Prism Staff (name pending)

[SpankWustler]

I predict the Prism Staff will come out in the same update that introduces 120 crafting skill, and crafting it will be pretty similar to crafting the abjuration stuff from Legion at present date and time.

Things will play out much like a story told by Franz Kafka, only standing in for the evil and indifference of man in an absurd society there will be multiple materials dropped by a singular Voidexhibitionist each, a single digit High-Quality production rate, and a Normal Quality version so worthless that nobody will take it even if you stab him or her with that thing and run away.

[Infidi]

Hi Infidi!

Japanese-wise I checked into this a bit more. The original Japanese post shows "魔法攻撃力+" instead of "魔法攻撃力アップ" (which is the term for Magic Attack Bonus), so I will go ahead and say that this is "Magic Attack+" and not "Magic Attack Bonus."

There is a similar question on the JP forums as well in response to this regarding whether this means it will be like the stats seen on Magian staves, so I will confirm this and get back you to

Woot, this made my day. Probably gonna assume the highest Magic Attack (damage) + will be on HQ probably +1 on NQ. Or I could be completley wrong! Maybe you have to sacrifice a gobbue to make it. >.>

[Infidi]

Since these were the HQ stats, can we assume it's going to be an extremely expensive item(Synergy with high synthesis and expensive ingredients, low HQ rates such that it'll be easily selling for 10mil+ for a while?) HQ synergy equipment typically sell for 7-10mil on most servers(Mekira Oto+1/Ocelomeh headgear+1 etc)

Naaaaw! Its totally gonna be all the HQ staves as part of the recipe PLUS some expensive obscure item they will put in.

[Karbuncle]

As much as I'd like to think they'll add some dumb hard to get item, There are 8 Elemental staves, and theres a maximum of 8 items per synth, since thats the max size of the trade/synth window :x

[Byrth]

This is 8 Staves and 8 Obis in one? awesome!

[Guppie]

This is the name of an original effect for the Prism Staff, which makes this staff strongly affected by weather.

This could prove to be a mixed blessing, depending on how severe a penalty is applied to adverse weather conditions (if any -- for instance, the Zodiac Ring is a weather-bonus piece of gear that apparently does not also inflict a mis-match penalty).

If both the bonus and penalty for Iridescence are large, then instead of carrying around eight staves, we mages may find ourselves carrying around nine.

[Raksha]

This is 8 Staves and 8 Obis in one? awesome!

Hopefully they mean day/weather and not just weather. Otherwise you'd still need obis for day bonus.

[Ophannus]

8 HQ staves would be hilarious especially since that would be the recipe for the base piece, with low% at HQ. Inb4 Elemental Ore shoot back up to 200-500k each again like pre-abyssea days.

[Oscar71]

Camate! Ask the devs to do something regarding the 8 ToTM Magic Damage Staves. I've completed 7/8 already and rethinking my inventory space. Help!

[Camate]

First, to answer the question about whether or not this staff will have “affinity,” the answer is it will not. Imagine this to be just like the original elemental staves when it comes to their “hidden effects.”

Next, in regards to the actual values for these hidden effects, they will also follow the same values as found on the original NQ/HQ elemental staves.

We are planning to introduce this item as something that is made via synergy, which will also require wood working skill, but the necessary skill has not been set very high.

There were also a couple of adjustments to the stats from what was mentioned the other day:

1.Equippable level will be reduced from 61 to 51, just like the existing elemental staves.
2.Damage (for the HQ) will be reduced from 45 to 35.