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Valerius · Aug 16, 2005, 11:39 PM // 23:39

^^ very nice staff

... i find Ghostly Staffs all the time... Blues and Whites... sometimes even Purple... but most are crap so i just sell it to the merchant... and... Ghostly Staffs look to much like Smiting Staffs for me to want to have one for looks

Drago Solaris · Aug 16, 2005, 11:52 PM // 23:52

i would hapily adopt a max damage gold ghost staff for a death necro mods dont matter i hav my own

Xue Yi Liang · Aug 16, 2005, 11:57 PM // 23:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charcoal Ann

There is only one known breeding colony of Ghostly staves, in the underworld, and they are suffering terribly at the hands of poachers and farmers their natural habitat, smite crawlers, are being mercilessly destroyed. and the staves are then sold off because they are not the real prize the farmers and poachers are after.

I am a proud farmer and resent your mischaracterization of our noble profession. I'm simply a blue-collar monk who provides for a guild-family of PvP and PvE adventurers. From the time I was a fledgeling lvl 14 monk I learned to farm and provide for myself. I am proud to say that, since then, I have extended my hospitality to support all brave adventurers of Tyria.

Mankind (and Womankind) was created to farm. It's true! People! Hear me out! We are NOT at peace with the land - Look around you! The countryside is crawling with sinister creatures and undead beings that would sooner devour you body and soul than look at you. If it weren't for the many brave trappers, hunters and farmers like us our species would be extinct!

I ask you, dear Ann of the Charcoal, should we have all remained in Old Ascalon in fear of intruding upon a land that's become the natural habitat for nasty gargoyles and hydras? NO! I say, NO!

We are a surviving species! - We are a farming species!

People, know this! Those Smite-Huggers among us will never be satisfied. They weep over the loss of a single Ghostly Stave - and yet, when people die by the dozens in the cold trek to the Granite Citadel devoured by the predatory embrace of nature - do they shed one tear? No!

I daresay, what have the Ghostly Staves done for us? I challenge you to provide evidence that the staves are an endangered species.

Contrary to what the Smite-Huggers say - farmers are the foremost authorities on conservationalism! For instance, consider the Ghostly Stave. What farmers don't use gets returned to the earth (i.e. salvage

). Yet you would rather have them collected and hoarded in captivity - in crowded storage bins like corn-fed veal or french bulldogs in a puppymill.

And why? Only for the sake of your personal aesthetic pleasure, Ms. W/Mo? Shame. Shame. Shame.

Next time you enjoy your mutton and mead - thank the farmer!
Next time you purchase a leather square or pile of bones - thank the farmer!

I rest my case.

Have a nice day.

Ensign · Aug 17, 2005, 12:24 AM // 00:24

I salvage Ghostly Staves on a regular basis. It isn't like there's a bustling market for them or anything.

If you really want to buy every crappy Ghostly Stave I pull, just make it worth my time and I'll keep 'em around.

Peace,
-CxE

TopGun · Aug 17, 2005, 05:12 AM // 05:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ensign

I salvage Ghostly Staves on a regular basis. It isn't like there's a bustling market for them or anything.

If you really want to buy every crappy Ghostly Stave I pull, just make it worth my time and I'll keep 'em around.

Peace,
-CxE

Lmao!

I need a good Blood Staff, but whether it's ghostly or godly or sexy, I really don't care. =/ I'm sure the ghostly looks cool, but whatever, I don't have time to farm for a staff that just looks cool.

Anomaly · Aug 17, 2005, 06:50 AM // 06:50

I normally salvage mine as well.

Vilaptca · Aug 17, 2005, 06:57 AM // 06:57

Man...I've never seen these before...and...if I didn't hate staves with a passion...I would consider buying one.

Oh well...I can always hope I find one and then take a few screenshots to remember how cool it looked until I salvage it.

dansamy · Aug 17, 2005, 07:31 AM // 07:31

I have a purple Ghostly Air Staff. You can go look in the Ventar's Sell if you like. It's pictured there.

PieXags · Aug 17, 2005, 08:05 AM // 08:05

I personally don't like chaos axes, storm bows, eternals bows, or ghostly staves or anything like that. I don't like the idea of holding on to solidified ghost remnants or...colored air. It's kinda dumb. I'll stick with my giant slab or sharpened rock and wood thanks.

Charcoal Ann · Aug 17, 2005, 09:07 AM // 09:07

i have saved another staff: can't remember which one it is it may be smiting req.

i am not fighting against farmers and killers of smite crawlers. i'm fighting for people not to destroy ghostly staves.

If anyone wants to give a staff a home (for a mininal fee to show your loyalty to it)
give the Captain a call. she is the only stave saver at the moment.

another staff saved: 11-20 dmg req. 12 curses

I have just supplied the water/ earth/ smiting and fire req. staves with a new home.

update on staves currently under my care:

11-21 req. 10 curses (+1 energy and smiting prayers +1 11% chance)
10-20 req. 12 curses
11-21 req. 8 death (improves recharge of fire magic skills 10%chance)

these are the staves still looking for a home

Xue Yi Liang · Aug 17, 2005, 01:25 PM // 13:25

puppymill

j/k

Charcoal Ann · Aug 17, 2005, 02:09 PM // 14:09

will these poor staves get no lovin'?

i can see the problem with the curses ones but the death one is perfect for a Necro Ele will no-one provide this staff with a home?

FengShuiBundi · Aug 17, 2005, 04:03 PM // 16:03

Yep, GW sure is slow today.

Uhhuh... sure is.

SAVE THE STAVES!

{When they start making ghostly wands I'll be happy}

DarkWasp · Aug 17, 2005, 04:07 PM // 16:07

I like the unghostly variant of the ghostly staff. Its shiney and it looks nicer.

Charcoal Ann · Aug 17, 2005, 06:16 PM // 18:16

i have heard many people wanting Ghostly wands... so sad

the 11-21 req. 10 curses staff has been sold to Haku Fudomine i hope his necro enjoys it.

i will be saving some more soon

Haku_Fudomine · Aug 17, 2005, 06:51 PM // 18:51

actually its a mesmer/necro lol, ut i plan on using hexes with feast of corruption lol

Divine Elemental · Aug 17, 2005, 07:19 PM // 19:19

ghostly staffs are nothing.. i get a average of 1-3 per run....
most are white-blue-purp
none gold...

Charcoal Ann · Aug 17, 2005, 07:29 PM // 19:29

precisely! and i bet you sell them or salvage them thinking : 'useless crap'

this is the problem. those business like enough to find them in any numbers are business like enough to think them useless. others buy things for looks. besides they are better than the current weapon my monk carries

intersesting pattern is emerging: primary monks seem to find these items a lot more than all other classes put together.

two more: 10-20 req. 11 earth for both
another earth staff 10-19 dmg 11req. earth
AND another 11-21 req 8 blood

Yen-lo-wang · Aug 17, 2005, 11:38 PM // 23:38

If you happen to find a decent-to-good monk one, preferrably a DF requirement, wouldja mine earmarking it for me? I happen to like the buggers, but my W/Mo (only char that can go to UW at the moment) never can find a decent one...

spiritofcat · Aug 18, 2005, 12:02 AM // 00:02

Perhaps primary monks find the most because they spend the most time soloing the UW?

Someone mentioned Shadow Staves earlier. I find them all the time in the FoW and I really don't like them much.
What I want to see is ghostly hammers, swords and wands, and of course I'd like to see the Shadow Warriors drop the swords they use, they look awesome!