Quote Originally Posted by Aelonwy View Post
I still think the staff should be at least an innate 19-20 x3 to compare favorably with its namesake. Its weird how you are only comparing it to other staves and not looking at all how it compares to other weapons its level. I understand comparing it to other staves for itemization purposes but there is is also the gestalt. If you look at this staff as just a weapon and compare it to other weapons acquired similarly (RAID) and same level, it is undeniably lacking as it stands at this moment. If you compared it to the greatswords coming in this update its obvious.
It's not the job of itemization to fix balance problems between weapon styles, and overpumping this would be a big mistake. Ideally, each weapon style - and weapon - is matched in DPS or utility or some niche way versus each other. If you are worried that a Quarterstaff with appropriate dice (and the bonus I'll regret adding of a bonus crit mult) is not performing well versus a greatsword, we should buff Quarterstaves as a whole, not buff THIS quarterstaff to compensate for a class/weapon style/combat technique imbalance.

If I go 20000% on this and give it some absurd crit something, and in the future we change Quarterstaves by changing Thief Acrobat or Henshin or add a universal pole-vaulting tree, then we'll have to go back and firmly smack the Staff of Shadows with 14 individual nerfs and it'll be a whole thing and they'll be 20 pages of discussion about how we hate quarterstaves and pole-vaulting and the Olympics.