some items do not have any use yet, the stone staff should be equipped on start, if it isnt then its probably attributed to the bug i found that reset all items required stats to null which stop it from being equipped
Ok that makes sense, the dialog didn't indicate that the staff was already equipped or that the item had no use ("That's already equipped" or "You can't use that here"kind of things).
It's not a serious problem, since I managed to die of infection in the Pauper's Catacombs without any bugs or glitches, A+