I think the most we would do here is see how far you can get in the game with the difficulty as-is.
Just looked and that staff isn't available anymore. It would take some digging to figure out where/when the item was available. Maybe what we do is alter that recipe in some manner to allow you to craft the mythic version (up gold price, require N items of mythic rarity, more shards, etc.). At this point, we probably have thousands of unique items that won't ever see the light of day because they're unavailable and only exist on dead accounts.
-ALS
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