Mystic Weapons Question

[Nefaro]

<p>Ok all you Mystics out there.  I'm sure this has been asked before but lets do this again!</p><p>I'm a 67 Mystic.  What weapon, shield (if using one),  is the best for the rest of the game.  I generally grp alot but sometimes solo, also I've been raiding as of late.  What do you all recommend.  Currently I'm using the Blackscale Maul, great wpn, but swings WAY to slow!  What's all your thoughts?  If you can list whatever wpn and/or shield, charms ect..  Anything you think.</p><p>Thanks all....</p>

[Bobbette]

<cite>Nefarous wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Ok all you Mystics out there.  I'm sure this has been asked before but lets do this again!</p><p>I'm a 67 Mystic.  What weapon, shield (if using one),  is the best for the rest of the game.  I generally grp alot but sometimes solo, also I've been raiding as of late.  What do you all recommend.  Currently I'm using the Blackscale Maul, great wpn, but swings WAY to slow!  What's all your thoughts?  If you can list whatever wpn and/or shield, charms ect..  Anything you think.</p><p>Thanks all....</p></blockquote> Swinging slow is good.  It takes a long time to cast our spells, so with fast swinging weapons we end up missing out on auto-attack swings.  With the blackscale maul, there's plenty of time to cast a ward between swings and still get the full autoattack dps.  Not to mention if you went melee crits, a crit on the spread of that weapon is huge.

[Korpo]

The staff you can make in the Nest of the Great Egg has a similar DR (with 100% crits) to the Blackscale Maul, but with a 4.0s swing instead of 8.0s.

[Karlen]

I have both the Blackscale Maul and the Strifewing Bone Bo. SBB is a level 63 2H staff, +45 str/+45sta/+70 power/+100 health/+3 crushing.  It does 47-269 damage (79 rating) with a delay of 4.0 and generally hits for 378 every time in my case (high damage variance means that almost every hit with 100% melee crits is upped to the max damage). I expect that by level 69-70 there might be something better, but this is as good as I have seen on the broker. I have been using the Blackscale Maul most of the time and switch to SBB when I need to hit more often (particularly when fighting multiple mobs).

[Finora]

I personally never saw the benefit of the blackscale maul. Even with max crits it performed poorly for me.  =/ maybe the RNG hates me.

[xandez]

<cite>Korpo wrote:</cite><blockquote>The staff you can make in the Nest of the Great Egg has a similar DR (with 100% crits) to the Blackscale Maul, but with a 4.0s swing instead of 8.0s. </blockquote><p>keep in mind that DR info can be misleading too... ie. bigger DR wep is not necessarily better </p><p>*edit* err... unless you mean after counting crits... (noted you 100% crit comment after posting <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />) then of course the calculated DR tells the "true" story.</p><p>++Xan </p>

[xandez]

<cite>Finora wrote:</cite><blockquote>I personally never saw the benefit of the blackscale maul. Even with max crits it performed poorly for me.  =/ maybe the RNG hates me. </blockquote><p>well with my warden (mysti just lvl 48, so no BSMaul to test yet) i hit for 700+ crits... i guess that mystics hit harder since they can get bigger STR... *shrug* Imo that is quite good... yah, its slow... but more time to spam CA:s and heals and such.</p><p>you mean you get maxdmg+1 hits more than maxdmg x 1.3 hits? but i see that the BSMaul might not be as good to mystics as to wardens... have to lvl up and stuff to see the real diff myself thou</p><p>++Xan </p>