LE Staves' Overhaul

[ccjmk]

Hi all!

 

Today I got myself thinking how great it'd be to be able to cast spells through staves, but not how it does now that the staff is the source of the spell, but as a mean to cast the spell.

 

Similarly to many other games where spellscasters use nevertheless some sort of "weapon", I think it'd be great to have something like this.. though I'm pretty much newborn to modding, and only did some minor edits to an lovely home i downloaded that now serves as my home, so I can't really think about any way to do this..

 

What I have i mind has:

 

1) Staves are essentially 1-handed weapons; you can smash people with them and deal physical damage. Probably would count as Mazes, but with aproximatelly 80% a sword's damage only.

 

2) Staves have an innate arcane-channeling ability that doesn't use charges and doesn't count as being enchanted (so that Staves can be enchanted with regular weapon enchantments & probably some armor enchantments that fit like Magicka Regen, etc); this innate ability will provide something like +10/20/30/40/50% (for a novice/apprentice/adept/expert/master grade staff) additional power; this is just a rough number, it could go from 5/10/15/20/25 to 100/200/300/400/500%, I haven't done any real numbers to tweak this percentaje.

 

3) Basically if you just "hit" with the weapon, it'd just.. hit :P If you "power-attack", it will cast the spell instead; I found this to be the simplest solution.. but there could be some workaround to be able to power-attack with the staff.

 

4) The staff will basically be infused with whatever spell you equip on that hand.. Options would be:

 

a. If you have a staff on left hand, and equip a spell on left hand, the staff will become infused with that spell and viceversa.

b. If you have a staff on left hand, and equip spell on right hand, you will have a spell & an un-infused staff (basically a low-damage maze)
c. If you have a staff on one hand, and equip something else on the other hand, you will just double-wield the staff & the other equipment.
d. If you have a staff (infused or not) on one hand, and unequip it / equip something else that is not a spell on same hand the staff will be unequiped, and if it's the case, you will equip something else in replacement.

So, as long as you don't take the staff away or replace it with another item, you can just change spells and infuse them in the staff.

 

 

This way, staves don't use charges any more, can be enchanted, serve as a mage's meele-backup weapon, allow mages to switch between spells confortably, and last but not least, mages now look supersexy and a dedicated mage can even double-wield staffs or even use staff+shield.

 

So.. opinions? :D