My friends in game have been hearing me rant on this topic for years, so here it is.
A mage that has no staff skill? Ommited? Unreasonable?
For a long while we've relied on these weapons to boost our magical ability, but what's the hard in even a low grade skill in these, our bread and butter.....
Thread: Staff skill and Red Mage
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03-13-2011 09:26 AM #1Player
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Staff skill and Red Mage
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03-13-2011 09:27 AM #2Are you planning on meleeing with staves or something?
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03-13-2011 09:28 AM #3What is Rdm going to do with staff skill? Staff weaponskills are pretty much junk for damage in the first place.
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03-13-2011 09:54 AM #4The only real advantage to giving RDM staff skill is for triggering Blue/Red WS's and thats IF SE grants us the ability to use the important ones. Besides, your swapping out staves constantly so tp build is usually non-exsistant, and most of the good staves are still subpar compared to other 2h weapons.
I suppose on the longshot chance you were tanking, using a -damage setup where you could spam Spirit Taker for MP, it might give some justification for Staff skill bearing in mind it would be a situational scenario.(2)Last edited by Swords; 03-13-2011 at 09:57 AM.
03-13-2011 09:59 AM #5Would be awesome for tanking - oh I just made myself sad.
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03-13-2011 10:45 AM #6tanking, you're kidding right? use 10% pdt sword and genbu's shield. It's easy to get 50% pdt with that, darksteel armor, umbra cape, and twilight torque. You actually can do damage with your sword and possibly even block a few hits. With stave you're doing jack, even if you were to get the WSs. And if you're tanking (blood tanking anyway) you'll probably be /war, /pld, or /blu and so you can do Sanguine (which can do a LOT of damage if you quickly macro in nuking type of armor). If you're /nin... you probably don't need to worry about pdt. Either way... as mentioned before, only reason rdm needs staff skill is for procing blu/red !!
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03-16-2011 09:57 AM #7Player
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I don't really have a problem with Red Mage having no staff skill. The only thing that really bugs me is the fact that Red Mage has magian trial for staff. Since RDM doesn't have any skill in staff I don't see the point. I would have rather seen Sword and Dagger trials for RDM. At least RDM has skill in Dagger.
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03-16-2011 10:04 AM #8Player
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... the point being that the staves destroy the previous champions and enhance RDM's best assets?
(1)This is Sakurawr, not Raen D:
03-16-2011 10:50 AM #9staves enhance versatility?
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03-16-2011 03:57 PM #10Player
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You do know RDM is the magic swordsman, right?
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