[ravenfish]

Why are we saying +2 to parry? My understanding is that, while Form Master allows one to freely switch to staff mode for +2 to defend, but this would imply the use of staff skill, which defaults to Spear-2, resulting in only a net +1 to parry after the staff bonus when compared to an ordinary spear parry [or a parry with a non-spear, non-staff weapon at equal skill]. One could buy up Staff skill to spear level, but, unless one's skills are not yet very far above DX level, this will not be an efficient use of one's points (when skills are high enough that Staff would cost 4 points to increase by a level, those four points could have raised Spear by a level and raised the Staff default in the bargain). Have I been playing this wrong these past years?