There should definitely be a way to combine magian staves of different elements but otherwise the same boosts. If not a complete merge to one single staff (this would be ideal), we should at the very least be able to combine the "aligned" elements to one. Light, fire, thunder and wind in one single staff, darkness, earth, water and ice in another single staff.

If SE really thinks about this, they'll see that this will actually make people grind more than they currently do, which would lead to people playing longer! While I wouldn't be interested in making both a darkness and ice staff for my sch (I'd stop at ice), if I could combine all those 4 elements to one single staff, I would probably end up making all four of them just so I could combine them.

Likewise, allowing us to combine obis and gorgets would give players a strong incentive to spend time in Sea to farm all the organs for every single obi and gorget, instead of just... idk, personally I have 3 obis and 4 gorgets. If they were combinable, I would make all of them.

Look, SE! People are begging you for a reason to spend days grinding. How can you possibly resist? We all know how much you love to see us grind!