I remember way back when SE has mention about wanting to reduce the amount of "stuff" mages have to bring but now instead, they increase it by all these elemental grip, elemental staff trial, and even seperates out the avatar, m.acc, m.atk ones. WAY TOO MUCH...
I suggest SE make some new synergy recipe (that requires NO crafting skill of any sort):
Lv 81: Rare/Ex
Elemental Staff
DMG: xx (who cares)
All 8 Elemental Magic Affinity +1 (10% magic damage +20 M.acc -2 avatar perp.cost)
STR+4, DEX+4, AGI+4, VIT+4, MND+4, INT+4, CHR+4
+15 elemental resist on all 8 elements
Synergy Lv XX (not too high, but some)
Items needed: all 8 Lv51 NQ elemental staff
Lv 81: Rare/Ex
Elemental Staff +1
DMG: xx (who cares)
All 8 Elemental Magic Affinity +2 (15% magic damage +30 M.acc -3 avatar perp.cost)
STR+5, DEX+5, AGI+5, VIT+5, MND+5, INT+5, CHR+5
+20 elemental resist on all 8 elements
Synergy Lv XX (not too high, but some)
Items needed: all 8 Lv51 HQ elemental staff
Lv 91: Rare/Ex
Universal Staff
DMG: xx (who cares)
All 8 Elemental Magic Affinity +5 (30% magic damage +60 M.acc -6 avatar perp.cost)
STR+10, DEX+10, AGI+10, VIT+10, MND+10, INT+10, CHR+10
+50 elemental resist on all 8 elements
Magic Casting Time -15%
Synergy Lv XX (not too high, but some)
Items needed: all 8 Lv90 Magic Affinity +5 Staff (doesn't matter the argument on them: i.e. Varuna's Staff +2)