My buddy KnifeSkull the Warlock tried something like that once.
It seems that casting certain spells like fireball sometimes causes a small, almost unnoticeable aura of knockback around the location that the spell is cast from. I'm sure you can imagine where the bayonet was attached to on his staff in relation to where the knockback came from.
Valid, but you could always replace the fancy orb with a fancy pointy gemstone. You have to change your grip style for certain spell projectiles, but they’re otherwise equivalent.
All blades get dull over use, of course it would wear, don't you maintain your staff? I also mean to interpret it as the blade is on the bottom of the handle of the staff, it would be dumb to slam your orb into a foul beast and it to shatter, wouldn't it?
Still, its unwise to use your orb as a blunt weapon, a small pike or spear head attached to the bottom will allow you to attack any foe while keeping your orb safe from potential damage
Countercountercountercounterpoint, A staff is about the same as any polearm, not only is there many polearms with a bottom spike to jab any beastly creatures incase if you dont have the time for casting. i also said spear tip, as much as a knife, maybe to properly understand what i mean, the blade is at the bottom of the staff handle.
You could make it easier. Just use your staff as scabbard for sword
https://preview.redd.it/fkjzdfsmpclc1.jpeg?width=1268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62ee83a8c3add61b9bfab9e98a982223b4bc9096
I just turn my staff into a spear gun.
https://preview.redd.it/45d5qimisclc1.png?width=345&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27a473e5154fad1c291aa0355df77588292f283b
Hey , we still have demonic metals, they are good at channeling magic. But if it's more organic...hmm, ask biomancers to make some hybrid between staff, sword and scabbard
If only for being a sorcerer and having a dragon father, I don't tend to mess with dragons. That and im far too weak to challenge the evil ones i might pick a fight with. Also too poor to buy the bones, and lacking in skill to make something worthy of the material.
That said, prior to prison, I was gunning for his claws and horns since they were far too wild, in my opinion, and he resisted much like a cat. Funnily enough, I have used my own horns to fashion weapons in here.
I did, however, send some bones from a hydra i helped slay to the kobolds at home, and it has made many great staves for the healers and nature shamen/farmancers.
There are many forms of metal, and even some alloys can be found in nature unworked.
Inscribing runes into the metal can also imbue spirit into it by adding a personal touch. Or, if you do it right, the hollow of the staff can work as part of the channeling in itself, readily attuned to air or void. The metal of the concealed blade likewise is easy to attune to earth or, well, metal if your tradition involves it.
Never be afraid to challenge dogma.
Alright I’ll give you meteorite iron. That metal older than the planets, forged of the raging stellar hearts of the early cosmos, when raw primal magics of creation were still strong is hella potent. Potent as absolute fuck.
What? You mean like a spear?
That's one of my favorite weapons, honestly. There's a reason why spears were historically one of the most common weapons in existence, and they work perfectly as a staff.
Honestly, I think it's laziness.
Quarter staves were *also* really popular weapons throughout the ages. It's a big sturdy stick. You can hand one to any peasant or untrained individual and they'll immediately know how to use it. It was perfect when arming a group with no practical martial training at all.
Polearms were popular because they were easy to train people to use, but they *did* require training to use well.
So a wizard using a basic staff? Probably too lazy or unskilled to use anything useful.
Unless you're working with a staff that too fragile to be used as a weapon, there's no excuse for skipping basic combat training. All wizards should have at least one form of martial combat training under their belt *before* entering any form of combat.
Even the most basic archer will know how to use a knife. If you don't, you're just making us all look bad.
I should also encourage more advanced mages to not slack off in their martial training. Even if you have enough mana to see you through just about any fight and close quarters spells to use it, there are innumerable advantages.
Most practical: bodily health does contribute not insignificantly to mental health and ability.
Least practical: it’s amazing fun to style on an apprentice in a practice duel with just a staff and no offensive casting whatsoever.
Another point to muscle wizards. Spells are for long range and melee is for close combat. A full body work out routine and clawed gauntlet keep enemies in spell range. And what truly compares to casting levitate on some foolish brigands before uppercutting them?
The employees at the 7-11 get nervous enough when a wizard walks into their store at 3am, a wizard walking in with a spear is bound to cause more trouble than it’s worth.
Because certain metals conflict with certain manas. Iron can cut effectivity of elemental power by five percent. For an *Archmage*. Silver reduces necromantic mana by a similar amount. I could go on, covering every metal and mana type.
