Talk:Staves/@comment-24.252.122.135-20120527024040/@comment-86.178.37.229-20120613142356

If you have a staff with an enchantment on it, you don't have to use boon/affinity for it to shoot that element, and you'll get the debilitation linked to that element i.e Crimson Glare will set things on fire. However, enchanted staves do NOT give you the special shot effect of boon/afinity.

i.e using a Thunderclap stave WILL let you stun things with thunder shock, but WILL NOT give you ricochet shots, you would still need to use thunder boon/affinity. Overall it is best to just have at least one Mage or Sorc in the party with the boon/affinity that you want to use.

My prefence is Holy or Ice boon/affinity. Holy gives you seeking shots, which have a high chance of restoring grey health (which is great considering Sorc loses the Anodyne spell) and Ice gives you a delayed shot with limited tracking (it will launch and then wait before firing, and will track the enemy until the point it actually fires) The delay off sets your maxmium shots so you can basically keep firing it constantly, and of course Ice freezes things.