I'm creating some black staffs for my mace fighting sampire to use for its whirlwind special. In the process of planning out my weapons, I realized I had a few questions I need to ask. I know I cannot craft black staffs.
1) Are there any particular monsters that drop black staffs more than others? In particular, I'm looking for 0 or 1 mod but with various magical damage distributions.
2) Can you enhance a Black Staff that you just buy from a standard NPC using say ash (for the 10% SSI bonus)? If so, how often will you break the weapon with a GM carpenter?
Thanks! I pondered using other whirlwind weapons with UBWS but that eats up too much imbuing intensity even on an exceptional weapon. So I'm pretty sure I can use a standard black staff with 450 intensity to get what I want, but I'd really like to handpick the magical damage and then enhance post imbue for the SSI bonus. I really don't want to break too many because I have no choice but to use relic frags for the initial SSI (becuase I can't craft with a runic tool) and roughly 2 bottles of POF to 255/255 it.
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1) Are there any particular monsters that drop black staffs more than others? In particular, I'm looking for 0 or 1 mod but with various magical damage distributions.
2) Can you enhance a Black Staff that you just buy from a standard NPC using say ash (for the 10% SSI bonus)? If so, how often will you break the weapon with a GM carpenter?
Thanks! I pondered using other whirlwind weapons with UBWS but that eats up too much imbuing intensity even on an exceptional weapon. So I'm pretty sure I can use a standard black staff with 450 intensity to get what I want, but I'd really like to handpick the magical damage and then enhance post imbue for the SSI bonus. I really don't want to break too many because I have no choice but to use relic frags for the initial SSI (becuase I can't craft with a runic tool) and roughly 2 bottles of POF to 255/255 it.
-OBSIDIAN-