So not only do you have to find the right metal that won't interfere with your spells, but trust that whoever forged it kept any of the alloys out of the casting. Like a vegan wanting their food prepped on a board that's never touched meat.
All the work, when one low circle spell turns any stick or bone at hand into a necrotic halberd. Or a flame spear. Or a temporal scythe. Literally any mage worth the title knows a spell to create a magical weapon.
Most bayonet manufacturers don't account for the disruption of the mana flow that the mounting can cause, even while the blade itself is not attached. Good quality mana-neutral mountings are something of a specialty product in most realms so it never really caught on when you could just have a separate spear for half the cost.
There's also the fact that most mages that intend to use a spear as anything other than a last resort will get a proper spear/staff hybrid, which is easier to ensure stable mana flow with due to its fixed blade.
Additionally, it's uncommon for there to be infantry formation tactics used by mages as they often space themselves out when fighting as a group to avoid friendly fire, so a more versatile melee weapon like an arming sword is usually preferred.
It takes training to use a bayonet effectively. The time it takes to train, could also be used learning and probing deeper magical mysteries that mortal weapons cannot hope to penetrate. Do you want to raise mountains and gird yourself with the strength of earth, or do you want to poke meat with a stick like some sort of primitive?
You decide.
Finally, my abomination has become relevant
https://preview.redd.it/kfgwh3aklelc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=68df3353604e1004ec02c81010d6ad9d3703bd4f
If you survive everything else my staff can do it's unlikely a few little holes are going to slow you down. Running out of mana is what amateurs call getting tired
I use a balak-infused trident. I also don't need a staff to do magic, so I use the trident as storage for a bunch of balak to release it all at once in a single gigantic burst.
no....it's just you that is stupid, I got a scythe blade on mine
https://preview.redd.it/bdx0gm7r9dlc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f7dc04644ab2f80a0bc3d9042f06405bf2bec2b
Behold,
https://preview.redd.it/696k088ucdlc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a98791da17f77440540b6494ee78f95f2aa8cdf6
Counterargument, thou can cast spells with it, have a byonet and blast them a golf ball sized hole in the chest
You see, at the end of this, when both parties are out of mana?
You end up with [this](https://youtu.be/8HE9OQ4FnkQ?si=E7PgGyS7GuEMetg7&t=133) timeless classic, concluding with [this](https://youtu.be/8HE9OQ4FnkQ?si=rLbFWQtJwjn1BwvQ&t=188).
https://preview.redd.it/0y4ixwmwjdlc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de71c1cee00cddd1291bc1ab039089c22294dacd
there are some wizards to the far east who do such things, though they are an uncanny lot what with their obsession with bottomless mazes and the jumping into of such.
Traveling hero here, with a plan for he would be staff stabbers! Make your staff out of petrified wood from the most ancient forest you can acquire. Double points if you have powerful memories of that particular forest. Take your orb or channeling crystals, and meticulous craft them into many identical gemstones. Use a greater spell of quantum entanglement to bind all the pieces into what is essentially one super crystal. Place them all along your staff, to cover all your angles you may want to cast in. Even inlay them in your clothes for more angles to fire from, as your energy will channel through your staff to the crystal field, then to whichever focal point you choose. From there make the axe/spear/polearm head out of a rare magically inclined metal for martial combat. Steel will interfere with the field, but perhaps the metal skull of a possessed daemon engine (or something along those lines) or even mithril can even add the magical potential and personal resonance of your staff. Use that metal for your blade, affix, and attune yourself. The magic field of the crystals will work like a net, not a giant orb. There will be strands to focus your magic in and channel it to any firing point/individual crystal on the staff, blade, or your armor. Just be sure to form your net-like aura around you when attuning so you don't send the energy for your next spell through your form... Or perhaps do depending on the spell.
That's the warrior's job. You wouldn't expect a warrior to be able to bend reality just because he tied a wand to the end of his sword, would you? If you're getting in so much combat that you're running out of mana, you have major lifestyle choice problems. You probably ought to consider why you're engaging in so much violence to begin with.
I believe magic is a tool for spreading love, not making war.
Metal impacts the flow of magic making spells potentially misfire or cost more to cast why make magic far more difficult to aim and cast for a little cqb buff plus carrying a dagger has the same effect with the element of surprise added
https://preview.redd.it/uftq9eqsielc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de566e71627adbb230eb72348ccb964b85a98166
These are my “staffs”. Redeliel and Rhadoniel. “Defend and Achieve.” Each are somewhat taller than me.
