Eric Hindley wrote:
Staves have been a bad category for me. If I read your staff, and you did a good job, you had:
1. A series of related spells.
2. An enhancement bonus
3. A skill bonus.
At this point, you need something else. If all you had was summarized above, it's not a Superstar item. Sorry, you knew it was hard mode.
If you're other power was amazing (and I mean AMAZING) I keep reading. If it was meh, you're still done. I'll take a weapon with a neat power over that. Sorry ;)
If an experienced forumite believes the above is a good design for a staff then no wonder people think they are hard, as for me, the above design would be an automatic fail as too powerful.
I am beginning to see why none of last years top 32 finalist were taken from the voted top 32, and number 80-something made it on to the list. It may be something to do with equating superstarness with magical power.