Nightstick fient is 1 second for me. I don't have a quarterstaff to test at the moment but I do have a haralun pike staff which is the heaviest forgeable QS you can get (82 stones) and that is giving me 2 second feints.

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You might want to weigh your weapons just to see that your weights are further off than you think.

I'd recommend buying a steel nightstick instead of the QS, at least for a while. It's lighter and fits in containers. If you want to use a QS for RP reasons (imagine that novelty in a RPG...), consider the nightstick a training weapon till you get skilled enough to make use of a big staff.

You could always get a lighter quarterstaff, too. The default steel weight is 5 stone per volume, but you can easily get something around 35-40 stones if you have a forger put some oravir in that steel.

Will the stats be as awesome? No. But, at the same time, they won't be worse than a nightstick.

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Very cool, but the idea of going out and fighting vicious beasts and whatnot with a cane is a bit silly doesn't it? Lol.

Ok well when you call it a short staff, I can visualize that much better than a cane, although yes they'd be comparable. Alright I'm over the"cane" name now hahaha. Thank you for putting it in perspective for me. Still not awake here yet.

Hahaha awesome! I want.

Two decent fighting cane and staff examples - think about a police baton for a "cane" and Gandalf's huge staff as a "staff". Either of those are extremely dangerous if you whack someone with them.

Uhm... if you consider a cane or walking stick 5 or 6 feet long then how big are you thinking a quarterstaff is? I thought a staff would be about 6 ft while a cane would be more like 3 ft.

Very nice.

>if you consider a cane or walking stick 5 or 6 feet long then how big are you thinking a quarterstaff is?

Wikipedia has an interesting and fairly short article on quarterstaff: I would say that what DR calls canes would be the 6 ft variety and full quarterstaves could be around 7 or 9 ft. I think 3 ft would just be too short to be pole ranged, even melee short staves might be longer than that because of the difference between using a staff and a blunt weapon.

>a cane would be more like 3 ft.

That's more along the lines of a walking aide sold at a corner store than a weapon. If you were going to hike up a mountain, a 6 ft cane would be more useful; which is what I would call a walking stick.

Quarter staff is fun, I use it as my secondary weapon. I have several varieties from the old heavy impact carved canes to my current cambrinth one. With the addition of the skill combination with Short Staff the diversity of the types of weapons you can pick up increased a lot. I find it a very fun weapon class to train.

Yamcer

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The lightest "Quarterstaff" you can get is a glaes quarterstaff at 30 stones. It's a very awesome weapon, great impact and superbly balanced. It's one of the highest balanced weapons in the game. It will set you back close to 1k plat kronar. Sometimes you can find them for resale for cheaper though.

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