Originally posted by Draklar
I would much rather see magic staves that do things like store additional ammounts of mana, reduce the mana cost of various spells, increase range of spells, reduce chance of backfiring, absorb some negative effects when spell would backfire or absorb damage from other mage\'s spell.
Otherwise it\'s same case as with the silly damage weapons.
Drak, I like your idea, and there is more important thing this game needs instead of uber - weapons. But I think that your idea could be applied to uber-weapons (legendary) as well, as long as it\'s balanced.
What if we change the tone of this conversation from the \"best\" weapon, to more of \"the best at\"? What if the hardest hitting sword was magical but made out of paper and took 15 min to cast the spell to power it up? Then it could hit for 400 slash at .5 speed, but had a high failure rate and was useless until it was powered up again (15 min between hits, try power leveling like that!)
Or, what if we took your staff idea but made it so that it was easily damaged? We have seen many wizards? staffs broke in movies, and the wizard is defenseless afterward.
How about a shield that blocks EVERYTHING! The catch, it\'s so large you can only equip a very small weapon (dagger), not based on weight, but rather handling ability.
I\'m all for role playing first, but if you are going to fight for a living in this game, I would like to see it have to use some strategy and planning, and I think the above suggestions would help with that on the high end. The difference between now and then would be like checkers to chess. After all, once you quit thinking about what you want (uber-weapon) and start thinking about what you have to give up to use it, your mindset will change.
Or you will just go away. Either one works for me...
