One of my alts, Vaelyns, is currently a rog/fighter TA and a half orc. I'm enjoying her quite a bit so far. Her previous life was human monk HM. She was a handwrap build that I altered on the fly after the monk changes to a Qstaff build because I absolutely loathed the hit-box issues I was experiencing fighting with handwraps. Then I met a new issue. An ordeal so aggravating I shelved her for awhile.

The issue was the durability of staves. It can be incredibly frustrating getting less than halfway through a dungeon and your best weapon is broken not because you accidentally sapped a rustmonster or wacked an ooze but because staves in general just do not have enough durability. Yes the adamantine ritual helps but often its not enough. In my opinion, Item Defense is a critical enhancement to the enjoyment of playing a quarterstaff build.

Eventually, I tossed some paladin levels on my monk on her previous life and managed to escape the aggravation. No matter what you decide Henshin Mystic or Thief Acrobat you are going to want to fit in something with access to Item Defense. By the way Rock Elementals... very hard on staves, I cringe when I see them on Vaelyns. I find an adamantine staff (with adamantine ritual on top of it) especially the Theurgic Stave from Threnal works best on those guys except when the devs have them cunningly grouped up with rustmonsters as they are found in TOEE and Rainbow in the Dark.