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Kommentar von 2385

Want this its rly niice :) for priests for dps (SHadow) ^^

Kommentar von 7121

Drops off Golemagg, I'd say give it to a druid. Mages and warlocks can go ahead and grab the mageblade when avaliable.

Kommentar von 6987

This is a caster staff, more than anything.

Depending on how open, or closed minded, your guild is, most guilds will let all casters roll on this item in mc. I have one on my 60 priest, and it served me well until my turn at an eye of divinity dropped. It was certainly better than my little blue staff from scarlet monastary *laugh*

Kommentar von 8063

For druids just starting MC and deciding and what weapon is better, Staff of Dominance or Finkles Lava Dredger. SOD is the way to go. the 40 damage/healing helps tremendously on your rejuvenation and regrowth ticks, along with the 1% crit and added with 37 intellect and 14 spirit. You can enchant this staff with either +55 healing or +22 intellect, whatever your playstyle fits for you.

Kommentar von 8676

Since the recent talent revamping this is a great pickup for a mage. Before this patch I would have said take the mageblade since the +dmg is much greater and can be stacked with a nice offhand. This can still be done but with the new arcane talent that increases your spell damage by 25% of your intellect this should be a great pickup if you spec that way. The 37 INT on it is a really nice boost to help that talent out.

Kommentar von Thottbot

This staff is amazing for ANY class that has spells. Simple as that. All casters would kill for this. Doesn't matter who it's better for, all would roll. So just stop right now.

Kommentar von Thottbot

It's been my experience that +magic dmg and +arcane dmg adds to moonfire, but only about 1/3 goes to the initial dmg and the other 2/3 gets distributed over the bleed.
If you spam wrath though, 40 magic dmg would add a lot to your dps and efficiency, and its almost as much dps as spamming moonfire, more if you have a lot of nature and magic dmg gear.
This staff is fantastic, I think anyone who can cast spells should roll on it, though if a paladin ever rolled against me I'd kill him on the spot, since I'm horde.

Kommentar von Thottbot

This ends here, this ends now...

In no specific order:
Priest
Mage
Warlock
Druid

AKA: Any caster can use that! Along with Druids, who we can argue as to their title another time. But yes, casters and Druids. None has any priority over the other, good for all, shut up now, thank you.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Almost everyone on this thread (and almost anywhere else on Thottbot too) seems to think that Druids don't use these stats as much as other casters. Druids ARE CASTERS. Take a look at our Epic Armour sets and even the wildheart set. What is the highest stat bonus over the entire set, in all of them? INTELLECT followed closely by Stamina and Spirit. Why don't u try playing a Resto or Balance specced Druid if u don't think we need to Crit on spells either. We get on the balance line talents that allow our Crit offence spell to do double damage instead of 150%. We get talents that on crit we get 1sec cast time reduced on Regrowth\Healing Touch and in Restoration line u get talents that increase ur Regrowth Crit damage by up to 50% (depends on the number of talent points used). Not only that but cloth invariably gives higher status increases than Leather armour to counteract the lesser Armour class, So we need weapons with Awesome Stats bonuses to try and catch up on the health\mana pool difference. It's not only that but i have yet to see an Epic set for a feral Druid. the best a feral druid can do ATM is to get the shadowcraft set. Anyone who says that a druid should give up a chance on rolling for this when there are mages who get higher stat bonuses from their blue equipment sets than a Druid does from their epic set is a total IDIOT!
I would happily pass on this if someone desperately needed it and i already had a very nice staff already like the Glowing Brightwood Staff or something just as nice, but otherwise shut up about druids not needing crits on spells and not being casters. Cause being able to crit a spell for 1000 health with the chance of a stun makes us just that CASTERS.

Kommentar von Thottbot

This has got to be the most idiotic debate ever.

Kommentar von Thottbot

very nice staff

once it drops in one of my next MC runs i'll just bid all my HP's i got and maybe get it for my ... DRUID ... oh my gosh ... while you poor jealous retards will still be spamming these comments with your ridiculous manifestations of fear that any other class than yours might get this item while some probably have never been to MC anyway ...

these comments should be completely disabled,
i am so tired of seeing all these "daddy that other class than mine guy is going to roll on this item and then i might not get it if it ever drops in my presence" posts while checking for interesting items ... most ppl here must have had a really poor childhood ...

so sorry for you !

Kommentar von Thottbot

Finkles Lava vs. Quel �Dorai Channeling Rod for Druids:

+17 Sta -> Nice
+6 Int -> Lame
-8 Spirit-> Bad
+1 Mana per 5 Sec. -> Lame
+15 Fireresist-> Nice
+27,5 DPS-> Not needed

Personally i would not want this for my Druid.
Getting Quel Dorai is easy to get with 2-4 People. With the 20 Spirit Enchant it�s even better for MC besides the fire resist.
Maybe Moonkins could use the DPS.

So if you are not into One Hand Weapons,the Staff of Dominance remains the only choice for a Druid.

Kommentar von Thottbot

This may have already been mentioned...it's a long thread and I'm tired but, I would question a priest bidding on this. If you are downing golemagg, then chances are you're going to start killing domo soon enough. Imo any priest that goes for this is just wasting guild resources. Wait for your eye...

