I don't want to have to double all my work on the elemental staves just to gain a little magic accuracy and some recast time I couldn't care less about. That's hellish and awful.

I'd much prefer the final form staves look similar to what they do right now but give access to a unique spell when equipped. Maybe something like light elemental damage + related elemental status effect + related statistic decrease. So the wind spell would do like wind damage, have a chance to inflict silence, and lower agility. That'd be neat.