Elemental Weapons Are Glitched?

Then would that mean that the elemental staves/wands actually have the effect, but it doesn't show up in your client?

So if it shows you doing 10K damage, you're actually doing 15?
(Or is the effect just disabled?)

No.

The client sends the damage to the server. The server takes the damage and distributes the damage to other players. The server does no processing on the damage. Notice how when you're in a large lag spell, you can attack many times and still see the damage on the monster. The server sends nothing back to the client.

What they're saying is that the values for this are in the data (which means nothing for the server because the server doesn't do these basic calculations) and that the client is ignoring the values. It has nothing to do with the server.

If this is on purpose, which is the general consensus I'm reading, then oh boy. My LUK magician isn't even worth playing. The staves all give terrible matk for their luk requirement and the wands give tons of matk without requiring 1 luk - that's not even counting the lack of an elemental boost.

This is absolutely terrible. I wish Nexon would stop screwing over regular builds.