Edit: I noticed someone above saying "druid over mage"..well my main is a druid and that's just wrong.
Mage/lock/druid....no specific order.

Kommentar von Thottbot

this is the new look from 1.9

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/741e8e01b5.jpg

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Come on you idiots, it's clearly a Rogue staff. I could use that thing to IMPALE somebody on an ambush!

Alright, alright, I'm totally kidding, put the "ZOMG!" beating stick away.

Now on to seriousness. This weapon is BLATANTLY made for a Mage if you look at the statistics. Mages rely largely on Intellect bonuses for their mana pool, their spell damage, their critical chance, and generally all other attributes that involve the amount of damage their spells do. As a Mage, your role is essentially that of a howitzer in a bathrobe. Mages do not function in any other real role aside from the long-range pain they deal out. Saying that this is not true is like saying that a Priest does not heal (Even Shadow-specialized Priests are primary healers when they step into a group.) Therefore, +31 Intellect is absolutely freaking massive in the hands of a Mage, particularly if a high level Intellect enchantment is then placed onto that to increase the bonus further. Combined with appropriate clothing (Like the Arcanist Regalia for the sake of argument) and enchanting, high end Mages just become more, and more, and more deadly. Since this is their only method of survival, it should take priority over every other class for this weapon. Additionally, this should be a no-brainer. Before you all scream me out, I will explain why for each appropriate class:

Warlocks - I feel for you guys, I really do. There needs to be more Warlock equipment in this game. I believe you Warlocks should have a good deal of priority when trying to recieve this thing as well. The Stamina boost, the +crit (Destruction spec), and the Damage/Heal are all of great use to you. Intellect also is a great thing. However, here's something to chew on:

Warlocks tend to first have a good selection of daggers or swords/offhand items to hunt for. Granted, Mages hunt for these too, which justifies your wanting this staff. Second, more important reason - Mages are generally flying by the seat of their pants. When a Mage runs out of mana, ESPECIALLY one-on-one in PvP or PvE, it dies, plain and simple. Warlocks, however, get the option of one of four faithful little demons that can be pretty much summoned at random. If you run out of mana, you've got a couple options as a Warlock. Still a bad situation, but you've got more options than a Mage does - particularly one that isn't specced for Evocation. Third, and most important reason a Warlock should be a team player and give this to a Mage who needs it? Warlocks need as much Stamina as they do Intellect. Your hit points are a secondary mana pool for quite a few abilities. Hellfire doesn't reach it's full potential unless you've got plenty of health to survive the damage you take. Life Tap will allow you to refill your mana if you have plenty of health to burn. All in all, yes, a Warlock can most definately rock with this staff, but if a Mage really needs it and is being a nice guy and a good team player, pass on the bid, and transfer your good deed coin to your right pocket for the day. If, however, Mages are not interested? Jump on this thing like mad.

Druids - Now, I'm not overly experienced with Druids, but from what I know of them, you can sort of do a little of everything. You deal out spell damage (kinda), which this staff would be good for. However, you can also turn into a bear and beat the snot out of someone, or turn into a ninja-kitty and rip somebody to shreds. Additionally, Druids are the other class that can be a Primary Healer - which is what you'll likely be doing quite a bit of inside a 40 man raid. You have options in your playing style. As such, you've got an advantage that most other casting classes don't get - When you run low on mana you can cast a spell and kick ass in melee. Because of this, you should let the dude in the bathrobe who lives and dies on spellcasting get the first dibs on this. Again, however, if you can do so without swiping a good piece of loot from your friends, you can certainly use this if you're Balance or Restoration specified. If you're Feral, this isn't really that great for you.

Priest - The ultimate Priest staff, which people can't really try to contest you for, is Benediction/Anathema. The thing is amazing. It is the be-all-end-all for pretty much every Priest style you can think up, as far as I have seen. It is your Perdition's Blade. The Staff of Dominance is just about the same thing for Mages. Yes, Benediction/Anathema is incredibly hard to make, but the payoff is so worth it. And once you have it (which isn't eons away if you are regularly running Molten Core) this staff suddenly isn't that great for you. An Epic weapon that many Mages will tear their right arms off for will become vendor food or disenchanting ammo. Bit of a shame, isn't it? Let the Mages that need this get it before you do, they'll be using it for a very, very long time, whereas you'll be probably using it for an interrum until you get that Benediction/Anathema quest done.

Shaman - The ONLY kind of Shaman that this thing would truly interest is a heavily Elemental specced Shaman, *maybe* a Restoration specced one. This is a bit low on the totem pole, so to speak, for a class that can wear Mail and, depending on talents, swing around an Arcanite Reaper with the best of them. Even Elemental Shamans are not purely spellcasters - they get in and dish it out melee from time to time too. ONLY take this if other spellcasting classes are disinterested, even outbidding a Warlock for this thing isn't cool, let alone a Mage. If you're full Elemental, wait to see if any of the bathrobe-wearers need it first, if not, fight it out with the Druids and other Shamans to see if you can snag it. If you are Restoration, same thing. If you're Enhancement, don't even bother with this thing, it's not gonna help you very much compared to a good axe or mace.

