Weapon skills for mages!

[Renen]

Because it'd be a waste of dev resources and time.

This.
Let devs do other things rather than stupid WS.

[Rokien]

This again? Anyone that played during launch remembers when mages had Weaponskills that weren't all that hot.

They were taken out, Rokien.

Not coming back... can this thread just die now...?

They did have weapon skills, I remember! o.o! Sorry you don't wanna have fun. I don't see the harm in weaponskills, someone please enlighten me on what's so terrible to have a staff go, LSKFJSDH STARS SLSDFSDH.

Also my second point in making this thread, if you watched the talk deal, they really REALLY wanted to make summoner hit with that book of his.

[Eliseus]

Holy Crap I actually agree with this guy for once.

[Alhanelem]

Hello, Rokien again, again. I would like to see pointless weapon skills for the mages. Who cares if they are pointless, sometimes I just wanna beat up on something with a stick. Just because it serves no real purpose other than being fun, why not add them back!?! Heck they could even make some silly combos.

Also my second point in making this thread, if you watched the talk deal, they really REALLY wanted to make summoner hit with that book of his. So why not add some special effect(ws) to that hitting.

Rare that I actually like a Rokien post- but I really miss the mage WS. It's also annoying when I use quelling strike to reduce enmity from an attack, which also gives me TP, so I do occasionally have TP but no way of spending it.

Also, since we start with TP, there's even more reason to give us some.

Because it'd be a waste of dev resources and time.

It is not a waste of dev resources and time as long as the skills have useful effects (e.g. it's not about damage so much as having a beneficial effect like MP recovery or magic defense down or something)

[Godsleftsock]

They did have weapon skills, I remember! o.o! Sorry you don't wanna have fun. I don't see the harm in weaponskills, someone please enlighten me on what's so terrible to have a staff go, LSKFJSDH STARS SLSDFSDH.

Also my second point in making this thread, if you watched the talk deal, they really REALLY wanted to make summoner hit with that book of his.

And he said it's purely aesthetic

[Gospel]

THM had Flash Freeze back in the day. It was actually a pretty OP skill because it would incap and knock down Buffalo almost every time it hit. (Pretty much allowed THM to solo it.) They eventually took it away for whatever reason when they started to readjust the classes but it was a nice move to have on the side when you needed an extra push and didn't have the MP or if you were waiting on timers.

I wouldn't have any complaints if they brought them back.

[Firon]

They did have weapon skills, I remember! o.o! Sorry you don't wanna have fun. I don't see the harm in weaponskills, someone please enlighten me on what's so terrible to have a staff go, LSKFJSDH STARS SLSDFSDH.

Also my second point in making this thread, if you watched the talk deal, they really REALLY wanted to make summoner hit with that book of his.

For auto attacks

[Alhanelem]

And he said it's purely aesthetic

In the same sense that other mage weapons are "asthetic". Meaning its scratch damage. Doesn't mean you can't have a weapon skill that does something useful.

[Tahldon]

They did have weapon skills, I remember! o.o! Sorry you don't wanna have fun. I don't see the harm in weaponskills, someone please enlighten me on what's so terrible to have a staff go, LSKFJSDH STARS SLSDFSDH.

Also my second point in making this thread, if you watched the talk deal, they really REALLY wanted to make summoner hit with that book of his.

They just wanted the animation to be "fun" and look cool because SE likes for things to be stylish and stuff...

/headache So rather than create a topic to stimulate good debates, you find fun in baseless topics like this...?

I'm getting too old for this... Jesus...

[Godsleftsock]

In the same sense that other mage weapons are "asthetic". Meaning its scratch damage. Doesn't mean you can't have a weapon skill that does something useful.

That was my point. If the weapons skills serve a purpose then I am all for it.