From 1.19:
Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post
We have been hearing lots of feedback regarding the Disciple of Magic weapons from Ifrit, so we are planning to make adjustments based on your feedback to both current and future weapons, as well. Keep it coming!
From 1.20:
Quote Originally Posted by Rukkirii View Post
Good news! I let the dev. team know your concerns about the DoM Primal weapons added effect only activating when you melee. They let me know they are looking into having the added effect activate when using physical AND magical attacks.

/happydance
And with 1.22 tomorrow, we've yet to see the "fix" that the Dev team was "looking into". Did they decide not to make mage primal weapons make sense or are they still toiling away with obvious ways to make them work?