Staff combat is definitely more challenging than sword combat, for two reasons you mentioned: You cannot use a shield, and the swinging speed is slower. With enough skill, you should be able to avoid damage entirely, but that's impossible with enemies that have absolutely no safe openings. As a rule of thumb, a game should never force you to take damage, or it's a bad combat system. I had hoped it would be similar to the Souls games in the sense that you can beat anything with enough skill even with the starter equipment, and improving your stats and equipment would only even the odds so you don't need to be incredibly good to finish the game. I'm getting very disappointed in the combat. They're slower, can't block as many attacks, and I haven't noticed any big difference in damage. Why is that, anyway? I haven't found a single advantage that staves have over sword and shield. And even that is just because staves can't block their attacks so you're forced to find openings. Just about the only enemies dodges are useful for are boars and spinerats, since their attacks are reliable and they're unlikely to combo. Even if you manage to dodge an enemy's attack, they might simply turn around and hit you with the follow up. On the subject of your dodges, they're terrible. If you're unlucky, they can dodge your attack and attack you from the side before your attack even finishes and you have a chance to block. When you're attacking, enemies can dodge to the side. Trying to maintain a distance is pointless since many enemies have insanely fast lunges If you aren't already blocking when they use one, you need superhuman reflexes to block or dodge it. This is a big problem with the combat in general enemy attacks are practically instant and you have no way to see them coming. And unless you use combos, your attacks do little more than tickle enemies. This happens very frequently in combos, even if you time your attacks correctly. Their attacks are much faster than your own, to the point where you can initate an attack while they aren't attacking, but still get hit because they initiated an attack after you. It's outright impossible to attack them safely. They're so slow that it makes player skill irrelevant. To begin with, staff attacks are simply too slow. ![]() I've tried raising my staff level to 6 or 7 and it just doesn't help much. ![]() ![]() I had hoped this would change as I joined up with the order and got some training, but no luck. Up to this point I had used a sword and shield since the staff combat simply wasn't as useful. I've played for 38 hours now and recently became a mage.
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