[SOTA-70672] Change the default crafted mage staff skin!

The existing player crafted skin for a staff is to be blunt, rather bleak. I'm not sure where the human skulls come from but apparently outlanders are a very nasty bunch, or we just need to change the default crafted staff pattern.

Good news, we have new patterns for staves in game... great!
There is a pattern/skin in game for staves that is a simple walking stick.

My proposal is to swap the walking stick pattern and the 3 skull pattern. That way you can salvage the skull pattern from staves that are looted for those who want death on a stick, and the general population can have a less sinister looking staff to work with.

Thoughts?

Who collects skulls anyway?

 

the one all npc mages carry is a "twisted root" staff in RL.. this is a great base staff... and in my humble opinion should be default

 

the one that looks like an old field hockey stick? yeah, that's a good start. the life magic master in ardoris is sporting one, easier to see when not fighting to death.

 

<-- twisted root Staff

 

This is the sort I was looking for. Picture in the spoiler cut.

Spoiler

 

I agree wholeheartedly. The default staff graphic is a very odd choice.

 

Yes, completely agree. Never understood the skull on a stick thing as the 'basic' weapon.

 

I always assumed they made the bad guy version of the staff and then... never made the good guy version the default. With all the other things they've tackled it probably got lost on the wayside.

Nice thing about online games... they patch.

 

we need a dev to look this over and back us on this.. maybe we can get @Lexie to be our inside person

 

Yeah, that was my thought too... I think the baddies should keep them, but players probably are better served by the walking stick style staff.

 

Agreed, a simple or gnarled staff for the base ski would make much more sense..... especially since it's only made of wood. Really... where do those skulls come from?

 

I don't know, I'm not into human sacrifice. Grave robbers? Not at all virtuous that's for sure...

 

bump with a bit more info: turns out there's more than one of those three-skull patterns. left is lesser staff, right is simple staff. i was hoping ONE of those would be the hockey stick.

 

Please please please! Now that I know I'm not the only one thinking this, I'm tempted to hound the streams every day until they give us a non-morbid basic staff for newbies.

 

I've always wondered the same thing.

Shall we start a formal petition?

 

bump, @Elgarion: should be in wishlist, maybe?

since we have lesser staff patterns from drops now, it'd be less of a big deal to change the default crafted look because anyone that wants the skulls can use the pattern from the looted ones on it.

 

Hmmmm, true -- I'll move this and bring it up. Thanks Alley

 

@Elgarion, I mentioned this on stream some months back, and Chris said they'd already agreed to it ages ago, and it just hadn't been implemented yet. I THINK he said there was already an issue number for it, but my memory isn't positive on that. At any rate, since the newbie staff affects newbies all over the game, this would be really low-hanging fruit that has a big effect for little effort.

 

There was some traction this morning on this, and this thread was a good nudge Hopefully soon