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[Sekel]

This screenshot is a little suspect. That's not how the game displays staves. Damage is always on the bottom line and called out as "Damage: ", durability isn't spelled out, and the specific base item type isn't displayed. Either it's totally bogus, or this is a screenshot from a mod (which could allow bountiful to occur as a prefix without a spell, neither of which are very intriquing). Furthermore, a Bountiful Composite staff would cost 4500 gold in vanilla Diablo, not 4000.

Nice analysis Lang. With right conclusion as well. Its not screenshot from vanilla Diablo.
On the other hand, that photo is real. And its not from some (crappy) mod..... Creator of that "crap" is Blizzard North itself ...... Yep, Rudra took that screenshot by tapping F9 in Pre-Release demo of Diablo.
Lot of things work differently there, including altered data and formulas.
Cost multiplier for Bountiful is not 3 but 1 and formula is something like

Code:

((price of prefix + price of sufix (or spell) ) + price of staff * (multiplier of prefix + sufix) + price of staff)

Price of prefix Bountiful is 3000, its multiplier is 1 and plain Composite staff costs 500 so final result of this formula is 4000 for Bountiful Composite staff. I wonder if it would work for other staves too :-))

My naked mage is currently looking for a Frog's Ring of Magic (-10 mana, +5 magic).

Only reason why search for such ring, I can imagine, is for raising Magic to 255 to be able to reach slvl 15 by reading books. In my opinion, there are 2 groups of Naked Mages. In first group there are those, who hate all items and they would never use any stuff. Accidental picking and wearing some weapon is such disgusting for them, that they wouldnt do something like that from choice.

In second group there are Mages who arent as strict in question about items like their mates from Group 1. Most of them fight naked but use reading glasses for reaching slvl 15. Honestly, I think that doesnt matter what item do you use for reading books. Ring of Zodiac, Najs Light Plate, Bow of Heavens or Frog's Ring of Magic (-10 mana, +5 magic) ..... its all the same. Ok, its not because with Ring of Wizardry you reach 255 magic sooner than with NLP, but main point is in using (or not) something at all. Just dont forget to wear it off after succesfull reading :-))