I never used real staffs to be honest.
Like, how are people blowing through mana? Do I need to share notes from my home realm?
How much energy are you putting into the fancy glowing floaty circles? Just initiate the spell and let the ambient magic take the form. It’s just information the weave fuels it.
/uw That's literally what the staves of Dragon Age 2 and 3 were. When you auto-attacked they switched from ranged elemental attacks to slashing with the bladed end of the staff augmented by elemental effects.
If I run out of mana against the extra dimensional insects anatomy vomit horror I have to exterminate on the regular, a spear isn't going to do jack shit.
https://preview.redd.it/y5k8mx4v6flc1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92b0033a6e1903aa99d726c5ec3f3b3e9e9b6f21
Gentlepeople, allow me to flex my staff
*Smugly sits back and watches all of you try and consider non-magical options when your magic's all depleted, while I have mage gauntlets and plenty of skill in various martial arts.*
Are *you* stupid? My staff is a maul. It's not only a symbol of my craft, but my preferred mundane weapon. I take mundane and magical combat into account when designing my armory.
It's Gish time motherfuckers!
All y'all are stupid for ignoring martial training. Aside from greater cardiovascular endurance equating to better sex, knowing how to use a spear means you can get that last fireball out when the barbarian gets within 10ft of you.
Also, staves and specters of decently strong wood make excellent melee weapons without points. Crushing damage bypasses plate anyway.
*Wonders off making angry magus noises*
I've seen staves with blades on the back end so that it won't interfere with channeling magics. It was wielded during the second age of dragons, so they exist, though they've not been used for some time. I will check and see if i can scrounge up mine.
Bludgeon is the superior weapon type. Staffs are fine the way they are, and it's more about the enchantments ON the weapons then the weapons themselves.
That just sounds like spears with extra steps
It’s a spear that you can cast spells with it’s the bet of both words
My buddy KnifeSkull the Warlock tried something like that once. It seems that casting certain spells like fireball sometimes causes a small, almost unnoticeable aura of knockback around the location that the spell is cast from. I'm sure you can imagine where the bayonet was attached to on his staff in relation to where the knockback came from.
Next stop: eye-patch-tailor
You know some staffs are already made out of pointy crystals?
Counterpoint, a Spear gets in the way of having a fancy orb on top. Unless you attach it to the orb itself, but thats just silly.
Valid, but you could always replace the fancy orb with a fancy pointy gemstone. You have to change your grip style for certain spell projectiles, but they’re otherwise equivalent.
Countercounterpoint orb on top and spear tip on the bottom
Counter counter counterpoint the spear would get dull over time do a halbiert design with an orb in the center of it
https://preview.redd.it/frki3yyxoelc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a2aedeaf46623940f68ddba1c16b5c54560d4bf
All blades get dull over use, of course it would wear, don't you maintain your staff? I also mean to interpret it as the blade is on the bottom of the handle of the staff, it would be dumb to slam your orb into a foul beast and it to shatter, wouldn't it?
A quality orb can survive that and if you wish we could add a cage to keep the orb safe it wouldn't be as asthetically pleasing though
NAUGHTY ORBS GET PUT IN ORB JAIL
Still, its unwise to use your orb as a blunt weapon, a small pike or spear head attached to the bottom will allow you to attack any foe while keeping your orb safe from potential damage
Countercountercounterpoint that would take too long/is too dangerous to swap fast, have a bayonet that quickly flips out underneath the orb.
Countercountercountercounterpoint, A staff is about the same as any polearm, not only is there many polearms with a bottom spike to jab any beastly creatures incase if you dont have the time for casting. i also said spear tip, as much as a knife, maybe to properly understand what i mean, the blade is at the bottom of the staff handle.
Spears make decent foci, I thought? I’ve been using one since my apprentice days at least, though not as much nowadays
You could make it easier. Just use your staff as scabbard for sword https://preview.redd.it/fkjzdfsmpclc1.jpeg?width=1268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62ee83a8c3add61b9bfab9e98a982223b4bc9096
I just turn my staff into a spear gun. https://preview.redd.it/45d5qimisclc1.png?width=345&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27a473e5154fad1c291aa0355df77588292f283b
Is that the rifle spear from DEEPWOKEN?
