Guns vs Staff

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There are two different aspects:
1) Damage stat from a Staff is higher than the damage stat of a Gun; which makes the skill damage from equipping a Staff higher than a Gun.
2) The auto attack damage of Gun is higher than the Staff but that is a counter for the spread damage from the auto attack of a staff.

So I am not wrong in assuming that:

The Gun's basic-attack damage is higher than that of a staff. That is a counter to the slightly higher skill damage of staffs I guess.

And the basic-attack being AUTO aim for a gun must be a counter to the staff being able to hit more than one target.

We are even and its fine as it is :P ! Btw I play mage too and would love to see what other mages think about guns and staffs.... or guns n roses.