[Snake]

I think the kicker here are "Spells". All of spell damages are an absurd because "silence is a counterplay it's fine", which is the current flawed argument in regards to it.

The moment a mage can sit on the backlines flinging spells here and there and Blinking away because now they have global range is when things begin tipping on the margin of 'broken'. Especially when some Ascended Youkai are also included into the fray. Don't forget Priest had an absurd range with its spells and had been bapped down solely because they could outrun melee people and avoid silence inflictions by just zoning people from afar.

That's what the current Talis staves are doing.

So I MEAN, if we want them to stay this way, I think they'll need to be tuned down a bit, scaling wise, so they're not preferred over tomes, or at -least-, make them be used 'with' tomes, so people don't further stack Bloody Palms or Idol on top of it, or a Fang-Faced Shield to blow things out of the water.