Melee Staff; Lookin' for Some Love!

[warspawn]

Since melee staves give close combat experience, much like daggers, wouldn't it make sense to have the option to wield these in the left hand as well? Currently I've seen a total of -zero- fighters using a staff as a weapon, and received the same grand total of requests to craft them.

This could be fixed merely by allowing the 1H staff to be equippable in the left hand, just like a dagger, when your main hand holds another staff, dagger, or 1H sword.

Whatcha think?

-Javance-
Goods-Seeker and Bladesmith
Stormhaven

[elric00]

I agree, I bought the pattern hoping it would be a halfway decent weapon, but I found it to be subpar, dual weilding with it would help immensly.

[ente33]

I wouldn't mind it being 2-handed, if it looked 2-handed...hehe. They did such a great job on the acrobatic dual-wielding animations, maybe they can work on a real 2-handed quarterstaff fighting style, with lots of flourishes too. Would be nice

[warspawn]

aye...the prob is that the melee staff is a 1Hand, close combat weapon much like the dagger. If they'd allow dual wield like the dagger, or allow it to be used in the off hand, you may actually see them being used. As it is now, it's useless...

[warspawn]

So no martial arts types here lookin for dual escrima/jo-sticks?

[usagiyo]

So no martial arts types here lookin for dual escrima/jo-sticks?

Escrima is philipino knife fighting ... practiced with sticks right?

[warspawn]

Escrima is philipino knife fighting ... practiced with sticks right?

That is correct. I studied it in NYC when in school..we used hardened vines...the hard sap in the sticks make them impervious to being cut by blades..very useful vs. Katanas or other blades...stronger resists to that than high-carbon steel...

-Javance-