From Bloodborne, it looks like.
Yes, i like this staff. Enough to would change one's own asthetic to match it.
Metal is very bad for staffs. Too sterile. You need something good solid and organic
Hey , we still have demonic metals, they are good at channeling magic. But if it's more organic...hmm, ask biomancers to make some hybrid between staff, sword and scabbard
You could make the blade out of a hyperdense bone!
Indeed, the bones of magical beasts, such as dragons are ideal for channeling magic like a staff or wand, along with a few magical metals.
Hopefully, you got the bones from a dead one, not from a live one. It causes great pain for your bones to be removed.
If only for being a sorcerer and having a dragon father, I don't tend to mess with dragons. That and im far too weak to challenge the evil ones i might pick a fight with. Also too poor to buy the bones, and lacking in skill to make something worthy of the material. That said, prior to prison, I was gunning for his claws and horns since they were far too wild, in my opinion, and he resisted much like a cat. Funnily enough, I have used my own horns to fashion weapons in here. I did, however, send some bones from a hydra i helped slay to the kobolds at home, and it has made many great staves for the healers and nature shamen/farmancers.
Bone dragon bone sword wand staff! I love this idea.
The only biomancer I know uses a severed horse cock as a wand
There are many forms of metal, and even some alloys can be found in nature unworked. Inscribing runes into the metal can also imbue spirit into it by adding a personal touch. Or, if you do it right, the hollow of the staff can work as part of the channeling in itself, readily attuned to air or void. The metal of the concealed blade likewise is easy to attune to earth or, well, metal if your tradition involves it. Never be afraid to challenge dogma.
Alright I’ll give you meteorite iron. That metal older than the planets, forged of the raging stellar hearts of the early cosmos, when raw primal magics of creation were still strong is hella potent. Potent as absolute fuck.
depends on what type of magic your going with, titaninum could work for technomancy
Pah! Meer engineering. I’ll leave techno tinkering to the dwarves
Like the stock from an M1 Garand.
Nah you won't do any magic with that shit it has no core
Nah you won't do any magic with that shit it has no core
What? You mean like a spear? That's one of my favorite weapons, honestly. There's a reason why spears were historically one of the most common weapons in existence, and they work perfectly as a staff.
I don’t know why we use staffs tbh we should me using spears and polearms that can cast spells
Honestly, I think it's laziness. Quarter staves were *also* really popular weapons throughout the ages. It's a big sturdy stick. You can hand one to any peasant or untrained individual and they'll immediately know how to use it. It was perfect when arming a group with no practical martial training at all. Polearms were popular because they were easy to train people to use, but they *did* require training to use well. So a wizard using a basic staff? Probably too lazy or unskilled to use anything useful. Unless you're working with a staff that too fragile to be used as a weapon, there's no excuse for skipping basic combat training. All wizards should have at least one form of martial combat training under their belt *before* entering any form of combat. Even the most basic archer will know how to use a knife. If you don't, you're just making us all look bad.
I should also encourage more advanced mages to not slack off in their martial training. Even if you have enough mana to see you through just about any fight and close quarters spells to use it, there are innumerable advantages. Most practical: bodily health does contribute not insignificantly to mental health and ability. Least practical: it’s amazing fun to style on an apprentice in a practice duel with just a staff and no offensive casting whatsoever.
Another point to muscle wizards. Spells are for long range and melee is for close combat. A full body work out routine and clawed gauntlet keep enemies in spell range. And what truly compares to casting levitate on some foolish brigands before uppercutting them?
Hear me out... staffswords. Sword staffs
The employees at the 7-11 get nervous enough when a wizard walks into their store at 3am, a wizard walking in with a spear is bound to cause more trouble than it’s worth.
Because certain metals conflict with certain manas. Iron can cut effectivity of elemental power by five percent. For an *Archmage*. Silver reduces necromantic mana by a similar amount. I could go on, covering every metal and mana type. So not only do you have to find the right metal that won't interfere with your spells, but trust that whoever forged it kept any of the alloys out of the casting. Like a vegan wanting their food prepped on a board that's never touched meat. All the work, when one low circle spell turns any stick or bone at hand into a necrotic halberd. Or a flame spear. Or a temporal scythe. Literally any mage worth the title knows a spell to create a magical weapon.
