I personally stopped playing a few jobs that I enjoyed due to things like this. Love smn, sch, brd, blm and so on but between the avatar staffs, nuking staffs, healing staffs, obis, instruments and all that other misc gear you have to pick and choose what you really wanna play or spend all your time muling gear back and forth.

Having to have 8 staffs for smn, blm, sch, 10+ instruments, all the obis and everything is frankly just ridiculous. What they should have done is instead of giving us a fairly useless empy staff they should have given it different paths for nukers, smn, and healers. and the obis should be able to be fused into one, not with synergy but via a quest. Synergy is a lazy way to do these things. Gimme and interesting quest to fuse them.