[Autumn]

Its that very reason as to why I think that God Rod as a curate skill would be rather strong, bamboo-bo itself is the weapon at fault for my indecision on the matter because it is exactly as you say, 110% SKI scaling, a lot of builds need to build SKI anyways and literally everyone needs at least base 15 to function correctly, bamboo-bo is a great weapon and has been limited to mostly duelist and priest builds so it hasn't gotten too far out of hand yet, the moment it becomes available to lantern bearer as a casting tool is a dangerous proposition all on it's own.

A result of building STR on a LB is fire ATK for Salamander and for Solar Lance as well, its not outside the realms of possibility that the STR used for Magical Moon would be useless, its just that giving Curate the use of god rod will eventually arise problems with balance in the future as well, its not exactly easy to just give Curate a skill like this without accounting for what might be to come, like more staff weapons and other curate classes, its just not fair to give Curate that much of a power spike now and in the future.

Lets not forget there are several tomes to circumvent this issue, that allow you to build WIL + SKI for the same result, and if you never used STR then what business is it of your's to be whacking people with a spear in the first place?