From the reports I have read, it was usually the body of the mage that failed before their staff, unless that mage was using a staff that was far below their level.
However, the Elemental Fuschia branch that was used to make my staff was extremely elemental resistant, and could even follow me till I reach the peak of the Adept Stage, but the only problem it was having was that it could not properly follow my rate of growth.
As I said before, this staff was alive, but it was more like a tree, and its growth could not just be accelerated at a moment's notice. Even the resonance was still slowly changing the body of the staff as I was using it, but that would take days and not minutes.
I noticed this gap after the eight-demon kill. The wood at the tip of the staff, near the silver claw that held the blue crystal, had darkened, as the surface oils of the ashwood evaporated from the heat of the sustained casting.