Every other class, don't even look at it.

The moral of the story is - this thing is perfectly suited to a Mage statistically, please consider that before screaming "OMGLEWT!" and going crazy over it.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Why is it that every time I try to read a thread on a weapon to find some useful information, it's 90% people arguing and whining about which class should use it? It's almost impossible to find actual info on the weapon when most of the posts are "ZOMG that's totally for <blank> class and anyone else who disagrees is idiot n00bz!" intermixed with a few people who sound like calculus professors, giving indepth lectures on each statistic-altering percentage and how all these stats affect each class, coming up with a conclusion as to who the most logical choice is.

I'm sure Blizzard sometimes has certain classes in mind when they create an item, but unless it's a class-specific item that nobody else can equip, I say roll/bid on it if you can equip it and its better than what you currently have. If you get it, great. If you don't, don't whine. It's a game, and most people aren't going to pull out their graphing calculators in the middle of a dungeon to figure out who should get each item.

Kommentar von Thottbot

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m156/rainstorme/staffofdominance.jpg

Kommentar von Thottbot

it is a staff for.....warriors =)

NOW SHUT THE **** UP!

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The key to this staff is that it is only usable by hunters

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Seems to have a high drop %. Dropped twice in a row for my guild. (by twice in a row I mean two mc runs)

Edited, Tue May 10 02:44:47 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Azuresong Mageblade
+
Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire
FTW
nice staff but id rather use these two

Azuresong mageblade + Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire =
+27 intellect
+17 stamina
+11 spirit
1% crit chance with spells
40 spell dmg
USE: Summon skeleton warrior

Staff of dominance =
+37 Intellect
+16 Stamina
+14 Spirit
1% crit chance with spells
40 spell dmg

The skeleton is nice, but what use is there for a skeleton in high lvl instances ? :)
Mb for pvp the first combo could be nice, but not for pve... Id rather go for the 10 extra int, and some extra spirit, but thats just me :P

Edited, Wed May 11 12:06:45 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

My druid needs a new wildheart kilt.

No pallidins will let me roll for the Lava Dredger. I will be cast into the fire pits of the cauldron. I am a pristuid anyway

Kommentar von Allakhazam

You could wait until the next patch when they will have +22 INT enchant for weapons from revered with Thorium Brotherhood, that would add .2% to crit and a good bit of mana.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

You say it costs points 2 times.

But what if you have enough points? i mean @ our guild there are people in full sets why dont you go for those 2 then? some people have so many points they can affort it easy

Kommentar von Allakhazam

After 5 kills, 4 of these have dropped, cant wait for my mage to reach level 60 so I can get it.
Went for 110-157 DKP (we get 15-30DKP per raid)
One to a Warlock, Mage, Druid and lastly one to a priest.

Edited, Mon Nov 21 04:57:57 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

model has changed, look awesome now :), havent got a pic sry. i was saving DKP for that for 5 weeks and the one raid that it dropped for my guild was the day that i missed the raid...damn school :(

Kommentar von Allakhazam

LOl

Guys for a balance drood it is interesting and it is not lowerinh his heals or somethin it's increasing it!
If gives 37 int if u put + 22 int ench it's perfect. If u have cenarion set with good ench with it your meme regeneration will stay important as well. I always let mage in front of me if he reallly needs it that is a fact. But to say that druids should go get rank 14 to get spell dmg and all crap just lol. With this staff and cenarion set and more if u are balance / resto it really powns. And trust me this staff boosts your druids they will heal better and will have a loth of mana! And if a drood is spamming balance spells in a mc raid excuse me but he isn't doin his job. So yes it's priority to mages but the staff goes well to druids too. Know a loth of good druid with it and can tell u that they only tell me good stuff about it.
So don't be lame by tellin that for druids it is not for druids. And dunno how in your guilds works but in my guild if a person who bids has the hihgest dkp amount he ll get it and it works perfectly fine ppl even inforced their solidarity by lettin some items and passing on them.
It's just a game at the end and all have the chance to recieve what they desire.

Thanks for reading this

/cheers
/gl

Kommentar von Allakhazam

This is the wrong picture for this item. Please remove the current picture or update to the new, extremely bad-ass one.

I know because I got this staff last night, thank you Fidelity!

Edited, Nov 2nd 2006 at 12:18pm PST by NodeOfDarkspear

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Azuresong Mageblade
+
Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire
FTW
nice staff but id rather use these two

Kommentar von Allakhazam

The best caster item in the game for most people. I personally would prefer the azuresong sword + epic book, or a nice + damage offhand as I am a +damage warlock.

Oh, and anyone who would prefer +9 int over +30 damage should be banned from the game. 135 mana isnt even going to get you the smallest noticable bonus, but +30 damage every time you attack is HUGE. I have +321 shadow damage and my shadow bolts average 1000 normal hits, 2000 crits, my high being 3195 with ruin.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

GIVE!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Azuresong mageblade + fire runed grimoire own this staff, but its still a great staff

Kommentar von Allakhazam

just got this puppy myself. yes, I am a druid and my +healing has skyrocketed due to this, plus having a +55 on it just makes it THAT much better.

