Strong wizards and weak warriors

[hcobb]

IMHO Legacy has flipped the script on starter warrior and wizard builds. Casting the ordinary Staff spell on a two handed maul sized full wizard's staff gives a semi-mundane weapon that takes no additional memory points (beyond the spell) to use and does 1d at ST 8 or 1d+2 at ST 12. ST 12 is also useful for a wizard as that enables full use of the Light Crossbow, while the Crossbow talent only displaces two spells. So a Legacy wizard with say ST 12, DX 11 and IQ 9 has the maul-staff, (steel) light crossbow, 20 silver quarrels, Literacy, and 5 additional memory points for spells and talents.

But a warrior might want to start with Weapon Expertise and given the very fine steel daggers of Legacy they also do 1d+2 damage at ST 8, or ST 7 (half-elf), or even ST 6 (goblin), giving them additional points for talents from IQ or an improved chance at the backstab of an expert dagger shrewd blow after using Stealth to sneak up behind a foe.