Mage brainstorming

[Estie]

Yes weapons not used for weaponing become "stat sticks". Typically for casters, or ranged weapons for melee users. I even had a fun warrior once who wielded a stat-pickaxe and used a launcher for the last fight.

Its a widespread phenomenon not restricted to Angband; WoW has it too, for example. Personally I never had a problem with it, to the contrary I find it quite amusing.

Speaking of WoW: some classes there get class-specific items which can only be used by the intended class and goes into the ranged slot. I could see something similar in Angband: a holy symbol maybe, which only priests and paladins can use and which must be equipped in the "b" slot to have effect.

[Derakon]

The problem with class-specific stuff is that it's useless to characters that aren't in that class. We already have that problem with the Blessed affix. It throws off the power calculations and creates new categories of junk.

I could see mages wielding wands in their shooter slots to be able to shoot them faster or something, though as it stands wands have few enough charges that this wouldn't be that useful for general combat.

[Magnate]

The problem with class-specific stuff is that it's useless to characters that aren't in that class. We already have that problem with the Blessed affix. It throws off the power calculations and creates new categories of junk.

IMO we should revisit removing the pointy penalty, and this time take the BLESSED flag out with it. In v4, of course.

I could see mages wielding wands in their shooter slots to be able to shoot them faster or something, though as it stands wands have few enough charges that this wouldn't be that useful for general combat.

But there's no reason we couldn't vary this. Wands could get more charges. Or, as an alternative, mages could put a *rod* in the shooter slot (but not wands or staves), and being in it would double its recharge speed. Or something.

[Tobias]

IMO we should revisit removing the pointy penalty, and this time take the BLESSED flag out with it. In v4, of course.But there's no reason we couldn't vary this. Wands could get more charges. Or, as an alternative, mages could put a *rod* in the shooter slot (but not wands or staves), and being in it would double its recharge speed. Or something.

I was imagining something like this. I was only calling them staffs, for flavor.
I think it should work like an artifact activation and recharge.

Or how about mages getting a possibility of using a staff or wand like a rod if they hold it in their shooter slot.