For restoration druids too, I cant think anyone can truely say this is a MAGE only weapon when the stats provide healing ++ also.

Anyways, each to his own, I am the druid with 320 ticking rejuv heals:) soon to receive my +55 enchant:)

Edited, Thu Nov 3 05:14:17 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Some pics from the test server:

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eilysesodside3ru.jpg

From the side

http://img389.imageshack.us/full.php?image=eilysesodlightening6cy.jpg

From a different angle; managed to get one of the purple lightening bolts in this one :D

Edited, Mon Dec 12 10:38:39 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

This staff = +30 spell power enchant
Ironbark staff = +22 int

With spell power this even better than ironbark!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I'm honored my pic is being used by alla. Can't believe we got it on our first run on Golemagg 2.0 . I hope its not that common and everyone gets one. And yes, they do need to change the graphics of it, but the stats more than make up for that :P .

I can't wait until Blizz comes out with the mage epic staff quest and its got like 60int or some craziness. I think I will cry.

Oh, and whoever linked that pic, thanks for sucking all our website's bandwidth dry.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

The best mage combo in the game is Azuresong Mageblade in main hand and Aurastone Hammer in off hand. As a mage you would now have in your hands:

Combined
+17 Stamina
+22 Intellect
Restore 5 mana every 5 secs
+1% spell crit (equiv to +7 spell damage)
+125 spell damage (OMG! +65 from weapons and +65 from enchants... equiv to +18% crit to spells)

That my friends is the best damn mage combo in the game....period.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Here's a picture of it with the spell power enchant. Looks kind of drab by itself but the enchant looks cool.

http://img271.echo.cx/my.php?image=asd3yt.png

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Got it of Golemagg a couple of days ago...

I'm a Priest and i think its great

Edited, Thu Sep 29 04:13:46 2005

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Got it last night, was saving my DKP for azuresong but as I have missed every golemagg kill where azuresong dropped I just thought: 'Screw it'. Im a mage btw and anyone saying that this is staff should go to 1 specific class and then to other classes should go kill some plainstriders in the barrens. This staff is good for shamans, mages, locks, dr00ds and priests (ok ok and hunters, happy now? :P). Some of these classes might have more use for it, but its a great staff for all those classes.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I got mine a few days ago, best mage staff in my opinion. I did say "staff" so don't flip out at me, because I know the Azuresong Mageblade does own.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Sure druids have choice in their weapons, but their 2 alternate choices for weapons in MC is the aurastone hammer and the lava dredger. Both IMO (Especially the dredger) would be more useful to shamans than druids. Druids dont have a quest for a weapon and dont have a staple weapon, and that stats are 100% useful to druids. Plus mages and warlocks do have the mageblade

Kommentar von Allakhazam

LOL, Warcraft Racism! its just the stupiest coment i have read in a long time!, shame on you, dont lower a word which means a lot more than a non mature crying druid because he doesnt got a item. ALso you are just showing your Noobness with that post its just stupid of you to want that staff... theres lots of better weapons for a druid.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

same drop % as the mage blade, but this is so much better (+statwise) then you could do with any offhand item.

Blizzard really needs to buff offhand items, staves totally dominate. Even the best offhand item doesnt add up to this thing +mageblade.

I would love to see some big +damage +critical +stats offhand item with a passive effect, a truely epic one.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

So are they ever going to update the graphic on this? Its name just doesn't go with the look :...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I just wonder, does the +40 spelldmg, +1 crit chance work on the 'spells' of hunters? If so, they could make a dangerous good case against naïve raidleaders to get a chance to loot our caster endgame weapon :x

Edited, Sun Jul 10 12:12:40 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

we've killed golmeg 4 times, 3 SoDs and one Azuresong...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I made a few pics from the lightning from the staff.

Lightning pic 1
Lightning pic 1
Lightning pic 1
Lightning pic 1
Lightning pic 1

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Is it just me or do alot of druids get this over mages / locks ? :S

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Surely any mage would roll on this... if they can. If the lootmaster has more than 1 brain cell he will see the "...healing..." word in the proc and waste a thought about priests and druids.

Is there any mage out there who knows healing spells do crits too? Doesn't seem so...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

is golemagg a raid boss or can he be taken by a five man group?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

No, it doesn't

Kommentar von Allakhazam

if somesays is a hunter weapoon hes only joking to see all your stupid comments,, all hunters know this is a caster staff!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Yep, I got this badboy yesterday morning off that lil guy they call Golemagg. Here's a pic of it, with +30 spell damage. This thing alone has up'd my DMG quite a bit. I agree, it's not as good as an Azuresong Mageblade + Jin'do's Bag of Whammies or a Fire Runed Grimore, but, I didnt have an Azuresong Mageblade to worry about coupling with a good OH item, so I went ahead and grabbed this. I'll pass on the OH's until I get an azuresong, and then I'll get a good OH.

But for now, I'm SUPER happy with this.

