Buffing Staves.
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:27 pm
Staves are good wooden fighting weapons that need skill and precision to use correctly and are also sometimes used to block oncoming attacks from enemies sometimes, so this is what I suggest:
Make staves give some white AC. The AC bonus won't be anywhere near as much as shields though. It would be something between DS 2h weapons and grapple ( for example the defence bonus starts at Gridabor ( 57tt ) at +1 and keeps climbing to +10 at Shivering Staff ( DS grade ) )
D1/D2/d3 staves could have different bonus effects though or even no effect at all ( since they are used as Legends aswell ) ( like maybe basic resist on wiz staff and smart on priest staff )
This would encourage the use of staves more because atm everyone just wears a shield for the huge white AC boost ( they still would even after this would be implemented, just that more people would use staves now in more situations ). Imo it won't be OP, but you can disagree and post why. Also the numbers would need discussing ( the example above is just an example )
I searched the forum for similar topics but I found only 2 topics which discussed how to buff whirling and they are both long dead.
Make staves give some white AC. The AC bonus won't be anywhere near as much as shields though. It would be something between DS 2h weapons and grapple ( for example the defence bonus starts at Gridabor ( 57tt ) at +1 and keeps climbing to +10 at Shivering Staff ( DS grade ) )
D1/D2/d3 staves could have different bonus effects though or even no effect at all ( since they are used as Legends aswell ) ( like maybe basic resist on wiz staff and smart on priest staff )
This would encourage the use of staves more because atm everyone just wears a shield for the huge white AC boost ( they still would even after this would be implemented, just that more people would use staves now in more situations ). Imo it won't be OP, but you can disagree and post why. Also the numbers would need discussing ( the example above is just an example )
I searched the forum for similar topics but I found only 2 topics which discussed how to buff whirling and they are both long dead.
pepex wrote:i would prefer to make staff give increased spell damage say:
wiz/priest spell= to fianl spell damage (increase magic+rares)
short staff: +1% wiz spel damage +2% priest spell damage
rod: +2% wiz spel damage +4% priest spell damage
wand:+3% wiz spel damage +6% priest spell damage
long rod:+4% wiz spell damage +8% priest spell damage
.........
staff of angel: 22% wiz spell damage +44% priest spell damage
shivening staff: 23% wiz spell damage +46% priest spell damage
numbers probably need some balance but the idea is shield for those who whant to trade damage for survival and staff for those who whant to trade survival for damage, i give priest more damage becouse they suck as blasters compare to wiz and as a result the % should be higher to make them worth a pick over the traditional shield/pike ld spammer.