I live both ideas of the whip and the staff. I was talkin on CoH with one of my friend about havin a whip and how cool it would be. The whip should have a fear power(maybe) in it and also a few knockdowns and aoes/cones and the staff should also have knockdowns, aoes/cones and it should have stun in its powers. One problem i think with the whip is that what should be the range of it, when you think of a whip you think of this long menacing leather object. Also it would be cool to add a elemental whip into some powersets like a flame whip, electric whip, or stone whip (dont know how an Ice whip would work but still sounds cool) or just make an elemental whip a whole different powerset.