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Maximum damage output in perfectly lucky rolls when the best food is consumed is above 100k damage.
A perfect damage roll with common food is around 90k damage.
Crit with common food is around 10k damage around 50% of the time. Average damage of around 7k with common food in single shots.
Can kill the Core Commander spheres in 1 shot 4 out of 6 times with secondary staff attack in melee distance with best foods easily.
Quick healing, good resistance and very high damage output.
The offensive stats show in the last image is without any food buffs, just the base stats.
The idea is to use a drill to cause many crits in succession to keep mana charged at maximum so that all mana gets added as damage to all 3 of the the Scholar Staff's charged secondary attack damage.
That is around 229,2% Increase in magic damage with 43% base crit chance and 173% base crit damage.
Your base damage per projectile is around 3k and your common crit is around 9k with no food buffs at all.
That is a minimum of 9k base damage on the staff's secondary attack at melee distance.
Primary set uses Sorcerer armor, 2 Polished Golden Spike Rings and a common max level Copper Cross Necklace, Pearl Lantern Rift Lens and Scholar's Backpack with an Arcane Symbiote pet.
Swap to the second Equipment Set with 2 atlantean worm rings and a Fang Necklace to heal when needed with Stormbringer or Obliteration Ray.
Armor of 2nd equip set doesn't matter too much, just make sure everything is max level.
When you swap back to primary armor, use the drill to fill back your mana before going back to the Scholar's Staff.
Use the Rift Lens to dodge a lot and use it after charging your secondary attack to stick close to the target.
Also really good to walk around the map since you can rift through holes and over wood, so you don't need a movement set.
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