Information on inventory relief, via staff consolidation, efforts

[Tarage]

Please ignore the people who think this is somehow a bad idea. It isn't. Look at any other forum, like BG, and you'll see that people overwhelmingly approve of this.

[Tamoa]

There is no logical reason for anyone to argue against this awesome idea.

[Mirage]

The "fuse elemental staves into hybrid elemental staffs" idea is probably the best one in this thread. At least dual elements in one staff should be possible. For level 95 trials, I would say fusing them quad-elemental staves would be a good option.

Additionally, non-ex hybrid element staves made through synergy from NQ/HQ level 51 staves would also be a welcome change. Their potencies wouldn't need to be changed (well maybe a tiny bit, but I don't really care about this part), just fused together. This would be the inventory saving option for players who like to play around with mages, but don't play them enough to justify doing the huge ordeal that is magian trial staves. This could also lead to good things in the normal (non-synergy) crafting community.

[Rexen]

I'd love if they had some way to synth all 8 magian staves into 1 after you complete the trials. The final result would be "Perpetuation cost-6, Blood Pact Delay-10" or something like that, just get rid of the "<element> affinity:". I don't see why they don't do this, it's annoying having to have 16 staves if you have Summoner and Black Mage/Scholar and White Mage leveled.

I also think it would be cool if they did add higher tier elemental staves, say level 91 ones, that were equipable by all jobs. Give them elemental affinity+3 or something for the HQ versions, and NQ ones would be equivilant to the HQ level 51 staves. That way the specialists would get an added bonus, and other jobs which can get use from them - Blue Mage, Corsair, Ninja - could get a higher tier of damage rather than being confided to the level 51 versions.

[Panthera]

On a related note, didn't they mention combining all instruments into one using Synergy?

And yes, combining staves needs to happen.

[Barrinhos]

I agree with Yugl, there has been a growing neccesity for merging the staves

[Meyi]

I approve of this suggestion.

[Dallas]

I'm all for consolidating the staves, for SMN It's 1 worthless slot instead of 8.

[Finuve]

using this earlier idea

Indra's Staff +3 + Vayu's Staff +3 = "Transfixion Staff"
Agni's Staff +3 + Surya's Staff +3 = "Fusion Staff"
Varuna's Staff +3 + Soma's Staff +3 = "Distortion Staff"
Kubera's Staff +3 + Yama's Staff +3 = "Gravitation Staff"

people are mentioning synergy, why even do that, just make it a trial with "Indra's Staff +3 acquire 1 Vayu's Staff +3" and then u get the transfixion staff

though I'd wait til the 99 versions of the staves then have those be able to combine

[Terasan]

Liked OP, wholeheartedly agree with the notion that the Magian staves should be able to be combined at LEAST into Fusion, Fragmentation, Gravitation, Distortion staves, if not further than that. Even now, before obtaining my elemental obis, I'm something like 68/80 on my BLM at all times, so it doesn't leave a whole lot of room for meds, food (if applicable) and loot that may drop. Even combining them into L2 Skillchain properties would be a great inventory saver, but I would absolutely love L3 or even a single staff with, say, Elemental Damage +5.