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Staffs: New Ranged Weapon Suggestion

I as well as many others were hopeful for the inclusion of staffs as a ranged weapon in MCD, and with only the Lightning Rod artifact currently coming close, there is huge potential for this weapon type. Here are some suggestions for how this weapon type could function and some variations:

Staffs would be placed in the bow slot in-game as a ranged weapon archetype. Staffs could adhere to very similar rules to bows in terms of variations; 'regular', rapid-fire, soul-gathering etc. and still use 'arrow' drops as ammo, only this would be replaced by an item of different texture and name (such as 'ether' or 'mana') and have comparatively higher ammo reserves than bows.

Enchantments could overlap but in the interest of not simply having staffs be retextured bows, new enchantments unique to staffs would be great. Staff projectiles would generally travel slower but have a much larger hitbox than arrows, with visual effects very close to those used by Summoners and the Nameless One. Staffs could be geared more towards group damage, utility, and CC than bows. Firework, flame quiver and soul quiver arrows would not be equip-able while using a staff - this opens up possibilities for 3 more different artifacts to be made to fill this gap.

Space is limited, so in the comments below I will post ideas for enchantments and unique staffs:

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  • June 10, 2020 12:43
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  Enchantments shared with other weapons would be things such as chain reaction, gravity, rapid-fire, infinity, multishot, anima conduit, enigma resonator, exploding, poison cloud, and unchanting.

   

  New enchantment ideas:

  • Expulsion: 50/75/100% chance to remove enchantments on mobs for a short time (~3s)
  • Soul Channelling: Collecting souls increases fire rate.
  • Soul Torment: Collecting souls increases damage by a max of 50/100/150% for a short time.
  • Attraction: Projectiles have increased tracking to enemies.
  • Entanglement: Missed shots have a 20/40/60% chance to return to reserves.
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  As for unique staffs (I would not be mad if staffs only existed as unique items - they would feel much more special) here are some ideas I had - stats are ballpark figures:

  Winter's Sigil: projectiles slow enemies in an area and enemies are unable to use special abilities with this status effect. Icy/chilling theme.
  Heart of the Nether: Alight with blue soul fire, this staff's projectiles have a high chance to light enemies with soul fire which can burn nearby enemies. Increased soul gain rate. Chain reaction enchantment.
  Tempest's Wrath: projectiles have a chance to arc lightning between multiple enemies dealing low damage. Enemies hit by the projectile are weakened for a short time.
  Endercurse: Enemies below 20% health have a small chance on each hit to be teleported into the end, gone in a cloud of end particles (still drops loot of course). This does not (for obvious reasons) include end game bosses but has a 1% chance to work on 'mid-game' bosses such as Endermen, Redstone Golems, and Evokers at any health (mean you could technically kill them with one shot and a lot of luck. May sound OP but I have seen players one shot these enemies with regular weapons).
  Enderwish: If the player falls below 20% health, they will be teleported in a random direction 10 metres away from all hostile mobs( if within 10 metres of a mob). This can trigger every 5-10 seconds, but no sooner. Similar idea to final shout but with a different outcome.

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  • Graviton Reach: Defeated enemies have a 20% chance to create a singularity that traps nearby mobs for 3 seconds. Similar to gravity effect.
  • Staff of the Nameless One: Model, sound, and projectile designed after the one in-game, this staff has a 25% chance to summon a skeleton vanguard to fight for you for 30 seconds when taking damage. Only one vanguard can spawn at any time. Increased soul gain rate. This could be a unique version of a common Summoner's Staff, which may only spawn an armoured zombie - I mention the Summoner's staff specifically because I think they look and sound great, and we already have multiple weapons used by enemies available. I know some were disappointed that we could not use the Nameless One's staff, so bringing it back in a 'nerfed' way for players to use would be great.
  • Plague's Truth: Projectiles have a chance to form poisonous clouds that do extra damage to mortal enemies (i.e not undead).
  • Voidleaker: Projectiles have a high chance to unleash a rift between the void and the overworld, stunning and lightly damaging nearby enemies in an AoE knockback.
  • Mistral: A green glowing visual effect. This staff fires 3 projectiles which have a chance of high knockback and damage akin to torment quiver (though not as powerful).