Melee Staves

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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I’m definitely going to be rolling a Shaman for my main in SoD, playing tank and melee DPS (still holding out for support for 2H).

We’ve been told that there’s going to be lots of new items for the updated/new content and I’ve got my fingers crossed for some of those to be staves for melee DPS. Hunters, Warriors, Druids, and Shamans can all use them and there’s plenty of precedent of staves with stats for those classes (Loksey’s Training Stick and Slavedriver Cane come to mind).

I like the fantasy of it and we’re expecting weapon skill racials to matter less so perhaps Staff Mastery will be a thing. What do you all think?

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I think you need to give up on the copium because they already said you’re not getting 2h enhancement for pve.

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Fun aesthetic archetype that was never really supported. Would like to see it along with ranged mutilate.

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I guess we’ll just wait and see.

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Enhancement shamans can already use 2h weapons if the talent into it.

:man_shrugging:t2:

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I want them to add +weapon to all races, so adding fist weapons, staves, etc. is good in my book :slight_smile: Some staves are kinda broken in terms of damage.

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Yes that’s true, but without any support it won’t be competitive enough to find raid spots. Priests can surely cast smite but without some new runes do you want a smite priest in your raid?

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I couldn’t care less, so long as bosses drop.

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Here’s hoping there’s more people out there like you, then!

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:beer: here’s to hoping you get to live out that Donatello fantasy

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Giving up means we never get it.

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I used slave-drivers cane til I got an OEB. Staves aren’t going anywhere, and they’re not underutilized.

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I know they aren’t going anywhere. I just want more of them, specifically raid gear ones. Most melee staves are just dungeon drops, almost every staff that drops in a raid has caster stats and low DPS to disincentivize poaching.

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You wanna give 'em the thwack. I gotcha. I was hoping for randomized items to give weapon skill increases, instead of “of the Bear” have “of Staves” or “of Daggers”.

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I absolutely wanna give em the thwack.

Your solution to weapon skill is actually pretty elegant. I’m pretty sure that stuff already exists in the game files, too. My first thought was that it would be a tier set bonus, if not its own then tacked on with another one. On second thought that’s rather clunky.