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Originally Posted by Gnaskar
There is a point missing to this analysis: you need to have points in Staff to get the +2 to parry that is one of the main benefits of the skill (B173). If he buys up Staff, he has a 13 parry available. If he buys Spear instead, he only has a 12 parry. You're effectively trading a +2 to attacks for an extra +1 on the defensive. It's still not good enough (you'd get the same result from buying Enhanced Parry for 5 points), but it's not entirely laughable.
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That only changes things very slightly - under the RAW, the spear master has the choice between spending [8] to have Spear-16 and Staff-16, or [9] to have Spear-18 and Staff-16. Personally, I treat defaulting from an attribute as not getting the benefits of a skill, but defaulting from another skill to do so, but I don't think that's supported by RAW.