Glamouring a wand over a staff

[Iscah]

When leveling my DRK I definitely remember glamouring over the tin can armor with the Wild Rose set. What happened though was since the body disables the head slot, and the legs disable the feet slot, those two sections remained bare on my character, but the armor did take on the appearance of the body and legs.

I don't know if this has been changed. If not, then I would imagine it would work for wands and scepters as well. You just won't be able to add a shield. Don't hold me to that but definitely worth a try if any of you have not already.

It *seems* like it should work the same, and I had the same thought to begin with, but I've realised there's a difference.

It seems the "glamour items of the same category" rule runs off the labels under the icon in the item stats window. You can glamour the Wild Rose cuirass over the tincan armour because they're both 'body' items. (The hat gets ignored because there's no item in that slot for the glamour to "stick" to.)

Wands and staffs are a different case though, because their item categories are 'one-handed conjurer's arm' and 'two-handed conjurer's arm', thus they are different item types (with different permissions for equipping shields, and animations for stowing your weapon) and aren't able to be glamoured over one another. You might as well be wanting to glamour a sword over it, as far as the program can comprehend.

[Rongway]

99% the same, the sheathe/draw animation is slightly different as wands rest on the hip when not in use.

Ahh you are right. I was only considering the animations while weapon out.

[Lambdafish]

If they want us to forget them just remove them but don't let us see those cute little things without allowing us to use them :/

They technically did. All ARR content that dropped a wand (twintania, garuda, moggle mog etc.) now have staff alternatives that can be exchanged for. They didn't want wands removed outright because of glamour complaints, but they made sure that every bit of content dropped a staff, to push the idea that staffs were the caster weapon outright.

Its messy, but most things 1.0 related are, and theres not a lot that can be done about it (look at the recent discussion about the design of the gunbreaker weapon, gunblade designs are a relic of 1.0 that Yoshi P doesn't like either).

[Lacan]

They technically did. All ARR content that dropped a wand (twintania, garuda, moggle mog etc.) now have staff alternatives that can be exchanged for. They didn't want wands removed outright because of glamour complaints, but they made sure that every bit of content dropped a staff, to push the idea that staffs were the caster weapon outright.

Its messy, but most things 1.0 related are, and theres not a lot that can be done about it (look at the recent discussion about the design of the gunbreaker weapon, gunblade designs are a relic of 1.0 that Yoshi P doesn't like either).

except for the mog wand thing they're still selling on the cash shop. they really should release a two handed version if they're just going to pretend like wands don't exist anymore.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

The weathered scepter is still my favorite Black Mage weapon...

[Canadane]

The real solution? Let’s bring back mage shields.