Edit: Btw, it DOES do a lightning effect, similar to the Epaulets of Ten Storms (Pic) it's just really hard to nail a screeny with it, and I'd rather go out and pwn ppl with it, that sit around taking 15 screenies of it, trying to catch the lightning. ^_^ anyway, in case u missed it in that mass of links, here's that picture, again. Enjoy.

Edited, Mon Apr 24 01:53:53 2006

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I don't think that I could show you a better staff for a Warlock. That staff teh uber.

Taksan, level 60 Warlock Hellscream realm

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Where is the pic on this staff?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Got mine yesterday, frist time we killed goelmagg it dropped and i got the most dkp :D Along whit chromatic cloak, cap of the scarlet savant, belt of the archmage and chocker of enlightment i feel pretty damn good :)

___________
Infamous <3

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Got mine a few nights ago and put spell power on it. Talk about a dps increase. Yowza. Anyone who is "saving" for it, its worth it, believe me.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

With the new off-hand item (Feuerrunenverzierter Zauberfoliant added to the game with the most recent patch, it seems a close match:

Staff of Dominance:

+16 Stamina
+37 Intellect
+14 Spirit
Improves your chance to get a critical strike with spells by 1%.
Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 40.

Azuresong Mageblade + Fire Runed Grimoire

+19 Stamina
+33 Intellect
Durability 105 / 105
Requires Level 60
Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike with spells by 1%.
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 55.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Got someone a pic of the new 1.9 art ? Maybe some on us test servers ?

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http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=11/32611081118.jpg&s=x12

EDIT: ugh.. click on the link and then delete the characters after x12.. sorry :(

Edited, Wed Nov 23 12:24:11 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

oh..my..god..if that is really the new art for this great staff I am going to sell it..
It's plain and damn ugly..who hired that designer? :(
It's perfect just as it is..zort.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I'm a Balance/resto druid. This drops, I'm the only one who bids with 93dkp. The ML decides it would not 'contribute enough to the guild in my hands' and lowers the min bid. Some noob mage gets it for 25dkp.

^&*! that.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

looks like staff of jordan.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

got this yesterday from golemagg ;)

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Any naysayers, this staff is amazing. Get the Spellpower enchant for it too! My fireballs crit at over 1100, ive had as high as 1400. I outdps our ice specced mages when I use ice, and when I pop Talisman + AP, fireballs crit over 2k and pyroblasts near 2.5k.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

So not a hunter weapon.

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Got mine tonight. So long Rod of the Ogre Magi. I'm no Ogre or Magi anyhow. WOOT.

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This staff drops so much on my server its not even funny. Every mage and lock has this staff already if not better. To be honest with urself, mages and locks get priority on this weapon for a simple fact. WE CANT USE +HEALING STATS. WoW intended for + healing stats to be way more then + damage and healing stats. druids/shami get + healing maces, priest get benni. Mages and locks can put the +dmg to more use and also its going to be better for the raid. If a druid is using +dmg for Pve in an endgame instance, u should leave the raid cause you are going to wipe.
This staff could be put to use by all classes in pvp simply said, but druids and priest should only get it after all mages/locks get it cause ur probably going to go back to MC to finish off ur tear 1 sets and to pick up some odds and ends like ur ter 2 pants, rings and trinkets. So untill all mages and locks get it, don't be gready and don't hurt ur raid!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Hey i was just wondering about peoples input on this subject?

To help stop all the arguements over who deserves priority over gear etc why didnt Blizzard do the same thing for casters like mages and locks as they did for healer's and make +spell dmg only gear? I mean mages and locks are obviously not going to roll on aurastone cause its only +healing but everything mages and locks want and use and both healing and dmg on it wich in turn makes them have to roll against 3 or 4 other classes. Does that seem fair? plz no flaming just a simple question haha.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Roughly 4 runs to Golemagg, seen this baby drop once.

I'm saving my DKP for this baby. Will be a nice upgrade from my Soul Harvester.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I just got this on my druid, and for pvp, what enchant would be the most beneficial?

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I'm now the proud owner of one of these babies. I have a lvl 60 druid and I think this staff is really quite perfect for my character. I'm restoration-specced with a little feral for pvp so the int is great for healing, as is the +40 heal/spell dmg, and the stam never hurt anybody either! The crit chance helps in healing AND dmg. An uber weapon for a druid. If you ask me, the fact that it specifies healing makes it best for priest or druid, with secondary to mages and locks. But since priests have class-specific epic weapons (Benediction) I think this one is well-suited and deserved for druids.

Server: Shadow Moon

Kommentar von Allakhazam

20% chance to drop my ass
my guild has been killing golemagg for several months now and it has never dropped for us

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Just got this last night! Warlock on Magtheridon! Cost 95 DKP (2.5 per boss).

So Effing worth it!

BTW: 8 Guild Kills, this has dropped twice now. I'd buy 20-25% drop rate.

Edited, Fri Nov 11 11:59:21 2005

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Link for the new graphic is broken. Can you host it again?

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I'm a druid and I have this :) Uber for starfiring molten giants and stirring my soup!

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Wow that staff is awsome, too bad it looks like crap. And to bad a traitor allience mage got it hehe <3

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this is clearly a rogue weapon.

