Custom Barrier Staff?

[Merpin]

I’m away from my PC and can’t post screenshots, but it seems like the easiest way to do this would be to create a staff that gives the Ninis’ Grace status, then change the bonus from +10 Def/Res to +50. Alice has a good tutorial on making an Entrap staff that should be able to apply to your staff, although I think the IER byte is also used for status ailments and their turn duration so I’m not sure how these two would conflict.
If I had to guess you’d need to make a status staff that has the targeting routine of the Barrier staff so you can use it on allies, or maybe just reuse the data of the Barrier staff and make it give the Defense status for 1 turn. The second option might also give +7 Res decreasing each turn just like normal, but it would work. There might be a patch to get rid of the res bonus on the Barrier staff, but it would probably affect Pure Waters too.

[FE8] Easy way to make an Entrap Staff

So I was messing around with FE Builder, and I figured out that there’s a really easy way to recreate the Entrap staff from Fates. No custom ASM needed. For those who don’t know, the Entrap staff basically works like Rescue, but targets units of the enemy faction. Keep in mind, that in the games, this staff has limited accuracy, like many other status staves. But the way I’m gonna show you how to do it, it will always hit. This is because of the way Rescue is coded in vanilla. INSTRUCTIONS: T…