Buff restoration staff for combat?

moo_2021

This might sound weird but since there is the one bar ring now, can we get a few combat skills and passives for the staff?

Or let us use one handed staff plus a weapon or shield.

fizl101

It doesn't really make sense - its there to make people get better, not sick. If you want some offense you can use offensive class or guild skills

yadibroz

I always want it to do more damage

ApoAlaia

During the PTS cycle of visible shuddering U35 this was almost a thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlvibZx6qjQ

They did patch it pronto though.

Kite42

2:04. That's where I got to in that video. I skipped to near the end to see it also had spreadsheets, nice.

Is that what people mean when they talk about parsing a dummy?

merpins

I wouldn't mind a separate magic based damage staff, which changes the healing abilities while slotted (similar to destruction staff). They did a lot of the sun stuff with templar, but it could easily be expanded on as another staff option using the restoration line as a base for the skills. Though this would, in essence, just be a new skill line.

Ugrak

moo_2021 wrote: »

This might sound weird but since there is the one bar ring now, can we get a few combat skills and passives for the staff?

Sounds like a job for the upcoming scribing system, and possibly item sets.

moo_2021 wrote: »

Or let us use one handed staff plus a weapon or shield.

Agree 100%

We already hold the staves in one hand most of the time anyway. Of course the staff would have to count as one item instead of two in such a case.

This would also liberate ice staves from the tank role, as tanking passives for staves could be tied to combining them with shields.

Though for someone trying to go for a purely mage aesthetic it would be nice with a non-physical shield motif of some kind. Perhaps resembling the wards of previous games; only appearing when blocking.