1- You just asking without read previous post in this thread?

I didn't ask that question previously nor did I see a response to that specific question in any answers above.

4- Plague's Poison dmg is very poor, almost useless in Legendary, don't focus in it if you don't want to wasted. Just focus on any +%total/elemental/Lightning dmg or any bonus to Int number sources to boost Lightning Bolt dmg. Read my previous post about dmg formula to see how it works. If not, i have no interested to answer anything more.

I'll plug in some sample numbers to see whether elemental damage increases OR INT increases affect overall DPS more at different breakpoints.  What I was also asking was whether flat INT increases are worthwhile to have on gear later on in Legendary to increase your base INT pool so that you get a bigger boost from +% INT increases from gear, or if the INT you gain strictly from masteries provides a large enough pool that +% INT is strictly better by that point in the game.

Archon staff of Lightning should be give more Lightning Bolt dmg than Staff of RIme, except your game's bugs.

Can you please explain what you mean by the "game bugging"?

From your original response:

Except you still play with original TQ from 2006 or TQ-IT, it will be different because Poison dmg doesn't scale with Dex in it.

Yes, that's right, the last time I played this game was prior to AE release.  So there were a lot of flat damage skills that were useless in Legendary because of the lack of scaling.  I didn't realize AE enabled flat damage scaling with STR, DEX, INT until your response.

I've been sucked back into this game for the third time now in about 10 years.  Happy to see some familiar faces still on this board.  I have some new questions though as I've been playing through a brand new (primarily) casting druid using plague/lightning bolt.  The idea is to get -recharge% equipment so I can have almost permanent uptime on both spells.  I'll also be using pets later on, although right now all I have is the wisp.  I am not playing Ragnarok or Atlantis (yet) FYI.

1.  Is there a resource I can use to help me find all existing -recharge% equipment?  AFAIK this is not a stat associated with yellow/green item prefixes/suffixes or Monster Infrequents, so I'm prepared to hunt down the appropriate legendary equipment that has it.  I've been using tq-db.net as a starting point but I can't really filter on that one stat, so it's a little annoying.  Are there any other resources that others like to use that may be helpful?

2.  I'm trying to understand how the scaling on certain skills works.  I understand that a lot of people leave skills like Envenom Weapon from the rogue tree at level 1 because all that changes is 34 poison dmg at level 1 to 230 dmg when maxed out, which is basically nothing on legendary.  However, I know that maxing out Lightning Bolt from the storm tree is vital to maximize damage, or for petmancers adding flat pet damage on jewelry.  Why do these flat increases "scale" better?

3.  Back to tq-db.net, I was looking at some of the drop tables to get a sense of where I might farm items.  Is it known that there are gaps in the information on the loot tables?  I was farming on my old bow brigand in the formic caves for a Soldier's Unyielding Will and received an Ikon of Zeus arcane formula.  I'm 99% sure it was from a normal Formic Soldier (not a hero, just a trash mob), yet that is not listed as a source on the drop table on tq-db.net.

4.  Does Static Charge on the storm tree increase ALL of my lightning damage?  Including from my basic ranged attacks from the staff I have equipped, Lightning Bolt, and things like Storm Surge proccing?  The description for the skill is kind of poor.

5.  Speaking of staff basic attacks, I can tell that something like increased attack speed as well as the flat damage from the staff I have equipped will increase my DPS, but how do things like increasing INT affect it?  Or having flat elemental damage on my staff?

Think that's all for now, thanks for anyone who chimes in to help me understand some of the nuances on this great game.  Happy to be back as well!