Need more Weapon Customization for Staff
By
Angelxman81,
Posted on: 2012-05-01 04:22 in Suggestions and Ideas
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It was highly expected that Staff Fighting would come with a weapon pack in the store like Titan Weapons did. I assume there's a reason it didn't... with mecha T9 on the way and a good red name post about weapons being made for multiple powersets at once now (TW size and scaled down to be used for DB/Katana/BS), I have suspected since mecha was announced that there was a relationship between the two.
I could very easily see the VK-99 Event Horizon blade being doubled and put end-to-end to make a staff. It's plenty long enough to meet the two hands I think, and the handle looks the right width for a staff.
Personally I want more true magic and science weapons. Mostly you see natural and tech and people have to improvise. I want to see moving liquid inside a staff with a syringe tip a magic staff design repeated a few times with different types of glowy on the end... energy/icy/firey/dark/etc. Similar requests for the other weapons.
Scythes seem to belong to Titan Weapons though. They've made it clear from the very beginning that even though it's a smash set, they're fine with putting obviously lethal category weapons in there. Swords and scythes are already in there with the maces. I guess because they're huge and the set conveys brute strength in the motions, they smash things just as much as anything else and the sharpened edge is irrelevant. Which is equally fair, and awesome. 
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Titan Weapons only has 4 basic models. The weapon pack doubled it. |
Originally Posted by VKhaun
It was highly expected that Staff Fighting would come with a weapon pack in the store like Titan Weapons did. I assume there's a reason it didn't...
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Staff came with 8 models to begin with (unfortunately 4 of them are interchangeable)
That's probably why though.
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More weapon models for Staff and Titan are probably coming to a Paragon Market near you for a 400p price (and with possibly 4 models per pack). After all, with 52 weeks in a year it is pretty easy to put them in.
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I suggested this too on beta for the staff, however several of the animations, especially for the female body type, have their hands firmly grasp then far end of the staff (sky splitter especially). Not sure about the huge model. Males, its close and maybe doable...but would have be a fairly short blade on one end, or a very long staff, which will screw up the other animations and probably have several instances where the longer end is going through the floor.|
Originally Posted by VKhaun
I could very easily see the VK-99 Event Horizon blade being doubled and put end-to-end to make a staff. It's plenty long enough to meet the two hands I think, and the handle looks the right width for a staff
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They could probably do a single sided laser-staff with the current animations, but unless they redo some of them to get a better hand placement, or we can convince the devs that we're ok pretending that our character has special gloves or abilities that can grab onto the laser portion of the blade I doubt its going to happen for a double-sided Darth Maul style staff.
Would pugil sticks work with Staff Fighting animations?
I'm just waiting for an energy staff. Solid looking energy staff, likely to have a bit of a glow to it.
No metal piece to it, just energy!
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Staff have so few looks compare to any other weapons.
We missing a few good ones I can think of.
1. Vanguard - a good look for this would be that staff Darth Maul use in Star War 1, having light saber on both side.
2. Death Scythe - something like this would be awesome
http://wen-m.deviantart.com/art/Anim...set-1-45931118
The fire one could be use as the tier 9 vip
3. A ruluru staff - 100 beholder
I am not saying developer should be copying them since is gonna be copyright issues but it just some examples of some new staff customization.