Prism Staff (name pending)

[Zinato]

I think this staff is meant to help sub/side jobs who need cure potency...such as bst/whm or dnc/whm etc, though not as common as they used to be this staff helps with those setups

From the sounds of it the cure potency will be = to apollo staff. Unless said BST or DNC has use for another defining trait of the HQ staff set there would be no need for this over apollo staff. -Pdt aside since they more or less said no to that, I can't think of anything that jumps out as something a main or subjob (IE /whm as used in the examples) could make use of.

[SpankWustler]

Yeah best use I can see would be for wildfire COR. You get the 2 fire affinity, plus 9 AGI. Would be good for quick draw damage also.

The users who will see the biggest boost, even though there are only a half-dozen of them, would probably be Death Penalty holders. They'll finally be able to use a weapon that enhances both Leaden Salute and the Quick Draws that actually do damage.

Having all affinities on one weapon should be nice for Quick Draw resist rates in general, but good luck finding something outside of Voidwatch that resists Quick Draw or finding out which elements various Voidexhibitionists are weak to.

It might also be somewhat useful for BLU (Do BLUs use Jupiter's staff for charged whisker?)

It's generally the go-to option, although a couple of weird sword combinations can produce similar results.

Some Blue Mages opt to use magical spells (and thus elemental staves) against some of the more horrid Voidexhibitionsists and also use elemental staves to make sure a few horrible things that some horrible person decided should be procs will land, too.

So, yeah, I look forward to this thingy for my Blue Mage and Corsair. Not so much, if at all, for my White Mage.

I really see the upcoming Prism Staff as more of a non-Elemental-Magic-user kind of thing that even the Development Bros know will be pointless for anybody who has put the time into making Magian staves. There's even been mention of combining the Magian versions in this very topic, although it wasn't the resounding "Our least incompetent guy is working on it. Expect it well before the coming armed revolution of the oppressed proletariat." that I was hoping to hear.

[tfun90]

Merging Series I/II/III Magian staves into Prisms would be a very just reward to those who take their mages seriously. But for the love of god don't leave it the same model when it represents eight times the effort.

[Freebytes]

I agree with tfun90. If this is supposed to be for mages, make it look powerful instead of like a bird feeder. As the staff has been shown, it would be useless to my Black Mage, but I can tell you now that Black Mages and Red Mages are the only jobs begging for a merged Prism Staff item. I would hate to see my Magian Trials effort go to waste after I have went through the process of getting most staves upgraded, and I would rather see a Dark Staff (Ice, Earth, Water etc.) and Light Staff (Fire, etc.) with affinity +6 for each of the specified elements than a single staff that cannot outdo my Vourukasha I. Black Mages have been asking for a combined staff for years, and it would be a bit depressing for the staves to finally be combined with nothing optional for the Black Mages that have been asking for it. It is similar to giving free food to the man in the BMW with ketchup stains on his shirt that just showed up than to the homeless man that has been begging you for scraps for the past seven years.

[pancakesandsx]

If this is done via a quest and not synthesis, I demand it be called "By our powers combined".

[Chimerawizard]

As is, the OP basically says it's the same as current HQ synth'd staves, but w/ a higher level requirement. I seriously hope this is synth'd and has a HQ version. If not, they need to add 3 staves, magic potency/m.acc 2/2, 3/1, 1/3.

I wouldn't use it unless i'm always getting resisted as I have ToM staves anyway.

[Jerbob]

I'm pretty baffled as to why they've decided to bring this out now when people have been asking for it for quite literally years. A combined staff would never have increased the capabilities of the jobs that used it, but it would have been vastly more convenient. Why on earth announce this now, when most of the jobs that relied full time on the elemental staves are able to move on to unquestionably superior ones?

I can fully appreciate that there are more niche uses to combined staves, particularly for jobs that are not on the magian staff list, and for people who are not willing to create magian staves, but honestly, the timing is absurd. They must be aware of the supreme irony of bringing out a much desired item just after it has been rendered obsolete. It feels like a gigantic slap around the face and I'm very irritated by it. I'm not sure what's coming next, but it will probably involve the creation of affinity+9 staves tailored to specifics spells and the sudden and entirely coincidental announcement that magian staves will be combinable.

/disengage rant mode

[Guppie]

Up to three slots for non-random augments that match the effects of Elemental Staves (augments can be removed to make the item non-exclusive).[/HB]

If the resulting Prism staff is Rare/Ex, then this actually pairs up very nicely with the possibility of having both NQ and HQ versions (made with NQ and HQ elemental staves, respectively).

[Meyi]

I'm pretty baffled as to why they've decided to bring this out now when people have been asking for it for quite literally years. A combined staff would never have increased the capabilities of the jobs that used it, but it would have been vastly more convenient. Why on earth announce this now, when most of the jobs that relied full time on the elemental staves are able to move on to unquestionably superior ones?

I can fully appreciate that there are more niche uses to combined staves, particularly for jobs that are not on the magian staff list, and for people who are not willing to create magian staves, but honestly, the timing is absurd. They must be aware of the supreme irony of bringing out a much desired item just after it has been rendered obsolete. It feels like a gigantic slap around the face and I'm very irritated by it. I'm not sure what's coming next, but it will probably involve the creation of affinity+9 staves tailored to specifics spells and the sudden and entirely coincidental announcement that magian staves will be combinable.

/disengage rant mode

I agree. It feels like a slap in the face. But at least it shows they're listening... even if it takes them five years to figure it out?

I'd definitely like to see Magians have a merge option. Whether it be all I/II/IIIs or per element I don't care. I'd just like to see a potential 24 inventory hog be reduced to 8 (per element) or 3 (per type). I'd make the rest of each element just to fuse them together, and I'm sure others would too.

Edit: Once upon a time I would have cared about a Prism Staff for the HQ staves. Then Magians came along. A Prism Staff, for the level 51s, is no longer enticing.

[Alistaire]

You know what'd be awesome and fix this whole 8 staff issue? @ the anniversary of 99 cap up inventory to 99.

Edit: or whenever. Anniversary would be a gimmicky thing, I'd be happy with just "asap".