whats sienna's best staff?

[Certified_weeb]

I'm pretty trash at all of them so I just need to know which one to get good at.

[Pungent]

Get good at looking up all the quality info that the community has collated these past 5 years. The guides section for starters, followed by the pinned links in the V2 subreddit.

[LeftFoot]

Coruscation is her best staff overall purely due to the sheer dps it can do vs density, but all it really does is output dps. Beam and Bolt are both strong contenders for second best and are generally more versatile. Beam does very good mixed horde dps and crowd control with the shotgun blast and depending on career, good/medicore special sniping and boss dps. Bolt gets insane bodyshot breakpoints, allowing it to 1sbs every elite and special short of cws and wargors in cataclysm.

[Frostbeast]

Originally posted by LeftFoot:

Coruscation is her best staff overall...

At the same time, its the worst. Stack the campfire and you create a blinding wall. You cant see anything. This and the ult is the reason i dont like BattleWizards in my team. Its even worse when you know, that the campfire dmg does not stack.
The staff is dlc too. Maybe the player dont possess it. Beam staff is still a great weapon for BW class.

[Adelion]

Originally posted by Frostbeast:

At the same time, its the worst. Stack the campfire and you create a blinding wall. You cant see anything. This and the ult is the reason i dont like BattleWizards in my team. Its even worse when you know, that the campfire dmg does not stack.
The staff is dlc too. Maybe the player dont possess it. Beam staff is still a great weapon for BW class.

Well, the question did not differentiate between DLC or not, so the answer is fair. Also, the poor visibility is the problem of the team mates. But yea, seeing Coruscation Staff in the lobby is reason for me to leave because it is to overpowered and there is no fun to be have when playing.

That said to OP: Coruscation Staff is her best staff. It is easy to use, can be spammed to no end, causes negligible amounts of friendly fire on RMB, and kills everything not being a Chaos Warrior within the time of one geysir on Cataclysm. So by abusing ledges or simply the clash line of the melee fighting, you can deal tremendous damage to anything. Or you can spam the approach line of incoming hordes. It doubles down in linear map parts and choke points but works very well in open areas as well because the area of effect is a bit larger than shown. Also, you can switch to melee and block while the geysir keeps doing the damage. There is no other staff which comes even close to the dps per casting time. Something like Fireball Staff needs constant spam to get similar damage and also has a worse heat to damage ratio. In addition to this, you have the LMB which can one-click Berzerkers, Plague Monks and Maulers at Cataclysm.
The only minor drawback is long-range fighting which honestly though is not an issue because there are only two enemies in the game which can effectively hurt you oustide of the staffs effective range of combat. And it is not the things killing you from distance but close to you which should worry you.

If not going for DLC, then I would probably recommand the Beam Staff. It is flexible and can be used both in ranged combat as well in close combat during hordes as the RMB blast creates close to no heat. Bolt Staff only gets interesting on higher difficulties because of the breakpoints. And it is more limited against hordes so it goes more towards a specialized role which most people here don't like.

Personally, I only use the Conflagration Staff. It has the most stagger power and crowd control. Is also safe to use in terms of friendly fire. But crowd control is less popular so I would consider me an oddball in that regard. Also, the explosion can mess with your teammates orientation :P

And people don't speak about Flamestorm Staff. It exists and does what it is supposed to on Cataclysm. It is just not very popular although not because it is weak.

[Frostbeast]

As always. The difficult is important too. On lower stages, you can do what ever you want.

[No emaN]

Originally posted by Certified_weeb:

I'm pretty trash at all of them so I just need to know which one to get good at.

You can't pin the 'best staff' on the Coruscation Staff. The ground DoT is a consistent DoT proc acting as effective area denial and your left click is the only immediate damage. While yes, Volcanic Force gains the most value out of the staff, but it sits as good DoT with the stacking of splashing the flame eruption, then geyser's under the target to stack the DoT. Famished Flames gains more dps with the direct eruption. The issue is your scaling spell is quite small compared to control staffs and its immediate damage isn't as good at the single target staffs and its DoT is locked to an area that obstructs vision. It's quite literally a place and forget as you're hoping enemies will path onto your flame, of course they will but it takes zero effort and the payout is easily effective due to the staff still not having a hard cap of 5 at the most or least making the duration much smaller. Either way your long range damage is from the flame geyser and your fireball shotgun isn't the best at long distances especially against armored as it has an effective range it penetrates.

So in other words, Coruscation is an easy to spam staff with an easy damage floor to accomplish your task as it melts through enemies easily. As overcharge management is simplified when using flame geysers, where the non-stacking DoT on the ground. The fact that its skill ceiling & effective cap of the staff is not fine tuned to have a hard limit makes the staff beyond overpowered and annoying to play against. It suffers via long range combat if enemies aren't going to stand in your geyser you're just using it at drop downs or near/infront of you without having to think too hard about placing your damage. It's a staff that is deserving of a hard nerf.

