best staffs for each of sienna's careers?

[BattleBard]

new to sienna, wondering what is worth going for

[Maitre Malterre]

Hmmm ... depends on your gamestyle...

YT got some interesting videos - as example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBR0JF4ouy4

And there also some very good Guides in the - surprise; 'Guides' Area :)

But I', sure some useful answers will be given to you from our community

[Kris Allen]

I'm not a pro but I love Sienna and use this.
Battle Wizard - Fire Sword / Coruscation
Pyromancer - Sword / Bolt Staff
Unchained - Flail / Fireball Staff

[SamEstine]

Depends on build, but generally:

- Battlewizard: Beam staff or Coruscation Staff.
- Pyromancer: Bolt Staff
- Unchained: Your preference, mine is bolt staff.


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[Red Sabre]

Battle Wizard - Coruscation
Pyromancer - Coruscation
Unchained - also Coruscation

[BattleBard]

coruscation is good, but its VFX are so wimpy i can't stand to use it

[Emilia Tempest]

From a vanilla standpoint:

Battle Wizard: Fireball Staff, good AoE damage, decent AP, good against single targets. Beam Staff is also a solid option if you go for an dot build with "Famished Flames". (The Famished Flames build gets boring quickly as your melee will be the Flame Sword and spamming heavy 1 24/7 may not be an appealing way to play. Just felt like mentioning it.)

Pyromancer: Bolt Staff, main fire is useful to keep high overheat easily, bolt is amazing single-target damage (at full charge can even cleave through hordes), if you go for an mostly melee build you can slap the "Hunter" trait on it and trigger it easily with the main fire.

Unchained: Bolt staff, same reason as Pyromancer except the part with the "Hunter" trait. You can also go for the Flamestorm staff and a AP melee (which is the Mace or heavy attack of the dagger, for DLC its either the Crowbill for ultimate AP, and Flame Flail for aoe stagger)

Otherwise, the staffs that arent named are up to taste really.

[Silent_Shadow]

I enjoyed the bolt staff, the fire ball staff, and the flame thrower the most, but it will really depend on what you want your build to do.

The bolt staff is great for killing armor and specials (no drop off, and penetrates crowds), but it doesn't handle hordes very well, and it is difficult to use in melee. You can also use it to kill bosses in a pinch, but it isn't the best at it.

The fireball staff felt like a general use staff to me. There isn't any role it can't do, but it doesn't excel at anything either. Pyro likes it because you can spam low heat fire balls to hit a bunch of enemies (and allies), which gives her more chances to crit.

The conflagration staff is a decent defence staff because it can give you staggers on demand (just do a quick rmb + lmb at their feet), and it has some decent aoe attack, but its damage is lackluster compared to most staves.

The flame thrower is great for efficiently killing hordes and the guys hiding behind their armored friends, and you can also use it to weaken and burn down non-CW armored groups. The primary attack (uncharged) will also stagger anything below a CW within the circle, which makes managing patrols or random armor groups a lot easier. I like running it with unchained for this reason. The downsides are that it only has a medium range (more than shotgun), it doesn't do a lot of damage to a single target like a boss, it can get you killed as unchained pretty easily, and it doesn't get crits (use barrage instead).

The coruscation staff (a.k.a. sienna's crutch) has a powerful shotgun attack and you can set fires on the ground. It does a lot of damage, but you have no range and it builds heat up fast. A lot of players like it because it can mulch all the fodder and burn up all the armored enemies.

The beam staff is good for setting everything on fire and for burning bosses down. It works really well for the BW if she specializes in the burning dot perks. You can also use it to snipe enemies, but the flinch from it and the snipe attack can be difficult to use.


Also, you if hold the ultimate button for pyro, you can use the alternate attack key to zoom in. Use this to try to get your guided fire missile to hit what you want instead of just anything nearby.

[TheRealAcro]

Bolt stuff my beloved

[Xaphnir]

Coruscation staff is too strong. Until it's nerfed nothing else can compete with it.

[Aimee]

Only realy use the Bolt Staff in most games.
The melee weapon already gives waveclear, and most teammates have plenty waveclear. So a weapon that has good range and damage helps compliment that.
Although i dont think there are many staffs i think are bad. The Flamestorm Staff is by far the most questionable, since it leaves stronger enemies alive after walking through the fire so they can strike at you. And you cant see them that well because of the huge fire cone.

[Khal'cynee]

beam for single target damage, coruscation for crowd control on battle wizard and unchained
idk for pyro, she is not my cup of tea, and if you are a sienna newbie its not a good idea to start with this career i think

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

All the staffs work on all the Sienna careers. Which is the "best" is subjective, just try them and see what you like. You'll figure it out.

The only staff I would say is bad is Firestorm, yet it still does have uses. Such as on Tzeentch + Critically Unstable, probably the easiest way to melt the hordes that spawn every ~25s.

[Pungent]

It's kinda sad that more people aren't willing to try other builds beyond the usual suggestion of corusc BW and bolt pyro, when, hilariously enough, they also work extremely well if swapped around. Volcanic Force bolt BW is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unit that can be built to 1shot every non-CW elite up to Cata, and Deathly Dissipation Corusc Pyro is like having a semiauto drum-fed shotgun on tap anytime you kill a special (but learn to qcancel to increase your RoF for maximum effectiveness).

Try everything and see what you find fun; the only honest recommendation for staff/class combinations to avoid would be using the flamestorm on anyone besides BW. It's outclassed by everything else on Pyro, and it makes you uselessly team-dependent on UC since you'll have no way to deal with ranged enemies peppering you for uncontested heat buildup. BW is objectively the absolute best class to use the flamethrower on, because heat buildup from the charge attack scales with charge time, so if you run Rechannel, you'll be able to throw out fully charged blasts in less time and with less heat buildup than Pyro or UC can do single-stage charges.

[Silent_Shadow]

Flamestorm also works well on unchained. Because its damage ticks so fast, you can put barrage on it to get a 25% extra damage buff in just a second or two, which you can easily maintain with the lmb burst that also reliably staggers everything below a CW. Ideally you use it to quickly deal with large hordes, to weaken every SV in a large group, and to exterminate the ever inter-clipping/stacking clumps of beastmen; otherwise you are just using it to maintain barrage and to keep your heat up. You can also use it to quickly burn down groups of berserkers.

This staff does struggle against ranged specials and archers, but you just need to get close enough to stagger them with the lmb burst so you can keep them from firing while you close in to melee. The range of the lmb burst is longer than you think (test it on the dummies), but it only hits enemies within the circle reticule.

I also recommend just using the basic skin, unless you want to a third of your screen blocked.

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

I use all of them on all classes, because ♥♥♥♥ the meta and ♥♥♥♥ these dumb “what is best” threads. Use whatever is most fun/that which you understand how to use.