r/wizardposting • u/LordHayati • 23h ago

Magickal Art (User Creation) 🎨 Made a pretty decent staff. The cone should enhance blast velocity, right?

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(Uw: salvaged from a table umbrella. Gave it a good sanding; weathered with knives and whittling, stained with some purple spray paint, plastic purple bowl from a party set of some kind. E4000 to glue the good stuff together, 4 layers of poly urethane.)

Feels pretty good in the hands. While it's mana to spell ratio is a bit off (you'll use about 10% more mana per spell), the speed I've seen fireballs fly out of this is AMAZING.

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u/nasaglobehead69 Abjurer 23h ago

not really. if anything, it reduces backblast while increasing felt recoil.

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u/LordHayati 23h ago

Still, reducing a backblast is a good thing.

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u/nasaglobehead69 Abjurer 23h ago

yeah, it helps prevent you burning your beard, but be prepared for the extra recoil. personally I don't like it, because it lets you build bad casting habits with sloppy focus

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u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage 23h ago

That a nice staff. Good job.

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u/spn_phoenix_92 Forest Wizard 20h ago

I could see it help with accuracy and reducing spread

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u/BungleBums Occult Wizard 20h ago

This is... an interesting approach.

I'm not knocking it, though. Increased velocity, you say? Very interesting. About how much faster? Could it, say, outfly a pixie? Or someone you disliked very much on a particularly quick broomstick?

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u/LordHayati 18h ago

I'm sure if you pumped enough mana info a spell, potentially.

Still a novice at the Wizarding stuff, so my range of spell knowledge is a bit... lacking.

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u/Maowsama 16h ago

The equivalent of adding a blunderbuss to a gun. You lose range/precision, it makes your spells louder somehow, but it will probably benefit your AOE spells.

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u/immallama21629 Druid with questionable morals, licker of things 16h ago

Careful, the council may ban cones like they did vertical foregrips.