If only we could have - one handed staffs!

brimits

It would be really good if we could have say Healing staff in one hand and a weapon in the other.
Not only would it help in dungeons but all the passives that are available for the staff type would be in use!.
It would be good also for dual wielding with a destruction staff.

kongkim

Yah or two, two-handed... in both hands and two helmets would also be cool.

Winnower

What do you call a sharpened staff?




A spear.

Shunravi

What to you call a shortened staff?







A wand.

eventide03b14a_ESO

It's not that crazy. Skyrim let you have a staff and a sword. I wish there was a single weapon line. Call it fencing or something, where I don't have to use a second weapon or shield. I know crazy, right?

Evergnar

kongkim wrote: »

Yah or two, two-handed... in both hands and two helmets would also be cool.

..and the ability to layer armor for those cold wintery days, 7 light, 7 med, 7 hvy.

Bundle up

Gidorick

Dual wielding staffs?... now that's just silly... but even though I would never use it... there is precedent for it in the Elder Scrolls world so I put my support behind this idea 100%!

Unfortunately, my support means diddly.

anyway... Skyrim allowed dual wield staff.

hammer_fella

Someone who wants a smaller staff.... to each his own I guess

brimits

kongkim wrote: »

Yah or two, two-handed... in both hands and two helmets would also be cool.

Ha ha! We can Dual wield weapons or have a sword and a shield. Why not a sword and a staff or as other have been mentioning; 2 Staffs?

Jagath

The two staffs seems weird to me but i would love to go Gandalf style with a staff and a very sharp sword.

brimits

Gidorick wrote: »

Dual wielding staffs?... now that's just silly... but even though I would never use it... there is precedent for it in the Elder Scrolls world so I put my support behind this idea 100%!

Unfortunately, my support means diddly.

anyway... Skyrim allowed dual wield staff.

Yes, I was disappointed to find that the weapons were not like Skyrim in that respect!

brimits

Evergnar wrote: »

kongkim wrote: »

Yah or two, two-handed... in both hands and two helmets would also be cool.

..and the ability to layer armor for those cold wintery days, 7 light, 7 med, 7 hvy.

Bundle up

LOL. I wear a pirate costume over my amour! So who would know.

brimits

Winnower wrote: »

What do you call a sharpened staff?




A spear.

What do you call a shortened spear?





An arrow.

PBpsy

Winnower wrote: »

What do you call a sharpened staff?




A spear.

That is what I call a resto staff on my templar. It is a freaking magic spear.FO if you do not agree.


As for the OP I would like to be able to use destruction/resto spells on any weapon setup (even no weapon at all) without the staff and still get the resto destro/resto bonuses. These should be general magic schools not weapons like in older TES games. The only thing more dumb then the spell/weapon/power scaling/slot requirement I have seen in a game was in Diablo 3 where at launch the best Wizard builds required using huge 2H axes to improve your spells.

Second I would like all heavy attacks from any weapon /staff to return both Stamina and magicka. It would make as much sense as it does now (none) and it would promote what TES games did best but ZOS messed up that is hybrid fighter/mage builds.

brimits

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

It's not that crazy. Skyrim let you have a staff and a sword. I wish there was a single weapon line. Call it fencing or something, where I don't have to use a second weapon or shield. I know crazy, right?

In the time it takes to switch from healing to attack we can be defeated if on low health etc.. However, when there are both ready to use, it would be much better.

It's also a shame that both weapons cannot be controlled separately in dual wield. We can either attack with both or block with both at present.

The good thing about staffs is that they do not seem to depend on your Magica or stamina except for blocking.

Natjur

If they allowed using two staffs at once, tanks will start asking for two shields at once. Both are silly.

Valen_Byte

Stuff like this, that is found in Elder Scrolls, can not and will not be allowed in ESO because of PVP. All the more reason PVP characters should be separate. Then they could make it more like an Elder scrolls game. We wouldnt have to have classes and we could do all the cool stuff that we can do in all the other games.

brimits

Natjur wrote: »

If they allowed using two staffs at once, tanks will start asking for two shields at once. Both are silly.

I know what you mean. Where does it all stop?

You mention tanks with two shields though and that's fine if that's what they want. They wouldn't do a lot of drawing the opposition away without a weapon though.

brimits

PBpsy wrote: »

Winnower wrote: »

What do you call a sharpened staff?




A spear.

That is what I call a resto staff on my templar. It is a freaking magic spear.FO if you do not agree.


As for the OP I would like to be able to use destruction/resto spells on any weapon setup (even no weapon at all) without the staff and still get the resto destro/resto bonuses. These should be general magic schools not weapons like in older TES games. The only thing more dumb then the spell/weapon/power scaling/slot requirement I have seen in a game was in Diablo 3 where at launch the best Wizard builds required using huge 2H axes to improve your spells.

Second I would like all heavy attacks from any weapon /staff to return both Stamina and magicka. It would make as much sense as it does now (none) and it would promote what TES games did best but ZOS messed up that is hybrid fighter/mage builds.

Ha Ha.

Yes and I don't like the armour and attribute tie in. If I've got light armour, I am surely going to need more health and health recovery and not more Magica. With medium armour Stamina is what we get most of and actually that is what I think is needed if you have heavy armour and weapons. If you use heavy then health is what we get because it is assumed that heavy is for tanks.

I would like to see a choice of such passive buffs that does not depend on armour or weapon.

SRIBES

Shield + staff would be OP.

brimits

hammer_fella wrote: »

Someone who wants a smaller staff.... to each his own I guess

I didn't say the staffs should be smaller but if you look at the damage of, for example a smaller sword, there is not a lot of difference to a two handed one and certainly 2 small are better than 1 large for damage. As there are currently no smaller one handed staffs we don't know what the damage would be.

brimits

Jagath wrote: »

The two staffs seems weird to me but i would love to go Gandalf style with a staff and a very sharp sword.

Yes, I quite fancy trying that combination too.

Gyudan

Can we have 1-handed bows and 1-handed-2-handed swords too?

Gidorick

Gyudan wrote: »

Can we have 1-handed bows...

yes!

Gyudan wrote: »

...and 1-handed-2-handed swords too?

YEEEESSS!!!!!


[/sarcasm]

badmojo

Gidorick wrote: »

yes!

That's already in-game, silver bolts.

bosmern_ESO

...You mean a wand and book combo?

sometimes wand and shield?

Gidorick

bosmern_ESO wrote: »

...You mean a wand and book combo?

sometimes wand and shield?

Wand and book would be awesome... but TES doesn't have book-based spells. Once a spell-tomb is read the spell is learned and the tomb is destroyed.

AshySamurai

ers101284b14_ESO

No! We have seen what you do when you have one hand free.....nasty

Gidorick

badmojo wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

yes!

That's already in-game, silver bolts.

I love... LOVE that skill.

Mettaricana

why not add a weaker wand that's for 1 hand use make it use the staff skill lines only possibly limit the wand to not being dual wielded with another wand so no OP'ed resto destro dual wield combos. but allow weaker spellcasts for the option to add defensive shields and 1 handed skill line like puncture or disable certain skills for that combo like no defensive posture or shield bash while doing a dagger and shield could use some work but seems good.