>He still uses a staffThere is literally no reason to keep using staves, except at ceremonies. Mana absorption by area is logarithmic, not linear or exponential, so the actual extra mana channeling you'll get over a wand is at best around 40%, and probably more like 15-25%. Wands give you more precision and are easier to transport and handle (and hide). Plus you can use them with one hand while you read off a scroll or tome with your other.The only practical benefit of a staff over a wand is superior damage against enemy barriers, but it's like, dude, if you need that extra 20~% to break the enemy wizard's barrier, you aren't beating him anyway.
>>97905961Counterpoint, you can whack someone's head with the staff, I concede that you can poke eyes easily with the wand, but a lot of older wizards have glasses
>>97905961staves retain charge longer and can be farther enhanced via a mana stone
Just use your forehead
I have a blade on my staff
>>97906619That's just a spear.
>>97905977FROMslop sucks
>>97906630No it is a bladed staff. Some asshole tries to interrupt your spell casting by getting close and you swing your staff and slice or stab them.
>>97905961>wandLmao gay.>staffPeasant hiking stick.>scepterThe patrician's choice. Regal and commanding, as is befitting of a skilled wizard. Though, a practiced magician is just as likely to channel the arcane energies directly. If you need the boost, you are an ngmi skillless manalet spellmonkey.
Depends on the game.
>>97906619Up your game dude. My staff has a replacable metal barrel, a bipod and is belt or magzine fed.
>>97905961What game?
>>97905961Spoken like an apprentice with zero practical experience. A staff isn't just a focus, it's also a quarterstaff, a walking stick, and so much more. Not every problem needs to be solved with magic.
>>97905961I find the orb is the best choice. Due to it's round nature it naturally lends itself to forcing movement and other battlefield control spells. It is relatively concealable without sacrificing as much raw power as a wand. And most importantly, you can ponder an orb, nobody is pondering a wand or staff.
>>97907176Get with the times, gramps
We just going to sit here and ignore how big 40% is? 15-25% aren't numbers to scoff at either. People piss and shit themselves over 5% advantages.
>StavesDruids, Wizards that like traveling>OrbsSorcerors, more sedentary wizards (Tomes are also acceptable for this type)>WandsFaggots
>>97908011What if i'm more of a tome guy?
>>97905977Looks like your mom's dildo LMAO
>>97908011What about crystals? Or candles? Or mirrors? Or athames and bolines? Or diagrams? Or runes?
>>97905961>Using anything but your own body as the casting mediumYou talk of ascension and yet rut around on the ground.
>>97908517And yet there you are... still with that physical substrate...
>>97906630It's "just" a sucking chest wound.
the purpose of a staff, wand, or rod, is to draw larger runes and circles more easily in combat.
>>97905961As >>97905970 pointed out - staff also count as weapon (especially with Shilelagh spell), walking stick, an increase in reach etc.
Fools that you are. The sword is the superior catalyst. Not only it is part of the classic quartet of arcane foci associated with the Magician Tarot (swords, staves, cups, pentacles), it is associated with the element of air and to the characteristic of intellect and cleverness, nothing more wizardly than that.And, other than the obvious practicality of being well-armed in case some degenerate manages to get through your walls of meat, you're flexing even further in the martials by showing them they don't even have a monopoly on weaponry.
>>97905961Can't use a wand as a walking stick.
My bones hurt because im 350 years old. Ergo I need a staff to walk.Im still waiting for Myrkul to come collect me but apparently not even death wants me cause im a crotchety old bastard
>>97905961>He still uses a staffYea I fuckin do
>>97909305nigger that’s a spear
>>97908487>crystals, candles, mirrorsWoman>athame/bolineWarlock or a really hardcore Druid>diagrams/runesWizard if they're prepared, sorceror if they just appear out of thin air
>>97906646>>97906860>>97908171Please actually play games, you will be a far less of a joyless faggot if you did.
>>97909617Don't you think it's kind of weird how everything is just wizards of some kind to you? It sounds like you just pulled up a thesaurus and you don't actually know anything about how various magical traditions actually were. Trashy WotC D&D bullshit is the full extent of your knowledge and it's.... cringe. Honestly.
>>97907255Dunno man, I see some monks pondering staffs in meditation and sometimes I wonder if I should give it a go. They really live in a different world.
>>97910366Wand user
>>97909824I do, but not 24/7.
>>97905961How can people sing "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End" if nobody carries a staff, though?
>>97905961>Mana absorption by area is logarithmic, not linear or exponential, so the actual extra mana channeling you'll get over a wand is at best around 40%, and probably more like 15-25%.youre not taking into account density or the fact that many of the best mana absorbing materials are heavier than wood. my 7 foot long, 60 pound dragonbone staff studded with mithril rings and topped with a bowling ball sized chunk of orichalcum gives me enough mana absorption to turn a man in full plate armor into a smoking pair of greaves.
>>97909824I play good games, which excludes FROMslop. Please actually play tabletop games instead of just coming here to shill vidya and be a secondary tumor.
>>97909824You first.
>>97905961>staves>large, cumbersome, Would become a detriment for any task that requires two hands. Unfit for adventuring. Makes you look poor>wands>small and faggy, easily breaks, can't be used as a melee. Makes you look gay. Weak spell power>rods>easily portable, can be tucked away and holstered while still being a respectable melee weapon. All rounder versatile casting profile. Earns a cool and kingly look.What a choice
