Right now you can almost make a battle mage by equipping a staff and using warfare skills. The problem this presents is that you have no way of lowering the target's physical armor to enable Warfare's knockdowns because the knockdowns still key off of the target's physical armor.
If there was a huge benefit from using a staff, the loss of knockdowns wouldn't be so bad. But as far as I can tell there's no schools of magic that synergize effectively enough with the damage potential of warfare to make equipping a staff worth it.
I don't even want Warfare w/ a staff to be as viable as Warfare with any other melee weapon. I just think it's a neat thing and would like to see it be more than a sacrifice in the name of style. My solution would be to change Warfare skills' resistance targets to be Magic Armor when wielding a staff.
Last edited by ElectricBacon; 19/09/17 11:01 PM.
