Big Bang Is In the Air

I don't think you really mis-addressed the issue. Effectively for you (and probably most other high level mages) it's the same issue. But this is an issue that a different version of maple story tried to address (did SEA make the wands/staffs first?) and it turns out KMS had a different solution. It would be silly for Nexon to implement KMS's fix as is without adjustment because now this item creates imbalance. (Not that it ever stopped them before - look how long it took to add the penalties.) But I don't think the change will be as drastic as you suppose. Currently the wands/staffs are rare and expensive. So naturally they should give a good boost above the normal level. But a reasonable solution might be to make adjustments such that a mage that does not use this wand would get 10% less damage than what KMS has while a user of this wand would get 15% more damage than what KMS has. In that way you provide balance (which was the original point) while still maintaining the special bonuses that have been implemented in our version.

Spending precious time and money on something only for it to completely backfire on you is what I'm talking about. If the value of ele wands staves was drastically lowered with a supposed change of their bonus of +25% element to say +5% of an element, that would qualify as an example. It just shows that all the hard work in obtaining/scrolling/etc. ele wands/staves is for naught. Who wouldn't be mad in that case? Maybe Swordstaker is the only one who wouldn't.

I gotta backtrack and say that I slightly misunderstood the poster I quoted. I thought that she was referring to the elemental bonus on the wands/staves themselves possibly getting lowered, but I realize she meant the mage skills themselves. Nonetheless, it's same concept, though I wouldn't quit if ele weps remain untouched and the skills nerf is not severe.