Does anyone ever use a staff?

[Luminary]

I have done a couple magic playthroughs, but I have never used a staff because they seem clumsy. Does anyone use them? are they worth anything?

[worm_master]

No? an coin.... The spells u pick up are infinite and far superior, by all means keep 1 or 2, they can be used to buff the enchanting skill, by recharging with soul gems.

[Heimdall313]

You can't use them for dualcasting, and most destruction magic is spamming dualcasted spells for stagger lock.
I use them for Wall spells, and can usually get one to summon Frost Atronachs. Those are useful.

Mainly it's a backup for characters that don't have zero-cost spells so you have *something* for when you're empty and don't feel like removing -> re-equiping your Fortify Magicka hood or whatever.

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

I think i never used staffs in skyrim i sometimes use it but on very very rare occasions i rememeber using wabbajack a few times but i think thats maybe the only time i used them and i never really used them in oblivion or morrowind.

[dolmore]

I only use them as a back up while i wait for my magicka to regenerate. They're heavy and not all that powerful - more something to keep the bad guy busy while I prepare an actual spell.

[CaffeineMann <<AD>>]

Enough times were I realized the best use is to decorate my house.

[worm_master]

@Heimdall, I didn't mean inf, in that way, I meant they don't need soul gems or potions coz manna regenerates.

[alexander_dougherty]

Staffs are of minimal use.
If you do a mage right, you get spells from a school using no magicka, and the perks that allow you to stunlock an enemy don't work with a staff.... and they don't increase your skill with that school of magic....

Their only real use is if they hold a powerful spell, and you use them as a back up....

That said, it's probably better to use magicka potions and dual cast the spells by hand.
which is why so many simply refuse to use them.

[Abisha]

No never why would a mage use a staff away? RPG myth since 1900.
even a dagger would makes more sense then a staff

[Fear2288]

I’ve never really found a reason to use them.

I understand their purpose - to act as enchanted “weapons” that allow you to use a specific spell without drawing from you mana pool (and instead from its enchantment charges), but it just seems kinda pointless.

Even moreso with scrolls as they’re once-and-done.

It seems like staves and scrolls are really just there because such things are expected to be in fantasy games with magic.

The only benefit I can see with them is for either early game mages or characters who don’t put points into the Magicka stat or Mage-related perks but want to use spells regularly.

But given the game’s “master of everything” approach to character building, the rate at which you can gain stat/perk points and skill levels, the “read tome > know spell” system of learning magic, and how quickly and easily you can regen/restore magicka…they’re kinda useless.

[CBR6V]

Yes because I use the Ordinator mod which allows the usage of staves to increase your enchanting skill.

[Junipercat]

Staves flavor wise are a symbol of status, passive boosts enchanted in it, or give a focus to make it easier to cast or make your casts more powerful. Mechanically they don't progress well, at least without mods.

I do hope they work more on the magic system in TES 6. Having good reason to choose between wand, staff, bare hands, etc. to allow more to be the type of magic user they want to be from the start (vanilla, before modding) would be a great step forward I think.

[John]

Only for certain challenge runs are they really useful as most don't level up their corresponding skill tree, other than that, not really. They could have done a pretty neat thing with the staff enchanter but screwed it up completely.

[Elf On A Hook]

Originally posted by Luminary:

I have done a couple magic playthroughs, but I have never used a staff because they seem clumsy. Does anyone use them? are they worth anything?

sadly if staffs were magic and physical like a Bo staff then i would but since all spells attached to staves are already cast as player they los alot of interest and they get used up fast soul gem wise / magially drained

[Rez Elwin]

Only with mods, I'd usually have better spells than any staff I could find.

[Skumboni]

Only time I use a staff is when it forces it on you, like the Eye of Magnus. As a master of all the magic schools I have better spells than any staff.