ok. two questions about the sling staf.
first. does it count as a sling for the purpose of the Warsliger ability?
second. do half-lings automatically get to use the sling staff or do they have to be able to use martial weapons?
errata links would be awesome.
Halflings must have a class that grants martial weapons (or take the Martial Weapon feat) to treat the sling staff as a martial weapon. Might be worth a 1 level dip into a martial class to pick it up for some builds.
Whether or not Warslinger works with sling staff (or other kinds of slings like the double-barreled sling from Halflings of Golarion) is a GM call. It sounds logical to me as it is a typical halfling weapon.
Character options for slings never seem to manage to refer to slings in the same way twice. Some list specific slings in random combinations, some say "all slings" or "slings" or "a sling". A lot of feats that refer to weapons aren't particularly careful to note what set of weapons they're referring to, and it's worst in the cases where there's a set of weapons where the collective term for all of them is the same as the name of a single specific weapon (like slings or pistols).
As a GM, I'ld be happy to let Warslinger work with a sling staff, but the wording as is is ambiguous.
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Warslinger is a big mystery. Something like 99.9% of GMs will let it fly, but it's still a bit of a gray area. Talk to your GM.
Halflings treat the slingstaff as a martial weapon, if you are in a class that grants martial weapon proficiencies (Fighter, ranger, cavalier, etc...) you are proficient in the slingstaff, otherwise you need to take a feat. There is no errata/ FAQ/ whatever because it works out of the box as intended.
The slingstaff is a neat little nod for the halflings, but considering the complete lack of sling friendly feats/ spells/ etc, slings are still the red-headed step-weapon of the ranged combat world.
That all changes if you get "halflings of golarion", where a lot of neat slinging feats specially for halflings are.
Mixing in some ranged feats, that are not only for bows and crossbows, you can get a real good slinger. They also stack, like weapon focus, halfling slinger and point blank shot.
Slingstaff counts as normal sling.