Quote Originally Posted by Cymmina View Post
And yet you admit that you're making 8 of them. Emp staff is at least useful in the rare situations where melee SMN is appropriate and takes a fraction of the effort to make.
I didn't admit that I'm making any of them. I'm saying that if I choose to make a new staff(s), I would choose the 8 TotM because they are more useful for SMN and the party. Since you don't have to feed the mob TP in order to keep your avatar out.

On bigger stuff than EM, like anything worth killing, you don't want a SMN pretending to melee. There are too many variables in most mobs out there, both inside and outside of abyssea, that you can't have another body to heal or raise just to kill the mob.