New Green Weapon!!! (from scarab boss)

From March 3rd update:

"Kepkhet Marrowfeast, Queen of the Scarabs, has brought her brood to the desert, drawn by the plentiful corpses of griffon, minotaur, and even other scarabs. The insect brood now infests the "Prophets Path," so travelers be warned!"

So I go out with a group of some guys to check out what this scarab boss is up to. We kill the many trappers surrounding her and take care of her pretty easily. Oh, what's this? A new green weapon! It's like a Yakslapper, only better.

Kepkhet's Refuge
Energy +10
Fire Dmg: 11-22 (req. 9 Divine Favor)
Halves casting time of Protection Prayers spells (Chance: 20%)
Halves skill recharge of Protection Prayers spells (Chance: 20%)
Enchantments last 20% longer
Energy +5
Two-handed

New green, cool! what a great day for prot monks, wait a second.....

that staff kicks arse. im off to get one right now.

Haha, a tailor-made invincimonk farming weapon dropped in the third biggest farming area of the game (after new UW and GF). Well, I guess ANet don't hate farmers after all.

It's not an invincimonk farming weapon. Where'd you come up with that crap? It's a perfect staff for a prot monk.

Funny.... We killed her and she didn't drop that. Guess you have to go farm for it a few times, huh?

A perfectly modded collectors staff....big deal!

Of course it's an invincimonk farming weapon. That's the staff my invincimonk will now definitely be getting.

It's a big deal because it's free...

..you're being sarcastic, right?

they probably knew that the staff was good for invincimonk builds, but i guess they thought that the Yakslapper was lacking....so now we've got this.

interesting.

good for prot, but not for a 55build. no offhand with a staff

um, you do understand the difference between one (rods/wands) and two handed (staff) weapons right?

They won't be invincimonk for long using this staff...

Big deal, yeah, because there is no such thing as a 20/20 Prot staff from collector's, which is why most Prot Monks use the Yakslapper even though it only has 20% recharge and not the 20/20.

O_o there is 20/20 healing, 20/20 divine, yet no 20/20 prot? are you sure?

Wrong.

http://www.guildwiki.org/wiki/Nord_Stonegrimm

That's 20/20 prot with a smiting req, and it requires 5 frozen shells...

So, it still exists. It's not that hard to get.

Requirement only matters for damage. You still get all the benifits of the staff if you don't meet the req.

interesting... Well that give them something at least. lol... BTW.. I just did the 55 monk run with the new mobs. Its not really a nerf. so no biggy... Its just a minor nerf really. In fact it seems the drops improved... but that's prob cause of the silly rabbits not knowing how to tweak their builds yet. lol Oh well. still its interesting to see something new in there...

lol actually it is possible to do the run with a 105hp monk So you could use this staff for a i-monk build.