Staff skill and Red Mage

[Kuvo]

eff that, i'm hoping i'm 2 or 3 shamshir upgrades away from never wearing a staff again <.<

Correct me if i'm wrong but the only Shamshir swords worth while is the Ice elemental and Dark elemental. Ice for nuking and Dark for magic accuracy. But are these better then the individual elemental staffs for nuking and enfeebling? I've been working on the Ice staff and haven't had much of an intrest in the swords except maybe the dark elemental for MP boost and mag accy.

As for having a staff skill, i feel the same as most of you... there is no need for the skill for RDM. I would like to be able to figure out why SE took us off of the Dagger trials tho. Dagger is the same skill as sword for us but we don't have access to those trials yet they put us on staff trials (which i'm greatfull for) with no skill for that weapon. Not much sense.

Oh and what about being able to be on the shield trials too? I wouldn't mind since we also have a decent shield skill as well.

[Karbuncle]

Correct me if i'm wrong but the only Shamshir swords worth while is the Ice elemental and Dark elemental. Ice for nuking and Dark for magic accuracy. But are these better then the individual elemental staffs for nuking and enfeebling? I've been working on the Ice staff and haven't had much of an intrest in the swords except maybe the dark elemental for MP boost and mag accy.

As for having a staff skill, i feel the same as most of you... there is no need for the skill for RDM. I would like to be able to figure out why SE took us off of the Dagger trials tho. Dagger is the same skill as sword for us but we don't have access to those trials yet they put us on staff trials (which i'm greatfull for) with no skill for that weapon. Not much sense.

Oh and what about being able to be on the shield trials too? I wouldn't mind since we also have a decent shield skill as well.

No they aren't. People here are being silly.

The Reason RDM is on the Magian Staff is because SE added all jobs (or most?) That took benefit from Multiple Elemental Staves, RDM (Nuking), WHM (Duh?), etc etc. not based on their Staff Skill, but based on the Uses that those "Elemental Affinity: " Trials gave.

in SE Eyes, it was easier to add RDM/Etc/whatever to Stave trials, than to add "Elemental Affinity: X" to all Weapons.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

As for having a staff skill, i feel the same as most of you... there is no need for the skill for RDM. I would like to be able to figure out why SE took us off of the Dagger trials tho. Dagger is the same skill as sword for us but we don't have access to those trials yet they put us on staff trials (which i'm greatfull for) with no skill for that weapon. Not much sense.

Not to mention we've received better dagger Weapon Skills than Sword.