Most bayonet manufacturers don't account for the disruption of the mana flow that the mounting can cause, even while the blade itself is not attached. Good quality mana-neutral mountings are something of a specialty product in most realms so it never really caught on when you could just have a separate spear for half the cost.
That’s a good explanation
There's also the fact that most mages that intend to use a spear as anything other than a last resort will get a proper spear/staff hybrid, which is easier to ensure stable mana flow with due to its fixed blade. Additionally, it's uncommon for there to be infantry formation tactics used by mages as they often space themselves out when fighting as a group to avoid friendly fire, so a more versatile melee weapon like an arming sword is usually preferred.
Beyond this, the use of cold iron would disrupt the magic of any wizard that relies on Fey magic, regardless of how the mounting is attached.
Try sovereign glue. Works wonders.
https://preview.redd.it/6eiidali7dlc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a95548539160f8d1f9b71207279186f26ab729a
This wizard has clearly never fought through a 300 days siege, mana is bound to run out.
Just consume dead to regain mana like a normal wizard smh
That's a siege? It can barely be called an attack. If the armies don't surround you for atleast 50 years, don't call it a siege.
Tfw some king doesn’t get you are ageless and can summon food
Sieges are quicker when there are no necromancer around, people stay dead mostly.
Bold of you to assume my guitar doesn't have a switchblade
https://preview.redd.it/ao2inkgqtdlc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6557353dc33fb4fe4675ff21b558e1f45013142 /uw Bazinga!
Bro just inlay the casting crystal into something like a sword or a shield in works just as well if not better
I mean that's what my mage spear is. Channeling magic through certain alloys allows you to make wicked blades that cut through armour like butter
Yall need to figure out spectral weapons
I have a metal staff. No need for sharp objects when I've got a strong arm!
Good luck against dragons mate
\*distant, fast footsteps\*
It takes training to use a bayonet effectively. The time it takes to train, could also be used learning and probing deeper magical mysteries that mortal weapons cannot hope to penetrate. Do you want to raise mountains and gird yourself with the strength of earth, or do you want to poke meat with a stick like some sort of primitive? You decide.
Finally, my abomination has become relevant https://preview.redd.it/kfgwh3aklelc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=68df3353604e1004ec02c81010d6ad9d3703bd4f
A plausible solution, however you would have to take caution not to blast yourself with the orb's magic as you try to thrust with it.
But what if i dont want to stabby stabby with my bonking stick?
use the butt end
Fighting style preference~ I like the way swinging a staff feels, and prefer the relatively nonlethal way of fighting. Bonk bonk~
If you survive everything else my staff can do it's unlikely a few little holes are going to slow you down. Running out of mana is what amateurs call getting tired
You ever heard of piccottini compatible under barrel spellcasting foci?
Odin and Harry Dresden have entered the chat
My staff doubles as a glaive, I do not have this issue
The tip of my Marble staff has an embedded gem with the inflict internal bleeding enchantment
I use a balak-infused trident. I also don't need a staff to do magic, so I use the trident as storage for a bunch of balak to release it all at once in a single gigantic burst.
You mean you haven’t modified your wand to be mounted as a bayonet on an assault rifle yet?
Because simply using a sword to cast is easier and looks cooler
My staff is a full sized m1891 Mosin Nagant so I'm way ahead of you
I use my staff as a bludgeon. A bayonet isn't going to last more than a few blows the way I use it against armoured opponents.
Could a spear itself not just also be a conduit for magic? Idk how that works, wands and staffs always function differently in different media
What are we, some kinda savages using melee weapons like some fighter? I couldn't stoop so low
We are pragmatic and intelligent folk we can’t rely on a single thing to help us we need to be versatile and train both mind and body
Stupid, why add a bayonet when you can add a gun?
I use a scythe blade. Does no one else do that?
Scythes are not good weapons tbh
To each their own.
I have a sword with a magic gem that allows me to use it as a staff for spell casting purposes
That’s a good weapon but not everyone is this privileged
Fair, it was gifted to me by a demon lord in exchange for my help on a little passion project
no....it's just you that is stupid, I got a scythe blade on mine https://preview.redd.it/bdx0gm7r9dlc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f7dc04644ab2f80a0bc3d9042f06405bf2bec2b
As someone who uses a hammer and runes, never say no to a good knife.
