Caster Weapons!... maybe some caster love?

k3nn3tH123

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/

15 Sep 2006 at 01:32 - 41
/signed, many pbaoe eles, smite monks, and other casters would be so much better with their own type of closerange weapon.

draxynnic

draxynnic

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2005

[CRFH]

15 Sep 2006 at 02:03 - 42
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sli Ander
Yeah I know they learned their primaries first, and frankly I could have picked better examples. But I was tired so please forgive me that. What people seem to forget, however, is that there are two views of 'wizards'(I'll say that rather than caster). Wizards are either seen as frail old men, or buff, physically imposing magic users. The second type usually accompany the belief that magic is dependent on ones body: the weaker the body, the less energy for the magic to use.
I hadn't noticed anything about the body having to be strong myself...

I always just thought of it as being that even magic-users had to be young once. Barring natural ability, and lacking magics to stop or reverse ageing, you are going to see a correlation between age and magical power - simply because the older wizards have been doing it for that much longer . Nothing stopping their younger students from being able to pick up a weapon if they'd had proper training, however...

The main difference is that the effects of age are much less crippling, relatively speaking, on old wizards than old warriors.

Spirit Of Azrael

Spirit Of Azrael

Echo-mending Master

Join Date: Jun 2006

Service of Shadows [SOS]

W/N

15 Sep 2006 at 02:39 - 43
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deviant Angel
Haven't we already seen what happens when you give a squishy daggers. :P
Yeah, you get my foot up your sin hating @$$!

Im sick of the sin hate. I play a sin. I am GOOD AT IT. Anyone who thinks that
sins suck can bite my Aura of Displacement'd @$$!


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Sli Ander

Sli Ander

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Deep in Maguuma, by the Falls

Liberators of Agony

Mo/R

15 Sep 2006 at 05:38 - 44
Quote:
Originally Posted by draxynnic
I hadn't noticed anything about the body having to be strong myself...

I always just thought of it as being that even magic-users had to be young once. Barring natural ability, and lacking magics to stop or reverse ageing, you are going to see a correlation between age and magical power - simply because the older wizards have been doing it for that much longer . Nothing stopping their younger students from being able to pick up a weapon if they'd had proper training, however...

The main difference is that the effects of age are much less crippling, relatively speaking, on old wizards than old warriors.
The 'strong body' thing comes from much older fantasy novels. If you were to look at some older pictures of wizards(old guys too) then a lot of them are more buff then the warriors in similar drawings. Flip through a dragonlance novel or something, I think they still use the idea(at least partially). Some novels go with the never changing amount of magic: what you're born with is what you have, so learn to use it wisely. Many older ones still used this idea, but also included the fact that your body is sort of a battery for your magic.You've only got so much energy to give your magic before you must recharge.
Anyway, sorry OP for the side discussion here!

TheMadKingGeorge

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

None

Mo/W

15 Sep 2006 at 05:54 - 45
Would Be Nice To See

Summoning Weapons For Necros

Enchanted Elemental Dmg Weapons Like IW For Eles

Smite Weapons For Monks

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Illusionary Weaponry Changing The Skin Of The Weapon Like The Ritualist Spell Does

Shadowfrost

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Planet Earth (sometimes)

Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To [Hide]

R/

15 Sep 2006 at 06:18 - 46
What I think would be really cool is for the casters to be able to use their wands/staffs as melee weapons. For example, a mesmer with a cane, when attacking in melee (doesn't automatically run into melee) unsheaths a hidden rapier from inside the cane (i.e part of the cane is the handle) and attacks with that. Or like, with a staff you attack as though you're weilding a hammer or something. No ingame effects at all, just cool animations.