Runes of Magic US / AU

Because staves are meant to be used for magic

The only time you should be beating something with your staff is if you didn't kill it before it got in range.

I had to read the op a couple of times, but it seems to refer to how 2-h staffs mdam is not compareable to 2h physical weapons pdam of the same level.

Very true that Shackles of the Cursed Face mdam is lower than Kalume's Badge, Lekani's Strength, or Heurton's Basher pdam. And comparing level 75, 65, 60 weapon yields simmilar ratios.

The only thing I could venture a guess at is that ratio is to try and balance the ranged aspect of magic users compared to physical melees.

What I find annoying is that for weapons before L60, the off-category damage does not go up with plussing. If you have your Void Staff plussed, it does not increase physical damage, if you have your Puppet Dagger plussed, you don't get any more magical damage.

Now, that rarely comes into play, but it can. My Warlock/Rogue alt never had much rogue gear, since I never intend to play rogue side. Still, it had to be leveled since WL/R relies on shadowstab so much. And the best way to level the side you don't intend to play is leave his gear junky, but give him good weapon so he can survive mobs for questing.

So, since most of his gear was int and matt statted, he should've been able, as R/WL to get decent DPS out of the magic side. But he could not, and that is because he can't use a staff as R/WL, and plussed daggers only plus the physical side, not magic side. So, all of his matt was doing darn little since the weapon had so little mdam.

Starting at L60, they are plussing both sides, so plussed Raksha or Yawaka Thorn has both phys and magical damage go up. Same goes for every weapon since then, AFAIK.

He is one confused dwarf. As R/WL he wanted to do magic with his dagger; now as WL/R, he is shadowstabbing with his staff.

pink hat, can't that r/wl get a wand instead?

Quoted from "bilalab;584434"

pink hat, can't that r/wl get a wand instead?

Nope, no wand. Works the other way, though, wl/r can use dagger. No point in it, since wl/r converts shadowstab to magic and so would not want to use dagger anyway.

Quoted from "vfwiffo;584436"

Nope, no wand. Works the other way, though, wl/r can use dagger. No point in it, since wl/r converts shadowstab to magic and so would not want to use dagger anyway.

Another one of RoM's unintelligent designs.

But honestly, I don't think 2-H Swords and Axes' huge Pdam really makes a difference. Warriors and Knights don't hit any harder than anyone else at 50k-70k even with enormous Pdam, while Rogues with half that amount of Pdam can do as much as 299k Lowblows in siege.

Most likely that they just have different damage formulas. Though I have to say, a staff with 20k Mdam would be nice...