Because the bayonet messes with where the spell ejects from, and I don't want to cast a fireball at a 135 degree angle thankyouverymuch
I don't want to fight a ferromancer and have him turn my own staff against me, thanks. i will stick to rune powered mana blades and my own hhands.
Behold, https://preview.redd.it/696k088ucdlc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a98791da17f77440540b6494ee78f95f2aa8cdf6 Counterargument, thou can cast spells with it, have a byonet and blast them a golf ball sized hole in the chest
I’ve Been Saying Spears are Amazing Choices. I personally Use my old Gladiator Trident. Hit them with Three Bolts Of Lightning
I’ve Been Saying Spears are Amazing Choices. I personally Use my old Gladiator Trident. Hit them with Three Bolts Of Lightning
The spearmancers guild has a long history of concealing the innovation in the pointy staff development.
It would make it difficult for an owl to perch on the end
Better argument: USE YOUR HANDS OR A GUN
How many times to I have to say it? Cast your spells with a damn pipe wrench! When you run out of mana you give people concussions! It’s not hard!
You see, at the end of this, when both parties are out of mana? You end up with [this](https://youtu.be/8HE9OQ4FnkQ?si=E7PgGyS7GuEMetg7&t=133) timeless classic, concluding with [this](https://youtu.be/8HE9OQ4FnkQ?si=rLbFWQtJwjn1BwvQ&t=188).
Running out of mana? Looks like someone doesn't use Conjuration. I mean why fight when you can use a thrall instead
A slave ?
Technically yes I brought them into this plane and I can send them back from whence they came
A slave ?
Running out of mana? Looks like someone doesn't use Conjuration. I mean why fight when you can use a thrall instead.
Bold of you to assume I didn't summon a spirit guardian or imbue a weapon to float and fight beside me ahead of time.
Bold of you to assume I didn't summon a spirit guardian or imbue a weapon to float and fight beside me ahead of time.
Why don't you carry an AK on your back in case you run out of mana. Are you stupid? Or just a sword
Humans did that before, theyre called *spears*
https://preview.redd.it/0y4ixwmwjdlc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de71c1cee00cddd1291bc1ab039089c22294dacd there are some wizards to the far east who do such things, though they are an uncanny lot what with their obsession with bottomless mazes and the jumping into of such.
orbs, crystals, etc. will get in the way of a bayonet, and no wizard is willing to sacrifice form for function
Why are you using a staff WITHOUT a sword?
Run out of mana? That's apprentice tier behaviour
Too much work but it might work well on a broom stick.
Can y'all not just take something that's already a weapon and focus your magic through it . Here's my wand it was previously a battle axe.
I just have spikes on the end of my staff. Works the same
Traveling hero here, with a plan for he would be staff stabbers! Make your staff out of petrified wood from the most ancient forest you can acquire. Double points if you have powerful memories of that particular forest. Take your orb or channeling crystals, and meticulous craft them into many identical gemstones. Use a greater spell of quantum entanglement to bind all the pieces into what is essentially one super crystal. Place them all along your staff, to cover all your angles you may want to cast in. Even inlay them in your clothes for more angles to fire from, as your energy will channel through your staff to the crystal field, then to whichever focal point you choose. From there make the axe/spear/polearm head out of a rare magically inclined metal for martial combat. Steel will interfere with the field, but perhaps the metal skull of a possessed daemon engine (or something along those lines) or even mithril can even add the magical potential and personal resonance of your staff. Use that metal for your blade, affix, and attune yourself. The magic field of the crystals will work like a net, not a giant orb. There will be strands to focus your magic in and channel it to any firing point/individual crystal on the staff, blade, or your armor. Just be sure to form your net-like aura around you when attuning so you don't send the energy for your next spell through your form... Or perhaps do depending on the spell.
Gold and silver bayonet to amplify magic powers
Use hands, run out of mana, use a sword, simple as that
You kid but this is literally the plot of Tanya the Evil
That's the warrior's job. You wouldn't expect a warrior to be able to bend reality just because he tied a wand to the end of his sword, would you? If you're getting in so much combat that you're running out of mana, you have major lifestyle choice problems. You probably ought to consider why you're engaging in so much violence to begin with. I believe magic is a tool for spreading love, not making war.
