Antimagic staves

[ibanix]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but on my current playthrough (Necromancer) I found a randart staff... powered by arcane disrupting forces.

Is there some use for antimagic magic staves I don't know about?

[HousePet]

Transmog fodder.
Challange characters.
My Druid addon.
Causing players to go mad.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

They prove the harmony of nature and magic, working together as one.

It's a Zen thing.

[ibanix]

Right, so no real reason

[greycat]

I still think it's a bug that you can get "power by antimagic forces" and "+x Spellpower" on the same staff. I have no problem with an antimagic staff if it boosts mindpower and so on, but spellpower should be mutually exclusive.

[String]

I consider them the cursed weapons of tome, since it doesn't make much sense otherwise.

[Doctornull]

If there were roughly the same number of Arcane-powered Mindstars, then I'd feel better about this.

(Fixing the bug so a Staff could never be Arcane Disrupting would also make me feel better.)

[Danton]

I maintain that these are given out as gag gifts at mage parties.

[Mewtarthio]

Bear in mind that you get these things from snakes that use bows and patches of ivy that keep trying to rush you with their shields. Maj'Eyal is a weird place.

[supermini]

I am already used to them but I agree that they don't serve much of a purpose.

[Un67]

It's obviously an aborted Ziguranth conspiracy to flood the staff market with cheap, defective anti-magic staves.

...at least that's how I thought of it.

[breadsmith]

Antimagic Staffzerker? Could work.

[HousePet]

I'd like to see random arcane mindstars.

[Theyleon]

I'd like to see random arcane mindstars.

Pretty sure my last mindstar using character found like 3 +spellpower mindstars

[noppa354]

There's also Guilt (I think that was the name), a tier 2 or 3 mindstar with +12ish spellpower, apparently created when the mages tried to restore life to the Abashed Expanse, if I remember correctly. Wonder what the ziguranth would think of that thing.