Weapon restrictions? - Blue Tracker

#0 - Sept. 28, 2010, 5:34 a.m.

Hi.
I haven't really dug too deep into this, so I'm just bluntly gonna ask the question here.
I've heard that there will be weapon restrictions, and I'm j ust wondering if anyone can confirm this.

And if there is, I hope it isn't too restricted, 'cous it would be kind of obvious that the wizard in this case would not be able to weild melee weapons. And I would just love to have a character wielding awesome magic, and mediocre sword skill.

At least allow magic users to equip one handed weapons (sabers, long swords etc)

Bashiok

#39 - Oct. 2, 2010, 12:51 a.m.

Q u o t e:
I've heard that there will be weapon restrictions, and I'm j ust wondering if anyone can confirm this.

There are some weapon restrictions. Right now we're working with the philosophy of only restricting weapon types if they don't make sense for the class. We don't think a barbarian should be using a wand, for example. Other examples of item restrictions are that there are class specific items, such as the wizard's orbs.

Bashiok

#41 - Oct. 2, 2010, 2:02 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Could you list the weapons the monk is able to use? The last quote I saw only said combat staves, fists, 1h swords, polearms and I think thats it. I'm concerned about a melee class having such a small selection of weapons available. Is part of the challenge of being a monk finding weapons you can actually use?

He can't use 2handed axes and maces, uh, wands, orbs, I think that's about it.

The game isn't done yet, there's not a whole lot of "this class should never be able to use this weapon" but a bit of "we'll try to implement these non-critical weapons if we're sure we have time".