Staves and clubs?

[FinalPhantasy13]

I was wondering if any of you have experimented with using staves or clubs as a monk. They are usable and I was just wondering if they're any good.

[DJplaeskool]

They never really get past 'ok'...
1H Staves are just a bad idea...
Monk are actually pretty good with 2H Staves however...
My 2H Staff skill is about 120 and I can do a couple hundred damage with the EarthCrusher WS...
still...no contest when compared to Ši“¬...

you want some hilarity...use MNK 2Hr with a 2H Staff...
or better yet, MNK/NIN with 2 x 1H Staff...
now that's fun...

[FinalPhantasy13]

lol I can see how that would be fun. Thanks for the advice. Anyone else have any veiws?

[tigerheart]

you be waisting your time. Monks are most effective using hand to hand weapons by far.

With all thoses hand to hand passive abilitys we get . Hand to hand will allways outperform any staff.

[neighbortaru]

(hope this isn't too far off topic...)

everyone knows h2h is teh suck against crabs, but how would club or staff fair against these monsters? i am considering carrying a second weapon around in case we're fighting something resistant to my h2h.

[Redlimit]

Staves are useful if you are going to be doing a lot of lower level enemy farming (about 1/2 your current level or lower), beacuse once you get 70 skill with a Stave you get a powerful area of effect WS.

This lets you defeat more than one enemy at a time. There are quite a few Staves out there with high damage and +attack modifiers too.

Don't use them for anything serious though.... :sweat:

[Voyager]

I've noticed that if I used boost as soon as it refreshes, then I could actually do consistent damage against high defense crabs.

In fact, I would go on to argue that boost is very useful in any situation where one finds that oe is frequently missing and/or doing no damage to a mob in one's level range. It's true that each boost takes up a round of game time, but the increase in hit and damage consistancy makes it more than worth it.

I wasn't laying out the beat down that I would against softer skinned targets, but I was at least doing as much damage as the other damage centric party members were.

Harry Voyager

[Aneyeisuponyou]

Maybe if doing 0 dmg, but not missing. Boost decreases Acc.

[Mithrael]

everyone knows h2h is teh suck against crabs, but how would club or staff fair against these monsters? i am considering carrying a second weapon around in case we're fighting something resistant to my h2h.

Sorry, this is really old, i know...

Club or staff wouldn't help because club, staff, and h2h all fall under the 'blunt' category. Crabs are strong to blunt, that's why we suck against them.

[neighbortaru]

yeah mithrael i found that out in the weapons vs mobs thread i started a bit back. thanks for replying tho

[Redlimit]

Every MNK needs to try out Hundred Fists when you are equipped with a Stave at least once in their life.

Trust me on this one.

[Shedari]

Chi blast with a staff [while in attack mode] is fun as well. At least as a female hume, it looks like I'm golfing. XD

[neighbortaru]

Originally posted by Redlimit
Every MNK needs to try out Hundred Fists when you are equipped with a Stave at least once in their life.

Trust me on this one.

heh. i just tried this last night. what a hoot! reminds me of GTA

[Thark601]

personally the only reason i use stave or staff is to lvl it up for my casters

why do whm's try to skill up themselves? *laughs*