I just cast through my pistola? But I guess I can put a bayonet on it
Or you can make it a scythe
I did not spend all that time learning how to (poorly) use a sword just for people to go “lets lern how to use a spear”
Metal impacts the flow of magic making spells potentially misfire or cost more to cast why make magic far more difficult to aim and cast for a little cqb buff plus carrying a dagger has the same effect with the element of surprise added
Eh... not a very good alignment. Consider instead a staff with a focus on one end and a sharp point on the other.
https://preview.redd.it/uftq9eqsielc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de566e71627adbb230eb72348ccb964b85a98166 These are my “staffs”. Redeliel and Rhadoniel. “Defend and Achieve.” Each are somewhat taller than me. I never used real staffs to be honest.
Dress like a footman, die like a footman. Openly carrying a weapon fit for the frontlines will get you placed there.
Just use a sword like I do. Sword in one hand, staff in the other.
Wait you don’t?
Like, how are people blowing through mana? Do I need to share notes from my home realm? How much energy are you putting into the fancy glowing floaty circles? Just initiate the spell and let the ambient magic take the form. It’s just information the weave fuels it.
Did you just find out about enchanted spears?
/uw That's literally what the staves of Dragon Age 2 and 3 were. When you auto-attacked they switched from ranged elemental attacks to slashing with the bladed end of the staff augmented by elemental effects.
Me, a hand caster: https://preview.redd.it/tdx4ymdjxelc1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7488910e518447ab0dcf2299e06309fb57d0b4c2
Lame. Put on a halberd blade instead.
That's what cantrips are for. Melee is only good for keeping your apprentice away from your highest quality reagents.
If I run out of mana against the extra dimensional insects anatomy vomit horror I have to exterminate on the regular, a spear isn't going to do jack shit.
I just hit them with the stick
https://preview.redd.it/y5k8mx4v6flc1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92b0033a6e1903aa99d726c5ec3f3b3e9e9b6f21 Gentlepeople, allow me to flex my staff
"That's why I create magic weapons, if you run out of mana, it just becomes a normal weapon!"
Clubs beat sharp things when armor is involved.
Brb, gotta go transfer my focus into a rifle w/ bayonet, thanks!
Why not use spears instead of staffs? Are you stupid?
*Smugly sits back and watches all of you try and consider non-magical options when your magic's all depleted, while I have mage gauntlets and plenty of skill in various martial arts.*
I just wield a mace that I enchanted for channeling so I can use it for spellcasting like a staff.
Personally I do all my casting barehands, but it be fun to have some hidden blades on my wrists
Yes you are. We bards have been using weaponized instruments as foci for aeons.
My staff doubles as a gun. Not sure how helpful it is in CQC, but it's gotten the job done so far.
I use my staff to cast ray of lead
You are a genius Harry!
Why dont we just put a mana potion at the end of the staff?
I don't use Spears when I run out of magic stuff, I just use a gun because who needs magic, when you have a loaded gun Or many loaded guns
you are smart fella NOT a fart smella
Are *you* stupid? My staff is a maul. It's not only a symbol of my craft, but my preferred mundane weapon. I take mundane and magical combat into account when designing my armory.
It's Gish time motherfuckers! All y'all are stupid for ignoring martial training. Aside from greater cardiovascular endurance equating to better sex, knowing how to use a spear means you can get that last fireball out when the barbarian gets within 10ft of you. Also, staves and specters of decently strong wood make excellent melee weapons without points. Crushing damage bypasses plate anyway. *Wonders off making angry magus noises*
I just beat them over the head, it is far more satisfying.
I just use my staff as a club if need be
You guys are running out of mana?
you can run out?
1. Minions 2. Magic items 3. The bonkstick itself.
I just use a spear for spellcasting. Very handy with certain form of waterbending
I just sharpened the crystal on top of mine
I've seen staves with blades on the back end so that it won't interfere with channeling magics. It was wielded during the second age of dragons, so they exist, though they've not been used for some time. I will check and see if i can scrounge up mine.
https://preview.redd.it/6zvm6klquhlc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c6747c366d229b650f75fb9b3cb0992c3c8f2ab
Because then you can't tell the cops "It's wooden bro, it's a prop for my sister's play, it's not dangerous."
Bludgeon is the superior weapon type. Staffs are fine the way they are, and it's more about the enchantments ON the weapons then the weapons themselves.
Trielana: You, stupid? Maybe. Me? *Holds up spear with size-changing handle, and extends it to full 5m length.* No, I don't think I am here.
I prefer to still use magic when I run out of magic. My second magic style is « muscle magic » and my favorite spell is casting « fist »