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Staves help magic accuracy and damage. Typically, nukes would outdo whatever melee damage you did, provided you were fighting a mob in which nukes were viable.

And if any RDM waltzes in here and tells me nuking isn't worth it just because SCH and BLM do it better, I will strangle them. Seriously, if you're going to pass the buck on nukes, then you don't have much of a valid argument on melee because there are MANY jobs that can do that better.