Staff Fighting: Great Set, or the Greatest Set?

I ran the Laura Lochart series of missions (the series with Leon in it). In the penultimate mission where the commander sends a half dozen waves of men at you I stepped out of line of sight as each wave approached and when they came around the door and were all nicely gathered I popped Guarded Spin and Eye of the Storm. Bam, most of them dead. One time I apparrently crit with Eye of the Storm because that is all it took for them to all fall over. I have never had it so easy on that mission. Most times it ends up being a fighting retreat. And the boss at the end? For Staff Fighting having middle of the pack damage, he went down easily enough.

Heck, in the antepenultimate (yes, its a word, so is preantepenultimate) where you have to clear the town square on a timer it was easy moving from group to group popping AEs and finishing up with single strikes. Finished with 40s to spare whereas usally I'm just barely able to finish.

I know, not end game stuff there. But at least some consideration of the worth of the powerset should lie with how it handles as you level up with it, and hands down it trumped every other powerset/AT I've run that mission arc with.

Staff does NOT have endgame problems. I'm not sure what is really going on here, but it seems like people are making stuff up as we go along here in an effort to get the devs to make staff OP. That is poor form and is not going to work.

I like it. Many concepts, too, which is important for me because doing damage and looking good are the two halves of the coin I look for. My Staff/INV has one cosume which is Neo from Matrix Reloaded fighting all the Smiths - trenchcoat, black staff, green FX etc. The other is a hodge-podge of CoT stuff for Darth Maul (red staff with black wrap) and red FX. Good times - the secondary effects synergize well with INV, IMO.

Today I got my staff/elec scrapper to 50 and got all my purples slotted. So begins the long road to incarnatehood! In any case, having done that I feel a little more qualified to say without reservation that it is one of my favorite sets for any AT. What I think some people who dislike it have been missing is that it doesn't have just one or two special tricks to be considered in isolation, it has a whole raft of them that can be taken advantage of in a variety of ways. It's the first application of the stance switching system where you'd actually want to ever switch from "the best one," too.

Rather than being down on its single target performance it would be useful to note that it basically scales its damage capacity to however many targets happen to be present. Even against one target it's quite nice but a whole aggro cap's worth of bosses isn't too much of a speed bump. The fact that you can be potentially proccing fury of the gladiator onto five more targets every two seconds while also continuing to hit all of the targets affected by the debuff with most of your attacks isn't something other sets can compete with. I don't even have interface yet but that's going to be huge for staff.

After my recent flings with street justice and titan weapons I was starting to wonder if maybe I just didn't like melee that much anymore. Leave it to staff to set me straight. That wasn't suggestive at all.