I never saw a /sea comment in FFXI mention gear. And if you didn't use elemental staves in FFXI on RDM I'm sorry, but you were gimp. You can try and rationalize to yourself all you want, but those staves were necessary to play any mage job and even some of the melee jobs decently. A 10%/15% increase in effectiveness to any spell cast with the respective staff is nothing to scoff at. What were you using instead? Stabbing the monster with enspells?