QUOTE(HNTI @ Apr 2 2013, 21:05)

Maybe someone will be so kind to explain why people maging use to chose staves with high spell damage (let's say 420+) and decent EPB despite of poor EDB ?
i'm still not familiar with all the acronyms, i think a glossary page should be added to the wiki.
i have no idea what EPB is... proficiencies maybe?
also the spell damage is a scaling stat so saying 420+ doesn't mean anything, but i get what you are saying.
basically a good staff of destruction can have almost twice the magical damage of a good non destruction counterpart.
you may think EDB is better, but the magic damage of a good destruction staff is a huge chunk of your total magic damage, expecially when forged (you can forge magic damage up to +100% while you can only forge EDB up to +40%).
this is a rough estimate but i think a good forged staff or destruction you get 20-30% more magical damage than what you would get with a good non destruction staff.
even a perfect EDB suffix cannot compensate that since you get EDB from all your equipment, so the relative impact on your total EDB can't touch the 20-30% increase on your damage output you get with a destruction staff.
also the increase given by the pure magic damage is applied to any kind of spell and also to arcane blow where the EDB only affects the spells of that element.
so, huge win for the destruction faction.