No, I was not talking about that.
After screwing around with Nightmare some more by placing the staff as Riff....Liff?.....Wrys?....the old dude nobody likes' first item(since then it would be equiped) and tried using it, his Life staff is now unbreakable and not the other unit's weapon and I don't think that's how it's meant to work.So I'm still at step 1.....