Let's see. Oh, one of them needs to penertrate armor, while the other (through staff of malgus/tempest) does not.
If the damages where equal it would be majorly overpowered. Now back to your incorrect assesements...
EDIT: Also fun to read your 'dagger and lolbackstab'... did you voice your opinion in the "Dex builds are underpowered" threat. Obviously they are playing it wrong!
It's funny... I see "Mages are OP! warriors are OP! dex is OP! Mages are useless! Warriors are pathetic! Dex is underpowered!" If all those 6 pass regularly... didn't it mean they actually got the balance right pretty well, and it's all just human error of how to use what's given to them, like you are now?
Madora does more damage with a greatsword that has half the damage absorbed than I do with a staff of magus, so I dunno what your point is. Plus elemental resistances, which you're overlooking.
I also said staves suck, because they don't synergize with anything. Don't put words in my mouth, a melee and ranged classes scale with their weapons and skills, but a mage has literally no benefit to using a staff over an axe or dagger or a bloody shovel. You'll be spending your AP buffing, debuffing or summoning anyway.
