I know this has been mentioned many, many times... but could our cudgels function as nature talismans? Juggling a cudgel, sickle, shield and tome is way too much.

Druid cudgels should allow us to use Vines, Rooting, maybe Curse, etc.

Absolutely. It's really annoying having to either forego a shield (and thus been even more fragile then we already are), or juggle a sickle and cudgel. When I trans bookbinding, I'm going to have to either forego a shield and juggle sickle and cudgel, or not bother with using my trans skill because I don't have enough arms.

Alternatively, make it so you can wear a shield on your forearms, and allow a tome to be in the inventory to work, not necessarily wielded.

Make bucklers (note: Smaller shield size) wearable.
But it counts as a shield, hence, doesn't stack?

Then everyone would whine about warriors having shields.

You forgot that some of us have to juggle a sling, as well.

Not many, but some of us DO still use runes.

Thankfully, there's staffsling.

Why do you have to juggle a shield and a tome? You don't have to wield the tome to read from it, and against knights the Tome's damage shield isn't usually going to help as much as a shield would, since it isn't a 50% dmg conversion.

So you actually get some benefit from your trans skill? I can just as easily have one of each of the four scrolls if I'm not going to wield the tome.

What I'm saying is, there is no need to juggle them, because you aren't really gonna benefit HUGELY from wielding both against a particular target... as in Warrior's aren't usually going to charge it, nor is it going to nullify much damage. So, you can just switch based on your opponent.

(To Sylphas) You might as well. The minor damage it "absorbs" (Unless my facepaint just makes me hurt that much more, but that shouldn't matter) isn't much and it isn't like you can write in it. Balance-free loki (Curses scroll) might be neat, but you can get the scroll for that. The only usefulness so far is the fact that I could sit in a demesne with a protection scroll up and fill up my healing from minor lightning strikes or something.

You could switch, like Jairdan said, but it still isn't particularly great. Maybe I'd need to be in a combat situation to appreciate it (If I can even live as a Faeling ).

Isn't that juggling them?

Just make cudgel function as an uber-talisman (which is basically what it is), and tome work while in open inventory. Problems solved.

Faeling are tankier than Elfen and Furrikin, due to their sip and regen. They just can't take huge front loaded damage.

Its not really juggling if you switch only when you need to. I'd consider juggling to be like with sickle and shield, where you need to switch just to use a basic attack, then switch back to protect yourself, or whatever, all in the midst of a fight with the same person.

Such is not the case with a Tome and a Shield.

But, my definition might be different from yours :-P

I just don't use a shield. -shrug-

A similar argument can be made for needing sickle only in certain situations. Note also that tomes will protect against some runed weapons.

If we talk about tomes in general, I really feel sorry for any warriors who have the skill. To them it is essentially unuseable. At least we can charge it.

it really should be so that orclaches or krokani or some other cyclopsy like race that get the druidry specialization sprout two extra arms. and plus, it would help bring up the lesser played races.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to see warriors reciting schollarly tomes and working in libraries, it just seems odd.

Super armor against physical, magical protections, and a tome... isn't that a bit much?

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