Allow all skills on all weapon types

I started with mercenary, and want to only use a staff.
I want melee strike damage, but i am stuck in some kind of elemental fantasy.
Please allow us to use all the skills on all weapon types.
I cannot use leap slam or other such physical skill with my quarterstaff...

I am now throwing ice balls and ice totems and ice range attacks just to try to level up.

The only full physical skill is kinda flicker strike and its available too late.

Yes it's sad.

I wouldn't say all but some skills should be usable in weapons that makes sense. Like maces and staffs. This is how it's done in POE1 so I hope they do it also.

Doing this would be beneficial for the game as it will allow more options thus increasing creativity and enjoyment for players.

My pain point has mostly been the support gems. For a game praised for its depth the support gems are 95% locked for each skill. Theres only very limited choices for each skill and the best gems are almost always blatantly obvious.

There is next to zero middle ground between extremely complicated or super simplified build. For example my build has 2 buttons with zero complicated stuff, simply all the +damage supports for the dps skill and all the amplifying stuff available for the second curse skill.

The only way to make my "build" more interesting is to add extra button presses for very minor benefits not really even worth the time spending pressing the extra button, which would also make the gameplay tedious. If these could somehow be properly automated without losing too much spirit from my main skill, they would add nice spice to the build, but oh well, with the current spirit costs, not worth it.

So yea, there are 3 types of builds, super simple, extremely complicated and random trash.

Yeah bro, let me shoot crossbow bolts out of my 2 handed axe and let me slam the ground with my bow.

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azurstreams#3750 wrote:

I started with mercenary, and want to only use a staff.
I want melee strike damage, but i am stuck in some kind of elemental fantasy.
Please allow us to use all the skills on all weapon types.
I cannot use leap slam or other such physical skill with my quarterstaff...

I am now throwing ice balls and ice totems and ice range attacks just to try to level up.

The only full physical skill is kinda flicker strike and its available too late.

O must say that one thing I disliked is that staff is elemental fantasy always. I really dislike flashy effects and I dropped monk exactly because of that.