The staff can drop off male revenents after the revamp as well. It's a really rare drop even off of the Magi. Read some of the posts about how long it took people camping him to get one to drop.
There are dozens of Mages who have put in thousands of hours in this game and hundreds of hours into raiding with their guild and have had zero chances at the staff so don't get your hopes up until after the revamp. Even then it's a major long shot.
Your best shot is to farm seafuries for 500 hours and then buy the MQ (and hope it drops to 500k by then).
Magi P'Tasa
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/n...3&p=2#comments
A Forsaken Revenant
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=1587