Anyone else interested in melee staves?

Erotes · April 2014

I love playing the role of a healer and I like the resto staff skill tree but I can't stand the staff basic attack. It is terrible, glitchy, and slow. I find myself bashing a lot to mimic quarter staff fighting rather than using the channelled blast...

A seperate skill tree for quarter staves would be great but maybe simply making some resto staves melee and some ranged might work as well. It would add some much needed variation and it would be a lot more fun.

Sorpaijen_ESO · April 2014

I've always loved staff combat but the only game that I can recall even attempting it was DC Universe Online (which is a horrible game in many ways). I'd prefer having a melee-oriented staff skill totally separate from the ranged "spellcasting" versions, though.

So you could have Restoration Staff, Ice Staff, Lightning Staff, Fire Staff and Combat Staff --- another thing for Woodworking to create!

vyndral13preub18_ESO · April 2014

Yeah not a bunch of staff wielding games out there. Only one i can think of was the Chanter in Aion. And i think he was short range/melee mix and a support character. Would be cool to see. But i would imagine it will be some time before any new skills are added.

But who knows! Staff wielders of the world unite!

Narosian · April 2014

All I can say is I would love to use a halberd

Armitas · April 2014

There are tons of people who want pole weapons. Especially Halberds, myself included.

Instead of adding new classes they can really just add new weapons and so create new sub classes. Pole weapons are pretty much a hybrid between a staff and a weapon so I have thought for a while now that it would be interesting to see hybrid weapon skills...half magic half stamina.

For example a halberd would have physical damage skills and healing skills. Or a spear could have physical single target skills and magic aoe skills.

reggielee · April 2014

i love to twhack a mob with my staff, it makes a nice thudding sound. it also does pretty good damage for when im out of mana and dont feel like kiting

Erotes · April 2014

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

Yeah not a bunch of staff wielding games out there. Only one i can think of was the Chanter in Aion. And i think he was short range/melee mix and a support character. Would be cool to see. But i would imagine it will be some time before any new skills are added.

But who knows! Staff wielders of the world unite!

Dungeons and dragons online has some nifty staff combat...but the game over all is lacking. I really hope this game has more weapon skill trees coming out soon.

moncef.semmanib16_ESO · April 2014

e melee staf would be cool adding like a monk weapon option

remember me the chanter in another korean mmo. hope they could develop something like this

Tremayne · April 2014

The classic melee staff class was the Friar in Dark Age of Camelot. We can only hope

Sorpaijen_ESO · April 2014

Seems like EQ-2 might have had a melee staff weapon, too --- I only dimly remember, but I had an old, old, wrinkled gnome monk there and I think he used a staff in melee.

The moves for staff combat would likely also work for any pole-arm type weapon but perhaps with varying secondary effects like a blunt staff versus a poking staff (spear) versus a slashing staff (naginata) and so on, just like the one hand weapons have mace, axe, sword and dagger variants.

Omniphonic · April 2014

I don't like how ES has handled 2-handed weapons in recent games. While 2 handed axes and hammers exist, wielding them into battle wasn't exactly common. Weapons like spears and staves saw way more use because they were more tactically efficient. One of my favorite Skyrim mods added a bunch of stave-type weapons, and I was trying to imagine what future classes might look like and I think a monk-type seems highly likely. Rambling ends here.

bantad87 · April 2014

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

Yeah not a bunch of staff wielding games out there. Only one i can think of was the Chanter in Aion. And i think he was short range/melee mix and a support character. Would be cool to see. But i would imagine it will be some time before any new skills are added.

But who knows! Staff wielders of the world unite!

I loved my chanter in Aion, lol. Yeah, it was more of a melee class with some ranged stuns and rebuffs for control, and single target healing.

A Monk type weapon/class would have been fun, but I think TES has been stepping away from the idea of warrior-monks since morrowind; in favor of scholar-monks like the moth priests. Oh well

KenjiJU · April 2014

I'd like a wand/shield combo. For Resto if nothing else.

Edda · April 2014

Spears and polearms, 1 and 2 handed for spears, would be awesome. Also wands and javelins, 1 handed, primary hand only. Plus this would add more weapon types for woodworkers to make. They are kinda short on stuff.

Another thing that would be cool are off hand held things are magical gadgets like voodoo dolls or crystal balls. Possibly crafted with jewel crafting, when that gets added.

RustyBlades · April 2014

Randomly, when I am in melee range with a stave, I get a "press x to impale" popup. I am guessing a stunned opponent with 25% or less health is the pulled out of the air requirement (as the next shot kills them).