Fireball is one of the strongest autoattacks in the game, taking in mind that you can have a lava font on the ground at the same time which can be used for damage or to pressure your enemy.
It also has a pretty decent AoE explosion, so if your foe tries to sidestep it and you aim at the ground it will still hit him.
I would argue that earth 1 is pretty bad, but you generally want to stay away from camping earth too long so you shouldn’t autoattack in earth at all.If you’re going to complain about skills being useless, try scepter first, because compared to scepter skills staff is severely overpowered.
If you consider putting “lava font” at the same time; we’re no longer speaking of auto-attack. Fire auto-attacks never hit and the attack rate is 1 attack pet 1.4 seconds; that’s weak.
Then its just a l2p issue on your end tbh, I rarely miss them.
With some might and vuln fire autoattacks can easily do over 5k damage, and even tho lava font is not an autoattack, it can be used at the same time, and should be taken in consideration when balancing the autoattack around it.
After all, your autoattack is just a filler between skill cooldowns.Just a little word of advice I guess since missing them is a big deal for you, try binding your action camera on/off toggle to an easily accessible key and turn it on when you have to autoattack so you can aim towards the ground easier, or just get used to the curve they take and aim that way
I think that we’re talking about different game mode here. Lava Font never hit more than once on players, and players strafe, dodge attacks, do dash closer. Fireball crits for 2k big max on light golems. Offensive Staff is good in PvE; absolutely not in PvP.
I don’t know what build you are playing, but you can clearly see I’m doing 4k-ish crits against a light target golem, and 5k when bolt to the heart kicks in.
Staff is good in pvp, it just requires you to actually play well instead of facerolling with some kittenty celestial d/d buildWell, I did put go Fire, Water and Air (Bolt to the Earth, Pyromancer’s Training, Aquamancer, Force sigil, Scholar Runes, Berserker amulet.) Of course, it deals 5k. But, for example, do a duel against me with all those traits and stats (I am marauder staff myself; and I promise that you will not even hit me once with that set-up.).
Nota Bene. Not that it means much, I got legendary last season using only zerk or marauder staff in solo queue.
The fact that you got legendary (even tho it doesn’t mean that much in this game) on staff ele kinda shows that staff isn’t as bad as many people are implying here.
Buffing the autoattack would turn it from a perfectly viable spec to an OP spec, and would cause other weapon skills to become useless since autoattacking is more damage, like we saw on revenant in PvE for example.
Not even mentioning that staff ele already is the highest damaging build in the other side of the game, PvE, and buffing it would just bring back stacking as much eles as you can like we saw before HoT