[Idea] Staff Overhaul

[StryderOfOblivion]

Hello  

Anybody have any ideas for a Staff Overhaul? I'm sorta kinda working on one already, and features that I have finished or am going to include are....

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New Custom Staffs (have two already, one I am probably just going to get rid of, and the other needs texture work)

Quests for the more powerful Staffs

All Staffs in the Off-Hand, as a Shield, with a Torch variant! Go Dual-Wielding!

When a staff is equipped, it gives the player certain new spells that correspond with what the Staff was made for. (Simple Script, so "finished")

Completely Custom Spells with new animations (Maybe)

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As I said, I am sorta working on this, but I'd like some input. And perhaps maybe volunteers for custom Staffs, spell animations, and Quests (two people are better then one!) while I learn my way through blender.

Idea originally occurred from a post on Tesnexus, that made me realize how much I hated how Staffs in the Elder Scrolls series played such a minimal role in a Mages life.

[_echo]

Im wondering if its possible to get a "sword" to cast a spell when you swing. that would be really cool. Anyhoo, as it is, Im interested in an overhaul, though I do not play as a mage ever (ironic i make animated staffs eh?)

Something im working on are caster weapons. Like swords that do little to know physical damage but do elemental damage via enchantment, and shields will more benefit mages as well.

[StryderOfOblivion]

There is a mod that I just started using. Let me see if I can find it...

...here it is Weapon Magic by Ryuujin-0

[WhoGuru]

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Im wondering if its possible to get a "sword" to cast a spell when you swing. that would be really cool. Anyhoo, as it is, Im interested in an overhaul, though I do not play as a mage ever (ironic i make animated staffs eh?)Something im working on are caster weapons. Like swords that do little to know physical damage but do elemental damage via enchantment, and shields will more benefit mages as well.

Our mod has something like that on the sword.  It cast soul trap and eats the soul to recharge itself.    My little stroke of brilliance there and our builders personal nightmare.  
Is that the kind of thing you're thinking of?

[_echo]

No i mean like actually cast a spell, like a staff, but on a 1h weapon. make the weapon look like a wand, and ban, your all set!

PS: haha, you got the egg!

[StryderOfOblivion]

Just make a new staff with sword meshes/textures...right?

So do you approve of the idea or not Red? And how did you get that to work on the sword?

[_echo]

making a sword a staff doesnt work because its still "a staff" meaning the animations are the same... Im talking swing the sword and a spell comes flying out.

Which makes me thing... I "could" replace the staff animations with the sword animations... *ponders*

[StryderOfOblivion]

That seems like the only way to do it, unless it is possible to do something like that via script...

[WhoGuru]

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No i mean like actually cast a spell, like a staff, but on a 1h weapon. make the weapon look like a wand, and ban, your all set!PS: haha, you got the egg!

LOL  Don't crack on my shell man!!  

But seriously, I see what you're saying now.  I suppose you'd have to something like use the textures of a staff but give it the properties of a sword?  Which would make it a bit weird to swing in battle.
Kalikut's trade goods mod has a selection of Staves that can not only be enchanted but used as blunt weapons.  Might take a look at that and see if that could lead you in the right direction.  I like this little mod.
http://www.elricm.co...etails&lid=2881

@ Stryder:  I'm not entirely sure how Mage got it to work!     You'll have to ask him.  it does work though!  Beautifully!  You only have to worry about charging it in a pitched battle with a single foe, but killing your own summons solves that problem.  lol

[HeyYou]

Saw the topic, and though, why does he want to overhaul the staff???? And what the hell is an off-hand staff???? Someone that only visits once in a while????

Then I figgered it out......

[Happy-i-am]

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Im wondering if its possible to get a "sword" to cast a spell when you swing. that would be really cool. Anyhoo, as it is, Im interested in an overhaul, though I do not play as a mage ever (ironic i make animated staffs eh?)Something im working on are caster weapons. Like swords that do little to know physical damage but do elemental damage via enchantment, and shields will more benefit mages as well.

set sword dmg to 0 set a staff scipt to it =D not sure if it would work but worth a try!

[StryderOfOblivion]

Off-hand staff is a staff that is a "shield." That way you can dual wield.

And the reason is mostly to give depth to staffs, and give mages another somethin' to pursue, since swords n' armor arn't exactly their main concern.