What is the point of staves?
City defense, ok. Guild defense, ok.
Unlimited amounts of staves in the hands of a few loremasters, ridiculous.
The damage from staves is way too high. It should not be possible for any one profession to get such easy kills. It requires zero skill to set a few attacks to splash dwarf, splash levitation or use a snake rune. Followed by the endless pushing/thrustkicking through a forest of staves.
I've brought this point up before. Why not either limit the amount of staves a loremaster can have, or cut down the damage they do by atleast half?
As it stands, people like Koenen can simply stand in tens of their own staves, anywhere in Avalon and ONLY strive to push the hapless victim through different paths.
Several defenses exist against pushing, yes. But if I spend my entire time avoiding the push/thrustkick, I lose offense making the loremaster in question nigh unkillable. This, I don't think, is how it is meant to be. No one profession should have such a huge advantage over the others.
There are almost no limits to where or how many staves can be set up.
Hypothetical situaion. Its a gem quest, or a similar high profile even in Avalon.
A loremaster simply sets up 30 staves around their own location, sits in the middle with a snakerune down and gets ready to push or kick enemies through their staves. Without visor, there is nothing we can do about this. Stealth provides a few ways around stave damage, but pushing nullifies that defense, and being we have to dismount to actually use the ways around the staves, it makes it that much easier for the loremaster.
So again, if someone could please clarify why a guild meant for creating items primarily, and being combatants occasionally get such skills? Not only do they get the best mobility in the realms, they also get the best defense AND the single stronges attacking skill in staves.
I don't see the point. Do you?
Twists people like Koenen, Zwartia and Kodiak into better fighters than they actually are and it bugs me personally.
Pahn
Written by my hand on the 16th of Midsummer, in the year 1130.