Staves Need Rework?

[ramennoodleking]

With the new offhand 100+ int enchant, and the fact that you can enchant one handers with things like Heartsong, does this not make staves much less desirable than using a one handed weapon and an offhand?

[Liliyah]

Pretty much. I'm using a staff right now because I haven't gotten a decent one-hander, but as soon as I do, that staff is toast.

[Zeuq]

This is something that's irritated me a lot as well. From an aesthetics perspective, I prefer to use a staff to a MH+OH, and from a gearing perspective, I'd generally prefered the stat allocation of a staff to a MH+OH too. However, with the new enchants, a staff is only potentially viable if it's at least one whole teir ahead of any MH+OH options. Casters already generally prefered MH+OH anyway, but now even healers have no use for a staff. So, what's the point of SP Staffs now?

[Anathaema]

the choice pov.

if you're being gimped with not that many stats, you'll want to go with the aesthetics.
and the point is to always look for alternatives