Like many others, I looking forward to the Secrets of Magic book later this year and very happy about the new classes coming out - especially the Magus.
There are a lot more options beginning to open up for gish-like characters and this is definitely something to be happy about.
One option that I would like to see is a way to imbue (perhaps via crafting) some of the properties of a magical staff into another weapon. As the CRB points out, staves are indispensable for an elite spellcaster but sometimes it would be nice to replace a staff in favor of something more exotic.
There appear to be precedents in the game lore too that I believe support this request. For example, the hellknight signifiers of the order of the nail carry halberds - that would preclude them from simultaneously wielding a staff. Also, the mighty Sorshen of New Thassilon carries a double-bladed glaive in lieu of a staff. I don't think she would carry a glaive unless gave her an equivalent or superior benefit to a staff. (On a side note, I'm surprised she didn't make it into LO: Legends!)
To be fair, I will say that its really nice that you can cast spells from a staff using only one hand so that makes it possible to wield a one-handed weapon in the other hand (like Gandalf in the Hobbit movies for example). But it would still be nice to have some of the advantages of a staff while wielding a two handed weapon or simply a one-handed weapon by iteself!
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I wouldn't get my hopes up too high for this one. The recent errata reinforced the divide between a staff and a weapon by prohibiting property runes. People were using shifting runes to turn staffs into other weapons and that wasn't intended.
I think specific weapons with a spell or two on them like Storm Flash are more likely, though I could be wrong.
