Nice catch

I've always put Thunder forward as the king of magic. People used to constantly give me shit for it, especially when my magic guide talked up Thunder big time. I'll never understand how anyone can claim Hail Storm is better, given its terribly slow startup and single-target focus. Ice Spear results in too much aggro if you happen to screw up or just get unlucky, and Fireball is slow as you said. Thunder forever, mofos.

I'm surprised you actually bothered with the Infinity Staff, but then anybody who expends a lot of effort on a relatively small improvement tends to boggle my mind. A 3% increase from Trinity/Andris doesn't seem worth it to me.

When I use magic, I only use my staff if I think Hail Storm is called for. The incredible inflexibility of the staff drives me insane. The Hermit Staff in G18 will probably make me fall in love with staff use, but right now, having to elementally charge a staff by bolt spamming leaves a terrible taste in my mouth, especially when the charge level deteriorates too quickly for the staff to remain useful for advanced spells for very long. (Yes, advanced, not intermediate... old-school beta terms ftw.) I highly prefer my S5/S6 elemental wand collection to my S6 Trinity.

I don't use magic a lot in combat anymore just because Fighter is so damn broken, but from experience I can tell you that the 16% speed increase on the Crystal Lightning Wand is well worth it. It was even better before charge times were shortened across the board, but it's still noticeable, and especially while rafting those half-second increments can be everything.

Hahaha, I'm glad we think similarly on Thunder. For the Demonic Staff, I was just looking for something to do with my money since I happened to have way too much for my own good. I didn't expect to get any good increase in the damage. Bragging rights ftw?

Unless the Hermit Staff has higher damage than the Demonic Staff (why would it?), I will probably continue to use my Demonic since managing charges is already second nature to me.

I'm going to continue sticking stubbornly to my ways in any case. Screw the new skill sets (except Gunner, that adds int lol)