a magician and a sorcerer bow user...this is under the Sorcher and Archcian thread. Feel free to take a peek. I must agree without volley and scatter shot, crowd control will be a problem....I'm planning on using flash powder, thunderball and volcanic orb for that matter.