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WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?
I mean, come on.
It's CLEARLY a hunter weapon.

Don't even try to argue, you hippies, it's a HUNTER weapon, stop.

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if you are a hunter and rolls on this you will get kicked from your guild. its NOT a hunter weapon or a warrior weapon so dont even try roll

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Order most guilds put it in - MAGE warlock druid Shaman

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sry double post :S

Edited, Tue May 10 10:33:55 2005

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While I agree that the Sword + Grimoire are a godly combo, us Druid can't equip swords, and neither can Priests. Though Priests already can get the class specific item (damn I wish we Druids had an equil of Benedictus, that baby makes me cream my pants), Druids are still left with this as their best possible caster staff (for the moment, I'm curious to see our epic).

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Oh, and anyone who would prefer +9 int over +30 damage should be banned from the game. 135 mana isnt even going to get you the smallest noticable bonus, but +30 damage every time you attack is HUGE.

Untrue, intellect increases your crit chance with spells, and the rate at which your skill increases with weapons.

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The approximate drop chance to get any of,

Azuresong Mageblade, Staff of Dominance or Sorcerous Dagger,

in a full MC clear is 39.9%.

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I'm a hunter and I would definitely love to have this weapon in my two-hander spot.
Hunters need intellect, sta and spirit and the bonus to crit with spells in not neglectable either.
Plus, a hunter can take advantage of the nice DPS this staff has.
'Nuff said

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OMG's gimme gimme gimme.... I found ... If someone didn't inspect me you couldn't tell the difference.

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IF ANY HUNTER EVER Rolled on this they would probably be killed

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Clearly for mages and locks.
Priests get Benediction. (Segnung get Finkle's. (Überwärmter Isolierlavagreifer

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"i'm getting sick of "balance" druids being crappy mages and rolling on mage staves/trinkets. you are supposed to heal, so get a staff that gives + healing. if you need +dmg for pvp, go get exhalted with AB or jsut get rank 14. there is no way that a druid can use this staff to it's full potential."

/point
/violin

Why the hell would you want this over Fire-Runed/Azuresong? Or Bag of Whammies/Talon of Furious Concentration and Azuresong? I *wish* I could use something as good as the Mageblade, yet all you can do is piss and moan about the Staff of Dominance. People still beating the "Druids can only heal" drum clearly aren't playing with competent Balance Druids. Either that or they're ignorant. Whatever the case may be, shed additional tears, person with less experience.

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Allakhazam masters, can you change the image for a recent one? Thanks, there you have my example!

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Im a warlock, and ofcourse I would almost fall of my chair if a druid won this over me, but as I see it if the item that drops is better than the one you have why not buying it? So a staff drops you are a oomkin druid ofc bid. Although In my guild warlocks have prio on this, meaning if a warlock wants it it will goto a warlock nomather what the bid is. Same with the staff from ZG on panther boss has druid prio. But thats because we are working together as a team and think for our progress when raiding, but ofc if a druid want this for pvp reasons or whatever and no warlock wants it he would have the same right as anyone else to bid. Same with the zg staff, if no druid want it everyone is free to bid.

Raid progress is for us more important than 200 extra damage in pvp. But dont flame people for wanting this when they are druids, this is a really good staff for a druid aswell.
37 int, and 40 HEALING / damage.

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This should easily be the best staff around for any caster class...

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my warrior would love this.

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who the hell cares what it looks like... its about the hottest weapon in the game right now. For mage anyways, and honestly who cares about the placeholder... when i am doing 550 dmg per frostbolt, I wouldnt mind having it look like a penis.

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i'd say this is the best _epic staff_ in the game. Ok, son, just agree with me, ok? Good!

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This is a dream of every mage and warlock it's the best staff in my opinon! Wants it bad.

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I got it for 20 DKP (compare, we get 1 DKP a boss, and 2 for Domo and Rag) and 2-5 DKP for BWL bosses. 20 DKP is about one week raiding for me :)

The first 3 went for 55, 50 and 48 DKP so I consider me very lucky. had only 4 mages in MC that evening and 3 had it already and the 4th had a cool sword. And yes we did wipe at Rag that evening , before you guys say you can't do MC with 3 mages, well you can, but not Ragnaros, we had not enough ranged DPS, got him to 22% normally we ust nuke him 'easy'

I am a warlock btw.

I really needed it, I was running around with lousiest blue crap staff ever, dunno it's name but it was ugly. Never got to Staff of the Ogre Mage or some other decent blue, so for me it's like trading me 16 year old Chevy for an brand new Ferrari

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Got this bad boy last night. ^_^ So pretty. Got it enchanted w/ +30 Spellpower right away. Made a nice difference in ShadowBolt damage. IMO I think it's better than the mageblade if you don't have an epic off-hand such as Fire Ruined Grimoire, or the Tome of Shadow Force. ::shrug:: I'm happy with it. ^_^

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Staff of Rampant Growth is good for extremely long fights as a Druid, however the +spell crit and large amount of intellect makes it fair for almost any caster to want this one. Even Druids.

