[Kazuki]

I still personally think that like unarmed, you can't use styles unless you specifically have an ARMED type weapon. People keep telling me you can wack people with a stave but I find it hard to see someone actually using a blunt looking staff to apply bleed to someone with fatal. I'm dumb though so uh..

Mages that just dip into armed for the stances is kind of the reasons why its appeared as strong. I won't say names but I've seen people just dip for Fomorian as a Holy mage and stack dr while sitting on a holy AOE. They use phantom strikes and ONLY phantom strikes when they can. This is a big problem. Switch Powersmash with phantom strikes. Put it in intermediates.

Perhaps turn Furry Swipes or whatever Hundred Cuts is called now into something similar to Shadow Ball/Holy Orbs where it does initial damage in front of the user and linger ticks from the slices. My suggestion tbh. Armed is in a good position right now but its also in a bad position when people who don't dedicate to the tree and just dip in it for pstrikes.

But the most important part of this post is: MAKE PSTRIKES AN INTERMEDIATE BY SWITCHING PSMASH WITH IT. PLEASE I HATE SEEING MAGES WITH IT WITHOUT DEDICATING THEMSELVES TO THE TREE.