Mages: Yay or nay on the Burnt Wood Staff?

[Raev]

If you are meditating with C2, you'll get 32 mana per tick. Using Shock of Swords (ratio 3.0) you'll do exactly 16 damage per second. Using the Burnt Wood Staff you'll do 333/13.5 = 24.6 damage per second. Figuring out to make that happen is up to you!

[Thugnuts]

Originally Posted by Raev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you are meditating with C2, you'll get 32 mana per tick. Using Shock of Swords (ratio 3.0) you'll do exactly 16 damage per second. Using the Burnt Wood Staff you'll do 333/13.5 = 24.6 damage per second. Figuring out to make that happen is up to you!

Interesting. I was wondering about the damage... wiki shows the spell doing 333 damage or so, but the page linked to the staff says up to 500. Thought maybe it scaled up.

Has anyone tried aggro kiting with the staff? Use sow/jboots, turn pet's taunt off, open with the staff, then run out of range and spam it until it's back in range? I wonder if it has time to complete before you get hit, like the Lumi staff does for druids?