Edited, Sat Jan 21 19:56:17 2006

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mage weapon

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"If a druid is using +dmg for Pve in an endgame instance, u should leave the raid cause you are going to wipe. "

That's funny, 'cause Ragnaros getting crit all over by a pair of Moonkin-infused caster batteries says otherwise.

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I'm a druid and I got this the first time it dropped and I've been w/ my Guild from wiping on Lucy our first shot to where we are at now which is Domo. And the mages did NOT complain. -_-; People need to get a grip.

High end raids = DKP system
Your DKP > someone elses DKP = You get the item

You should be adult enough to decide if the item would be better suited for someone else. I wanted it an I got it, +30 spell power on it and my other guild mates have nothing but glowing praise for it.

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blizzard is so boring...
best staff and they use the soj graphic...that sux :>

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I guess this is the best possible staff for a priest, cause Benediction/Anathema is far to difficult to get.

Every hunter rolling on this beauty shall be kicked.

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I would seriouly learn how to hack to delete any hunter who would seriously roll on this.

hunters... go find the $%^& for your epic bow and leave this to the casters...

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Could some1 post a decent pic of the staff maybe from a test server ? Like some1 wearing it.

Thanks

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I won this over a druid last night. Not the best +damage weapon for a mage in Molten Core, but after realizing that half the mage reel in our guild and most of the paladins too are after Mageblade, I decided I'd rather replace my blue staffs (Trindlehaven with +22int and Rod of the Ogre Magi) now than wait out my turn for three months, when Staff of Shadow Flame might be a possibility for our guild. :) Plus, you don't have to spend even more time/loot reel position hunting for a worthwhile offhand for mageblade. Gathering the materials for +30 spell power enchant, and then I can't wait to try it out in AV!

http://offcentre.net/shewows/screens/dominance.jpg
how it looks with my Molten Core gearset.

Edited, Fri Dec 30 17:31:01 2005

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Well, every Healer and Damage Dealer has need on this one. I am a healing specialized Shaman. I will geht this staff once it drops. Priests have Benediction, Druids, have the staff from the green dragons and/or Arlokhs Will. So I will geht this next time. It has good Stats for every caster.. critical strike chances and +spell damage and healing. The only thing that tops the SoD is the Shadowflame Staff

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Well, this of course a good ubber staff, but actually the map of that item have changed since 1.09 I think. Nowadays it looks like:

Two dragons faced one each other with a huge gem in centre of the staff with a long staff ended by a gold spine. The rest can you see on this picture:

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What is wrong with you people? If someone wants an item and they're higher in whatever system you use why not just let them have it? Don't give me this crap about "contribution to the raid blah blah blah" Look at it this way. You've got yourself a balance druid, and they want the staff. They're a veteran player that's been with you for ages and you know they want more damage gear. But because of whatever dumbass priority system you use, the staff goes to a mage that's been in the guild for three weeks and has 1/4 the DKP of the balance druid. So basically you just told the druid "Sorry, but we've decided that your 7 months of dedicated play is woth less than the mage just being a mage" How is that supposed to make the druid feel? Probably kinda crappy? The result? Over time he stops having an interest in the game and eventually quits. So here's a little math for you number people.

1 "wasted" epic staff < 8 Cenarion + rings/trinkets/neck/cape

Treat your people well and they'll stay around. No one in their right mind is going to argue that they should get something just because its more suited to their class over someone that's worked three times as hard for it. Druids, shadow priests, retribution paladins, etc. Don't you think they get enough BS as it is?

I mean seriously, I've seen guilds lose two or three people over controversy over one drop. That's 1 epic not "wasted" costing up to 50 epics to the guild. Any system that assigns loot on a basis other than merit is just ridiculous. I mean, its pretty much like racism. "Rogues are innately more important than druids, so they get everything first, you can have the scraps." I see druids, priests, and pallies (and I'm sure its the same with shaman) getting treated like they're second priority players for ages and its just wrong.

~A feral druid that has the Staff of Dominance and gets along quite well with his guild's mages and rogues.

Edited, Jul 12th 2006 at 11:55am EDT by JarynFrostwing

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Just picked up this staff last night, I love it. FYI the staff looks different than the one in the picture, it looks a lot better now.

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Staff of Dominance RoCks XD

+30 Spell Damage

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Drops off golemagg

Edited, Tue Apr 26 23:33:06 2005

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Imo mages should get it first.

Works for warlocks,shaman, druids, priest too.

All casters. ^^

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i'm a mage, lvl 60, and though i appreciate this item's greatness, i prefer azuresong.

my guild uses a nuldkp system.

if this drops, i would pass on it, and hope that a mage/warlock would get it.

I'm sorry priests, but you also can get benediction, which is MUCH MUCH better than this.

I'd prefer this to go to either a mage or a warlock myself....possibly druid.

Hunters? that craps gettin old, and to be honest i'm getting tired of it.

Hunters can get Rok'delar and lok'delar instead, cmon guys, quit being greedy. please.
its not funny anymore.

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This bad boy is one of the most sought after items in the core for my guild, Every time it has gone for over 100 points and to mages. to put that into perspective our minimum bid for weapons is 15 points. 100+ is probably almost a month worth of raiding points to get one fo these.

