Quarterstaff Feat

[Dylvish]

We have something in common (competitions) I miss it at times, but I think if I even mumbled anything about going back into MMA or competitions in my sleep while dreaming my wife would divorce me.

In this game however, twf tends to indicate using things in both hands on one target, while THF is using things in both hands to hit many targets. Hence the distinction for the quarterstaff in this instance.

Also, I'd have to go back and check (its been a good long while since i pnp'd), but I believe they have it as a 'double' weapon in PnP play already. Useable with TWF. Someone who still plays would have to confirm or deny this however.

[vVAnjilaVv]

Anjila, Qstaves do not currently work for monk or rogue. The dps they offer for both, including a PRE designed around it, in rogues case, is so far behind the dps offered by wraps / assassin that there really is no reason to take it at all other than flavor. Many of the acrobat rogues I know of actually still use TWF swords. So I have to disagree with you. I think they need some love.

This is why when I finally got around to TR'ing my Acrobat I went H-E and took fighter Dilettante.

No I also gain access to every TH weapon in the game and in the future should they make Qstaffs more popular I am not forced into Reinc'ing my build to fix it.

So far I am loving my H-E Fighter Dilettante STR Acrobat...and it gets better each level.

And then there is also that little plus to the fact that you can usually get some really really nice staffs for really really cheap.

[Dylvish]

Ah well, it will fade to the back soon enough. /bump for now.

[NadgersFishtoaster]

The probable reference for quarterstaff combat in DDO appears to be Robin Hood films or TV series.

I recommend watching clips from "Robin: The Hooded Man", an old UK TV series as a reference for this.

Sometimes you have to grit your teeth when you use a weapon in a role-playing game, or computer game version of such a game, because it works differently to the way you would expect it to work.

A friend of mine regularly played D&D and practised archery (thus avoiding a life of crime) but wouldn't play an archer in game of D&D. Why? Because D&D modelled archery incorrectly in his opinion so he tended to play melee fighters and wizards instead.

The way the OP is suggesting to change the behaviour of quarterstaffs strikes a distant memory. I think D&D3.0 treated a quarterstaff as a two-handed weapon not unlike the double-bladed sword.