Though OP sounds like they're struggling with staffs. If they want to choose only a single staff you need to get good at and still have it be consistent against everything is the Bolt Staff. Sienna's staffs tends to lack super armored penetration and has reduced effect against armored except for Beam staff's beam burst and Bolt Staff but Bolt Staff can penetrate shields and super armor (Chaos Warriors and some Lords). In the long term learning how to only use Bolt Staff has the highest payoff at the expense of crowd control being throwing bolts in a straight line, but most of Sienna's melee can mince hordes to begin with. Bolt has one of the best payoffs with practice as picking off specials & elites is a critical role while scaling difficulties. However, spend the time with all of the staffs and you'll learn their usage or utilize guides about each staff. If you want to start out getting better at staffs try going between Bolt and Conflagration staffs. One is a hard single-target focus the other is pure crowd control. It's about finding which one you can effectively utilize the most. Coruscation is the 'I give up and I want easy results' staff.

[Jonkler]

Originally posted by Certified_weeb:

I'm pretty trash at all of them so I just need to know which one to get good at.

It really depends on what career you are playing and what do you want your staff to accomplish. Personally i prefer Beam stuff as it is the most versatile one. But there is an argument to be made in support of Bolt staff (to snipe specials/armored elites), Coruscation Staff (for huge AoE damage), Conflagration Staff (for an incredibly strong crowd control). Thus the only staffs that are actually considered to be weak are Fireball and Flamestorm ones.

[Sin]

Bolt for sniping (best paired with a melee weapon which can deal with hordes)
Beam for a general sense of sadness despite it being good.
Coruscation for end screen number improvements - wether or not those reflect you getting better is up to the audience, but the staff in itself is powerful.

I would stay away from the fireball staff and the one that creates the localised explosion, they have their uses but the other three cover those uses for the most part (you don't need disruption if everything is dead or dieing and you don't need blast damage if you ..just kill everything anyways.. )

[tools guy-kun]

I don't think she has a best staff. Sienna's weapons make her one of the more versatile characters out of the 5.

corus staff does great DoT to anything that stands in it and mops up hordes like nothing, giving your team some room to breathe. the primary fire is also a good elite killer as well, for anything below chaos warriors.

beam staff does good damage the more you focus on a single target and has decent distance, but absolutely not a good choice for dealing with crowds.

bolt staff is a great sniper with the charged shots and decent enough crowd clearer with spamming light charged shots, although other staves do a better job at the crowd stuff. be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ careful with friendly fire for this weapon. on legend and above, you can do serious damage to your teammates with the charged shots.

use what works for you.

[Spooner]

Fireball Staff. Evaporate big hordes within seconds.

[Scipo0419]

I see a lot of people bashing the Fireball Staff, so I want to put in my 2-cents. I play Unchained and Fireball can stagger like the Conflagration, but not as good, can handle single target specials and monsters like the Bolt and Beam, but not as good, and can deal with hordes like the coruscation, but not as good.

The Fireball Staff is the "Jack of All Trades but Master of None is often times better than Master of One" epitomized.

Conflagration has better stagger power, but deals very little damage to Hordes and Specials/Monsters, Fireball can't stagger as well, but deals damage.
Bolt/Beam have amazing single target damage but suffer on stagger power and horde clear, Fireball can stagger and deal with hordes even if it's not as good on single target.
Coruscation has better horde clear and Monster Damage (assuming you can kite the monster in the geysers), but it deals 0 stagger and suffers on general special killing and monster damage (if you can't kite them in the geysers), fireball doesn't deal as much horde damage but it can stagger the horde and handle specials and monsters in any situation.

Fireball Staff is the best "I'm not sure what my party needs" staff and you should definitely have one in your armory.

[Felixinius]

For Battle Wizard I like either Coruscation or Fireball because the staff is my main damage output of that class.

For Pyro and Unchained, I firmly believe in Bolt supremacy because I enjoy sniping specials with it and use more melee +ult damage than anything with those two classes.

I agree that Fireball has a huge stagger like the guy above, but I don't use stagger with Pyro and I'm a stagger machine with Unchained by just tossing my flail at them.

[Horrid]

Coruscation is probably hands down the best, although I do use fireball on unchained. Battlewizard and the flamethrower staff is also lots of fun, but kill your ability to take care of any long range targets.

[Felixinius]

Originally posted by Horrid:

Coruscation is probably hands down the best, although I do use fireball on unchained. Battlewizard and the flamethrower staff is also lots of fun, but kill your ability to take care of any long range targets.

First time i've seen someone recommend Flamestorm staff, thought everyone hated it.

Or did you mean the Beam staff?

[Eggplant]

Ima just say this with 1200 hours on Pyromancer who wins almost every game. The Fireball Staff. Nuff said