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Warlock&mage > priest > druid

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...these items aren't real. That would make arguing over them seem more reasonable.

Sorry for the blank posts.

Edited, Mon Jun 20 16:51:02 2005

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Someone know if Staff Of Dominance will get new Art with patch 1.7 as some other MC weapons like ...

Blastershot Launcher
http://www.sky-hawk.co.uk/images/298869.jpg

Earthshaker
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3024/earthshaker7pa.jpg

Would be great to have a pic :)

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Clearly a hunter item :P..
No but seriously my friend has got it and the glow is just AwESoME :D:D:D:D:D:D

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Just wanted to pop in and say that i have this on
my shammie, sure the mages and locks was mad but
all the other shamans went for Aurastone hammer
and Malistar defender...

and i LOVE this :D
(and have +30 Spell Dmg on it)

Edited, Mon Feb 6 16:13:43 2006

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Now i have to admit this is a mage staff. But warlocks could roll need on it to and win but really its for mages.

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Well the first Time i killed golemagg and first time my guild has killed golemagg this dropped and we use dkp so it was out of me and 2 people and i won. I must say this is good with +9 intellect or spellpower, also for a priest healing power is good for it. Also Update the Graphics on it! :)

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4 times Golemagg down 2 times Staff of Dominance for us sounds like your guild is very unlucky nicolasavru.

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good hunter joke from thottbot..

hunters are always noobs anyways... :)

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One of our Warlocks yesterday got this, spend 150 DKP on it :O considering ive been on 10 raids and not gotten 150 dkp in total yet, id say it was quite expensive :P

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a hunter couldnt roll on it anyway (even though thats a joke and an old one at that)-thats what master-loot is for if anyone does mc with no ML on the raid leader needs to think for a long while about his or her life :P.as far as mages>other classes… no that’s bull any caster gets a roll/chance to spend dkp on this anyone who says otherwise is foolish. Im a balance druid because i love it in pvp so this is highly ideal for me… put a +22 intellect on it and… /drool

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you CAN do rag with 3 mages btw :p we did. its just a royal pain in the ass (3 wipes then kill)

reason i am here though:

"* The following weapons and shields have been updated with new art : Perdition's Blade, Obsidian Edged Blade, Gutgore Ripper, Core Hound Tooth, Aurastone Hammer, Drillborer Disk, Staff of Dominance"

anyone know what the SoD will look like?

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Dropped in Eredar last night.

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Rofl you guys are soo funny really...

Is there any weapon that is not considered a hunter weapon?

This weapon is crap ok you guys need agi & crit chance not some stupid intel buff. I have never seen a good hunter run out of mana during combat.

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The main reason to go for the staff is that it ONE cost of points. whereas the sword + book = TWO sets of points. and its only a little better...

best thing if you ask me:

Azuresong + spell power enchant + the Epic books from Altrec Vally = over 100 extra dmg on evey spell of your chosen field

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http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/7784/sod1zo.jpg

Edited, Wed Nov 23 07:58:41 2005

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but the way it looks now is like if it is from scarlet monastery..
the new design is hell of a lot more EL GRANDE ;D

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Sure the staff is useable by priests and druids. If a priest or druid wanted it in our raid, we wouldn't stop them. However it certainly isn't the best thing for their class.

People only see things in one direction. Look at it from a mage's perspective. You fail to realize that mages and warlocks ***DO NOT HAVE*** the luxury of rolling on things like Benediction or Finkle's, whereas druids and priests do. Not that a mage/warlock should take those, I know, but the point is you have MORE CHOICES than we do. Sure you CAN use this staff, but that doesn't mean you should be a greedy, lazy ass and take it from someone that doesn't have a weapon quest, or can only roll on limited items.

If you're too damned lethargic to do your Benediction quest (I don't know why, as it's NOT that bad), then don't deprive a mage or warlock of soomething like this. Bene/Ana is FAR better for a priest, so much so that taking a SoD over it is completely stupid.

Edited, Mon Jan 30 18:06:53 2006

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did they nerf the drop rate on this? for the past about 15 MC runs we've been on we havnt seen it drop

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Wow a level 40 staff placeholder graphic, whoda thunk it? I can't say I'm surprised, there is absolutely no staff love in this game. Meanwhile the new Quel'Serrar graphics makes me pop a tent.

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Dont get better than this ^^

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When enchanted, say with +22 Int, does it get the yellow glow like normal, or does it stay normal, kinda like Benediction?

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anyone know the int to crit ratio? (x-int=x-crit)

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I'm a druid and I got this the first time it dropped and I've been w/ my Guild from wiping on Lucy our first shot to where we are at now which is Domo. And the mages did NOT complain. -_-; People need to get a grip.

High end raids = DKP system
Your DKP > someone elses DKP = You get the item

You should be adult enough to decide if the item would be better suited for someone else. I wanted it and I got it, +30 spell power on it and my other guild mates have nothing but glowing praise for it.

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This will forever be the loot that was so tasty, it made Jokerd give up his method streaming contract (and it's not even that uncommon of a drop 😯)

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