Elemental Staves & Wands Known Issue

What's with all the hatred around here for Mages?
You guys can't stand the thought of Mages even approaching the level of your awesome power?
Been ks'ed a few too many times at gallos or something? Well I've been ks'ed off maps plenty of times in the past by sin's, but you won't see me celebrating every setback to your class.
Sheesh.

I don't give a pomegranate about mages as a class either way, or the history of them. I people say mages are inferior they have no idea what they are talking about. Power is now only a question of potential stats so why should there be an item that hugely bolster that power further for just a fraction of the different classes? Mages do not NEED the elemental weapons, they just need to shell out money on potential like the rest of us if they feel like competing with the top tier. I do feel that they should have handled the nerf way better since it was kind of out of the blue, but if they get compensated in an appropriate fashion then it is all well and good. Either way the nerf is not some kind of diabolic stroke designed to smite the magicians. It is a stroke to the players that paid money for the weapons, but nothing more, nothing less. The weapons are still superior to what the rest of the classes can get, even without the precious elemental boost, so while it might be annoying, it is not what some call destroying the class. It is not even close to the end of mage prowess, it is just the end of getting it much cheaper than most other classes. I suppose it is also the end of the few mages with a high level of potential stats from being way too overpowered.
Also Mr. MissingLink, me being a NL has nothing to do with anything, I have nothing against any particular class. I disslike imbalance as a concept though and I enjoy seeing it fixed. Granted, an illconceived method, but a fix still.