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.
Of course, as far as stats go intelligence is far stronger than strength and dexterity as a result. Strength and Dexterity are poor stats outside of the gear they let you use. Since intelligence stuff is non-gear reliant and intelligence is a stronger stat than both str or dex any hybrid that uses spells and intelligence as a secondary will always be superior to any other hybrid...
